The case for Scottish independence made excellently by James Meadway: The machine will not be thrown into reverse. The machine can only be taken apart. (As a questioner at the televised debate put it, “If we’re Better Together, why are we not better together already?”) If the outcome of the vote is close – and all the evidence suggests it will be – then, win or lose, a series of political crises will follow. For the Labour Party, which foolishly entered into an alliance with the Tories; for the Westminster system as a whole, now confronted with outright rejection by huge numbers of its own citizens. The first rumblings of a campaign for English devolution can be heard, threatening further cracks in what is perhaps the most centralised state machine of all the major economies. We cannot guarantee the outcomes of independence. Should the vote go in favour, the fight will be on to extend the historic gains of the working class north of the border – and, for the rest of us, to insist that the remaining UK state recognises the will of the Scottish people. But the possibility is there to crack open our captured democracy, and break up the Westminster-City machine. We should seize it with both hands. counterfire.org/articles/opinion/17407-scottish-independence-referendum-no-excuse-for-no
Posted on: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 21:03:06 +0000
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