A Christmas Message For Lizzy And Jim I Said Yes To Principles And No To Personal Gain This Is The Reason That The Dream Shall Never Die

Hey everyone At this time of year it is customary to deliver a Christmas message to the nation. So with this most British tradition in mind and tongue planted not even slightly in cheek I have decided to deliver my Christmas message.

This Christmas message will I’m sure gladden the hearts of those of us who voted yes in September’s independence referendum but I’m not sure how its intended recipients will feel about the contents of it. Those recipients are auld Lizzie Windsor and the man who is so servile he may as well be her loyal if newly appointed Scottish butler.

This man goes by many names amongst those most favoured by his opponents are Uriah Heap, Skelator, Mr Burns or his full name James Sanctimonious Murphy. If ever a dodgy double act deserved to get the message it is these two. So I have made sure that is exactly what they got and believe me they may not like it quite as much as they think.

Dear Lizzie And Jim

You may wish Scotland to forget the past. You may want us to forget how we voted in September. You may wish Scotland or to reconcile our alleged differences and be happy in your land of milk and honey. You both have good reasons for this, you both have money. Lots and lots of money. But you see it is how you acquired your vast wealth which really concerns me and many others

Let’s start with you Lizzie according to the powers that be you are our national monarch and these people even say that you should have long to reign over us. Don’t they think that 62 years is quite long enough. Indeed our official national anthem asks God repeatedly to save you though what you need saving from I don’t actually know. Though my guess would be your family as they have given you more than a few embarrassing moments over the years.

This would be especially true of your husband Prince Philip who had he not married you would I am certain have made an excellent political columnist for the Daily Mail. Let’s be honest Lizzy he certainly has the politics for the job and their readership would love him. I’m sure he would fit right in as he has insulted more countries in 10 minutes than even the most ardent far right UKIP loving Mail columnist has managed in 10 years.

Then there’s Prince Harry who wears Nazi uniforms to his posh friend’s parties. Now I know you and the family are proud of your German roots but seriously this takes taking the mickey to a whole new level. Also I know that until recently your impartiality over your loyal flock of tartan sheep was never remotely questioned. This is especially true when it comes to those in establishment who are entering the North British arse licking contest as the prize winners can wrangle an invite to the Garden Party for that particular branch of your fan club. It is however with considerable regret that I have to report a serious breach of your alleged political neutrality when on the morning of September 19th according to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom you purred down the phone on hearing the result of Scottish Independence Referendum. Now let’s get things straight Lizzy I have good friends who were delighted that Scotland was gullible enough to vote no to our own freedom and the right to decide our own future, so I would have no problem with you leading the conga down through Pall Mall and singing we won at the top of your voice. I do however object to you purring as I don’t want to imagine you licking milk from a saucer and acting like George Galloway. It’s not on Lizzie doll it seriously isn’t.
Now I know you’ll say you are fond of Scotland, after all your sons were educated at a top private school here and your grandson and our future king met his princess at one of our finest universities. I am aware that you also have several castles, which you use for very refined dinner parties and a holiday home for nice wee seasonal breaks. You even attend church here but I don’t see you letting your empty properties for emergency shelters for homeless people or donating your surplus food to local charities so forgive me if I sound less inspired by your token nod to my country.

Also I notice that you mentioned reconciliation in your speech to the nation. Now I am a wee bit ahead of you there, you see I have already reconciled with all the no voters that I want to and it may surprise you to know that is actually most of them. I will however gladly state that I will never reconcile with the more career minded if simple minded of the grovelling classes such as the hate filled George Robertson, or the deluded Margaret Curran the opportunistic Anas Sarwar or the pseudo socialist George Galloway or the man who combines all of these undesirable characteristics in to one and thus takes multi-tasking to a whole new level Jim Murphy.

Now Jim has said that he wants Scotland to move on from what he calls the old yes and no divisions and make the new year a new start for Scotland. After all this professional charlatan has new expenses forms to fill in and he doesn’t want Scotland to stand in his way.

Unfortunately for the sanctimonious one there are a whole lot of people who voted yes many of them former Labour voters who are in no way prepared to do as Murphy wants namely roll over and play brain dead and vote for Labour and the other unionist parties. The clue should come to Jim that it is the Scottish National Party not his beloved Conservative version of The Labour Party who have seen a four fold increase in membership since the independence referendum.

These people and countless others share the idea of moving on but we will move on at our own pace and it will be Scotland not Jim Murphy who dictates the pace of change You see unlike previous generations we don’t have the intellect of a lemming or the attention span of a goldfish and these are the qualities that unionists need us to have in order for this shambles of a union to survive.

It is my belief that many unionists particularly those like Murphy are of the more truculent and entrenched variety fail to understand that the genie is out of the bottle now and it won’t be going back in any time soon. Though Jim Murphy and his pals might want to pretend otherwise they will not be allowed to go back to business as usual. This referendum has changed Scotland for good. No longer will be willing to settle for crumbs from the colonial masters table. The expenses king is a small talent at Westminster where he is being constantly outshone by people such as Douglas Alexander from his own party and from the Liberal Democrats the likes of Michael Moore and Alastair Carmichael are also outsmarting the sanctimonious one. That and only that is the reason why Murphy is attempting to hijack the Scottish Parliament for his own personal ego. So Lizzie if you’ll permit or even if you won’t it is time to deliver my message to Jim. It is as you would unusually for that of a servant longer than yours but that is because it has several points to make. This because Mr Murphy needs a serious wake up call.

Dear Jim.

I will not be patronised by you or anyone else in the UK establishment that we are better with austerity, foodbanks and children in poverty, than we would be as an independent nation without the burdens of The House Of Lords, Trident, and tory economics. I used to think your party were Tories in disguise but the disguise has worn off and now we know you are no more than Tories the government allows to oppose them. As for you well you once made the fatal mistake of claiming during the referendum that you didn’t care who ran Scotland as long as we were run from London.

This reminds me an old saying my granny once taught and it has served as a guide for my life. ‘It is better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than open it and remove any doubt’ By breaking this simple but basic instruction you have deemed yourself unfit to ever hold public office. So you see Jim you by providing the rope with which others can and will use to hang you, you have proven beyond any doubt you lack the political intelligence and social skills for effective leadership.

So no Jim I won’t forget my yes vote and neither will a great many others. As unlike you i have principles and on the 18th September I voted yes because of those principles. I learned my principles from my father and also from my deeply socialist grandmother. These were the same principles that guided great socialist thinkers like James Connolly and John MacLean. I voted yes not for flags and banners but for a vision of a fairer more inclusive nation. A vision which is a million miles away from your United Kingdom where the rich are totally united in their war not on poverty but on the poor whom you and others like you see as a blot on your green and pleasant land.

I on the other hand do not the poor in this way, I see people not labels, people who deserve help to enhance their existing skills and to develop new skills in order to empower them to make the best of themselves but I don’t see any hope of that within the current political system so no you cannot go back to a pre-referendum Scotland business as usual is no longer an option now or ever again.

There is in my opinion no point in you telling Scotland to move forward. We already have and that move will continue apace.
We have moved on to the next chapter in our nation’s history and for the moment that will take place within the United Kingdom. I can live with that. I have fought for what I believe in and on this occasion the fight was lost so the war remains un-won. This war is not and will never be with the people of England, Wales, or the six counties of occupied Ulster. The war I fight is with Westminster where people are judged by their title and status rather than the content of their character. I want to derail the gravy train known as the Westminster expenses express I want a land fit heroes and heroines to live in, not a land where you need to be a hero or heroine to live in it.

Yes I know, I should shut up and move on I’ve told that by a few no voters who have considerably less intelligence than Elmer Fudd. The fact I won’t shut up seems to annoy them, I think I may just have touched a few raw nerves and you know something I vow to keep touching raw nerves and upsetting those you rely on for your votes, the ill informed, the Record readers, those who watch the BBC, and others of the less fortunate variety, and unlike your friend Gordon Brown I keep the vows I make.

No doubt you have your reasons for supporting the union, it has after all made you a very rich man for someone who claims be socialist. You are not a socialist Jim you are a member of the Labour Party and the two are not related not even remotely. The movement of the red flag has become the party of the red rose and the union flag. How Keir Hardie must be spinning in his grave at the thought of it. The fact that Margaret Thatcher called a Labour Prime Minister in Tony Blair a better Conservative than John Major the Tory Prime Minister he replaced then was invited to have tea at 10 Downing Street by Blair’s replacement Gordon Brown shows just how Conservative your party has become.

There is a popular photograph of the Scottish Labour leadership standing alongside their Tory friends with the heading Lying Together. It has the caption We Don’t Know What Labour Stand For But We Know Who They Stand With. Never has there ever been a damming but accurate summary of what your party has become, yet still you stand by the union rather than stand up for your country. I hate to this but someone’s going to have to the union despite what you may think is no yellow brick road and I for one will not follow it and it’s one way path to our destruction. You may have applied for the job of First Minister of Scotland but I will do all in my power to ensure you never get it. I you see actually care about my country can you honestly say the same? to be I doubt it. Your loyalty is to London to the green benches of Westminster where the prospects of ermine robes has you fantasising of finding a retirement home where you go for a good sleep pretend to be relevant and still get paid. It must be your dream but your dream is Scotland’s nightmare and we are at last beginning to see a means of escape from it.

That is one of the main reasons I voted yes I feel no pride in being British far less in being a part of a union is a nation only in name and in reality is no more than a trading name for a glorified economic unit which was formed in and is maintained in the interests of the rich.

As I said earlier in this post I have principles and if you want me to abandon those principles for Auld Lang Syne the monarchy, a mythical feeling of Britishness I’ve never had or nor will, Irn Bru crates or your political career then believe me you are going to be very disappointed. You see when I cast my yes vote at 7.45 am on the morning of the 18th of September I knew why I was doing it.

So to conclude this Christmas Message for Lizzy and Jim I said Yes to principles and no to personal gain. This Is the reason that former First Minister Alex Salmond, a man who resigned with dignity and whose boots you will never be fit to lace said in his resignation speech that the Dream Shall Never Die and believe me it won’t. The Scotland we fought for will be ours and there is nothing you or your fellow unionists can do about to stop it. As sure as a new dawn follows the darkest day, this time will be our time and when the history books of early 21st century are finally written and Lizzy is just another former monarch whose family may or may not reign over us and what currently passes for our commonwealth, you and your fellow unionists will be no more than footprints in the sand.

Love And Best Wishes
Gayle X

The Last Time An Ally Made Promises Of Glory It Didn’t End Well For His Troops

Hey everyone It seems that the big story of the day is that there has been a change at the Scotland Office,with Michael Moore being replaced at Scottish Secretary by Alasdair Carmichael. So what difference will this make in the run up to the Independence referendum. My guess it will lead to a slight difference in tactics but maybe not as much as some people would like to believe.

Firstly I would like to offer my sympathies to Michael Moore whom Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon described as a tough but fair negotiator. I would say to Michael that life is a story with many chapters in your book. This chapter now concluded you can start work on the next part of your adventure. However as you read it back you can I think recall with pride the part you played in brokering the Edinburgh agreement which laid the groundwork for allowing the referendum to take place.

To Alasdair Carmichael I send my warm and genuine congratulations on what will be a challenging appointment. However I caution him not to attempt a public slanging match with Alex Salmond. This is a fight he would lose and lose heavily against a streetwise fighter who knows not only when to punch but which part of his opponent to hit.

Far better I think for Alasdair to grab the unionist team by the throat and show that he is the man to be trusted by the people who are politically neutral the don’t know’s who haven’t made up their mind yet as to how they will vote next year.

I say this because if I were neutral rather than the convinced Yes voter I have always been I would be looking for a leader with a genuine vision for a better fairer Britain, a Britain which really could be united by an agenda of fairness and respect. It is Alasdair Carmichael’s job to deliver that agenda.

I make this valid indeed vital point because I wouldn’t trust the Conservatives or the Labour Party to deliver my morning papers under their current leadership. This is especially true of the Labour Party where incompetence and a fanatical hatred of the SNP and the First Minister in particular seem to be the only criteria to get a job on their front benches at both Holyrood and Westminster.

It seems to me that far from being a blow to Alex Salmond and the SNP as the unionists in the press would like to tell us, Alasdair’s appointment may be a far greater blow to those in the unionist camp who wish to make the independence debate a square go between Labour and the SNP.

I validate this point by stating that whilst Alasdair Carmichael is not afraid to use humour to put his point across he is a serious man and has serious ideas on what he believes is best for his Scotland and his United Kingdom. He also realises that like better together the pro independence Yes Scotland campaign is supported by a rainbow coalition of members from various parties and groups. It is and he recognises bigger, far bigger than one man and his dream. To suggest otherwise as some in the Labour Party are only willing to do, is to put it politely infantile and with Alasdair in charge infantile behaviour will no longer be tolerated in the ranks of Team UK.

This I suspect will be a major disappointment to certain members of Labour’s Westminster set. I don’t know why but the names of Curran, Davidson, Harris spring readily to mind. I think as Scottish Secretary he needs to seize the initiative away from the discredited Alasdair Darling and others who reek of the smell of Blair’s Labour and say this is a cross party campaign and it will be lead by someone from a party which is in government and not by someone from a party who thinks they are.

Now some unionists will no doubt be invigorated by this change at the top and no doubt some scribe will tell us that Britain’s on the march with Ally’s Army. Now as a teenager I remember the last time Scotland marched with a leader called Ally we were supposed to win the world cup and we all know how that ended up don’t we children. For those who are too young to remember Ally was made scapegoat when the dream turned sour.

Now I think Alasdair Carmichael is an able politician and I wouldn’t want anyone to be scapegoated or blamed regardless of how the result turns out. However such is the nature of politics that I fear this will sadly be the case. I again draw a parallel with 1978 and events on the fields of Argentina.

I remember that world cup and despite our managers promises of glory Ally’s Army was not only defeated it was totally crushed and humiliated. Now I don’t know Alasdair Carmichael or what he’s like as a man but I do know that those who don’t learn from history are condemned to repeat it’s mistakes and it seems to me that just like our former national football manager he believes he is part of a team which deludes itself that it’s better than it actually is,and is about to be cruelly exposed by a team which has more star players, and a far stronger squad of players at each and every level.

Love And Best Wishes
Gayle X

Setting The Pace Is All Very Well But We’ll Win The Race To Glory

Hey everyone In 365 days time we as a nation will be counting the votes after having taken the most important decision in our country’s history. As a supporter of independence, I hope we will have made what I consider to be the right decision, to restore our country to full nationhood and it’s rightful place in the global family of nations.

To me all I hear on the news or read in the press seems to constant whining from the pro union camp with a threatening undertone of don’t you dare leave us Who do you think you are getting ideas above your station etc.

This is in my opinion nothing short of blackmail. These people it seems are absolutely hell bent on preserving their union no matter the cost to the rest of us and make no mistake there will be a cost as Scotland will suffer an economic nightmare under a London government which and I hate to say rightly pour scorn on our moaning and mock and taunt us with phrase you had your chance to change and didn’t take it.

Of course they will deny this at the moment and the Westminster chorus of doom is getting louder and more demented by the day in support of the union. So why am I feeling more optimistic than ever before that a year from today independence of my land can and will be won.

Well there are a number of reasons and the first one may very well surprise you it is the fact we are behind in the opinion polls.

Now before some people start questioning my sanity I should perhaps explain that I come from what I call the 78 school of scottishness. This subscribes to the theory that the mantle of favourite never did sit well on Scotland’s shoulders and god forbid if we take the lead too early it gives the opposition time to change tactics and re-group however if they believe they are winning the debate then they will see no need to change direction therefore the arrogance and smugness which clouds their judgement will work to turn the tide decisively in our favour.
Another key factor which will result in our victory will I believe be the feel good factor which will come from the commonwealth games being held in Glasgow. Unlike the Olympics, this is an international event where Scotland competes in our own right. This will be a powerful reminder to the don’t know’s of which I believe there will be a significant number even at that stage that Scotland is a country. I state this fact to give a reminder to some of the politically delusional such as Anas Sarwar and his ilk.

The fact that we are holding this prestigious sporting event where Scotland and England can compete in both rivalry and friendship and the warm welcome which I am sure will be given to athletes of all nations will give a boost to our campaign for a free and inclusive Scotland.

This is why Mr Cameron the official head of the United Kingdom and therefore whether professional moaners in the Labour Party like it or not the head of Better Together wanted our referendum held in July 2012 right in the middle of the Brit fest of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and the London Olympics and certainly no later than July 2013. This was if memory serves me right and it does was the date that Michael Moore said was the latest date it must be held by.

Sanity however prevailed and it was the democratically elected First Minister of Scotland who announced the date of the referendum which is exactly as it should be. The fact he in my opinion wisely went for a long campaign was to sap the strength from the no campaign and slowly but surely I believe it is working.

Another reason for optimism is the unity within the Yes camp. As a multi-party organisation we are fully aware that Patrick Harvie’s vision of a green and pleasant Scotland will contrast sharply with those in business for Scotland and Conservative or Liberal business types. We also know that the SNP vision for independence will differ in many ways from that of Dennis Canavan, the SSP and more traditional working class Labour supporters. However, in Yes campaign there is a genuine climate of respect for our contrasting visions of our nation’s democratic future. Contrast this if you will with the very real division within the no campaign. It is I think hardly classified information to say that many of these people actually hate each other and can hardly stand the fact that they are by force of circumstances allied with their deadly enemies.

Also the issue of who we trust more to make the right decisions for Scotland will also come up on the doorstep. This I believe will be a significant factor in encouraging voters to vote yes. You see this is an area where the Scottish Government’s scores almost four times higher than that of it’s Westminster counterparts. To me at least this represents a real opportunity for our campaign to exploit the weaknesses in the unionist campaign. For example we must ask them why Scotland has been given the Bedroom Tax and will if we stick with the union see the royal mail bought over by private shareholders. These are policies Scotland did not vote for will not accept this shows a dark hand of deception at the core of the so-called United Kingdom.

On personalities Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon constantly outscore both there Scottish and UK rivals when it comes to credibility. So why then believe the unionist scare stories that the lights will go out on Scotland if we dare to disrespect them by becoming independent.

This is, and I will say it, scaremongering nothing more and nothing less. As recently as a few hours ago Annabel Goldie former leader of the Scottish Conservatives. and one of the most principled unionists in politics openly admitted that Scotland could more than afford to an independent nation, this as cabinet secretary John Swinney reminded us is direct contradiction to what the Tories have been telling the people of this country for the last 20 years.

Personally I think John a decent and honourable man is being more than charitable letting them off with 20 years I would say they have been getting away with spinning this line for almost 40 years.

If that wasn’t bad enough Willie Rennie
and leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats admitted in a dangerous potentially fatal mistake for no campaign that the unionist parties need to make the parliament a permanent arrangement. This implies, no change that, it states, that the Scottish Parliament which we voted for in a two question referendum on the 11th September 1997 and which got a mandate from over two thirds of those who voted is a temporary arrangement which can be dismantled by any Westminster Government should it choose to do so.

This is in my view an abhorrent abomination and an insult to both the people of Scotland and the democratic progress of which the British say they are proud. Yeah it sure as hell looks like it to me and I don’t think.

From Anas Sarwar to Ruth Davidson and many more besides no unionist who wishes to have even the most remote shred of credibility will I believe be stupid enough the BNP and Orange Order are the less than honourable exceptions to say that Scotland could not survive as an independent country. This would expose a severe combination of a lack of intellectual ability and severe self confidence issues which they would have to deal with. To deny that a potentially rich country like Scotland could successfully function as an independent country is and let me be very clear about this to deny reality. Only a fool would dare go down this road, fortunately for the yes campaign there are no shortage of such creatures in the better together camp.

Having proven beyond any doubt that Scotland could be an independent country the yes campaign now has the more difficult task of bringing about the change it seeks.

This will not be easy. Unionists will try every trick in a book whose rules they will rewrite as many times as they need to in an attempt to save the union they serve. Some will take great delight in talking Scotland down, however those are not the ones we need to worry about. The ones we need to worry about are the smart ones, they will play not on the cold hard facts of the economy or its potential to grow in a post independent Scotland, this is fertile territory for Yes Scotland and they know it. Therefore it is not a road they are willing to go down. These unionists will go down what they perceive to be the softer side of the debate focusing on what they see as shared values and identity.

It is this group whom I believe represent the greatest danger to independence as they will attempt to frame the debate around shared events and icons such as the Monarchy the London Olympics and the Broadcast media such as the BBC claiming that it is things like these which make Britain great though personally I have my doubts as to whether their points would stand up to close scrutiny when compared with issues such child poverty, illegal wars, the bedroom tax and attacks on the poorest and most vulnerable members of our society.

With one year to go till the votes are cast and counted the unionists will no doubt be comforted by their friends in the press telling them they are in winning position in the opinion polls. However it was I believe a Labour Prime Minister who said that a week is a long time in politics and as we now enter the final few miles of the marathon. It is time to start asking the unionists why we are better together and to outline the progress of the union and why Scotland should remain a part of it something tells me they will not be able to come up with the answers and they will discover that if a week is a long time in this game a year is a hell of a lot longer.

As the polls close on a day when the people of Scotland have decided our future. I believe when they see the votes stacking up in favour of independence as I hope and suspect they will be reflecting back to this day when like Hearts in 1986 and I’ll say this at the risk upsetting Alex Salmond they went to the final day anticipating victory but fate had a very different plan lined up and it was another team doing the celebrating. After all as any athlete or sports fan knows the front runner doesn’t too well in distance races, they only tend to set the pace not win the race to glory.

Love And Best Wishes
Gayle X