There is a difference between where you think your money, [taxes] go and where they actually end up!

According the Express our last governing party spent £2.1m on ‘gagging orders’……let me repeat that, £2.1m shutting people up, over a period of 5yrs!!

https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/snp-spent-21m-gagging-orders-37050072

Now, you don’t spend that kind of money trying to hide lies, but you would on hiding the truth!!

So, do we not have the right to know who was ‘shut up’ and why?

Fiscal accountability should be one of the cornerstones of any government. The language governments use when talking about money is interesting. ‘It’s government money’ or ‘Treasury money’, But the fact is, its our money paid by our taxes.

Another cornerstone should be Transparency! If there’s a secret to be hidden because of National Security, that is one thing and the courts can deal with that. But secret gagging orders are quite another thing. They sound dodgy because they are dodgy, and they sound like cover-ups!

A model of Direct Democracy would fix these things. That’s the good thing about starting anew, the sheet is blank!

There are, however, some parties that are not in favour of DD. That battle can be fought out on the political platform, but it must be the People of Scotland who decide what kind of system they want.

Now, Direct Democracy involves people’s participation. And I know how that works out these days!

However, I do believe if people saw that their participation actually works for them, they would come around to the idea.

The argument, needs to be won!

But we don’t have to wait until Independence before we get transparency, we can do that next month by putting people into Holyrood, who will demand it!

Government transparency should be a question at every Hustings!

Our money should never be used to hide the truth.

So, the SNP are asking for donations towards their new Independence campaign, well I for one won’t be giving them 1p until I know where the £660 grand went that was meant to be ‘ring fenced’. I also want to see the road map…..the whole map, including plan B & C!

I won’t hold my breath!

With only 2 weeks to go, it’s all getting very tetchy out there, so let’s keep our cool and fly this flag with pride.