clanMCD

Sounds like there will be a big shift in thinking on oil and gas under Burnham - "That means safeguarding the country’s sovereign manufacturing and production capacity in critical sectors, rather than standing by as strategically important industries are lost"

My tuppence. This will not stop in Glasgow, all the protests. What we are watching is as a result of prolonged Governmental failure, in the Scottish Parliament and at Westminster. On a local level too.

The British people need to understand the powerful malign influence of the Fabian Society.

From Prof Alf Baird: Recent articles in The National questioning “Why are SNP figures not making a compelling case for independence?” It seems as if intellectuals on the left, including Shafi, Riddoch etc, still ignore postcolonial theory, which tells us the answer, as Fanon explained: – the dominant national party ‘makes an accommodation with colonialism’; – the party becomes ‘infiltrated’ by colonial actors; – the party elite ‘feathers its nest’ and ‘builds up its pensions’; – it ‘takes the movement up a blind alley’; – the party elite refuse to act on the most urgent matter of ‘freeing the people’ because they ‘fear the colonizers tanks and planes’; – it ‘attacks the radicals in the party’ also ‘using colonial forces’ to punish them; – it ‘behaves like a gang’ and appoints its friends to key positions; – the party ‘depends on slogans’ and leaves the matter of independence’ to future events’; – the party ‘becomes calcified’, immobile, unable to move forward; – it lacks any ‘innovation’ on the cause; – it ‘delays independence’ which is what leads ‘to conflict’; – it ‘ruptures the movement’; – it works ‘to keep the racket going; – the elite become ‘colonial watchdogs’; – and, finally, once the people figure out they have been duped, ‘the national party disintegrates’, which is what we are seeing now.