Aileen is our Vice-Convenor and the SNP candidate for Dumfriesshire.
Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive. It all started the day we heard of Border guards and Grannies in Manchester devoid of Scottish grandchildren, weeping for her lost family in Coatbridge or Bellshill. The trouble with the Unionist line is, it’s a poor attempt to place fear and loathing into the masses, but it almost worked. The fact that they thought the people would believe them is bad enough, but to expect to close down the Independence cause would confirm that the line between stupidity and arrogance is a very thin one.
It was a cruel plot, and the fact the Unionist press would not print the self-satisfied leaked memos proclaiming that the target audience for this “were very unlikely to have crossed any border in their lives” indicated the crooked disdain for their own people as well as the people of Scotland. So the supposition was, Scots were either too stupid, or too unworldly, to know any better, or worse, that their own members would not protest because they would digest all the diet they were being fed, not using any opportunity to spit it out. This message was also fed to intelligent media hacks who actually started to line up potential Grannies for interviews to back up their claims. You could not make this up.
So why are the Unionist parties so afraid of Independence? Well, there is the very important point of not having a job in politics when it happens. The merging of Westminster and Scottish Parliamentarians would be a substantial loss to them. Or a possible loss of control of the people they used to dominate. There is no doubt, keeping people in poverty and perceived ignorance may have worked in the past, but everyone wants a bite of the pie now, and now the pie is tangible. There is also the possibility this Independence lark just might work we know there are Unionist waverers.
The business plan is complete, all the figures checked, all the legal jargon and cross compliance verified, the shame of it is we now have to await the bankers approval. Maybe lining pockets is the answer for some, but we have to start as we mean to go on, this means a clean slate from those who endorse corruption and subduing its own, these ways are now old ways. Subservience may be cute in the antics of a hungry cat, but it does nothing to bolster the pride of a Nation of people who are more than able to look after their own country.
We were, in the past, encouraged to leave all our affairs in the hands of grown ups who really did know what they were doing, meanwhile our assets were being stripped out, loaded on lorries and sent South, including moving 6,000 square miles of Scottish fishing grounds to English waters, a back room deal in a smoke filled room, in a stroke it was gone. This was done as we watched, and our own people in Scotland continued to vote for them.
But the tide is turning, as are heads. We now have a media who can hide no longer; around the world the people have taken up their opportunities on the World Wide Web and are starting, and finishing, revolutions from keyboards in attics around the globe. Proving, independence of the mind is often the first step to the independence of a Nation.
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