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Jun 29, 2022·edited Jun 29, 2022

I hope you are right, Blair. But Sturgeon wriggles out of every misstep, scandal, mishandling and still her stock is high. I can’t understand why so many people vote for her party. And how we dislodge from these people the lies from the SNP’s mammoth propaganda operation is hard to envisage, given how deeply they are embedded.

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All good points Blair. Nicola has been stuck for a while and now she has made the wrong move. However it requires skilled and determined opposition to take advantage of that, which can only come from Labour.

The party seems still very reluctant to discuss the constitutional issue in general and to make sharp criticisms of Nicola Sturgeon in particular and I think that has to change.

in addition to the points you make the whole process of a one off referendum is inherently unfair and dishonest. Nicola defended the Brexit process last week because she wants to repeat it but it was in fact the biggest con in British political history.

Her Brexit would outmatch it. Most of the key promises she would make in a referendum campaign would be broken afterwards if she won.

Labour seems to lack the self confidence to go on the attack. We still tend to use even the language of the nationalists, particularly the loaded and misleading term "independence".

In other words there is still all to fight for. Let us get stuck in and we can free Scotland and the UK from the curse of nationalism.

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Jun 29, 2022·edited Jun 29, 2022

Never-endum Nicola Sturgeon is just resorting to desperation to retain power and building up her pension fund. She cares nothing of the will of the "people of Scotland", if she did she'd accept the 2014 result and concentrate on fixing the very real issues under her responsibility, rather than compound and exacerbate by the turmoil of another "Neverendum".

The SNP have never accepted, reviewed and resolved the issues which led to their defeat in 2014. The world has changed from Brexit and the pandemic to war in Europe. Meanwhile the SNP continues to bang their heads against the same brick wall in their wild goose chase. It's pathetic.

The SNP, sic a parcel o' rogues and charlatans in a nation...

As for the Bannockburn nonsense, it's ironic they are celebrating a Anglo Norman warlord's defeat of another Anglo Norman warlord for territory and power in the British Isles.

They are prisoners of Scottish myths, the "gory" days of being owned by a "king" and without any "freedom". They certainly don't appear to know or appreciate history.

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A strong UK governement is what is needed, A Labour gov, A Lab/Lib Dem gov or at the very least (and least desirable) a Conservative gov lead by a sensible leader with Scottish heritage (Stewart or Wallace) enact a clarity act and put an end to this interminable debacle. It worked in Canada and they are a similar country to ours, similarly reigned over by this monarchy, similarly democratic with our parliamentary systems and unfortunately similarly divided. We must deliver a vision for the UK as a singular country and as many regions within that country working towards a common goal of prosperity and fairness.

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Regarding your final paragraph, I think that ship has sailed, in light of the recent pronouncement by the hapless John Swinney that the would be prepared to work with Sinn Féin. That statement alone should lead to proscription of the SNP from the body politic, and disallow them from any meetings and activities regarding the country’s security.

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she is on her way out and it will happen before Oct 2023 .... probably just after the supreme court decision

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O please could we just have an end to the Neverendum, the rancour, the grievance-monster, the virtue signalling and the divisive assertions and economic fantasies regularly issued in torrents of Holyrood hot air?

No one I know wants it; we have enough to contend with, as we try to maintain our livelihoods and prospects in the face of the economic, political and social disarray imposed by our so called leaders.

Why doesn't she just take herself off to Brussels or Davos to indulge her world leader persona?

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"where people wear T-shirts with medieval proclamations about not submitting to another ethnic group, where they burn flags, where they dress as warlords and brandish weapons without it being, well, more than a bit fash. "

Wait, isn't the *checks notes* national bleeding anthem "rebellios Scots to crush"???

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