I almost made it…By this I mean I almost refrained from writing a post about how, on Saturday passed, was the 7th anniversary of the Scottish independence referendum where just under 45% of voters voted for Scotland to leave the U.K. and just over 55% voted to remain…but of course I could not let it go without my rant on my favourite subject! I was so proud I could bite my tongue and stay off social media by not posting any comments about this but …no…time to shoot these fish in the barrel again, pick that low hanging fruit … goad some of these self-proclaimed great Scottish patriots again (patriots…lol, their ignorance would destroy Scotland if they had their mis-informed way)
The Nationalist narrative was, and seems to remain much the same, that an independent Scotland would have ensured that Scottish oil, the best oil in the world, would have been sold at a premium price. The sheer pride of independence would have raised productivity, solving the funding crisis, as international business would have flocked to Scotland. The sheer happiness engendered would have led to all Scots giving up drugs, and Sammond would have been too busy winning his Nobel Peace Prize to be engaging in anything that might have led to any trial. While a free Scottish NHS would by now have increased life expectancy in Scotland by 10 years at least. All that lost by voting no…but reality is somewhat different to what these Darien dreamers would have you believe and if you try to question it then they will soon attempt to drown you out with their tartan tambourine thumping.
SNP have no credibility, they are failures at every part of their Government responsibilities. The real issues of law, education, NHS and poverty.
Their supporters have no idea and the whole Never-endum has been nothing but a huge waste of time and resources.
And their ongoing toxic campaigning has brought nothing but division and despair for the rest of us, the silent majority who have already rejected and continue to reject their fantasy ideological aims.
Nationalism is a noisy empty vessel which distorts the view of those outwith this country. They receive a disproportionate amount of media attention whilst the SNPs record in Government is swept under the carpet.
And it's not just the cozy Central Belt commentariot, it's the London based media which has allowed it to happen, buying into Sturgeon's empty rhetoric instead of challenging and exposing their hypocrisy and incompentency.
This is a disgrace to democracy, and a disgrace to the Scottish people
Had Scotland voted for YES in 2014, it would still, given the financial deficit, be outside both the EU (where it currently does 18% of its trade) and rUK (where it currently does 60% of its trade). But now membership of the EU is just another manufactured SNP grievance in pursuit of independence.
And consider in the far (given the financial pre-requisites in order to apply to join) future a putative iScotland within the EU:
Scottish MEPs would represent less than 1% of the EU total, as compared to 9% of Westminster's MPs. And within the EU one country one vote has been jettisoned in favour of Qualified Majority Voting, where your voting block is based on the size of your population. Germany's population is 83 million, France 67 million. This means that EU decisions will be largely based on French and German priorities, doubly so since they are the primary source of EU funds - better not to bite the hand that feeds you.
The voice of a putative independent Scotland (should it ever be allowed to join) with a population of 5.5 million ( just over 1% of the EU's population) would be a wee whisper; it would be a strange form of independence
Armageddon that would have been visited on Scotland had the nationalists got their way in 2014…we dodged a bullet.
The message for those who voted Yes in 2014 (and quoted the White Paper which has since proven to be the greatest work of fiction since 1986 Oor Willie holiday special) is “Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me”
We dodged a bullet but some want that same gun reloaded … more the fool them!
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