WELSH AND SCOTS ARE GOING TO BREAK UP BRITAIN NEXT YEAR
The following letter has been sent to all papers published in Scotland. JOE
Joseph Peter Middleton
Edinburgh
31/07/2006
Dear Editor,
England has treated Wales with contempt for far too long. Not only are the British Government still refusing Wales a Scottish level of devolutionary powers but suddenly Wales requires a further 'are you sure' referendum if such a decision is made in the future!
The new Welsh 'adjusted devolution' bill offers slightly more powers but with a very disturbing caveat, Labour have fixed the PR system for Wales to improve their own chances!
Suddenly no candidate will be allowed to stand in both the list and FPTP elements, thereby avoiding a fair fight between Labour and Plaid Cymru. Expect this for Scotland next school term unless we take urgent action.
The very idea that somehow Wales deserves less powers than Scotland is completely absurd. Like Scotland, Wales is a nation and she has the same rights under international law to independence that Scotland has.
Thankfully it now looks like Wales is going to deliver her own answer to the devolution question! A poll a few days ago by a Welsh Sunday paper shows an absolute majority for independence of 52%! This follows a whole series of polls showing similar results in Scotland.
As the British imperialist state looks like drawing to a close, it is now perhaps appropriate to consider what it actually was.
The British Empire could be easily likened to a Vampire. It has survived by literally sucking the lifes blood and resources of other countries who it 'colonised' or more accurately 'controlled' through it's past military might. Luckily most have seem through it's disguises and have forcably (and democratically) rejected it's advances.
In reality the Empire is stone dead however it survives as an invisible phantom in the imagination of our Prime Minister King Tony the first and his royal courtiers whose powers he upsurps to award his wee rich cronies with blood stained 'honours' and membership to an absurd fraternity of British imperial fantasists. Who really wants to me a member of a non-existant empire?
Perhaps the sobriquet 'Sir' should stand for Still Insane Really!
England as a country has sucked billions of oil from Scotland while claiming, in Orwellian fashion, that Scotland is actually bleeding it dry. This lie is repeated so often that even the English themselves now appear to believe it along with the more gullible of our fellow Scots.
In truth Wales and Scotland are rich nations with a valuable and distinctive contribution to make to the world as free and independent sovereign states. No matter how many drug filled crumbs are thrown in our direction and no matter how many lies are told, we have the absolute right to rule ourselves.
Britain will find that out next year. A stake will be driven through it's heart and England will emerge to equality with it's brother nations and the reality of the normality that all deserve but none need to surpass.
Blair and Cameron offer a future hanging onto America's new bloody imperial coat tails, that is no realistic future for anyone and we need to end their control over Scotland to stop it. There is one sure way to stop English Conservatism and pseudo Conservatism and that way is independence.
Both Scotland and Wales are wakening up to that easy option no matter how much our respective 'national' papers avoid it.
Yours faithfully,
JOE MIDDLETON
9 comments:
You fail to mention support for English independence is now up to 30% and growing quickly. No one has ever held a referendum asking the people of England what they want. England has the right to self determination too.
Whilst I respect your aims (I don't support separatism myself) I think you are being rather unfair too England and the English.
As an Englishman I respect the right to national self-determination, and wish that the devolutionist agenda was put to my nation by referenda as it was to yours.
I'd like an end to the cross-border hostility but that cannot happen until the Brits (and they reside in Scotland too) recognise that the union is a union of nations - England, Scotland, Wales and NI - and not of regions.
Blame it on the politicians and not on the people of England - by and large they wish Scotland well.
toque, this is pretty obvious but it's not a question of the people it's the political structure. The British state is about maintaining as much central control as possible.(And still trying to cling to the Empire dream by poodling behind the US government) The marginalisation of Scotland, NI and Wales(and large parts of England!) follows from that. Surely a better approach is ending the top-down British institutions that have so much concentrated power. That would make for much better relations between the countries in these islands, I think. It would certainly lead to more self-respect here in Scotland!
Don't whine to us, blair, reid, prescott, Boateng, etc are all jocks! Ha! ha!
By the way, trying to insinuate that british and English are the same is amateur! Why do you type that? Is it so you can try and indoctrinate foreigners? It's pathetic. Why dont you tell them that blair is a jock, reid is a jock and brown is a jock? Fucking tosser! They have caused all the rubbish that has gone on since 1997. No English person has!
Self respect in scotland? aha! ha! You dont have any self respect muggins lad. You couldnt act the way you do if you had self respect. Youre nothing but scum.
Free england now or die trying!
To hell with scottish criminals!
Maybe if the boundaries of waters around the British Isles were returned to their original state, rather than the very generous settlement we vampire-like Imperialist English apparently gave Scotland, we could finally stop the Scots bleating on about "their" oil.
I know it is a matter of embarrassment for Scots but more money flows out of England to Scotland to subsidise the profligate and unsustainable public spending. Scotland is propped up by English taxpayers. But we will be happy to accept a full refund and return of our maritime border.
Just what I thought. A jumped up facking internet warrior who doesnt allow ccomments that disagree with her views. Your country is shite. The only way you can achieeve anything is by lying, backstabbing, and cheating. Fack scotland.
George said...
Maybe if the boundaries of waters around the British Isles were returned to their original state, rather than the very generous settlement we vampire-like Imperialist English apparently gave Scotland, we could finally stop the Scots bleating on about "their" oil.
So England 'gave' Scotland her waters? That's a new one!
I know it is a matter of embarrassment for Scots
It's not an embarassment, it's a lie.
but more money flows out of England to Scotland to subsidise the profligate and unsustainable public spending.
Scotland is propped up by English taxpayers. But we will be happy to accept a full refund and return of our maritime border.
So that means you'll refund over 100 Billion pounds in lost oil revenues does it? The lies about Scottish spending are now reaching Orwellian levels. There's still no excuse though for being stupid enough to believe it. We're agreed the UK should break up but the idea that Scotland is subsidised is mince.
http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=324&id=1152472006
Surge in price of oil fuels SNP claims of £5bn revenue loss
PETER MACMAHON
HIGH oil prices mean Scotland is "subsidising" the rest of the UK to record levels the leader of the Scottish National Party claimed yesterday.
Alex Salmond said a reworking of earlier SNP calculations revealed that, with oil prices spiralling ever upward, Scotland would this year contribute £5 billion, or £1,000 per person, more to the UK economy than it received.
The figures were rejected by Labour, which said it was "reckless" to base national budgets on something as "volatile" as oil prices.
But Mr Salmond insisted the recent rise in the price of crude oil would force revenues to a 20-year high of £12.7 billion this year, all of which he claimed should come to Scotland.
According to the SNP figures - hotly disputed by the party's opponents - that meant Scotland's surplus would be £5.3 billion this financial year, or £1,039 for every man, woman and child north of the Border. The Nationalists claim that Scotland provided a surplus of £3.55 billion last year.
The latest estimates follow an SNP report published last month which predicted a surplus of £4.3 billion, based on a world oil price of $65 a barrel. But since April the average price of Brent Crude oil has been $70 a barrel.
Mr Salmond said: "As predicted in papers the UK government tried to keep secret from the people of Scotland 30 years ago, our nation has a chronic surplus of 10 per cent of our total government budget.
"That means we are missing out on more than £5 billion a year that could be used to transform Scotland.
"It is a Scottish resource that could kick-start a new era of low- tax economic growth, with Scotland matching the success of our small independent neighbours - Norway to our east, Ireland to our west and Iceland to our north - who are among the top half-dozen richest nations in the world."
Last night Labour hit back at the SNP leader. A spokesman said: "Alex Salmond might like a flutter on the horses, but gambling the Scottish economy on something as volatile as the price of a barrel of oil is, frankly, reckless."
In an attempt to make the point that Mr Salmond's oil revenue figures were only the product of the current crisis in Lebanon, one Labour source went further.
The source said: "The Middle East conflict has had a huge effect on pushing up the international oil price, so it is astonishing that, as the international community is looking for a resolution to the conflict, the SNP is only looking to produce a press release."
Labour sources also pointed out that the price of oil had been driven up further by the discovery of a pipeline leak in one of the United States' largest oil fields.
Oil prices steadied yesterday after scorching to a new record following news BP was halting production at the biggest oilfield in the US, possibly for months.
On Sunday, BP began shutting down its 400,000 barrel-per-day Prudhoe Bay facility in Alaska after discovering a corroded pipeline, and said it could be weeks or months before production resumed.
The West's dispute with Iran over its nuclear programme has also raised concern of possible disruption of supplies from there.
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Comments1. Dick / 1:10am 9 Aug 2006 Alex Salmond is right.
Labour doesn't understand the oil markets. The oil price has risen dramatically in the past year and it will continue to rise offsetting falls in production for a good few years to come.
Report as unsuitable 2. Neil / 1:22am 9 Aug 2006 Dick - spot on...Labour doesn't understand anything about good governance...all they know it how to line their own pockets at the expense of a successful Scotland.
The equation is simple: western society relies completely on oil...oil is finite...there is and will always be a demand for oil...thus, the only way prices will ever go in the long term is up...those doubting Thomases among us need to wake up and smell the coffee...
Oil will become more and more valuable in future, not less...Scotland could be a rich and prosperous country. Our businesses could be booming and our poorest communities lifted out of poverty...alternatively, we can continue to vote Labour/Lib Dem and vote for a retrograde economy and a spiraling standard of living.
WAKE UP SCOTLAND...if we don't vote for full control over our future in May 2007 then we'll be wholly assest-stripped and consigned to playing second, if not third, fiddle to to London centric policy forever more...
...let's not get sucked in by all these myths about Scotland being a poor, parasitic country...if we were indeed that Lonodon wouldn't finght tooth-and-nail to hold onto us!
The truth is that Scotland is vital to the stability of the UK's economy; the UK however is not vital to Scotland's economy and we will do far better outwith the straight-jacket that is the United Kingdom...
Abe,
If you think Tony Blair is a Scot then you are deluded. Blair has made it clear that he sees himself as English and his actions bear that out.
At the time of devolution he said 'power will remain with me as an English MP.'
All the people you refer to are Brits who have sold out their own countries interests for a place on the greasy pole. Westminster is where the power lies and it attracts a certain type of unprincipled politician but Gordon Brown and John Reid cannot be really considered as Scots because the have no interest in Scotland.
Broon's favourite goal is Gazzas against Scotland (!) that shows where his loyalty lies even if he still retains his accent.
Reid is a power hungry loon and a danger to everyone but you can bet he has never given a moments thought to Scotland's national identity.
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