Forget About Problems with Scot Rail - the SNP wants to build a Scottish Museum on Slavery,
Forget about chaos in Scotland's economy, forget about dealing with the SCOTRAIL and public transport problems, forget about cuts to local services, forget about the state of NHS services, forget about off the scale drug deaths, because the SNP wants to spend £5 million on a Slavery Museum for Scotland.
£150,000 already committed to a report document produced by the 'Empire, Slavery and Scotland's Museums (ESSM) Steering Group.
£5 million set aside to build an Empire and Slavery Museum
Pictured above: Sir Geoff Palmer - leader of the ESSM committee and self-described as 'anti-racist educator' and a 'curator of discomfort'.
" Scotland's involvement in empire, colonisation and historic slavery can be addressed using museum collections and museum spaces."This has to be an SNP exercise in 'Woke' politics, the SNP appointed the ESSM 'activist committee' and extended the project to include an organisation called 'Intercultural Youth Scotland' (never heard of that before), in an attempt to promote 'White Guilt' in the indigenous White population of Scotland and to challenge notions of 'White Privilege' in Scotland.
Exactly how many black people descended from slaves actually live in Scotland?
Exactly how many black people (African-Caribbean or Sub-Saharan African) actually live in Scotland?
Pictured above: The Empire, Slavery and Scotland's Museums Steering Group, headed by Sir Geoff Palmer, this 'activists committee' of academics and political 'influencers', believe that " Scotland's economy was built on the British Empire and slavery."
These 'anti-racist educators' make no reference to Scotland's population in the past being affected by such events as the suppression that followed the Jacobite Rebellion in the 18th Century, the Highland clearances in the 19th Century, the mass influx of Irish people fleeing the Potato Famine in the 1840's and the slums in Scottish industrial centres in the Industrial Revolution. But of course all those are aspects of 'White Privilege' in Scotland.Meanwhile there is a voice of sanity in the world of Scottish universities and academics, the leading Scottish historian Sir Tom Devine was highly critical of the ESSM project and had previously spoken out against Black Lives Matter protest in Edinburgh, together with BLM vandalising of historic statues in the city. Sir Tom Devine stated that, " BLM protests were historically inaccurate and humiliating for Edinburgh. " and that the proposed Scottish Slavery Museum would be "led by non-historians and would mean a disastrous actual institutions."
And do not forget the millions already ear-marked by the SNP for Indy Ref Two in October next year...
According to media reports this week First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is intending to try to by pass the Westminster government by staging a "softer consultative referendum", whatever that might mean. The SNP constitutional secretary Angus Robertson has tried to put blame on the national government in Whitehall for refusing to grant Holyrood legal powers to hold a legally binding referendum on Scottish independence.
But, it seems that the SNP government at Holyrood is trying to hide the legal advice it has been given in relation to holding Indy Ref Two. The SNP has attempted to block enquiries by the Scotsman newspaper into the legal advice and has tried to obstruct the Scotsman's applications for Freedom of Information access to Holyrood files on that legal advice.
What are the SNP trying to hide?
