I have always believed that the truth about any situation will always eventually come out. Today’s Politics proves that, both North and South of the Border.

Politics only become toxic when Politicians become toxic!

Today’s Politics seem only to be about Power and Money, the people they represent are just collateral damage as they climb the greasy pole to further their ambitions. The further up that pole they climb the more lies are told.

But there’s a problem with lies!

You have to have a good memory other wise you end up looking like a rabbit in headlights! We have seen a lot of that over the weekend. Politicians who are usually very articulate flustered and Tongue-tied to the point where it is embarrassing to watch.

I wonder if those involved with all this GRR stuff will look back after a few months and ask themselves was it really worth it ?

A fight for perhaps 1% of a very low percentage group of people who in themselves never wanted all this attention, I still find myself asking the question WHY?

Why hang your coat on such a shooglie peg?……….or was there as some have suggested something more sinister going on here?

I do not pretend to know the answer to that question but I do know this, the outcome of this debacle can only be the death of our current campaign for Independence. Around 51% of the population in Scotland are women and Nicola has just referred to us as Homophobic and Transphobic Bigots!

Quite a large proportion of those women have publically said they will never vote SNP again, in any Election.

It is going to take year’s for Independence minded Politicians to come back from this.

Instead of using The Claim of Right to further our cause, the SNP chose the fight for the ‘so-called’ rights of a few activists intent on violating women’s rights!……and lost!

I used to think Nicola was playing a great game of Chess when it came to Independence. Making sure all her pieces were in the right place to strike.

But now she is playing a different game, one that she is losing! Her Chess pieces are falling, maybe that’s because she is no longer calling the shots! There is another controller.

The numbers calling for her to go are multiplying and membership is on a slippery slope with income disappearing down the drain. The coffers are very low, not even enough for another campaign I hear.

Maybe Mr Murrell will have to dig into his pockets again, if he does I hope he remembers to register it this time with the Electoral Commission!

Nicolas Political Nuance has disappeared causing her to choose the wrong battles with the wrong people. To choose a battle deliberately or otherwise with Westminster is one thing but to choose that same battle with her own people is quite another.

The marriage between the SNP and the Greens was certainly not one made in heaven and she is now paying the price. The Nicola I went along to the Hydro to see is not the Nicola we now see. I am genually sorry about that, because, like many of you my dreams have been shattered.

But it has been a salutary lesson, if you seek Power for Power’s sake it will change you as a person.

History is full of people who rose above themselves thinking they were indestructible but they all fell, some out of hatred and others who had too many skeletons in the cupboard!

I will leave it up to you to decide which one will bring her down!!

Politics is a funny old game.

Remember this slogan?

My apologies for reminding you of this person but his slogan is very appropriate in Scotland just now.

First of all, let us look at what is happening here and now in Scotland, this land that had in the 1500s the best Education system in Europe and up until very recently still had. On many subjects, we are still leading but recently one subject, in particular, has taken an ominous direction. Sex Education!

Our Scottish Education Secretary seems to be taking her advice on the curriculum from Stonewall.

A couple of years ago we had Secondary Schools filling in a questionnaire about their ‘Sex Lives’ now we have Primary School children as young as 6yrs being asked if they see themselves as, Female, Male, Gay or Trans!… and your not supposed to tell your parents about this!

They call it being progressive. If you ask a child of 6yrs about ‘ being gay or trans’ they are naturally going to ask what this means, and so the conversation begins, I call it grooming!

Are we really all okay with this?

Education does not stop when you leave school, we never stop learning even as adults.

…..and the more we keep our minds open the more we learn!

Why is it important to do this? Because knowledge is power, power to change the status quo and we certainly need to do this in Scotland right now!

The subject of Independence has been dropped and been replaced by an ideology that is foreign to most over 60, but it is incumbent upon us to learn because what is being forced down our throats is not true in fact most of what is being said on the subject by our Holyrood Politicians is nothing but lies and they have been caught out!

In 2017 we were promised an update on amongst other things a report regarding Trans Prisoners in Female Prisons. 6yrs on we are still waiting! I wonder why?

Read this and weep!

Read the whole thread!

https://twitter.com/ispsafe/status/1619137482448314372?s=61&t=-cHvGP7pgwdpHtcYCO2HTQ

I am rapidly coming to the conclusion that the Independence we all seek will never be delivered by the Politicians we have in power today, indeed it might never be delivered by any Political Party but it could be by the people walking a different road.

Even that requires us to relearn!

To relearn our history and where the real Power lies In Scotland, Power lies with the People.

…..and no, I am not talking about self-flagellation!!

Ever since the GRA Bill was passed at Holyrood certain MSPs kept repeating the phrase ‘ there was an overwhelming majority from across Parliament supporting this Bill ‘ with Monica leading the fore!

Technically that is correct, but what would have been the reality had members not been whipped by both SNP and Labour?

What does ‘whipped’ even mean?

This is what Party Politics is all about and it can get very dirty indeed. But not all succumb to these threats, there are a few who we saw who are willing to stand by their conscience.

You might be saying that there has to be Party discipline, in the main I would agree but there also has to be in some circumstance room for individual conscience.

Or have we come to the place in Scotland where for instance Faith, whatever Faith has been dumped for the sake of Party Politics and bad Law?

If you have to be ‘whipped’ into doing something against your will then the result of that vote can never be an overwhelming majority in favour of it.

The four SNPs in this picture have caused quite a stir, not because they attended a Rally but because of the hatred and violence projected towards ordinary women who only want to feel safe when they enter a lady’s Loo.

But those with an eagle eye will notice something else very disturbing, Alison Thewlis [second from the right] has her child on her back.

Now, these rallies are not in themselves violent but their banners and their words exude violence and hatred towards everyone who disagrees with them and believe me some of those words are words no child should ever hear.

So, my question is, what kind of a mother thinks it’s okay to bring a young child into this kind of environment where all they learn is hatred and foul language?

These are four SNP MPs who supposedly represent us!

Well, they don’t represent me and by the outcry on SM, they now don’t represent many others. I am fairly sure voters will be saving these photos for the next GE.

One of them had the cheek to say she was horrified by the posters calling for ‘Terfs to be beheaded’ and said she wasn’t aware! ……. wasn’t aware? That young man and others with banners must have been immediately behind them for at least 30mins and they weren’t aware?

These four Politicians are very aware of people and everything that goes on.

So, Kirsten we don’t believe you, you looked as if you were enjoying every minute.

If there is one saying that describes the friendliness of Scots it is this.

In spite of all the acrimony in Scottish Politics at the moment, for me it is still the best place in the world to live and the best people to live with. From to my own home area, Langholm….

…..to the North Coast…….

And the Islands..

Colonsay and Skye below.

It is the people of Scotland who make Scotland, both past and present. We have a rich heritage to draw upon and present riches to live upon.

Our food is like no other!

So let us start to celebrate the Country we live in!

Crown of England.

I am sure a number of you have noticed the Independence for Scotland Parties campaign on SM to not allow the Stone of Destiny to be removed from Scotland for King Charles’s coronation. If not I attach the link.

https://www.isp.scot/keep-the-stone-of-destiny-in-scotland/

Reading through some of the replies from MSPs one thing has become apparent, these people do not know their history, they only know what they learned at school from history books written by English historians and approved by Mininster of Education down in Westminster…….enough said!

Now we have the facts and I say facts because now researchers in Scotland and other parts of the world have in their hands not just The Claim of Right document but also all the papers adhering to it, of which there are many!

Some MSPs and MPs believe or want to believe because it fits their agenda that in 1603 the Crowns we’re unified. Evidence now shows they were not!

Why? because what they stood for was not compatible, the Scottish Crown does not stand for a King or Queen being Monarch over the land, the people are Sovereign. No King of Scotland ever was, even before the Union, according to The Claim of Right. Scotland never ceded its land to England. Queen Ann was quite miffed about this because she wanted to wear both Crowns, and was left with only the aspiration that one day the two would be joined legally, they never were!

Only Unionist MSPs and MPs use the term King or Queen of Scotland, historians and Westminster itself rightly now use Queen or King of Scots for that is the proper Legal title.

Both the SNP and the Greens publically say they don’t believe in the Monarchy for Scotland, the ISP campaign regarding the Stone of Destiny is a way of showing this…….but will they?

The majority of you who read this blog will never have heard of the Billy Cotton Band Show but this was his cry and is very appropriate today.

Once again the SNP are rowing back on their promises. Although I agree that any Plebiscite Election regarding Independence should be a Holyrood one, my point is the consistency of the SNP route to Independence is very inconsistent.

In the past 12 months alone we have had ‘there will be a Referendum in Oct 23, no ifs no buts’, then we will use the next General Election as a Plebiscite Election and now she is backtracking on that to make it the 2026 Holyrood Ecection.

Another thing that is not clear is, will either of these be used just to seek another Sec30 or will she use it to go straight to the EU courts to possibly declare UDI?

We never stop learning and yesterday I learned something new about winning a Holyrood Election. According to Alex Salmond if you win a Holyrood Election the winner takes all.

This, if true is dynamite!

Because the SNP + Greens have quite a big majority, why have they not changed the 2/3rds majority required in Standing Orders giving them the power to hold an emergency Election?

To a cynic like me, there is only one answer…….they don’t want one!

I will let you all decide what those reasons might be, for there are many!

One thing above all is clear the longer we wait for action the more depleted our resources become.

I would ask you to look at this and take action.

https://www.isp.scot/keep-the-stone-of-destiny-in-scotland/

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We cannot afford to stand still!

Have you ever wondered what a Jack stands for in a pack of cards and why it stands along side the Kings and the Queens?

There are several answers to that question but in the main Jack stands for a Knave or Bower! A person of Lower Class, a servant!

When I think of this a photo always comes to mind, this one!

The more I read about the up-and-coming Coronation, the more my stomach churns, and not in a good way. I find myself asking a question I never thought I would, and that is, is the Mornarchy in its present state, outdated and no longer fit for purpose?

Can we, the Taxpayers, the knaves continue to pay for such lavishness at the rate we are doing when so many can barely feed themselves or heat their houses?

The cost of the Gold guilded State Coach to be refurbished has been astronomical, it’s fairy tale stuff. Is this morally right?

I know King Charles is trying to modernise and thin out The Firm but then to want such a lavish Coronation when the country is almost bust just doesn’t cut it. Unless of course we are not bust and this is just the narrative of this Tory government who always seem to be able to find monies for their pet projects and pals, but none for the Nurses who have been told to work harder to deserve a decent pay rise!

Have you ever noticed Westminster never actually show their accounts, we never see a Balance sheet, probably because there isn’t one! It probably comes under the heading ‘Not in the public interest!

We also hear much about Taxes raised by the Crown Estates in Scotland, at what point in history did Scotland cede land to the Crown? The very fact that there has never been a King or Queen of Scotland bares that truth out.

We might be Knaves but we own the land!

Many years ago I facilitated a course on ‘Death and Dying’. The first thing I asked the attendees to do was to write down what they would like to see written on their Headstones!

In other words what would they like to be remembered for.

Their Legacy!

Every Leader of a Country would like to be remembered for something, some are, and some are not. When Nicola took over from Alex many of us thought her legacy would be Independence for Scotland. All seemed well at first as membership for the SNP rocketed and rose even further after Brexit.

Then something appeared to go wrong, with no movement on Independence there were rumbles that not all was well, the focus was shifting, slowly at first because only the eagle-eyed noticed. Retaining Power became the priority with Independence only being given the nod now and then. Section 30 being sought over and over again with the same answer No.

Keeping up the appearance was important to keep the troops on side, but the troops were getting itchy feet because majorities in Scotland for Independence were being ignored by Westminster, so another plan was mastered, increase the majority! Sounded good to those who have blind faith in their Leader so into partnership with the Greens they went.

Power was retained, a gesture to Independence made by taking the case to the Supreme Court and it was just a gesture because the majority of real Yessers knew what the outcome would be, as Nicola did, but appearances had to be kept up. Meantime the real cost of this political marriage arose in all its ugliness.

The Green Party we’re now running the show and the minority of a minorty group were about the have their day, the attack on womanhood began and they won, or at least they think they have!

The focus has now moved on, not to Independence but to children.

https://www.scottishlegal.com/articles/kc-finds-scottish-governments-conversion-therapy-proposals-draconian

Another Law will pass making sure our eyes are firmly fixed on anything but Independence and once again at a prohibitive cost will be knocked back by Westminster.

So what will Nicolas’s legacy be?

Certainly not what she had once hoped for.

Will she be just another ship passing in the night, someone that history will record as being of no consequence?