Fifty percent plus one

Fifty percent plus one, is the goal. That is 50% of voters at an election plus one voter, voting for a Scottish Independence party that has the commitment in their election manifesto. So why should this be so difficult for a Scottish Independence party like the SNP to commit to? It shouldn’t. It is on paper the easiest commitment the party could ever make and best of all the SNP don’t have to do all the work. But they have hummed and hawed and eventually committed to a bastardised version where that fifty percent plus one must be for their party and their party alone. Even then they will still only ask for S30 as proven by the Westminster SNP leader and not disproven by the party leader John Swinney

Double Whammy!

We have two elections coming up and could have had a “double whammy” of defacto yes votes. The first at the General Election and the trigger for Scotland to invite Westminster parties to the negotiation table. The second at Holyrood when no doubt the British would still be trying to ignore our democratic will. We could have had the second defacto referendum putting the views of Scots again firmly in the public domain.

These defacto referendums are not about the British as much as getting our desire for independence out to the international community. In the modern age States become legitimised by international recognition. Israel are finding this out as they bomb Palestine. This is making more and more States recognise their victim. In our case the more the British resist the stronger our political argument for independence would have become. But we shall not see that happen now. The SNP are happy to settle for a majority of seats at Westminster.

No Mistake

Make no mistake the SNP are not seeking independence. Their route cannot succeed as shown by the repeated no’s given already. To believe a Labour party remoulded into the second coming of the Tories would say different is madness. Just listen to the rhetoric of the Labour leader lord Starmer.

Had we been about to have our “double whammy” Scotland would be energised right now for the General Election, everyone would be talking about it instead we have the inevitable coronation of Prime Minister Lord Starmer and no one other than Labour politicians are really that fussed.