Use us or lose us.

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2 #DaysToSaveScotland

Why are you all so upset about BBCQT? What were you expecting?

They are just doing their job. It’s another country’s “political” entertainment show complete with a cast of good-guys, villains, foreigners and weirdos. It’s “wrestling” for pseudo intellectuals. “Oooh look. They’ve got the Scot in a headlock – how’s she gonna get out of that?”

Having propaganda piped into your homes is a social compact, a deal, a natural consequence of remaining part of the union.

There’s only one solution available to us and our political leadership seem reluctant to embrace it, preferring instead to complain that we don’t get ‘fair’ coverage on a foreign realm’s propaganda channel. Preferring instead to wait for some mythical gifted opportunity to achieve independence for Scotland without making the hard choices, without facing the harsh reality of our increasingly precarious position.

I love that we’ve reached out to the world but I’m saddened by the thought that they will all collectively say “Oh dear, that’s a shame.” when we are inevitably ground to nothingness under the boot heel of the new United Kingdom.

Every time I’m “prompted” to be annoyed at the BBC’s output I’m reminded instead to be increasingly disappointed by Scotland’s political representatives.

The SNP. Your silence is deafening.

The membership is restless. Use us or lose us.

#BrexitIsACoup #DissolveTheUnion

“A new order has been made… to enable Reservists to be called… in support of the HMG… for a no deal EU exit scenario… from the beginning of 10 February 2019… ” –
https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2019-01-17/HCWS1254/

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You Don’t Have The Right!

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It’s been poisoning us all for months now, affecting our ability to think clearly, clouding our vision and making us forget the past. Every time the Conservatives at Westminster make a proclamation, change a policy or announce a deal you’ll find me shouting “You don’t have the right!” into the gaping maw of the filthy end of whichever media pipeline happens to be spewing forth the toxic news.

Universal Media Blackout

What we are all forgetting is the 2015 General Election Expenses scandal. Whenever I mention it I’m shocked that so few people have any idea quite how large, complicated and potentially explosive it is. For those that do remember, most express surprise that it is still unresolved. Hardly surprising really as there’s an almost universal media blackout on the subject. The most recent, and isolated, article I can find is the one from December about Alison Hernandez PCC being questioned – and that was in the Exeter Express & Echo (a weekly with around 14,000 readers). It’s been suggested that the self-imposed media ‘silence’ is to ensure that whatever investigations may, or may not, be happening don’t have their potential crime scenes contaminated by giant journalistic footprints. It’s so unusual perhaps it’s true… or are they just waiting for the amnesia to kick in?

No Authority

In an effort to inoculate myself against forgetting I started writing a few notes and gathered together some of the more obvious #ToryElectionFraud articles. I quickly found it made more sense if I cross referenced them to the MPs in question. Very swiftly this in turn expanded to include the Police Authorities involved, the media outlets who had covered some aspect of the story, various tweets – contradicting the Conservatives claim that the Battlebus campaign was a national expense for example – and this all fed back to provide more ‘Players’ (people involved – no longer just MPs), more articles etc. etc. and all this required a database and naturally a site to present the data in a meaningful way. From everything I’ve collected so far what shines forth blindingly, like a billion watt bulb beneath the foamy media murk, is that the Conservatives have no authority.

Historic Tory Victory

The Conservatives appeared to have won the 2015 General Election. They did it with an incredibly slim 12 seat majority, which in any other political epoch would have been derided as an absolutely disastrous result, yet somehow this has been fed to us, and we lapped it up, as an historic Tory victory. In the process they destroyed their former coalition partners – the Liberal Democrats. Since then, faced with virtually no unified opposition and riding on their great victory, the Tories have been able to enact some of the most draconian, right wing and anti-democratic legislation this union has ever seen.

Very early in 2016 some cracks appeared in the political veneer and Channel 4 and The Mirror started picking away and swiftly alleged potential election fraud. Pretty quickly several other media outlets joined in, the Electoral Commission became involved and they ‘encouraged’ various Police Authorities to take the allegations seriously, the BBC tried their best to ignore it for as long as they could – and generated some of the most farcical political pantomime ever  – but eventually even they succumbed. As if by magic, with a few exceptions, everyone stopped talking about it in July 2016. The rest, as they don’t say, is not history.

Cheating At Politics

If you cheat at politics and no-one notices for a whole year, you get away with it. Apparently this is to stop us mere mortals from having to worry about the possibly destabilising effects of finding out that someone broke the law in order to end up in a position of authority. If no-one had made a fuss before May 7th 2016, if the Electoral Commission hadn’t got involved, if the Police hadn’t been asked to look at the allegations, if they hadn’t been ‘encouraged’ to apply to extend the time available in which to explore the possibility of prosecutions – this would all be done and dusted. Even if you have clear proof that MPs cheated to win, if it’s out of time then there’s nothing you can do about it. Time’s up on May 7th 2017 – whatever they decide, make sure you know about it.

The Democratic Will Of The People

By continuing to engage with the Tories as though they are the legitimate power at Westminster we are all effectively white-washing the Tory Election Expenses scandal from our collective memory. If just six MPs took it upon themselves to ‘cheat to win’ then the Conservatives don’t have a majority and pretty much everything that’s happened in the last two years does not represent the democratic will of the people.  More seriously, and more likely, is that if the party ‘cheated to win’ then the whole basis of our democracy is at question and we’ve all been well and truly scammed.

The various Police Authorities will reach their conclusions shortly. I want them to know that a great many of us are well informed, watching and waiting to see what they decide. My aim now is to keep finding and spreading the news, inform the public and keep them hungry for the results of the various Police Authorities deliberations. This can not be allowed to get quietly swept under the carpet.

A Country Like Scotland

I’m not expecting the Government to fall as a result of the investigations that may or may not ensue from the various Police Authorities ruminations. In fact I’m expecting an extra large whitewash brush to be wheeled out soon – accompanied by some enormous fake news distraction headlines. My hope is that this, and other’s efforts, will contribute to Scottish dis-ease and mistrust of Westminster, its players and their goals. If the Tories cheated in their homeland, in front of their own supporters in order to beat their former allies, what might they be capable of in a country like Scotland with virtually no discernible support for their aims and objectives.

Quick, go and inoculate yourself against #ToryElectionFraudAmnesia right now before the uhh, ummm, you know… oh look! That lovely Maggie Thatcher’s on the telly again.

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