Patience.

Rome was not built in a day, and neither will a new Scotland be.

First, the world must see and recognize that this country of ours has been gravely wronged.

That will happen when we get to the ICJ, the wheels of justice turn slowly, but they do turn! The first step is within touching distance so we must not lose patience.

Liberation has accomplished more in 2 years than the Scottish Government has done in the last 10.

Persistence.

It would be so easy to throw in the towel and remain in our ‘comfy place’! The problem is that the comfy place is getting less comfortable by the day!

Next week we will experience the most austere budget seen in years. It will feel like a death by a thousand cuts as we are made to pay for the fiscal madness of others, not to mention filling the pockets of the rich.

There are no shortcuts to success, some call it stubbornness, but I call it determination.

As someone once said…..

“The difficult, we do right away. The impossible takes a little longer.”

There will always be difficulties ahead of us. Independence will not be the silver bullet that cures all. But at least the difficulties will be ours, and we will have the power to deal with them in a way we see fit.

Positivity.

We have come too far on our journey to the EU to let the negativity around us cause us to stop and stumble. We all have bad days.

We have to recognise that some want us to fail and they often know the buttons to press.

Balance is achieved by keeping up the momentum. Attacks come because we are on the right road, a road others fear…..see them as a positive.

Westminster is working hard to erase everything Scottish but they underestimate us because they cannot erase our dream and our determination to make it happen.

We are a People on a mission, they may have won the Scottish government over to the extent that our Parliament can lock us out at a whim and they may banish their own flag, but they will never kill the dream and it is the dream they fear the most.

Every independent nation in the world started with someone’s dream. Liberation is taking ours forward.

Join the dream catchers!

Politics is a game, a game of Power, whether it is played out in Parliament, in a church or just a home. There will always be someone or some group that constantly fights for control.

However what matters is, how they exercise that control. When it comes to Politics we expect the people we have voted for to use their influence to better our lives and keep us safe.

But once again our expectations have been too high, bad actors have taken over the stage and we are once again just the audience watching the nightmare that is unfolding.

But we are more than just the audience, we are the recipients of every decision these bad actors make.

The Labour Party we all knew is dead and gone, and even the Tory Party we once knew has gone, now one name unites them.….. Libertarians!

The new world order of Privatisation has taken over, where Corporate Power is replacing Democracy.

Very soon every decision that affects our daily lives will be made in a company boardroom not in government as we thought it to be.

And those decisions will be decided by the profit that can be made, not by how lives can be enhanced.

We have a choice in Scotland, we can either remain in the audience or we can take to the stage and become the actors!

Those who will protect the interests of all of us and who will use our resources for the common good, as it was always meant to be.

That goal will only be reached if egos are laid down and the Democracy we say we want starts to come into play NOW!

Bad actors will always be around but I believe Scotland has more good ones than bad ones!

We just have to learn how to recognize them earlier!! It is their actions not their words that will betray them.

We have another problem in Scotland and it’s at the other end of the scale to egos. Too many people think they have nothing to offer, or they are not good enough. Many join political parties!

I believe that by joining a Party or an organization that fact alone shows you have beliefs and opinions and we want to hear them! Your opinion is as important as mine probably even more so!

We have a lot of talent in Scotland, we just need to let it loose….common sense being one of them!

If you are waiting for action before getting involved again, then wait no more. Liberation is on the move, the voting on its constitution will end very soon and the required letters to the EU community will be sent…..thats what I call getting on with the job whilst others just talk about it.

Stage 1 is almost complete, then the master plan will be revealed and many questions answered.

…… and yes the egos will rise with their less than constructive criticisms…..what else would they do…what else would we expect them to do?🤔

This is an ongoing process so your opinions and support is still needed.

Become part of the movement on the move!

Become a good actor!

Battle fatigue is not a game and it is not funny. PTSD does not just apply to war veterans, so my Doctor once informed me.

I wasn’t going to write anything today because I woke up this morning and just felt so tired. Tired of all the negativity, tired of all the backbiting, tired of seeing friends hurt.

I am sure many who are in this fight for Independence can identify with this poem.

We are all battle-weary and in need of some good news but I think what makes it worse, at least it does for me is to see good people fall because of the way they are treated by others.

When an organization or group starts to lose good people, Leaders need to start asking why and respond.

Have the ‘egos’ landed?

Someone once said, the problem with working with people is, people!

If this dream is ever to come true we cannot replace like for like! The system must change, the policies must change and we must be prepared to change….but I fear I may be asking too much…..please prove me wrong!

Don’t turn the dream into another nightmare such as the one we are living under just now, which is Westminster rule.

There are 650 MPs in Westminster and 99.99% of them have egos and Holyrood doesn’t fair much better.

We must get the right people into the right jobs as we move forward. We have some of these people in place now in so many organizations we just need to see their Leadership skills trickle a little further down the ladder…..and yes Leadership is a skill.

Liberation is the place that will move us on….join and bring your skills with you.

Through Liberation, Scotland has started a journey where none have walked before.

It is not a case of ‘A road less travelled’ but a road never travelled!

The Sat-Nav has been set and the destination registered.

https://www.un.org/dppa/decolonization/en/about#:~:text=The%20decolonization%20efforts%20of%20the%20United%20Nations%20derive%20from%20the,the%20interests%20of%20dependent%20peoples

…..and it hasn’t gone unnoticed!

Route 1 was blocked and remains blocked, that does not mean we give up. On the contrary, it just meant we had to look eleswhere. It is sad however that our Politicians didn’t have either the ambition or the competence to do the same.

In Alex’s interview with Tasmina, he is right about Sovereignty and how we must use it. The ISP have been saying this from day 1. We can do this in 2026 by all Candidates adding the word Sovereignty to their name on the Ballot paper yet remaining independent as a Party.

We just need the good will to do it.

Then we can walk boldly into the future.…. sorry that sounds a bit Star Trekish 😂😂

Party Politics will not disappear, once the goal has been achieved many new Parties may appear but the thing is they will be Scottish Parties!!

If we don’t do this in 2026 the opportunity will be lost for another 5yrs, because we need a democratic event to make it happen and that only happens every 5 years!

We can do this, we just need the willingness.

We have the desire, we have the People, we have the Power, and we now have the platform….so what’s stopping us?

The Platform……

We are all adults, let’s start behaving as such!

To the thousands of Yessers, I ask one question.

If not now…..when?

What will it take to mobilise the Tartan Army again?

What will it take to bring opposing sides to work together to make sure 2026 becomes the springboard for an eventual Independent Scotland?

A Plebiscite Supermajority!

Some have suggested Parties should merge to show a united front, but going forward would that lead to a healthy Democracy or an Autocracy?

Surely existing Parties could use semantics to produce a heading whereby we could all Vote for the same thing in 2026 yet remain independent and let the Politics take over after that!

One word has already been suggested, ‘Sovereignty’. Is that a possibility?

We must start talking to one another once the grief has lessened and the anger abated.

At the moment we are all somewhere on this ladder…and we are all on it for different reasons!

But at some point, we must all take another step up if the dream is to be realised because remember this is our dream too.

Failure on this mission is not an option because the Scotland we know and love is diminishing before our eyes, as is Democracy.

Very soon you won’t get a vote on anything unless you’re a Shareholder!

If you hate Politicians you ain’t seen or experienced anything yet!

Big business is brutal as many countries are finding out.

Nothing is what it seems these days and nothing is free! Hidden in the small print of all these deals lies an ambush within the clause ISDS.

[This guy knows his stuff, please follow him on X]

So, let’s be clear here, these colgomerates can sue a Goverment for any Policy they deem would harm their profits!!……This has the potential to stop the Scot Gov from ever increasing the Living Wage.

Board rooms will dictate Government Policy!

It’s all about a low-wage, high-profit economy……except Scotland will not see any of the profits!

The word ‘Special’ in Special Economic Zones does not mean we or the area we live in is special it just means this area has been carved out for Privatisation and we are the fodder who they expect to work for low wages!

Thousands are seeing Liberation as a way out of this nightmare, take a look.

We’ve been done…….AGAIN!

….. and not just by Labour but our own politicians in Holyrood!

How does that make you feel?….. Angry?

The Grangemouth story is not about a firm going bust it’s about a Political Heist, one carefully crafted over the past few years.

Fact 1. Grangemouth is not losing money.

Fact 2. The plant could improve production and profits with small investment.

Fact 3. Alex told Kate Forbes on TV the name of the part required to do this.

Fact 4. This is Asset stripping plain and simple.

Fact 5. Westminster knows separation is coming and wants to diminish our capabilities in that field making us reliant on them for fuel.….our fuel!

Fact 6. Radcliffe is in line for a huge bonus for shutting it down.

…..and our Scottish Politicians have their grubby little hands all over this sad story.

But let this be a lesson for the future, a future that if left to our Politicians will take us further into the world of Privatisation then ultimate destruction.

We are given the picture that Privatisation is the golden path to the future…..but who gets the gold?

There is no such thing as Corporate generosity…..someone always pays!

https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2024/10/17/nhs-services-wiltshire/

This is taxpayers’ money being used to invest in a company that may or may not improve services but will certainly run away with the profits.

This is not the same as investing in the NHS.

Here are a couple of examples of where things are going wrong for us but not for them!

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jul/22/economic-violence-ladywood-birmingham-redevelopment-residents-clash-council

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https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2024-02-29-new-study-links-hospital-privatisation-worse-patient-care

Scotland is being dragged into this sleezy world through Freeports & SEZs. A world where Private consortiums have the power to take what they want when they want it. And don’t think for one moment that they won’t!

By the time some of their plans hit us individually, it will be too late to do anything, we must use our anger to galvanise as a People now!

The one place we can do this is in the Liberation movement. The place where the Vision comes before any one person or Party. A level playing field where we all know the rules and where the goalposts won’t be moved!!

Our ultimate goal is Independence but we must score some smaller goals first.

That first one is about to happen, our first step to being part of the EU community.

That excites me, it’s what makes it worthwhile getting out of bed in the mornings and sometimes struggling to get to various meetings when able.

If Independence is a drug…..then I am hooked!!

Yes, there are other routes in the offering and they might be credible, surely we should use any that will work. I chose the Liberation route because it is ready to roll and its a movement of the People it is as simple as that.

It is a route with a proven history of sucess.

We must never give up, if one door closes then we use another door and doors will always open even if they are not those in Westminster.

Parties do not need to merge we just need to be travelling on the same road!

Scotland needs to get back on track and with some haste, I may add.

Having identified where it all went wrong and why, we need to move on with a plan. We can’t regain those lost years but we can regain the status taken from us and reparations for what has been stolen.

To do that we need to make some changes, changes in our habits! For the last 10 years, our habit has been to walk down the S30 road. A habit the Scottish Government are not inclined to break, we can only guess why.

Loyalty is a strong bond but sometimes misplaced. Voting Labour to save Grangemouth was certainly loyalty misplaced and we now know the SNP have been in on the deal since 2021. Take that in for a few minutes!!

It is not wrong to change loyalties when a person or Party refuses to acknowledge the road they are on is blocked but doggedly digs its heels in and won’t budge. To ‘blindly follow’ is a habit that must change if the dream is ever to come true.

Until loyalty to Scotland comes before Party loyalty Scotland will never move forward. Pride will stop us in our tracks.

We need to re-kindle the pride we have in our country.

That kind of change opens us up to other ways of thinking and the possibility that there just might be another way…….

Another way to cross the line another way through the brick wall that is Westminster.

If our elected representatives won’t do it, then we must.

A way has been presented to us, a way that doesn’t have to cross Political boundaries because it’s about People, not Politicians…..a movement of the people by the people.

Liberation is the new game in town and it’s causing waves in high places.

Why? Because those who stand to lose most know we are onto something…..the lie has been exposed.

Knowledge is power and now we have it, we must use it.

Liberation is using that knowledge, join us….

Powershifts are everyday occurrences, from governments down to our households at times. They happen for many reasons, sometimes we get a say in them others are thrust upon us.

Labour coming into Government was a huge Powershift for this country, or at least it was meant to be!

There are other kinds of Powershifts, they happen below the radar crafted in secret board meetings. Even a change of CEO in a Foreign Country can now affect our daily living standards thanks to Freeports & SEZs!

But perhaps the greatest Powershifts happen when ordinary people recognize their own power and use it.

Scotland never ceded its power over anything and whatever was intended all those centuries ago never came to fruition. No Legal documents are saying they did!

The Lie has been brought out into the light.

Therefore we, yes we the People still hold the power as written in the Claim of Rights.

The question is, how do we use it?

Having been complicit in this sham Democracy for so long how do we even as individuals escape this web of lies?

Well, here is the good news…..we don’t have to!

Salvo has done the work us!

Remember the saying, ‘Follow the money’ well this has been a case of following the paper(s)! All the documents showing centuries of deceit and lies have been lying in the vaults of the HOC for centuries and we must thank Sara and her colleagues for their tenacity in digging them out. Even the language used in these documents was never meant to be understood by folks like you and me.

After Salvo, Liberation was formed for one purpose and that was to do what many countries have done before. To build a people movement, independent of Politicians to take back our country and have it recognized as a Political State in its own right.

No one denies we are a Nation, even Westminster accepts the People are Sovereign but without political statehood, we are just a Colony, ruled by others. Sovereign People means nothing without the Power of Sovereignty and Statehood.

We have no say in the World and we have no say in our affairs and don’t we know it. Holyrood is just a branch of Westminster with puppets at its helm.

As a movement of the People ( Liberation), we can make a huge Powershift happen.

Let us grow this movement together and make the Dream come True, caring for one another, one day at a time!

We have several legacies to fulfil…. let’s crack on!

Before the EU Referendum, people I spoke to were voting for Brexit for several reasons. One of them was that they were sick of all the silly wee rules that affected so many businesses….and yes some of them were a bit ridiculous.

The Brexiteers promised to rip them up, less Red Tape they said, what was never envisaged was that as far as Foreign companies were concerned they would rip up the whole rule book….no Red Tape….a free for all.

Rules protect us from criminal activity….never forget that.

We now have a two-tier tax system when it comes to running a business in Britain. Today the PM reiterated those words with a few add-ons. “Less red tape, high wage, more houses and improved LA services”!!

Let me break that down to the reality of what’s happening at ground level.

With Freeports and SEZs comes deregulation…no red tape to speak of. Companies manage their own rules with few or no taxes and keep their accounts away from prying eyes!

Private really does mean Private!

‘High wages’. To date, most jobs advertised have been low-wage so that they don’t have to pay Employers NI.

So far very few houses have been built, certainly nothing like promised. The reason for this could be a lack of land to build on. Up in Cromarty farmers are being threatened with Compulsory Purchase Orders for green belt land they refuse to sell.

“Improved LA services” Now here is the conundrum. How can LA services improve when their income is being reduced due to all the tax incentives?…..put simply they can’t unless we are made to plug the gap or they too are taken over by Private Companies, and that does not guarantee improvement!

The Country we knew has gone and it went whilst we were being distracted.

Distracted by all the shenanigans within the Tory Party over the last few years. Now Labour has taken over the reins.

How can existing businesses survive outside of the fence?

An invisible boundary, only seen on a few maps will exist showing businesses out with the new Freeports & SEZs. These businesses will have to pay full taxes and their prices will reflect their costs. The result will be catastrophic for them.

Fair competition will cease to exist, especially in towns and cities where that invisible line divides streets!

Labour is not interested in small businesses, everything has to be big from now on and if we’re not on board with all that they will ride roughshot over everything and everyone who stands in their way including Councils.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jul/22/economic-violence-ladywood-birmingham-redevelopment-residents-clash-council

Understand this, under these Freeports or SEZs neither your home nor your land is your own!

Only one thing can stop these bulldozers…..Independence! And the only train on that track is Liberation!

Join us today to stop this corporate take-over of Scotland.

We all have our weaknesses, I use the plural because we all have more than one….well I do anyway. But some won’t admit to even one!

Knowing what our weaknesses are is a powerful tool as we travel along this road called life! Even more so along any Poiltical road we choose to walk along because if we can’t see them our enemies will be quick to point them out!

It is a sign of strength to be able to recognize our weak points and admit them, it’s called self-awareness.

It would appear looking at SM this weekend that a lot of people lack Self-awareness!

It is time for us in Scotland to admit the mistakes of the past and learn from them. We followed a path that never really existed, we were led down a blind ally. If our weakness was to blindly follow where others led us, so be it, but now the truth is out and the ball has fallen back into our hands.

The legacy left to us by so many great names is now ours to run with and we must never hand it back to the Politicians! One day we will need them again but not at this moment in time.

Today thousands of us received the news we have been waiting for, the Liberation train is on the track just awaiting our approval to move on.

Then it’s full steam ahead. Ordinary people like you and I have worked tirelessly to make this happen, they deserve our respect and 👏👏

Once this train has left the station heading for the UN. I expect several things will happen fairly quickly, not least the sudden realization amongst many that Salvo/Liberation are indeed the real deal….. the only deal in town…..on track and taking Scotland‘s cause with them.

Whilst others talk, Liberation are doing it!!

This does not mean we don’t need others to join, far from it. Sovereignty will only be re-gained if we all vote for it in 2026!

Sovereignty will lead to Independence!

We have the opportunity to bring Scotland to its full potential, let’s not waste the opportunity!

My previous blog explains how and the steps we have to take.

We now need to whole of the Yes movement to climb aboard this Express non-political train to make The Dream Come True!

Scotland is a great Nation its People are a great People…..we can do this.