That can start with highlighting the differences on policy in areas like self-ID, women’s rights, the HCB and failures relating to Covid response. That means we have to wean ordinary voters away from dependence on them. Attempts to reform the SNP from within have obviously failed. Hitching the Yes movement waggon to the SNP star will come to be seen as a huge strategic mistake I think given what we have subsequently learned about the party. Perahps we were kidding ourselves that most of the movement, most of the time, was left of centre and progressive politically and that we (largely) had the same outlook on issues. I was referring more to the more positive and inclusive *feel* during #indyref than what we see now or indeed at most points in the last few years. The game is up until we have a total clear 9.11 am Meanwhile the idea of independence will continue to wither in the vine. The greatest heist in Scotland’s history really has been a masterclass in conning people and I cannot see anything changing until we get back control of our legal and justice systems and the ringleaders end up in prison. We have got here because New SNP supporters are either completely unable or unwilling to take a critical look at who they are voting for because they have been so distracted by the golden carrot of independence that keeps getting dangled. Frauds, liars, criminals, cheats, carpetbaggers, con artists and common thieves are all represented at the top. The movement has always been dominated by those who shout the loudest and harass their opponents from the limelight, there is a total lack of intellectual thought at the top of the movement. Now that the scab is being ripped off and the movement splits the PR gloss is failing to cover what has always been there and it is only going to get worse. I knew a few SNP branch heads and they are all committed anglophobes and they’d struggle to muster a brain cell among them. There is a complete lack of vision and it’s always boiled down to othering them over there rather than creating a positive and competent vision for the future. Under the slick PR gloss the yes campaign has been largely run by roasters with chips on their shoulders. I hope the SNP and Greens can be changed from within, but the smart money has to be against Ellis We aren’t getting a referendum anytime soon, and it’ll likely be a while until we can do anything significant electorally at Westminster or Holyrood. There is little point at this stage doing anything more than help Alba establish itself as a party and ensure it doesn’t fall prey to the same faults as the current SNP. It’s a sad state of affairs: no doubt the usual suspects will be accusing me of being a closet yoon, not a “real” nationalist, etc. I have absolutely no time for those saying that we have to swallow our principles and allow these regressive, misogynistic roasters to dictate the pace and direction of “our” movement. If that means independence takes longer because we have to defeat the cultists in charge of the SNP and Scottish Greens – as well as the British nationalist establishment – then so be it. Looking at what has happened to Alex Salmond, to Stu Campbell, Craig Murray, Marion Millar and others, I can no longer say the people behind their persecution represent the kind of Scotland I want to see. I *think* I speak for quite a few others when I say that I honestly couldn’t stomach campaigning shoulder to shoulder with some of the SNP and Scottish Green cult members given what we’ve learned over the past few years in particular. Looking back now I wonder at the sense of positivity and inclusiveness and doubt we will ever see its like again. It would be surprising if any nations wasn’t? Perhaps we were kidding ourselves during #indyref1 that it didn’t matter what your individual politics and personal outlook on particular issues was, as long as we all had (to quote the over-used phrase) our “eyes on the prize”? The Scots are perhaps fissiparious by nature – perhaps every people is. It’s beyond sad that a mirror held up to the broader Yes movement today presents something radically different – and less inspiring – than the positive, progressive jamboree we saw in the run up to 2014.
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