IN her letter in Friday’s National, L McGregor highlights her well-founded fear at the establishment of the Scottish hubs in Edinburgh and Glasgow. His correspondence is exactly a clone of my own thinking when some time back there was very little publicity shown in the Tory media, let alone in The National, about these hubs – unless I missed it through perhaps a copy that I was unable to get.
My ageing mind has of late become very much a “deep thinker” so this feature has perhaps been responsible for some of my past lost opportunities to voice an opinion. Having said that, it has also allowed my thought process to engage gear at the prompt provided by L McGregor’s letter. Some time back I became aware that these hubs had been set up in Edinburgh and Glasgow for “the UK Government in Scotland”. Why? Was this agreed by Holyrood?
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Anyway, this subtle infiltration of what could easily be construed as English nationalism taking better control of Scotland simply equates to past powers of British colonialism such as quietly installing a Government House along with a governor and his trimmings for future ceremonies and a colonial infrastructure to control and fly the flag to allow the UK to cling to its past empire before it is lost forever in this fast-changing world. Are these two hubs a last-ditch effort to that end, by retaining Scotland as its last worthwhile colonial country of any note and thus ensure USA and EU will still give the UK some respect?
As L McGregor writes: “wake up Scotland!”
Independence will be difficult enough dealing, with BJ pulling out all the stops legally or otherwise with his majority at Westmonster and hundreds of unelected lordships, without having to dismantle this sort of scheming intrusion by an anti-independent UK clinging hard to its past empire. Most of the UK’s previously existing colonial countries that gave them past serious clout in the world are now independent, and I have yet to hear of any that wish to return to the UK fold.
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Let’s not waste more time and get independence under way. The Brexit that Scotland did not vote for was not delayed or stopped because there was a serious pandemic. It simply gave BJ a further opportunity to bolster his ego. We need to get moving without an excuse provided by this pandemic. We have the ability and means to succeed and cope with a pandemic and independence. The structure, principle and and noted competency of individuals in the Scottish Government already exists. Procrastination will not succeed in achieving independence in any form.
W D Mill Irving
Kilbirnie
CAN’T agree more with L McGregor of Falkirk and the answer to the question in her last paragraph is no, they are doing absolutely “nowt” to combat it. They are all so concerned with plan f***ing A or plan f***ing B, they haven’t seen the wagons circling.
That leads me nicely on to Maggie Chetty’s letter (Letters, January 15), which is 100% correct. By the time our elected members take their “heeds oot o the sand”, the game’s a bogey.
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Three years ago the UK Government pulled the funding to our green energy project, Why? Just, as it happens, when Scotland was for the first time self-sufficient in green electricity. This would have given us another string to our bow, and that can’t be allowed to happen. Yes, this shower o rogues will decimate everything we have built up over many years in one stroke of the pen just to keep the Union alive.
Do you honestly think Johnson, Gove, Patel and 18th-century man Rees-Mogg care a damn? Johnson would rather be seen “dying in a ditch” than be “tagged” as the PM who lost Scotland. WHAT ARE WE AND OUR ELECTED ONES DOING OR GOING TO DO ABOUT IT? Maybe a few of our MSP or MPs would like to enlighten us through your pages.
Please read L McGregor and Maggie Chetty’s letters if you haven’t already, and digest.
Ken McCartney
Hawick
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