Not So Stupid Then

Scotland has voted to stay part of the United Kingdom. This means that they are not stupid, of course. But one and a half million people did vote for Alex Salmond and that is amazing. Beyond amazing actually. Doubtless some people did vote for an independent Scotland, not understanding what was really being offered.

Essentially, at the outset the offering was between status quo and giving power to Alex Salmond. Scotland would be separated from the English parliament certainly, but the idea was that Salmond seized power.

I don't know how many Scots realised that all the Yes campaign talk of the greater social feeling innate to the Scottish could only be delivered through him. Independent Scotland would be immensely wealthy (somehow), with almost free energy, free higher education, prescriptions, buses anything in fact. Hell, everything!

But Salmond isn't a socialist or anything like it. He is a hard nosed Communist and he knows that he mustn't tell you that or even more, most Scots wouldn't give him a second thought. Did not all his talk of a Utopia born of Scotland sound suspiciously like all communist regimes and their promises? Always promises.

But countries like North Korea and Venezuela under Chavez appeal to Salmond not because they are superb places for people to live free, unfettered lives, without the oppression of capitalism, but because of the power that resides with an elite.

Well, for now he is thwarted, but is violence his next option? It usually is for such people.

Scotland

The tourist destination, Scotland is being pushed by radical socialists towards 'independence'. Like most of the recent decisions by its comedy parliament, this is not something it can afford, nor is it being cried out for by the Scottish people. It speaks volumes, I think, when a larger percentage of the English want rid of the whining region than Scots want independence.

But then, the not-very-trustworthy Alex Salmond isn't actually offering independence as such. He just wants a bigger role for himself and the actual running of the country will be handed over to the EU, if he is allowed to join. And he also seems keen to adopt the Euro. The strategy, if such a grand word can be used in the context of this ignorant man, is for Scotland to become more like Ireland and Iceland. It is an old strategy.

You may notice that there is no 'I' in Scotland, but fear not Salmond is resolving that personally. I think that Scotland should be proud of its place in the United Kingdom and its people should stop believing the lies they have been fed by socialists for so long. Scotland has been reduced to a dependency status by politicians who want to keep them down, in their place to allow easier political control. And these are Scottish politicians.

Scottish people are better than that, we know this as a historical fact, but they have been prone to listening to whinging, left wing rabble-rousers, who like Scargill with the miners have no interest in the people they mislead. Such people as Salmond are responsible, directly for much of the industrial wastelands and poverty in Scotland, both financial and moral poverty.