MIA ASKS “ WHAT ARE STURGEON’S MOTIVES?”

If Sturgeon’s SNP were really pursuing independence, they would have delivered it already. I have no doubt that even those in the yes movement who choose to still bury their heads in the sand, might refuse to accept it, but they can already see this political fraud has flushed down the toilet the multitude of opportunities and mandates her party was given to deliver it. 

For 8 years our SNP votes have been both – misused to engineer obstacles to independence, and misused to find excuses to undermine Scotland’s popular sovereignty and right to self-determination. I do not think this could have been more obvious than with Sturgeon’s latest stupidity of submitting a draft bill to the Supreme Court, and by doing so, surrendering to England judges our democratic right to bring bills to our own effing parliament. And this from the individual who dared to claim “democracy is on my side”. 

How many legitimate leaders in the democratic world have ever sought to divide their own ranks jeopardising the party’s chances to win by putting them at loggerheads with each other?
Sturgeon and the blairites are the only ones who spring to mind. Divide and conquer is a well known motto. Dividing the yes movement only benefits one side, which happens to be the same side that benefitted from dividing the Labour party when Corbyn was leader. That side is the British state and its allies with vested interest in Scotland’s assets and geographic location.

How many leaders in the democratic world have ever been so monumentally stupid as to turn round and viciously attack their own ranks for the sake of keeping the opposition happy? Sturgeon, Starmer and the other blairites come to mind. 

Another two obvious similarities between the original SNP and Corbyn’s semi-socialist labour was that well liked leaders who were seen to pursue the party’s cause by members and voters, had to be removed and demonised by dubious actors within their respective parties, the mouthpieces of the British state and the new “leaders” in those parties. The other similarity is that large numbers of members and voters of the original party were actively and deliberately disenfranchised when those leaders were removed.

It almost feels the SNP and labour are now the same thing and Sturgeon and Starmer two puppets moved by the same hands moving the “leaders” of the tory party. All in perfect coordination towards the same aim, which is in itself most unlikely if three genuinely polar-opposing leaders were acting independently.

A good measure of how well you are following your path in politics is the decibels coming from your opposition in terms of screams and whinging. The louder they are, the more you can be certain you are following the correct path. Now, if the decibels are coming from your own ranks, you hear nothing from the opposition and the mouthpieces of the opposition start to give you an audience and air time, then you know that not only you have lost your way and are following the wrong path, you have now merged with the opposition.

Women represent 50% of the population. They are still seen as the weaker sex and therefore it is instinctive for men in their families to seek to protect them. It is a natural reaction, and one that I personally welcome. So if you attack women, sooner or later you will have alienated not only those women, but also the men in their families and groups of friends. Alienating women is therefore the most stupid, ill-advised, crass decision a serious political “leader” could have ever made to progress their cause, unless of course what that “leader” is seeking to progress is the opposition’s cause. 

Sturgeon has made far too many “mistakes” for the assumption they were actually “mistakes” to be credible any longer. The number of “mistakes” in the last 8 years have been such, that it rather points to the more plausible possibility she might have been deliberately following a parallel agenda. 

Division in a political party is never good because it leads to the party’s destruction, by either its obliteration at the polls or by leading it to fragment into smaller parties- division of the vote. I think it is evident this is where Sturgeon (or her handlers) have been leading the SNP towards. Several pro-independence parties have already emerged and, because Sturgeon’s “mistakes” continue at pace, these parties are gaining strength, credibility and support. 

The reaction of Sturgeon, her praetorian guard and the mouthpieces of the British state when Alba was announced and, before that, how the ISP was demonised, suggest, in my view, four things:

1. First and most obvious is that Sturgeon did not seek to deliver independence, but rather to hold full control of the yes movement. These new pro-indy parties threaten the SNP’s monopoly on being seen as the “political vehicle for independence” . Being seen as the only party of independence helps to concentrate the vote, but more importantly, if what you are seeking is to stop independence, it makes very easy to keep the yes movement on a leash – for example by claiming that a vote for your party is not a vote for independence. If and when the time comes that the SNP vote needs to be collapsed by the powers that be for the sake of making the UK look governable, this monopoly makes very easy to silence yes voters for example by alienating the voting base. But that only works if yes voters have nowhere else to go. If before the point of full alienation, yes voters can no longer be bothered in listening to you and can no longer be disenfranchised because they have other parties to vote for and other pro-indy organisations to listen to, all your power to restrain that movement vanishes.

2. The mere existence of those parties is, at best, proof Sturgeon’s SNP never intended to cater for all pro-independence voters and, at worse, proof that Sturgeon’s approach to delivering independence is no longer convincing. Even worse, the existence of those parties helps the yes movement put more pressure for independence to be delivered, which is the precise opposite to what might have been intended with the monopoly strategy.

3. The reaction to those parties denotes fear. This could be because the SNP leadership had all intention to continue delivering “mistakes” , but the possibility with each new “mistake” of more voters and members leaving the SNP to go to those other parties or to join alternative organisations pursuing independence through a path that bypasses political parties, makes those “mistakes” counter-producing.

4. It is very easy to dismiss criticisms from unionist parties and the mouthpieces of the British state and allies as propaganda. It is much more difficult when those criticisms and scrutiny come from your own side.

I have been convinced for some time now that the destruction of the party as an effective vehicle for independence is precisely what this political fraud and her handlers have been seeking from day one. In the same way it has been obvious the destruction of labour as a socialist party has always been behind the blairite’s and their handlers’ actions. 

From where I am sitting, plaguing the SNP and Labour with internal divisions and removing control from the membership to keep the leadership on a leash seems to serve a function: to render both parties “compliant” to the establishment’s view of what a UK political party must look and behave like. Only then, these parties can be allowed anywhere near UK government to give the party of the aristocrats and corporations a well deserved “rest” in the backbenches after it has created such an enormous mess that keeping in power would make disgusted English voters to come out with the pitchforks (metaphorically speaking).

It is my personal opinion Sturgeon’s SNP is labour under a different flag and part of the strategy to deliver the much trumpeted “revival” of Labour in Scotland. 

I am convinced the GRA thing is just a trojan horse which has been fully unleashed after previous strategies to bring the SNP down by internal division failed. 

I am sure I am not the only one who remembers, years ago, before all Mr Salmond’s persecution started, that the MSM were already trumpeting a division in the SNP between Salmondites and Sturgeonites. I did not give credence to that at the time thinking the British State, via its mouthpieces, were seeking to create the illusion of division to damage the party’s prospects at the elections. 

I still think my instinct was right. It was however interesting to watch how the perception of division announced by the MSM at the time failed to damage the party’s prospects and did not translate into more labour votes. Then, along came the collusion with UK civil servants and the COPFS to launch the complaints procedure from hell. When that also failed and the culprits ended up with egg all over their corrupt faces (metaphorically speaking), along came the Criminal case and the continuous collusion of UK civil servants, Sturgeon’s government, the COPFs, Sturgeon’s praetorian guard and the mouthpieces of the British state to destroy Mr Salmond’s reputation. 

When that also failed to significantly destroy the yes movement and the party’s prospects, it was time to activate the scorched earth approach: if the SNP voters could not be brought to heel, then the party had to be destroyed. I am convinced the objective has always been to decrease the pro indy MP seats to less than half because they need to show the world that the UK is open for business and Scotland’s resources are available for sale because Scotland “does no longer want independence”. Clearly this task becomes much easier if all the yes vote can be concentrated in one party which can be then brought to heel with active “interventionism” . 

The existence of alternative pro-independence parties, the emergence of SSRG and Salvo, an increasing exodus of SNP members from the party, the decaying reliance on the MSM for news and the fact that a good proportion of the current pro-independence blogs are trashing this woman’s version of the SNP and her failed strategy, seem proof this political fraud is beginning to lose grasp and there is a risk she will soon be bypassed.

I don’t believe in coincidences. I don’t believe the demonisation of Corbyn and Mr Salmond were coincidences. I don’t believe having Starmer, more right wing than the average tory, and Sturgeon, more unionist than the average labour voter, as “leaders” are coincidences. I don’t believe having an overt pro-brexit leader in the labour party, when the majority of the members were against, is a coincidence. I don’t believe having a devolutionist as leader of the SNP at a point when the support for independence is at the highest, is a coincidence. I don’t believe the flooring the UK economy by Truss and her chancellor was “a mistake”. Nor I believe the election of somebody as incredibly dim as Truss as tory leader was “a mistake”. I am convinced the tory party is sabotaging their own chances in order to get labour to win at the next general election – we have seen labour on its own can no longer achieve this.

Personally I think the “one nation UK” narrative has hit the buffers and with the threat of strikes, crippling energy bills, raise in interest rates with their repercussions for mortgages and credit card debt, ridiculously high food prices and inflation, and erosion of real time salaries, things are only going to get worse, much worse. If you have been paying attention, I am sure that, like me, you will have noticed that some packages of food which a few months ago proudly displayed oversized UJs on them, are now beginning to either disguise the UJs by reducing their size or even starting to displaying discrete saltires on them. Presumably because the experiment of forcing down our throats the UJ’s to promote the “one nation” narrative, has failed and damaged sales.

With Sturgeon losing grasp of the movement, and previous strategies of love-bombing, MSM anti-independence propaganda and excuses given by the “opposition” parties no longer being listened to, it seems they may have reached the critical point where the only way they have left now to keep the union on life support is by giving the people of Scotland more illusion of autonomy. I use the word “illusion” very consciously here because the only way Scotland can gain meaningful autonomy is with independence.

The tories cannot be seen to be willingly delivering more powers to Holyrood, because it will bulldoze its staunch unionist voting base. Labour is seen as the party of “devolution”, hence if anybody is going to deliver FFA or any other brand of enhanced devolution, it will be labour. In that way, if the experiment goes wrong, and it will go wrong because Scotland is far too gone towards independence to be satisfied with more devolution for long, the party of aristocrats and corporations can use that “mistake” to bounce back in the polls in England and comfortably govern unchallenged for the benefit of the 1% for another decade before the same cycle starts again.

An additional bonus of having Labour in power at a time when we are facing the biggest economic crisis in modern history, in part caused by the tories’ stupid brexit and their damaging policies, is that it will not be the tories who have to clear up their own mess and even better: not be seen as ever having to clean after themselves.

In any case, labour is in “safe” hands: they could not have found a more right wing, pro-brexit, anti-Scottish independence, anti-socialist, fully compliant establishment figure than Starmer. Even Thatcher would have been impressed.

Yessers are getting restless and difficult to control. The PR product appears to have reached its best before date, because once the booing has started, it will only get louder, particularly when the supporters realise no meaningful referendum will be delivered in 2023. The establishment compliant successor of the PR product does not seem that popular, so he would be the perfect pair of safe hands to lead the SNP towards losing half of its seats in the next GE. What are the odds that the Supreme Court Farce might offer an exit door to Sturgeon?

Let’s brace ourselves folks. Sturgeon’s “plebiscitary GE” is going to be an even bigger farce than her pro-indy leadership in 2015. You can sense the moment to stitch up Scotland and send us packing with another version of enhanced devolution is fast approaching. This must be the moment Sturgeon has been working for 8 years her socks off destroying the movement and the SNP’s credibility as a party of independence

MY COMMENTS

To add to the above from Mia I would question why yesterday of all days did the SNP choose to publish a paper proposing an Independent Scotland would stay tied to the pound for the foreseeable future? As World markets look on aghast as the UK tries to halt the economic decimation of the last few weeks who on earth would float a strategy to give those same people down South the ability to control our economy in the future. Are they mad or is this just another in the long line of tactical errors that adds to the systematic trail of missed opportunity that always appears when Westminster is in danger of being floored? I am with Mia, this can’t just be another mistake, this has sinister plotting all over it.

I am, as always

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