There is a huge difference between flip-flopping all over the place and changing direction. One comes from chaos the other seeing reality.

The road we have always thought would take us to Independence has now been slammed shut. For years Westminster dropped hints and even dropped the occasional carrot that gave us hope. They even gave us a kind of Referendum but then altered the rules when things weren’t going their way. The Vow…remember?

It was a close shave for Westminster, obviously not one to be repeated. Since then, our powers have been reigned in rather than the promised expansion.

Surely the time has come for the our SNP government to recognize that route is closed and another must be found. Referendums might well be the gold A1 standard but they are not the only road.

The UN Decolonisation route was set up for such reasons. It is not a quick fix to a problem, it’s hard, very hard to go down this route. Much harder than organising a Referendum.

The history of ones country is not easy to find when the coloniser goes to great lengths to hide or even alter the facts.

This is not helped by the fact that the country’s people have to be re-educated. To learn that 90% of what you have been taught was a lie is not easy to get your head around.…..many can’t, for some the change is just too much.

When the genie is out of the bottle we can’t put it back in, so we have to figure out what to do with it.

Thankfully we have Salvo and Liberation to show us the way, we just need to find the courage to change our way of thinking.

And yes, it takes courage to change….but that change will make us stronger people.

Independence will require full commitment from all of us, the road we take to it will require full commitment from all of us. This is why next year’s Election is so important.

It will be a chance for us, the people to say what direction we wish to take and how we want to take it.

Direct Democracy is about People, not Politicians.