Surrender…it’s official!

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For Immediate Release: Thursday 15 December 2022

SWINNEY HOISTS THE WHITE FLAG IN SURRENDER OVER INDEPENDENCE REFERENDUM

BUDGET FAILS KEY TESTS ON SKY ROCKETING ENERGY COSTS AND CHILD POVERTY

WHILE NORTH EAST AND HIGHLANDS LET DOWN AGAIN OVER THE FAILURE TO FUND IN FULL THE DUALLING OF THE A9

 ““The decision to reallocate the funding on Independence referendum preparations shows that the Scottish Government are not serious about delivering Independence. 

“Swinney has not just abandoned holding an Independence referendum but the opportunity of forcing the UK to concede one. He has hoisted the white flag not the red one.  The Scottish Government has surrendered to the UK Government a day after the SNP Westminster Group was demanding that they be given the power to hold one.

“This Budget shows a Finance Secretary tinkering at the edges.  It is now beyond any doubt that only with the powers of Independence and bold action from government can we truly transform Scotland.”

This was said by ALBA Westminster Group Leader Neale Hanvey MP responding to the Scottish Budget 2023-24 announced today (Thursday).  Mr Hanvey continued:

“This Budget falls far short of providing the funds needed to support families facing skyrocketing energy costs.  There is much more that could have been done to address the humanitarian and cost of living crisis facing every household in the land, as set out in the ALBA five point plan for tackling child and family poverty.

“The failure to increase the Scottish Child Payment to £40 means the Government will continue to struggle to meet its own child poverty reduction targets. 

“The Finance Secretary has failed to utilise the full extent of the income tax powers available to create new bands within the higher rates.  He is hurting middle income households such as nurses and teachers but ducking the challenge of creating a new tax band for those on £70,000 and over.

 “The apparent refusal to fund in full the dualling of the A9 and A96 demonstrates that the people, businesses and communities of the North East of Scotland and the Highlands are continuing to pay a heavy and unacceptable price for the deal with the Greens.”

MY COMMENTS

It is another big disappointment, as Scotland’s people are under severe attack from a combination of a failing Westminster Government and gross unregulated profiteering from the energy cartels our own Scottish Government avoids any confrontation and gives ground rather than leading any fight back. The Scottish people need to reflect on the failure of those they elected to defend our best interests.

I am, as always

Yours for Scotland


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35 thoughts on “Surrender…it’s official!”

  3. The SNP is deliberately baiting the pro independence electorate. Support for the SNP should drop. But if that happens the SNP will use it as another excuse to suspend both a referendum and a de facto election. The SNP are gambling that the pro independence electorate will hold their noses again and vote for them anyway. The SNP are treating pro independence voters like dirt. This must not be allowed to continue. Vote Alba.

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    1. Vote Alba. And then what? Wait 10/15 years till they get enough votes to make any difference? If the SNP have lost the apetite for independance then the people should remove them from office, I keep hearing we have tha power to do that but that’s all it is, talk. I’m at a point of giving up on the cause as I don’t think anything is likely to change in my lifetime, also it will be good for my mental wellbeing.

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      1. Or continue to vote SNP and never get indy. Maybe with Alba it seems like starting again but I don’t see that we have any other option.

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      2. I sympathis ewith your sentiments, which I share to a fair extent but, as someone regularly described by my family as ‘thrawn’, (usually when I avoid doing something they recommend as for my own good), I do not intend to give up.
        I am hopeful that initiatives such as the Liberation movement will give us a way out of this desperate situation, so lets all work to make folk aware and sign up.

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  4. “The Scottish Government has surrendered to the UK Government a day after the SNP Westminster Group was demanding that they be given the power to hold one.”

    So Flynn’s punt was just a stunt.

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  5. If you don’t join ALBA or ISP then the talentless, charlatan grifters will get away with it.

    Again. And again. And again.

    At the very least, in Alba and ISP the members determine the policies and the vetting procedures.

    I hope this will finish Sturgeon. But I doubt it.

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    2. Raising taxes should embarrass this SG when we consider the money they have wasted:
      £254m ferry fiasco, BiFab £53m, prestwick airport £55m and foreign embassy £30m.

      They have dipped their hands into the pockets of middle income families to fund their incompetence. And this incompetence is down to entitlement and not caring at all about the due diligence of government. There will be no independence while there gravy train frauds are in charge.

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    3. Sooner or later, whatever path to Independence we follow, and even if we’re leading our velvet insurrection by the Constitutional route, the time will come when Scottish Independence needs a democratic component to ratify Scotland’s status as an Independent Nation. By choice in a Referendum, or by ratification plebiscite in retrospect, (the latter being my own preference), ultimately, the people will decide.

      That is why, whatever it’s fortunes, ALBA is so vital to us. ALBA is the political soul of Scottish Independence; the essential part of the Movement which was NEVER complicit with the SNP’s unconstitutional abandonment and betrayal of Scotland, but actually stood firm and rebelled against it. There will be a reckoning for both; a sorry reckoning for the SNP, and if it please, a powerful and timely vindication for ALBA.

      People should not be too dispirited by Swinney running up the white flag on Independence, because he hasn’t damaged Scotland’s status under our Claim of Right “Red” Sovereignty. For goodness sake, I’ve been calling for Holyrood and Sturgeon, (the servants of Westminster’s white sovereignty), to be impeached for months now, and their quitting of the Independence fight is no loss to us – IF we turn their obsequious political failure into fuel for SALVO and our burgeoning Constitutional awareness; an awakening that is only just beginning to take hold.

      The SNP quietly abandoning Independence while the fanfares are trumpeting the “success” of Self-ID as delivered by a “Judge”, has been the UK Establishment’s game plan since before 2014, when they resolved to “rinse away” Alex Salmond and all that Alex had done for Scotland. How thoroughly embarrassing that they found so many ready and willing accomplices and dupes amongst the SNP’s ranks, and quite the coup to have Sturgeon anointed their leader.

      Scotland may have lost Independence through Westminster’s white sovereignty Holyrood Assembly and colonial Scotland Act. But REJOICE Scotland, we have only lost a thing which was never there to be found to begin with. We Scots now KNOW this treacherous Holyrood institution serves Westminster, NOT the sovereign people of Scotland.

      Scotland’s Independence will be delivered by the still dormant Scottish State, the Scottish Constitution, Scottish Sovereignty, and the Claim of Right. It WILL be so.

      Scotland’s Red Sovereignty is beginning to stir, and it will NOT be looking to Holyrood for either it’s lead or it’s Legitimacy. “Holyrood’s” function, if it still has one, will be to serve as the demonstrable failure of Westminster’s colonial misadventure; evidence of London’s failed attempt to encroach upon Scotland’s sovereign Realm with an invasive doctrine of Westminster’s Parliamentary Sovereignty.

      Let the International Community be made to understand how Westminster “dressed up” their colonial encroachment as a faux democratic institution, but who’s only true purpose was to undermine the Claim of Sovereign Right and acquiesce to the will and protocols of Westminster in all things.

      Let Holyrood be recognised for the Trojan Horse that it is, an unconstitutional outrage suffered upon Scotland, and a bogus Assembly that we should, “…exert ourselves at once to drive out as our enemy and a subverter of it’s own rights and ours, and make some other man who was well able to defend us our King; for, as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule”.

      That we rid Scotland of a duplicitous charlatan First Minister codified by the self same colonial Scotland Act as the Assembly itself, is a bonus to be lost or found somewhere in the small print. I couldn’t care less, – just that we be rid of her, rid of her kind, and after eight tortuous years finally be rid all of her treacherous prevarications.

      In this sea of skullduggery and treachery, all we need to find is adequate due cause to nullify a Treaty that is widely acknowledged as breached, broken, betrayed, false, unlawful, unconstitutional, ultra vires, undeliverable, and both compromised and surely invalidated by the well documented bribery, coercion, inducement, and general corruption which tainted it’s inception.

      Scotland will be restored to the Independent status which properly, Scotland, our Nation, should never have lost.

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  6. One would have to presume that the up-and-coming SNP special conference on the supreme court ruling is going to be about anything other than Independence?

    If I was an educated man, I would say Mr Murrell going to lend the Yes movement £20million and take it as an interest free loan, he’s a gem of a man!

    I wonder if the £20million that’s been set aside for the Referendum 2023 is destined to head the same way as the £600K referendum fund.

    On a more serious note, when I think of people like myself who been loyal supporters and members of the old SNP for 33yrs or more, and I know of people who left the SNP their houses in their wills, if these people where alive today what would they think, because they never gave their houses and even their entire estates to the SNP to stand up for the Union, it was always to secure Independence. Just remember everyone SNP left us we didn’t leave the SNP.

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    1. I donated cash (twice) To the referendum fund and was assured that it was ringfenced and would only be used for that purpose, I have given up my SNP membership, last straw and all that.

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      1. We donated ourselves, but thankfully its back in our piggy bank. The SNP like to use donate to the referendum fund, its going to be a bit hard for them getting donations when they can’t deliver a referendum or Independence.

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  8. I usually agree with Hanvey, but I feel that his comments here smack of someone who know that he’s never going to be in a position to affect anything so can suggest what he likes witrh impunity. A bit like D Ross.

    As for £20 million, there isn’t going to be a referendum in 2023 so it’s a bit pointles putting money aside for it especially when so many of Scotland’s people are undergoing very considerable hardship. It’s not much in the great scheme of things, but better surely to spend it on alleviating hardship than hoarding it for something that’s not going to happen?

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    1. Your use of ‘pointles’ (sic) gives the game away. Not a word I would expect from a true independence supporter.

      If it’s a question of priorities, perhaps the SNP should rebrand as the SSD (Scottish Social Democrats) and leave the pursuit of independence to those who are serious about it.

      Yes, it is possible to hold both mission statements. That would require focus rather than hocus pocus.

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      1. Pointless? Just pragmatism. There isn’t going to be a referendum in 2023. That’s a fact. £20 million was apparently laid aside for it and would have been spent on it in the next 11 months or so. Now it isn’t going to be. So whatever your feelings about the lack of a referendum (and you’re not the only one to have them) surely it’s far better to use the money to alleviate the hardship of Scotland’s poorest people than just reallocate it to general funds, don’t you think?

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  9. So with our heroes throwing in the towel of even trying to get a referendum in 2023 it begs the question what are they going to pretend to be doing for the next couple of years. After getting slapped down again in a Westminster vote the other day it must be obvious to even the dimmest of our MPs that they are wasting our time. The no ifs no buts referendum promised looks like just another carrot and I am sick of carrots and gravy.

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  10. I think that most people who come here new that they, the SNP, had no intention of trying to get our independence by any means. It was just a matter of waiting to find out what their excuse would be this time.

    We can’t even believe the polls. It’s a fair bet that they have shown an upswing to make Sturgeon look good. I firmly believe that a genuine poll, if there is such a thing, would show a strong majority for independence. Look at the mess around you: how could it be otherwise?

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    1. I do believe the polls.

      I just don’t believe that the recent uptick

      a) has anything to do with a grand super-secret-strategic master-plan of the SNP leadership

      and

      b) will be permanent unless there is an attempt is made promptly and decisively to harness the momentum so generated (by cost of living crisis / UK Supreme Court ruling)

      A suitably nuanced campaign would, I believe, have a decent chance at both consolidating gains and increasing support further. This should, in my opinion, contain 3 main themes:

      1. Project Black

      Highlight the promises of the BT campaign of 2014 with their lying outcomes:
      • EU Membership Guarantee v Brexit
      • HMRC Jobs v Cumbernauld Closures
      • T8 Clyde-built Frigates: 13 Contracts v 8 Orders
      • The Vow v EVEL
      • Home Rule/Federalism/Devo-Max v Smith Commission Whitewash

      That should impact those that have some regret about voting NO in the referendum.

      2. Project Fear

      Scare the bajesus out of them if we stay in the UK by emphasising
      • Inflation – it’s in double digits so watch out for your savings
      • Cost of living – better swap Waitrose and M&S for Lidl and Aldi
      • Energy Bills – you think they are high now, just wait till next winter
      • Pensions – these are lowest in Western Europe and will go lower in real terms
      • Foodbanks – there will be more of these with less items in stock

      That should assist in the conversion waverers and undecided.

      3. Project Promise

      Stress the positivity of Independence

      • Scotland is a rich country with plentiful natural resources, industries and skills which we will be
      used for the benefit of our own people first and foremost
      • Independent nation-state status and full self-government are NORMAL
      • Written constitution based on sovereignty of the people and Claim of Right/Declaration of Arbroath
      • Democracy – you get the government that you vote for
      • Decency – society constituted according to our own traditions, customs, values and principles
      • Dignity – we act on our own behalf accepting the consequences (good and bad) of these decisions

      This will consolidate support garnered from the positive campaign run during 2012-14.

      It’s Friday and the weekend is coming … I can dream.

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      1. 100% agree Duncanio – the arguments for independence have never been more apparent to the folk in the street. The arguments you make are chiming with hearts and minds, I’m sure. Yelling these from the rooftops would be pushing on an open door. The only reason I believe the YES vote is below 60+% is this SG: authoritarian, incompetent and downright creepy. Until Sturgeon and her cabal are cleared out Scotland is trapped in union and we are under the heel of something quite horrible. I hope polis Scotland and Audit Scotland can cart the lot of them off to jail – though I’m sure there is plenty of pressure from Westminster to keep them in place …

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      2. Excellent post. It’s such a tragedy that those who are meant to be leading us to independence don’t appear to see it that way.

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  11. Not really much of a surprise in the SNP approach to delay and block independence considering its biggest and perhaps soon only funder is the British state – Short money. ‘He who pays the piper……’

    As for Holyrood, after independence that carbuncle might even be demolished on the basis that “everything of the colonizer including his monuments are no longer appropriate for the colonized”. Maybe we should reclaim oor auld pairlament up at Parliament Square, whair aw the fowk can mair eithlie kep an ee on thair politeecians, and put the judges somewhere else?

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  12. Yip its official, Swinney just banged in the final nail on the coffin of independence, of course both he and Sturgeon know fine well that the only way to improve the lives of Scots IS via independence, they know it, yet they’ve decided that we should remain locked up in this prison of a union and stay second class citizens with no recourse to bettering our country via independence and all the levers that comes with it.

    In this aspect is there really any difference between the NuSNP and the know unionist branch office parties that have their bosses and HQ’s in London (BLiS, Tories, Lib/Dems), and let’s not forget the Greens, who have an agenda all of their own, that’s focuses mainly on allowing predatory males into women, girls and disabled children’s safe spaces, see below.

    https://wingsoverscotland.com/the-invalid-women/

    I see no real point in voting for the NuSNP anymore they are no longer the party for Scottish independence, Swinney revealed what many of us already knew.

    We MUST give our votes to the Alba party at every turn, unfortunately unless Salvo/Liberation find another route out of this prison of a union, it will be 2026 before can let Sturgeon and Swinney know exactly what we feel about them and their party in the polling booths.

    Of course, the really sore point is that, all it would take to exit this prison of a union would be for Sturgeon to collapse Holyrood by resigning, hold a snap Holyrood election use it as a de facto indy vote, and if yes wins we’d be on our way, we could’ve been free in 2023, but now it looks as though we are locked up until at least 2026.

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  13. Fool me once, fool me twice… well we had – for me endured – Sturgeon’s “heartfelt, sincere, daily reports on Covid – of which she had no expertise to offer, yet she determined that action on independence must be set aside until Covid was defeated. It is still around.

    Now we have Rising Costs – and sincere “honest John Swinney” sincerely telling us that due to inflation and rising fuel and food costs, the promised independence 2023 referendum must be set aside and funds re-allocated to alleviate the financial suffering of the people. Jings, is he an economist?

    Suffering due to the SNP’s inadequacies and political timidity we are facing rising costs.The consequences of Brexit were so obvious, leaving a huge EU internal market for what? Well to protect disclosure of offshore funds as reported by a few journalists. Otherwise zero benefit to the population at large. ian Blackford did say, “We will not be….

    Has anyone found/ noted any speech or comment from SNP politicians about the renewables energy rip-off being enacted on Scotland? Are they too thick to understand the rip-off, or too comfortable in their excessively salaried tenures to dare “rock the boat”?

    And change of subject, my SNP MSP, who has two daughters, supports the GRR bill. Astoninshing.

    There is a yawning gap between the electorate and the elected.I haven’t had any contact with my SNP MP in around 3 years, I have no idea of her views on any of the above, yet I contribute to her salary and expenses through income tax. Seems a foolishly generous arrangement if she feels no inclination to interact with her electorate.

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    1. I emailed the SNP head office three times without a reply (not my MSP as she’s Lib dem) I have now cancelled my SNP membership and feel utterly powerless. Merry Christmas!

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      1. A reply? Don’t be daft! I’ve emailed SNP HQ many times over the years and never had a reply or even an auto acknowledegement. Try enclosing a large donation, to be used for any purpose, which might work – if large enough.

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  14. Next week the bonkers GRR bill is likely to pass in the Scottish parliament despite a handful of SNP MSPs voting against it. It will pass with the support of the Greens, most of Labour and the Libdems. Lets assume the MSPs in the Scottish parliament are not stupid which is a stretch but stay with me why would they vote for a bill that will alienate slightly more than 50% of the population. For Labour it is just mischief making as they know it will damage the SNP and Indy. For the greens it is the fact that they have been captured by a band of gender nutters and who knows what goes on in the minds of the few Libdems. That leaves the SNP. I can only assume that this bill is the final wrecking ball that the current leadership is going to deliver before they ride off into the sunset cackling job done and go on to be rewarded for their efforts. Our only hope is that a few MSPs grow a backbone and defy the whip. Lets face it any bill that makes it look like the Scottish Tories have the moral high ground is unlikely to be a good idea. Any MSP who votes for this deeply flawed bill of whatever party as far as I am concerned has their card marked and I am not even female so imagine how the 51% of the population who are biological females are going to react. Still time for a few principled MSP to take a stand but the clock is running tic toc.

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