NATIVES, RESTLESS AND REVOLTING 

That film, with two bampots on a motorbike holding bus trippers to ransom, is a belter. So is ‘That Sinkin’ Feelin’” and of course ‘Local Hero’ is superlative in content, image and the joy, pride and hope it brings.

Hard to beat ‘Gregory’s Girl’ as we all reminisce on our lost youth and the hopes we had.

Isn’t that place now where Scotland’s Independence movement finds itself ? Like a stuck or broken record? An adolescent on the brink of adulthood but lacking the courage to make a move. 

We need a reset, with drive, guts and sheer determination. It’s not about whether Independence is better or best; we know it’s the only way our country and people have a chance to survive and the mechanisms to ensure our national prosperity.

There’s been clearances, battles, torture, rebellion, executions and theft. In today’s modern times we require democracy. A vote, a democratic event, leading to a majority of seats and votes for the restoration of our country’s status as a normal independent country. No better and no worse than any other world player. Between Saudi Arabia and Senegal. 

With that independent status we will remove WMDs from the Clyde; there will be a national energy company, a national house building corporation; every airt and pairt will have a community garden, children will have holidays in the Trossachs or the Highlands in publicly funded hostels ; pensioners will eat and heat; working men and women, single or in family, will have pride at the end of a working week when they’ve money left for a treat, a decent new pair of boots or a wee day trip or holiday. 

It’s time to ring our own till. Scotland will flourish. Let’s revolt. Today.