Boundaries are important, whether they be personal or professional. But a boundary without a gate is a prison, so always have a gate!

Being human, we build fences/walls, around us when our emotions take charge and we can do so, in seconds! At first, those fences have no gates, but if we keep them that way the only thing we are doing is fencing ourselves in, no one else really cares. We become our own worst enemy!

This happens a lot within party politics, people take very intransigent positions. Even when circumstances change there is no room for flexibility, more so, if it gets personal.

We often use the phrase, ‘there is none so blind as those who will, not see’. You could also say, ‘there are none so deaf, as those who will not hear’!

How can Scotland move forward if we refuse to listen to one another? Fixed ideas don’t work when the ground keeps shifting.

Why for instance won’t the SNP governing party meet with Salvo? They have apparently disparaged their route in a report, yet they have never engaged with them!

Flexibility, or the ability to listen to others, appears to be an anathema to the SNP. It’s their way or no way! Their gate is firmly shut and locked, apparently even to their own members.

When a party is in power, it can become addicted to that power. Decisions are made with one priority, to keep that power. This results in ill-thought-out policies with high costs to communities. Take for example the £2 bus ticket, it looked good and in most cases is good, but not for some on islands, where hundreds of folks coming off the cruise liners, jump on local buses for a cheap tour around the island, leaving no room for the locals to get home!!

Sometimes, governments seem unable to look at all the scenarios when making policies.

Policy-making, should surely involve all stakeholders being at the table. Countries are best governed through consensus.

It would appear that Scotland has no boundaries at the moment, never mind a gate. Our land and seas have become a playground for the rich!

What will be left, when Scotland does become independent?

Time, is not our friend, but what we have must be used wisely.

Do not be fooled by Burnhams false promises, I personally believe he ‘misspoke ’!!

However, if I am wrong and he didn’t, what measurement is he going to employ before agreeing to another Westminster lead Referendum?

But let’s be honest, do we really want ‘rinse and repeat’?

You know what is odd, Holyrood does have the power to hold referendums, they just need to be a little imaginative about the wording!

But no, honest John wants his ‘holy grail’!!…as well as the King!