Remember this game? Well, it’s back only with a new name….Freeports!

…..only this time it’s not a game it’s a game-changer!

All of us will become participants in this game whether we like it or not because the fallout will affect everyone who lives within a Freeport or SEZ area. Nothing will change overnight but like the ‘trickle-down’ scenario of the economy sooner than later we will witness a change in our Council services.

When the Finance Minister talks about ‘Investing’ in Scotland’s future she is talking about Privatisation!

We don’t acquire the assets, foreign corporations do!

The problem with investing in Freeports etc is, in Scotland as in England they are Deregulated! So the Government puts money in…..but do we get any of the profits? Does any LA even have any control over what takes place within those boundaries?

The simple answer is No!

Add to that the incentives of tax breaks and lower business tariffs = minus not plus income for your local Council for up to 25 years.

Where are the plusses in these investments?

A few low-paid insecure jobs maybe, a few houses….who gets the rent if indeed they are rentable…the private land lord!

So there is no generating income in the real sense of the word, but as Edinburgh Council has belatedly found out just a rise in their contributions!

https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/edinburgh-council-make-90m-less-29857966

We need to wise up and read behind the glossy headlines. Ask your Councillors what they know!…..probably very little because this game is being played out in the dark corridors of government!

Check out @SalvoFreeports

Scotland must stop playing the Freeport game.

Do not believe those who say the road is closed, don’t even believe those who say ‘its closed for now’……..because it isn’t!

The Power of choice is still there, it has always been there we were just offered the wrong one! Our so-called Referendum was not a choice, it was never meant to be, it was fixed from day one. No rules, no exit polls, no recounts. Why was this ever acceptable?

This would never happen now because so many of us have become ‘politically savvy’!

We know all about the snakes and who they are! We also know which ladders to climb and how to read a room!

The Power of choice is upon us once again.

Do we accept or reject the premise that Scotland and its People are Sovereign or do we wait to see what our Politicians are going to dream up next?

The second option may take some time, about 25 years because our MSPs have shifted their priorities, they now prefer to sell Scotland through Freeports etc than fight for its Independence.

The rhetoric is still there but the plan is missing!…..and a plan without action is just a speech!

Scotland’s Sovereignty is a fact, a provable fact and it is that fact that will lead us to Independence!

Thousands of us have chosen to believe that fact and Liberation is the movement actively moving it forward to the ICJ.

The choice is yours……choose wisely because we will all have to live with the consequences….as we are with the last GE!

Yesterday a new foot/cycle bridge between Govan & Partick opened to the public, bringing the two communities closer together.

What amazed me was the crowds that turned out to celebrate a bridge…..and boy how they partied well into the evening.

My mind wandered on….as it does!

I wondered how we will celebrate when an independent Sovereign Scotland opens the bridge linking itself to the world again!

No more M1..

That bridge is already in the making and the first span is about to be permanently anchored in the Hague.

The Liberation Movement, the Peoples Movement is the first span of that bridge!

We have been told ‘it’s impossible’… but we will show them that all things are possible with an army of determined people!

The day is soon coming when we will party like we have never partied before…..and all are welcome.

Sometimes we get so bogged down with so many questions that we don’t take the time to stand back and see any of the answers!

We become so focused on just one part of the problem we fail to see the bigger picture.

Problems are not permanent barriers, they can and are overcome by one’s resolve to solve them and to do that we have to be more creative in our thinking.

Westminster is the problem, the ICJ is the answer! It really is as simple as that.

…..and progress on that front is being made!

Scotland is waking up to the scandal of Freeport’s, we are also wakening up to the fact that things could be so different with Direct Democracy.

There is an open road before us, yes it may have a few hurdles but they are not insurmountable.

Liberation is the place where the impossible becomes possible!

As individuals and as a country our future possibilities will become endless.

Just believe in yourself and in Scotland.

The strange thing about our ruling Party is, they refuse to take the road they know is open.

To them, the word ‘Sovereignty’ is just a slogan.

A word to be spoken but not a Power to be used!

Liberation are using the word with all its Power!

Join us…..

We believe the People are Sovereign.

Until now we had to depended on our MPs and MSPs to get us across the line, now we know they won’t!

Imagine you had a key in your hand that could open a bank and you knew that within that bank lies the answer to all your financial problems and that of the country you love.

What would you do?

Would you walk away still hoping they would use your money wisely even though the past proves otherwise….or

Would you use the power, the key in your hands to open the door and take control?

Each one of us holds the key to Scotland’s future, we just need to find the right door. The Referendum door has changed the lock and been re-enforced by Freeports!

The new door is called Sovereignty and only we the PEOPLE who are the key holders can open it and help unlock Scotland’s assets for Scotland and ourselves.

A complete change of system, (governance) will bring your priorities to the fore. Your priorities will determine Scotland’s future….your priorities, not Westminster or even Holyrood!

It’s called Direct Democracy!

Are you up for it?

Join the other key holders, I am sure if you are going to the Hope over Fear rally you will hear more about this new door.

Scotland, and in particular the Yes groups need to start and get a grip on reality.

If you were waiting for proof that Freeports and SEZs are the new evil then what is happening or going to happen in Edinburgh is your proof.

Some of us older folks won’t be around to see the final decimation but at last the Edinburgh Council has seen the writing on the wall. Can they stop it……no!

But there is a glimmer of hope, Salvo did send written warnings to these corporations that their deals were illegal under Scottish Constitutional Law and that Law still stands!

What we need now is more of us to stand behind Salvo and Liberation to recognize our Sovereignty in the European Courts.

The path is there, the movement is there but it would be better if all who believe in Independence were to join the only game plan left that is both radical and legal.

Every voice brings with it the Power of the People who are Sovereign in Scotland.

The Sovereignty of the People can not be transferred to another!

It doesn’t matter how Westminster interprets Sovereignty what matters is how the Hague interprets it!

Recent history shows that Sovereignty above all else wins Independence for a country’s Indigenous people.

To understand the Power each of us holds in our hands we must understand our history which is not the history we learned at school!!

Having learned it, [see Salvo ] use it!

Join the movement on the move and it’s not via Westminster and it doesn’t involve our present Politicians!!

They tried to warn you, ‘they’ being the Freeport Salvo/Group. Maybe now people will listen, even LA Councillors!

It all sounded so far away, Teeside after all was in England and we were told by Forbes ‘et al’ that things would be different in Scotland…..well they aren’t!

https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/edinburgh-council-make-90m-less-29857966

And earlier yesterday another story broke….

What happened to local jobs for local people?

Wake up Scotland, you have been sold a ‘pup’ and as it grows it will strip Scotland of its assets and your Local Services!

Lower or free taxes for corporations means only one thing for you and me, a reduction in our vital Council Services or we have to plug the gap in funding……not them…US!

So when your Council Tax leaps up next year don’t think it’s just about government funding, look at the loss of revenue because of Freeports & SEZs.

These cumulative tax breaks are not re-invested into the local communities they go straight into the pockets of shareholders’ and the good people of Edinburgh will pay handsomely for the privilege.

The headings on all the glossy brochures sounded so grand, the saviours of the Scottish economy had arrived but the reality will be so different and this nightmare is only beginning.

Only one thing can halt this virus of greed and that is ‘system change’ at the very top. A new type of governance away from Westminster…why?

….because the rot started there with the new ideology of Libertarianism. Cut the root and we may just have a chance to change our course.

We have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to change course thanks to Salvo, it is sink or swim time!

Join Liberation, the modern-day lifeboat and let’s go hand in hand to the Hague together.

History keeps repeating itself because we refuse to learn from our mistakes and any Political Party will sail into the sunset if it doesn’t learn and listen to its members.

Hard as it may be to accept the truth, if a Party says it is member-led then this must be bourne out in practice. No leader should have the power to cut across the wishes of its members or change policy at a whim! If it does it is a Dictatorship and not a Democracy!

We all make mistakes and it is in the acknowledgement of those mistakes that we learn. If a farmer does not get the yield he expects from a field, the following year he will sow in a different field….he will not make the same mistake twice, he can’t afford to….and neither can we.

The concept of success is the ability to move from failure to a different road without losing all our enthusiasm.

The Referendum road is blocked…..don’t stop…move on!

Use the resources you have, the ones you used on the old road like enthusiasm and determination and use them to help build the new road.

The new road is called Sovereignty, the Scottish Government knows about it but refuses to take it….we can only wonder why!

This road may be new to us but it is a well-trodden road, many new countries have taken it with success….so why can’t we?

We can and we are and we are a lot nearer reaching our goal than the Referendum road ever took us. This road cuts out the ‘middle-man’!…..Westminster!

How has this been accomplished in such a short space of time, well the first step was to acknowledge we had got it all wrong in the beginning!

It was Salvo who discovered all the lies and brought our true history to light and we have continued to walk in that light ever since!

Liberation. Scot has now taken over the torch bridging all the hurdles by complying with all the rules that will enable them to get UN recognition as a Peoples movement!

Some say ‘not possible’ but when you can prove the lies….all things are possible!

You cannot keep a Nation chained to a relationship built on lies and threats.

There is only one Nation that has a Legal Parliament and that is Scotland but not Holyrood!….a new home will have to be found, not one owned by the English system!

Curious?….. then join and find out more and bring your own personal resources with you!!

Planting the seed!

We need to start listening differently when Politicians speak and judge them not on their promises but on their history….and history is now telling us that those in power in Holyrood have been playing fast and loose with us for years. We believed because we wanted to believe and to be fair only those who were really into Politics saw the subtle changes.

The language regarding Independence is not so subtle now, Independence has been parked but the language about Freeports is ambiguous, to say the least.

Whilst the urgency for Independence has been shelved temporarily the urgency to thrust Freeports and SEZs gathers pace with even those brave enough to ask questions being fobbed off with words like ‘green’ or ‘grants’ but no answers as to who gets the profits or even part.

Grants are peanuts compared with profits…..once again we get the crumbs.

We are not meant to understand Political language, that’s the whole point of it. So when we are told something is good for us what is meant is, its good for them!

How’s this for Political language?…

At the weekend Scotlands new Labour ‘long Shanks’ from Rutherglen said this regarding Pensions. “I’m not convinced a one-size fits-all approach is right, or a good use of public money”

Be aware, very aware something is afoot and it won’t be good news for Pensioners!

Freeports will not benefit us, no promises have ever been delivered…..but freedoms have been lost!

So who is left to make Scotland a Nation again……only us, the people……and there’s more of us than them!

That is why Liberation was formed, a peaceful army of people like you and me. We march with our voices and take those voices to the UN.

Responsibility is saying ‘we got it wrong, now we are putting it right’.

We will have one last chance to put things right and that will be in 2026…..we have just over a year to learn a new language, and to understand how to make the impossible……possible!

Scotland was once a land of visionaries, we thought we had a Party leading us who also had a vision, but somewhere along the road that changed.

Does that mean the vision, the dream is dead?

Never, what it means is we have to re-draw the map. We have to allow the sat-nav to re-route us!

Vision does not always rely on physical sight. The leader of the ISP although nearly blind has more vision for Scotland than most of us have in our little finger.

Her understanding of what a free Sovereign Scotland could and will be is an example to us all. Colette is not alone, thousands of us are on the same journey taking a very different route. We just changed the sat-nav destination to The Hague!

We veered off and took the ring road!!!

Yesterday the SNP gave in.….a little! They say they will after all hold discussions with other Yes parties, but there was a caveat! These other Parties must have an elected representative! Well, that narrows it down a bit, but it is a start!

The problem for me is, that these parties believe Parliament is Sovereign, not the People! Which in reality means, more of the same. Either the Claim of Right stands in its entirety or it doesn’t stand at all.

Also, neither of these Parties seems to realise that as long as they sit in the Holyrood building they are endorsing the Westminster system. The property is a parcel of the Westminster estate, Devolution made it so.

To think outside of the box, think Kosovo ( without the war!!) Their Sovereignty was only recognised by the ICJ because they didn’t sit in the Youguslavia Parliament after they won their election!

They created their own Parliament in a separate building and got International recognition by doing so…..could we be brave enough to do this?

If we want the dream we have to be brave enough to walk the walk not just talk the talk!!

Yes, groups and other Yessers need to have a complete re-think because those at the top have parked Independence as a priority.

And we must be bold in our thinking.

Liberation is showing the way without Politicians, they are not taking the Referendum road they are taking the Sovereignty road like many countries before us.

Wouldn’t it feel good ‘to matter’ again? To live in a country where we had a continual say! Not just in Elections every 5 years but input into everything.

Many, many years ago a friend writing a reference for me said this…’ Joan doesn’t suffer fools lightly’! When it comes to those who lead us…..I haven’t changed!!

For me, Leadership is about respect, respect for the people you lead and the country you lead. You do not punish them for your mistakes!

Therefore I ask all Yessers to be strong in their resolve and not give up, just change the sat- nav!