I have been thinking back to the 2014 Referendum because a recurring tweet keeps coming up on my Timeline. It states that AS made a huge error in choosing NS as his successor.

The words ‘corporate responsibility’ keep popping into my head and thus some honesty is required.

Thousands of us, including myself, poured into the SECC to endorse that choice.

After all, who else was there? ……given what has happened since would the outcome have been different?

It was only after gender politics started to appear that many of us, mostly women left. Now we have a Nationalist Party with no clear Nationalism plans!

My point is though that we are all responsible in one way or another for the failures that followed.

We didn’t pay enough attention to the signs….and they were there, the Unionist press made sure of that. Her history as a Lawyer in Drumchapel should have sounded alarm bells….but didn’t. We all got caught up in the euphoria of what nearly happened and could yet happen…..and I mean all!!

AS admitted he had made a mistake and we must concede our part in it all, but have we learned anything, could history repeat itself elsewhere?

Nicola allowed herself to be influenced by bad actors for whatever reason and took her eye off what mattered, Independence. Yes, the words were there, but her priorities were elsewhere. Now the ball has been completely dropped.

Bad actors often appear as knights in shining armour, some see through them but if the leaders don’t, problems lay ahead. One is, that good people start to leave.

I don’t believe in the saying ‘people are born to be good leaders’….they are not…..they learn and grow into that position. Being one of the best at something does not automatically make you a good leader. Your skills at one job may not be the same as the ones needed to lead, and many an organization has fallen through not knowing the difference.

Labour is a good example and may yet fall because of Starmer’s leadership.

Democracy is not democracy if a Leader can overrule everything anyone else says or does, and a leader who is surrounded by ‘yes’ people accomplishes very little but to collapse what has been built around them.

NS made sure she surrounded herself with ‘yes’ people but the wrong kind!!

We, the people of Scotland are sovereign, we are the Yes people that matter and through Liberation we will have our say.