You know, I keep getting messages with people sending me posts or tweets with SNP HQ spin about the dark side of the section 30 case. I don't need to read these. I know what the pitfalls are, and I also know that the only reason they are laying it on thick is to cover their own..
...ass politically. I know full well what the positives and the negatives of the case are in great depth. I know that for a number of reasons. Firstly, I commissioned the legal advice on the subject AND second, I've seen paperwork and submissions that not even...
...members of parliament have seen. Why? Because I am the pursuer! I make my decisions based on the empirical data in front of me and by relying on the decades and decades of experience of legal counsel. I respond in no different a way to this case as....
...the First Minister would respond to something like COVID or how a doctor would respond to a patient based on their symptoms. The difference between myself and members of parliament is I have the ability to separate the politics from that. I'm not concerned with optics, only...
...only the cold hard facts and what I see in front of me. Could we lose. There is always that potential, but I have seen things that give me hope we wont. And even if we did? That would not be the end of it. We'd keep on fighting for it!
There are many on here will no doubt bluster that this is an "attack on the SNP", it isn't! It is constructive criticism. The one thing I know is that if opinions are not considered or respected from the length and breadth of this movement, then it will cause animosity!
Grievances have to be put to bed and the only way that can happen is by putting them to bed.
But more core to that, is hope. Campaigns, regardless of what they are must have it!
But more core to that, is hope. Campaigns, regardless of what they are must have it!
I'm pleased to see tens of thousands now supporting this directly or indirectly. Win or lose, if it's legacy is to close just a bit of that gap between people, if it is to bring just that little bit more clarity and a little less ambiguity about our path...it's all worth it.
I understand the nervousness and the fear about loss of the status quo. I understand it, because like the hundreds of thousands of carers. That's not a new feeling - that's literally what it is to be a carer. A lot of risk and very little reward. But it gives you perspective...
...on what's most important. Each slap in the face by the system teaches you the inner working of the system and it does something to you, it's hard to explain. The longer you do it, the more it changes your perspective on what is, or is not important.
Stop looking through the lens at the optics today, start thinking about how it can all be brought together tomorrow. Inside the courtroom there is no politics, but outside, the Yes politicians have an opportunity to show first hand how we are considered at Westminster.
Don't waste the opportunity!
