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The Chance Of A Better Future, or, The Certainty Of A Worse One


I hear accusations that pro-indy folk are punting the notion that all we have to do is Vote Yes and we will then live in a "fairyland" of Milk and Honey.

This idea complements the strange fact that the only people in the Independence debate who mention "Braveheart" or William Wallace are pro-unionists.

The usual suspects punting both these lines are Alastair Darling, head of the NO Campaign ( and recipient of backhanders from companies privatising the NHS in England & Wales) and "Scottish" Labour leader Johann Lamont, that incisive debater so beloved of Daily Telegraph readers.

I don't know anyone on the YES side who says that voting Yes is all that needs doing. Voting Yes DOES mean just the start of taking responsibility for what we do as a country instead of leaving it up to the neighbours. 

Voting Yes gives us the chance to build a better future. Just a chance mind. A chance to build a better society that can destroy the myth that there is no alternative to austerity capitalism.

Voting No on the other hand gives us the certainty of more austerity, more food banks, more money wasted on nuclear weapons, more child poverty, more contributions to illegal wars, more debt for students and young people and a dismantled NHS. I could go on.

If we vote Yes we have a chance of building a Scotland that isn't run for the convenience of the rich but reflects the needs of the rest of us. So no "fairyland" , just the chance of a better future versus the certainty of a worse one.

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