Which do you prefer Project Fear v Project Fear plus Project Hate

I have voted Remain. I believe strongly that something like the EU needs to exist and for Scotland to be a member. But the EU is far from perfect. 

Scotland is currently a sub-nation as long as it is in the UK

As long as we are a sub-nation within the UK Scotland is most definitely better of IN rather than out. 

Neither campaign inspired, both campaigns were #ProjectFear, but we did have a new development i.e. #ProjectHate from the #VoteLeave campaign and their more extreme bedfellows. 

Project Hate of Vote Leave actually made me definitely vote Remain

The Project Hate of Vote Leave actually made me definitely vote Remain when initially I was decidedly lukewarm in doing that, wondering whether to just abstain and not bother. 

I started off about 55% Remain and ended up according to an online questionnaire 81% Remain. So the leave campaign was very successful in making me go for the opposite of what they wanted.

What a difference in atmosphere between EuroRef and indyref

I am stuck between the atmosphere for this referendum in comparison to the last one that occurred in Scotland. 

It was also most definitely nothing like a General Election which the television commentators were comparing it to in England. There was nothing happening and nobody at the polling station. It seems just a mid summer overcast Thursday night in summer.

I have seen 3 Vote Leave stalls and one Vote Remain poster on one window. 

This compares with 15 Yes posters still displayed on peoples windows from the Scottish Independence Referendum almost 2 years ago.

I have also become increasingly concerned as the campaigns have gone on about the xenophobic rhetoric coming from the Vote Leavers. If people do generally feel that this relates to them and their lives then I am even more sure than I was that Scotland will most definitely be better of outside the UK but still in Europe.

Dear 'friends' who voted NO

#indyref #Scottish #Embarassed and #Ashamed for #Scotland, also previously known as #Scotlandshire, and now demoted to #NorthBritainshire.

Dear 'friends' who voted NO,

I am unlikely to forgive any of you within the near future, as you have led to your country to being the laughing stock of the world. The NO voters naive condensention and NO campaigners vitriolic hate was noted also during the campaign, from the unprovoked violence to the Nazi salutes, to the spitting, to the egging of windows, and to the intimidation. 

You have selected the side of Orange Order, the neo fascist Britannic Party, the BNP, the nutters who are UKIP along with the spineless wonders known as the Scottish Conservative and Unionist party (real Tories), the back stabbing corrupt establishment in Scotland also known as the Red Tories (Scottish Labour who are only a brand name in Scotland after all) who will sell themselves for a decent pub lunch, and lastly the other quislings the yellow part of the UK CONDEM coalition who are so two faced that their name is not worth a mention.

I hope now you too at some point in the future will require...
1. to use foodbanks because the social security benefits to which you are entitled are sanctioned for no reason.
2. will have to live on £100 per week for which you paid into the corrupt UK system for 20 years, and which is routinely taken away from you because you are assessed as fine but are actually still ill.
3. to avoid going out because you feel so sore and tired, and you do not have enough money to get a taxi or indeed even a bus.
4. when it is cold to choose between at best marginal heating over food.
5. become disabled and then be made homeless because of the bedroom tax.
6. to let your child go hungry because you cannot afford to buy food.
 7. to work overtime on top of a full time job but still not earn enough to actually live on.

I hope you will realise also the following...
1. Ultimately your vote will lead to prescription charges, bridge tolls, and student fees being re-introduced, the council tax freeze ended and council tax benefit for those in need removed. And to all you older people watch as your free bus passes disappear into history.
2. You have decided that useless toxic weapons of mass destruction are more important than your fellow man, and don't really want new hospitals, teachers, child care for a low cost, a fairer social security system, a much better transport system and so so many other positive things.
3. You don't care about the environment as you have decided that it is fine that the fracking of North Britainshire (previously Scotland and Scotlandshire) can be sold off to the highest bidder. You also are really just dieing to have nuclear power plants across North Britainshire (as it is too dangerous to have too many of them down south
4. You have decided that you want the NHS across the whole of the UK privatised. Up until yesterday with a Yes vote you could have decided to stop the privatisation of North Britainshire's NHS but you really don't care about that. 
 5. You have decided really that your votes are useless - indeed I hardly see the point in you going to the polling station in any UK General Election as the outcome of the whole of North Britainshire's votes in the last 100 years has only changed the outcome of a UK General Election twice.
6. You have said that the squandering of Scottish (now North British) resources are fine - you really don't mind that Scotland (now North Britain) could have been the richest country in Europe and you love being poor, even though you are actually the cash cows for the rich London elite and those bankers and billionaires that you obviously just love so much.
7. You have agreed with Johann Lamont the current Scottish Labour 'leader' in that Scots (or the North British) as we are now are not genetically programmed to make political decisions. I didn't agree with her until yesterday. Now I am very tempted to actually say she is quite right.
8. You have shown that you really don't care about the rest of the UK either. A Yes vote would have led to a political and cultural realignment in South and West Britainshire too, and even allowed some of the non Londoner South Britishers to have a say in their own Government.
9. You were on the side of the corrupt British establishment. Anyone for a free duck house on Westminster Parliamentary expenses? Oh I forgot that is only available for our betters and we of course we should condescend to actually ask for enough food. No, no they know best.
10. That you are going to have to get used to what was termed, after the failed referendum in Canada, the Quebec effect. Gone will be the optimism that preceeded this vote, and now we shall no doubt have a North Britainshire recession to boot.

And most importantly do you not realise that for the first time ever yesterday all people of North Britainshire had the sovereignty of their nation (now ex nation) in their hands, and you decided to give it away for nothing.

Thanks NO voters. You have significantly contributed to the further demise of North Britainshire and I do hope you will be happy. Just don't come complaining about any of the above (plus many more things I haven't the energy to mention). After all thanks to your vote any thoughts of a better future for any of us except the rich Westminster and priviledged elite has been destroyed for the near future if not forever.

North Britainshire is not too wee to be independent, and nor is it too poor (although we could have a damn site better off if you had looked beyond your own wee cossetted worlds). However after yesterday I do wonder if we people of North Britainshire are actually too stupid.

I do wonder what your motivation was however. Was it fear? Or was it money (I do indeed wonder if you were paid to vote NO at the polling station) as people went in Yes and smiling, and frequently came out dejected and avoiding eye contact.?

If this is Better Together and the best of both worlds then God help us, as Elaine C Smith said a few weeks ago. Unfortunately my belief in God after yesterday has been extinguished for good. Yesterday was his or her last chance.

The below pictures have the following qualifications since earlier today. The words Scottish Parliament shown in the first poster should be replaced with North Britainshire Regional Parliament. The second one should be changed to Vote NO to stop North Britainshire's people having control over their own region.

I want to sincerely thank all my ‪#‎Yes‬ voting friends

#‎indyref‬ ‪#‎Scottish‬ ‪#‎Embarassed‬ and ‪#‎Ashamed‬ for ‪#‎Scotland‬, also previously known as ‪#‎Scotlandshire‬ and now demoted to being ‪#‎NorthBritainshire‬.


I want to sincerely thank all my ‪#‎Yes‬ voting friends for going out and voting yesterday and those who sent postal votes in. I am extremely proud to have been part of a wonderful ‪#‎YesMovement‬ campaign which we most certainly won. Our campaign was positive, clean, empowering, and was achieved through great feats of endurance all given for the love of the cause from money entirely raised from Scotland (now North Britainshire).

How could anyone vote NO based on no vision, no plan A, no promise of any improvement whatsoever? The ‪#‎BetterTogether‬ activists were largely bought and paid for, and their campaign run by the rich, powerful based in our masters region in the South East i.e Londonshire (the rest of England and Wales being South Britainshire).

I have no regrets. I was on the right side, doing the right thing for the right reasons. And I would strongly argue that a NO meant the exact opposite. Unfortunately we must all now unfairly suffer. So what ever more and worse shit but different day. Everything always gets worse in the Godforsaken country of ours (the country I am referred to is the UK).

John Jappy, retired London civil servant. Can an Independent Scotland stand on its own two feet?

Felt I must put these videos on this blog as they cut through the rubbish portrayed by Better Together on the matter of Scotland's ability or lack of it to stand on its own two feet as an independent country.

John Jappy says...

'As a civil servant in London, and being part of the establishment, I always accepted the general view that an independent Scotland would not be able to survive on its own without financial help from the London Exchequer.'

'However, when in 1968 I was able to examine the so-called "books" for the first time, I was shocked to find that the position was exactly the opposite and that Scotland contributed much more to the UK economy than its other partners.  This was, of course, before the oil boom.'

 

His blog is here...

 

 http://scotlandowntwofeet.blogspot.co.uk/

His 3 videos are shown below...

 

1. Hiding the Truth

2. Scotland's Oil

3. Politicians Quotes

Better Together? Scotland is Better Than This!

It really baffles me how anyone in this country actually believes that we are Better Together. I can't get my head around it. The best of both worlds they say. I don't think we have the best of any worlds. 

We are one of the most unequal countries in the western world; we have 1 in 3 children born in Glasgow living in poverty; we have one of the lowest life expectancies; we have increasing numbers of people relying on food banks just to feed themselves from week to week, we have western Europe’s biggest nuclear weapons arsenal situated about 30 miles for our largest city, and for 27 of the first 65 years of the post WW2 years we have been ruled by Westminster Governments Scotland didn’t vote for. But we have best of both worlds they say. 

Waken up! Is there anybody actually voting No in September? Why would that be?

 

All I’d say is if you’re planning to vote No and you’re NOT a billionaire businessman, a UK government minister or a Scottish Labour MP (who doesn't really give a **** about his constituents), it might be worth wondering why that is.

IF SCOTLAND WERE CURRENTLY INDEPENDENT AND WE WERE BEING SOLD THE UNION?

If Scotland had remained independent for the last 300 years how would the pro-union campaign be selling us their proposals?

1. Your Parliament will move hundreds of miles away and your MPs will become a tiny minority in this new Parliament. By extension therefore you will often get a Government which you did not vote for. 
2. The Scottish Government’s oil and gas revenues will now be handed over to this new London Parliament to be spent as they see fit. Scotland will then become one of the few countries in the World to have discovered oil and actually got poorer! 
3. The biggest nuclear weapons facility in Europe will be built 30 miles from your largest city. 
4. You will be joining a new country whose health and education services are rapidly being privatised. 
5.  Occasionally you may get dragged into an illegal foreign war. 
6. An austerity budget will be imposed from this new Parliament cutting jobs and threatening public services. 
7. The financial regulation system will be so lax that this new country will be brought to the brink of collapse. 
8. The weakest and most vulnerable in your country, instead of getting the protection and assistance they deserve, will instead be interrogated and humiliated to get them off the meagre levels of support to which they are entitled.

However it is a brief summary of the current situation with Scotland being in the UK.

I am left wondering why polling evidence suggests that this what the Scots are actually going to vote for!

One could argue that the Scots could have had independence over and over at each and every general election since the SNP came into being and particularly since the 1970s, so they must actually want the above even although they nearly always vote against most of it!