Worst Loathing Question

So, the lies and the false promises and the bribes and the gesturing of the great and mighty money-lenders comes to an undignified and a sweaty halt! Scotland has (not really) decided! But that's usually how it goes with pseudo-democracy in the good old U of K! Panting and slightly tearful, we await a fuller assessment of the damages, and it really didn't take long for the first signs of these to appear...

Such was the depth of feeling that 84.5% of those eligible, turned out to vote on the issue of Scottish independence. Such was the consequent 'concern,' south of the border, that the lie-machine was caused to crank right up through the gears. No longer were the usual falsehoods, as perpetuated by the likes of The Daily Mail, deemed powerful enough. No! Instead, tried-and-tested-and-found-sorely-wanting politicians, of the likes of Brown, Clegg and Darling- I believe that even wanted-war-criminal Blair put in an appearance- were wheeled out, in order to puff-the-smoke, realign the mirrors, muddy the waters, and to generally spread confusion and misinformation. It's rumoured that Cameron managed to squirt out one solitary formulaic acid tear. The stakes were deemed to be that high! 

Darkness, by Roberto Fontana

When the votes were allegedly counted it was 'found' that as much as 55% of the population was either pro-union, or financially-intimidated, or otherwise-uncertain-enough to have placed a mark in the 'No' box, when asked the question, 'Do you agree that Scotland should be an independent country?' Thank the Lord, that all of those landed family estates are to remain safely in the hands of their English masters!

Upon waking, my initial reaction had been one of relief. I'd always hoped that Scotland might stay. I love the country! I like the people (mostly), and the landscape, and I like the fact that those Scots, to whom I have spoken, generally seem to have a rather more egalitarian outlook than their English counterparts. I like the fact that, where the country's politics might differ from 'our's,' that the Scots generally tend to have got it right(er). The Scottish parliament is not so keen to parcel up and sell off the NHS to business buddies of dubious intent, neither are they so keen to allow their education system to be kicked about quite so brutally as is always the case south of the border, neither do they appear to regard their in-need-of-care elderly residents as merely cash cows, being steered relentlessly towards pauper's graves. I could go on. 

I didn't want to see the MPs who had voted counter to the English slice-it-up-and-sell-it-off ways to be yet further removed from the UK's decision making. Sometimes it seems that Scottish and Welsh MPs might just be the remnant conscience that has long since been so brutally cauterised from English politics. So, yes, I was glad they had stayed.

But, had I been Scottish, I'd surely have voted 'Yes,' for entirely the flip-side of the same reasons. The huge cloud of misinformation, that 'The Vote' managed to generate, was undoubtedly significantly added to by both sides, the first casualty was always going to be 'the truth.' They're politicians, for Christ's sake, under the current regime greed and self-serving are always going to win the day! The best that we can do (within the current soul-voided system) is to search for hints of grey amongst all of that charred blackness. And Scotland currently has a lot more of the grey than do we. 

I'm glad they stayed, and yet I'm also sorry they stayed. I'm sorry for Scotland, and I'm sorry to so swiftly see the first signs of the bigoted Tory backlash.

Darkness, by Roberto Fontana

Single acidic tear esponged from the venison-and-game-stuffed-mask, Cameron is already spawning his embittered response. Behind the lies there were far larger lies awaiting the hatching! The West Lothian Question, will yet wreak much collateral damage with England's Health and Education systems. Why, it's almost as if the man only ever felt a loathing for the Scottish people.

I predict celebratory tax cuts for English billionaires, what better way to spread the joy?