Letters / It’s time!
The most inspirational political slogan in Australian history was “It’s Time”.
The late Mick Young came up with the slogan which helped unleash a political earthquake that ended 23 years of Liberal/Country Party (Tory) government in 1972.
Mick Young was a former shearer and member for Port Adelaide in South Australia, whose ancestry goes back tae da Shetland Islands.
“It’s Time” helped elect Australia’s most radical government headed by PM Gough Whitlam as part of a surging a movement that was on the streets demanding an end to Australia’s involvement in America’s genocidal war against Vietnam, Aboriginal land rights, women’s rights, protection for the natural and built environment and union rights, gay rights and an end to all British titles.
I was a young construction worker at the time, the possibilities still inspire me.
As a Shetlander, whose family goes back to the Vikings and the Picts, I am very proud of my paternal grandfathers- the Tullochs from Scotland, some who came to Shetland, as the late Bobby Tulloch said, “after the battle of Bothwell Bridge”’ they were political refugees fighting the English.
Auld Daa Davie Tulloch was a resister, a freedom fighter (in my opinion) against the clearances from the island of Little Roe where he was cleared in the middle of 19th century.
If I were hame in Shetland, I’d vote YES fir an independent Scotland, an abstention is a deliberate and calculated distraction.
I wish those who have campaigned for a Yes vote in Shetland aa da best. The letters have been inspirational, Louise Thomason’s letter (Independence: wading through the arguments; SN 5/4/14) spoke for the whole of Scotland and said everything that I believe!
“It’s time” for a Free and Independent Scotland.
Davie Thomason
Belmont
Victoria
Australia
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