Nick Scotland has voted Tory for 6 years out of 68.
We've had Tory governments for 38 out of 68 years.
Now the Labour Part in England resembles the Tory party. The Lid Dems have jumped into bed with the Tories and helped them introduce The Bedroom tax and cut benefits. There are three Tory parties in England.
Sure I know people in England are pissed off as pissed off every bit as we are, but England wants to turn to Farage's fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists, in England people seem to think the answer to their woes are ultra Tories who want even more tax cuts and tax breaks for the rich.
The reason we have this referendum is because every time The Scottish Labour Party tried to oppose private money, privatisation and put forward decent social reform, well Tony and then Gordon were on the phone saying - no you fucking don't. So folks turned to the SNP, the SNP ran a minority administration (cos the Lid Dems refused to join in coalition with a party they actually had a lot in common with). The SNP did a good job, consensus politics worked too, so at the next election people dropped Labour like a stone. The SNP did the impossible and won a majority - politics had imploded in Scotland. The SNP are telling Labour voters, much to the fury of Scottish Labour, vote YES and claim your Labour party back.
What do we do, reject this and say, oh well, lets just keep getting dragged in a direction we don't wanna go. Vote NO and say yes to more inequality and food banks etc etc.
Welsh is right, the UK worked well for a couple of decades or so, but then it was back to fuck the peasants.
Politics is for all, I wasn't brought up in the tradition that Irvine Welsh was, I was brought up to be British and vote Tory. I started work in 1986 for the SSEB, right from the off my pay got screwed by Thatcher to suit her YTS scheme (2 years of my apprenticeship was processed as YTS), then I lost more money to the poll tax (trialled in Scotland), then she announced our privatisation. Jesus, just out of school I got fucked over several times by the Tories in a very short space of time. I never did vote Tory, and by 1997 I was thinking, sure I'll vote YES YES for the Scottish Parliament but Salmond better fucking be right that we will find a way out of this trap. And stone me did he! So it's bugged me for years, why has it taken so many years for good clever people like Irvine Welsh to wise up.
Remember if we win this it'll be with solid trade union Labour voters voting YES. I still can't believe it, believe that there really is a chance.
And of wiseing up, waking up, I think it'll take Scottish Independence to wake England up. But if we fuck it up, well it'll be our fuck up. No more whinging, no more blaming others.
I'm fed up with Tory rule. I'm voting YES!