In the course of an article that makes the accurate point (as I believe) that the mood last week was strongly for YES in Scotland (see my previous posts and my attempt to have a little wager on the matter with Crofter Luyken), (heraldscotland/comment/columnists/the-week-that-put-victory-firmly-within-the-yes-camps-grasp.25192218) Ian McWhirter writes this: Politics is always about moral choices - especially in Scotland, where the communitarian electorate has always rejected crude appeals to self-interest. Scots refused to back the SNPs crassly materialistic Its Scotlands Oil campaign in the 1970s, just as they later rejected loadsamoney Thatcherism in the 1980s. The Yes campaign was in danger of proving this a third time by putting up billboards all over Scotland asking Scots if they wanted to be rich. But you dont get to the hearts of the Scottish voter by appealing to their pockets, any more than you win their respect by resorting to threats. New Testament morality is alive and well in Scotland, even though few Scots still go to church. They are more likely to throw the money-changers out of the temple than be told how to vote by them. I dont think I have ever read such sanctimonious, self-congratulatory bilge in my life. If Mr McWhirter wants to persuade us that we Scots are morally superior to the English, or indeed anyone else, then all I take from that is that racism and phariseeism are alive and well and living in Renfield Street at this very hour.
Posted on: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 10:03:08 +0000
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