I am not a politician first or foremost, but a mother, daughter,partner,neighbour,lawyer. In each of these roles trust, honesty and respect are required. If I pretend to be someone or to want something which is false and am thereby outed as dishonest I expect to lose that trust.
In fact my dishonesty deserves that loss. So if as an amateur politician, scunnered with the professionals and their approach, I nod and smile to those of a different Independence supporting party, I expect a nod, an acknowledgement, maybe even a daft wee smile.
It wasn't expected that other Independence supporting real politicians from other parties would blank me in Arbroath last weekend; a one legged woman immortal, bionic and who can shout, isn't invisible, no matter how much certain males may hope so.
But I have seen in this very short swift week in Scotland's politics that the real issue is this - calls for unity last Saturday in Arbroath, read as they were so carefully from a script on an iphone and issued earlier as press releases, were not well founded.
apparently 'vote til ye boak' which was the mantra in 2017 is now a dead duck
and so we will have here in the Wee Coonty a spectacle where @theSNP have 9 candidates and there are 18 seats. Rather than encourage a vote, by STV, for @AlbaParty or even for a Green, official policy is vote SNP only - twice.
and so the party of government, professing to prioritise Scotland's Independence and Scotland's interests, the paramountcy of Scotland's aspirations, now in effect promotes those who abstained on the bedroom tax and those who invented the 2 child limit and 'rape clause.'
My, how the mighty have fallen. Scotland deserves so very much better. #ALBARising #ALBAStandsForScotland #ALBAForIndependence #ALBA2022
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