So, Ive stayed uncharacteristically quiet in the run up to the referendum but having seen some of the statuses my friends and family have posted up I feel I need to get something off my chest. Scotland, as a nation, are not pathetic or disgusting or any other melodramatic adjective you want to conjure up because we rejected independence. Scotland, and the UK as a whole, should be applauded for allowing democracy to triumph. We may be the first and only country to have rejected independent rule, but we were also the first and only country to get the chance to take it to the polls; and thats incredible! No other country was given this choice. Go back in history as far as you want and look at other, now, independent nations: South Sudan, the Koreas, the former USSR, Israel, India, Canada, Pakistan, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and probably a great many more. Every one of these countries earned their independence with blood. Some got their independence peacefully as a reward or recognition after a brutal war while others fought and are still fighting for their freedom and only won it at great cost. Not only did thousands, or millions, of people die for these freedoms but those who disagreed were persecuted, driven from their homelands or executed as traitors. Compare that to what happened here; we had 18 months of listening to two groups of overpaid and pompous windbags who struggled to relate to two thirds of the electorate, then pick which one we disagreed with the least. The problem, that I saw, was that several main groups werent guaranteed the same benefits they get now: teenagers werent assured their free university education, the poor werent assured a generous welfare state, business owners werent assured a currency union or trade rights and the elderly werent assured free healthcare or pension protection. Take them out of the equation and youre left with reasonably well off people working below board management level aged 18 to 65, and apparently we only make up a third of the voting public. So well done Better Together, dont make us regret it! For the record, I actually did vote yes but only as devo-max wasnt an option.
Posted on: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 08:44:22 +0000
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