Swinney’s Swindle: Strategy or Self-Interest?

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Being heard I was delighted to see in The National yesterday a comment from my old friend William Duguid giving details of the forthcoming Independence Forum Scotland (IFS) Autumn Convention which is taking place...

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Collaboration or control? The independence industry has no plan for restoring independence! Ask them!

This is a strategy for independence!

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If you want to be popular with the independence movement, don't let reality intrude.

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A brief explanation of the #ScottishUDI plan The idea is to assert legislative competence in matters relating to the Union (constitution) in defiance of the Scotland Act (1998) Schedule 5.1(b) which reserves to Westminster matters relating to…

A brief explanation of the #ScottishUDI plan

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There is only #ScottishUDI If ten years, why not twenty? If twenty years, why not forty? If forty years, why not four hundred? It is not the period of time involved that matters but the arrogant sense of entitlement with whi…

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2014 was a preamble. The real thing is yet to come.

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Where do Scotland's political parties stand on Westminster plans for digital ID? SCOTLAND’S political parties have united in opposition to Keir Starmer’s plans for digital ID - except Scottish Labour.

You almost have to admire Jackie Baillie's effortless evasion. She's as greasy as deep-fried lard.
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The 'international recognition' scare-story There is no reason - and I stress the word reason - to think international recognition will be an issue when Scotland’s independence is restored.

Not even all 193 UN member states have universal recognition. Israel, for example. As well as both South and North Korea. Try telling them they can’t be independent nations. peterabell.substack.com/p/the-intern...
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@albaparty.bsky.social needs an urgent rethink of its strategy.

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Every vote counts There’s a new poll out! Are we all excited? Some people are, of course. The people who get paid for analysing the arse off the findings are well pleased. A new poll is a wee earner for them. Then ther...

SNP loyalists will glance at the yellow bars on the graphs and start posting on social media about how independence is just around the corner.

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Farage knows how to be the disruptor. Scotland's cause needs to become a bigger, better disruptor than Reform UK.

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SNP hit back at Scottish Secretary call to 'put independence on the backburner' The SNP have hit back at claims from Douglas Alexander that Scotland has “nothing to show” for two decades of discussions on independence.

Douglas Alexander is clueless about the constitutional issue. If he had any awareness, he'd know that for Swinney to 'put independence on the back burner', he'd first have to find it down the back of the cooker.

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Reform UK will impact the 2026 election in ways you may not have considered.

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The Farage factor A couple of interesting points arise from today’s edition of A Proud Malcontent. Probably more than a couple. But there are two that I want to mention here.

Here’s the thing! The arithmetical rationale of Alba Party’s election strategy is calculated on the basis of the numbers as they were prior to the rise of Reform UK.

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How can you "split the independence vote"? How many different independences are there?

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Is It Time for the New Scotland Party?

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New campaign urges voters to back independence to save money on energy bills YES groups have been urged to join a “national push” as part of a campaign urging voters to back independence to save money on their energy…

Restoring Scotland's independence is not a business transaction. It is rectifying an ancient injustice that daily affects adversely this entire nation and all who call it theirs.

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Party like it isn’t 1999 What depressed me most at the AUOB event in Edinburgh was how evident it was that large numbers of people imagine we are still in the same fight we were in 2012-14. For a large part of that crowd, …

The 2026 election is very much more important than most people realise. peterabell.scot/2025/09/13/p... #ScottishUDI #ManifestoForIndependence #NewingtonResolution

Party like it isn’t 1999 What depressed me most at the AUOB event in Edinburgh was how evident it was that large numbers of people imagine we are still in the same fight we were in 2012-14. For a large part of that crowd, …

Looking back, we can clearly see the period during which devolution’s usefulness to Scotland’s cause declined while it’s utility to the British state increased. peterabell.scot/2025/09/13/p... #ScottishUDI #ManifestoForIndependence #NewingtonResolution

No comfort Scottish nationalists like me are left with only the hope that Scotland’s cause survives the SNP leadership’s betrayal and the abject failure of Alba Party to step into the breach.

Realists know that the election and electoral fortunes of the parties are totally irrelevant since the independence movement doesn’t have a horse in this race. peterabell.scot/2025/09/05/n... #ScottishUDI #ManifestoForIndependence #NewingtonResolution

In the 2021 Holyrood election, over 2,600,000 votes were given to pro-independence parties. These voters are the people that should sign the petition.
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Outrage over 'weaponisation' of Saltire in anti-migrant campaign backed by far-right PRO-INDEPENDENCE parties have reacted with outrage after a campaign organised by far-right agitators has led to the Saltire being co-opted as part…

The Saltire represents the nation and people of Scotland – nothing more. It is, in any context, a simple statement of identity.
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I should say at this point that I had a very strong suspicion from the outset that the leadership motion was largely a negotiating gambit. peterabell.wordpress.com/wp-admin/pos... #ScottishUDI #ManifestoForIndependence #NewingtonResolution

A watershed? Only the Newington Resolution transforms the SNP into a spearhead for the independence movement.

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A Proud Malcontent Wednesday 27/08/2025

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A Proud Malcontent Wednesday 27/08/2025

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Peter A Bell is A Proud Malcontent A Proud Malcontent. Thinker. Listener. Talker. Reader. Writer. No attitude immutable. No conclusion final. No opinion humble.

A Proud Malcontent Wednesday 27 August 10:00 - Why the plebiscite election idea is a load of pish.

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Continuity of treachery Requesting a Section 30 order continues to be an act of heinous treachery.

Requesting a Section 30 order continues to be an act of heinous treachery. To advocate for this makes one complicit in the offence. To vote for it makes you an accomplice to that act of heinous treachery. peterabell.scot/2025/08/12/c... #ScottishUDI #ManifestoForIndependence #NewingtonResolution