How any rational Scottish voter can contemplate voting for the Tories, Labour or the LibDems in the imminent general election baffles me.
THE CHARGES AGAINST THE UNION
We have a Union engaged in pointless, unwinnable wars, killing the flower of our young people.
We have a Union committed blindly to outdated, and strategically irrelevant nuclear weapons of mass destruction, at enormous cost, at a time when the Union is close to bankruptcy and deep cuts in essential services are about to be made.
We have an almost wholly corrupt Westminster structure, as the expenses scandal and the political donations to the three major parties have so devastatingly exposed.
Among the minor parties, we have one fascist party and one neo-fascist party.
We have corruption in the House of Lords, with criminal prosecutions of peers of the realm already underway, and with perhaps more to come.
We have parties being funded by mega-rich donors – all three major parties - who are avoiding UK tax, and using the money saved – the taxpayers’ money – our money - to bankroll the political party that they believe will grant favours and preferment that will make them even richer, and more able to subvert our democracy.
We have one of these parties (the LibDems) accepting money from a convicted fraudster and refusing to give it back.
We have a governing party (for the moment) committed to covering up complicity in torture by our security forces.
We have a governing party that has been systematically trying to dismantle the ancient legal freedoms of the peoples of these islands.
We have two dominant parties that have no real, fundamental differences between them on war, nuclear weapons, the economy, privilege and patronage, a fact being belatedly recognised by the electorate, as witnessed by the narrowing of the opinion poll gap between them.
We have a third party, the LibDems, with vestiges of principle and sanity, but effectively lost and powerless in the corrupt system of which they are a part.
We have three parties with delusions of an international role for Britain as a great power, based on brandishing its WMDs, when the reality is that all they have is the rump of a wholly discredited Empire, built on ruthless exploitation of subject peoples, and reluctantly dismantled only when those subject peoples threw off its yoke.
We have three parties whose Scottish minions oppose attempts to free Scotland from the twin curses of drink and violence, because of their political expediency, subservience to vested interests and commitment to insane, simplistic sound bite solutions.
We have three parties in Holyrood hell-bent on denying the Scottish people a voice in their own constitutional future.
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Scotland, waken up, or shrink into poverty and irrelevance in the next decade. You have a real choice – England doesn’t. Saor Alba!
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