‘In the course of my life I have developed five little democratic questions. If one meets a powerful person–Adolf Hitler, Joe Stalin or Bill Gates–ask them five questions: “What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you?” If you cannot get rid of the people who govern you, you do not live in a democratic system.’
These were Tony Benn’s words, during his last speech to the House of Commons as an MP. Wise and indeed prophetic when you consider the answers to the five questions he puts if measured against the current shambolic government of the disunited Union.
They can do what they like, they were given power by a first past the post system where paid up members of their party, little old ladies in the Home Counties and members of the southern English coast yacht clubs, get to pick the government which controls the levers of power for Scotland. In terms of who’s interest do they exercise it the answer is unequivocally themselves and any of their cronies that they can mutually benefit from, shielded by their media propaganda and the brass neck attitude of arrogant public school elitism they feel they are accountable to nobody, apart from perhaps their totemic figurehead, the lady in the golden hat (and that is debatable) and then there is the final question.
It seems there is no way to get rid of them. Years of corruption, taking personal advantage of the misery of the many during a pandemic, criminal negligence resulting in the deaths of well over a hundred thousand innocent people whilst other countries around the world have made decisions designed to protect their citizens resulting in only minor mortality rates from the virus, filling their cronies coffers with public money designated for life protecting PPE equipment, setting out rules for the rest of us, whilst laughing up their sleeves and carrying on with their own elite and exceptionalist lifestyles without a care for the many of the rest of us making sacrifices in their lives that nobody should have to, leaving loved ones to die alone, unable to comfort the distressed and gravely ill.
Over 150,000 innocents can die, many of them needlessly, and this mob of reprehensible cretins can still sit and guffaw and jeer behind the worst Prime Minister in living memory (and that is saying something) like a Tim Burton cartoon of a pack of hyenas. They are alright, they’ve survived, what’s the problem? They followed through with Brexit, are they not great? Let’s have a party!
Britain is not a genuine democracy. To think otherwise is naïve.
A return to independence for our country is the way out of this. We, the many who advocate for an independent Scotland, must move forward, united in our determination, and we must succeed.
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