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CAMPAIGNING FOR
SCOTLAND
(Owned, Edited and Printed in Scotland since November 1926)
Compiled by Jim Lynch
[29 December 2000]
We wish all our readers a
Very Happy New Year!
FALKIRK WEST BY ELECTION
The Front Page of the
Scots Independent Newspaper
Pictures
from the Festive Falkirk West by election
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Delivering SNP balloons to Falkirk High Street
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Three of the better looking
Nationalist unisex Santas |
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David Kerr on the stomp with a Santa aide
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A strictly neutral Sally Ann band
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The Nationalist nerve-centre in
Camelon
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To-morrow's Prime Minister?
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Arriving on the High Street
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Labour minders with Major Joyce
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The candidate, his party
leader and more Santas
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The candidate, Alex Salmond and
John Swinney
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Guess Who?
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Some of the other Labour balloons
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DATES
IN HISTORY
31 December 1720
Birth of Charles Edward Louis Casimir Silvester Maria Stewart, The Young
Pretender, in the Palazzo Muti, Rome. Known as Bonnie Prince Charlie he
led the 1745 Jacobite Rising.
1 January 1651
King Charles II crowned at Scone. The last coronation in Scotland.
2 January 1793
Thomas Muir of Huntershill, Glasgow-born Advocate, arrested for sedition.
He was released after a few days and went to France, on his return to
Scotland, he was tried and sentenced to 14 years transportation.
THE
REBELS CEILIDH SONG BOOK
MA AIN
CLOSE
(Tune: Ma Ain Folk.
Words: Duncan Macrae)
Faur frae ma hame ah've wandered,
An ah never will return,
Tae ma ain close in the Gorbals,
Juist alang frae Jenny's Burn,
For they're pullin doon the buildin,
An ah doot ah canny bide,
For they're gonnae mak the Gorbals,
Like New York or Kelvinside.
Chorus:
An it's oh, but ah'm longing for ma ain close,
It wis nane o yuir wally, juist a plain close,
An ah'm nearly roon the bend,
For ma ain wee single-end,
Fareweel tae dear old Gorbals,
An ma ain close.
There's ma pal gaun in the boozer,
If ye follie him ye'll find,
Although he's tired an drouthy,
He's got something on his mind,
For he bides up twenty storeys,
So he canny drink his fill,
He micht get up there safely,
Then faa owre the windae sill.
They'll never be forgotten,
The days that we lived through,
When we hung aboot the Gorbals,
An we sterved on the Buroo,
Wi the lassies playing peever,
An the laddies sclimmin dykes,
An the weemin gaun thir dusters,
An the polis gaun thir bikes.
See the Songbook
in our features section
A
KIST O FERLIES
A Keek at the Guid Scots Tung
By Peter D Wright
(Note: All
words underlined in this section are RealAudio links)
A special Yule poem fir the
Scots Independent "Christmas Prayers"
- Christie Grahame : read by Marilyn Wright.
Yule
I'm gaun to hing a stockin up,
I'll borrow my big brither's,
It's bigger nor my sister's ane
And strang-er nor my mither's.
I'll be in bed on Yule E'en
When Faither Christmas comes.
I ken he'll wale oor chimley oot
Amang the ither lums.
On Yule richt early I'll be up
Afore the screich o day
To see what ferlies Santa Claus
Has brocht me for my play.
I hope he'll mind a cuddly bear,
And cups for dolly's tea
Wi lots o ither bonnie toys
For a guid wee lass like me.
Yule - J K Annand
See
Scots Language in our Features Section
THE
MONTHLY PRIZE CROSSWORD
Each month the Scots
Independent Newspaper offers a prize crossword and we're now offering this
online in the Flag in the Wind as well. Should you complete
the crossword by the deadline you can fax it over to the SI and the first
correct one opened on the closing date will win a £10.00 book token.
SI Prize Crossword No. 13
[Clicking on the picture will bring
up a life size version which you can copy to your desktop or print out]
AND
AS WE CONTINUE.........
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in the Wind you will know that this is a weekly Internet commentary on
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Archives.
THE
SCOTTISH NATIONAL PARTY
The Scots Independent Newspaper is
independent of the Scottish National Party, but we support the Party
in its drive for Independence; while space precludes us commenting on
all the issues raised by the 35 MSPs, 6 MPS and 2 MEPs, also the Party
Office Bearers, we have provided a link to the SNP Website.
THE FLAG
IN THE WIND
The above was the title of a book written
in the early Fifties by John MacDonald MacCormick, one of the founder
members of the Scottish National Party in 1934. The sub-title was
"The Story of the National Movement in Scotland". His comment in
the book said "It is perhaps in the symbols which men use that their
deepest sentiments are most readily expressed. Flags as well as straws
show which way the wind is blowing". A
fuller account appears under Features.
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