Another day, another promise broken and there’s not a thing we can do about it…….or can we?

Yes, we can, but here’s the rub…..do we care enough to want to?

Taking a swipe at Pensioners is only the beginning, just wait until the Budget in October and I doubt if the Scottish Government will be able to mitigate any of it without itself having to raise taxes.

On paper Scotland is one of the richest nations on the planet yet we remain one of the poorest….are you going to tell me you are happy with that?

The ‘Black hole is supposedly £20+B, Scotland assets are at very least north of a Trillion, so guess who is going to fill it?

But yesterday Labour were in ‘quick fix’ mode, they needed to show they were doing something, even if that something was breaking a promise. Only a year ago Starmer berated the Tories for even thinking about it!!

We can fix this but not with the present system because the present system is in place to keep us in our places!

We have what is called ‘the nodding dog syndrome’ and thus complicit in all Westminster does to us.

Its time to growl and say NO!

Join those who are doing just that, it doesn’t matter what age you are….you like me have a voice.

A new system will soon present itself, a number of groups are working in the background preparing the ground….so…no…Scotland would not be going in blind!…and no, I am not privy to any of this but I do trust the people who are!

And ‘trust’ is the keyword here. Why do I trust them? Because they are not Politicians for a start😅 but also they are seeking expert advice!

So lets stop pressing the rinse and repeat button and go for gold!

https://liberation.scot/

The violence that is spilling out on the streets of England does not need to happen up here, but it will if we don’t start and take control of our own destiny.

Let‘s make Scotland a country where all matter and all feel equal.

So Labour MPs can’t be trusted to speak for themselves, either that or they are so dumbstruck by their owns Chancellors choices that they really don’t know what to say.

I say ‘choices’ because that’s exactly what is was. It appears supporting Ukraine and Israel is more important than supporting your own people.

Like a number of Pensioners, I have two pensions, but this is more than just about the money I will lose, its the principle. We have worked hard all of our lives in order that we could maintain a reasonable standard of living in our retirement and not have to rely on benefits. Now that quality of living is being eroded because of the choices the very wealthy are making. In other words, we are being punished for the financial choices we made whilst working even though we were encouraged to do so by adding the top-up schemes….government schemes like SERPS etc.

This is a raid on our pensions because we are easy pickings as they remind us that Pensions of any sort are now benefits. This is morally wrong on so many levels.

Okay rant over!!

One of the greatest mistakes we make when go to vote is that we are only giving our Representatives [MPs & MSPs] permission to carry out the things written within their Manifestos. When they go ‘off piste’ and do something completely off the wall, we protest and quite rightly so!

Perhaps though, the problem goes much deeper than that, perhaps we just don’t understand the system.

Do we misconceive the principles behind Elections?

Under English principles, when we vote we hand over Sovereignty to Parliamentarians, MPs!

Now think about that for a moment and what that means for us in Scotland.

In Scotland, the People are Sovereign, so why every 5 years do we say to our new MPs, ‘Here I hand all of my power over to you…..all of it!’ because that’s what we do, they become custodians of our Sovereign Power which is much more than just giving them permission to carry out some Policies! And that means they can do whatever the hell they like!

We have to remember we are living within an English Parliamentry system and under that system Parliament is Sovereign not the People!

No Scottish Party who wants Independence should be standing on those English principles.

It was never meant to be like this but it has become this and it must change!

Politicians who want the same system in Scotland do so that they in turn can retain Power.

Its all about the Power game!

Liberation is about the Sovereignty of the People not Politicians or Parliament.

This is your movement!

Instead of trying something old, why not try something new?

The change everybody wanted is proving just to be a re-hash of what we had in the Blair/ Brown days. Socialism as we once knew it is dead and buried as Labour dig their teeth into Pensioners.

We seem to be going round in circles…

We need people who can think outside of the box. I say ‘people’ because it is painfully obvious that the Politicians we have at the moment are incapable of doing so.

Can Scotland produce a different kind of Politician?

Ones who are prepared to work with the people. Ones who recognize that the People are Sovereign, not Parliament.

Ones who stand on true Democracy.

We need at least one!

We need Party leaders who don’t seek Power for Power’s sake.

Salvo has not just been busy proving the Lie, they are also busy building the foundations for a future Scotland. Taking the best of the old and modernizing it for the 21st century.

We do have a Constitution to build on! So I am in no doubt a Peoples [not Salvo!] convention will follow sooner rather than later.

Its a case of step-by-step and the first step is Liberation going to the UN. So patience please!

They can’t skip any steps, they must dot all the I’s and cross all the T’s.

Are you ready for something new, can Scotland get off the SNP/Labour merry-go-round?

2026 will be Scotland’s last chance to change but that change must start now with you and me. Only we, the People can make the change we so crave for.

Fail and we fail every child in Scotland because Privatisation will wipe away any aspirations we may have for our kids.

Remember….

…..and our possibilities start here…

I have just had a very interesting conversation with someone who for 20minutes told me why people are just not interested in politics or political parties anymore!

It’s hard to listen to the truth and even harder to realise that the task ahead borders on the near impossible.

The word that stuck in my mind was “insular”!

We have become a very insular society, the only world we see is that of what is immediately around us, our homes, our families. There is no such this as community anymore, many don’t even know who their neighbours are. So why would they be interested in the wider community or even country.

Our minds are solely focused on our own little worlds everyday, all day!

Its all about me!

The word ‘insular’ means just that. “uninterested in people and cultures outside one’s own experience”

I asked him how we can change that, the answer was, “something would need to happen to give people hope again”!

My immediate thought turned to Liberation and what the committee are taking forward to the UN.

Will this be the key to re-awaking a sleeping Nation?

But until they get registered the path still remains a ‘theory’ and people are sick of theories, that is why we can’t get them to engage.

Once Liberation.scot have registered as a bonafide Liberation movement with the UN, many things on many levels will start happening. The event itself should attract a lot of attention, but a movement itself cannot sit in Parliament…. that’s where Politics and Politicians have to come back into the fore!

So political parties had better make sure they are standing on the right side of history and by that I mean standing on Sovereignty….Peoples Sovereignty! because that is what we the People will demand, a mandate built on Direct Democracy.

One where what we say, goes!

No more me, me, me or gravy trains…..your days are numbered!

So prepare to wake up…. it’s happening!

Don’t we all just love a bit of gossip especially if it’s about a person we don’t like? There’s something built within all of us that responds to the words, ‘did you hear about’.

It’s in our DNA and it’s usually in our DNA to pass it on, sometimes even to embellish it, because we want to believe it.

We love negatives!

We need to train our ears to listen to the words coming out of our mouths!!

We forget that we can destroy a persons life and reputation in minutes founded on what are most likely unthruths….lies!

Gossip is -those unconfirmed pieces of information — and pass them along, spreading what may be “fake news.”

“Fake news”!!

Scotland fell in love with the ‘fake news’ about its own history and Westminster just kept on feeding it for over 300 years!

Gossip, fake news is easier to handle, it has become the norm. Most MPs in London know nothing about Scottish History, they just believe the lie, the gossip!

Facts are much harder to deal with, an honourable person would have to act, not many with that kind of calibre in Westminster and none it or so it would seem amongst Scottish MPs of any colour!

It takes courage and strength to swim against the tide!

Fake news, gossip says we are in an equal Union, facts say we are not in a Union let alone an equal one!

Fake news says all Scottish Seabeds belong to King Charles, facts say we never ceded our territorial waters and Charles in not our King!

I could go on, but you get my drift!

Today’s fake news/gossip goes like this, Freeports and SEZs are God’s answer to all our economic woes, facts tell a very different story.

There will not be 1000s new jobs, there will be a few low-wage jobs with no normal employment security.

Tax incentives to corporations mean less tax for Local Authorities…so don’t expect your pot-holes to be filled in soon!

Crime in your area will rise with the possibility of drug and people smuggling as companies will be responsible for their own security on what comes in….never mind what goes out of these enormous Freeports.

Fences are already going up where once we could roam and it won’t be too long before the fencing goes up on the shores of Loch Lomond.

Gossip =Fake news=Lies!

To be able to make an informed decision about anything we have to be able to distinguish between fake news and truth and remember fake news will always be more palatable than the the truth.

90% of what we read in the MSM is fake, headlines worded to lure us in!

When it comes to Scotland, start where the facts are, documented truths. Look at Salvo and SalvoFreeports.

https://salvo.scot/

….and if like me and thousands of others, you are sick of the lies, the fake news then join us at…

There are times when our minds are one of our greatest enemies. We overthink things and subconsciously look for pitfalls.…and you know what they say ‘seek and ye shall find’😆

Upon finding some we retreat in fear. No one wins a hurdle race without jumping the hurdles! Some just look at the hurdles do an about-turn and say I (we ) can’t do this, others might start the race but fall at the first hurdle.

We have to learn to be Bruces!

Seek our battlegrounds, Salvo is doing just that.

International treaties or any treaty for that matter cannot just be swept under the carpet and forgotten about, they are living documents and countries don’t take it kindly when they are broken.

In our case, they will act as evidence in an International Court showing them not only to have been repeatedly broken but also the evil intent behind them.

So, where does fear come in?

I don’t think it’s the past we fear, but the present. We look at where our country is today under the present ruling Parties and we are unable to visualize anything different, and you are right because what is required is not just Independence but a new system of governance!

It’s called Direct Democracy, there will never be a ‘new Scotland’ without it.

Once we understand that hope replaces the fear!

There is another way and Salvo/Liberation are making this happen now!

Independence is not dead and the number of new groups popping up proves that. But I have my reservations about ‘groups’ and what they are doing. If they were talking to each other and each one specifically dealing with one aspect of what our new country might look like that would be great, but if they are just mirroring the work already done by another group what is their purpose?

And, and this is important whose ‘work’ are they using? Coming from a place of knowing what it’s like to have all their own work half-inched by others, it’s not a good look and shows (a) a lack of respect for the original author(s) and (b) a lack of ability to bring something new to the table.

Joined-up thinking is about about looking at complex situations and using collective ideas to resolve them or build upon them, not repeating the work of others.

We need people around the same table and if this is what is meant by a National or Peoples Convention, then lets talk!

Join the train already moving and bring your ideas with you!

On a more serious note it is important to understand that over the centuries whe have been conditioned not only to believe Westminsters narrative but also how to believe the narrative.

Our whole thought process has become englified! We think British, even our Lawyers were taught Scottish Law through an English prism.

We need to change the way we think. If we start from a position of ‘serf’ and think like a ‘serf’ chained to a foreign power, then we start from a place of defeat.

The People are Sovereign even Westminster acknowledges that, so let’s act like it.

Teaching ourselves to think differently is not easy but necessary if we are ever to achieve our goal.

Facts help us, but facts also demand action. Our greatest enemy is apathy, the attitude of ‘can’t be bothered, let’s leave it to others’. But if we all do that then we have failed before we have even begun. Defeated by our own apathy!…what kind of a legacy is that to leave our children and grandchildren?

We are very fortunate in having a group of people who are prepared to fight the establishment on our behalf and very soon they will be off to the UN.

Then there is the Freeport group dedicated to educating the public about the dangers that Freeports and SEZs present to our liberty and our land.

Is Scotland in trouble? It most certainly is, because the power creep is so subtle we barely notice it, they are like thieves in the night and then when the takeover is complete we find ourselves in a different kind of prison…a corporate one run by corporate governance. Where the decisions made for us are not made in Parliament but in boardrooms. And the boardroom agendas will not be the same as ours for sure.

These priorities will be the shareholders first and the pundits (us) at the bottom picking up the crumbs….

With this in mind let’s start to think about all this from a Scottish perspective… it’s ours for a start!

Remember the Battle of Bannockburn was won because Bruce knew the lie of the land. Figuratively speaking we are regaining that knowledge, we know more about our history now than any historian taught us at school. That knowledge will win this constitutional battle.

Start thinking Scotland!

There are days when you feel you don’t matter, then there are days when you realise you definitely do!

I have a reputation apparently, of someone who gets straight to the point in as few words as possible😂

Politicians hide behind a lot of words, usually in the small print! Businessmen/women are even cleverer because usually, the jargon they use requires an interpreter, a Legal expert.

They rely on people like you and me being so uninterested we just don’t go there and they are right…we don’t!

Treaties and Acts are written in such a way that we the general public won’t have a clue what they are on about. But that is changing because through the work of Salvo the unexplainable has been explained!

That being the case we hold the knowledge and the Power in our own hands.

Armed with the facts we need to start believing enough in ourselves to pass those facts on.

Believe that ‘you are enough’!

Trust yourself to pass on the information, even on a one-to-one. If Sovereignty is in your heart the words will come and it might be the case that you are the only one in your area who has the story to tell. So you do matter.

There is so much happening in Scotland just now that we cannot afford the luxury of downtime.

Freeports and SEZs are going to play such an important part in Scotland’s immediate future that it is imperative we are up to date with every project Private companies are involved in, like the Flamingo campaign in the Loch Lomond Area.

We must not allow these people to destroy what makes Scotland such a beautiful place.

Please if you don’t understand anything else, understand this, Privatisation = profits but not for us!

Privatisation means very low-paid jobs with no security and workers’ rights ignored. There is no career path!

Privatisation will leave our land decimated once they have packed up and left.

Join Salvo/Freeports and see what is happening in your own backyard.

@salvo.scot/freeports/

This is why ‘You matter’!

Become part of the conversation.

Please don’t let us become like America where political critique is replaced by personal insults, we are better than this!

Politics is a dirty game without us making it worse. There are more important matters to talk about without talking about each other on SM.

We have a country to save and only a few months to do it in.

Different groups who have new ideas need to start talking to each other. Constructive talks can only be good for going forward.

We have Salvo/Liberation already on the train to Europe, join them, there’s room for all.

The jigsaw does not belong to one Party or organization!

We are at war, albeit a Political and constitutional one where Westminster or Holyrood for that matter are not going to roll over quietly. It is in their interests to make sure the war goes on as long as they need it to, so there will be a number of different battles ahead.

Remember in any war it is always the people who are referred to as collateral damage!

The introduction of Freeports and SEZs is not a coincidence, they are a weapon in Westminster’s armoury. The logic is that if they can’t rule us they will own us.

It is called Libertarianism and it’s happening throughout the world. Some countries are just waking up to what Privatisation really means and the Political agenda behind it. And when it comes to getting out there is very little if any wriggle room with the introduction of ISDSs [Investor State Dispute Settlements] the Legal muscle to keep us in our place.

Why on earth have the SNP been so eager to comply with all this political skullduggery?

Please do not tell me they couldn’t see beyond the glossy headlines and that they only eyed the word ‘Investment’.

Every contract should have a get-out or penalty clause if something goes wrong…..these ones don’t appear to have any otherwise other countries would have used them and oh my word how things can go downhill rapidly, just look at Teeside. Their history of maintaining structures is none too healthy either.

When it comes to business these men are very, very clever more so than the Politicians and its a lesson for us in the future.

Come and join the fight back…