Dear All
During the Better Together Campaign, the organisation which
was at the forefront of the No Vote was Better Together, they held the ‘no’
franchise from the Electoral Commission.
After 2014, Better Together folded their tents and everyone
wander off into the sunset, their job done, the Union
saved!
When the SNP refused to accept the result and sought to talk
up another referendum, another group emerged, this was called Scotland in Union .
Scotland in Union has allsorts of different people in it from
political activists to ordinary people. The Group is setting up a network of
campaign teams; this has recently expanded and is expected to grow.
If, there is a second referendum, then it would seem logical
that Scotland in Union would
be the obvious vehicle to front the pro UK campaign. The reason for this is
magnified by the decision of Kezia Dugdale to veto a Better Together 2
organisations working with the Conservatives.
As Scottish Labour has slipped to being the third party of
Holyrood, the Scottish Conservatives would make the case that they should lead
a Better Together 2 organisation with Ruth Davidson has the ‘leader’. You can
see why Scottish Labour doesn’t want to be involved. I would say however
thinking back to 2014, the Labour Campaign to save the Union
was very poor by Scottish Labour; their activists didn’t really support the
organisation in real numbers.
In Pollok, not a single Labour MP, MSP or Cllr came out to
work with the Pollok Better Together Campaign during the entire campaign doing
the hard slog of going door to door.
As I remarked, the people who saved Scotland ’s place in the Union were the ordinary
people of Scotland ,
not the politicians. I do give credit to Alistair Darling, Gordon Brown; George
Galloway and to some degree Jim Murphy. Jim Murphy’s contribution was his ‘irn
bru’ tour which basically was old fashioned soapbox street campaigning which
got right on the tits of the SNP feral mob that turned up to abuse him. I have
to say that wasn’t educational but it did have a certain amusement value which
cannot be understated.
So; who are the Scotland in Union Team, well the
best thing is to check out their website by clicking on this link.
I know three of them, Alastair Cameron, Patrick Harkness and
Andrew Skinner, Cameron is ex Military, Harkness works at Glasgow University Glasgow
which were well attended most doing the street stall stuff. With the
possibility of indyref 2 round the corner, the organisation is gearing up for
the next possible fight.
The pro UK group aims to to ramp up their activities on the
eve of the SNP Conference to make sure the
Nationalists know that they aren’t going away either. You may have seen the press
story of them getting a huge Billboard awhile ago at another SNP Conference in Glasgow .
It also made the printed press, in real terms, it was just a
‘noise up’ against the SNP, but it was a good PR stunt. Just as man cannot live
on bread alone, neither can an organisation live off stunts, as I said to a
well known commentator Allan Sutherland, Scotland in Union needs to develop,
and if by magic, they are doing this very thing.
George Laird right again.
On the 14th March in Glasgow
around 200 backers are due to attend a SIU event at The Lighthouse in Glasgow . According to an
email sent to me, the event kicks off at about 12 noon till about 2.30 pm
with the Chief Executive Graeme Pearson giving a speech on the threat of
indyref 2, a networking event, and a spot of lunch. I would expect that there
is a sizeable press turn out for the event possibly even STV or BBC since this
could be a contrast before the SNP have their Confernece.
So, what is the future of Scotland
in Union ?
That rather depends on them, they support the Union ; political parties are talking about federalism,
where do they stand on that?
Will they develop into a think tank?
Will they end up forming as a political party?
Will they end up ‘supplying’ activists to different
political parties to help pro UK
candidates?
Will they back a single party?
Will they come out at election time for the next Holyrood
election and back the most likely Unionist Party to attempt to win Holyrood?
Scotland in Union has a lot of developing to do and a lot of
thinking to do, at some stage they will be making decisions but for now, they
can kick all of the above into the long grass, their focus is the threat of
indyref 2.
I would say given that Brexit talks are the focus of Westminster , there is no
danger that there will be any referendum this side of 2020.
Scottish Labour has also started an anti independence
campaign, it is more a ‘connection’ exercise with the Unionist voters who
abandoned them rather than anything serious.
Personally I don’t see that campaign being anything more
than a ‘paper’ campaign which is why they should develop links with SIU to do
joint projects.
Finally, I have no idea if SIU will do a demo at the SNP Conference, but you can imagine the angry look on Nicola Sturgeon's face, oh what a joy for ordinary Scots.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
I like many scots and wider UK people despise the Sturgeon women. This women will do serious damage to this country before she is finished. She should be sued in a court of law for failing to uphold the democratic result of 2014, and made to pay millions in damages to the crown. Get this women out NOW!!!!
ReplyDeleteWee Hairy should be sued for calling herself a Scottish nationalist. In reality, she is a communist internationalist, extreme leftard that hates the UK. She’s just a puppet to the globalist.
ReplyDeleteIf there is to be a 2nd referendum on the independence of Scotland from the United Kingdom of Great Britain, there must be an agreement on the conditions for it to happen. If the Scottish people vote YES for the independence of Scotland from the United Kingdom of Great Britain, then Scotland should be given it's independence. If the Scottish people vote NO for the independence of Scotland from the United Kingdom of Great Britain, there must be aggreed conditions on a NO vote. The Scottish National Party and it's members and supports must agree to several conditons on a 2nd independence referendum in the case of a victory for the NO campaign and the defeat of the YES campaign. Conditon 1)The Scottish National Party is to be DISMANTLED. Condition 2)The members and supporters of the Scottish National Party are to LEAVE Scotland and MOVE to Ireland. Condition 3)The Scottish Government and Parliament are to be ABOLISHED. Condition 4)The governing of Scotland is to RETURN to pre-Devolution era under the Scottish Office. Condition 5)The 2nd independence referendum on the independence of Scotland from the United Kingdom of Great Britain is to be the final independence referendum FOREVER. Condition 6)The Gaelic language as a symbol of anti-English bigotry in Scotland is to be BANNED. Many more conditions may come around at a later date.
ReplyDeleteGarry, I think your observation that "I would say given that Brexit talks are the focus of Westminster, there is no danger that there will be any referendum this side of 2020" is spot on. How dare Sturgeon contemplate another referendum when its still only 2017.
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