I have long thought that the Pro UK argument has
suffered from the lack of a website/newspaper where British Scots could put
their point of view. There are Pro UK journalists, but there is no longer a Pro
UK newspaper in Scotland. The demonstrations that Scottish nationalists made
against the BBC in 2014 succeeded. There are no demonstrations anymore because
the BBC bizarrely given that Scottish independence would destroy Britain and therefore
British have lost all impartiality. They barely criticise the SNP’s record or
put forward arguments against independence at all. How can it be impartial when the number of
hours devoted to the Sturgeon exceed those devoted to any other Scottish
politician by hundreds if not thousands.
The UK media as a whole give Nicola Sturgeon a free ride.
The grilling that Dominic Cummings received in May would never be directed at
Sturgeon. The level of analysis and critique that is directed at the
Conservative Government is never directed at the SNP and its record.
The London media like Sturgeon. She is vaguely
left-wing like they are. She is a Remainer like they are. She can be relied upon
to agree with The Guardian and the BBC on most issues. The London media would
see Scottish independence as a just response to Brexit because they dislike
Britain almost as much as the SNP do. They can’t bear the idea that Britain
might do better than their beloved European Union. They see Britain as a
country in decline and wish it to decline still further.
We need to counter this narrative and now we have the
chance. There is a new site where Pro UK views and a positive narrative about
Britain’s future is bringing together new Pro UK views. It is called The
Majority.
I was not involved in setting up this site. In fact, I
knew nothing about it until I saw it on Twitter. I have little knowledge of the
media, but Mark Devlin the founder of The Majority does.
The aim is to build a large following on Twitter and
other social media sites. It would be massively helpful to the Pro UK cause if
we had an online presence equal to or surpassing The National, the SNP
newspaper.
If there were a Pro UK online newspaper with a large
following, which people like you and me could read every day, we would be able
to bypass the BBC and those negative Scottish journalists who hinder the Pro UK
argument.
The Majority has its own editorial line. You don’t
have to agree with all of it, but if you believe in Britain you ought to
support it.
Here’s what you should do.
First follow @themajorityscot
Next retweet articles that are on The Majority that
you agree with. Make comments on Twitter or other sites about these articles. Share
them. Tell your friends and your family.
If we could get the number of Scots following @themajorityscot
to massively increase The Majority would be able to play an important role in
the debate in the coming year and would be able to influence the next Scottish
Parliament election in May 2021 decisively.
I will of course continue writing, but we need as many
voices as possible. I am very impressed by The Majority and endorse it without reservation.
Some Scottish nationalists may claim that we are not a
majority. But this is simply disinformation. We won the only vote that mattered
in a once in a lifetime vote that the SNP accepted would be a “decisive
expression of the views of people in Scotland and a result that everyone will
respect”. Decisive means that this vote decided the issue. Of course, the SNP
did not respect the result. They immediately set about overturning it, but that
doesn’t change what they promised, it just shows them to be what they are.
A few opinion polls do not make a majority. Even
Sturgeon has admitted that the SNP would need more than 60% support for
Scottish independence to have a good chance of winning a vote. This is not
least the case because they would never again have the advantage of Yes, the EU
referendum set the precedent that Yes/No referendums are unfair. Furthermore
the status quo always has an inbuild advantage because people favour what they
know rather than risk the unknown.
The fact that the SNP wins the majority of seats on a
minority of the votes at Westminster is because the opposition in Scotland is
divided. It does not mean that most Scots support the SNP. They don’t.
We are the silent majority that is not represented in the media. That has now changed. You can help massively by supporting The Majority in any way you can, but above all by following @themajorityscot read some articles and share them. You will help hugely if you do.
