WE all have our dream of what an independent Scotland will be like. Mine is an independent Scottish socialist republic (not a dictatorship of the preliterate!). For a long time I have been deeply disillusioned with the SNP – its move to the right, its extreme control-freakery, its secretiveness etc, etc ... I could go on! And so I grit my teeth when voting, giving them my first vote, but no way are they getting my second. I have longed for a truly left indy party with some chance, and now we have one in the Alba Party. I am working-class, I will always be working-class and do not want to be otherwise. But we have a dearth of working-class folk in the spectrum of our politics, with the exception of eg Mhairi Black, who has proven to be a wonderful MP.