Scottish independence
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I was up in Edinburgh recently, as my Dad's recently bought a wee flat there. I must admit, my heart got carried away with things as I looked around and I saw the earnestness with which her youth appeared to support independence. I thought, for the first time "well, why not?".
That was two weeks ago. I've since read up as much as I can and am now back thinking "it's too late, it's a bad time and it's a terribly-unconsidered and mostly reactionary stance".
The economics are grim and the sad fact is, the young earnest supporters of the Yes! camp would be the most-fucked by its outcome. It'd be a generation or so before the dust settled and the benefits reaped, and in the mean time, Scotland's youth would be left with even less opportunity than which they are faced with now.
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My family's wholly Scottish, but I'm from the North East of England, where I've lived for a good 15 years of my life - like wolfboy, I consider myself more 'British' than English or Scottish.
The problems faced by Scotland are the exact-same as those faced by The North, by Wales, by Cornwall or Northern Ireland. Christ, by the Midlands, by Manchester and the middle belt - by Birmingham.
London and its city are a quasi-city state that at once acts as an all-consuming cancer, sucking away at the lifeblood of the rest of the country... as well as, perversely, resulting in a hugely inordinate share of the entire country's income.
The solution to Britain lies not in its dismemberment, rather in a greater involvement and cohesion.
Remember New Labour, before the Fall? Anyone recall how it was referred to as the ‘Scottish Mafia’, because of the large percentage of Scots who ran it and thusly, the whole country?
Times may have changed, but the Scottish core of New Labour didn't work in Scotland interests back then, merely fobbing Her off with a diluted version of devolution — what makes anyone think an independent Scotland's politicans of tomorrow will be any more self-interested?
Who was it that lost Scotland to the English in the first place? The English did their thing, sure — but it was our own who fucked things up for everyone else.
Self-interest fucks things up for everyone, everywhere.
Always has, always will.