model-willem nervously walks around the central hall of The Vine Conference Centre in Dunfermline. He thought that he was used to this by now, after being leader of several parties, but every time he went out there he was nervous, just like today. But as soon as the applause starts his nervous went away and he walked out on stage.

“Welcome everybody here today to witness the start of our campaign for a new Scottish Parliament. Little over a year ago I left Scottish politics, after being First Minister, thinking that Scotland was in a good place, Scottish Labour was in power and even though the Government wasn’t the most active one ever, it did good things for Scotland. But soon I realised that the way Scottish politics worked was too divisive, too much polarisation happened. We saw the rise of the Scottish Conservatives, the take-over of the SNP and consequently the need for stability and a sense of coming together instead of more and more division.”

model-willem saw people nodding across the hall and saying affirmative things to each other.

“This division saw the birth of our great party, Forward, by the former leader Frost_Walker2017, who has sadly left politics for now. Now it's the responsibility of PoliticoBailey and myself to move Forward forwards. Forward was established in favour of collaboration and pragmatism, in favour of coming together instead of division and polarisation. We have set this as our line again for the new manifesto, which we are launching today. Pragmatism and cooperation once more at the top of Scottish politics. If you look under your seats you can find it there, I feel a bit like Oprah right now. You get a manifesto! And you get a manifesto! Everyone gets a manifesto!”

People laughed and grabbed their manifesto from under their seats.

“We believe that it is important that we use the powers that are devolved to the Scottish Parliament for good and that we improve our public services before we ask for more, this means that we will not be asking for more powers from the U.K. Government, because we believe that the powers that we have right now are enough. This might sound divisive to some ears, but in our eyes it is the rightful thing for Scotland to do right now, build further on the services that give the best opportunities for Scotland.

In our pursuit of cooperation, we want to work with businesses, trade unions and industry leaders to improve the Scottish economy, but also modernise and greenify it. Right now we are still dependent on fossil fuels and other products that are harmful for the environment, we want to reduce this by working with the industry to make sure that they become greener.

We want to invest in our healthcare system, not primarily by putting more money into it, but by comprehensive strategies on how to tackle the recruitment into the healthcare system and the improvement of social care in Scotland. We believe that if we can work together with the healthcare sector we can improve patient outcomes, we can improve working standards and we can improve the system without a big overhaul.

The manifesto also wants to improve other facilities a lot of people use, such as railways, ferries, and roads in Scotland. We are aware that ferries are a lifeline for the citizens of the many islands that Scotland has. Businesses are dependent on tourists going to the Shetland and Orkney Islands for example, but also on better connection to the Western Isles. We want to improve connectivity, through the exploration of the possibility of creating fixed links with these islands and low-emission ferry boats for the islands farther away from the mainland.

Scotland is a beautiful place and one of the cleanest, let’s make sure that we make a brighter Scotland and truly move Forward! Thank you!”

People started to stand and applaud model-willem’s speech and he shook a lot of hands, and we mean A LOT.