Goodbye Free to roam, the barriers are going up. Our land is no longer our land, it is theirs to do with as they please!

Secrecy and denial of what is coming seem to be the priorities of our Politicians, even with the few who are in the know in our LAs.

Why do Politicians of any colour find it so hard to say ‘Sorry we got it wrong’? We can accept apologies, even forgive, but not lies and liars especially pathological liars!

Lying is not a virtue and those who do it in Politics do so to increase their public stutus.

Somewhere in their head they believe that if the embellish or exaggerate some of their facts,[notice I said ‘their facts’!!] it makes them look very intelligent when in fact the opposite happens!

There is only one way to expose lies and liars and that is to expose the truth, the facts.

And the facts can be astounding, especially historical facts.

I was watching an Australian crime series last night and a phrase jumped out at me, ‘if you don’t know your gang you don’t know who you are’. Meaning if you don’t know your history you don’t belong anywhere.

This is precisely what those in Westminster over the past 300 years hoped for….no more Scottish just British!

Well, it stops here!

You may be asking what is the link between ‘no-go areas’ and knowing who you are, the link is simple. Until we know and recognize who we are,[our identity] individually and collectively as a People we cannot begin to take back what is ours.

There is a team who can and are helping us regain our identity, Salvo.

I was not born on this side of the pond but I do have Scottish ancestors but more importantly, my heart belongs to Scotland and it’s your heart that matters!!

That is why I joined Salvo and its partner Liberation.scot, the People’s Peaceful Army, not just intent on doing something but doing it!

The committee charged with the responsibility of going forward to the Hague has been elected and plans are in hand…good hands!

None of this negates the importance of a National Convention….good hands around a bigger table!

Talking has to replace petty squabbling, who said what is history. Having the ability to move on says a lot about a person’s character and we need those people to take us forward.

If learning to recognise who we are is the first priority then the second is learning how to recognise ‘good people’!!

We have them in the Liberation Committee!

It is time for Scottish Independence parties to recalibrate some of their priorities because the old messages of whether it’s going to be Labour or SNP are outdated and inconsequential.

For a start whether one likes it or not both of these are Unionist parties carrying out Westminster policies. Both stand on the premise that the UK is indeed a United Kingdom and as such all of Scotland’s assets should be administered by Westminster.

Whilst Scottish Parties focused on the main players the real game in town was being played out, almost out of sight, the biggest land grab in history!

We must recalibrate and focus on what is happening in the here and now under the guise of Levelling up.

The first step should surely be to start talking, and gather together the Parties and groups who believe in the Sovereignty of Scotland, if this is what is referred to as a ‘ Scottish Convention’ then that has got to be a good thing. But I have to be honest here, if any Convention is not built on the foundation of Direct Democracy how do you control the egos, the Power hunters? Only the Sovereignty of the People over Parliament will solve that problem!

Scotland is being ravished whilst we spend most of our time looking inwards wondering what our political neighbours are doing.

Personal ambitions should not be a priority at this juncture, getting around the table and talking about Scotland now and its future should be.

Scotland’s future in Scotland’s hands looks bright, very bright indeed.

But let’s make sure it’s in the right hands, the hands of the People. A new system of government, which yes will involve political parties but the contrast between those then and now will be like chalk and cheese. They will be the administrators, we the People will hold the Power!

A dream yes, but one that is being worked out right now by Salvo and Liberation.scot and the more voices that join in the better.

A Convention yes, but one where we are all equals not hijacked by the size of the Party or so-called political giants from any Party.

Let’s just get on with it!!!

Grangemouth is one of the most talked about topics on Social Media but our politicians appear to have lost their tongues now that the Election is over.

The owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe however is quite happy the way things are going, he is a businessman and one who knows when he’s onto a good thing.

So when Westminster offer him £600 million to close his operation in Grangemouth and open a new plant in Belgium he isn’t going to say ‘no thank you’. Even though Grangemouth is still viable.

So whats in store for Grangemouth apart from the political motive which is to strip Scotland of its one and only refinery?

Never trust politicians who have a history of going back on their word. The Scottish Government say they are against Fracking yet have renewed the licences in the past.

The thing to remember here is that this whole operation in Grangemouth is now within the Forth Freeport and normal rules do not apply….not even Safety rules!

Has Holyrood given away their power to stop Fracking in the future? At the moment all fracking operations south of the Border have been suspended but the decision is a Political one. Liz Truss for instance lifted the moratorium, Sunak reinstated it!

What will Starmer do under pressure from Ineos and others plus the need for our own energy….to sell on no doubt!

There are no givens here once the big boys move into these Freeports. They can quite easily hold governments to ransom!

The Freeport contracts are a closely guarded secret, most business contracts are but these are different because what is being sold or given away is our Land, when did we ever give the Scottish government the right to do that?……NEVER!

Did anyone ever see the words Freeports or SEZs in the SNP Manifesto? No these have been thrust upon us under the guise of levelling-up with the blessing of Kate Forbes & Co.

In April 2024 a Westminster Government Committee cited there was a ‘lack of transparency’ around Freeports, it appears Rachel Reeves is about to ignore those findings, that shows the way things are heading under Labour.

The level playing field has just risen to another level.

There is an organisation however that is fighting against Freeports and that is the Salvo Freeport Group @salvofreeports

They are fighting on your behalf and you really do need to find out what is happening on your doorstep!

The 2026 Scottish Elections will be the most important Elections Scotland has ever had or will hold. They won’t just be about Labour v SNP, they will be about who is or has taken over this land whilst we looked the other way and how we get it back!

Well it’s not in Holyrood for sure and now less and less is in Westminster.

The real powerhouses are in the boardrooms of the International Colgomerates with MPs only passing laws here that enable them to become their own masters in a foreign land. Because that is what ‘Deregulated’ or ‘Self-regulated’ means.

We, the taxpayers are paying them billions, in total, to come to our land and once the fences are erected around their new acquisitions that’s us shut out as pathways and free roaming end.

They become a country within a country making their own laws as they go along!

We are past the point of asking Holyrood to intervene, that particular horse is dead and you can’t flog a dead horse back to life!

The only horse worth backing now is called Liberation!

Liberation seeks to return Power to the people of Scotland through Direct Democracy. [But beware there are imposters lurking in the background!]Always look for the words Direct Democracy….where egos dare not fly!!!

What is Democracy, well it’s not a spectator sport for starters!

Democracy is supposed to be a system of government in which state power is vested in the people!

With the incoming of Freeports & SEZs power is no longer ‘vested in the people’, it is vested in company boards and shareholders.

To put it bluntly, our own Government is slowly eroding Democracy and the only people fighting to retain it are those of us in the Liberation movement. Also the only Party joining in that fight is the ISP who believe in the Sovereignty of the People, not Parliament.

I am done with Politicians who stand for the kind of Democracy that allows them to make such monumental decisions behind our backs because they think they know best.

Backroom deals made in boardrooms is not the kind of Democracy we want or need in Scotland. Every decision made here should be for the people of Scotland and their welfare, and don’t tell me we can’t afford it!!

Join Liberation now and put Scotland first.

The home of real Direct Democracy!

Glancing at this heading you are probably saying to yourself….thank God!

We are just so sick of all the lies and most folks have just switched off.

But what would you think if that was for real?

No Elections means no democracy, your voice is forever silenced.

At the moment we have a choice, as limited as those choices are and the right to vote accordingly. Could that ever change?

Could the unimaginable ever become a reality, well probably not if the question for this kind of change was ever asked….but it won’t be asked….it does not need to be asked because that power creep is already in play!

In a number of cities south of the Border, Democracy has already been suspended. We just don’t recognise it for what it is…..Corporate Sovereignty by the back door.

As Freeports and SEZs become the norm Local Authority income reduces resulting in bankruptcy. In walk the corporations as Compulsory Purchase Orders kick in and with them the company bosses who take over the running of the Council instead of Elected Representatives.

Corporate sovereignty replaces collective sovereignty and hey presto your Elections disappear. Everything is then about control and profit.

The ‘couldnt happen’ has just happened….is happening.

Our new Labour Health Minister is already talking about the NHS becoming ‘profitable’!

Well if Thames Water is anything to go by…be afraid… be very afraid.

Can we stop this from happening in Scotland? YES, if we hurry up. Freeports and SEZs are in place but their full impact has yet to bite.

The change you voted for is on the way but it’s not the change you thought you were voting for!

Salvo and Liberation are fighting this power sweep, if you care about Scotland, if you care about protecting your own home…I say that because there is every likelihood that you live within one of these Freeport or SEZ areas, then join the fight today.

The whole of the Central Belt has been taken over by these FPs & SEZs, and much secrecy surrounds them. We have only about 18 months to unravel that secrecy. Holyrood will do everything in its power to make sure we don’t get the chance to read the small print. Most Councilors don’t even know!

The battle for knowledge is on because knowledge is power.

This land is our land and no one has the right to give it away to any foreign Consortium under the pretence of Investment.

We have been here before and no doubt history will keep on repeating itself until we recognise there is a way out and are brave enough to take it.

There was a day when there was clear water between Red & Blue but since the Blair era, the two have merged into one under the Libertarian flag.

All we will hear in the King’s Speech is a continuous of the same ideology, welcome to Déjà vu.

We feel like the hamster, stuck on an ever-revolving wheel, if only we the People as a whole would stop running, the wheel would stop and the game would be over.

Because of the results of the GE, the idea, not that they ever entertained the idea, of our Nationalist MPs walking out of Westminster has gone, but we can still stop the wheel!

We don’t have to live in this Déjà vu world.

A new world awaits us, Salvo and Liberation have started building it, the foundation bricks are in place and the more bricklayers we have the quicker this can happen.

The prison we have to escape from is the one in our head, there is no need to continue going around in circles when the answer has been presented to us.

This new path requires us only to use the British government’s own words against them.

Their trickery and lies are there for all the see, they haven’t hidden them well enough! Salvo’s researchers know how to dig deep and we owe so much to them.

A light has been shone and we won’t be turning it off again.

Light illuminates the truth!

The land we live in now is not the land we grew up in, this land is now governed by entrepreneurs. We may work it but they take all the profits and the resources.

But we have ‘elected’ representatives and they will look after our interests you say.

Well by signing up to the Freeports and SEZs they sold your interests down the river!

They fell for the glossy brochures and promises of thousands of jobs…which have already been debunked by an internal Westminster committee.

So, step off the wheel onto firm ground and help Liberation build a new Scotland where our wealth is used to build our nation, not fix London’s sewers!!

My usual method is to wait for an inspirational word or words from others and let the train of thought develope.

That reminded me of Martin Luther King’s “ I Dreamed a Dream”

I would say everyone in the Yes movement holds a dream in their heart for Scottish Independence but if just remains there, it serves no purpose at all except to build frustration.

There are a number of things you can do to make your dream come true, here are a few!

Dont be afraid to dream big.

Always visualize your goal!

Break the journey down into manageable steps.

Compare Scotland to other countries who have achieved the same goal.

Looking at how Salvo and Liberation have achieved so much in such a short space of time I realise these are steps they must have taken.

Don’t try and go it alone there is a huge organization out there waiting to help you and encourage you. And as we encourage you….you encourage us!

Don’t sit and wish your life away, believe in your dreams and grasp the Thistle.

And don’t worry about who will run the country or how it will be run because once you join Salvo and Liberation you will see all the answers!

But to give you a clue, a new Scotland’s foundation would be built on Direct Democracy where You are in charge. So it could be you helping to run the country!

Impossible? ….. just look at Switzerland.

Your dreams will only come true if you make them come true.

Join today..

Barriers are built by people and its only people who can take them down!

When it comes to the 2026 elections no party will gain ‘substantial’ results unless we start working together, not even the SNP, especially if their plan is to regurgitate failed MPs…..there was a reason they lost their seats!

The Independence movement belongs to all of Scotland’s People and until we all learn what true unity means, we will fail to reach our objective.

The future of Scotland is on a shoogly peg!…and only by the People uniting will we steady the ship.

Failure of the Political elites has succeeded in dropping the dream of Independence almost off the table or so Westminster thinks. But we know differently and where Politicians have failed we the People must raise our game and take over!

Its no use sitting back and saying ‘Isn’t that why we gave our MSPs a Mandate’?

Yes we did, but reality paints a different picture….they failed. Accept it and move on!

Failure brings opportunities, it is now our time to take up the baton.

People say they are sick of politics because politics doesn’t work for them.

It’s not politics that fail it’s the kind of political system we have that fails. The present system invites corruption and lacks accountability.

To look at a system that truly works for its people look no further than Switzerland, the land of Direct Democracy. There is absolutely no reason on this earth why we can’t emulate that system here in Scotland.

‘Things are only impossible until they are not’!

You….yes you can make this change possible. Thousands have joined Liberation to make it so. Don’t be left behind on Scotland’s greatest journey.

We need you and your ‘lightbulb’ moments!

Yes, Freeports will have to be dealt with, but so far only Salvo has made inroads to solving that problem by warning the consortiums of their illegal buy-offs! So they can never say ‘we didn’t know’!

Whether Westminster likes it or not Scotland never ceded its land or Territorial Waters and reparations are coming!

…..it won’t be but..but…it will be butt off!

This popped up on my Twitter timeline this morning, it appears to me that the SNP as a collective body are trying to escape any blame.

Yes, she was the Leader but you are not going to tell me that so great was her power that everyone around her lived in fear because if you are what does that make the likes of John Swinney and his team?

It says a lot about their characters!

Where is their collective responsibility?

If they really want to rise from the ashes then there has to be a complete clear out and they have to start listening to their members.

Leadership is about serving not dominating and those around the Leader should be supportive yes, but also act as a kind of Democratic anchor.

The SNP failed not just because their Leader became autocratic but because the executives failed to protect the democratic rights of their members and thus the integrity of the Party.

This could not and would never happen in a country that stands on Direct Democracy.

In a country whose foundations are built on Direct Democracy there would be no place for autocratic Leaders of any Party.

I am very wary of Politicians who seek power through the present system of First Past the Post and who believe Parliament, not the People holds the Power. Just as I am equally wary of executives within a Party….any Party who don’t stand up for their members. They forget, no members = no Party!!

Knowledge has given members power to vote with their feet and woe betide any Leader who fails to learn the lesson of this GE.

The first premise of any leader is to listen to their members.

Three weeks ago I attended the AGM of Salvo and the thing that struck me most was the democratic way the meeting was held….members were listened to!

Change is coming….but not through Labour. Changing bad for bad is not change!

If your really want change then you have to make it happen, don’t sit back and wait for others to do it, take charge of your own futures.

This is your life your future, and the power for change doesn’t lie with Politcians. It lies within you and a future built on Direct Demoracy.

Westminsters ‘Project Scotland’ is well underway with Kate Forbes as Project Manager!

I do not doubt that Kate is a very clever lady but her blind spots are equally clear!

She only focuses on the immediate.

The unconscious or conscious assumption that Privatisation is the answer to Scotland’s needs is in my opinion very short-sighted and lacks logic.

Big companies will always put profit before people… that’s why they exist and they infiltrate governments with bribes!

With little or no regulation the door is wide open for corruption. They are a law unto themselves, a state within a state depriving the Local Authorities they sit in of vital taxes needed to run our services.

So who really foots the bill?

It seems to me that we will pay twice over in order to maintain their high profits!

Loss of taxes in cities down south has resulted in Bankruptcy and Public figures who were once voted in are now replaced by Private entrepreneurs!

Democracy is gone and there is no going back because Council assets are sold off.

The secrecy around these FPs is higher than our National Security, why, when all we ask for is broad outlines and fiscal implications….maybe I’ve just answered my own Q!

It’s all about the money!

There are also many examples where the long-term effects

have been disastrous.

The end of the project is just as important as the beginning when it comes to a country and its land.

This is our land! and remember this…

If only our Finance Minister would focus on these things!!

This is where our future lies, not in Freeports!

Fortunately, we have a large group of people whose only focus is the future of this great Nation. Salvo/Liberation are not in the business of seeking to boost the profits of consortiums. There eye is on the prize of a Nation returned to its former glory and recognised Internationally for its own creativity and entrepreneurship.

Westminster has woven a massive web of lies and for the past 2 years Sara has spent her time unravelling them.

Never underestimate a woman on a mission!

Salvo/Liberation are organizations run for and by the public. Every penny raised is used for essential expenses only….and it is expensive!

Don’t be a ‘looker on’ be a builder!