I have just had a very interesting conversation with someone who for 20minutes told me why people are just not interested in politics or political parties anymore!

It’s hard to listen to the truth and even harder to realise that the task ahead borders on the near impossible.

The word that stuck in my mind was “insular”!

We have become a very insular society, the only world we see is that of what is immediately around us, our homes, our families. There is no such this as community anymore, many don’t even know who their neighbours are. So why would they be interested in the wider community or even country.

Our minds are solely focused on our own little worlds everyday, all day!

Its all about me!

The word ‘insular’ means just that. “uninterested in people and cultures outside one’s own experience”

I asked him how we can change that, the answer was, “something would need to happen to give people hope again”!

My immediate thought turned to Liberation and what the committee are taking forward to the UN.

Will this be the key to re-awaking a sleeping Nation?

But until they get registered the path still remains a ‘theory’ and people are sick of theories, that is why we can’t get them to engage.

Once Liberation.scot have registered as a bonafide Liberation movement with the UN, many things on many levels will start happening. The event itself should attract a lot of attention, but a movement itself cannot sit in Parliament…. that’s where Politics and Politicians have to come back into the fore!

So political parties had better make sure they are standing on the right side of history and by that I mean standing on Sovereignty….Peoples Sovereignty! because that is what we the People will demand, a mandate built on Direct Democracy.

One where what we say, goes!

No more me, me, me or gravy trains…..your days are numbered!

So prepare to wake up…. it’s happening!

Don’t we all just love a bit of gossip especially if it’s about a person we don’t like? There’s something built within all of us that responds to the words, ‘did you hear about’.

It’s in our DNA and it’s usually in our DNA to pass it on, sometimes even to embellish it, because we want to believe it.

We love negatives!

We need to train our ears to listen to the words coming out of our mouths!!

We forget that we can destroy a persons life and reputation in minutes founded on what are most likely unthruths….lies!

Gossip is -those unconfirmed pieces of information — and pass them along, spreading what may be “fake news.”

“Fake news”!!

Scotland fell in love with the ‘fake news’ about its own history and Westminster just kept on feeding it for over 300 years!

Gossip, fake news is easier to handle, it has become the norm. Most MPs in London know nothing about Scottish History, they just believe the lie, the gossip!

Facts are much harder to deal with, an honourable person would have to act, not many with that kind of calibre in Westminster and none it or so it would seem amongst Scottish MPs of any colour!

It takes courage and strength to swim against the tide!

Fake news, gossip says we are in an equal Union, facts say we are not in a Union let alone an equal one!

Fake news says all Scottish Seabeds belong to King Charles, facts say we never ceded our territorial waters and Charles in not our King!

I could go on, but you get my drift!

Today’s fake news/gossip goes like this, Freeports and SEZs are God’s answer to all our economic woes, facts tell a very different story.

There will not be 1000s new jobs, there will be a few low-wage jobs with no normal employment security.

Tax incentives to corporations mean less tax for Local Authorities…so don’t expect your pot-holes to be filled in soon!

Crime in your area will rise with the possibility of drug and people smuggling as companies will be responsible for their own security on what comes in….never mind what goes out of these enormous Freeports.

Fences are already going up where once we could roam and it won’t be too long before the fencing goes up on the shores of Loch Lomond.

Gossip =Fake news=Lies!

To be able to make an informed decision about anything we have to be able to distinguish between fake news and truth and remember fake news will always be more palatable than the the truth.

90% of what we read in the MSM is fake, headlines worded to lure us in!

When it comes to Scotland, start where the facts are, documented truths. Look at Salvo and SalvoFreeports.

https://salvo.scot/

….and if like me and thousands of others, you are sick of the lies, the fake news then join us at…

There are times when our minds are one of our greatest enemies. We overthink things and subconsciously look for pitfalls.…and you know what they say ‘seek and ye shall find’😆

Upon finding some we retreat in fear. No one wins a hurdle race without jumping the hurdles! Some just look at the hurdles do an about-turn and say I (we ) can’t do this, others might start the race but fall at the first hurdle.

We have to learn to be Bruces!

Seek our battlegrounds, Salvo is doing just that.

International treaties or any treaty for that matter cannot just be swept under the carpet and forgotten about, they are living documents and countries don’t take it kindly when they are broken.

In our case, they will act as evidence in an International Court showing them not only to have been repeatedly broken but also the evil intent behind them.

So, where does fear come in?

I don’t think it’s the past we fear, but the present. We look at where our country is today under the present ruling Parties and we are unable to visualize anything different, and you are right because what is required is not just Independence but a new system of governance!

It’s called Direct Democracy, there will never be a ‘new Scotland’ without it.

Once we understand that hope replaces the fear!

There is another way and Salvo/Liberation are making this happen now!

Independence is not dead and the number of new groups popping up proves that. But I have my reservations about ‘groups’ and what they are doing. If they were talking to each other and each one specifically dealing with one aspect of what our new country might look like that would be great, but if they are just mirroring the work already done by another group what is their purpose?

And, and this is important whose ‘work’ are they using? Coming from a place of knowing what it’s like to have all their own work half-inched by others, it’s not a good look and shows (a) a lack of respect for the original author(s) and (b) a lack of ability to bring something new to the table.

Joined-up thinking is about about looking at complex situations and using collective ideas to resolve them or build upon them, not repeating the work of others.

We need people around the same table and if this is what is meant by a National or Peoples Convention, then lets talk!

Join the train already moving and bring your ideas with you!

On a more serious note it is important to understand that over the centuries whe have been conditioned not only to believe Westminsters narrative but also how to believe the narrative.

Our whole thought process has become englified! We think British, even our Lawyers were taught Scottish Law through an English prism.

We need to change the way we think. If we start from a position of ‘serf’ and think like a ‘serf’ chained to a foreign power, then we start from a place of defeat.

The People are Sovereign even Westminster acknowledges that, so let’s act like it.

Teaching ourselves to think differently is not easy but necessary if we are ever to achieve our goal.

Facts help us, but facts also demand action. Our greatest enemy is apathy, the attitude of ‘can’t be bothered, let’s leave it to others’. But if we all do that then we have failed before we have even begun. Defeated by our own apathy!…what kind of a legacy is that to leave our children and grandchildren?

We are very fortunate in having a group of people who are prepared to fight the establishment on our behalf and very soon they will be off to the UN.

Then there is the Freeport group dedicated to educating the public about the dangers that Freeports and SEZs present to our liberty and our land.

Is Scotland in trouble? It most certainly is, because the power creep is so subtle we barely notice it, they are like thieves in the night and then when the takeover is complete we find ourselves in a different kind of prison…a corporate one run by corporate governance. Where the decisions made for us are not made in Parliament but in boardrooms. And the boardroom agendas will not be the same as ours for sure.

These priorities will be the shareholders first and the pundits (us) at the bottom picking up the crumbs….

With this in mind let’s start to think about all this from a Scottish perspective… it’s ours for a start!

Remember the Battle of Bannockburn was won because Bruce knew the lie of the land. Figuratively speaking we are regaining that knowledge, we know more about our history now than any historian taught us at school. That knowledge will win this constitutional battle.

Start thinking Scotland!

There are days when you feel you don’t matter, then there are days when you realise you definitely do!

I have a reputation apparently, of someone who gets straight to the point in as few words as possible😂

Politicians hide behind a lot of words, usually in the small print! Businessmen/women are even cleverer because usually, the jargon they use requires an interpreter, a Legal expert.

They rely on people like you and me being so uninterested we just don’t go there and they are right…we don’t!

Treaties and Acts are written in such a way that we the general public won’t have a clue what they are on about. But that is changing because through the work of Salvo the unexplainable has been explained!

That being the case we hold the knowledge and the Power in our own hands.

Armed with the facts we need to start believing enough in ourselves to pass those facts on.

Believe that ‘you are enough’!

Trust yourself to pass on the information, even on a one-to-one. If Sovereignty is in your heart the words will come and it might be the case that you are the only one in your area who has the story to tell. So you do matter.

There is so much happening in Scotland just now that we cannot afford the luxury of downtime.

Freeports and SEZs are going to play such an important part in Scotland’s immediate future that it is imperative we are up to date with every project Private companies are involved in, like the Flamingo campaign in the Loch Lomond Area.

We must not allow these people to destroy what makes Scotland such a beautiful place.

Please if you don’t understand anything else, understand this, Privatisation = profits but not for us!

Privatisation means very low-paid jobs with no security and workers’ rights ignored. There is no career path!

Privatisation will leave our land decimated once they have packed up and left.

Join Salvo/Freeports and see what is happening in your own backyard.

@salvo.scot/freeports/

This is why ‘You matter’!

Become part of the conversation.

Please don’t let us become like America where political critique is replaced by personal insults, we are better than this!

Politics is a dirty game without us making it worse. There are more important matters to talk about without talking about each other on SM.

We have a country to save and only a few months to do it in.

Different groups who have new ideas need to start talking to each other. Constructive talks can only be good for going forward.

We have Salvo/Liberation already on the train to Europe, join them, there’s room for all.

The jigsaw does not belong to one Party or organization!

We are at war, albeit a Political and constitutional one where Westminster or Holyrood for that matter are not going to roll over quietly. It is in their interests to make sure the war goes on as long as they need it to, so there will be a number of different battles ahead.

Remember in any war it is always the people who are referred to as collateral damage!

The introduction of Freeports and SEZs is not a coincidence, they are a weapon in Westminster’s armoury. The logic is that if they can’t rule us they will own us.

It is called Libertarianism and it’s happening throughout the world. Some countries are just waking up to what Privatisation really means and the Political agenda behind it. And when it comes to getting out there is very little if any wriggle room with the introduction of ISDSs [Investor State Dispute Settlements] the Legal muscle to keep us in our place.

Why on earth have the SNP been so eager to comply with all this political skullduggery?

Please do not tell me they couldn’t see beyond the glossy headlines and that they only eyed the word ‘Investment’.

Every contract should have a get-out or penalty clause if something goes wrong…..these ones don’t appear to have any otherwise other countries would have used them and oh my word how things can go downhill rapidly, just look at Teeside. Their history of maintaining structures is none too healthy either.

When it comes to business these men are very, very clever more so than the Politicians and its a lesson for us in the future.

Come and join the fight back…

Goodbye Free to roam, the barriers are going up. Our land is no longer our land, it is theirs to do with as they please!

Secrecy and denial of what is coming seem to be the priorities of our Politicians, even with the few who are in the know in our LAs.

Why do Politicians of any colour find it so hard to say ‘Sorry we got it wrong’? We can accept apologies, even forgive, but not lies and liars especially pathological liars!

Lying is not a virtue and those who do it in Politics do so to increase their public stutus.

Somewhere in their head they believe that if the embellish or exaggerate some of their facts,[notice I said ‘their facts’!!] it makes them look very intelligent when in fact the opposite happens!

There is only one way to expose lies and liars and that is to expose the truth, the facts.

And the facts can be astounding, especially historical facts.

I was watching an Australian crime series last night and a phrase jumped out at me, ‘if you don’t know your gang you don’t know who you are’. Meaning if you don’t know your history you don’t belong anywhere.

This is precisely what those in Westminster over the past 300 years hoped for….no more Scottish just British!

Well, it stops here!

You may be asking what is the link between ‘no-go areas’ and knowing who you are, the link is simple. Until we know and recognize who we are,[our identity] individually and collectively as a People we cannot begin to take back what is ours.

There is a team who can and are helping us regain our identity, Salvo.

I was not born on this side of the pond but I do have Scottish ancestors but more importantly, my heart belongs to Scotland and it’s your heart that matters!!

That is why I joined Salvo and its partner Liberation.scot, the People’s Peaceful Army, not just intent on doing something but doing it!

The committee charged with the responsibility of going forward to the Hague has been elected and plans are in hand…good hands!

None of this negates the importance of a National Convention….good hands around a bigger table!

Talking has to replace petty squabbling, who said what is history. Having the ability to move on says a lot about a person’s character and we need those people to take us forward.

If learning to recognise who we are is the first priority then the second is learning how to recognise ‘good people’!!

We have them in the Liberation Committee!

It is time for Scottish Independence parties to recalibrate some of their priorities because the old messages of whether it’s going to be Labour or SNP are outdated and inconsequential.

For a start whether one likes it or not both of these are Unionist parties carrying out Westminster policies. Both stand on the premise that the UK is indeed a United Kingdom and as such all of Scotland’s assets should be administered by Westminster.

Whilst Scottish Parties focused on the main players the real game in town was being played out, almost out of sight, the biggest land grab in history!

We must recalibrate and focus on what is happening in the here and now under the guise of Levelling up.

The first step should surely be to start talking, and gather together the Parties and groups who believe in the Sovereignty of Scotland, if this is what is referred to as a ‘ Scottish Convention’ then that has got to be a good thing. But I have to be honest here, if any Convention is not built on the foundation of Direct Democracy how do you control the egos, the Power hunters? Only the Sovereignty of the People over Parliament will solve that problem!

Scotland is being ravished whilst we spend most of our time looking inwards wondering what our political neighbours are doing.

Personal ambitions should not be a priority at this juncture, getting around the table and talking about Scotland now and its future should be.

Scotland’s future in Scotland’s hands looks bright, very bright indeed.

But let’s make sure it’s in the right hands, the hands of the People. A new system of government, which yes will involve political parties but the contrast between those then and now will be like chalk and cheese. They will be the administrators, we the People will hold the Power!

A dream yes, but one that is being worked out right now by Salvo and Liberation.scot and the more voices that join in the better.

A Convention yes, but one where we are all equals not hijacked by the size of the Party or so-called political giants from any Party.

Let’s just get on with it!!!

Grangemouth is one of the most talked about topics on Social Media but our politicians appear to have lost their tongues now that the Election is over.

The owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe however is quite happy the way things are going, he is a businessman and one who knows when he’s onto a good thing.

So when Westminster offer him £600 million to close his operation in Grangemouth and open a new plant in Belgium he isn’t going to say ‘no thank you’. Even though Grangemouth is still viable.

So whats in store for Grangemouth apart from the political motive which is to strip Scotland of its one and only refinery?

Never trust politicians who have a history of going back on their word. The Scottish Government say they are against Fracking yet have renewed the licences in the past.

The thing to remember here is that this whole operation in Grangemouth is now within the Forth Freeport and normal rules do not apply….not even Safety rules!

Has Holyrood given away their power to stop Fracking in the future? At the moment all fracking operations south of the Border have been suspended but the decision is a Political one. Liz Truss for instance lifted the moratorium, Sunak reinstated it!

What will Starmer do under pressure from Ineos and others plus the need for our own energy….to sell on no doubt!

There are no givens here once the big boys move into these Freeports. They can quite easily hold governments to ransom!

The Freeport contracts are a closely guarded secret, most business contracts are but these are different because what is being sold or given away is our Land, when did we ever give the Scottish government the right to do that?……NEVER!

Did anyone ever see the words Freeports or SEZs in the SNP Manifesto? No these have been thrust upon us under the guise of levelling-up with the blessing of Kate Forbes & Co.

In April 2024 a Westminster Government Committee cited there was a ‘lack of transparency’ around Freeports, it appears Rachel Reeves is about to ignore those findings, that shows the way things are heading under Labour.

The level playing field has just risen to another level.

There is an organisation however that is fighting against Freeports and that is the Salvo Freeport Group @salvofreeports

They are fighting on your behalf and you really do need to find out what is happening on your doorstep!

The 2026 Scottish Elections will be the most important Elections Scotland has ever had or will hold. They won’t just be about Labour v SNP, they will be about who is or has taken over this land whilst we looked the other way and how we get it back!

Well it’s not in Holyrood for sure and now less and less is in Westminster.

The real powerhouses are in the boardrooms of the International Colgomerates with MPs only passing laws here that enable them to become their own masters in a foreign land. Because that is what ‘Deregulated’ or ‘Self-regulated’ means.

We, the taxpayers are paying them billions, in total, to come to our land and once the fences are erected around their new acquisitions that’s us shut out as pathways and free roaming end.

They become a country within a country making their own laws as they go along!

We are past the point of asking Holyrood to intervene, that particular horse is dead and you can’t flog a dead horse back to life!

The only horse worth backing now is called Liberation!

Liberation seeks to return Power to the people of Scotland through Direct Democracy. [But beware there are imposters lurking in the background!]Always look for the words Direct Democracy….where egos dare not fly!!!

What is Democracy, well it’s not a spectator sport for starters!

Democracy is supposed to be a system of government in which state power is vested in the people!

With the incoming of Freeports & SEZs power is no longer ‘vested in the people’, it is vested in company boards and shareholders.

To put it bluntly, our own Government is slowly eroding Democracy and the only people fighting to retain it are those of us in the Liberation movement. Also the only Party joining in that fight is the ISP who believe in the Sovereignty of the People, not Parliament.

I am done with Politicians who stand for the kind of Democracy that allows them to make such monumental decisions behind our backs because they think they know best.

Backroom deals made in boardrooms is not the kind of Democracy we want or need in Scotland. Every decision made here should be for the people of Scotland and their welfare, and don’t tell me we can’t afford it!!

Join Liberation now and put Scotland first.

The home of real Direct Democracy!