Undecided voter? Still considering your options? Please consider this information before you vote from an average person, not a politician. The Yes campaign does sound impressive, if you were just to listen to them loosely and not really take anything in. They use lots of impressive sounding adjectives and emotive language which is exactly what they think voters want to hear. WE are smarter than that, WE know you need substance to an argument and WE know it’s all very well to make sweeping statements but backing them up is another thing entirely and something they cannot do. Better Together are asked what will occur if independence happens and we tell you the facts, it’s not scaremongering, it is what WILL happen. WE are right to question our future, WE are right to raise our concerns, WE are right to believe RBS, Lloyds, Tunnocks and the rest in what they are saying is best for US, what is best for Scotland. Think about your daily lives just now, you already have your own personal independence to do things you want. You don’t walk about with a ball and chain attached to your ankle slowing you down and holding you back. Personal independence is important at our age as you don’t want to be told what to do by your parents or teachers, or I certainly don’t anyway. But when things go wrong I seek assistance from others to help me sort out any mistakes I make. Scotland does have a considerable level of independence but we also need a degree of interdependence we’re not held back by a ball and chain, WE have devolution, WE have the power to make our own mind up on health issues, on education and on transport among other things. WE are already free, we’re not held back by a ball and chain. We are not ‘persecuted.’ What does this debate mean for jobs? Staying within the safety and stability of the UK means that jobs in Scotland are best secured as part of the UK. Consider the following points: -600,000 Scottish jobs are with companies based elsewhere in the UK or depend on exports there. - 5000 people are employed in jobs in shipbuilding (Royal Navy contracts through BAE systems which would move south in the event of a Yes vote as the UK government does not give Royal Navy contracts to foreign countries – which is what Scotland would be). - 180,000 Scottish financial services jobs with these firms having 90% of their customers in the rest of the UK (a no brainer where they will move most of their business to which is why RBS and Lloyds, have threatened to move their headquarters to England. This is more than a change of a ‘brass plate.’ With their headquarters being in Scotland in the UK they pay tax to the UK government which distributes money around the UK. If they move south and Scotland becomes independent then it is the rest of the UK government who will get paid the tax none of which will be available to Scotland). - 9,000 jobs in green energy funded by the UK government - 5/6000 jobs in Faslane naval base (a Royal Navy base which is said could still be kept open in the event of independence but between the tiny number of armed forces we will have – 15,000 regular soldiers and 5,000 reserve soldiers – and the amount of armed forces bases around Scotland it is lunacy to suggest that the bases would still operate at maximum capacity to suit smaller numbers). Does independence mean we get more democracy? Not at all. Quite often we are told that the independence campaign is not about any individual political party – so why are the Tories mentioned so frequently? It’s often brought up by the Yes campaign that we have more pandas than Tory MP’s in Scotland. If you actually look at the election results they show that this comment is true but unfair. In the 2010 general election, the election for the whole of the UK to elect representatives in Westminster, in Scotland the Tories won 17% of the vote, 413,000 votes and only ONE seat compare this to the SNP who got 20% of the vote, 491,000 votes and SIX seats – this is despite only having 3% more of the vote. In the Scottish Parliamentary elections in 2011, we got an SNP majority government which was with the minority of the % of votes with the majority voting AGAINST the SNP. Talk about not getting the government we voted for... Why should we think this would be any different in an independent Scotland? Is it democratic that the No campaign are shouted at, intimidated and harassed in the street week after week? What about education? Do we need independence to keep free tuition fees? Certainly not. Education is a devolved power and cannot be touched by Westminster, it is entirely in the hands of the Scottish Parliament. Tuition fees could only be introduced if we voted a party into the Scottish Parliament who intended to do it. Nothing at all to do with Westminster. It is the SNP, the party in power in the Scottish Parliament, who has cut colleges places by 140,000. And what about our NHS? The Yes campaign say we need to vote for independence to protect the NHS against privatisation? Health is also a devolved power and cannot be touched by Westminster, it too is entirely in the hands of the Scottish Parliament and ONLY the Scottish Parliament. This was confirmed in the White Paper which says “The Scottish Parliament has the power to keep the NHS in public hands...” Under the SNP, more NHS services in Scotland have been privatised than in England. Do they think we are stupid enough to believe this recent blatant lie? Wouldn’t it be better to determine our own economic affairs?Scotland already has a say in economic affairs as part of the UK. The Yes campaign plan is to have a currency union with the rest of the UK in the event of independence, meaning we all share the pound and end up having a foreign central bank (the Bank of England) dictating our interest rates with us having no say in it at all. This means our mortgages and loans interest rates are out of our hands. Doesn’t sound ‘independent’ to me. The possibility of a currency union was blown out the water by all three of the main party leaders of the Unionist opposition who rejected the proposal and recently the Governor of the Bank of England said it would not be possible to have a currency union without a political and social union. The independence vote is on Thursday and we have still not heard of a credible alternative – worrying. I will finish this with the words of Abraham Lincoln ‘You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. ‘ VOTE NO FOR SCOTLAND.
Posted on: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 17:18:03 +0000
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