I completed a Guardian questionnaire today in relation to
Jeremy Corbyn of the UK Labour Party touring Scotland at the moment.
This is a link to the story and questionnaire below...
Why did I vote SNP at
the UK General Election earlier in 2017, and vote for them as standard?
I believe Scotland is a country and therefore should
actually be a real one i.e. the same status as all other countries in the
world, not some underling status which means we get everything we want within
the UK as long as fits with what England wants. Currently we can never outvote
England in the UK House of Commons (don't get me started on the House of
Lords!). I believe that Scotland has a different viewpoint that would
positively add to the world, that it cannot do so whilst in the UK as it is not
allowed to. I also strongly believe in social justice which requires to be
combined with Scottish autonomy as what fits the whole of the UK will never
completely fit Scotland as our land mass and population are distributed very
differently. The UK is such a financial basket case with such a lop sided
economy and far too much debt. In order to have proper social justice in the
near future independence is a no brainer. I believe a country should not be
conned - Norway has a £1 trillion oil fund with less oil than Scotland but
Scotland has £0 and a supposed share of debt which it did not run up as part of
the UK, so I shall never trust the UK to manage anything on Scotland's behalf
ever again.
Do you think the
Labour Party will make significant gains in the next UK election?
Hopefully they will in England as they are actually offering
something for the whole population unlike the Tories who always just look after
number one. I am unsure as to whether they will though as the Labour MPs seem
to be hell bent on destroying their party so far under the Corbyn leadership.
However in Scotland I would hope people will stick with independence supporting parties
and politicians. The UK is such a financial basket case that social justice for
the many not the few will be hamstrung by debt and other decisions like privatisation for generations. This will only
be made worse by Brexit unless something earth shattering occurs. It is well
beyond time for Scots to say good bye to the UK. It won't be plain sailing but
it will be on our terms. We may not know the future but I would rather my
country was in charge of its own future and not constantly being dragged along
in another countries wake particularly when Scotland didn’t actually vote for
what is happening.
What are the main
challenges Labour face in picking up more seats?
- Previous economic incompetence of the most epic proportions on almost the same scale as the Conservative Party.
- Becoming the nicer wing of the Tory party since the mid 1980s and therefore a complete lack of trust as a result.
- Voting for austerity over and over in the House of Commons.
- Labour preserving the House of Lords even although they have been going to abolish it for about 100 years.
- Taking over 100 years to give Scotland a parliament of any sort when this was part of its early manifestos, and then not even calling it one when it finally did!
- Labour constantly complaining that the SNP Government should be mitigating this and that, that is being enforced by Westminster when if Scotland was independent it would not have to. And to make these protestations said in seeming all seriousness even more ironic they fought for the powers that allow the Scottish Government to mitigate these things to be retained at Westminster! In other words they are crack pots!
I could go on and on. They are a party
of great ideals but have largely failed to advance any since they were in power
from 1945 to 1951 in the UK.
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