I didnt realise that Galloway was putting forward such a dangerous sectarian argument in his nay campaign. Its grossly irresponsible to provoke such division and attempt to stoke fear among the Scottish working class Catholic community. Im frankly disgusted (but not surprised) that his enduring traits of impatience and opportunism have led him down this path: `He is scathing about the views espoused by George Galloway and some others that Catholics in Scotland would become more vulnerable in a smaller country. This is nonsense. George, as usual, is talking rhetoric. None of those assertions is based on any academic understanding or knowledge.` Divine frames his argument interestingly by suggesting it was the parliament in Westminster under Margaret Thatcher that was guilty of separatism when it ditched the post-war consensus in the 1980s. A fair enough point as it goes: `The Scottish parliament has demonstrated competent government and it represents a Scottish people who are wedded to a social democratic agenda and the kind of political values which sustained and were embedded in the welfare state of the late 1940s and 1950s. It is the Scots who have succeeded most in preserving the British idea of fairness and compassion in terms of state support and intervention. Ironically, it is England, since the 1980s, which has embarked on a separate journey.`
Posted on: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 08:04:58 +0000
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