Wednesday, September 18, 2013

One year to go and its all rather depressing

So in a years time the first of what will no doubt be a series of referenda of Scotland leaving the UK will be just about to close.

Frankly I find the level of the debate that has been reported to the rest of the UK depressing.

It is like your spouse has decided to get an accountant in to figure out if she'll be better of divorcing you, and at the same time has signed up to an on-line dating service to see if the Scandinavian, Irish or lets face it EU model would be better bet.

There is but one rule for the maybe to be dumped partner - say nothing - after all this marriage is all about Scotland.

If you'd been treated like that you'd start wondering how much a divorce lawyer of your own would cost - just to run through the possibilities.

I'm not sure the Union deserves to survive if this is the level of low mercantile debate.

Now I'm not following things too closely right now, so perhaps I'm missing all the positive things about sharing a state and country with England, Wales & so help us all Northern Ireland, but if its happening then its easy to miss.

Listening to the radio this morning interview a group of narcistic teenagers on how they will vote - it was just a cold calculation about narrow selfish advantage ( though one of them needs to be sent to a cult deprogramming rehab to recover from having swallowed the whole Alex Salmond lets pretend economics play book ). Which ballot box option would give them the most 'free' this or salve their conscience by the state doing that. Just depressing, and it shows the total failure of the right to get any of its issues across in Scotland.

In the end this is perhaps the strongest argument for Scotland being cut of from the UK - they really do need to grow up. Perhaps being part of the UK prevents this from happening.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

does it really matter. the uk is being broken up to be sub states of the EU. Too late to worry about it.

Anonymous said...

"...a group of narcistic teenagers on how they will vote - it was just a cold calculation about narrow selfish advantage..."

Teenagers are very likely to be self-obsessed (part of the job description), so it does sound a very manipulative interview.

It can have had little/no consideration of the proven benefits of Union that are now probably only to be found in honest history lessons, not lessons promoted by the EU-loving (possibly a natural reaction given the number of times Britain has scuppered totalitarian control of Europe).

James Higham said...

I'm not sure the Union deserves to survive if this is the level of low mercantile debate.

And that's the central issue.