To accept the rules of the ruling elite is to be ever imprisoned by them. This state of affairs cannot go on. It has no future.
The idea behind the word independence is that we must use our democracy, fragile as it is, to challenge corporate power, to dismantle it and share the proceeds with the people. What other future is there for Scotland? We need to stop having things done to us rather than by us. With the prospect of Nigel Farage as Prime Minister in Westminster and Donald Trump’s gang suspending democracy in Washington is Scotland going to act like Hamlet – thought without action – or are we to be like Othello – action without thought? “There has never been a period like the present”, is what gormless politicians say when they are trying to excuse their foolishness. We cannot afford their foolishness. We have the word independence – so let us explore fully the idea behind it. Before the word is banned.