MIA COMES UP WITH THE ANSWERS!

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Mia’s facts are where they should be. Where are yours?

The 2016 Scotland Act extended by an inch the powers of the Scottish Parliament, sure, but those powers are not the achievement of Nicola Sturgeon. Those powers in the Scotland Act 2016 are the result of the “vow”. Do I need to remind you who was the FM of Scotland when the vow was promised? So, please do not give credit to NS for what her predecesor achieved. Those powers are credit to Mr Salmond, not NS.

By the way, according to the Daily Record, the “vow” powers continued to be delivered until 2019 (Record View & David Clegg (2019) “IndyRef Vow delivered as Westminster completes final transfer of powers to Scotland” The Daily Record [online]).

So 5 years into Sturgeon’s disastrous regime and she was still reaping the benefits achieved by her predecesor while she achieved absolutely nothing of her own.

Let’s not forget that Mr Salmond achieved all that with a majority in Holryood, the child of Westminster, less than 10 SNP MPs in Westminster, and an official 55 no vs 45 yes. 

Since 8th May 2015 and until May 2016 NS commanded that same Holyrood majority Mr Salmond had plus a continuous absolute majority of SNP MPs in Westminster and over 50% of pro-indy vote in the GE2015. Yet with all that she has achieved absolutely nothing. Not one extra power. 

With 56 SNP MPs she should have delivered independence, or at the very least push the crown and England’s gov to the wall and demand the Devo Max we were promised in 2014 in full. But she didn’t. Instead, she let the crown and the UK executive water down the vow, she let them get away with throwing FFA in the bin and walk all over the Sewel convention to steal our powers. 

By the way, I say the crown because after all it is the crown who gives royal assent to each and every bill passed in Westminster against the opposition of an absolute majority of Scotland’s MPs, therefore forcing absolute rule over Scotland in violation of the Claim of Right. 8 years of majorities and NS has not denounced this even once. She just looks the other way and lets them ride roughshod over our Claim of Right, the Treaty of Union and Scotland’s sovereignty.

“I don’t subscribe to the view that the current and ensuing hardship experienced by so many of our people should be the justification for Independence”

Your personal view, your prerogative. My view is that the outrageous abuse towards Scotland which is the current fabricated hardship resulting from the outrageous increase in energy prices when Scotland produces more electricity, gas and oil than it uses, is not just another justification for independence. It is also a reason why such a disastrous leader like NS does not belong in the position of FM of Scotland. Not only she has been useless at progressing independence or bringing back powers home, she has also been an utter disaster at protecting our assets and preparing Scotland’s infrastructure for independence. It is a disgrace that England is getting our electricity for free while England MPs increase the caps in Scotland above those in England. So England takes our electricity and oil for free and on because England has always the hand on the UK purse, it profits further from making us paying more for the effing electricity we produce. But it is an even bigger disgrace that all this is happening while we have had an allegedly anti-union individual as FM who has been commanding majorities of anti union MPs in Westminster and Holyrood and who is doing SFA to stop it.

“Rather existing powers which enable the SG to control all of Scottish Funding should be used to put significant money in people’s pockets”

That is an incredibly devolutionist view which I do not share at all. The idea of having a majority of anti-union MSPs in Holyrood is not to use a meagre handful of powers and an insufficient budget to “correct” the criminal and chronical mismanagement of Scotland’s assets by the MPs elected by England. 

The idea of having anti-union majorities in Holyrood and Westminster is TO DITCH Westminster and for Scotland to start managing itself. Fact that has been somewhat lost to Sturgeon sometime before 2015 GE, and when it was already known the SNP would win by a landslide.

“so that those Doubting Thomases will see that we do support ourselves and give them the confidence to vote yes”
Sorry, this sounds ancient and very, very tired. The idea that good governance would bring the yes vote over the line might have sold well in November 2014. But after 8 years of terrible management by Sturgeon and after 8 years of continuous pro independence majorities both in Holyrood and Westminster which should have seen Scotland become independent a long time ago, such platitude no longer cuts it.

“The U.K. won’t tolerate a position where Scotland drives a huge wedge between the transforming standard of living in Scotland and rUK.”

What do you mean “the UK” won’t tolerate? What is “the UK”? the Kingdoms of Scotland and England are the UK. If “the UK” does not tolerate something is because NS, wasting the power of our majorities, has been continuously empowering England’s government and MPs to “not tolerate” things in Scotland. None of the England MPs sitting down south hold the mandate of a single vote from Scotland, therefore they do not speak or act on our behalf. Should NS be a real pro independence leader and she would be reminding them of that every week, every day, every hour, and in every intervention in either Westminster or Holyrood by an SNP MP or MSP. 

Please don’t tell me that you are one of those who equates the Kingdom of England with the term “the UK”.

“Break” the Union?
This is confusing. That is the unionists’ language. There is not such a thing as “breaking” the union. I think what you mean is “Ending” the union. Remember the foundation of this union is an international treaty. Repealing of the treaty does not lead to “break” anything. It leads to ending an international agreement. The union is just a product of an international agreement. The word “break” in that context has big psychological connotation. People do not like to break things. That is why the unionists use the word “break” instead of the correct terminology, which is “end”.

There is no need to create any wedge to end the union. The only thing that is and has been needed since May 2015 is a real pro independence leader which is serious about pursuing independence and who manages the anti-union majorities of MPs to deliver independence, not to stall it. There is nothing more stupid a pro-independence leader could have ever done than removing the dentures of the anti-union majorities by claiming a vote for the party is not a vote for independence.

“The fact that people keep voting for the SNP under NS’s leadership is enough proof for anyone who believes in the democratic process”

No, it isn’t, actually. The only thing it proves is that people get information at different paces and the majority of those voting for Sturgeon still think she is a pro-independence leader who is going to deliver independence. But wait for the moment they realise they have been fooled for 8 years. 

The majority of those who voted SNP during the GE2015 thought they were voting for independence. Sturgeon only removed the wheels of the SNP and claimed a vote for the SNP was not a vote for independence (in my view in contravention of the constitution of the party) AFTER it had been announced since October 2014 that the SNP would win by a landslide. 

And when you say “anybody who believes in the democratic process” clearly you do not include Sturgeon herself. Because no democrat would ever accumulate democratic mandates only to let them expire without lifting a finger to deliver them. Also, no democrat would ever hand free vetoes to the British state to stop Scotland exercising its right to self-determination. No democrat would ever undermine Scotland’s popular sovereignty by capitulating to the demands of a foreign government which has only the mandate from England to govern. No democrat would have ever legitimised England MPs self-awarding themselves the right to veto Scotland’s vote in the EU referendum, as Sturgeon did by keeping our 56 anti-union MPs sitting in Westminster when that vote went through Westminster in 2015 and then surrendering to the ruling of an English court basing its ruling in a parliamentary sovereignty that has no place in Scotland’s constitution. No democrat would have ever allowed an equal partner in a union to subjugate Scotland against its expressed democratic will, like Sturgeon did. No democrat would ever impose an impossible threshold to exit this union by forcing on the people of Scotland the same conditions you would impose on a fair and democratic referendum, but when you have none of the advantages of a referendum, when the franchise has been designed to override the yes vote of natives, when the oppressor controls the rules and when, at will, it can arrange for hundreds of thousands of people living in elsewhere in the UK to cast a vote from Scotland. No democrat, with a majority of anti-union MPs and the power to terminate the union, would have ever consented on the crown and executive forcing absolute rule over Scotland by forcing on us policies and bills rejected by the majority of our MPs in Westminster.

“A road has been laid to Independence”
Mr Salmond and the yes supporters laid that road to independence. Sturgeon has used most of her energy for the last 8 years to dig potholes and fabricate obstacles to put on that road.

“It might work; it might not”
With Sturgeon at the helm, or one can predicts with Robertson too, it will never work. It will only work with a leader that is serious about independence and not just pretending to be.

“I have always said that our parliamentarians should seek to undermine the U.K. every day”
The SNP has had absolute majorities of MPs since May 2015. You expect Nationalist MPs to undermine the UK when they are in a minority, like the SNP under Mr Salmond did. When you have sent a majority of anti-union MPs, what you expect is them not to undermine the UK, but to terminate it.

“Some don’t like it”
If they don’t like it, then they do no belong in a party whose main raison d’etre is independence. And that includes the present FM herself.

“Maybe if you concentrated your talents on persuading folk to vote YES”
And there we go. The same soundbite over and over and over again. EIGHT years has been this woman in power and how many people have her antics moved to Yes? How that does compare with the number of staunch no voters who have emigrated to Scotland during the EIGHT YEARS she has been in power with her hand firmly on the hand brake of Scotland’s independence? How many times since 14 November 2014 have the polls showed yes over 50%? Wasn’t they indicating yes at 56% at one time? And what did this “leader” do? To let it pass.

“and undermine the U.K”
We have been undermining the UK since 8 May 2015 by sending a majority of anti-union MPs to Westminter. What is the effing point in us “undermining” the UK when the anti-union MPs choose to get comfortable in the green seats instead of doing what they were voted to do and end the union?

“But maybe that’s your comfortable place ”
You mean the comfortable place Sturgeon has placed herself in by wasting 8 years of Scotland’s time and resources, using our yes votes to preserve the union instead. And yeah, that indeed speaks volumes.

MY COMMENTS

MIA is not the type of columnist who pens an article then walks away. She is happy to defend her position with reasoned argument as she does above. At least regular readers know where Mia stands and that is more than can be said about the vast majority of Scotland’s elected pro Indy politicians. Does anyone know where they stand on the key issues? Have they ever attempted to explain and expound? Are they gagged? Are they members of a single voice Party?. Whatever..it is not working, increasingly people want to know a lot more about what they do every week to earn the big salary. We are all ears!

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