Why do some Scots? …

Why do some Scots want control of everything by devolution EXCEPT the things that REALLY matter to their lives and their children's futures?

 

Why do some Scots want control of everything by devolution EXCEPT the right not to be made a prime target by UK for a first nuclear strike?

 

Why do some Scots want control of everything by devolution EXCEPT the right to have weapons of mass destruction removed from their soil?

 

Why do some Scots want control of everything by devolution EXCEPT the right of Westminster to withdraw any or all of that control at any time?

 

Why do some Scots want control of everything by devolution EXCEPT the right to control their relations with other fully independent nations?

 

Why do some Scots want control of everything by devolution EXCEPT the right to have their children being sent to die in foreign wars?

The ominous undertone of the Better Together alliance of Tories, Labour (and LibDems) becomes ever more pronounced.

Playing the foreign countries, foreigners and foreigness card becomes more prevalent, militarism is increasingly invoked - whether by threats over defence or appeals to an imagined glorious military past - and ex-servicemen are urged to rally to the defence of the union.

Sinister organisations with paramilitary links from Northern Ireland plan to visit those of like mind in the West of Scotland, etc.

Nuclear weapons of mass destruction, Trident, and the nuclear presence in Scottish waters is ever the backdrop ...

All of this is meat and drink to an increasingly insular, anti-European Tory Party, but what in God's name is the Labour Party doing at the very forefront of this brand of militant neo-conservatism? The spectacle of Kezia Dugdale, a politician of principle and patently genuine commitment to social justice in this company appals me.