Our membership of the EU has not been a Golden Period of British history
That is not what I said. And yes you are correct, we have suffered decades of manufacturing decline though decades of neo liberal politics.
Our Councils/local authorities are severely cash strapped,
They lost massive amounts of income and assets due to Tory polices. Councils were forced to sell their housing stocks for example. Millions of people are now stuck with massive mortgages or paying rip off rents.
the NHS is chronically underfunded
Over the last few decades there has been tax after tax cut for the well off, whilst taxes have increased overall for ordinary working people. We have financed our infrastructure with private money and ended up paying for often substandard civil projects several times over. We have been absolutely screwed on endless infrastructure projects.
we cant build our own power stations without funding/materials/labour/expertise from abroad,
Again, the Tories choose to privatise our utilities allowing most of them to fall in to foreign ownership who take the profit out of the country. We choose, not can’t, not to build our own utilities but to have other countries finance, build and take the profit. Your rich Tory masters are investing their own money in the companies now building our infrastructure. They also look to those companies for directorships and consultancy work once they have left parliament.
The Tories will not peruse the companies that they are investing in for the billions upon billions upon billions of tax that they are not paying to the exchequer. It’s not in their interest. They don’t need the NHS, and boy would they love to privatise it so they could make even more money from your misery.
At every turn New Labour and the Tories have ripped you off. This is why people are angry, furious, and rightly so.
But the EU did none of this to us. Our woes are as a direct result of frankly discreetly corrupt and personally greedy right-wing politicians that we have suffered for decades now.
As you are probably aware I am keen to see Scotland become an independent nation. It’s not out of some miss-guided dumb rose tinted patriotic stupid tartan nationalism. I don’t care for that kinda shite. It’s political. A lot of us in Scotland understand what has been happening, and we understand why and how we have been screwed. And the simple fact is England doesn’t get it, you show no sign of ever getting it, we therefore see no future for us in the United Kingdom.
The filthy rich bastards like Rees Mogg, Johnston, Nigel Farage are gonna screw you all again. They are gonna get rich off the back of BREXIT whilst we all get screwed.