The general election in Scotland scheduled for this may will almost certainly be called off, using the excuse of Covid, if the SNP fear they might lose it.
You watch. And they might well sense that something is wrong with the previously reliable electorate, which it
undoubtedly is from their point of view.
There are two reasons for this. First, respectable Scots (who are still in the majority) are beginning to realise that Sturgeon is Lady Macbeth, and Humza Yousaf (her likely successor if Salmond gets her out) the new Witch-Finder General (to mix metaphors).
Secondly, there is a new organisation, called the Alliance
for Unity (A4U) which is adopting Alexey Navalny's approach to elections. In
his case, he recommends to voters, through a website, which is the best party
to beat Edinaya Rossia in any given seat. This was very successful in the
regional Duma elections last year, and he has the Kremlin worried about the
state Duma elections scheduled for this September.
A4U plans to adopt a similar approach in Scotland. It will
do two things: it will advise voters which is the most likely candidate to beat
either the SNP or the "quisling" Green Party (currently in coalition
with the SNP, though they got 0.6% of the first-past-the-post seats in the last
general election). Secondly, it will put up some candidates itself in seats
where it might also make inroads into the "list" (i.e. proportional
representation) seats. It is hoped to make an electoral pact with the
opposition parties to increase the chances of eliminating the SNP-Green axis
from these seats. This is quite possible under the d'Hondt system (which is
incomprehensible to 98% of the electorate - in itself an EU-style abuse of the spirit
of democracy).
In addition, the A4U plans to put up candidates of its own
in the “list” seats. These will range from George Galloway, an ex-communist, to
Professor Alan Sked, the founder of UKIP. This sort of rainbow coalition of traditional
Scottish individualists will give life to the funereal Holyrood parliament (which
makes sessions of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland look like a
West Indian ganja rave), and also represent the sort of contribution which this
country has made to the Union over the past three centuries. Part of the aim is
to break the stranglehold on political debate that is now maintained by the Soviet-style,
hyper-PC, over-woke, anti-individualistic, centralising bureaucratic authoritarianism
of the increasingly corrupt SNP-Green government.
In other words, the A4U is a cross-party initiative. It aims
to save not just the Union and the rule of law, but also political life and therefore
democracy in Scotland. All of these are under threat, as I have argued in my
new book THE JUSTICE FACTORY: CAN THE RULE OF LAW SURVIVE IN 21st CENTURY
SCOTLAND? (Ian Mitchell, 2020). The Foreword is by Lord Hope of Craighead
(cross-bench Convenor in the House of Lords until 2019) and the Introduction to
Part II is by Alan Page, Professor of Constitutional Law in the University of
Dundee and author of the standard authority: “Constitutional Law of Scotland”. It
has the support of Ian ("Stone of Destiny") Hamilton QC, the renegade
nationalist and Stone thief, and Adam Tomkins, who is both an MSP (Tory) and
Professor of Constitutional Law in the University of Glasgow. Like the A4U this
is a “cross-party” text.
You can get all the background to the decay of politics in devolutionary
Scotland, plus the wider constitutional history of the evolution of the rule of
law in Great Britain, while also supporting the cause of national enlightenment
on this subject (which is urgent given the election coming up in May), by
purchasing a copy from Amazon at this link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1981993401?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860
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