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29 January 2021

Scotland's problem today - it's mean, nationalistic, authoritarian, repressive government. Sounds familiar?

 

Having now become the envy of Europe with the vaccine, DUE to British free and flexible policies, Britain will no doubt go on to greater things. But Scotland must remember that the paramount issue is not money, or how many "likes" Sturgeon gets to her bureaucratic belches from Barnier or Von der Leyen. It is not even the number of matrasses lying in the street in Govan Hill. It is how successful we are at defending the RULE OF LAW.

I see grave dangers ahead due to Sturgeonish (but not only her) quasi-totalitarian tendencies. They manifest themselves in bureaucratic authoritarianism which apes the techno-oligarchy of Europe in its quiet suppression of the freedom of the individual.

I have tried to explain this, and the long history of the fight for the rule of law, in which Scotland played a distinguished part, in this book: "THE JUSTICE FACTORY: Can the Rule of Law Survive in 21st Century Scotland?" (Ian Mitchell, 2020) It is not a party-political screed. It has been endorsed by both ends of the political spectrum here: Ian ("Stone of Destiny") Hamilton QC, the renegade nationalist, and Adam Tomkins, who is both an MSP (Tory) and Professor of Constitutional Law in the University of Glasgow.

The Foreword is written by Lord Hope of Craighead, ex-Deputy President of the UK Supreme Court and Alan Page, Professor of Public Law at Dundee, who is the author “Constitutional Law of Scotland”, the main reference work, has written an Introduction to Part II. Details of the book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1981993401?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860



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