Comments by "Andy Monaghan" (@229andymon) on "Zeihan on Geopolitics"
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@chrisy6707 Well, that and the Labour Party were desperate to try to hold back the rising support for independence. Labour have never been seriously interested in devolution, and still aren’t, unionism is as ingrained in them as it is for the Tories, albeit for slightly different reasons.
At the time (I know, I was there) Labour didn’t seriously foresee an SNP Scotland, so were content to imagine Holyrood would continue being the glorified “Parish Council” dominated by Labour that Blair said he considered it to be. During Labour’s utterly mediocre 7 years in charge of Holyrood, their biggest boast was bringing in a smoking ban a year or so before the rest of UK. They never, at any time, considered any kind of challenge to Westminster, whether ruled by their own party - or the Tories. In other words, useless.
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@Bob-ts2tu And you don't think the same happens on the unionist side? That Scotland is often (in the hopelessly biased Brit media) portrayed as some kind of economic basket case full of druggies and benefits cheats happy to leach off an unaccountably generous and ever-patient England? I routinely see unionist propaganda that frankly is utter trash and I see it from social media right up to the BBC. I not only see propaganda trashing Scotland, but also propaganda praising Brit performance that is either BS or highly biased. In my view the UK economy is performing very poorly, mainly due to catastrophic Tory policies (Tories that Scots last voted for in 1955).
However, there are stone cold facts we cannot help but concede.
1. Scottish economic performance is mostly determined by UK decisions not Scottish. The main levers of economic power controlling all of UK are in Westminster, not Holyrood. So it's ironic that Brit failure is somehow labelled as Scottish. Scotland performs badly in UK therefore Scotland will perform even worse outside (where we will make decisions that suit our own economy). Yeah, that's logical - Not.
2. Brexit is a complete disaster, and is ruining not just Scotland, but also UK. We did not choose that course - but, as usual, our votes were cancelled in the unfair, unequal Brit union. This is normal. In 2015 Scotland returned all but 3 MPs as independence supporting. Did that get us independence - No. What did it get us - absolutely nothing that Westminster didn't want to give. That is what being Scotland in the UK union means.
All we want is a chance to decide, in the light of the changed circumstances we are in since 2014 (out the EU against our will) whether we want to remain in the union. Once we get that and vote to leave (as I'm confident we will) then we cease to become any issue or problem of yours. All we will ask for is good political relations and the best trading arrangement to suit both countries.
It's just a pity Westminster is choosing to block democracy because they know they will lose that referendum.
if you truly like Scotland, then try to like what's best for us, even if that is considered not good for UK.
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