No place for Alex Salmond at the indy table; New pro-independence group is to launch on St Andrew’s Day, as an offshoot of the Scottish Independence Convention, it is a repackaging of a failed experiment, can the SIC grasp the complexity that the SNP and their current and former leadership are toxic vessels?

Dear All

The SNP and the Yes Movement, back in 2012, Yes Scotland was setup in Hope Street Glasgow, it was run by the SNP, staffed by the SNP for the benefit of the SNP plus a few other losers to pad it out and a donkey called Blair Jenkins to run it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_Scotland

The choice of location for the HQ wasn’t hard to fathom, Alex Salmond appointed Nicola Sturgeon to be the ‘face of independence’ in order to chase the wummin’s vote. Sturgeon sat on the board, along with Tasmina Ahmed-Shiekh, faded pop star Pat Kane, Colin Fox of the SSP, and Elaine C Smith of Rab C Nesbit fame, a few others also sat on it. Dennis Canavan, the ex Labour MP was chair presumably to give the impression of cross party political support.

Four years ago today, the two year run in campaign came to an end, the SNP lied, deceived and tried to trick their way to independence but when the result came in, the dream of Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon was over. This was a watershed moment, the Nationalists and their allies ran a dirty tricks campaign which included intimidation, not subtle but rather in your face.

People such as me were constantly targeted to be smeared; you might have caught the end of that strategy in the press.

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/cybernat-troll-fined-1500-after-7305775

After a disastrous indy campaign, it wasn’t surprising that the Yes Movement would come to realise that the SNP, in particular Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon were a liability round the neck of the independence cause.

Nicola Sturgeon won’t ever lead Scotland to be an independent country, at present she is making noises about indyref 2 but the reality is that she is playing for time, she needs to get another term as FM in order to get enough Scottish ‘roubles’ put by to have a cushy life, post politics, no Fortune 500 companies beating their way to her door.

Post referendum, Alex Salmond went to Westminster then two years later, he was out on the street; his job opportunities weren’t exactly Fortune 500. Salmond was taken on by the Russians, to do a ‘show’, a cross between Parkinson and Politics, and neither entertaining enough to warrant watching.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17aUonwwfMs

Some people will do anything for money!

The emergence of a new indy group isn’t a surprise, through-out history, people have tried to sell stuff by repackaging it and calling it something else, and with the SNP leadership being so toxic, Scottish Independence Convention (SIC) probably want ‘clear water’ between them and the Nats. As part of their pitch for the new group, they are starting off with a St Andrew’s Day high-profile fundraiser. The National (a newspaper) reported that the new organisation will be spun off from SIC to provide a ‘strategic vision’ for a new Yes campaign, and will offer a fact checking service.

Apparently fact checking services are all the rage now.

Of course, some facts will not be checked, in case it upsets the ‘strategic vision’ for a new Yes campaign!

SIC convenor Elaine C Smith said:

“We don’t know when the next referendum will be but we know we need to start campaigning now. We know we need to be getting on the front foot with the media. We know we need to be harnessing the power of our grassroots organisations. We know we need to be preparing to take the argument to the doorstep and the keyboard”.

If you saw some of the trash that the SNP roped into campaigning, you wouldn’t want some of them anywhere need a front door and certainly not near a keyboard, the bitter cybernats are still fighting their ‘War on Scots’ on platforms like Twitter.

Smith added:

“Four years after the last independence referendum there is still so much energy in the Yes movement but we need to harness it if we are going to successfully listen to and listen to and persuade our fellow Scots that the only safe way forward is to be in charge of our own destiny. The movement has successfully crowd-funded many initiatives since 2014. But this is the chance to take it to the next level. “If we are serious about winning independence then we need to start campaigning on it now. And that means backing this fundraiser when it comes.” 

The lie of Scottish independence is of course that the SNP don’t want Scottish people to be in charge of our own destiny, they want EU membership.

If you think back to 2014 when the SNP converted to being part of NATO, that was just a ruse to get them through the rather tricky problem of defence and regards to spending to secure our borders properly.

In 2013, you may remember this article by me:

http://glasgowunihumanrights.blogspot.com/2013/03/scottish-independence-defence-sec-says.html

At present we have an SNP Government which is a complete shambles under Nicola Sturgeon’s failing leadership, and Alex Salmond having issues to deal with of a serious nature, he denies all wrongdoing.

   

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/alex-salmond-reported-cops-over-13129661

“Alex Salmond reported to cops over allegations of sexual assault”, doesn’t play well on a doorstep, especially if you want the wummin’s vote.

Finally, if you look at wiki, you see some of the same names as board members of Yes Scotland who are also senior members of the Scottish Independence Convention.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Independence_Convention

Re-packaging an unworkable and failed idea by people unable to grasp the concept of what it entails is a bit like trying to sell ‘broken lighbulbs’, the market is very limited for public consumption.

Yours sincerely

George Laird

The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University