I wish you a hopeful Christmas I wish you a brave New Year All anguish, pain and sadness Leave your heart and let your road be clear. With thanks to Greg Lake. I had no sincerity of my own so I borrowed some of his.

Refined Summary of the #ScottishUDI Strategy (Bell Doctrine) #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI open.substack.com/pub/peterabe...

Jist sayin'!

I'm not sure whether to be sad or angry.

Power goes where the money is, and money goes where the power is. The same system that creates the super-rich also creates the super-powerful. open.substack.com/pub/peterabe... #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI

Confrontation versus compromise. Defiance versus compliance. The new thinking versus the old thinking. open.substack.com/pub/peterabe...

The yawning pit of hell! open.substack.com/pub/peterabe... #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI

There are no "plans". There are no "proposals". At best, there is a wishlist. SNP's energy plans could 'transform' Scotland's economy | The National www.thenational.scot/news/2568558... #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI

So, almost certainly no mandate to ask for a referendum that almost certainly would not be granted and which definitely wouldn’t restore independence even if it was. open.substack.com/pub/peterabe... #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI

From the archive. peterabell.wordpress.com/2020/12/13/a... #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI

It is change that is - or appears to be - out of control that provokes anxiety. open.substack.com/pub/peterabe...

Jist sayin'! #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI

A political union which can only be sustained with open threats, empty promises, transparent dishonesty, cancerous corruption and utter contempt for democratic principles is a political union which is broken beyond repair. It is a political union which must end. #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI

Reacting with fury to Farage and his ilk merely fuels the very conflict he wants to ignite. open.substack.com/pub/peterabe...

Jist sayin'! #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI

What is required is not more papers and reports and statistics and charts and graphs and social media memes. What is needed is action. Or at least a credible plan of action. open.substack.com/pub/peterabe... #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI

'Shabana Mahmood is engineering the biggest humanitarian emergency this country has seen in decades with the latest shake-up of asylum and immigration policy – and it will fall to civil society to clean up the carnage she creates.' Robina Qureshi, via The National archive.is/GHDKO

This Could Set Independence Back Decades #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI

How media overshadow victories #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI

A proper constitutional referendum is determinative and self-executing. A Section 30 referendum is deliberative and non-self-executing. It is the diametric opposite of what a proper constitutional referendum is. open.substack.com/pub/peterabe... #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI

If the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) is doing this to make the proscription of Palestine Action look even more ridiculous then we must applaud them. Great work, guys! www.thenational.scot/news/2565626... #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI

Why new media matters #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI

Make it work! open.substack.com/pub/peterabe...

Why UDI Might Be Necessary

How to kill a cause open.substack.com/pub/peterabe...

Jist sayin'!

There is an itch for action and the leadership of the independence movement is scratching in entirely the wrong place. peterabell.substack.com/p/how-to-kil... #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI

Football changed Scotland's identity. peterabell.substack.com/p/a-proud-ma... #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI

The liberation process is hard, adversarial politics. It demands hard, calculating politicians prepared to be audaciously assertive and confidently confrontational. open.substack.com/pub/peterabe... #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI

James Murphy gets it! #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI www.thenational.scot/politics/256...

Proactive civil disobedience. I like it! 300 charities warn Labour: 'We won't comply with forced volunteering' | The National www.thenational.scot/news/2562400... #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI

Jist sayin'! #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI

#EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI

Power is never given. Power is only taken. That which is given is not power, but an affirmation of the power of the giver. #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI www.facebook.com/share/v/1DBC...

The British did not build a global empire by allowing its territorial captures an easy escape route through legal channels. peterabell.substack.com/p/a-void-unf... #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI

A void unfilled I define a route to independence as a sequence of actions with the restoration of Scotland’s independence as the endpoint. If it does not have independence as the endpoint, it is not a route to independence. open.substack.com/pub/peterabe... #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI

A proper constitutional referendum must be binary. There can be only two options. peterabell.wordpress.com/2024/11/27/a... #EndTheUnion #ScottishUD

#EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI peterabell.substack.com/p/scottishud...

The SNP leadership has to change. Otherwise, the SNP needs a change of leadership #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI

Independence is the aspiration. A proper constitutional referendum is the destination. drive.google.com/file/d/1V09l... #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI

How to secure a proper constitutional referendum. #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI

A Proud Malcontent: PAB’s #ScottishUDI speech at the IFS Autumn Convention open.substack.com/pub/peterabe...

Scotland is a special case. #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI

"We are almost exactly as wealthy as the eurozone countries but we’re exporting wealth at twice the rate of even the most indebted poor countries. Can I get you to reflect on that ..." www.thenational.scot/politics/255... #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI #MakeYourVoteRoar

Scotland is being robbed of its wealth! www.commonweal.scot/puimageonly/... #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI #MakeYourVoteRoar

That the people of Scotland are sovereign is both a constitutional fact and an abiding principle. open.substack.com/pub/peterabe... #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI #MakeYourVoteRoar

Tommy Sheppard needs to provide evidence for his claim that the SNP is the main party which supports Scotland's independence. John Swinney's so-called 'strategy' of obsequiously deferring to Westminster tells a very different story. www.thenational.scot/politics/255... #ScottishUDI #EndTheUnion

This shocked me. #ScottishUDI #EndTheUnion

A Proud Malcontent Sunday 02/11/25 10:00 My pick of the Sunday National and Confute Corner with Stephen Duncan looking at the claim that YES is being underreported. www.youtube.com/@PeterABell #ProudMalcontent