Thread by @jamesmb

Now, I've known @murdo_fraser since forever. He's the sort of person who you can disagree with, have a good ol' discussion & part on good terms. He's no snowflake. Not that we have disagreed that often - maybe more now. But, I can't deny, I like him.

So, imagine my surprise...

...when a comment I added to his Facebook page was deleted.

I'm genuinely amazed.

So, I hear you cry, what vile thing did you say?

Sadly, I didn't take a screenshot (on account of how he's not a snowflake & I assumed he'd not censor it but engage instead).

But I can remember!

Ok, so let's start with his post.

@murdo_fraser was trying to make a point about @NicolaSturgeon and #IndyRef2.

Here it is...

Now, to me, his position has a massive logical flaw.

So, I pointed it out.

I posted something like "But surely, if there is an #IndyRef2, the Union is only in danger if you have no arguments that Scotland is better off in the Union. Otherwise, it's not in danger."

It was literally that innocuous.

I am well aware that I can be pretty feisty online but, sometimes, I like to play with logic and things like that and engage in debate. I was doing that in the knowledge that, as a non-snowflake, he'd engage and we could argue it out.

Thing is, Murdo isn't the sort of shrinking violet who would shy away from debate. He actually thinks his positions through...

But what I'd forgot was that unionism is now part of the Brexit cult. It's not logic & reality. It's about faith.

Nobody may question the believers.

Now, I'm also aware some have an issue with my conversion from unionist to supporter of #IndyRef2 and Scottish independence.

But it is what it is.

I had based my unionism on facts as they stood at the time. Scotland, I surmised, was better as a partner in a UK within the EU.

But then the facts changed. Scotland was no longer a partner of any sort - it was a possession of England and subject to English nationalism. It was being taken out of Scotland against its will and nobody south of the border cared.

Only then did I realise I'd got the facts wrong

And I like to think I am big enough to be able to say, on the one hand, the facts have definitely changed now so I am changing my mind and, maybe, I had got the wrong analysis in the first place because I wanted to think the country I was born in wasn't so small minded.

But debate is the key to all of this including how we progress and @murdo_fraser has traditionally engaged with debate well and with civility.

Tonight he deleted my comment rather than debate...

...and then he blocked me from posting on his posts...

(You'll see it now only allows sharing not comments - same with all his posts if I view it from my main account but not from others)

There we have it. Comment deleted, posting rights removed and @murdo_fraser, a leading Scottish unionist running from the immense logical flaw in his own argument.

@NicolaSturgeon, the floor is yours. Murdo has given up. I cannot wait to see Scotland free again. Make it happen!