Tory-free is not free

Why is Yousaf talking about making the 2024 Westminster election an anti-Tory campaign?

In urging us to make Scotland Tory-free all Humza Yousaf is doing is electioneering. It’s all about votes for the SNP. It is NOT about liberation for Scotland! Making Scotland Tory-free offers no advantage to Scotland. All it means is swapping one British establishment party for another. What good does that do us?

The British state is a Tory state. It may be possible to vote the Tories out of office. It is never possible to vote the Tories out of power.

Ask the awkward questions! Why is Yousaf talking about making the 2024 Westminster election an anti-Tory campaign? Why is he not proposing to make the election serve Scotland’s cause? Why is he not talking about an anti-Union campaign?

Could it be because the SNP leadership has no proposals for ending the Union? Might it be because the SNP has no plan to restore Scotland’s independence? Does Humza Yousaf have any intention of being the First Minister who leads Scotland’s return to being a normal independent nation? Does Humza Yousaf have any idea how to end the Union and restore Scotland’s independence?

Despicable as they may be, the Tories are not Scotland’s problem. Scotland’s problem is that we have no choice. England decides which of the British establishment parties will form the UK government. The way we vote in Scotland makes absolutely no difference. We are forced to accept whatever voters in England choose. If voters in England choose fascists, we get fascists. If voters in England opt for corrupt, venal, incompetent politicians, we suffer the consequences.

Scotland’s problem is the grotesquely asymmetric political union imposed on us in 1707. Scotland’s curse is the Union. Ridding Scotland of British Tories does not lift that curse. Only by ending the Union will Scotland’s voters be free to choose the form of government which we calculate best serves our nation’s needs, priorities and aspirations.

So, why does First Minister Humza Yousaf have nothing to say about freeing Scotland from the jealous grasp of avaricious Britannia? When will he present us with a credible process by which he intends to remove Scotland from under the heel of this oppressive Union?

When will any of Scotland’s politicians find the courage to say that playing the British two-party political game leaves Scotland at the mercy of the British ruling elites? Where will we find a politician with the honesty and integrity to acknowledge that playing by the British state’s rules ensures Scotland only ever gets what contemptuous British politicians deem us worthy of?

The Union makes Scotland less that it might be. The Union makes Scotland’s people less that we have a right to be. The Union is a great injustice done to Scotland 317 years ago and every day since! Where are the leaders who will help us right this wrong? Where are the leaders who will restore justice?