BBC report informs us that Ms Sturgeon said today, 15th July
blocking a referendum, if it was wanted by the Scottish people, would be "completely wrong".
The First Minister believes Scottish interests have been put "at risk" by the result of the EU referendum.
She has said she wants to explore all options - including independence - to maintain Scotland's relationship with the EU.
"I was very pleased that Theresa May said that she
was absolutely willing to consider any options that the Scottish
government now bring forward to secure Scotland's relationship with the
European Union, that the process that now takes shape by the UK
government will be open and flexible, and that the Scottish government
will be fully involved in that.
"I have been very clear that we
have to make sure that Scotland's interests are protected and I want to
examine every option of doing that.
(Two Saltires, the FM and PM, today 15th July 2016, Bute House Edinburgh, BBC, PA)
The posh boys fell out with one another, and landed
us with a fine, #eton mess or rather http://www.lifeport.co.uk/eton-mess/a referendum that
wasn’t really required. Then the three main protagonists fled the scene: Cameroon, BoJo, and Farage, closely
followed by Gove after even his own, fellow MPs didn’t want him. We thought
there would be much wrangling over the electioneering for leadership of the Tory party: May vs Leadsom.
So who could have predicted it, Leadsom jumps ship…what is it with Brexiteers?
But, May steps up, Cameroon (almost) hops skips, jumps and hums his way back
into No. 10 after telling us he’s got 48 hours to pack. Whatever else you say
about the Tory party, they do handle assassinations, back room deals and
coronations rather speedily.
Consequently to this political ineptitude, does Ms
May have a mandate throughout the UK without a general election? Can the Tory party
continue to govern sans general election in view of the fact that its 2015
election manifesto had no reference to negotiating Brexit? And May’s record
needs to be remembered with trepidation, not least her attitude to bargaining chips,
sorry migrants, her love of vans (Go home
you immigrants type vans) and her pursuit of the Investigatory Powers Bill,
to note but three aspects of a right wing voting record. Did she dare contemplate picking up on
Gove’s alluding to hacking Scotland’s block grant in an effort to placate EVEL
supporters?OK, she sacked him instead. Point taken!
As we watch with incredulity (BoJo in!) the
appointments to her cabinet, can we doubt the continuation of austerity and the
precipice starting us in the face that is Brexit and Brexit negotiations?
And
no matter how she tries to reconcile the warring factions of her party, whatever
the composition of her cabinet (Remain or Leave) , is there any comfort in this
Tory government’s small majority of 12 seats? Not really. Her government will
live by the mantra of ‘every vote counts’, so expect a spectre-like Cameroon to be seen flitting about on the
back benches when every vote matters. So
not wishing anyone any ill, we have to recognise it won’t be a picnic for her,
and thus, us. Oh, and anyone taking bets
on how long it takes some twat in media to ask May about redecorating No.10!
Afterall, we all know how much we love multi tasking, don’t we?
Every country needs a strong government, so whilst this
Tory government is being investigated for alleged fraud during the last general
election, there’s to be that vote on Trident, and the little matter of the
contempt motion in respect of Tony Blair, where is HM’s official opposition in
all of this?
Angela Eagle was seen in front of her Argh board, 11th
July, as she ended up talking to herself, supporters and a few press/media:
labour navel gazing in an almost empty room.
………….When asked if her chances were doomed if Mr Corbyn was allowed
on the leadership ballot paper, she said: "I don't go in for suicide
missions."
She said the EU referendum result had left the UK
"divided and uncertain".
While she had supported the Remain campaign, she
said the vote to leave was for many "a howl of pain".
The questions now were
how to bring hope to parts of the country that felt neglected, how to protect
jobs, investment and living standards and how to remain an open, tolerant
society, she said.
Ms Eagle said she would "not stand back and
allow Britain to become a one-party Tory state". ………………….
Please Angela, ‘parts
of the country’? Labour lost Scotland before our first indey ref, 2014. The
subsequent Holyrood and Westminster elections merely confirmed this.
Do you
honestly believe you have any traction here, and thus across the UK as a whole?
Show some credibility by acknowledging the situation as is: a membership across
rUK that favours Corbyn, then wonder why?
We are not a one party state here:
just look at Holyrood and its composition. But ask yourself: how effective is Labour
in opposition at Westminster, then wonder why SNP is as well regarded, almost
feared, by the Tory Govt, and just why May has made her first visit outwith
England to us here?
Isn’t it an irony that the Tory faithful members
have been denied yet again the opportunity to choose their latest leader, and
Labour has tied itself in almost suicidal-tight knots around a leadership
challenge. Maybe Fraser from Dad’s Army was right and the current political
system in the UK is ‘doomed, a’ doomed’. Well, Fraser, perhaps you’re right
in relation to rUK, but not here.
We’ve seen yet another Project Fear, this time
auguring the death of labour over the leadership challenge. But Labour is so
self-contained, or possibly self deluded at the moment, the majority of Labour
supporters know they love Labour so much, it will never, ever happen. (Sinking
ship? Musicians? Titanic anyone?)
Whatever the answer to the flawed system currently
experienced in the UK, most surely it isn’t federalism, as expertly captured in
Andrew Tickell’s article, July 12., The National. http://lallandspeatworrier.blogspot.co.uk/
And believe me, once the dust settles in the coming
weeks, federalism will re surface as some form of glue for desperate unionists
hoping to stick the fragmenting UK back together again.
So now, they’ve thrown the lot at us. Project Fear,
mark 1,2, & 3. Voting Yes resulting
in loss of EU membership. Being told
we’re too wee, too poor, too stupid to thrive on the independently on the international
stage. Falling oil prices. Vows. Promises. Most recently, we even saw Cameroon
almost promising plague, pestilence, famine and war if Brexit came about.
This time, forewarned – forearmed and all that!
YES,
we need to revisit our arguments over the sustainable, diverse economy, the
coinage and forestall Brexit being done unto us.
YES we need to regroup, re
organise and pick up campaigning where we left off. WFI groups across Scotland
are doing that, right now. The pan Scottish grass roots movement never really
went away; just a wee bit of hibernation.
But our independent future isn’t founded on a narrow vision of nationalism;
break ups, and break aways, pulling up the draw-bridge. It is our ability to articulate, to vision
and deliver on the international stage
that will enable us to thrive and develop as an independent nation.
With that outward focus, engagement once
independent, and not the inward,
austerity-deprivation-me first- Tory ideology, we can reapply and reconfigure our own
internal policies, budgets, our very future.
We can create a society that recognises our
obligations to those less fortunate, less prosperous; that doesn’t punish but
delivers a fairer society that we will recognise as one we helped create, and
one in which we have a stake.
