Scotland's Greatest

                                   Scotland's Greatest

In the last two months, there has been a consistent number of people who are now saying they are  going to vote " Yes " in Scottish Independence Referendum, as they are all going to be worse off  because of Westminster's Policies. They now believe that First Minister Alex Salmond and Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon are their only hope as Westminster Policies are destroying their life's and their families. They now see the real reasons for the constant scaremongering by the " No " campaign, as a mere distraction for their despicable Welfare Cuts, they now see that what the Better Together and United with Labour ( The Standard Bearers for  the Conservative Party ) are really saying, that the most vulnerable in our society must suffer, in some cases several Welfare cuts;  in housing benefits; in disability benefits; in unemployment benefits; resulting in vulnerable people having to go to food banks in order to feed themselves and their families or being given food stamps; being placed at the back of the housing list if they become unemployed  ( if One Nation Labour gets into Government ) then One Nation Labour has stated last week, pensioners must share the pain if the country is to recover, the same One Nation Labour were only saying three days earlier that they would protect the so called triple lock which guarantees that state pensions go up every year. One Nation Labour and their Conservative Puppeteers in the No Campaign are really saying this is how we are Better Together and United with Labour say all this hardship makes a fairer society. I saw an article in the newspaper which said that Gordon Brown Leader of the Conservatives United with Labour declared payments of £1.37million from other jobs  in the  parliamentary session which ended in the month of May, the article went on to say the payments were 20 times higher than the £65,738 salary which he collects as an MP. The article also stated the Alistair Darling Leader of the Conservative Better Together campaign received £263,000 from other jobs and Jack Straw received £183,000 from other jobs. One could almost say They are definitely better together! BUT WE THE PUBLIC ARE CERTAINLY NOT,   I think a lot of people are going to            " VOTE YES ". Maybe that's why all the pointless scaremongering from the No campaign as they realise this as well, and see themselves as extinct as the dinosaurs when the  Yes vote wins. Alex Salmond should be congratulated, first for being able to establish Scotland as a world leader in the crusade against global warming, then for having the courage to put the Independence Referendum for Scotland on the political agenda, and at the same time, he has given the electorate the irrefutable facts that Scotland would perform better as an independent state, which would have the freedom to make our own decisions, and get rid of Westminster's deplorable Bedroom Tax and other equally deplorable Welfare Cuts. Irrefutable proof that Alex Salmond is one of the Greatest Politician of our time, was evident only last year, when Alex was voted the " Best Politician Of The Year " 3 times in a single week, 3 in a row, a hat trick, and only the year before Alex Salmond did the impossible by winning an overall Majority in the Scottish Parliamentary elections, with the political system rigged OH terrible sorry designed by Westminster to prevent an overall majority in the Scottish Parliament, and the majority of the press said he had no chance and wrote him off. All I can say to those obsequious sycophantic obstructionists, You really did  underestimate one of Scotland's Greatest Politicians. Alex Salmond's ' Greatness ' grows from his endless campaigning to better the life's of all in Scotland, Alex has become a beacon of hope for the peoples of Scotland, by his adherence to democracy, equality, and compassion in order to meet the aspirations of the peoples of Scotland. The People of Scotland now witness the fragmentation and collapse of a dysfunctional parliament at Westminster a creation by New Labour and now the Conservative/LibDem coalition, and now promised to be continued by Ed Miliband's One Nation Labour if they ever get elected. After all it was Labour that started the Bedroom Tax, said they would abolish Disability Allowance, yet went into several wars two of which, have been highly controversial, now after nearly bankrupting the UK, Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling, now ask the Scottish people to trust them. As they would rather have a permanent Conservative government at Westminster, with permanent austerity, than a democratically elected Independent Scottish Parliament under which Scotland would prosper.    

 

 

Linda OUR MSP

     Linda Fabiani as our MSP here in East Kilbride, has been an outspoken critic of  Westminster's Welfare Cuts, and has continually expressed her concerns, especially with regards to the undesirable consequences, which result in so much unnecessary hardship and distress, being forced upon the most vulnerable in our society, by consecutive Labour and Tory Westminster Governments, who's utter lack of compassion and endless inhumanity towards their fellow man, knows no bounds. Linda and the rest of the Scottish National Party team in the Scottish Parliament have been able to mitigate against some of the measures forced upon the most vulnerable in our society, by Westminster. I accept that too many decisions are out of our hands, and the only responsible way in which to resolve the permanent discrimination of the most vulnerable here in Scotland, is to have self-government. I recommend that You look up Linda's website, in order to get her own personal views on the entire range of Westminster's Welfare cuts. Finally, I thought it would be worthwhile, exposing a little bit more of One Nation Conservative Labour project hypocrisy, regarding the morally repugnant " Bedroom Tax " . I saw an article which said that Labour's shadow housing minister , said the case showed the " sheer inhumanity of the iniquitous bedroom tax. " He should know it was his  ' New Labour ' that introduced the Bedroom Tax, to the private rented sector. Then I saw another article which indicated that, Ed Miliband, Ed Balls, Margaret Hodge if elected to government One Nation Labour would keep the obscenity of the bedroom tax, and Ed Balls wants to go further he said,  pensioners also had to share the pain as Britain struggled to get its economy back on track. The Scottish National Party will end the Bedroom Tax if Scotland becomes Independent.   



The Provost

                                           The Provost

Jim Marshall was the absolute patriot, and remarkable and charismatic leader, and a remarkable human being. Jim was a man of very strong principles and integrity, and all of us in the Scottish National Party, locally and nationally owe him an immense debt of gratitude. It was Jim Marshall, who's leadership and dedication, led the Scottish National Party to victory in the East Kilbride District Council elections in 1974, where Jim's leadership quality's excelled. Jim's determination led the Scottish National Party to a " Landslide Victory " in 1977, this time to overall control of the East Kilbride District Council, where Jim was democratically selected  Provost. Jim was so impressed by the work records of Linda Fabiani MSP for East Kilbride and Councillor Archie Buchanan South Lanarkshire Council, East Kilbride South, that he intended to address the East Kilbride Branch of the Scottish National Party, but it was not to be. 

                                    

Scotland's Independence Referendum Campaign No 4

I look forward to the 18th of September 2014, when I can exercise my legal and democratic rights under the United Nations Charter, Chapter 1, Article 1, Part 2, and look forward to the possibility of Scotland becoming an independent sovereign state once again. Although Devolution is a step in the right direction it has been designed deliberately with several limitations, which could prove problematic, here's just a few examples: 

1: George Foulkes added an unsuccessful amendment which would have required the Scottish Parliament to obtain consent from Westminster counterparts before being allowed to speak to foreign government officials.

2: Another glaring limitation is the fact that the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, which has been continually accused of " routinely interfering in the Scottish system of law ", because of the lack of the system of certification, which is granted to England and Wales but continually denied to Scotland,  Why.

3: On welfare Westminster can force on the Scottish people,  former, New Labour policies such as the current " Bedroom Tax " and the equally repugnant New Labour policy regarding Welfare cuts to those suffering long-term illnesses and profound disabilities in order to force them back into employment. New Labour had the Work Capability Assessment carried out by French company ATOS which at the time was heavily criticised for being deeply flawed. Yes in 2008 Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling introduced the Employment and Support Allowance E.S.A. for that purpose.  Ed Milibands crony and shadow work and pensions secretary Liam Byrne suggested the jobless should go to the back of the queue for council housing, there's certainly no limit to their inhumanity, they are heartless and hopeless. When last in government New Labour published a green paper in which, they appear to suggest they wanted to abolish all Disability Benefits which included DLA and AA, they even bragged publicly that they had virtually abolished Income Support, and in their Green Paper talked openly about abolishing Attendance Allowance, as part of their " aspiration " to building a fairer Britain, in the eyes of Gordon Brown, Alistair Darling, and possibly in the eyes of New Labour's Andy Burnham and Yvette Cooper. Anybody that thinks Labour is an alternative to the Conservatives is living in an alternative world. Independence for Scotland would give the peoples of Scotland, a Parliament which would produce policies, set to their own values which include compassion and humanity. With Independence, Scotland will be a BETTER NATION, it certainly can't be worse than Westminster where even Ed Miliband has said " Are our problems so deep nobody can actually make a difference to them? My emphatic answer to that is yes ", and in January 2010, Alistair Darling when Chancellor has already said " If  Labour is re-elected spending cuts will be tougher  and deeper ", and he warned that Britain faces its toughest spending cuts for 20 years if Labour continued in office, at the time Darling bragged about cuts in residential care for the elderly, legal aid and prisons, saving £5 billion and it was said at the time, he was intent on sending a signal to the markets that a fourth term Labour government could be brutal.