The above is a real tweet posted by Stuart Campbell 9 hours in the past in response to the query “You Sure But?”, and let’s be sincere – it is not simply reconcilable together with his supporters’ insistent claims over current months that he’s nonetheless in some way full-bloodedly working in the direction of independence, albeit by counter-intuitive and seemingly contradictory means.
I might guess I converse on behalf of most readers of Scot Goes Pop after I say that I’m simply as Sure at this time as I’ve ever been, if no more so. No principled dispute with the SNP / Inexperienced Authorities over a person piece of laws would ever dent my help for independence, however it seems the other – the truth is excess of the other – is true for Mr Campbell.
The narrative being pushed at this time by Mr Campbell and sure others is that the Westminster veto of the GRR Invoice is absolutely justified as a result of Scotland’s parliament is a second-rate, juvenile, irresponsible establishment that must be saved on a good leash by the altogether extra smart, seasoned and mature Westminster parliament, in the most effective pursuits of the individuals of Scotland. To state what ought to be the bleedin’ apparent, that Tory-style narrative just isn’t serving to to construct the case for independence. It is truly constructing the case for the abolition of devolution and the reintroduction of direct London rule. And it is completely pure coming from somebody who solutions “no” to the query “You Sure But?” I do not doubt the sincerity of Wings readers who’ve virtually been mass-hypnotised into believing that by adhering to Mr Campbell’s primarily unionist narrative they’re in some way – God is aware of how – following the “solely true path to independence”, however that simply makes it all of the extra important that we at the very least endeavour to deliver to their consideration the true vacation spot on the finish of that path, earlier than it is too late.I’ve by no means purchased into the wild conspiracy idea that Wings has been “compromised” and is now serving a brand new grasp. However I’d simply be aware that he is at the moment behaving within the *precise* manner that he would if that conspiracy idea have been true.
If Scotland turns into impartial after which passes the GRR Invoice, the logic of Mr Campbell’s help for the Westminster veto – which he overtly admitted to in completely crystal-clear trend final evening – is that he would need Scotland to rejoin the UK in order that the grown-ups in London can set us straight as soon as once more. Or maybe he’d need England to launch a White Knight Invasion and repeal the Invoice to avoid wasting us from ourselves. That’s not the place of an independence supporter. In the event you suppose MSPs have gotten it improper, then on the subsequent election you have chose MSPs who will put the error proper. That is how parliamentary democracy in any self-governing nation works.
By the best way, anybody involved at the usual of MSPs corresponding to Emma Roddick and Maggie Chapman ought to take a better have a look at a few of the Tory and Labour foyer fodder within the Home of Commons earlier than concluding that the grass is greener down within the metropolis. And though I am actually no admirer of Ms Roddick myself, I stay deeply involved on the overtones of a few of the assaults on her from Wings and others, which appear to indicate that anybody with a identified persona dysfunction ought to routinely be regarded with hostility, suspicion and derision, and shouldn’t have any place in our parliament.
