The Rant part of my Blog

Often the main arguments that the nationalist community use boils down to ” if we were independent everything would be better” Of course that is not true. For example the Western world economic crisis will not suddenly disappear. But as part of a smaller economic community that, and any future crisis, will be magnified. For example if we owe 6% of our income it is easier managed if our income is £500 rather than £50.  Bigger and stronger together.

The SNP would probably agree with me that bigger is better. Why else would they amalgamate police forces and fire brigades   

( I think that creating a single police force was a bad thing it has the danger of having more political pressure on one individual where before politicians had to convince all Chief Constables to follow their “requests” and basically now one man is in charge of policy and it stifles dissent and trying new ideas.)

I have to ask is breaking up the UK a good thing and what would we gain. Many of the nationalist sympathisers have emotional arguments without any real figures or facts.

    Trust us take a chance  = Take a Leap in the dark  

They make emotive statements that have no basis in truth eg “ you are not a true Scot if you don`t vote for independence” rather than solid believable facts and figures.

Mr Salmond et al seems to be promising us Utopia bigger pensions, better benefits, free higher education, free national Health service , lower council charges an oil fund for the future etc etc.

Like all promises he has made there is a price to pay and who will be paying ?

Look at the freeze on the council tax was that a good thing ?

How many jobs have been lost due to this?

Are your services provided by the councils improved ; remained the same ; reduced ?

Ask the old lady who has had her help from carers cut, who has many different agency workers calling when she was used to having one or two, whom she had got to know as friends and who knew her quirks and problems.

Ask the social worker who has their case load  become unmanageable.

Ask their clients who have agency social workers who know nothing about their problems then disappear as their contract is only for six months.  

While I support free education for all, that too came at a cost to the some families .

They cut the means tested student bursaries . Students whose families had incomes  of £25,000 annually, ie £500 weekly, had their bursaries cut by £1131 a year. If the family income is up to £19,300, approx. £380 weekly, the bursaries were cut by around £900.

But never mind they could increase their annual student debt to £4500 a year

Also colleges  had a £56 million real terms cut from the Scottish Funding Council (SFC) grants, the main income source and the SFC funding will continue to drop over the next two years.

 I almost want the SNP to come back in 2016 as a minority government to see if they could continue the populist policies that they have used to try to achieve their aim of Separatism or if suddenly everything would have to change. 

If it seems too good to be true it is too good to be true.

My political view is that I am part of the working class and the working poor in Newcastle in Manchester in London are equally as important as the workers in Glasgow in Inverness in Edinburgh.
When I see some of the supposed socialists supporting, a leading light in one case ,  the Yes camp I cringe. People who I, in times past, supported, canvassed for and voted for, walking away from the rest of the UK working classes.  

Mr Salmond went to England recently to tell them that it will be in their interest for Scotland to leave the United Kingdom.

 But he also said that if we stay in the UK we will be ruled by a Conservative government so logically, following his viewpoint, if we divorce it will make it more certain that we will leave rest of the working people of the UK to be ruled by the Tory party and maybe even worse in a coalition with UKIP.

So if he is right I am surprised the Tories aren`t helping them achieve their aim.

 Divide and conquer has long been used as a political tool but of course it is just more scare tactics from Salmond. Oh wait the campaign of fear comes from the NO camp not our honest leader.

So with all the things I have considered I am still going to vote to remain in the UK and vote NO