A MAJOR flaw or indeed a huge problem if you prefer, with not having a written constitution to safeguard our liberties is that when a populist administration quite legally gets elected then they can attempt a shut out.

History is littered with such events and quite recent history in particular with the storming of the Capitol Building in Washington by supporters of the American populist president shows just how precious and precarious democracy is and that was a democracy with a written constitution.

So back to the UK and its constitutional monarchy that practises some democratic principles, that does not have the safeguards written in stone, instead we are governed by convention and precedent.

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The way I see it is that Boris Johnson is just foolish enough to believe as PM he can do anything, his attempt to illegally shutdown parliament is testimony to that. He is also just the correct kind of egotistical maniac to quickly forget about that and go for the ignoring of law to further his own ideas. Again history is littered with idiots of that type they have all ether ended their time in burnt out capitals or having faced international law and lost faced then the final walk.

So yes Johnson will huff and puff but will his party follow him, will the majority in that Westminster Parliament actually vote for dictatorship?

My gut feeling is they will not, my instinct is that already there will be lines drawn by the backbenchers because there is now I think clear water between the Johnson administration and reality and many of those within the Tory party will not want to be remembered by history for supporting Generalissimo Johnson.

Sure he could disregard the courts placing him and his administration above the law but he would then need the police and the military on his side for that to work and he can barely keep the press on side these days. No, I definitely feel that we are witnessing the last attempts of a very spoiled brat of man child attempting to impose his will on everyone and he is about to get the biggest rebuff since history first started recording rebuffs.

So what of us north of the Rio Tweed? Well for us that are already committed to that second referendum life will not change other than bloggers getting more paragraphs from the Johnson administration sordid actions (it is so easy).

What we will see happen is that those wavering, those as yet undecided, they will start switching to decision mode and in doing so join the ranks of the Yes movement. Again I state they are to be embraced and made to feel welcome as a lot of soul searching will have been done by them, so let us offer that hand of friendship an unconditional hand proffered, it is after all most definitely more than OK to change ones mind.

We have all sorts of polls being published showing voting intentions at the next Westminster elections ranging from 56 to 59 seats being won by the SNP which again should not be happening considering just how long the Scottish National Party have been in power here in Scotland.

If nothing else it does show the divergence in the political roads a divergence that starts at the Rio Tweed even if Westminster manage to reign in, control, or replace Johnson, he or she that follows will still be a Tory and we here in Scotland have had quite enough of them.

For you see in Scotland we have most definitely marked our own cards as being so very different from that rancid organisation beside the Thames and the world is noticing and do you know something else, the world approves.

The world likes this country called Scotland, likes our brand of democracy, likes our brand of government and likes our government. When we come out of winter and into spring and the date of the next referendum is announced then we will see those countries very much in a supportive role because many are thoroughly hacked off with Westminster and have grievances going back decades, centuries and some even count in multiples of centuries.

So in a few months as the sky begins to clear and daylight returns so will the Yes movement returning to our streets with marches, rallies and door to door canvassing.

For myself by that time, I will most definitely be as proactive as possible alongside all the other happy champions, aye champions for that is what each and everyone of us is, we are all champions, all supporters of the Scottish right to self determination.

Our future is bright, Independence is right.Cliff PurvisVeterans for Scottish Independence 2.0

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