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Peter A Bell's avatar

Jill Stephenson is a nutter. Whether that means we should make allowances for the woman is a matter for personal conscience. Personally, I find it very difficult to take her seriously. She is simply ignorant, as well as bigoted and hateful and all that other stuff she will be remembered for when she is blessedly gone.

Perhaps the worst of Jill Stephenson's stupidity is equating the independence movement with the SNP. Even after all this time, she still hasn't learned that the largest part of the independence movement has nothing to do with the SNP. These days, much of the independence is rather vigorously opposed to the SNP or at least highly critical. There are people in the independence movement who hate the SNP more than the mad lady does. I don't know whether she'll be glad of the company or insanely jealous.

We are all tarred with Jill Stephenson's bile-dipped brush as SNP thinkalikes. Every single one of us. That is the comic-book world she sees in the odd moments when the red mist clears enough for her to be able to see anything.

What this means is that her analysis is worthless. It isn't even analysis. Because to be an analysis, it would have to take at least some account of the real world. I fear the real world is far too complex a place for Jill Stephenson's hate-crippled intellect to deal with.

For example, she cannot conceive of there being an independence supporter such as myself who doesn't give a toss whether Scotland qualifies for membership in the EU. My thinking is that if the EU exists, it's probably as well to join. But membership of the EU is not so important that I would compromise my aspirations for my country. My ideas on tax reform alone would genuinely disqualify Scotland. Well, tough! Tax reform is too important to abandon just to fall in line with the EU.

The things Jill Stephenson lists as disqualifying factors are, by contrast, entirely bogus. Unless one assumes Scotland would somehow be without everyday essentials such as a currency. We don't know - and neither does the loony - that independent Scotland will have a fiscal deficit. If it does, it'll be like almost every other country in the world. A deficit is not a disease. It's a fiscal tool. Nothing to be afraid of.

Do you notice anything about her 'arguments'? They are as dated as kipper ties and flares! It's the same stuff she and the Britnat numpty brigade were spewing twelve years ago. Like the SNP leadership, Jill Stephenson is trapped in an earlier decade. 2025 is a foreign land to her. She has never even visited.

There's a short version of this. But I thought I'd better keep it prim since I'm a guest here.

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bruce macallan's avatar

A typical institutionalised British Nationalist with no game.

Amusing all the same.

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