Britain is shit. Vote No and well get more of the same. Vote Yes and Scotland can try to get more in line with normal European countries that are not ruled in perpetuity by upper class British feudal overlords - Cameron, Osborne, Duncan Smith. Vote Yes and maybe the Labour Party can be reborn in Scotland - sweep away Thatcherite New Labour! Vote Yes and Scotland can maybe lead the way in re-inventing a politics of compassion, egalitarianism and respect for human beings. ...its Britain that is the fourth most unequal developed country on earth, in which pay has in recent years fallen faster than in all but three EU countries, in which people work the third longest hours in Europe for the second lowest wages in the OECD despite having Europes third highest housing costs, highest train fares and the second worst levels of fuel poverty. Its Britain which has the least happy children in the developed world, the highest infant mortality rate in Western Europe and some of the worst child poverty in the industrialised world. Its British elderly people who are the fourth poorest pensioners in the EU. Its Britain which has the eighth biggest gender pay gap in Europe and child care costs much higher than most European countries. Its Britain which has a wealth gap twice as wide as any other EU country, Europes greatest regional inequality, productivity 16% behind the average for advanced economies and the worst record on industrial production of the rich world. Its Britain whose elite has a radical ideology: 40% of the total value of all privatisations in the Western world between 1980 and 1996 happened in the UK; and its Britains parliament which is uniquely undemocratic, with its noxious combination of first past the post and an unelected second chamber, yet holds more centralised power than almost any other legislature in the developed world. With all that, it should be no surprise that Britain has the lowest level of trust in our politicians.
Posted on: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 13:13:28 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015