On the eighth anniversary of the indyref, and 16 months after closing down (though actually averaging 1 submit every week since then), Wings Over Scotland is as soon as once more getting extra visitors than the following 5 largest indy websites put collectively.
This isn’t factor. It simply places numbers to one thing that’s been apparent for a very long time, and likewise demonstrated by the feeble turnouts at AUOB marches – the regular disengagement of the Sure motion beneath a relentless assault on its grassroots from Nicola Sturgeon’s SNP.
As I write this at 2.34am (hey, I preserve bizarre hours), The Nationwide hasn’t even bothered to tweet Sunday’s entrance web page, regardless of it being the indyref anniversary. The SNP’s personal Twitter account has nothing to say to mark the date both (certainly so far as we are able to inform it hasn’t tweeted something in any respect for the reason that dying of the Queen – any excuse to down instruments).
The actual fact is there IS no motion any extra. In a few weeks the Supreme Courtroom will slap down any suggestion of a 2023 indyref and Sturgeon will shrug and say “Oh properly everybody, see you in two years possibly I suppose”, and there’ll hardly be a murmur of protest as a result of no person genuinely anticipated something totally different.
Keep in mind all of the compelled hoo-ha when she lastly introduced her grand masterplan on the finish of June? It lasted all of a few days then fizzled to nothing once more, like all her earlier “relaunches”, and all we’ve seen since then are a few pathetic skinny papers bereft of any significant content material that everybody forgot about 24 hours later.
Does it really feel like we’re two months right into a critical marketing campaign? After all not. Even the Nationwide has just about given up on the pretence. I thought-about writing a for much longer evaluation than this, however what would have been the purpose? Everybody is aware of the reality of their hearts already, even when many nonetheless received’t admit it in public, or maybe even to themselves.
Till she goes, it’s throughout.
