A couple of weeks ago I made a spoof Better Together picture where I spaced out the letters sightly to read Better To get her, and had a picture of Margaret Thatcher; my point was that in many ways Scotland still suffers Thatchers legacy and always will as long as theyre liable to be governed by Westminster tories. While it may be (partly) different faces running the show now, the same tory traits that I despise (namely politics being about personal greed) are unchanged from Thatchers days. I never got around to posting it and Im glad I didnt, because while I *DO* think rejecting Conservative ideology is a perfectly sound reason (amongst others) to be swayed towards Yes, increasingly I see a bigger picture of rejecting not just individual politicians, like the Chancellor in charge of ALL OUR MONEY, who thinks its a wise use of £50 notes to burn them in front of homeless people; not just individual political parties like the two currently in power who are currently privatising the NHS in England while their members profit financially from doing so; but rather rejecting the WHOLE SYSTEM with its violently undemocratic House of Lords; with its archaic structures that perpetuate inequality and are demonstrably not Of the People, By the People, For the People, as it seems fair to believe Government should be... The degree of involvement in our current political choice (when so often we see widespread apathy) seems to me to make huge changes inevitable whichever way the vote goes, and the fact that I barely hear a murmur from south of the border about WHY there might be such an appetite for change—theyre either bewildered or resentful, I think— spurs me on to think that the sooner we politely say farewell to our political union with our southerly neighbours, the better. So perhaps I should instead photoshop up a picture of Thatcher not mocking her but rather to express earnest and sincere thanks that her unbridled honesty in treating the Scottish as she did, in Linwood, in Bathgate, at Ravenscraig, and Scotland-wide with the Poll Tax, demonstrates vividly still now, decades later, just what Scotland gains and loses from its association with Westminster. If we get a narrow yes, then the fuel she heaped so prodigiously on the fire that fuels the engines of change will have played a significant part, so in that event my first toast will be to everyone who had the bravery to believe that we CAN build a fairer society, and my second will be to you, Maggie, cos we probably couldnt have done it without ya.
Posted on: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 14:34:59 +0000
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