- Re: #### you all!! Archived Message
Posted by Ken Waldron
on December 14, 2019, 11:55 pm, in reply to "Re: #### you all!!"
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"Yeh, with Corbyn gone, the 'media' will need fresh meat. I hope the SNP are up for it. Sturgeon seems like a tough cookie." Hard to say with Sturgeon. Theres been an expanding debate over gender here: the kind of distraction identity politics that take place when a party has no control over the real levers of economic power (or like Blairs Labour, is trying to avoid using them) and a bit of antisemitism witch hunt in the ranks too: neither of which should have been allowed never mind encouraged by the leadership, which they seem to have been... What's the feeling in Scotland, Ken? Do the Scots now want independence? Well all the polls declare its presently about 50/50. Many of the older generation are still caught up in the British thing which is why we still have about 25% of Tories... a substantial number of which still identify with the Protestant ascendancy and supremacism over other forms of human life, but fortunately they are slowly on their way out. Labour as a political force in Scotland are essentially finished, but they were always used as Westminster lobby fodder for the English Labour party anyway. Of course Scottish Nationalism and the Labour party in Scotland share the same roots. Kier Hardy supported Home rule...Cunninghame Graham the first president of the Scottish Labour Party was also first president of the Scottish National Party. After the UK Labour party took over of course all this was sidelined until increasing public pressure eventually made Labour fulfil its ancient promise. If it was Scots born people only Independence would have been won already, but the vote is inclusive and all official residents can do so. The half a million or so English residents for example were mainly against last time: I doubt very much if that's still the case. Will they let us have it equitably & without blood? I would like to think so but I'm afraid I have no faith in the Westminster colonials & perfidious Albion to deal honestly with "its" underlings, and besides, Scotland is a third of the Mainland land mass & there's vast resources as stake; whatever rubbish they try feed the punters about it not being viable: they want to keep that. |