A generation hasn’t passed, says Tom Tugendhat, a completely unknown (in Scotland until about a fortnight ago) and uninspiring Westminster politician, who is vapidly telling us about how he will rule our country, not his.
Another non-entity of the same ilk, Penny Mordaunt, answering Sunday politics interview questions about whether there were any circumstances that she as Prime Minister would grant a section 30 order looked bored, displayed a why are you asking me about this nonsense look on her face, and gave us the benefit of the words, should she end up ruling us, ‘it’s a settled question.’
Yes, it is quite easy to take the temperature of where the people of Scotland’s democratic rights sit in order of the priorities of those intending to take over the lead role in the government than governs Scotland from another country.
In whatever form your views, aims, aspirations or will are expressed it means zero to them, the middle of a doughnut. You are not worthy of consideration.
The opposition bench nearest the exit in the Westminster Commons chamber could have the arses of 59 members of political parties in Scotland who seek independence parked on its archaic dusty benches in the 59 available seats.
In an electoral system designed to stop such a thing there could be a Holyrood chamber overflowing with independence- supporting elected and list members in a state of near self-combustion about disrespect of democracy.
There could be an independence march so well attended that those crossing the start line at the front passed a thriving chippy at opening time and those at the back didn’t cross that same start line until the bucket of raw crinkle cut Ayrshires was empty, the fryers were switched off and the shop was in darkness for the night.
It still wouldn’t matter to those who have the legal power to control our country from elsewhere. You are of no importance to them.
They need the income you generate, the resources your country had, has and potentially will have, they need the strategic geopolitical weight of your country’s added value to its own, they need your country’s geographical position and its deep-water access for defence, and as a buffer against nuclear accident, but they don’t need your votes, so they don’t need you. They only require use of what you have.
What they fail to understand though is that every single time one, or many of them, insults us in this manner, disrespecting the people of Scotland, then we re-double our efforts to make sure that we succeed in our goal of returning our country to its rightful state, a state like most other countries in the world, of self-government.
I’ve scoffed in the past at those who would suggest that we are a colony of the British state, Scotland having played a part too in much of what went on as many countries around the world received the benefit of becoming ‘civilised’. As countries like India watched their assets and resources being systematically stripped from underneath them, taking years to rid themselves of their beneficent colonisers, often after much blood had been spilled between factions in internal conflicts at times manufactured, or at least flamed, by the empire to mask their own criminality, we were part of that corruption, often as cannon fodder marching at the back of a bayonet.
However, if the Supreme Court can be bothered giving it some thought, after our masters in London suggesting to them last week that they shouldn’t waste their time on us, we may be just about to find out that although democratically we as a majority wish to have a referendum on our future governance we legally and legitimately cannot have one as we need the permission of another country to do so. I’d say that puts us more in the range of being a colony or provincial region than a member in a consenting mutual partnership, wouldn’t you?
Independence is normal. Independence is inevitable. Independence is coming.
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