Well

Obviously we’re still waiting for the Western Isles but current state of play in Scotland is

Do you need to ask?

I’m signed up to do YouGov polls. It can be quite interesting, for example the other year I got invited to express how I feel about the Labour party in Scotland. Now that was cathartic!

Today one of their current topic questions was “Do I feel sorry for Theresa May?”

Just do it

We go to the polls on Thursday this week. Well some of us do.

Yes this is my pre-election “Go out and vote” post. Democracy, it’s a nice idea but only works IF people take part.

What’s the point?

See this is what happens once I write a post. I end up doing another one. It’s like trying to have 1 Pringle (other snacks are available)

Our wombs, our choice

Almost 10 months without blogging but I’m so pissed off today I had to come back to it.

What women do with their bodies is nobody else’s business

This rat tastes funny Dad

Bits of post has been churning round in my head for a while now and I finally have time to try to get it into some sort of order. I have to process this all a bit at a time because  facing it full on panics me.

Same old same old

“We’re listening” appears to be a regular announcement from the Labour Party in Scotland. It’s something they come out with after every election and leadership change.

Foote Notes

You may have read the Murray Foote interview in the National today. I’m not going to report word for word what he said in the meeting last night (I’m no journalist) but instead try to give my impression of it.

Ticking the boxes

The Sustainable Growth Commission Report was released last week. I’m not going to comment on the details of it because I haven’t finished reading it yet.

1. I think it deserves more than a quick skim.
2. It was far too nice to be indoors!

However  I have seen enough people complaining about it from both ends of the political spectrum. Too radical for some, not radical enough for others.  I imagine there will be some bits I like and some bits I don’t.

It’s a discussion document, a starting point, and so far it seems to have done the trick, people are discussing it.

What it isn’t is a manifesto, it’s also not an exact guide to the way things will be in a iScotland. And why not? Because in an iScotland people will vote for the parties standing and their policies (if they have any). Things don’t stand still. What’s the saying? “All battle plans are great until the first shot is fired”

What I would like to see is other parties matching this document on how they see the future of Scotland whether it it is or out of the union. Tell us what you are going to do, not what we can’t.

When it comes down to it, we can’t all form our own political parties outlining exactly what we want to see. When I think of a Thousand Voices for Yes it would be nice if they weren’t all quibbling over minutiae.

What we need is those that do lead to offer up not just criticisms but their alternatives, so that as a democratic country we can choose what is possibly going to be available.

I still feel that we have a better chance of getting closer to the future I want in an iScotland than in this union.  It may not be exactly the future you want but that’s an argument we’ll have after independence.

 

No rhyme or reason

Brexit is meant to lead the UK to Empire 2.0 where we are embraced by the Commonwealth countries to form a new global trading partnership. Isn’t that what we’re told? Our family of nations will stand together?