BRITAIN MUST BREAK

 

When you look at how Ireland faired, when it decided to up and leave the British state in the early 20th century. The UK actively sought to make it suffer, economically, as well as abusing and systematically murdering Irish men and women who had the nerve to continue living in the north of the country after the English partitioned it. 

The Irish were routinely trampled on by the British commonwealth and by others trying to win favour with Britain back in the day. This practice continued from around the 1920s up until the formation of the European Union at the end of the century. Ireland's accession to the bloc and the protective economic umbrella it was afforded, seen the country fast come into its own, becoming known as the Celtic Tiger, due to its resulting economic success. 

When you look at the political conditions in the lead up to the first Scottish independence referendum in 2014. The UK was still an active member and main player in the European Union, and Brussels, along with the English Royal family, were persuaded by the political establishment in Whitehall to "arch a disapproving eyebrow" at the ambitions of ordinary Scots, who wanted nothing more than to manage their own lives. 

For the casual observer, I don't think there can be much doubt that if Scotland had succeeded back then, as it very nearly did, the UK would have probably remained in the EU - once they seen how Scotland was being treated - on the outside looking in, and some would wager the country still would be on the fringes, in spite of all the, probably naive, claims to the contrary that: the EU would have had to bow to doing what was right, over what was in their own personal and political interests. 

Catalonia being a fairly sobering and sickening (from a human rights perspective) case in point. 

Whether people would want to accept that interpretation is neither here nor there, it's not really relevant anymore anyway and is only theoretic, thankfully, from that perspective. 

However, with British voters opting to then drag Scotland out of the European bloc, despite 32 out of 32 of the country’s electoral areas returning a majority for Remain, 62% nationwide, the entire landscape has utterly flipped. 

The remaining diehards who are still opposed to Scottish independence are seen now, by a small but growing majority of Scots, as largely inhabiting this position for purely tribal reasons, for it arguably no longer makes economic sense for Scotland to be in the UK and out of the EU, and the economics of it all plays into almost every part of peoples lives. 

It's not really necessary for us to illustrate the growing catalogue of financial and economic impediments being imposed on Scotland's citizens by a hostile UK government reluctant to let the country go. 

These things are self evident and they will become even more so as time slowly passes. 

However, it is widely expected that the UK media, and the absolute stranglehold they have on the privileged position of being able to speak directly to the people of Scotland, will start blowing gaskets as it goes into overdrive trying to avert people's eyes to all that's happening.

This includes the BBC and many employed by STV (a sub station of ITV in London), almost all Scottish newspapers and their online sites. 

Whatever Scottish journalists who see themselves as Scots, choose to do, if indeed they have any choice, they're going to have to adapt to a fast changing landscape, as they find themselves in the employ of an organisation now in the minority corner of UK constitutional politics.

Or to those Scots who see themselves as British first, only continued British refusal to 'allow' Scots a vote on how they mean to be governed, will let them carry on with their existence of deferred responsibility.