Are SNP membership numbers believable? I've heard it said that if a member cancels their direct debit but doesn't formally resign from the party, they are still counted as a member on the assumption that they have fallen on hard times, temporarily cannot afford membership and will resubscribe at a later date. I have news for the SNP. These members are, in the main, cancelling because the SNP prefers hyperwokeness to independence.
Ohh sh💩 never got a notification even though i had the reminder set. Great show again folks. I would just like to say, the SNP have cried wolf once to often, people aren't falling for their lies anymore. If the SNP were serious about Independence, we would've left the union in 2016 after the Brexit referendum. Keep The Faith 🏴
The only people doing something about it are not in Politics except the ISP. Those most active in Indy are Independent themselves and the movements are growing bigger than the politics.
We need to Scotilise our businesses and Industries. The left and right at Westminster are fighting to privatise and nationalise firmly controlled from London. Thig ar latha 😅.
I'll never again vote in a general election and for the Scottish election I'll only vote for an independent going forward, there is not one thing that the SNP could say which would make me vote for them.
What law?when in 1707 were the people of Scotland ever democratically asked to accept English law or jurisdiction? Is the supreme committee ultra vires ?
Hi troops 👋 back on the catch up again anyway hope you are all well , Brrrrr 🥶time to look after yourself and your family, and if you can check on an Neighbour. 👍🏴
This new IRBM is now being described, according to The Duran as an brand new entirely conventional weapons system. Technically it could take out Faslane and Coulport without using nukes.
It's time for compulsory voting. With the major change being NOTA on the ballot paper. With a NOTA vote leading to the election of a random member of the public from the constituency who meets a set of agreed criteria.
As a democratic I oppose that suggestion wholeheartedly. It is up to the politicians to enthuse the public to vote as they did in huge numbers in 2014. It suits the politicians that the public disengage it helps them get their snouts in the trough easier
@barrheadboy1684 As a democrat I believe in more direct democracy and everyone having to take more responsibility for their own governance. How can you be opposed to wider involvement in politics and who are these politicians? How are they different from the rest of us? Governance is much to important to be left to politicians especially modern party political politicians. Much of this entry indeed many of your entries (which I regularly follow even if you might not want me to) are about the abject failure of "politicians". At the heart of that failure is imo a fundamental disconnect between the views and concerns of the wider public and those of their elected representatives. And worse in a way even between elected party representatives and their wider party memberships. Imo the cause of that disconnect lies in the way we select and elect those representatives. Specifically how those selection processes and electoral systems hand power to the "apparats" and apparatchiks, IE the party machines themselves not even the party membership. The result is we get politicos obsessed with party and activist concerns not folk steeped in and honestly reflecting public sentiment and opinion. Folk who want lead rather than reflect or represent public opinion. (Never a good thing imo). Perfect case in point is the Gender drivel in Holyrood >80% of elected MSP's voted for thos drivel. What fraction of the public do you think give a flying proverbial? (Other than perhaps to grown at the absurdity)? Compulsory voting is useful as it gives us all a direct way to register that disconnect. Without not voting which only tells the politicos that only what they think matters or at least that's all they need to hear.
Stuff like all current politicos are shysters and what we need is more politicians with backgrounds in party activism? Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. Always all power to the Apparat? All these folk given awards, and elected to office are purest creatures of their respective party Apparats. What is a threat to union would be giving Scottish voters a way to meaningfully express discontent with the political milleu and disappointment with their elected representatives. That can't be done by changing the apparat only by breaking it? So the real need is to break the power of politcal parties and their party machines in determining who gets selected and elected. All this video calls for is "Let us be in charge". The mantra of revolutionaries everywhere. The ability to give speeches etc is related to competency in governance how? Dictators are often excellent political speaker? An independent Scotland would need friends? Sure but Russia? A country that might drop a missle on Faslane or Beith? Fascists in Kyiv? Maybe but Moscow isn't a Fascists regime? And no comment on Foreign policy should include Palestine? And Flanders can issue international arrest warrants? Protecting people in the Dombass involves trying to roll tanks into Kyiv? Maripol was a Russian speaking city was it? Russia has a long history of not expanding where it isn't really wanted? Here's a fact if Ukraine had retained it's share of Soviet Nuclear weapons this war would not be happening. And another uptil the mid 19th C what is now the Russian city of Vladivostok was part of China and had been for centuries. The Russians extorted the region it is in from failing Chinese Empire in an unequal treaty. So China might support Russia sure but Putin is a fool if he thinks the Chinese are remotely his friends. Russia is not a regime with any credibility a possesses little or no credibility on complaining about treatment of Russians outside Russia since Putin won't and can't give even those Russians in the Dombass a truly free vote on the presence of Russian forces or let his own citizens have a free vote whether this war should be happening. Oh and btw German speakers living in Poland who had been part of the 2nd Reich were regularly persecuted in Post WW1 Poland . The Nazi regime regularly complained about it and nothing was done Poland was armed and supported by the UK and France so And if it's legitimate to hit countries supplying your enemies with weapons should military targets in Iran be eliminated? If Russia lands missile on any part of any NATO member that is an act of war. And there is nothing intrinsically wrong with being conservative. How was Salmond truly any different?
@barrheadboy1684 Why not? We force people to do a lot of things for the general good. Eg educated their children. Compulsory voting is for me just a way that allows voters to positively register their discontent with politicians and political environments. Not voting which your blog laments and actually says reflects voter disengagment, is a totally negative thing and your contributors acknowledge that it doesn't change the behaviour of out of touch politicos in fact it probably suites them. But compulsory voting is only one tool, having None If The Above (NOTA) on the ballot paper most importantly with meaningful consequences for those politicos (them no being elected) creates an environment that forces their parties to actually engage with the wider public and stay engaged or disappear. Changing the party you vote again your blog acknowledged changes only the rosette colour and nothing about the disconnect. You effectively offered no solutions but put us "real" activists and "true" servants of the cause in charge. This has been the pointless and self destructive mantra of the splintered left for as long as it has been around. Allowing active and deliberate rejection of all parties on a ballot paper breaks their power to deliver cushy jobs etc, bursts the pompous self important bubble of their elected politicos as well as weakens the leaderships power to set the agenda It addition it deliberately introduces random free thinking opinions and outlooks unfettered to party line drivel into the process of governance never a bad thing imo. The statement along the lines " Politicians needs to enthuse voters" said it all. You want to try to solve the problem with more of it's central cause. If you want to see voting matter for all citizens, you need to give voters a way to by pass entirely what would be politicians want to offer. The current politicians, the parties that create them and the systems that elect them are the problem and more of the same changes nothing.
@@rod9919 I think the point being made is former SNP voters didn't vote for anybody. The TO in the Westminster GE was woeful Not voting got the biggest share of the vote by far.
@ TO is alway low at council by elections. What these elections show, much like the GE in July, Scots want a govt that has a plan to improve public services…so they can get a doctors appointment, a pharmacist to dispense their ‘free’ prescription, a council that can fill at pothole and empty the bins rather that fountains of pish about some Potemkin’s Village that is always round the corner.
If I could I'd leave this country tomorrow and move to Russia, it's the only sane country on the planet today.
Are SNP membership numbers believable? I've heard it said that if a member cancels their direct debit but doesn't formally resign from the party, they are still counted as a member on the assumption that they have fallen on hard times, temporarily cannot afford membership and will resubscribe at a later date. I have news for the SNP. These members are, in the main, cancelling because the SNP prefers hyperwokeness to independence.
Ohh sh💩 never got a notification even though i had the reminder set.
Great show again folks.
I would just like to say, the SNP have cried wolf once to often, people aren't falling for their lies anymore.
If the SNP were serious about Independence, we would've left the union in 2016 after the Brexit referendum.
Keep The Faith 🏴
Prestwick airport runways are another target, it is basically a military refueling base. Just look at how much the turnover has increased.
80% apathy in Scotland doesn't bode well for Scotlands future. I'd never again vote SNP but I'll never understand why any Scot would vote Labour.
The only people doing something about it are not in Politics except the ISP. Those most active in Indy are Independent themselves and the movements are growing bigger than the politics.
We need to Scotilise our businesses and Industries. The left and right at Westminster are fighting to privatise and nationalise firmly controlled from London.
Thig ar latha 😅.
Not enough people believe and not enough scared enough
I'll never again vote in a general election and for the Scottish election I'll only vote for an independent going forward, there is not one thing that the SNP could say which would make me vote for them.
What law?when in 1707 were the people of Scotland ever democratically asked to accept English law or jurisdiction? Is the supreme committee ultra vires ?
In 1707 nobody gave a f*ck what ‘the people’ thought!
Hi troops 👋 back on the catch up again anyway hope you are all well , Brrrrr 🥶time to look after yourself and your family, and if you can check on an Neighbour. 👍🏴
Well telt Phil
This new IRBM is now being described, according to The Duran as an brand new entirely conventional weapons system.
Technically it could take out Faslane and Coulport without using nukes.
Have you heard about the petition ongoing now for another general election which has already gained well over I million votes in I day.
Making lots of sense today guys
We make lots of sense every week 😅😅
It's time for compulsory voting. With the major change being NOTA on the ballot paper.
With a NOTA vote leading to the election of a random member of the public from the constituency who meets a set of agreed criteria.
As a democratic I oppose that suggestion wholeheartedly. It is up to the politicians to enthuse the public to vote as they did in huge numbers in 2014.
It suits the politicians that the public disengage it helps them get their snouts in the trough easier
@barrheadboy1684 As a democrat I believe in more direct democracy and everyone having to take more responsibility for their own governance. How can you be opposed to wider involvement in politics and who are these politicians? How are they different from the rest of us?
Governance is much to important to be left to politicians especially modern party political politicians.
Much of this entry indeed many of your entries (which I regularly follow even if you might not want me to) are about the abject failure of "politicians".
At the heart of that failure is imo a fundamental disconnect between the views and concerns of the wider public and those of their elected representatives. And worse in a way even between elected party representatives and their wider party memberships.
Imo the cause of that disconnect lies in the way we select and elect those representatives.
Specifically how those selection processes and electoral systems hand power to the "apparats" and apparatchiks, IE the party machines themselves not even the party membership.
The result is we get politicos obsessed with party and activist concerns not folk steeped in and honestly reflecting public sentiment and opinion.
Folk who want lead rather than reflect or represent public opinion. (Never a good thing imo).
Perfect case in point is the Gender drivel in Holyrood >80% of elected MSP's voted for thos drivel. What fraction of the public do you think give a flying proverbial? (Other than perhaps to grown at the absurdity)?
Compulsory voting is useful as it gives us all a direct way to register that disconnect. Without not voting which only tells the politicos that only what they think matters or at least that's all they need to hear.
Stuff like all current politicos are shysters and what we need is more politicians with backgrounds in party activism? Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.
Always all power to the Apparat?
All these folk given awards, and elected to office are purest creatures of their respective party Apparats.
What is a threat to union would be giving Scottish voters a way to meaningfully express discontent with the political milleu and disappointment with their elected representatives. That can't be done by changing the apparat only by breaking it?
So the real need is to break the power of politcal parties and their party machines in determining who gets selected and elected. All this video calls for is "Let us be in charge". The mantra of revolutionaries everywhere.
The ability to give speeches etc is related to competency in governance how? Dictators are often excellent political speaker?
An independent Scotland would need friends? Sure but Russia?
A country that might drop a missle on Faslane or Beith?
Fascists in Kyiv? Maybe but Moscow isn't a Fascists regime?
And no comment on Foreign policy should include Palestine? And Flanders can issue international arrest warrants?
Protecting people in the Dombass involves trying to roll tanks into Kyiv?
Maripol was a Russian speaking city was it?
Russia has a long history of not expanding where it isn't really wanted?
Here's a fact if Ukraine had retained it's share of Soviet Nuclear weapons this war would not be happening.
And another uptil the mid 19th C what is now the Russian city of Vladivostok was part of China and had been for centuries. The Russians extorted the region it is in from failing Chinese Empire in an unequal treaty.
So China might support Russia sure but Putin is a fool if he thinks the Chinese are remotely his friends.
Russia is not a regime with any credibility a possesses little or no credibility on complaining about treatment of Russians outside Russia since Putin won't and can't give even those Russians in the Dombass a truly free vote on the presence of Russian forces or let his own citizens have a free vote whether this war should be happening.
Oh and btw German speakers living in Poland who had been part of the 2nd Reich were regularly persecuted in Post WW1 Poland .
The Nazi regime regularly complained about it and nothing was done
Poland was armed and supported by the UK and France so
And if it's legitimate to hit countries supplying your enemies with weapons should military targets in Iran be eliminated?
If Russia lands missile on any part of any NATO member that is an act of war.
And there is nothing intrinsically wrong with being conservative.
How was Salmond truly any different?
@@alsoascot02 I am not opposed to wider democracy forcing people to vote is not democracy
@barrheadboy1684 Why not?
We force people to do a lot of things for the general good. Eg educated their children.
Compulsory voting is for me just a way that allows voters to positively register their discontent with politicians and political environments. Not voting which your blog laments and actually says reflects voter disengagment, is a totally negative thing and your contributors acknowledge that it doesn't change the behaviour of out of touch politicos in fact it probably suites them.
But compulsory voting is only one tool, having None If The Above (NOTA) on the ballot paper most importantly with meaningful consequences for those politicos (them no being elected) creates an environment that forces their parties to actually engage with the wider public and stay engaged or disappear. Changing the party you vote again your blog acknowledged changes only the rosette colour and nothing about the disconnect.
You effectively offered no solutions but put us "real" activists and "true" servants of the cause in charge.
This has been the pointless and self destructive mantra of the splintered left for as long as it has been around.
Allowing active and deliberate rejection of all parties on a ballot paper breaks their power to deliver cushy jobs etc, bursts the pompous self important bubble of their elected politicos as well as weakens the leaderships power to set the agenda
It addition it deliberately introduces random free thinking opinions and outlooks unfettered to party line drivel into the process of governance never a bad thing imo.
The statement along the lines " Politicians needs to enthuse voters" said it all. You want to try to solve the problem with more of it's central cause.
If you want to see voting matter for all citizens, you need to give voters a way to by pass entirely what would be politicians want to offer.
The current politicians, the parties that create them and the systems that elect them are the problem and more of the same changes nothing.
The snp collapsed at the last election, to Sarwar’s Labour. Who else would you give it to?
Watch this space gir an answer to that
@@rod9919 I think the point being made is former SNP voters didn't vote for anybody. The TO in the Westminster GE was woeful Not voting got the biggest share of the vote by far.
@ TO is alway low at council by elections. What these elections show, much like the GE in July, Scots want a govt that has a plan to improve public services…so they can get a doctors appointment, a pharmacist to dispense their ‘free’ prescription, a council that can fill at pothole and empty the bins rather that fountains of pish about some Potemkin’s Village that is always round the corner.
Sound keeps cutting out,, very difficult to follow. Switching off and hoping it’s fixed for later.
Hello - Can you make your next video on your suggestions for pathways to independence. Thank you?
Finally found a Brexit plus .Due to shortly coming waŕ Secret bunker will be reopening maybe survival of thee or more civic leaders. P😢😢😢