When I hear Darling, or Cameron, or Osborne, or Murphy preaching, telling us how rosy the future will be within a union that will protect us and look after us and our children and our children’s children, I remember things from my own past. I remember the politicians of the 70s and 80s telling us what was good for us, from the safety of the Westminster redoubt, many miles away. I remember my own home town turning into an economic wasteland of unemployment, boarded up shops, litter and despair. I remember the mines shutting down, the factories closing, the steel furnaces switching off, the shipyards shutting their gates. I remember the utter barrenness of the employment sections of the papers. I remember bringing friends from England to visit my Mum and feeling ashamed at the state of Scotland. I remember feeling inferior. Scotland was sick back then. We had been made sick. Yet, at the same time, we had the resources to be one of the wealthiest nations on the planet. Can you imagine where we would be today, as a country, if the McCrone Report had leaked in 1979?
Posted on: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 16:55:05 +0000
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