Trying to figure out WTF is going on The Glasgow Kelvin resolution reported in today’s National is certainly distinct from both the Swinney resolution and the one supported by 40-odd branches - which we may as well call the McCormick resolution since Graeme McCormick appears to be the appointed spokesperson for this group. Swinney's resolution proposes a 'strategy' not for independence, but for yet another supplication for a Section 30 order - which we can only hope Starmer isn't smart enough to grant. The McCormick resolution proposes a 'strategy' not for independence, but a plan to "open negotiations with the UK Government around independence" - which the UK Government may turn up for but probably won't. The Glasgow Kelvin resolution proposes a 'strategy' not for independence, but for waiting "an extended time period" - while the British state continues to expropriate Scotland's resources leaving a desiccated husk as our legacy to future generations of Scotland's people. While there are these differences, there are also similarities. Perhaps the two most significant similarities being that all the proposed 'strategies' prioritise votes for the SNP and all will be dishonestly promoted as strategies for independence. The most recent of these resolutions - the Glasgow Kelvin one - is a transparently obvious attempt at creating a spoiler for the McCormick motion. It is similar enough to the Swinney resolution that the two could easily be rolled up together in a composite resolution. Which is one of the ways the leadership neutralises 'rebel' resolutions. If two of the resolutions are being hammered into a composite which leaves the leadership motion intact, there will be pressure to melt down the McCormick resolution and pour it too into the Swinney mould. The SNP leadership wins. Everybody else loses. Including Scotland's cause. Meanwhile, there is a resolution that really does propose a strategy for independence. Curiously, Abbi Garton-Crosbie neglects to mention the Newington Resolution. Neglects? Or declines? Whatever! It isn't mentioned. Neither was the Newington Resolution referred to in The Herald's "exclusive" on the McCormick resolution. Also, while both The Herald and sister paper, The National, went to some trouble to report both the Swinney and the McCormick resolutions and now the Glasgow Kelvin resolution, the Newington Resolution only became known by way of a letter from one of those responsible for drafting it, Mike Wallace. Is there a pattern developing here? If there is a pattern, then it is a pattern which suggests an effort to 'sideline' the only resolution proposing a fresh approach to the constitutional issue and the only one that proposes a genuine strategy for independence. The Newington Resolution is too distinctive and too radical to fit in a composite motion along with the others. If the SNP leadership wants to kill the Newington Resolution - and it certainly does - it will have to find another way. Of course, there may be no connection at all between the SNP leadership's desire to squash it and the odd lack of media coverage of the Newington Resolution. It could all be just a coincidence. Jist sayin'! You're currently a free subscriber to Peter A Bell. For the full experience, upgrade your subscription.
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Monday, 4 August 2025
The missing resolution
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