There are two distinct conversations going on in Scotland today. One is dreary and fact-based. It is concerned with national debt, currency, interest rates, mortgage costs, pensions, EU membership, the departure of key businesses, the severe austerity that a newly independent Scotland would almost certainly have to implement. It worries about how we can do our bit in a time of great global crisis. The other is that nationalist fantasy, soundtracked and scripted by middle-class musicians, playwrights and actors, urged along by disenchanted, superannuated newspaper columnists, gleefully led by a pied-piper politician as cynical and self-interested as any of those he castigates at Westminster. Everything will be fine, the detail doesn’t matter, we’ll cross each bridge as we come to it, it’ll be alright on the night. Let’s just get out. https://medium/@chrisdeerin/wrestling-with-smoke-7fa728a21318
Posted on: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 20:10:00 +0000
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