Interview with Alyn Smith
Gerry and Paul interview SNP MP Alyn Smith on routes to indy, Brexit and the EU, how to respond to the coronavirus and our common future …
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“We need to win Stirling”
You have, we gave you 51% of the vote and an unequivocal instruction to get on with it.
“There are no shortcuts”
We didn’t ask you for a shortcut or “silver bullet” we instructed you to get on with it.
“He [Boris] won’t say No”
Why haven’t you asked? Why aren’t you asking, demanding our right to choose every single day? As we gave you an unequivocal instruction to get on with it.
“We have to do this properly”
No-one said you shouldn’t, but, and at the risk of repeating myself here, we gave you an unequivocal instruction to get on with it.
So why aren’t you?
Stirling elected you to protect our EU citizenship and the rights and liberties that confers while creating an independent Scotland before we’re ripped out for the EU and transition. Not take England’s idiocy and mendacity full in the face then look for our teeth on the way out of the door at some unspecified point in the future.
A really interesting and wide ranging interview with lots of positive, but largely incidental stuff but, what an absolute capitulation to just put off what we elected you to do and what might actually make a meaningful difference to the lives of the people you were elected to serve.
Get. On. With. It.