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We are posting the following letter from John Dennis, a longstanding trade union activist and member of the \u00a0Radical Independence Campaign in \u00a0Dumfries<\/strong><\/p>\n Dear editor<\/p>\n Picking up on Ian Gray\u2019s letter (Challenging the system \u2013 May 1st<\/sup>), it seems Scotland is now led by a big feartie.<\/p>\n Far from the radical policies he promised when standing for the SNP leadership, the \u201crepublican\u201d Humza Yousaf is going to be \u201crepresenting all of Scotland\u201d at the wasteful Westminster shenanigans on Saturday.<\/p>\n Who is he trying to kid?<\/p>\n He\u2019d be hard pushed to find a single Yes supporter in Scotland who condones spending \u00a3100 million on the coronation when so many families are struggling to afford basic food, housing and heating.<\/p>\n So, Humza will be in London representing Scotland\u2019s No voters. And even among them, many will baulk at the absurdity and wastefulness of the ceremonies.<\/p>\n If he is really a republican, Humza will announce he\u2019s staying in Scotland and publicly denounce the extravaganza.<\/p>\n He can then leave it to the Tories to celebrate the spectacle of Charles getting a new (or is it old?) hat fitted.<\/p>\n John Dennis<\/p>\n 1.5.23<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We are posting the following letter from John Dennis, a longstanding trade union activist and member of the \u00a0Radical Independence Campaign in \u00a0Dumfries Dear editor Picking up on Ian Gray\u2019s letter (Challenging the system \u2013 May 1st), it seems Scotland is now led by a big feartie. Far from the radical policies he promised…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1873,1874,1875],"tags":[9200],"class_list":["post-24383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-against-unionism","category-republicanism","category-scotland-against-unionism","tag-author-john-dennis"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/mastodon.scot\/@rcfscotland\/110305088960737142","error":""},"views":863,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24385,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24383\/revisions\/24385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}