Few will doubt that lurking somewhere in the background to this Expansión article lies the conspiratorial relationship between the Tories and Mariano Rajoys right-wing Partidad Popular. And once again the UK government finds itself caught between the rock of its anti-independence propaganda and the hard place of its loyalty to vested interests. This is going to be an increasingly difficult path to tread as the rhetoric is ramped up in the final months and weeks of the referendum campaign. British nationalists appear not to have taken account of the fact that, in seeking to scare the people of Scotland into voting against their own sovereignty, they also ran the risk of putting the frighteners on the British states corporate clients. The likelihood is that more and more business leaders will feel it necessary to speak out as Scottish Power has done in order to allay the concerns caused by the UK governments reckless fear-mongering. This will be good news for the Yes campaign, of course, as droves of business leaders come forward to contradict and condemn the ever wilder assertions denigrating Scotland and talking down the nations economic prospects. British nationalists obviously care nothing for the people of Scotland and will happily sacrifice their interests in the name of preserving the structures of power and privilege which define the British state. But irresponsible anti-independence propaganda runs the risk of alienating big business. And that would never do.
Posted on: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 11:39:27 +0000
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