RabDickson4

Rab Dickson · @RabDickson4

30th Sep 2020 from TwitLonger

I just got back from Damascus....there was nothing there of interest


Hello.
Long rant incoming.
Read…don’t read…don’t really care because I'm fed up with random know it all’s on Twitter with an opinion on my life.
So this is for pals and the fair minded....not you anonymous, selfie taking and fantasist wanks.

Ok…my very, very short period away from the morons, idiots and brave keyboard nutbags of Twitter was rejuvenating. Not reading that pish for a couple of days is refreshing.

Tired old crabs and blowhards who would, in the ‘good old days’, have been spreading shit about neighbours and folk they don’t know, either from the window sill, at the steamie or over a fence….they do my nut in.
Also silly wee weans who think the world owes them something and their opinions are sacrosanct because mummy told them they are special…and therefore believe they can say whatever the fuck they like to you and not get a smack. You know….the New SNP types?
The level of pish folk think they can get away with because they are many miles away from you and physically detached by the internet, is frankly debilitating.

The endless fantasising about ‘Reporting you to the police or Twitter’ or ‘I am a strong woman/man/other thing…don’t mess with me’ is really, really fucking boring.
Get a real world sense of who you are and quit the posturing shite whilst the most dangerous situation you have ever been put in was the toilet roll queue at Asda in March.
You wouldn’t do it face to face so stop pretending you are hard in body or in spirit.

It’s very obvious many of you are not even close to it.
First bit of rant over.

Substance now.
I’ve had a long think about the SNP and me.

I’ll say right off the bat that I’m not about to change my mind about either the cowardice or duplicity of the current leadership cabal or my belief that they need to go.
This latest delaying conference decision is indicative of their control freakery coupled with fear of loss of position.
Too feart to face hard questions.
Quite a change from 12,000 members and some groupies chanting your name a few years ago, eh?
The party set-up needs an overhaul so that careerists, chancers and frankly, inadequate weirdos, who don’t give a toss about independence can’t get to important positions.

But my absolutely blistering anger last week at that apologist thread by the FM, made me feel like a dam had burst and that my 40 year support for the SNP was over. My frustration boiled over.
She was a hypocrite....she still is….an office managerial image, hypocrite
Unfortunately she still leads the party that millions of us pin our hopes to.

Having thought about THAT…..I have reconsidered.

I HAVE to hold my nose and vote for them at constituency next year.

It’s our only chance (slim though it probably is) of a referendum.
If they fail us again within the year after that then no amount of soul searching will make me ever support them again.
This is in spite of my gut telling me that we have virtually no chance of 'Plan A' working and 'Plan B' doesn't exist thanks to the inertia of Sturgeon and her cabal.

I'm operating on pure unadulterated and desperate hope here.

As to the other big issues like GRA and Hate Crimes, my attitude remains the same.
I will not ‘wheesht for indy’ and all you cultish St Nicola clowns can keep your slavish devotion in your own home and on slabber-covered keyboards.
I will not blithely accept attacks on women and free speech.
But for the moment I either accept what the party is, or I wander around the political world aimlessly hoping for someone to do something I like, whilst I bleat on this platform.

If things go the way I suspect they will, then Sturgeon is done and so is Murrell….it is only a matter of time. She isn’t ‘irreplaceable’.
She’s a lawyer with a very good media delivery….there are lots of them.

But the party is the only viable vehicle to force the issue of a referendum.
The leadership knows that…which is why they are so brazen about other things…and you could credibly argue that I have fallen into line and they will sit there sneering at me.

Mea culpa. I’m sneering right back and I will have the last sneer.

If they get yet another mandate and fail to gain a vote then they will never be forgiven by most supporters and the SNP will fall apart as disillusionment grows into outright anger.

So her super-secret big plan that her devotees seem so keen on had better make a swift appearance.
I normally really enjoy a Wee Ginger Dug blog….but that last one was just a few hundred words too long. It could have been condensed to ‘STFU you whingers…wee Nicky has got this and it’ll all be fine because your political betters know what’s what…btw…the Tories are bad’

But it typifies the condescension that those of us with legitimate fears get thrown at us.

That’s just boring now.

I'm not a man overly prone to changing my mind.
Some family tell me I’m very stubborn and that's a failing that causes me unnecessary grief. I’ve many times read the 'When the facts change, I change my mind' quote.
Well, the facts have NOT changed....but I can't see an alternative other than just sitting back and hoping for the best.
My conscience won't let me do that.

None of this means my comments on SNP shite or stupidity will change and the 'You're just an undercover Yoon' fuckers can still do one.
If some big beast comes along in shining armour and forms a credible indy party...I mean REALLY credible....I'll think about it.
Until that miracle occurs then I have to hold my nose and give the fuckers one last go.

This isn't an endorsement of Sturgeon (patently) or any of the rest of them....It's me desperately...probably foolishly, clinging to my longing to be rid of Westminster.

I don’t need lectures from anyone about what’s at stake (including cute dugs).
I wanted it long before many even considered independence, including the biggest and most self-righteous gobs with saltires in their bios, and certainly before barely out of nappies careerist converts who voted No six years ago and who suddenly found the SNP were open to electing carpetbaggers with the correct contacts in the clique.

But….I’ll contradict my own gut and go grudgingly along with the unicorn crowd for one more climb.

I know.....I'm an ‘Overly sentimental, unthinking, duped sucker/Wonderful political thinker who can see his errors and admit them’
Both views can do one…..I’m me.

Sue me.

I'm away for more tea.



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