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Scotland’s Lament
This is Scotland’s lament On the 18th of September Hope pitched its tent, In George Square Thousands went there Hoping for fanfare, Only to meet a nightmare When Clackmannanshire went Now all we’ll remember, Is Yes’s fading ember During the … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015 General Election, Cameron Clegg Farage and Miliband are twats, Crap Poetry Corner, Dependence, Devo max and poll tax, Greens, Labour, Lib Dems, Nays have nothing to say, No, No more indy ref stuff I promise, Right wingers, Scotland's lament, Scottish Independence, Shitty extra long verses, SNP, SSP, Thatcher, The vow was bollocks, Tories, UKIP, Xenophobia, Yes for Scotland
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Why I’m voting Yes.
I’ve been writing steadily for about seven years now. Not for one second do I think I’m good, or even average at it. It can be hard to offer an honest, objective appraisal of one’s own work, and really, being … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Bennett, Alex Salmond, Better Together, David Cameron, Ed Miliband, Edinburgh, George Galloway, George Monbiot, Glasgow, Gordon Brown, I'm voting Yes, Imperial masters, Labour, LibLabCon, London, Nigel Farage, No Thanks, NuLabour, Scottish Greens, Scottish Independence, Scottish Socialists, SNP, Star Wars, Vote Yes, Westminster, Yes, Yes campaign, Yes for Scotland
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Want a better idea of the state of Scotland’s referendum on independence? Ignore the news and look at the windaes.
Look around. What do you see? For a while what I was seeing confused me. I saw windae after windae with ‘Yes’ signs, and they’re only increasing in frequency, yet I saw no ‘Better Together’ or ‘No Thanks’ signs, until … Continue reading
UKIP’s rise? We’re all to blame.
I voted in the European Elections at my local polling station, the Gairbraid Church Hall in Maryhill. Having never been in it before I fully expected the interior to be transformed into a sparse state of temporary surrogacy, the mildly … Continue reading
Why the Scottish inferiority complex should not play any part in debating the merits of voting Yes.
The saying goes that there are only two certainties in life – death and taxes. Well I’d amend that to include a third – that in life nothing is certain. As a Yes voter the certainties, or should I say … Continue reading
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Tagged Better Together, Scottish Art, Scottish Independence, Scottish Nationalism, Vote Yes For Scotland, Yes
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