"Swinney will be speaking there but I don’t expect to hear more about his tactics if he wins his majority and Westminster still refuses to bend. He’d no doubt argue that it’s unwise to share your plans with your opponents and he’d be right."
This is a classic case of hatching your chickens without even an egg being laid. A lot of Indy supporters just plain don't trust the SNP any more, and they're - we're - not going to bother voting SNP unless we're convinced there actually IS a plan. Which means no overall majority for the SNP. Which means tactics for after the election, if any exist at all, are useless. Useless.
Which means we need to be convinced before the election itself, at latest just before the postal votes go out, and since nobody trusts "I promise I do have a plan", we need to know WHAT the plan, if any, is BEFORE we vote SNP.
Walker clinging to this "and he’d be right" shows he doesn't get it either.
The SNP have abused our trust too many times. Enough. Show your cards or you go away with nothing except a UB40.
Yes, the problem for pseudo nationalists like Richard Walker and the numerous other commentators given space in 'The National' is that their understanding of our colonial condition remains so 'rudimentary'.
The bane and 'great weakness' of any independence movement is such bourgeois intellectuals, according to postcolonial theory, who remain in denial of the colonial condition of the people and nation:
Thankfully much of the independence movement itself has already moved on, evidenced by the widening gap between support for independence and support for a deceitfu national party that has long since been 'co-opted by colonialism'.
Your excellent comment had me weeping Peter..but only for 2 seconds....luckily my homicidal Scottish/Irish genetics kicked in.
So whit's Holy Wullie's Plan B? Weel after he's rallied the voters tae the SNP ...um..weel....that's it Jimmy...cos we'll have shown them foreign english that we mean business..cos we own oor country...an'..an' then we get PERMISSION from them foreign english tae hold a Referendum which they'll REFUSE AGAIN .....an' then..weel.....um....
quote: 'the rest is silence'..unquote....(the death of Hamlet.)W. Shakespeare
R. Walker...quote: 'it's unwise to share your plans with your opponents'..unquote.
Well Mr Walker tell that to Chump cos he's been telling the Iranians what he intends to do...
But we are grateful that Walker recognises the foreign hostile parasitic devious english turds as 'opponents'. Weel spotted Mr Walker! I suspect Mr Walker's a plant.( not the agricultural kind)
So is there an answer to this insanity?
How about you take out a centre spread in our beloved 'National' Peter..should be free after all they are a PRO INDEPENDENT newspaper...if not donations will come from all the loyal Scots watching ..an' waiting....
In your article that will hopefully drag the 300 year old skin off Scottish eyes by pointing out..
1 Why the Scottish UDI Strategy is the only way to regaining our freedom.
2 Why we are being betrayed by our so called pro independent political parties.
3 If they don't listen you'll send them to me and my vicious hand-reared haggis and we'll 'share ' our plans wi them.( section 3 optional)
Excellent comment from SD...
WW3 developing nicely while Scotland sleeps.zzzzzzzz
The evolution of Richard Walker's thinking on the constitutional question, like so many of those in the Independence movement, is the human equivalent of a slow train coming. Although at least he isn't completely stalled and up a junction like the SNP itself:
1. The driver is not locomotive qualified.
“If Swinney’s gamble pays off and he achieves his targeted majority …”
That is not Swinney’s objective. His aim is SNP (and his) re-election. If he achieves his STATED goal of an SNP-only majority (of MSPs) then than “gamble” will have backfired.
2. The rail track points have been switched
“ … and yet the ability to call such a referendum, if we are to accept the Supreme Court ruling, remains legally with Westminster …”
So why continue with the futile, humiliating and plain wrong exercise in granting a Westminster sanction? A new track should have been laid to take the train in the correct direction of the true destination rather than aiming at the buffers.
3. The carriages are only half full
“You might think that by now the Scottish people would have thought more deeply about why our neighbours south of the Border are so determined to deny energy-rich Scotland even the ability to express an opinion on independence …”
No wonder half the population isn't getting on board if they don’t even know if there is any railroad round the next bend.
From Walker's article:
"Swinney will be speaking there but I don’t expect to hear more about his tactics if he wins his majority and Westminster still refuses to bend. He’d no doubt argue that it’s unwise to share your plans with your opponents and he’d be right."
This is a classic case of hatching your chickens without even an egg being laid. A lot of Indy supporters just plain don't trust the SNP any more, and they're - we're - not going to bother voting SNP unless we're convinced there actually IS a plan. Which means no overall majority for the SNP. Which means tactics for after the election, if any exist at all, are useless. Useless.
Which means we need to be convinced before the election itself, at latest just before the postal votes go out, and since nobody trusts "I promise I do have a plan", we need to know WHAT the plan, if any, is BEFORE we vote SNP.
Walker clinging to this "and he’d be right" shows he doesn't get it either.
The SNP have abused our trust too many times. Enough. Show your cards or you go away with nothing except a UB40.
Yes, the problem for pseudo nationalists like Richard Walker and the numerous other commentators given space in 'The National' is that their understanding of our colonial condition remains so 'rudimentary'.
The bane and 'great weakness' of any independence movement is such bourgeois intellectuals, according to postcolonial theory, who remain in denial of the colonial condition of the people and nation:
https://yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com/2024/05/25/the-three-phases-of-decolonization-lessons-for-scotland/
Thankfully much of the independence movement itself has already moved on, evidenced by the widening gap between support for independence and support for a deceitfu national party that has long since been 'co-opted by colonialism'.
Your excellent comment had me weeping Peter..but only for 2 seconds....luckily my homicidal Scottish/Irish genetics kicked in.
So whit's Holy Wullie's Plan B? Weel after he's rallied the voters tae the SNP ...um..weel....that's it Jimmy...cos we'll have shown them foreign english that we mean business..cos we own oor country...an'..an' then we get PERMISSION from them foreign english tae hold a Referendum which they'll REFUSE AGAIN .....an' then..weel.....um....
quote: 'the rest is silence'..unquote....(the death of Hamlet.)W. Shakespeare
R. Walker...quote: 'it's unwise to share your plans with your opponents'..unquote.
Well Mr Walker tell that to Chump cos he's been telling the Iranians what he intends to do...
But we are grateful that Walker recognises the foreign hostile parasitic devious english turds as 'opponents'. Weel spotted Mr Walker! I suspect Mr Walker's a plant.( not the agricultural kind)
So is there an answer to this insanity?
How about you take out a centre spread in our beloved 'National' Peter..should be free after all they are a PRO INDEPENDENT newspaper...if not donations will come from all the loyal Scots watching ..an' waiting....
In your article that will hopefully drag the 300 year old skin off Scottish eyes by pointing out..
1 Why the Scottish UDI Strategy is the only way to regaining our freedom.
2 Why we are being betrayed by our so called pro independent political parties.
3 If they don't listen you'll send them to me and my vicious hand-reared haggis and we'll 'share ' our plans wi them.( section 3 optional)
Excellent comment from SD...
WW3 developing nicely while Scotland sleeps.zzzzzzzz
For OUR Scotland and her sleeping weans
The evolution of Richard Walker's thinking on the constitutional question, like so many of those in the Independence movement, is the human equivalent of a slow train coming. Although at least he isn't completely stalled and up a junction like the SNP itself:
1. The driver is not locomotive qualified.
“If Swinney’s gamble pays off and he achieves his targeted majority …”
That is not Swinney’s objective. His aim is SNP (and his) re-election. If he achieves his STATED goal of an SNP-only majority (of MSPs) then than “gamble” will have backfired.
2. The rail track points have been switched
“ … and yet the ability to call such a referendum, if we are to accept the Supreme Court ruling, remains legally with Westminster …”
So why continue with the futile, humiliating and plain wrong exercise in granting a Westminster sanction? A new track should have been laid to take the train in the correct direction of the true destination rather than aiming at the buffers.
3. The carriages are only half full
“You might think that by now the Scottish people would have thought more deeply about why our neighbours south of the Border are so determined to deny energy-rich Scotland even the ability to express an opinion on independence …”
No wonder half the population isn't getting on board if they don’t even know if there is any railroad round the next bend.