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Writing the Weegingerdug blog is a lot of work. In order to keep going I need to pay my bills and keep food on the table. It is a struggle at times to keep the blog going, the independence movement does not have its challenges to seek, and on a personal level, neither do I. My health is not great and I deal with significant disabilities which make carrying out daily tasks much more difficult, exhausting, and time consuming. Although I also write for The National, I consider this blog my first and main job. My disability has robbed me of the ability to earn a living from the other things I used to do, so I depend on the income from this blog.

Right now with everything going on in Scottish politics, it is all the more important that someone continues to focus on making the case for independence and highlighting the deceit and hypocrisy of the parties opposed to independence and their flag waving British nationalism which they continue to insist, despite all the evidence to the contrary, isn't nationalist at all.

At times I feel like I am ploughing a lonely furrow, which can be very dispiriting especially when others who claim to support Scottish independence appear to spend most of their time and energy attacking pro-independence parties instead of talking about the threat Scotland faces from the Conservatives and a Labour party which under Keir Starmer has taken on Tory policies wholesale. We already have an overwhelmingly anti-independence media which delights in attacking the Scottish Government and the SNP. That's their job, not mine.

It is crucial that we continue to highlight the hypocrisies and failures of British nationalism, the Conservative Party, Starmer's Tory-esque Labour, as well as the wider Westminster system, this is all the more important given that the UK is gravely in danger of descending into a nasty British nationalist intolerance, represented by the rise of Farage's Reform UK, from which Scotland must escape.

This blog will continue to focus on the real issues facing people in Scotland and on building the case that the only way in which Scotland can get real and meaningful change is through independence and ensuring that this country's vast natural wealth and it human talent are used to benefit the people of Scotland, not the super-rich. With your help, I will continue to do so.