The man o independent mind, he looks an’ lauchs at a’ that

It seems that when in opposition every single Labour politician supported the WASPI women, courted their votes, made videos with them and girned about injustice. Now some whine at Labour’s betrayal. As if that’s a surprise. It’s what Labour does. Think Blair, Iraq, WMD, CND, Brown, pensions, crash etc. 

The billions sent to Ukraine would cover compo for the WASPIs, the winter fuel payment, the two child rape clause, the bedroom tax. What price manifesto commitments ? 

All that Labour have done so far in a couple of hundred days in power is shaft the workers. Expect that to continue, for they believe you won’t ever contemplate voting Tory again, will find Reform too extreme and stick with the devil you know. Some apologists are already claiming this decision was incredibly difficult because if it had gone the other way it meant millions would be paying the WASPIs and that was somehow unfair. 

On the other side of the political coin you’ve John Swinney and Gillian Martin greetin’ about betrayal. Et tu, etc ?   Elected to deliver independence but sat on your hands for a decade and now wring those same hands as Westminster enabled by the SNP ignores Grangemouth and the Scottish Government presides over innumerable catastrophes in health, education, housing, policing, transport – an endless list. 

Life expectancy is reducing in Scotland again.   

Drugs deaths remain the worst in Europe.

Cancer treatment waiting times are pitiful.

This is a country populated by smart people, well educated, fly as flip, innovative and driven. Why then are we hobbled ? Are we self-hobbled ? 

We’ve a former FM whose constituents in large part depend on food banks touting herself as a celebrity on book and comedy circuits; she’s rarely seen at Holyrood and relies on office staff for cover and credibility. The other former FM is little more than half my age and he’s leaving Holyrood because it’s time for the younger generation to politick. Give me strength !

It’s plain to me and many others that for the independence movement in Scotland to gain traction and for a legal route to independence to be plainly stated this has to be done neutrally and non-partisan. Once freed from party constraints, it’s easy to say that our country requires and deserves a movement comprising all talents, the best brains, the hardest workers and the stoutest hearts and minds. Parties don’t and can’t deliver that; popular movements do and will. Let’s create that move, the tactics of Stronger Together are necessary today and with that we will regain our independence and create the Scotland we imagine and love. I4I.  Scotland United. Scotland Free, not a desert. And Independence Nothing Less.