Why would Scotland, alone among old nations and with far more resources than most, need a remote foreign power to tell us how to manage ourselves!? Great series and well worth watching.
American here. My great great grandmother immigrated from Scotland. I would like to visit there one day. I enjoy your series and seeing the geography of your neighboring countries.
Wow love this series. Can't wait for the next episode! Also her pronunciations are really impressive for a native English speaker. I'm half Icelandic and half Faroese, brought up here in my motherland. Love from Iceland!
Well done, good work! Just such a pity that Scots fail to appreciate the almost boundless resources present in the land and people. How to shake off the mental shackles of 'colonialism'. For surely that's where the real subjugation lies, in the mind, in Scotland's self-perception. Oh well, I look forward to more shining examples like Iceland, and hopefully with this steady drip-drip the penny will eventually drop and there'll be a clear demand for independence. :-)
My email that Lesley is "too busy" to answer. Hi Lesley, ... Can you please focus on the important but neglected political issues of general concern to all Scots by answering these questions. Should Scotland's universities be managed well or can they be mismanaged dreadfully because how universities are managed doesn't matter? Should Scotland's whistle-blowers be allowed to speak out to bring mismanagement issues to the public's attention or should be they be gagged by lawyers, threats of defamation action, thrown out of public meetings for daring to raise off topic matters because whistle-blowing doesn't matter and the management should be allowed to manage regardless of any whistle-blowing issues? If you can just turn your mind to the democratic principles of freedom of expression, of openness and disclosure which are being flouted in Scotland and the harm that does to the public interest. The public interest is at stake here. I am pointing to the example of the way I have been gagged and excluded to point out that Scotland is misgoverned and that effects all of us. I am pleased to see that you have your issues with BBC unfairness too - which effects not only you and I but the fate of the country because of the way the BBC rigged the independence campaign in 2 ways. (1) Would you agree with me that BBC unionist bias and censorship of most and the best pro-independence campaigners severely disadvantaged the YES campaign and handed victory to the NO campaign? (2) You know that I did not appear on the BBC during the indy-ref campaign but did you know that I was arrested and banned from using the internet for the final 7 weeks of the indy-ref campaign? Do you agree with me that considering the above 2 points that the independence referendum campaign was NOT "free and fair" - IT WAS RIGGED? Would you agree that the unfair rigging of the indy-ref would be of general interest to the YES movement, to the pro-independence movement? Would you agree that the rigging of the indy-ref has been covered up - that the BBC and Scottish media class are in denial about the rigging of the indy-ref? Is it not your duty to expose this cover-up, to hold to account those who are in denial about the indy-ref? If the indy-ref was indeed rigged as I say, is that not reason enough for the result of the indy-ref - a victory for NO - to be declared NULL and VOID and a RE-RUN of the indy-ref demanded, but this time only with home-rule of public service broadcasting - so that Holyrood can legislate to establish a SCOTTISH Broadcasting Corporation which would get the TV licence fee paid in Scotland and which therefore would have the resources to give the due care and attention, due diligence to the independence question? Do you have any idea how easy it would be for people like you, your media colleagues, the SNP, Greens and other pro-independence groups to call "foul" on the rigging of the indy-ref and how angry the YES campaign would be to know that we had been cheated out of our independence as a free country? Do you have any notion of how energising that would be for the independence movement? When people feel they have been cheated that is a motivating factor for political action, right? Would you agree that NOTHING is to be gained by continuing with the fiction - the LIE - that the 2014 indy-ref was "free and fair", "the great exercise of democracy" and all the other falsehoods put about by those who should know better? - Peter
long live Skotland! Shed the mental shackles of colonialism: The English have hamstrung Scots long enough. Scots can & thus should rule their own Island nation without the muddling of backstabbers.
Brilliant series, which should be shared widely in Scotland, to help bring some backbone to the independence doubters!
Scotland is by own right a nation, I support its separation and independency from the united kingdom
This was brilliant. Well done Lesley.
Why would Scotland, alone among old nations and with far more resources than most, need a remote foreign power to tell us how to manage ourselves!? Great series and well worth watching.
Fascinating, and inspirational. THANK YOU!
What a fantastic, intelligent film. Thanks
American here. My great great grandmother immigrated from Scotland. I would like to visit there one day. I enjoy your series and seeing the geography of your neighboring countries.
Wow love this series. Can't wait for the next episode!
Also her pronunciations are really impressive for a native English speaker. I'm half Icelandic and half Faroese, brought up here in my motherland. Love from Iceland!
CAUSE & EFFECT .. An Independent Scotland Is Inevitable.
I would like to see more films like this from Lesley Riddoch, please.
Well done, good work! Just such a pity that Scots fail to appreciate the almost boundless resources present in the land and people. How to shake off the mental shackles of 'colonialism'. For surely that's where the real subjugation lies, in the mind, in Scotland's self-perception. Oh well, I look forward to more shining examples like Iceland, and hopefully with this steady drip-drip the penny will eventually drop and there'll be a clear demand for independence. :-)
I love this whole series!
Great video, inspirational stuff, Thanks Lesley and Phantom power - great work
Cool. Thanks heaps for sharing. 😇
IN extreme times only extreme nations could survive.
Blossom.
20:02 !!!
My email that Lesley is "too busy" to answer.
Hi Lesley, ... Can you please focus on the important but neglected political issues of general concern to all Scots by answering these questions.
Should Scotland's universities be managed well or can they be mismanaged dreadfully because how universities are managed doesn't matter?
Should Scotland's whistle-blowers be allowed to speak out to bring mismanagement issues to the public's attention or should be they be gagged by lawyers, threats of defamation action, thrown out of public meetings for daring to raise off topic matters because whistle-blowing doesn't matter and the management should be allowed to manage regardless of any whistle-blowing issues?
If you can just turn your mind to the democratic principles of freedom of expression, of openness and disclosure which are being flouted in Scotland and the harm that does to the public interest.
The public interest is at stake here.
I am pointing to the example of the way I have been gagged and excluded to point out that Scotland is misgoverned and that effects all of us.
I am pleased to see that you have your issues with BBC unfairness too - which effects not only you and I but the fate of the country because of the way the BBC rigged the independence campaign in 2 ways.
(1) Would you agree with me that BBC unionist bias and censorship of most and the best pro-independence campaigners severely disadvantaged the YES campaign and handed victory to the NO campaign?
(2) You know that I did not appear on the BBC during the indy-ref campaign but did you know that I was arrested and banned from using the internet for the final 7 weeks of the indy-ref campaign?
Do you agree with me that considering the above 2 points that the independence referendum campaign was NOT "free and fair" - IT WAS RIGGED?
Would you agree that the unfair rigging of the indy-ref would be of general interest to the YES movement, to the pro-independence movement?
Would you agree that the rigging of the indy-ref has been covered up - that the BBC and Scottish media class are in denial about the rigging of the indy-ref?
Is it not your duty to expose this cover-up, to hold to account those who are in denial about the indy-ref?
If the indy-ref was indeed rigged as I say, is that not reason enough for the result of the indy-ref - a victory for NO - to be declared NULL and VOID and a RE-RUN of the indy-ref demanded, but this time only with home-rule of public service broadcasting - so that Holyrood can legislate to establish a SCOTTISH Broadcasting Corporation which would get the TV licence fee paid in Scotland and which therefore would have the resources to give the due care and attention, due diligence to the independence question?
Do you have any idea how easy it would be for people like you, your media colleagues, the SNP, Greens and other pro-independence groups to call "foul" on the rigging of the indy-ref and how angry the YES campaign would be to know that we had been cheated out of our independence as a free country?
Do you have any notion of how energising that would be for the independence movement?
When people feel they have been cheated that is a motivating factor for political action, right?
Would you agree that NOTHING is to be gained by continuing with the fiction - the LIE - that the 2014 indy-ref was "free and fair", "the great exercise of democracy" and all the other falsehoods put about by those who should know better?
- Peter
long live Skotland! Shed the mental shackles of colonialism: The English have hamstrung Scots long enough. Scots can & thus should rule their own Island nation without the muddling of backstabbers.