That was nice. Muesli and grapes.
There are three kinds of people when it comes to Scottish independence. Unionist at any cost, independence at any cost and those in the middle who are willing to be persuaded in either direction. We don’t have to change the minds of people on the extremes, we’re talking to the ones in the middle who are ready to listen. Latest polls show that there’s lots of them, no doubt swayed by this WM government’s dismal performance in just about everything lately.
The thing that many people just don’t get is that we don’t hate the English. It’s easy to think that when you can’t imagine that any group of people might not actually want to be part of the great UK dream of Empire 2.0, but we don’t hate the English. In Scotland we’ve realised that we don’t define ourselves by hating or marginalising anyone, we would really just like to stand on our own two feet. Lemon makes the common mistake that we’re breaking away from England, forgetting that the Union is currently 4 countries, not just England. You might like to ponder that for a while and see how it feeds into our thought processes.
In Scotland we understand that smaller countries need to be in a good network with other nations that respect them, that’s why we want to be in the EU. We don’t delude ourselves that we could be like Germany or France, but we could be like Denmark or Finland. Or Ireland, where the EU have demonstrated lately that even the smaller member states are worth standing up for.
The UK Union’s been good to us, but its not working any more, now that we’ve found our confidence again. And if you’re thinking about telling me how we can’t stand on our own 2 feet, how we won’t get another referendum, how yes, really, we do hate the English – think about the irony of that.