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By Duncan on Sep 26, 2009 | In Big Thoughts | Send feedback »
- "It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom -- for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself." From the Declaration of Arbroath: 1320
- Normality: The normality is Independence. Most countries around the world are independent and most of them prefer it that way.
- The only normal and appropriate status for any nation is independence.
Follow up:
The end of the British Empire should now lead to the end of the British Union.- Scotland's unique history led her eventually to be bribed, bullied and threatened into the treaty of union. While some people in Scotland financially benefited from the British Empire most ordinary Scots were poor at the beginning and just as poor at the end. It no longer serves Scotland to be locked into an unequal marriage with a country ten times her size. Scotland has no interest in being an imperial power, we want normal powers for our own nation and that's it.
- Just how 'equal' is the union?
- Scotland has one tenth of the UK's population. 59 seats out of 650. With one 'partner' so much larger the union can never be equal and never has been.
- Our distinctive voice is not heard internationally. In the modern world our distinctive political voice will not be heard unless we are individually represented on all international bodies, in particular the United Nations and the European Union (if we choose to remain within it). This will only happen with independence. As a nation with massive oil reserves we may also choose to be a part of OPEC. We would probably choose not to be a part of NATO since all our independent political parties are strongly against nuclear weapons. We need our own embassies all around the world, separate from the UK, so our voice is properly heard on the international stage. Our Media and politicians follow an English agenda Our news media is mostly based in London and therefore politically we have been dominated by political parties controlled by England. While Labour the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives call themselves Scottish when they operate within Scotland, in reality they follow an agenda which favours the majority of people in the UK, in other words the south of England. Too often if our political views are heard at all, they are simply ignored.
- Scotland's athletes are being treated as second class Recently Scotland did extremely well in the Commonwealth games, which is the only international competition (outside of football and Rugby) where we are given the opportunity to compete as a nation. Surely our athletes should have the opportunity to represent our nation at World Championships and the Olympic games?
- Financially we CAN afford Independence "If you tell a lie long enough, it becomes the truth." Joseph Goebbels (Minister of Propaganda for the German Nazi regime). The British state has taken Goebbels advice to heart and repeats at every opportunity that Scotland is too wee and skint to be independent and that England is subsidising our economy. In actual fact however the figures prove the exact opposite as has recently been shown by the SNP.
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