Scotland is being sacrificed on every front, its land, its seas and its people!

Poverty is on the rise, food banks are on the rise, unemployment is rising yet according to the CBI Chief we are rich beyond measure!

If we hold the ‘golden ticket’ why are we sitting on our backsides allowing Westminster to walk away with it all when there is a way out?

Yes, there is a way out.

Just because it’s not the Scottish government’s way out (which is closed, if you hadn’t noticed!) does not mean it’s not viable.

Late last night Labour’s risk assessment on the withdrawal of the Winter Fuel Payment was released. It makes grim reading with the potential of thousands of deaths this winter….I call it Corporate Manslaughter!

Human sacrifice…..for what? For Starmer and Reeves to show the world how tough they can be when it comes to fiscal responsibility!

A policy that costs more to administer than it does to pay out in full is not fiscal responsibility it is just crass.

Has the closing of Grangemouth, our only Refinery, got us angry enough yet?

I sincerely hope so, it’s not just another nail on the cross, it’s the one that makes us probably the only country in the world that is opulent in oil but can’t refine it…and if Westminster thinks this is another added link in the chain that holds us then they are more stupid than I thought! Because until we get up and running again we can just turn the taps off and ship it elsewhere!

…..and you do realise that once they refine our oil they will try and sell it back to us at a high price, just like electricity!

We could be a ‘good neighbour’ but even my patience is running out on that one!

It is time to Liberate ourselves and be ourselves…..divorcees know just how that feels….there is no other feeling like it…. especially if you’re the one who initiated the divorce!

So, come on folks let’s be the individuals who initiate one of the biggest divorces ever!

Join the Peoples Movement that is growing by the day and they are going for the full thing…..’ Decree Absolute’!

This could take some time as there are 12 of them, all doted around at strategic locations.

I will start with as per map and very briefly put up a few of the links showing what the local concerns are so far in this very prestigious club!

1….. East Midlands.

(and it’s nowhere near the sea!)

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0kkrzw0r8wo

2…. Freeport East.( Felixstowe & Harwich)

https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/regions/anglia/freeport-east-why-is-it-so-controversial/

3….Humber Freeport. [25 kilometres wide]

https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/region/humber-freeport-fish-or-fowl/

4….Liverpool. [45kil wide]

https://www.lancs.live/news/lancashire-news/new-freeport-zones-liverpool-could-23600572

5….Plymouth & South Devon. (incorporating Dartmoor & Isle of Wight)

https://eastdevonwatch.org/2022/08/20/

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2x08q52w1o

https://www.themoorlander.co.uk/news/politics/1329888/freeports-a-pathway-to-the-end-of-government-as-we-know-it.html

6….Solent Freeport.

https://onthewight.com/solent-freeport-concerns-about-money-laundering-and-tax-evasion-raised-in-university-report/

7….Teeside Freeport.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teesside_Freeport#:~:text=Corruption%20allegations%2C%20transparency%20concerns%20and%20inquiry,-The%20corporate%20structure&text=MPs%20have%20alleged%20that%20significant,development%20projects%20in%20the%20UK.

8...Thames Freeport.

https://www.thamescrossingactiongroup.com/land-conflict-between-ltc-and-thames-freeport/

9….Forth Freeport. 45 kil wide.

What we already know!

https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/edinburgh-council-make-90m-less-29857966

https://bylines.scot/business/green-freeports-gateway-to-sustainability-or-greenwashing-with-a-tax-avoidance-cherry/

10. Inverness & Cromarty Freeport.

https://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/news/your-views-is-inverness-and-cormarty-firth-freeport-really-352848/

https://www.northern-times.co.uk/news/business-insight-where-are-the-freeport-s-workers-going-to-351022/

11. Anglesey Freeport.

https://www.nuclearpolicy.info/news/joint-media-release-beware-geeks-bearing-gifts-anti-nuclear-campaigners-warn-anglesey-freeport-plan-represents-nuclear-trojan-horse/

https://www.rmt.org.uk/news/freeports-must-not-lead-to-deregulation-and-attacks230323/

12. Celtic Freeport.( Milford Haven to Port Talbot)

https://www.wcl.org.uk/docs/Link_freeports_consultation_response_July2020FINAL.pdf

https://bylines.cymru/politics-and-society/shanker-singham-north-wales-freeport/

Well, that was some journey!

One thing about this journey was very noticeable and that is how the media managed to drown out the concerns of the wee folk!

The headlines are all about the lure of tax breaks like Stamp Duty, enhanced Capital allowances, business rate relief, employer NI relief etc.

Only in Edinburgh has the penny dropped…..ah the canny Scots!!

So many promises made but will they actually come to fruition? But one thing we can say and that is all that land has gone….for the meantime, and I haven’t even mentioned SEZs!

To keep up to date with the Scottish news follow @SalvoFreeports on X

As our daily dose of smoke & mirrors [propaganda ] is served up to us on numerous fronts I am reminded of magic mirrors.

Usually mirrors project more or less a true image….thats why we hate them, especially the full-length ones😅

Magic mirrors on the other hand distort everything….sound familiar!!

Propaganda is biased by its very nature, governments use it to promote their agenda trying to make it more palatable, but then they announce something else which turns everything before on its head…..there is no consistency or even fairness.

Talk about making Policy on the hoof…..this Labour horse is galloping!

Westminster has form when it comes to breaking promises and it ranges from Policies right up to Treaties.

The so-called ‘Treaty of the Union’ was broken before the ink had even dried, so why are we still here, shackled to Westminster?

A broken treaty is broken and can’t be fixed, so it is null & void…..it no longer exists!

For so long we never knew this, everything was hidden in the vaults but now those doors have opened…..and a light has shone on the truth.

Yet only Salvo/Liberation plus one other Party are prepared to take on the challenge…..our Politicians are too fearful and glued to their well-paid jobs to do anything. The settling up became settling down….and I am being gracious with my words!!

Every contract ever made with Scotland, with us the People has been broken…..so let’s do something about it.

Let’s be the people who break through the system and go to a higher court.

I have no doubt at all that in the end Westminster will withdraw from every Treaty they signed with the UN in order to keep us in our place but it won’t matter if they do, because we will have International Law on our side.

Scotland will have the world-wide recognition it needs to go forward as an independent Sovereign Nation.

We have the people in place to do this and the other foundations are being prepared, so there is no blind ally before us.

This is a real plan and you can be part of it.

So join us….

You may not hear it or see it but within the grassroots groups and Parties it is still beating.

….. and every time Westminster sticks the knife in that heartbeat gets louder!

Some knives are visible others are more subtle like Freeports & SEZs and it is those subtle almost unseen ones that will kill Scotland’s industries and communities off.

Our government in Holyrood is in the business of ‘rolling over’, instead of putting up a fight or a the very least objecting to Freeports we have Kate Forbes writing letters saying how she is looking forward to future co-operation!

So it is now up to us as individuals to send a clear message …..

…..and we start in 2026.

… During this election, I will become an Octogenarian but believe me when I say I will neither roll over or shut up!

Every week more and more stories appear in the press warning of Freeport dangers and with more Unions determined to fight for workers’ rights, this is not going away!

https://www.rmt.org.uk/news/freeports-must-not-lead-to-deregulation-and-attacks230323/

Sadly though because of Deregulation, it’s not only workers who will lose out but everyone living within their boundaries. As LA income decreases one of two things will happen, either services will be cut or Council Tax will rise at an extortionate rate.

I feel a time is soon coming when poverty will bring people onto the streets…. angry people!

But we in Scotland have a way out, a way that gives us back Power, individual Power!

Modern countries like Denmark and Switzerland do things differently, the latter have just held a referendum to increase their Pensions!…..how does that sound to you?

This is not a pipe dream, its a plan in the working!

Check it out….

We have a once-in-a-lifetime chance at a new start, let’s be bold and take it….. thanks to Salvo we can deal with the Freeports later whilst continuing to educate people of the pitfalls and there are numerous.

In the lure of cash, they didn’t see the hook.

When it comes to fighting for Independence or against Freeports there is no line of ‘least resistance’, it’s hard graft all the way.

There are those, especially in Holyrood who have taken the line of least resistance. They just roll over when it comes to taking orders from Westminster, submission being the name of the game.

We must change this in 2026!

…..and it will be down to us, the People to do it.

We cannot continue with a system whereby Politicians once elected can renege on all their manifesto promises and then make the most vulnerable in society pay for their mistakes.

Did anybody ever read the word ‘Freeport’ in any Manifesto…..no…..it was hidden behind the word ‘investment’!

Maybe this was partly our fault, we weren’t paying enough attention, or we didn’t ask the right questions….a lesson for 2026!

If the present system doesn’t allow us to hold out MSPs or MPs to account after an election we must do so during an election and we need to plan for that now!

But I emphasize the need for system change going forward.

We must stop being sheep and become Shepherds…..leaders!

There is within each of us the potential to be more than we are, we just need to trust ourselves and in the message we have.

Liberation has within its ranks more leaders than Holyrood has in its entirety, just ordinary folk with a passion for Scotland, … You can become another one!

We know the change we need and we must be that change.

It is time to put our walking boots on and head for the Hague!

Remember this game? Well, it’s back only with a new name….Freeports!

…..only this time it’s not a game it’s a game-changer!

All of us will become participants in this game whether we like it or not because the fallout will affect everyone who lives within a Freeport or SEZ area. Nothing will change overnight but like the ‘trickle-down’ scenario of the economy sooner than later we will witness a change in our Council services.

When the Finance Minister talks about ‘Investing’ in Scotland’s future she is talking about Privatisation!

We don’t acquire the assets, foreign corporations do!

The problem with investing in Freeports etc is, in Scotland as in England they are Deregulated! So the Government puts money in…..but do we get any of the profits? Does any LA even have any control over what takes place within those boundaries?

The simple answer is No!

Add to that the incentives of tax breaks and lower business tariffs = minus not plus income for your local Council for up to 25 years.

Where are the plusses in these investments?

A few low-paid insecure jobs maybe, a few houses….who gets the rent if indeed they are rentable…the private land lord!

So there is no generating income in the real sense of the word, but as Edinburgh Council has belatedly found out just a rise in their contributions!

https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/edinburgh-council-make-90m-less-29857966

We need to wise up and read behind the glossy headlines. Ask your Councillors what they know!…..probably very little because this game is being played out in the dark corridors of government!

Check out @SalvoFreeports

Scotland must stop playing the Freeport game.

Do not believe those who say the road is closed, don’t even believe those who say ‘its closed for now’……..because it isn’t!

The Power of choice is still there, it has always been there we were just offered the wrong one! Our so-called Referendum was not a choice, it was never meant to be, it was fixed from day one. No rules, no exit polls, no recounts. Why was this ever acceptable?

This would never happen now because so many of us have become ‘politically savvy’!

We know all about the snakes and who they are! We also know which ladders to climb and how to read a room!

The Power of choice is upon us once again.

Do we accept or reject the premise that Scotland and its People are Sovereign or do we wait to see what our Politicians are going to dream up next?

The second option may take some time, about 25 years because our MSPs have shifted their priorities, they now prefer to sell Scotland through Freeports etc than fight for its Independence.

The rhetoric is still there but the plan is missing!…..and a plan without action is just a speech!

Scotland’s Sovereignty is a fact, a provable fact and it is that fact that will lead us to Independence!

Thousands of us have chosen to believe that fact and Liberation is the movement actively moving it forward to the ICJ.

The choice is yours……choose wisely because we will all have to live with the consequences….as we are with the last GE!

Yesterday a new foot/cycle bridge between Govan & Partick opened to the public, bringing the two communities closer together.

What amazed me was the crowds that turned out to celebrate a bridge…..and boy how they partied well into the evening.

My mind wandered on….as it does!

I wondered how we will celebrate when an independent Sovereign Scotland opens the bridge linking itself to the world again!

No more M1..

That bridge is already in the making and the first span is about to be permanently anchored in the Hague.

The Liberation Movement, the Peoples Movement is the first span of that bridge!

We have been told ‘it’s impossible’… but we will show them that all things are possible with an army of determined people!

The day is soon coming when we will party like we have never partied before…..and all are welcome.

Sometimes we get so bogged down with so many questions that we don’t take the time to stand back and see any of the answers!

We become so focused on just one part of the problem we fail to see the bigger picture.

Problems are not permanent barriers, they can and are overcome by one’s resolve to solve them and to do that we have to be more creative in our thinking.

Westminster is the problem, the ICJ is the answer! It really is as simple as that.

…..and progress on that front is being made!

Scotland is waking up to the scandal of Freeport’s, we are also wakening up to the fact that things could be so different with Direct Democracy.

There is an open road before us, yes it may have a few hurdles but they are not insurmountable.

Liberation is the place where the impossible becomes possible!

As individuals and as a country our future possibilities will become endless.

Just believe in yourself and in Scotland.

The strange thing about our ruling Party is, they refuse to take the road they know is open.

To them, the word ‘Sovereignty’ is just a slogan.

A word to be spoken but not a Power to be used!

Liberation are using the word with all its Power!

Join us…..

We believe the People are Sovereign.

Until now we had to depended on our MPs and MSPs to get us across the line, now we know they won’t!

Imagine you had a key in your hand that could open a bank and you knew that within that bank lies the answer to all your financial problems and that of the country you love.

What would you do?

Would you walk away still hoping they would use your money wisely even though the past proves otherwise….or

Would you use the power, the key in your hands to open the door and take control?

Each one of us holds the key to Scotland’s future, we just need to find the right door. The Referendum door has changed the lock and been re-enforced by Freeports!

The new door is called Sovereignty and only we the PEOPLE who are the key holders can open it and help unlock Scotland’s assets for Scotland and ourselves.

A complete change of system, (governance) will bring your priorities to the fore. Your priorities will determine Scotland’s future….your priorities, not Westminster or even Holyrood!

It’s called Direct Democracy!

Are you up for it?

Join the other key holders, I am sure if you are going to the Hope over Fear rally you will hear more about this new door.