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I've said it before and I'll say it again at least he's trying.

 

Shetland is being shafted left, right and centre but nobody(apart from Stuart) has the guts to stand up and do anything about it.

 

Don't get me wrong, I support what he's standing for. I just don't support his particular ways of tackling the issue.

 

His methods, IMHO, are decidely unwise, and have two inherent fatal flaws that prevent them succeeding.

 

The trouble he's causing though, is that nobody is likely to stick their head above the parapet on the same subject while he's still active, for fear of being tarred with the same brush. He is and always has been the wrong man to be fronting it (nothing personal, but an Englishman, and with the reputation he gained (rightly or wrongly) during his journey here), being taken seriously by the public in general, was optimistic even on a good day.

 

For any sort of devolution, autonomy, whatever you want to call it, to have a chance of moving forward it needs fresh names and faces, as far as the public are seeing it at least.

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What I wrote here back in September

 

We have a working population who have been paying all their lives into the U.K money pot ( the one with the big hole in the bottom that sits above the E.U. Pot)

But as we continue paying very large sums of tax in, it would only be correct that certain services recieve back revenue to maintain function - coastguard, health service, education etc.

 

Well now coastguards and education service face the axe, whilst taxpayers pay even more into the corrupt system.

 

Magnie Stewarts letter in the Shetland times pointed amongst other things out that 1 years bankers bonuses could maintain the Coastguard service for 250 years !

 

WE ARE BEING SHAFTED!

 

Carbuncle and Scott dont have the power to either tweak with fuel duty, control the bankers or stop the mass dumping of marine food resources by one of our main primary industries.

They have given away all control to unelected bureaucrats in Brussels!

 

They are totally ineffective at every level , just try reading Tavishe's letters from Edinburgh - complete drivel every time.

 

How anybody in Shetland or the U.K can support the existing status quo is astounding, there is no doubt we could do much, much better.

 

The Lib/Lab/Con & the SNP are nothing but a bunch of self serving members of the Corrupt E.U. regime

 

In this present day of fish dumping , economic scandal and revolution we should be looking at the levels of autonomy other remote Island groups enjoy, Faroes and Iceland for example.

 

I wish the Soveriegn Shetland movement a bright and succesful future

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Yeh, I wouldna disagree and wasn't intending to come across as "flighting" Embarassed

 

Did something not come out of his conference i.e a new group or something(Daniel Gear etc)?.

 

Good question. Awfully little information was being put out ahead of time, the advertising seemed to be very much in the style of holding a carrot in front of a donkey's nose. I don't think they did themselves any favours with that trick, some folk tend to feel a little insulted when treated that way, and for the most part prefer to at least know a little about what is on offer so that they can judge if its likely to contain substance they have an interest in. Best as I recall unless a very brief bio of the speakers, and a briefer overview of their contribution, with little if any explanation as to how they or it related to us, little else was ever put out to attract interest.

 

Of the few that went, I've only heard disappointing reviews, and the organisers themselves seem to have been strangely silent, both in general and on the outcome of the conference specifically.

 

The new face at the front was encouraging, but he's never been seen or heard from again, however Hill has, and that rather gives the unfortunate impression that he could be viewed simply as Hill's "puppet" leader. Especially as Hill was as much in prominence as the new face was, when he was introduced.

 

We live in hope, but I suspect the opportunity to make any advances with the general public as a result of the conference either never presented themselves, or that time has now past. Its been a few months, and they've contained nothing but silence, most folk have more or less already forgotten the conference took place.

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What I wrote here back in September

 

We have a working population who have been paying all their lives into the U.K money pot ( the one with the big hole in the bottom that sits above the E.U. Pot)

But as we continue paying very large sums of tax in, it would only be correct that certain services recieve back revenue to maintain function - coastguard, health service, education etc.

 

Well now coastguards and education service face the axe, whilst taxpayers pay even more into the corrupt system.

 

Magnie Stewarts letter in the Shetland times pointed amongst other things out that 1 years bankers bonuses could maintain the Coastguard service for 250 years !

 

WE ARE BEING SHAFTED!

 

Carbuncle and Scott dont have the power to either tweak with fuel duty, control the bankers or stop the mass dumping of marine food resources by one of our main primary industries.

They have given away all control to unelected bureaucrats in Brussels!

 

They are totally ineffective at every level , just try reading Tavishe's letters from Edinburgh - complete drivel every time.

 

How anybody in Shetland or the U.K can support the existing status quo is astounding, there is no doubt we could do much, much better.

 

The Lib/Lab/Con & the SNP are nothing but a bunch of self serving members of the Corrupt E.U. regime

 

In this present day of fish dumping , economic scandal and revolution we should be looking at the levels of autonomy other remote Island groups enjoy, Faroes and Iceland for example.

 

I wish the Soveriegn Shetland movement a bright and succesful future

 

I agree with every word of it. However, regarding my boldened portion, I will repeat what folk with the three score and ten years of life experience, who'd lived through two wars and the lean times between and after them etc etc, were all saying 30-35 years ago when the Shetland Movement was at its highest hour, for it applies even more forcefully today IMHO.

 

Almost without exception those with lifetime experience were for the idea, until it came to leadership, and then all they could say was. "Who could you trust to be President, or Prime Minister?!?" It was a rhetorical question.

 

Remember, those were the days when long term stalwarts like A.I. Tulloch, Edward Thomason etc were the council, and while they were far from perfect and made mistakes, sometimes stupid mistakes, they did for the most part at least try to behave in a manner expected of the office they held, and take it seriously. Can you say the same of today's incumbents?

 

If those who'd lived long enough to have seen too much didn't trust the local politicians of yesteryear, there's considerable more reason not to trust the local politicians of today.

 

Yes, I know some will say that if the stakes are raised better people will step up and take the reins. They may, but its a very risky gamble, what happens if they don't, or won't, or anyone who does turns out in time to be worse than anything we already have. At the very least I'd like to have a mental shortlist of names who could be possibilities to take the wheel before cutting loose, and I don't.

 

After the debacle of a term they've served so far, there's certainly no-one in the council chamber at the moment I'd want to see as Pres or PM of Shetland. That leaves only one other up to speed local politician or wannabe politician, Tavish. The position of MSP or MP could and should have been a convenient proving ground for a future Pres of PM, if they were interested. However, we had to go and vote in da young boy fae da Haa, he may have done "okayish", but da gaw ey hings be da liver, it would be a Scots laird ruling wis aa again, over my dead body....

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Ive watched with some amusement the forvik debacle and although he seems wacky when it all boils down to it he is just asking a simple question that no one seems to be able to answer. The question and subsequent answer could have far reaching implications for the Isles.

 

It would therefore be interesting to see a case brought up in court to see what happens , yes it may be a waste of taxpayers money , but nowhere near as much than is wasted on a daily basis by this government.

 

He may , or may not be a crank , but doesnt he deserve an answer to his question ?

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Will he see it through though, or is this just yet more huffing and puffing and posturing.

 

Even if he does run with it, and it does get him his day in court, it'll make no odds to anything, as his plan is fatally flawed, always has been.

 

Maybe I am wrong, but is this not an attempt to use a vehicle, without tax, and NOT end up in court?

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Will he see it through though, or is this just yet more huffing and puffing and posturing.

 

Even if he does run with it, and it does get him his day in court, it'll make no odds to anything, as his plan is fatally flawed, always has been.

 

Maybe I am wrong, but is this not an attempt to use a vehicle, without tax, and NOT end up in court?

 

Its him giving Lawful Notice of his intentions to everyone so as too remain in honour if/when he goes to court. He is stating that he wishes to abide by common law (which we all should) and that he does not consent to being ruled by Statutory Law which requires consent for it to be implemented.

 

As I am sure you are aware, the Public Notices section is used to lawfully make others aware of your intentions. If you or I disagree with those intentions, we can rebut and then follow with a claim to counter.

 

Thats my take on it anyway.

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Will he see it through though, or is this just yet more huffing and puffing and posturing.

 

Even if he does run with it, and it does get him his day in court, it'll make no odds to anything, as his plan is fatally flawed, always has been.

 

Maybe I am wrong, but is this not an attempt to use a vehicle, without tax, and NOT end up in court?

 

Well, as I see it, at the moment, as far as is generally known, its a declaration on his part that he may at some point choose to use an unlicensed vehicle on the public highway. Whether he does, or doesn't choose to exercise that option remains to be seen.

 

If he does choose to, I can't see either the Police or Court taking one blind bit of notice of his Notice though. They'll handle him in the same way as they'd handle you or I or anyone else doing the same, and get their pound of flesh, but he'll see it as a "win" though whatever happens, he always does.

 

I would be considerably less cynical of his stunts with vehicles, had he had the b*lls to have driven his Land Rover around wherever as his sole form of transport, instead of hiding it away out of sight, out of mind, out of the vast majority of most folk's rod, on a passing place half rods to Saniss. It smacked of being able to say he had a Forvik "registered" vehicle on Shetland roads, while keeping the risk of anyone doing anything about it to the absolute minimum.

 

If his stance on the subject was right and just and sound, it should have been able to stand up to scrutiny whatever section of road it was performed on, so where better than to drive it around, and park it in Lerwick as much as possible. Right over the toes of those charged with upholding the statutes he's disputing, and among the greatest concentration of witnessess observing him being allowed to do so. It certainly would have done his cause far, far more good than any Conference or Declaration at the Cross.

 

The fact that he chose not to act so overtly and publically, but instead chose a relatively little used road a considerable distance from any upholder of statutory laws, says to me he had little confidence in his own beliefs and argument. I expect if anything comes of this most recent development that it will be a similarly fudged washout, and a missed opportunity, but I am prepared to be pleasantly surprised, for once.

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Will he see it through though, or is this just yet more huffing and puffing and posturing.

 

Even if he does run with it, and it does get him his day in court, it'll make no odds to anything, as his plan is fatally flawed, always has been.

 

Maybe I am wrong, but is this not an attempt to use a vehicle, without tax, and NOT end up in court?

 

Personally I think he WANTS to end up in court because by doing so he can question the right of the court to penalise him , thereby getting his question answered.

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No I think he has read Shetlands history, that hasn't been slanted by scoty socialist crap

 

its great being in the posiion to over write history wi a book yea , fact remains tho whats in the original document n how it wasnt followed in scotlands favour, so they just took it

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