You only have to switch on your TV, the internet, or pick up a newspaper to realise that we are living in the bizarre chaos of the final days of the United Kingdom.
Ironically, for an entity which continually asserts its undying love and wish to protect and nurture its ‘precious union’, the catalyst for the end to what has only ever nominally been a union of equals is being brought about as a mis-intended consequence of its own actions.
These are the actions of a centralised post-imperial power, arrogant, indignant, blind to its own inadequacies and shortcomings, caught up in simplistic governmental factional and personality driven squabbling about immigrants, wildly inaccurate fables about power struggles with a trading bloc of its near neighbours on the European mainland, and inflamed by paroxysms of ire about straight bananas.
At the front and centre of the thinking of those gnawing on the bones of their own demise is, as always, greed, and a sense of self enrichment, at the thought of personal opportunities to make a fast buck prostituting Britain’s goods, services and workforce once regulatory frameworks set up to protect the rest of us in areas like Health and Safety, food standards, the environment and employment protection are dismantled to suit their financial aims.
They’ve performed a massive confidence trick on the electorate of England and Wales. They don’t give a fuck about the NHS, really they don’t, apart from expecting to exploit it for their own financial gain when they can.
The sentimentalisation of what they consider halcyon day’s of late empire, buttered scones, the BBC News read by Alvar Lidell, the Archers, good old Winston, where ‘standards were maintained’ (standards which benefited them, not us) days which in reality were only considered idyllic by those of the same class and wealth status of these modern day snake oil selling chancers, is odious.
How I wish we, in Scotland, had reached the other side of this protracted struggle to see our country rightfully re-established as an independent self-governing nation.
We, the hopeful, the hoarse, the footsore and the keyboard calloused fingered, often hear that the way we will convince sufficient numbers of our not-yet-convinced folk to allow us to achieve our goal through democratic means is by painting a picture for them in their minds of what Scotland can be, once the heavy weight of the chains of union have been cut away.
Think of the assets of Scotland. For example, (there are many more) its abundance of natural resources, to an extent that other nations of a similar size and population could only dream about, its world class food and drink sector exporting unique Scottish branded goods recognisable everywhere, the capability to be a world leader in renewable energy development, exporting energy to what will become our neighbour to the south and the European grid.
The sky is the limit when it comes to opportunities to create an economically successful re-established Northern European medium sized (look at the sea boundaries) independent country Don’t let anybody tell you Scotland is small.
But better than that, much better than that, an independent Scotland will have a written constitution, something the UK does not have. (Why would it, why would it wish to enshrine the rights of its people into a document which could be used to hold its feet to the fire?)
Our independent Scotland will have a written constitution taking account of your requirements, your aspirations, your views, as a citizen. It will set out your rights to excellent standards of health care, from cradle to grave, to warm, high quality affordable housing, to education, to employment rights, to a fair wage, to a welfare system which treats our people with respect and puts us at the centre of its service provision).
Even better than all of that, Scotland will be governed by its people, no matter their origins, Scots.
A parliamentary chamber with full constitutional powers, real decision-makers, where first and foremost, on all occasions, no matter the issue under debate, no matter the political ideology of the democratically elected representatives seated in the room, a place where those charged with the responsibility of public service will always put the needs and stated aspirations of the people who put them there to the front of their mind, at the core of their decision making.They will have no option, for we will be watching.
That, my friends, will be the clear and distinct difference between the Scotland that is coming, and the toothless poor relation to a controlling government from another country we currently are.
How could you possibly not be convinced that independence is clearly a better option for us, our children and their children?
It is coming. Come join us, we’ll get there all the quicker.
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