My dear Scottish friends. For nearly 10 years, I have been active in initiatives to regain independency by Scotland, but I admit that I inactive do not realize your way to independence. Do you truly think the only option available is to get 1 vote over 50% of the eligible inhabitants of Scotland and already? And that's enough, without looking at over 49% of the other, the opposite, the unconvinced and the indifferent?
What is better than declaring independency by 54% of those curious in the subject? Or 40% of the voters? Or even a determined minority? What would that 1 vote of advantage truly change if you didn't have an thought for Scotland?
Internal organisation and global recognition
You were most likely busy at the time, but when, after the large War, many European nations were declared independent, including my Poland, but besides Czechoslovakia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland – nobody even bothered to ask their people. It is actual that referendums were organised in disputed territories, among others between Poland and Germany, Austria and Yugoslavia, Germany and Denmark, etc., but only to decide the membership of countries that already existed or had just risen, not to approve someone's independence. It was understood that members of a given nation wanted to be independent due to the fact that There was a political representation of specified beliefs which at the same time broke through with demands to the global community, i.e. in the practice of the large powers which, for various reasons, have accepted the independency of any European peoples organizing themselves in their own countries. 2 factors: interior organisation and global recognition. Scotland has the first, but the second does not even seek. So, dear friends, do you repeat the mistakes of your eighteenth century uprisings?
Besides, if it seems to you, Dear Scottish Friends, besides historical and exotic, besides "Balkan", then remember that there was no independency referendum in Ireland either – yet independent Ireland inactive exists today. So what on earth are you talking about, a referendum or independence? What is your goal, method or effect?
What about your opponents?
Nor have I heard from any of the pro-independence politicians any thought of what would happen to those who were opposed after independence. Gone? They'll see the miracle of independency and convert? Well, I always give the example of Scottish railroads, ScoRail. If you truly were to bet on the educational power of a good example, then a Scottish national carrier would make English travellers jealous alternatively than constantly disappointing and angry Scottish passengers. Looking at how the Scottish National organization governs (now primarily social-liberal, non-nationalist and pro-gendernot pro-independence) We can no longer have illusions that independent Scotland would be better, fairer, honester, better managed, just different from the UK. Change for the better would so should be forged in a normal, fierce political struggle, in a dispute over programmes, and so in a situation where respective twelve percent of the population could get up at any time and say: “Did we not say?! It didn't work out. Then why don't we go back...’. The popular meme reads that 65 countries gained their independency from the British Empire and the United Kingdom and no returned. Do you want Scotland to be the first?
When I put this question, I hear that “once we have gained independency we will not return” that it cannot be voted back. Even if, in the event of failure, the shaky majority will be against? So if then it won't substance – why does it have them now? Why does it paralyze everyone? independency is almost never the work of the majority, unless implied and mostly silent. Independence wins a determined minority, this is not besides different from the strategy of the revolution, with its conscious avant-garde. If you have an thought of independence, damn it. If you don't, you'll never convince those who hesitate, let alone your opponents.
Lenin's courage and small tricks
Therefore, there is no will, the "responsibility of Lenin", of which a Polish author wrote. But the thought of independency is missing, but possibly those contained in respective books and respective articles. I have been with you for 10 years, and I have not erstwhile heard from any pro-independence policy, e.g. what will be the agricultural policy of independent Scotland? I'm not a farmer, I'm a consumer, so I'd like to know too! What? In addition to me, there are no more than 67 400 active in Scottish agriculture. And with that approach, you dream of most? Or should the referendum be during the harvest, so that Aberdeenshire farmers don't spoil the outcome? So if you want independency a trickAt least make it a large number, not a small catch with 1 voice above most.
Quebec in 1995 next to Scotland in 2014 confirmed that another referendum would be a way to nowhere, seeking a false majority. The example of Catalonia in 2017 showed that there is nothing to give either a unilateral referendum, taking only half a step: a declaration, but looking at weak forms shows only uncertainty and deficiency of arguments. The political position is built on facts, not means, and you will either decision on to facts, or you will proceed to talk about the method.
To want doesn't mean to be able
And above all, if you don't have an thought of your own independence, why do you want it, you want it on your fireplace next to your helmet? Bruce and row Burnes? The slogan “First independency and then you will see!” does not work, you do not believe in it, due to the fact that if the will of independency were the most important, you would have it long ago. For starters So at least make a list of what's independent Scotland is not to be, simply rejecting what we don't like, what's incorrect and yet unchanging and unreformable in the UK, like false monarchy, class form of parliament, corruption, social inequality, racism, imperialism and militarism, the failure of public services, taxation privileges for the richest, the exploitation of natural property dependent territories (such as Scotland), ignoring the will of their own citizens (including Scotsmen), cheating even their own supporters (as voters NO in 2014 and LEAVE in 2016). Make specified a list of non-UKs and build your own country with it without looking at whether you are 50% + 1 vote, only if you know what you truly know You don't want to..
Otherwise, you will march in circles.
Konrad Hand
