We just want our country back. The evidence is there that our forbears, by far the majority of them, didn’t want to join in a Union with England, as Defoe the spy, and propagandist testified, (fake news is not new) in his reports back to London,(before he wrote Robinson Crusoe, starred in the movie “Platoon“ and scored 47 goals for Tottenham). We know the Darien Scheme was a huge financial disaster, but not of such an extent to make us crawl to our neighbours door for a tap until pay-day and a request that they make all our future governance decisions for us ad-infinitum. We know that our nobles of the time sold out their country on the strength of bribes, debt clearances, promises of lands and titles, before being unceremoniously chased out of Edinburgh after signing their names to the documents which were to see us governed by a Union, by consent in name only, for the next 300 odd years.
We just want our country back, and we don’t anymore wish to look up, dredge up, or live in, the past. We don’t want to fight with anyone or fall out. We scratch our heads in bewilderment that our belief in the prospect of us successfully regaining control of the governance of our own country is spun around and deliberately misconstrued by those in England in power to be somehow all about them, not us, as they specifically accuse us, falsely, of hate towards them. How arrogant is that? We don’t hate anyone, we are not asking for something which Is not rightfully ours. All we want is what exists for other democratic countries, the governance arrangement considered normal, the power to make our own decisions for Scotland, in Scotland, and by the people who live there. In the name of goodness what could possibly be wrong with that?
We just want our country back. From the day and hour of our rightful return to self-governance we will have boundless energy, enthusiasm and determination to move our country progressively forward in a citizen-centred focussed manner, to be a beacon for others to follow. No longer shackled, no longer bound and derided by association, having to endure endless poor, misjudged or London-centrically prioritised governmental decisions made for us, not by us.
We just want our country back. We will shirk nothing. We will address poverty head on, we will treat the addicted, not stigmatise them, we will develop a world class system of public services which first and foremost treats our people, all of them, with dignity and respect. We will look to build on the great work of our European and Scandinavian partners in building from the bottom up a society where no child should go hungry, where the right to high quality housing, shelter and warmth, health care and education are codified into law, where our auld folk can pass their remaining years without the worry of penury or poor health care, where opportunities arise for our young. We’ll make things again in Scotland. No longer will we be a country of retail parks and call centres. We will become, once again, major manufacturers, in green technology, wind, tide, developing energy grids to mainland Europe and our northern friends. Our world class food and drink exports will be just that, ours.
We just want our country back. We want to look forwards. We don’t want to live in permanent homage to a past filled with imperial conquest and a pre-occupation with war. The good old days of waving little red, white and blue flags, ration books, deferring to those who have acquired posh accents, and overt racial and religious persecution and discrimination weren’t really good, no matter how many Tory (British Nationalist) politicians swoon over their ‘royal throne of kings, this sceptered isle, this other Eden, this England’. No. we want to make friends, build partnerships, in harmony with others, not create barriers, generate suspicion or provoke belligerence. Keep your little empire mentality in your own country.
We just want our country back. We will be the best of friends to others in times of strife. Call upon us, and you can be sure of our help in partnership, we will demonstrate our commitment to assisting you, as friends do, but we will never again be subject to the will of another nation.Never.
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