Memorandums of Understand, what are they and are they worth their weight in gold?

We hear a lot about these things when contracts are signed. I suppose one could say they are ‘add ons’ to a deal, I see them as ‘pacifiers’!!

Handshake promises added on when the two parties involved were not prepared to make them part of the legal contract. They make both sides look good in failure, but hold no weight legally! In short, they mean nothing.

Kate Forbes uses a lot of these in her Freeport deals, often around employment issues. She can at least say ‘I tried’!

But we don’t employ our ministers to just ‘try’ we expect them to do! Are we so desperate that we have to accept sub standard deals from what is often seemingly sub standard foreign companies. Companies that just want to rip us off.

It is the business of private businesses to make profits at the expense of others, it is not the business of MSPs to be enablers, neither should they be the enablers of Westminster.

We have to change the way the Scottish Government works and if the NuSNP won’t do it then let’s fill the place with radicals who will. People who will make Holyrood a little less ordinary and start to fight for Scotland and us, it’s people.

On Sunday I sat and listened to 5 of the Liberate Scotland [ISP] candidates tell us why they were standing, it was a humbling experience to be in such a group of reluctant heroes…..yes heroes. Ordinary people prepared to put their personal lives and ambitions on hold to do something our present incumbents of Holyrood won’t.

Ordinary folk with grit….the ‘sma folk’, who come with a lot of life experience.

No MOUs here, just a clear contract with the people of Scotland….

The route…..Decolonisation!