“I didn’t get into politics to make bureaucrats more powerful or hand more control to politicians. I’m here to get power back to people, to communities, to tenants and passengers and patients and students and frontline staff. We need the state to make it happen, but then we need them to take their hands off.”
Scottish politics
“It seems to me the best possible mechanism we have is the independence movement itself. Shouldn’t we be spending time, thought, resources and discussion on how we can build a truly visionary, popular movement of movements – one that goes beyond mere party allegiance?”
Jonathon Shafi: The independence movement is more important than any party
Transformational land reform is an opportunity for us all. However, “Scotland’s powerful landowning lobby have a strong vested interest in maintaining the status-quo. Grouse shooting is part of that status-quo.”