The State of the Union.

Our government is not acting in the interests of our nation, countries nor people.

We are told through the BBC and the wider mainstream media, the majority of which controlled by Tory Donors as well as by friends and family of sitting Tory MPs, that we are privileged to live in Great Britain.

The story goes that the nations economy is bouncing back after the previous successive Labour governments irresponsible spending habits, that the inefficient benefits system is being retooled and modernised to better help the people it serves, that the union and it's people is as united as its ever been, that our democracy is stronger than ever and the envy of the world as well as so many other things that create a backdrop on which a single premise is reliant about.

That it is insanity to wish to leave the Union.

So much time and effort is spent puffing up the various groups and other interests that run this country but they all subscribe to the same narratives and assumptions about the Scottish Independence movement.

The first foolish notion is that it all fits into one singular group spear headed by The SNP, the second that the reasons for the movement are all the same single reason, "Anti-Englishness".

The problem with this type of assumption backed by an anger fuelled confirmation bias is not only that it blinds the unionist parliamentarians and media is that it blinds them from dealing with the actual issues that drive their opposition.

Worse it drives them to extremes, Anti-English sentiment driving Scots is one of those truthy comments that sounds right, after all much of Scottish and English history constitutes being at war with each other yet the civic nationalism that has been at the heart of the independence campaign is not directed at attacking England but at improving the state of Scotland.

When particularly dim unionists are presented with the difference between what they think they are arguing against vs what is actually there they become irrational falling back on racists stereotypes or farcical comparisons.

Like calling us Nazis, Stalinist, Marxist or any number of small petty insults they can use to try and force the conversation into the frame that suits their frame of mind just as long as they don't have to confront their own biases and failure to comprehend what is happening.

I think I know though, I get it, hard truths are hard to face but hiding from them doesn't stop them being true.

There is a reason I support Independence from Westminster.

I don't purport to represent everyone's view nor even that I could sum up the total reasons and motives of such a wide movement.

Mine own is large and far reaching, It's not because of a difference of philosophies between Scotland and England, a desire to permanently kick out the Tories nor even the simple belief that Scotland deserves to be free.

It is seeing the outcome, where this all seems to be heading, the final result of a myriad issues that have become hallmarks of The Westminster Government regardless of what party controls it.

My reason is that I do not for five seconds, not for a long time, see this nation continuing. No I don't mean that Scotland will inevitably become independent but that due to the lessening importance of good governance over political gains and manifold other crimes The United Kingdoms of Great Britain are racing towards a revolution.

It's going to end badly.

Consider the emotional and personal stress that is being caused by Ian Duncan Smith's Ideologically driven benefits reform that has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths that we know of.  

Despite his claims otherwise Ian Duncan Smith has not helped the poor of this country back into work all he seems to have done in his role an official representative of this country is help people into their grave.

The sick and vulnerable have been the target of these beliefs, people like David Clapson who after missing one of his meetings at the jobcentre lost his allowance.

He was diabetic but without that money to keep the electricity on, insulin needs to be refrigerated or it starts to break down.

He was found dead next to a pile of CV's.

Ian's personal beliefs on welfare are so atrocious that he has fought tooth and nail to prevent any data on the full number of related death's from his policies not that it hasn't stopped people from managing to get pieces of that information.

Death has become such a part of the welfare system that the United Nation are investigating him for human rights violations.

And of course it should come as no surprise that Atos has links to the Tory party and that they didn't even bother to pay their taxes.

What else can we expect of a man who laughs at the idea of a woman being raped.

"You Have Stolen, Embezzled, Defrauded And Swindled Without Discrimination. You Have Ruined Businesses And Destroyed Jobs. When Banks Fail, It Is Seldom Bankers Who Starve. Your Actions Have Taken Money From Those Who Had Little Enough To Begin With. In A Myriad Small Ways You Have Hastened The Deaths Of Many. You Do Not Know Them. You Did Not See Them Bleed. But You Snatched Bread From Their Mouths And Tore Clothes From Their Backs. For Sport, Mr Lipvig. For Sport. For The Joy Of The Game.”  - Terry Pratchett, Going Postal. 

There's more of course, take for example the police, It's a sad moment when you find out that a section of our law enforcement agency have stopped investigating burglaries at odd numbered houses and you find that tame.


The rampant sexism and racism endemic to it's practices, a police force that receives 3'000 reports of corruption but will only investigate half of them and even then the most likely people to be punished are those that reported the corruption, a police force that views oversight as unwanted meddling and uses means big and petty to stop it, a police force that views brutality as the tools of their trade, a police force whose "Undercover" operations are so corrupt as to be laughable, a police force that doesn't even respect the law, a police force that often doesn't feel the need to Investigate the reports of crimes or their assistance on covering up high profile members of the Paedophile information exchange like Peter Hayman whilst using that to their own advantage but of course the establishment did that as well.


The government has always been perfectly comfortable with corruption just as long as it's not working against them.

That's why cuts to legal aid don't bother them, that only affects the poor after all.

You may wonder how these two things are connected to the UK falling apart, Simply put, why should anyone put up with these injustices?

Consider the cultural backgrounds that led to revolutions in America, France and Russia.

These calls to rebellion were inflamed by an unjust society ruled over by corrupt and abusive leaders, men starved, Laws were designed to rob the people of wealth and imprison them on whims but no where was there anything to hold up their respective nations.

The truth about evil is that It's self destructive, eventually it's own practices collapse it and the same is true of corruption.

You might think these things are unrelated, that in this day and age violent uprisings against a corrupt authority are not acceptable in a "First World Country" and it certainly isn't going to happen here.

Except it already has.

In a small way but big things come from small things.

The England riots that burned parts of England's cities to the ground were fuelled by the murder of an unarmed man by this nations police.

The injustice sparked protest, the police never like protesters let alone when they are the ones it's directed against.

It turned violent and then people who only need an excuse joined in and it lasted days.

Whilst this nation is being accused of crimes against it's populace it's police and government are viewed with contempt, after all, these are just two of the societal tensions that are puling the union apart.

If you think that the end of the England Riots put to rest the issues that drove it then your mistake, people aren't like balloons, a brief spat of violence doesn't deflate them.

People are still protesting and it's just a matter of time and a big enough spark will set it of again but worse.

Take immigration, another thorn in it's side, the mass injustice of the right wing actions had people chasing off police in Rotherham.

People cannot toil under a corrupt system and with enough time will no longer feel the need to obey the law but the problem with that is simple.

The Russian and French revolutions didn't end well and weren't exactly happy fun times while they were happening either, the American revolution didn't free the slaves nor stop the genocide of the native Americans.

Violent revolt is a flawed methodology in that it justifies rule by violence, you can see this still in American society through it's refusal to hand over it's gun rights, after all, a heavily armed populace keeps "guberments" honest.

I don't know what shape the English revolution will take nor when it will happen but a society betrayed by a corrupt government will over throw that government.

Just like the England Riots those that only need an excuse to wreak mayhem as well as those that see it as an opportunity will join in and have shape whatever happens next.


I voted yes to escape it.

Sincerely,
Ethan Blair.