Protest But Don’t Survive
Posted on
March 28, 2026 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
If events in Edinburgh today are anything to go by – when a march and rally announced with great fanfare seven months ago, backed by both the “independence” parties in the Scottish Parliament and featuring the First Minister as main speaker, attracted perhaps 1,500 people at the most to Calton Hill on a bright and sunny day – the independence movement faces an imminent final apocalypse.
So here’s how to prepare yourself for when the SNP win a landslide with 35%, Keir Starmer says “So what?” and then a deathly silence descends for another five years.
Even Kelly Given and Iona Fyfe didn’t show up for this one. That’s how bad it is.
I was there. It was a lot, lot more than 1500. You can never tell when you’re in the crowd yourself, but it was a healthy length of the route, going by the hold-ups.
I’m sorry, Rev, I had to stop listening to that video at 2 minutes – it was excruciating. What a sad, tragic, farce after the 100,000 we had two years running in Edinburgh.
So back to the plan I suggested about an hour ago on the previous post. You must set up the Wee Blue Book Party that you proposed a few years ago.
You are the only person with enough wide recognition to front a party. You have the necessary qualities in spades – I can’t think of any current politician who is a patch on you [not a great comparison, admittedly]. All the other thinkers and activists would gladly work with you. Money wouldn’t be a problem.
How about it? Give us something to which to look forward – we’ll need it on May 8th.
Sarah – will all those who contributed to the various GoFund me pages you advertised for so long get their money back?
“Thousands attend Scottish independence rally in Edinburgh”
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The National.
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
Winston Churchill.
How many still have the courage ? I wonder.
Maybe Northcode will be along soon to quote some Goebbels to prove you wrong!
Agentx @ 18.21.
The irony of citing Goebbels to prove a point had not escaped me, x. However that’s Picts for you.
Not entirely certain I should be referencing Churchill either, however it’s a quote which appeals to me.
Jim Sillars said much the same recently. I think there are many with the courage to continue – they are working on topics such as currency, the constitution etc etc – but they need a recognisable face up front to attract attention from the wider public. Hence my call for the Rev’s WBB Party.
Brilliant! So, so sad!
There must’ve been some folk in that crowd (judging by the looks on their faces) who were saying to themselves, why am I here?
I especially liked the cultural misappropriation of the football chant of Roo-ney ascribed to Swi-nney. I actually begin to feel sorry for some of the deluded – that wots her name?
The sad thing is they look like riderless horses at Aintree that don’t know it’s over for them. Oh dear.
The inane cheerleading “Swinn-eeeeh, Swinn-eeeeh etc” chant has to be the all time arse-clenching moment in the entire history of all Independence movements the World over.
That’s what happens when you have no (costed) plan, have provided no detail on pretty much anything – from currency, economic policies, jobs, pensions, national debt, healthcare, education, governance (pretty much you name it, really) – and in fact the last real information that was provided at all was the laughably flawed, thin and hopelessly inaccurate White Paper of 2013, I guess.
It’s not just the SNP that’s failed (albeit they have of course, catastrophically in fact) – it’s the entire independence movement? Sensible, grown up stakeholders with big stuff to lose – jobs, careers, property, pensions, a future etc – can’t be expected to roll the dice on a promise, yet it seems no one is prepared to do the heavy lifting or even has a clue.
Genuinely, I think for one lone figure you have done amazing things Stu bit at the end of the day you don’t have the resources to carry the entire movement, which has entirely lost its way and has been captured by the woke left.
I don’t think that the movement has been captured, only the politicians. The Rev wouldn’t be alone. Independence Forum Scotland, Yes United, SSRG, Robin McAlpine – there’s loads of them.