The 14th Century "Braveheart" reconstruction , the appeasement of nationalists, and the open antagonism of nationalists....by other nationalists. We walk there, but we can no longer sleepwalk there. It is becoming a little more ugly by the day.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDADy9b2IBM …
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For those who think this is alarmist, you are right. It is an alarm. It is for all of us in Scotland to call out the drift to something very dark in our country. It's not been spoken in familiar tongues for a long time. But it's here. It is stirring. It is being fed.
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There are those in our political system who believe in manifest destiny, of developments being "inevitable" or "delayed". They talk of other, less conventional means to political change. They frame their musings in false modesty, in glib determinism and assumpted exceptionalism
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This is exceptionally dangerous. That it is done by those increasingly shown to be failing in their public roles, in their personal lives (yes Im going there, it tells much about someone) makes it all the more tragic
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We have politicians of little character and no talent goading each other into senseless "debates" that serve only to polarise and blur the boundaries between central and devolved government. We have graduates of law, twisting the letter and the spirit of law to create a state...
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.....of relative morality and legality. Once you shred the rule book those who seek to make new rules will waste no time in asserting and reasserting their rule....the right becomes the right of might, the divine right as it once was called....
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This is done for this sole motive: to carve up a nation to carve out a slice of pie bigger than they can earn through their talents and character....but this pie is us. It is our flesh and blood and mind and tears and if you carve it it will bleed and it will die. What then...
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....is the difference between a slice of life and of a corpse, of meat. The difference is life and the spirit of goodwill and fraternity of our people, drained like blood in meat, the sinews of our society, discarded as gristle without ceremony. If others write with false....
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....moderatism then I'll write as I choose to. Step back. Calm down. Look in the mirror. Pray you don't crack it. There is no manifest destiny. There is our real and present society as it is. If you cannot build from this foundation then what pray do you claim to be building?
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Start your own family, your own business, your own career, take pride in your own home, and streets. You'll achieve more putting rubbish in the bin that you've seen in the park than by playing these sub zero sum games that begin in fantasy and end in failure.
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