Woke up the morning and read a headline in the Newspaper claiming “ Nicola Sturgeon’s refusal to rule out THIRD independence vote if she loses again exposed”
then goes on to say
“NICOLA STURGEON refused to rule out trying for a third independence referendum within a short period if she lost her planned second vote, unearthed reports reveal”
Almost choked on my cappuccino!! Froth formed expletive exploded henceforth as did the need of another blog rant.
Considering how Nicola Sturgeon is making Scotland ever more impoverished and dependent on British money its crazy to think she is preparing for another attempt to break up the UK! (this after a second vote if she fails, a second Scottish Independence referendum that has not even been authorised so this is jumping the gun a wee bit)
It does make me curious what their (SNP) white paper perspectives for a third attempt would be... a Jurassic park styled unicorn (that shit gold) ranch perhaps and money trees and export of tartan paint .... who knows?
In preparation for the 2014 independence referendum the SNP had written a plan for independence that they released in 2013 called “The White Paper” which made all sorts of claims that nowadays appear ludicrous such as that there would be a currency union with the former UK and that every Scot would be hundreds of pounds a year better off because we’d have all the oil and it could just not be comfortably sitting at over $100 a barrel.. cough cough...Even the writers/ researchers of the then prospective for Scottish independence confirmed it was lies and false promises using cherry picked horizons from past GERs reports from when once upon a time oil in the North Sea was worth more than the extraction costs. The respected Financial Times even did an article a couple of years ago saying how if the vote for Scottish Independence was won in 2014 we (Scotland) would have since been a bankrupt nation.
Next...and certainly not a generation later the Nationalist are thumping the tartan tambourine again with their demands to split from the rest of the uk and produce another perspective to use on their Braveheart fans so in 2018 the SNP came up “Scotland: the new case for optimism” written by the Sustainable Growth Commission... hohoho ...In some ways it was commendable in parts for its honesty.... but don’t hold your breath here it came with plenty dishonesty too...It did recognised that Scottish independence would require some difficult economic choices and that there would be a degree of austerity for the first decade or so after independence (this was its very optimistic part) yet it overlooked (more likely ignored on purpose) the austerity which the EU would apply to Scotland to reduce its deficit as an independent Nation.
Neither in its (mis)calculations will it have the new facts about the money (billions) which has recently came up from our friends down south of the border to pay for the Corona Furlough scheme which is estimated to have saved 374,000 jobs in Scotland. (Bookmark that for the next time a nationalist asks what the benefits of Union are)
There are also plenty recent food for thought about the Sturgeon SNP admission in Scotland during the Corona crisis up here (well I say “food for thought” but if intelligence was snacks for the brain many nationalist would have had hollow head starvation by now)
Scotland is more sparsely populated compared to most of Europe. We don’t have an international airport hub and we don’t get that many tourists in the Winter and Spring because of our weather. Yet in terms of Covid cases per 100,000 people Scotland is doing rather worse than England.
Also about The Nike conference in Edinburgh in February? at its very best shows incompetence or at its worst shows a cover up... By Sturgeon’s own admission (The Herald) on the 2nd of March she was aware of the Corona virus outbreak in
Edinburgh during the end of February but she kept quiet about it but all likelihood she knew before then.
On Saturday the 8th of March over 80’000 rugby fans, many from France visited Edinburgh when France played Scotland, Murrayfield stadium was full to its capacity if 65000 fans tightly packed together.
Could she cancelled the Rugby, made a public announcement so people would be aware of the risks going into Edinburgh? Of course she could have! Did she? NO! She kept quiet!
Almost half the Corona deaths in Scotland are in Care homes (compared to about a quarter in England) PPI and there was no testing for front line workers and vulnerable in these Scottish care homes!
The unarguable (unless you are a nationalist that is) fact is that an independent Scotland would have been sunk without trace with the double whammy of the Corona crisis and the collapsed oil price.
Yes voters should be thanking No voters for saving them from a financial calamity (not abusing and threatening them on social media)
Disgracefully Sturgeon continues to look at the Corona crisis through a constitutional prism to apply policies in the attempt to show Scotland as a separation country to the rest of the UK and people are dying as a result!
It’s also a disgrace that the people who vote SNP during election time seem to overlook or ignore the SNPs performance on health, education and the economy, they continue to swallow their lies and rhetoric praising them.... I shake my head at this stupidity, you sense it immediately if you try and engage in any sort of debate about the Scottish economy, their arguments soon fall flat then it’s conspiracy theories (e.g hidden oil fields and Crone reports) or just plain anglophobia.
I have said it before and I will say it again, it’s not better politicians we need, it’s a better electorate ... I dread the damage the SNP will continue to do to Scotland and God help us all if independence ever was to happen!
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