The Official Nonsense Thread

[Minty]

A Streetcar Named Desire? Whatever you do, never see the ballet version, another of those "it seemed like a good idea at the time" to someone. A previous workplace did that as a works night out & those who went along had left before the interval.

Tomorrow's the big day, & I'd be lying if I didn't say my tum is in knots. I don't think some appreciate how big the stakes truly are - when the 1979 referendum just for a Scottish Parliament was rejected, Thatcher made a point of deindustrialising Scotland as far as possible to make us feel more dependent on being part of the UK (as the Bank of England under previous PM James Callaghan had mortgaged off 25 years of oil revenues to stop the UK from going pop). I've no doubt that all the sweet talk of pledges of extra this & extra that are cons, & we'll get hammered if no is chosen, same as last time.

You only have to look at the revelation last year that the MoD got round a ban on dumping unwanted depleted uranium shells into the Solway Firth by getting tanks to fire them into it from a MoD firing range, which explains some of the mutant fish now being caught off it. That's how much we really mean to Westminster.

One way or another this time there's no turning back, & I've a horrible feeling Scotland will make a choice that will cost us badly. I'm hoping for a miracle & Yes win, because I really feel we've nothing left to lose up here. Those in power don't care less about anywhere outside of Greater London except to exploit, & losing Scotland may bring the rest of the UK to its senses that it cannot continue to be nothing more than the colony of a city state. I've an old friend down in Devon who is a Tory councillor, & he says it may as well be the Moon for all the interest Whitehall has in their problems.

Don't believe what you're seeing in the news btw, aside from the usual thugs from the Socialist Workers Party (backing Yes now they look like they might win), the No campaign aren't being intimidated - they simply aren't around. For instance, yesterday I counted five large Yes campaign stalls in Glasgow city centre, only one for No (one of whom warned me that "independence is a plot by Rome"!). There's plenty of Yes canvassers around because most are uni students terrified of the SNP losing power & tuition fees being reintroduced, as well as long term unemployed who naturally feel there's nothing to lose.

A lot of the people that would have been involved in No appear more concerned with saving Glasgow Rangers instead (whose share price is now 19p & falling!) again - there seems to be demos outside of Ibrox every second day now over the latest twists in that saga. Good to see where some people's priorities lie - most important vote in 300 years second place to the bigot's favourite football club. Wha's lik' us!