Here's Hoping
by Rab Bruce’s Spider Mastodon: @RabBrucesSpider1@Mastodon.Scot BlueSky: @RabBrucesSpider.Bsky.Social X/Twitter: @RabBrucesSpider There was some encouraging news for Yesers from the latest poll reported in The National, with Yes still in the lead, and with the majority of young people supporting Scotland becoming a normal, self-governing country. Whether we will ever get the opportunity to exercise our democratic will remains to be seen. Personally, I am not confident that it is going to happen any time soon. Westminster will do everything in its power to retain control of Scotland because they know they need our natural resources, and the thought of paying for them rather than simply taking them is abhorrent from the Westminster viewpoint. I must also say that John Swinney’s claim that an SNP majority in the Holyrood elections next year seems like a political stunt. The chances of achieving that majority are extremely slim under the Holyrood voting system, and...