He’s a fascist then, just a useless one.
Got it.
Well, not exactly, the formula props up Scotland with a per head subsidy, if they become independent, they're on their own.What is that, one's "perception" of Scottish debt? I think it would be up to discussion who'd pay up for it. :p Afterall, i suppose the UK as a whole profited a long time from Scottish oil and gas aswell, not sure if the Scots need the uk more or if the UK needs Scotland
Well, not exactly, the formula props up Scotland with a per head subsidy, if they become independent, they're on their own.
but seeing as the EU would welcome them, then it's no longer our problem, it's yours. Much of the oil is in the Shetland region,
they want to stay part of the UK, which is great for us, but it's all not relevant at present, we'll see.
Great, so we're both happy then.Eitherway no great issue from my perspective, some Eu members are poorer that has never been the inherit issue to an internationalist view.
Great, so we're both happy then.
I'm not sure what your saying here, personally, I value the union, in fact that union was confirmed with the Scottish referendum.Aka, you wouldn't mind granting Scotland more budgetery autonomy or even independance providing they take on part of the UK debt?
Since that, we've endured a constant barrage of requests from an irritating Scots Premier for yet another referendum, as she
didn't like the result of the first, (see any patterns developing here?),
If they get what they want and vote out, then yes, I'm not bothered if they join the
EU, then their support is over to you.
In the extremely unlikely event it ever happens, Brexit will be a disaster for the SNP. The fiction that the EU would welcome an independent Scotland will be a fitting inscription for their memorial monument. It's testimony to the good sense of the Scots population that they would never swallow the absurd idea that undoing 300 years of UK integration would benefit their country in any way. Especially when they see what's needed to extricate ourselves from just 40 years' worth of much less complex trading relationships. It's the old story, who else but us would want them? Bit like who else would want the responsibility for solving the intractable issues in NI - for demographic reasons the GFA has ensured a United Ireland is inevitable but there is an increasing reluctance voiced in the Republic for them to take on its consequences.So am i. Distinctivly i'm a confederalist internationalist with prefference for heavy decentralisation where possible. So i support Scottish independance and would welcome them in the EU.
Aka, you wouldn't mind granting Scotland more budgetery autonomy or even independance providing they take on part of the UK debt?
Quite well put.I do think Johson is acting dangerous towards democracy, but i don't think facist is the most apt word to use. I think you compared a certain group to Brownshirts for his cause yesterday but i'm not sure if you understood the role of brownshirts in Hitlers rise to power then as i seem to do. The thing with brownshirts is that they formed a quasi army of several hundred thousands in a time where Germany was limited to a 100.000 man army. The significance of the brown shirts were rather specific to the enviroment then, because it's perhaps not hard to see how a nation can loose control and power when a faction within can mobilise a fighting force several times the size of that of the goverment, lest to speak that even significant part of the army and police supported the facists. The vacuum in Germany allowed the Brownshirts even to police large parts of the country. Afcourse when it came to ellections the brownshirts would use various tactics to make Hitler win among those intimidation of the ellectorate and the death threats to MP's in the UK (especially when also having cases of political assasination) can be then seen as somewhat similar to that, certaintly concerning for democracy. What you don't have is an effectivly mobilised army of right wingers forcing people to vote for their cause, no'r any chance for them to beat the country's armed forces in a bid for power or any territory defacto controlled by them by sheer vacuum left by a neutured goverment.
Bojo does seem to use various machinations to seize more power for himself, machinations that look similar to various ones used at times in the past. Maybe here and there they seem to be taking hints from the facist trickbook but imho he's taking even more from Caesar.
I don't think it's all that usefull to use the word "facist", it's a laden term and i think it makes people on the right feel attacked by hyperbole aswell. Nevertheless what Bojo is doing is deeply concerning imho.