- Re: Tony Blair was Scottish - remind me: Who's the victim again? :-):-) Archived Message
Posted by Cernunnos
on April 5, 2020, 8:27 pm, in reply to "Tony Blair was Scottish - remind me: Who's the victim again? :-):-)"
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"If the Scots had a bum deal, which is quite likely true in some ways, could it possibly be because, exactly as they are doing now, your own people sold you out? They're just not-that-great? If I said any of the the above in Scotland, I'm sure I'd get my head kicked in. Maybe ScotNats have had their heads kicked in in London, but I've never heard about it" I'm not one for pushing jingoistic nonsense about a nation's greatness. My reasons for supporting Scottish independence are based solely on the huge democratic deficit of having to follow laws made by a distant parliament whose interests do not extend much beyond the home counties. You are quite right: the manner in which Scotland ended-up in a union with England was as much to do with English coercion as it was the greed of home-grown aristocrats who in no way represented the wishes of the common people: 'a parcel of rouges in a nation' as Rabbie Burns described them. Any socialist who knows that history would no longer be enamoured of a union brought about by greed and coercion, the blowback from which continues to this day. As for getting heads kicked in, yes there are a certain group of unthinking and politically illiterate idiots who like nothing better to get off on abuse on the social media. I've had to endure them for nearly three years now since speaking out against Nicola Sturgeon's fakery. But against that there are many thinking folk who are now beginning to see how Sturgeon has put back the indy cause by 5-10 years. I would recommend Craig Murray's and Peter Bell's blogs on that subject. If the predominantly Tory ethos that pervades Westminster were half-interested in the concept of decentralization and federalism the pressure for independence would be far less. But they don't understand anything outside a tightly-controlled imperium working in the interests of the Square Mile. What was their Brexit all about if not that? Even federalism is not acceptable if that means our country remains hostage as a base for Trident nuclear missiles which most Scots rightly find abhorrent. Our island's ruling classes have little interest in anything approaching democracy or representative government while they in turn are just the marionettes of a new world order. |