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Masters of their own downfall

Hannah Mary Goodlad (HMG) is an industry insider masquerading as a people’s representative. Most of us that do not vote anymore, do so as we cannot support the democratic obscenity of Turkeys voting for Xmas or voting for the least obnoxious or corrupt party.

People who seek a better, more inclusive and more honest political system, simply cannot support any of the current self-serving broken political parties driving the UK into an offshore province of China, or the arms of global crime organisations – do just see the SNP as a slightly more sinister version of the rest of the political dross on offer.

Yes, the SNP want more control over Scottish affairs, as trumpeted out over the years in their pretty lacklustre Scottish independence campaign, but it’s just an illusion as they have clearly displayed the same elected dictatorship model used in the UK since at least as far back as Margaret Thatcher & elsewhere but ever getting more broken.

The SNP have planning as a fully devolved power and look how they have used it to sledgehammer local communities, utterly excluded and locked out of the decision-making process on things forced on us by outsiders.

Look at the absolute exclusion of local folk from involvement with major changes to our world-renowned natural environment, exclusion in matters affecting the local economy and the total lack of any social justice or democratic principles.

The SNP are totally two-faced and complete hypocrites when it comes to preparing the ground, for Scotland to run itself better than the broken self-serving show in Cessminster.

If the SNP do not let go of the strings being pulled by foreign corporations, billionaires and greedy influencers, wake up and smell the coffee and unrest in the more rural, remote and island areas of Scotland, they will be the masters of their own downfall as the ripple of dissent, growing out of their complicity in the destruction of both our most precious environments and the wellbeing of the abused communities affected.

Democracy is not just for the foreign owned corporations, the billionaires, their powerful influencers or the self-serving elected dictators in the Edinburgh Game of Thrones, it is for all our communities however remote or small to be an equal part therein.

Vic Thomas
Catfirth

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