After the 2014 Referendum was disappointment because we lost but. People attended these so called Nicola's Grand Tours for hope and vision and what did we get, sit down shut up we're better together.
I find it so hard to believe after 12yrs the SNP membership is still not tuned into the same frequency as the rest of us.
Is there hope for Scotland YES because the UK isn't going to get any better just because Burnham say it will, we tied to a sinking ship.
For me, I do not believe the nationalist should have ever taken seats In Westminster. You cannot argue you want to be Independent and then take part in colonizers parliament.
The colonizers sets the rules that benefits the colonizer, knowing these rules can never be achieved then we need to set our own set of rules and if it upsets the colonizers, tough.
Before the election in 2021 the Tory's where saying the SNP didn't want a referendum and Pete Carrot was saying lets wait until after the 2026 election all of these have come true.
The UKG knows the SNP doesn't want Independence if they did we'd be hearing the same talk from the SNP that we are hearing from Sinn Féin. For me the Scots can blame the cost of living on the SNP for not honoring these mandates they have been given in 12yrs and for not delivery Independence.
Isn’t it ironic that the only person in Scotland with the power to take Scotland’s independence back is John Swinney. He could enact all sorts of policies that would range from the low end of increasing Scotland’s sovereignty to actually breaking the union by taking powers now, like currency creation, or setting up bilateral foreign trade deals, that the Act of Union does not allow. I don’t know how the lawyers would look at it, but if ScotGov breaks the criteria in the Act then Surely the Act is broken?
It needn't take long at all. A new party could be up and running in a couple of weeks. Perhaps less. If this party were offering a genuine strategy for independence, it would gather support in numbers quite rapidly. If I had persisted with New Scotland Party instead of focusing on the Manifesto for Independence petition, it could have been a serious contender by now.
Reality check, if the SNP delegates where given an option at conference for a motion for the continuation of Holyrood within the Union or Independence the delegates would pick Holyrood, this is what we are up against.
I keep repeating myself and its annoying!!! When its evident that certain people who claim to want Independence oppose any progress towards achieving it, but instead come out with a policy that looks as if it would work until you read the SMALL PRINT in it has the opposite effect it keeps us in the union.
Why do we expect SNP delegates to be loyal to Scotland or Independence when our MP's and MSP's aren't. Now I'm not a Councillor, but I did run for the Alba Party and to be a Councillor your on about twenty grand a year and there is absolutley no work involved you just need to appear three times a year to receive that twenty grant.
Look the SNP, its MP's, MSP's Counicllors and its membership will never delivery a route to Independence never mind Independence. You can say how do you know that, well 12yrs has shown me exactly who the SNP and its membership are transgender activist.
Waken up I'm on the side of Scotland, if we want Independence we need one single party with a proper route to acheive it and if that's UDI we all get behind it.
For Fuck sake the SNP has stated quite clearly it doesn't want to work with any other party. I wished Roddy would stop advocating unity with a party who wants Holyrood and not Independence all we are doing is wasting another 5yrs.
If we all went to the SNP conference and stood outside and called them unionist they wouldn't be embarrassed they'd call the police on us this is the party who stole money of me and others and thought nothing off it, John Swinney hasn't even said sorry to me or anyone who donated to the Independence fund.
How can we keep have events about how Scotland will look when we can't even decide the legal route to take to become Independence, we need someone to sort out this mess out and for it to be sort out quickly, please.
All putative routes converge at the question of legislative competence: agreed, and they converge one step earlier too. A parliament that takes the power needs a mandate already in its hand, and you have named the mechanism yourself in these threads: recorded names at scale, enough to make a leadership worry. Follow that one step further. A petition begs a party, and the Newington resolution shows what happens to things that need a conference committee's permission to reach the floor. A standing record of sovereign declarations needs nobody's permission, cannot be strangled on an agenda, and sits there growing: readable by the parliament you want, by the convention others want, and by any international forum either would eventually face. The routes do not compete. They share a first step, and it is the only step open to Scots today, this side of 2031, without anyone's leave.
Thanks for commenting Eòin. I really appreciate your work elsewhere. :-)
Please excuse me for being a bit slow on the uptake today but I read this:
". A standing record of sovereign declarations needs nobody's permission, cannot be strangled on an agenda, and sits there growing"
And I find myself unable to understand what this mechanism is that you are referring to?
As you allude to the recently popular petition to the SNP administration concerning Popular Sovereignty was ignored, belittled and quashed so I am guessing that you can't literally mean another petition.
Nae slowness in it at aw. Please excuse my systems-minded thinking, which often colours my logic and then output. Definitely nae petition, which is 'correspondence': addressed to decision makers, seeking permission, and its entire force is dependent on their answer. A popular sovereignty petition would be ignored, belittled, and quashed. It would need a response to live, so withholding a response is all it would take tae kill it.
A declaration of sovereignty is correspondence of a different ilk. It is testimony; one Scot stating, in their ain name, a fact of legal standing. I hud a position o sovereignty, niver surrendered, and that wis niver Westminster's tae claim. This declaration would be addressed to no one person, group, institution, or government, leaving no one to kill it. Collect these individual declarations from the Scots people in the correct manner, ensuring they are held by the people themselves, and such a declaration would do the one thing no petition could ever do: accumulate, endlessly. A request can be refused. A record cannot be refused, only ignored, and ignoring any evidence does not erase it. The evidence sits there, dated, attested, and growing.
This is the point: evidence is the point. It is the mandate a parliament would need already in its haund afore it could take any power. I'm talking about a reinvigorated Scots Parliament. It's what a convention would act on, and what internationalisation efforts would present on behalf of the people as evidence of their will. When Estonia's citizens' committees registered the citizens of their continuing republic, they asked naebody's leave, and it was the register of the people which convened the Congress. Recognition followed the facts, no the other way around.
Part 1 of the #ReactivationSeries set out the plan in five steps. How we as Scots build that record at scale is where the series is going next. Your instinct is right: not another bloody petition. We need the opposite, we need real action, and that's what we're aw converging on. Could you imagine if we had a register of sovereignty that had been building since 2014? Where would we be now?
A petition can be a standing record. That's what the Manifesto for Independence petition was intended to be. It wasn't going to be submitted to anyone. It was just a standing record of support. Signatures barely got into four figures.
Mike Fenwick has been trying to get individual declarations for years. He is submitting them to the UN. I don't know how many signatories he has. But it's not enough.
I'm afraid any plan that depends on getting lots of people to do something is doomed to fail. That is why the #ScottishUDI strategy uses an election to generate the mandate for the parliament. Most people will be voting anyway. So, you're not asking them to do anything extra.
Whats the saying? ah yes--doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome is the sign of an ????. Which you really are NOT. The snp are done, CAPTURED by the state. Every one of them. The city of london has been doing the same shit ALL OVER THE WORLD, for hundreds of years. They are GOOD at it. Lift the phone, call Craig. He must know people (all over the world) who would back 'A NEW SCOTLAND PARTY' (top of the ballot). Get the Scottish Yanks involved and every overseas Scot. PLEASE.
While you are fighting for Scotland's freedom Peter..the Pantomime has arrived in Balmoral..(Charlie the foreign english 'king' and his sidekick camilla the 'consort'.)....are here to reinstate the old tradition that now deid lizzie followed her whole life...the start of summer holidays..with a Scottish regiment in full highland regalia...standing in wee straight lines to celebrate..WHIT?.....to celebrate the DOMINANCE of our COLONIAL OCCUPIERS..and this is just REINFORCEMENT of that DOMINANCE over the Scots..who at this point are on the treadmill trying to earn a bawbee tae survive.We should be standing with rotten eggs ..REINFORCING our hatred of these MALIGNANT incomers.
You are spot on Peter..
'we must somehow get the word out to the voters that the politicians are lying to us'
(Ref: P.A.Bell)
Because as R.J. Lifton ( American Psychiatrist MD)said about people used to Political Violence (occupation, theft, lies, denigration of culture) we ( the Scots) have ADAPTED to a MALIGNANT REALITY......ie...Foreign government in charge..supported by a mythical Royal Family and all supported by a UK 'Army'..(just to keep the peasants in their place.)
Lifton suggested the only way to combat it is to get the truth out to the people..exactly what you are saying..Well one wee Independence based newspaper is not enough when the bedazzled Scots are STILL reading the foreign english media spouting lies and treachery.
I make two suggestions
1. The National has to become really RADICAL in its reporting...YELL when their journalists are excluded from Scottish concerns..paint a different picture of our existence in this concentration camp we call Scotland.The minute we are called names BLAST it out in the headlines...demand apologies..point the finger at quislings...
2 The Independence groups must work in tandem..arrange to meet at Holyrood and engage in CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE in the chamber..the minute the 'great pretender' stands up...throw turds in the air ..shout abuse...and when they are removed a fresh group takes over..ad infinitum...frighten the sh*t out of those wasters.
The Scots must be heard. We have to generate FEAR in that chamber....watch a New Zealand politician perform a HAKA in protest at changes to the constitution..without asking them..wow!
Otherwise we might as well button our mouths and get used to this Malignant Reality they call the UK Union.( My aim with a turd is second to none.)
I think the fight back should start just a bit earlier. With the AUOB march terminating at Holyrood, if the main theme of that march is the forced resignation of John Swinney as FIRST MINISTER, only snp members can replace him as party leader. How would 50,000 voices sound like, WE WANT INDEPENDENCE, WHEN DO WE WANT IT, NOW.
SWINNEY OUT, SWINNEY OUT, SWINNEY OUT, OUT OUT.
I bet he will hear that. You never know, it might just start a pattern
More like the U.S, where the current Deputy First Administrator - Jenny Gilruthless - has, like quite a few others, eg Yousaf, Get ins, visited as part of delegations of Young Scot-Pol tabula rasas for the purpose of having the imperatives of the US/UK Security States imprinted on their still impressionable and * receptive * minds and vetted for potential usefulness to the latter beacons of Demockracy as they climb or are hoisted up the slippery pole of Party Political Prominence - more accurately, political influence
I have taken the opportunity to use a quote from a reply you gave to a post from yesterday's ' Nothing Less! Nothing Else! '... I have posted it to all the various pro Indy groups that I follow and to some members of the SNP that are as disillusioned as I am with the situation you report so well in todays post... it was as follows..
A Quote .... from Peter Bell...... "Recognising that we cannot hope to break the Union while abiding by the rules that preserve and protect it, we must accept that the rules must be broken. As things stand, we can decide which rules to break and when."
It may be of negligible significance, but I see one of those well-kent names of the * Indy * Movement - David Milligan, someone that I have never met/don't know anything about other than that he has - hitherto - been an * staunch * ( ie uncritical ) SNPist and appears to have quite a large ' following ' has * come out * in support for UDI.
Dare we allow ourselves to believe a change of mind is occurring within the SNP-aligned ranks?
I recall some years ago that the 'other' Davey was pointing out that before devolution happened there was no dubiety whatsoever about how we gained our independence in the SNP policy.
We won a majority of MPs, we convened the Scottish Grand Committee (in the Westminster Parliament) on which we would obviously have a majority, and our MPs said we were withdrawing from the parliament and the Union.
He had a good point.
Asking Westminster for their permission used to be unthinkable.
Tony Blairs creation of a new (and probably unlawful) 'supreme court' that suddenly had the new power to overrule Scottish Law and Scotlands previously nominally independent legal system was a deliberate part of the devolution trap.
People tend to forget that.
It hasnae 'aye been'. It is a constructed powerlessness.
" here we go again " was exactly my thought when I seen some body had said some thing about some idea that some (other) body might say some thing that had some thing to do with some other approach to some thing called Independence: or some thing like that.
Yessir, it's that time of year again when wishful non-thinking meets hopeless hopes, pledges are promised and promising proposals are pledged only to vanish in the fog n fug of fungible farces n well-satisfied n padded arses.
This year the mood is likely to be even more delusionary happy-clappy than usual after the Smarty Party's " incredible! " " phenomenal!" " record-breaking! " victoryoid thing in May.
Yes the gravy will be flowing like champagne and speakers will be emoting sham pain at the awful democracy-denying intransigence of the Big Bad Bears of WM whilst in the same breath declaring that the latter MUST acquiesce to, er.....further....eh.....strongly-worded valentines from....um......well....some body - or some thing like that
After the 2014 Referendum was disappointment because we lost but. People attended these so called Nicola's Grand Tours for hope and vision and what did we get, sit down shut up we're better together.
I find it so hard to believe after 12yrs the SNP membership is still not tuned into the same frequency as the rest of us.
Is there hope for Scotland YES because the UK isn't going to get any better just because Burnham say it will, we tied to a sinking ship.
For me, I do not believe the nationalist should have ever taken seats In Westminster. You cannot argue you want to be Independent and then take part in colonizers parliament.
The colonizers sets the rules that benefits the colonizer, knowing these rules can never be achieved then we need to set our own set of rules and if it upsets the colonizers, tough.
Before the election in 2021 the Tory's where saying the SNP didn't want a referendum and Pete Carrot was saying lets wait until after the 2026 election all of these have come true.
The UKG knows the SNP doesn't want Independence if they did we'd be hearing the same talk from the SNP that we are hearing from Sinn Féin. For me the Scots can blame the cost of living on the SNP for not honoring these mandates they have been given in 12yrs and for not delivery Independence.
There's a lot of hindsight in play there.
Yet again NO Plan within 100 days….
How do we have to ask another Country for a vote for Independence.
This is nuts.
Our Country Our Vote NO one else!
Isn’t it ironic that the only person in Scotland with the power to take Scotland’s independence back is John Swinney. He could enact all sorts of policies that would range from the low end of increasing Scotland’s sovereignty to actually breaking the union by taking powers now, like currency creation, or setting up bilateral foreign trade deals, that the Act of Union does not allow. I don’t know how the lawyers would look at it, but if ScotGov breaks the criteria in the Act then Surely the Act is broken?
Is this our third time? 2016, 2021 and now 2026, three elections, three SNP victories, and "Here we go again!"
Where are we in Alf Baird's plan? I should know but, sorry, I've forgotten.
I think we're at the point where the initial national party is captured by the coloniser and a new party emerges to take the cause forward.
WHAT PARTY?
It doesn't yet exist. It did, briefly, in 2024. It could be revived. Just not by me.
I don't think the party has been invented yet. How many years will this approach take?
It needn't take long at all. A new party could be up and running in a couple of weeks. Perhaps less. If this party were offering a genuine strategy for independence, it would gather support in numbers quite rapidly. If I had persisted with New Scotland Party instead of focusing on the Manifesto for Independence petition, it could have been a serious contender by now.
FOUND THIS...
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XZkpr8FcErA
You have to see this protest by the indigenous people...ie the original owners
For OUR Scotland and her indigenous weans
Reality check, if the SNP delegates where given an option at conference for a motion for the continuation of Holyrood within the Union or Independence the delegates would pick Holyrood, this is what we are up against.
I keep repeating myself and its annoying!!! When its evident that certain people who claim to want Independence oppose any progress towards achieving it, but instead come out with a policy that looks as if it would work until you read the SMALL PRINT in it has the opposite effect it keeps us in the union.
Why do we expect SNP delegates to be loyal to Scotland or Independence when our MP's and MSP's aren't. Now I'm not a Councillor, but I did run for the Alba Party and to be a Councillor your on about twenty grand a year and there is absolutley no work involved you just need to appear three times a year to receive that twenty grant.
Look the SNP, its MP's, MSP's Counicllors and its membership will never delivery a route to Independence never mind Independence. You can say how do you know that, well 12yrs has shown me exactly who the SNP and its membership are transgender activist.
Waken up I'm on the side of Scotland, if we want Independence we need one single party with a proper route to acheive it and if that's UDI we all get behind it.
For Fuck sake the SNP has stated quite clearly it doesn't want to work with any other party. I wished Roddy would stop advocating unity with a party who wants Holyrood and not Independence all we are doing is wasting another 5yrs.
If we all went to the SNP conference and stood outside and called them unionist they wouldn't be embarrassed they'd call the police on us this is the party who stole money of me and others and thought nothing off it, John Swinney hasn't even said sorry to me or anyone who donated to the Independence fund.
How can we keep have events about how Scotland will look when we can't even decide the legal route to take to become Independence, we need someone to sort out this mess out and for it to be sort out quickly, please.
Suggestion for way to object to foreign english in our land?
https://www.google.com/searchq=new+zealand+haka+protest+in+parliament&rlz=1C5CHFA_enGB899GB899&oq=new+zealand+haka+protest&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbW
If it doesn't open then look for Haka in New Zealand parliament online
For OUR Scotland and her weans
All putative routes converge at the question of legislative competence: agreed, and they converge one step earlier too. A parliament that takes the power needs a mandate already in its hand, and you have named the mechanism yourself in these threads: recorded names at scale, enough to make a leadership worry. Follow that one step further. A petition begs a party, and the Newington resolution shows what happens to things that need a conference committee's permission to reach the floor. A standing record of sovereign declarations needs nobody's permission, cannot be strangled on an agenda, and sits there growing: readable by the parliament you want, by the convention others want, and by any international forum either would eventually face. The routes do not compete. They share a first step, and it is the only step open to Scots today, this side of 2031, without anyone's leave.
Thanks for commenting Eòin. I really appreciate your work elsewhere. :-)
Please excuse me for being a bit slow on the uptake today but I read this:
". A standing record of sovereign declarations needs nobody's permission, cannot be strangled on an agenda, and sits there growing"
And I find myself unable to understand what this mechanism is that you are referring to?
As you allude to the recently popular petition to the SNP administration concerning Popular Sovereignty was ignored, belittled and quashed so I am guessing that you can't literally mean another petition.
Nae slowness in it at aw. Please excuse my systems-minded thinking, which often colours my logic and then output. Definitely nae petition, which is 'correspondence': addressed to decision makers, seeking permission, and its entire force is dependent on their answer. A popular sovereignty petition would be ignored, belittled, and quashed. It would need a response to live, so withholding a response is all it would take tae kill it.
A declaration of sovereignty is correspondence of a different ilk. It is testimony; one Scot stating, in their ain name, a fact of legal standing. I hud a position o sovereignty, niver surrendered, and that wis niver Westminster's tae claim. This declaration would be addressed to no one person, group, institution, or government, leaving no one to kill it. Collect these individual declarations from the Scots people in the correct manner, ensuring they are held by the people themselves, and such a declaration would do the one thing no petition could ever do: accumulate, endlessly. A request can be refused. A record cannot be refused, only ignored, and ignoring any evidence does not erase it. The evidence sits there, dated, attested, and growing.
This is the point: evidence is the point. It is the mandate a parliament would need already in its haund afore it could take any power. I'm talking about a reinvigorated Scots Parliament. It's what a convention would act on, and what internationalisation efforts would present on behalf of the people as evidence of their will. When Estonia's citizens' committees registered the citizens of their continuing republic, they asked naebody's leave, and it was the register of the people which convened the Congress. Recognition followed the facts, no the other way around.
Part 1 of the #ReactivationSeries set out the plan in five steps. How we as Scots build that record at scale is where the series is going next. Your instinct is right: not another bloody petition. We need the opposite, we need real action, and that's what we're aw converging on. Could you imagine if we had a register of sovereignty that had been building since 2014? Where would we be now?
A petition can be a standing record. That's what the Manifesto for Independence petition was intended to be. It wasn't going to be submitted to anyone. It was just a standing record of support. Signatures barely got into four figures.
Mike Fenwick has been trying to get individual declarations for years. He is submitting them to the UN. I don't know how many signatories he has. But it's not enough.
I'm afraid any plan that depends on getting lots of people to do something is doomed to fail. That is why the #ScottishUDI strategy uses an election to generate the mandate for the parliament. Most people will be voting anyway. So, you're not asking them to do anything extra.
Whats the saying? ah yes--doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome is the sign of an ????. Which you really are NOT. The snp are done, CAPTURED by the state. Every one of them. The city of london has been doing the same shit ALL OVER THE WORLD, for hundreds of years. They are GOOD at it. Lift the phone, call Craig. He must know people (all over the world) who would back 'A NEW SCOTLAND PARTY' (top of the ballot). Get the Scottish Yanks involved and every overseas Scot. PLEASE.
While you are fighting for Scotland's freedom Peter..the Pantomime has arrived in Balmoral..(Charlie the foreign english 'king' and his sidekick camilla the 'consort'.)....are here to reinstate the old tradition that now deid lizzie followed her whole life...the start of summer holidays..with a Scottish regiment in full highland regalia...standing in wee straight lines to celebrate..WHIT?.....to celebrate the DOMINANCE of our COLONIAL OCCUPIERS..and this is just REINFORCEMENT of that DOMINANCE over the Scots..who at this point are on the treadmill trying to earn a bawbee tae survive.We should be standing with rotten eggs ..REINFORCING our hatred of these MALIGNANT incomers.
You are spot on Peter..
'we must somehow get the word out to the voters that the politicians are lying to us'
(Ref: P.A.Bell)
Because as R.J. Lifton ( American Psychiatrist MD)said about people used to Political Violence (occupation, theft, lies, denigration of culture) we ( the Scots) have ADAPTED to a MALIGNANT REALITY......ie...Foreign government in charge..supported by a mythical Royal Family and all supported by a UK 'Army'..(just to keep the peasants in their place.)
Lifton suggested the only way to combat it is to get the truth out to the people..exactly what you are saying..Well one wee Independence based newspaper is not enough when the bedazzled Scots are STILL reading the foreign english media spouting lies and treachery.
I make two suggestions
1. The National has to become really RADICAL in its reporting...YELL when their journalists are excluded from Scottish concerns..paint a different picture of our existence in this concentration camp we call Scotland.The minute we are called names BLAST it out in the headlines...demand apologies..point the finger at quislings...
2 The Independence groups must work in tandem..arrange to meet at Holyrood and engage in CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE in the chamber..the minute the 'great pretender' stands up...throw turds in the air ..shout abuse...and when they are removed a fresh group takes over..ad infinitum...frighten the sh*t out of those wasters.
The Scots must be heard. We have to generate FEAR in that chamber....watch a New Zealand politician perform a HAKA in protest at changes to the constitution..without asking them..wow!
Otherwise we might as well button our mouths and get used to this Malignant Reality they call the UK Union.( My aim with a turd is second to none.)
Excellent piece as usual.
For OUR Scotland and her turd throwing weans.
I think the fight back should start just a bit earlier. With the AUOB march terminating at Holyrood, if the main theme of that march is the forced resignation of John Swinney as FIRST MINISTER, only snp members can replace him as party leader. How would 50,000 voices sound like, WE WANT INDEPENDENCE, WHEN DO WE WANT IT, NOW.
SWINNEY OUT, SWINNEY OUT, SWINNEY OUT, OUT OUT.
I bet he will hear that. You never know, it might just start a pattern
They've all undergone education in blind obedience at special classes held in North Korea.
More like the U.S, where the current Deputy First Administrator - Jenny Gilruthless - has, like quite a few others, eg Yousaf, Get ins, visited as part of delegations of Young Scot-Pol tabula rasas for the purpose of having the imperatives of the US/UK Security States imprinted on their still impressionable and * receptive * minds and vetted for potential usefulness to the latter beacons of Demockracy as they climb or are hoisted up the slippery pole of Party Political Prominence - more accurately, political influence
I have taken the opportunity to use a quote from a reply you gave to a post from yesterday's ' Nothing Less! Nothing Else! '... I have posted it to all the various pro Indy groups that I follow and to some members of the SNP that are as disillusioned as I am with the situation you report so well in todays post... it was as follows..
A Quote .... from Peter Bell...... "Recognising that we cannot hope to break the Union while abiding by the rules that preserve and protect it, we must accept that the rules must be broken. As things stand, we can decide which rules to break and when."
It may be of negligible significance, but I see one of those well-kent names of the * Indy * Movement - David Milligan, someone that I have never met/don't know anything about other than that he has - hitherto - been an * staunch * ( ie uncritical ) SNPist and appears to have quite a large ' following ' has * come out * in support for UDI.
Dare we allow ourselves to believe a change of mind is occurring within the SNP-aligned ranks?
Cheers, that'll be wan o' the twa Davies.
I recall some years ago that the 'other' Davey was pointing out that before devolution happened there was no dubiety whatsoever about how we gained our independence in the SNP policy.
We won a majority of MPs, we convened the Scottish Grand Committee (in the Westminster Parliament) on which we would obviously have a majority, and our MPs said we were withdrawing from the parliament and the Union.
He had a good point.
Asking Westminster for their permission used to be unthinkable.
Tony Blairs creation of a new (and probably unlawful) 'supreme court' that suddenly had the new power to overrule Scottish Law and Scotlands previously nominally independent legal system was a deliberate part of the devolution trap.
People tend to forget that.
It hasnae 'aye been'. It is a constructed powerlessness.
:-(
" here we go again " was exactly my thought when I seen some body had said some thing about some idea that some (other) body might say some thing that had some thing to do with some other approach to some thing called Independence: or some thing like that.
Yessir, it's that time of year again when wishful non-thinking meets hopeless hopes, pledges are promised and promising proposals are pledged only to vanish in the fog n fug of fungible farces n well-satisfied n padded arses.
This year the mood is likely to be even more delusionary happy-clappy than usual after the Smarty Party's " incredible! " " phenomenal!" " record-breaking! " victoryoid thing in May.
Yes the gravy will be flowing like champagne and speakers will be emoting sham pain at the awful democracy-denying intransigence of the Big Bad Bears of WM whilst in the same breath declaring that the latter MUST acquiesce to, er.....further....eh.....strongly-worded valentines from....um......well....some body - or some thing like that