1/ Smith: “a project Stewart McDonald and I have set up and have been quietly pushing on with for months – Project No Surprises.”
Explaining Scottish current affairs to a foreign audience is an excellent initiative. But do we want the SNP’s in-house ‘Laurel and Hardy’ doing it?
2/ Smith in today’s ScotNational, “…you’re not trying to make people aware of something they’re not aware of, you’re trying to explain a story people think they already understand.”
Smith & McDonald themselves demand some further explanation ⬇️
3/ The self-appointed ambassadors have made their allegiances very clear – both are tied to the UK state’s current Cold War narrative.
4/ Their sympathies are certainly not with the grassroots independence movement or online community, whom they criticise constantly. Puzzlingly, they never condemn the shady activities of the UK state’s ‘cyber warriors’ #77thBrigade or #IntegrityInitiative
5/ “It seems that, far from conspiring with “Britain’s enemies”, the contemporary Scottish nationalist accuses the Westminster elite of being insufficiently paranoid about foreign intrusion…” sourcenews.scot/source-direct-…
6/ “McDonald, when he isn’t exploiting the heroic anti-regime protests in Belarus to whip up an absurd Red Scare-esque conspiracy against the SNP left, devotes himself to the causes of the Atlanticist orthodoxy.” republicansocialists.scot/2021/03/snp-fo…
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“Nicola Sturgeon announced her decision to postpone the vote on independence… She said that "we will not seek to introduce the legislation for an independence referendum immediately," but added that there are plans to come back to it in late 2018” sputniknews.com/europe/2017062…
“Nicola Sturgeon argues that before the second independence vote goes forward there needs to be a more clear understanding of Brexit terms and that in the meantime the government will be trying to secure the best deal possible for Scotland in these talks…”
#2016
The SNP manifesto for May's Holyrood elections said the Scottish Parliament should have the right to hold another referendum if there was a "significant and material change" in the circumstances… such as Scotland being taken out of the EU…” archive.today/38wGJ