I am about to write a rather long diatribe about why independence is on,life support in this country and its just been smacked right in face AGAIN for the God knows howe many millionth time in 4 years. And the words that almost sentenced independence to as near death as can still breathe are #WheeshtForIndy . Is there still an independence believer who has heard the breeze on the wind 4 years ago as it grew into a howl first of disbelief and finally of abject betrayal who actually believes thast you can successfully wheesht for indy ? Because the kind

Free advice Protected Characteristics under Equalities Act 2010 which as Westminster law supercedes Holyrood law for the moment .

A thread.

Salvo Jure Cujuslibet

Saving the rights of each one, i. e., without prejudice
Ballentines Law Dictionary 1916

For 114 years from 1592 til 1706 the Scottish Parliament acknowledged the sovereignty of the Scottish people by offering Salvo at the end of each parliamentary session :
Any person who wished to do so was invited to challenge any legislation that prejudiced their civil rights or freedoms .
This convention was made law in 1663 by the Act of Salvo Jure Cujuslibet and vanished in the last parliament after the Scottish

I read these two letters to the FanZine and needed to reply. ( Swear filter on.)

To L McGregor and Stan Grodinsky.
After reading your printed pieces of unsubstantiated hyperbole and not wishing to support the FanZine by taking out a subscription I willarchive.ph/cvqsI have to respond on Twitter and I hope that anyone supporting my take will retweet to as many people as they can. So
#WhoAreYou to perform such a perfunctory investigation into the mind of @alexsalmond the greatest living politician Scotland has ever produced. Source his record

#HopeOverFear
#ScotlandUnited
16th September
FREEDOM Square





#StirlingDirective
#DemocracyDay part 1
Handing over of the Stirling Directive at Holyrood to representative of the Scottish Parliament
September 19th 11am

I am a proud member of Alba and was waiting to join long before news was released. Scotland needs a leader with a proven track record and theres only person with that pedigree and that @AlexSalmond is that person especially now after the Supreme Court misstep has never been more obvious . Now Alex and have different ideas about how Scotland should run after we are independent and if he goes too far off piste it s my right to vote for someone else. Thats called democracy its something we both share but when it comes to how we get there HE IS THE

@Glasgowegian @RTweetie5 I believe in the words of the declaration if arbroath. Its shaped everything I have don with Yes Movement.. Abd I live by it . An 802 year old document wriitten in a language I dont understand. But it's very simple and if your ego tries to get a hold of you and it does to us @Glasgowegian @RTweetie5 All at some point you can line yourself up against it and it will straighten you out. I have never wanted to be a leader because I have seen the stress that carrying peoples Hope's and dreams puts on someone . Leaders are born with something thats forged into their soul.