Per The Scotsman:David Cameron said: "Of course it is possible that Scotland can stand alone – that is true."
I just think it would be better off in the United Kingdom. Better off for all of us.
I don't think we'd ever succeed in saving the Union by frightening Scots to say you couldn't possibly make it on your own.
That's not the way I approach it. The Union to me is about generosity – we're stronger together because we share so much together."
That is definitely progress. Now if only Gordon Brown would be brave enough to say something similar he'd find life might be a little easier for him North of the Border.
Still, DC did repeat this rather odd line today:
"I will work with anyone in the Scottish Parliament and administration who wants to further the benefits and conditions for the people of Scotland."
That is not "vowing to work with the First Minister of Scotland" if you ask me. The conditional approach taken is, for my money, a way of saving face if he chooses not to work with the SNP down the line. After all, why not just say "I'll work with anyone in the Scottish Parliament"?
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Less spin please, Jeff! This isn't an "admission". It's a truism. Of course Scotland could "stand alone", but of course so could Strathclyde or Fife. So it's not an issue of "could we", but "should we" - and there's a lot more to that than considering the financial benefits or drawbacks of continued union vs separation.
Of course no mention of this on Rep Scotland...
Press release not authorised by the Kremlin on the Clyde; only allowed to the McChattering classes on teh tinterwebs!
This is a bit of a misnomer too. It isn't really about "standing alone". Independence isn't about standing alone. In this interdependent world we will have close working relationships with the rest of the world, and that includes our cousins in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
For the latter countries mentioned, that is the continuation of the close social union which will continue to exist despite the constitutional and political changes independence will bring. I may be of the old fashioned view, but I think that social union will be left in tact by political independence. I don't think Scotland will ever need to view its close relationships with the other peoples of these islands via the political and constitutional prism. The political and incorporating union is most irrelevant to that very advantageous and unique social union that Scotland will always be part of.
So in many ways I completely agree with David Cameron. And despite supporting Scottish Independence, in a great many ways I'm a Unionist at heart :-)
Anon
Headline: "Cameron states the bleeding obvious"? Hardly scintillating.
Sonny
The so-called "social union" is a red herring. It's demonstrably false. Political separation would – by necessity – result in social and cultural divergence, as always happens when countries fragment.
I forgot to add, I think the whole idea of Scotland not being able to go it alone (the old Unionist arguments of "yore"), despite being partly indulged in by the Scottish Labour party in recent days, have been well and truly dispensed with in recent years. The only people who continue to do so, generally have some weird kind of - and I do hate to use this phrase, as I'm not into to some of the more ludicrous conspiracies that go about - anti-Scottish agenda for whatever reason (e.g Daily Telegraph journalists). These people do tend to be few and far between.
It is just like Gordon Brown's economically illiterate idea that an independent Scotland couldn't have recapitalised its banks - A bunkum theory demolished by a deft combination of international example, economic theory and practice and professional opinion.
Scottish_Unionist
The so-called "social union" is a red herring. It's demonstrably false. Political separation would – by necessity – result in social and cultural divergence, as always happens when countries fragment.
I have to say, in some ways I find that a slightly worrying argument.
Great Britain is not the Balkan peninsula. It is a group of islands, mature democracies with similar outlooks, and a similar cultural root as I have said. Even if we take the mass of familial and personal relationships that exist, these islands and the people of these islands will still work together in a variety of ways where our common interests merge. What constitutional institutions are in place are of no worry.
There is no necessity. Political structures are there to govern - nothing more. They are not there interfere in social or personal relationships. The state should be an irrelevance to these things. Anything less is unhealthy.
How hypocritical can you get AM2 coming on to a blog that does not censor comments unlike your bitter censored wee gossipy anti Scottish blog, and pleading, "less spin please Jeff," how dare you attempt to silence someone who is head and shoulders above you on Scottish political comment.
Less hypocrosy Andy aka AM2 please.
Thanks Anon, very kind of you.
SU, one man's truism is another man's admission. You are a clever chap, you've known all along that Scotland could successfuly stand as an independent nation so for you it's always been a truism, Cameron has only admitted his beliefs now and Brown has some way to go before he can admit the truth.
I am sure the SNP can be patient on the matter and wait another couple of years for everyone to get onboard, though 50.1% would do them I daresay.
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