Peter A, one of the most sensible and logical analysts of the debate takes this article apart piece by piece. ......So lets be courteous and call it chutzpah when Brian Monteith seeks to rationalise the horrendous legacy of Thatcherism by referring to the bad management and catalogued failures of others. As if it was those who sought to oppose or at least mitigate the impact of policies associated with Thatcher who were actually to blame for the socially corrosive and economically destructive effects of those policies. As if it wasnt Thatcher and her disciples in the British Labour Party who laid the groundwork for the catastrophic collapse of the capitalist financial system in 2007/2008. Those who absolve themselves of blame for their crimes and errors have a neat trick. Just as the servants and agents of the US war machine armour themselves with righteousness by defining insurgents or terrorists as anyone weve killed, so capitalist ideologues avoid responsibility for their failures by the simple expedient of re-defining those who fail so as to exclude them from the category of capitalists. Hence, every bank failure is a one-off; every bankster criminal a rogue; and every incompetent an outsider who somehow managed to worn their way into the system. When capitalism fails, they simply insist that what failed was not REAL capitalism and that the way to avoid further such failures is to do more of what always turns out to be precisely the same. The British state is locked into this endless cycle of failure. Independence gives Scotland the opportunity to break free of it. We can do things differently. Nobody in the Yes camp is promising any more than that. It should be enough. Like so much else, an oil fund is a matter of political will. That political will exists in Scotland. The time has come to harness it.
Posted on: Tue, 03 Dec 2013 12:53:57 +0000
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