Scotland's Wings: Triumph and Tragedy in the Skies

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The SNP can change its name but it can’t change its reputation, every single party leader including Mike Russell and Yousaf saying I/We didn’t know until now, makes the SNP situation even worse.

Scotland’s constitution is written down, just not all in one or a few related documents, as you know just fine. That is all that ‘not written’ or ‘unwritten’ means in this context. This is in no way different from England’s or the UK’s constitution.If such a situation arises, the SNP may find themselves preoccupied with a multitude of issues, losing sight of the objective that was central to the party’s founding. I know some on here think Kate Forbes was the right person for the SNP leadership job, all I can say on that, she wasn’t. It’s also tacit, so they don’t ever have to say it directly to one another. They just know, from experience, where the parameters are. So they’re trapped. They can’t break away from it and say what they really feel about anything unless they use a pseudonym or branch off into writing fiction. Anyone who isn’t ‘one of us’ is besmirched, shunned. It’s a form of scapegoating. (If you didn’t see Stu’s recent series of tweets about his encounter with Ruth Wishart, go to his feed and have a look. Very illuminating.)

Continuity was the absolute worst thing the SNP could have ‘elected’ in their rigged election. That was the moment of final suicide, right there. AR: In me we have a MSP committed to holding the ScotGov to account without talking Scotland down. That’s one thing. ALBA will support the Scottish Government on areas we agree, but that support comes with a requirement for mutual respect between Scotland’s two independence parties. In short: leverage.

I remember some time ago, certainly before 2021, the SNP had written to us about increasing the amount we paid to our membership or paying the membership fee early. I remained in the SNP to work constructively from within, especially on key issues like the gender reform bill and independence. My hope was to bring about a balanced perspective and influence the course of the party in a way that I believed was beneficial to the country.

Though never formally tied to the National – a pro-independence paper launched shortly after the independence referendum – Wings did a great deal to build a loyal audience for Yes fans hooked on a partisan worldview. The paper is owned by the US media conglomerate Gannett, and its more substantial sister title the Sunday Herald – the first major newspaper to declare for independence – was quietly shut in 2018, due to continuing cuts at its parent company. Given that around 50 per cent of the Scottish electorate now favours independence, a professional-quality media reflecting those views is notable by its absence. Soon after, former SNP leader Alex Salmond was able to get a massive crowdfunding windfall to pay his legal costs for a judicial review into the Scottish government's handling of sexual harassment claims against him, suggesting that thousands of heterosexual white males are eager to give other, more famous heterosexual white males shitloads of cash to defend against any allegation (Salmond is on bail but the charges have not yet come to court as of March 2019). [35] [36] WINGS: A lot of people will have been expecting you to leave the SNP before now, for lots of obvious reasons. Why did you leave it so long?

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And yet there’s the potential for the by-election to be calamitous for both of the main contenders. Nobody seriously thinks Labour will fail to win, but the size of the victory will be key. There have been – surprisingly – no polls of the constituency, but Labour still isn’t ahead in national polling in Scotland despite the utterly shambolic state of both the SNP and the Tories, and few people detect any great groundswell of public enthusiasm for Anas Sarwar’s branch office on the ground. The 9 million allies that died, and in flanders fields and the somme. Where have all the flowers gone? It’s not just about making noise; it’s about making effective, strategic use of the parliamentary system to bring about the change we all want to see.

At the same time, it was clear to all concerned that this agreement could not pay off the heavy guilt that Germans had brought upon themselves,” Scholz added. “The Luxembourg Agreements were rather an attempt to assume moral responsibility for the failure of morality – the attempt to ensure that it was not inhumanity that had the last word, but humanity.” It’s hard to believe but one million allotments would only use 25,000 hectares of arable land. Scotland has 625,000 hectares of arable land, 25 times as much. They don’t have such freedom, and even if they did, it’s doubtful that they would/could use it at all because they have trained themselves into a form of self-censorship which is, essentially, symbiotic: ‘I won’t mention that so long as you don’t.’

This will be a challenge. There may be an increased risk that the going concern basis is more difficult for the National Treasurer to justify for the Accounts for the year ended 31st December 2022, particularly if recent events have further placed strain on the cash flow, income & expenditure account and Balance Sheet. The key move forward is to establish the long-awaited independence convention and to forge a robust Scotland United democratic alliance. This coalition’s mission would be to ensure that every Scottish Westminster seat is contested by a candidate who has a steadfast commitment to independence. For any party wishing to be part of the Scotland United coalition, independence shouldn’t be a mere convenience but the core of their political ambitions. So now you know the theory. In truth, Wings remains deeply unconvinced that the SNP has any role in the future of the Yes movement. In our view the party is simply too rotten, too corrupt, too infested with careerists and worse, and – crucially – too unwilling to listen and learn even as its support melts away in droves. This is the reason why the readership of Wings has exploded. It’s nowt to do with people being seduced by his supposed alt-right views. It’s because people want to know what’s really been going on in their country, and Wings seems to be one of the few places that will tell them. Campbell has done something very dangerous in his mad harangues, which is to conflate various distinct issues into one, more specifically, he leads his readers to believe that self-identification for trans folk has got something to do with the Salmond – Sturgeon divide. This really is not true. Self identification is on the agenda or in law in various countries right now, and regardless of who the leader or the FM might be, it would be on the table in Scotland.