Blethering Skite

In truth Better Together of 2014 was more of a jump scare than a referendum campaign. My favourite piece of Unionist propaganda was when Defence Secretary Philip Hammond suggested that Scotland would be more vulnerable to attack by aliens if we were to become independent.

The No campaign veered between love bombing from Trinny and Susannah to routine threats of harm. As many noted, it was like being in a coercive relationship.

As I wrote last month – the attacks on devolution – Labour’s proposed direct rule means that “Labour are abandoning the institution they created, an institution that was supported by 74% of Scots who voted for a devolved parliament to take control of Scottish affairs. They are breaking the Sewell Convention, The Smith Commission, and the Scotland Act of 2012.”

The challenges and context of 2014 is completely different to what we face today. England, Britain, Europe and global geopolitics have morphed into new and darker forms.

Yes needs massively updated, overthrown, re-imagined and re-conceived.

The litany of lies and broken promises by Better Together can laid out before us like a shroud. But the Yes movement needs an overhaul that’s more radical than anyone is talking about (yet).