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No, of course George Galloway has not said that Scotland should be partitioned in the event of independence. He has said that it might be, and that it probably would be. The only way to prevent that is by voting for whoever was best placed to defeat the SNP in each constituency, and by voting All for Unity on the list.

The threat of partition is perfectly real. The most recent major breach of Covid-19 regulations in Northern Ireland was by triumphant supporters of Glasgow Rangers, a club that has already been subjected to a malicious prosecution by the SNP in power.

That club's supporters in Scotland are the only people in Great Britain regularly to display the Union Flag, an essentially alien practice that the Government wishes to introduce in imitation of the people who tonight will once again be throwing firebombs on the streets of Belfast.

Also seen only feet away last night, on the Lanark Way side of the gates, was Spike Murray, who was a decidedly non-teenage pallbearer for Bobby Storey as a fellow member of the Provisional Army Council. Storey's funeral was arranged and staged in active coordination with the Police, so the idea of prosecutions was always fanciful. And everyone knows that if Michelle O'Neill called for a Chief Constable to resign, then he would be finished.

The youths through the gates on the Shankill Road know, and the paramilitaries directing them know in detail, that you can make anyone you like First Minister, but the institutions of the State are errand boys for Sinn Féin, who are errand girls for the Army Council, which is a body of totally unreconstructed IRA hard men from back in the day.

Moreover, it is an almost entirely Northern body, on the cusp of taking control of a 26 County State in which few of its members have ever lived and where almost none of them grew up. It is already running the Six County State where most of its members did grow up and do live.

Dissent may be expressed only by taking to the streets. But even there, it is entirely impotent, since it faces the full wrath of the Police, soon to be joined by the Army, on its own side of the gates, and since it would face the full wrath of Spike Murray and Company Limited should it break through to the other side.

If you are in Scotland and you do not want it to end up like this, then the only way to prevent it is by voting for whoever was best placed to defeat the SNP in each constituency, and by voting All for Unity on the list. George Galloway has not said that Scotland should be partitioned in the event of independence. He has said that it might be, and that it probably would be. It might be. And it probably would be.