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From GHassan article in SunNat
"Next year is seven years from the 2014 indyref vote – and this has been since then the defining issue of our time and place. All around us Unionism is in retreat. It is bereft of strategy, political nous and intelligence.
"Next year is seven years from the 2014 indyref vote – and this has been since then the defining issue of our time and place. All around us Unionism is in retreat. It is bereft of strategy, political nous and intelligence.
"It does not know how to handle Scotland. The UK Tories are in a state of confusion about the 2021 Scottish elections.
"The pro-Union case is leaderless and reduced to the mantra of transactional nationalism of “we subsidise you and you cannot make it on your own” – hardly a positive pro-Union case.
"James Forsyth in The Spectator asked one of the leading pro-Union voices in 2014 how things are now and they replied simply: “It’s over. The horse has bolted.”
"It is in this context that any new party should be judged. Does it aid the hard work and hard lifting of that independent Scotland – whose qualities, attitudes and priorities are being made and remade in the here and now?
"If it diverts from that hard work then it is a distraction perpetuating the myth of easy solutions. But if it could assist then it might be a welcome initiative.
"Independence was always about a frame of mind, and difficult debates and choices. This is one choice that needs to be widely discussed: what kind of democracy and politics do we want to be known by?
