The Talking-up Scotland fund raiser primarily, finishing in 9 days, to enable the recruitment of some research assistance, in order to take pressure off me [74 in June and tiring] and hopefully to further improve the blog, has made a good start. To contribute, only if you can (!) go to: Talking-up Scotland - a Politics crowdfunding project in Ayr by Professor John Robertson
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We had thought Scotland immune to the charms of Nigel Farage and Reform UK but recent polling suggests otherwise. Scots are just as bothered by immigration and just as cynical about the old parties. Reform UK look like moving into second place in Scotland, leaving the Cons and Labour looking irrelevant. They’re already consistently in first place in England and Wales.
Their projected image of being somehow ‘anti-establishment‘ is an apparently successful ploy to conceal from the voters that they are funded by the rich, care no more for the ordinary person than the Cons, and that this is just another inter-elite struggle for power with working-class males tricked into to doing the fighting for them.
The truth of who they are and that they are not like you, has been exposed by Novara Media.
They begin with:
Former City trader Nigel Farage makes a big deal of his supposedly anti-elite credentials. The Reform UK leader, educated at one of London’s poshest private schools (Dulwich College), regularly urges journalists to get out of their metropolitan bubble and reflect the views – as he claims to do – of “real people”.
However, during the election campaign, Reform hasn’t been funded by these “real people”. Rather, while millionaire Farage claims to be leading a revolt against the elite, he’s being funded by old Etonians, property moguls, and people who have made small fortunes in the Square Mile.
For more, read on at:
Support Scots Independent, Scotland’s oldest pro-independence newspaper and host of the OBA (Oliver Brown Award) at: https://scotsindependent.scot/FWShop/shop/
The Oliver Brown Award for advancing the cause of Scotland’s self respect, previously awarded to Dr Philippa Whitford, Alex Salmond and Sean Connery: https://scotsindependent.scot/?page_id=116
About Oliver Brown, the first Scottish National Party candidate to save his deposit in a Parliamentary election: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Brow
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Snake oil salesmen have always been able to fool the gullible and hard of thinking masses – Mosley , Johnson , Farage , Trump all appeal to that demographic .
Scotland has its share of those who are happy to be led by the nose by those they see as ”their betters” – hence the hold that Unionists /Tories /Royals have on certain groups.
I fervently hope that the vast majority in Scotland will see through the thinly veiled racism and self-serving greed of Farage and his ilk .
A bunch of privileged , privately educated dyed-in-the-wool establishment figures posing as men of the people , anti-establishment rebels – really ?
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They just split the Tory vote. Still be outvoted by a combination of other Parties. They will not last very long with nonsensical policies. The Polls are often wrong especially in Farague case. Farague is an alcoholic. Alcoholics make poor, bad decisions. They do not last very long. Especially the vast majority want to rejoin the EU. Higher among the young.
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The Tories are toast even with vast illegal funding. A waste of monies. Labour look to be going the same way. The SNP has massive victories even without massive funding.They try to strike to their manifesto. Help the poorer and vulnerable. More cohesion and a better economy.
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Etonian and Fettes warmongers. Privilege education then killing others. Illegal warmongers. A waste of time and monies. Ruining lives worldwide wasting £Trillions. Their contemptible privilege.
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