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A New Scottish Conservative Leader.
It doesn't matter who the Scottish Conservative leader is. The serious issue is Westminsters' control of the purse strings as we head towards the 2021 elections. With a massive majority in England and now having full control of the treasury, the Conservatives are free to spend and manipulate without opposition.
The Conservative head office in England will strangle Scotlands economy in order to undermine the Holyrood elected Government and to promote the Conservatives. We've already seen the start of that by delaying the UK budget which impacts local government budgets in Scotland, closely followed by veilled threats to directly fund them from Westminster bypassing Holyrood altogether.
The Scottish Conservatives didn't waste any time trying to capitalise on the UK budget delay by saying they would support the Scottish budget as long as they didn't raise taxes. More than likely just trying to protect high earners from paying more.
Westminster has the money to fund these services in Scotland above and beyond what Scotland can do with the pocket money they give us. They also have full control of the UK media to fuel their propaganda. You can almost read the headlines now about how Westminster provides better services to Scotland than Holyrood.
The Conservatives have all of the UK resources at their disposal to make Scotland look like it is failing and that taking control back to Westminster is the only answer.
Westminster has promised the Union Jacking of everything in Scotland that has been financed by Scotlands own money but "funded" by the UK. B.Johnson said "We make sure - with every policy we pursue, with every investment we make in Scotland, then we put a Union flag on it." and in regards to the COP summit in Glasgow in Nov 2020 he said “I guess I don’t mind seeing a Saltire or two on that summit, but I want to see a union flag...". I guess you don't mind... really, how much more patronising can you get. I couldn't print what I really wanted to write here but I'm sure you'll be able to guess.
The re-branding of Scotland has been underway for years now. A slow, deliberate removal of Scotlands identity. Take a look at the items on your supermarket shelves as the Saltire gets replaced with Union Jacks. Scotch Beef, which had geographical protection under EU regulations is now British beef with a Union Jack attached. The full implementation of the Jacking of Scotch Beef shouldn't take too long to complete. It's a phased approach so you hardly notice it's happening at all. They mix a few Jacked lines in with the Saltires so you won't really notice once the Saltire is removed.
It would be interesting to find out who is funding the businesses to Jack these items. Its not just meat, its on everything we consume, fish, fruit and veg, whisky and eggs etc.
So back to the main point about the new Scottish Conservative leader. It doesn't matter who it is, they are effectively English Conservatives sitting in a Scottish parliament pretending to care about Scotland while doing what they are told by their Westminster leaders.
If Scotland is waiting until the 2021 election results for independence then it'll be too late. We might as well give up now. The collective might of rUK and the media will have destroyed Scotland by then. A one year, tax payer funded £5m pro-union / anti-independence campaign is about to start and there's nothing we can do to stop it. Our tax money is being used against us to tell us we are too small, too poor, too stupid etc well if we let that happen then they're probably right.
Andy