As long as the Scottish people keep voting for wanna-be-Westminster "Scots" to supposedly represent them in the UK parliament, the continuation of Scotlandshire as the dumping ground of the British Isles can be expected to continue. Our country isn't only the proposed midden for nuke waste, it is the "home " of the nuclear umbrella just north of Glasgow. How lucky those Glaswegians are to be so close to this wonderful "umbrella; makes you weep for the poor Londoners who have nothing like this down there on the Thames....
   And what, you may ask, would the British Army do for commando training grounds, and how about the poor waifs of the American navy, who depend on the sturdy cliffs of Cape Wrath for their missile and gun training, now that they have been told to f--- off by Costa Rica?
We had a wonderful Labour Energy Minister by the name of Brian Wilson---a native of the Hebrides, no less---who waxed poetic about the jobs which would be created for the folks in the Western Isles in laying a monster cable from the windfarms of the Highlands and Islands to supply the industrious folks ,way down there in the Home Counties! Aw----gimme a break! How about some industries in SCOTLAND which can use this power? Have you ever seen a schematic of the routing of the North Sea oil pipelines? There is an absolute glut of them direct from Aberdeen headed straight south across the border, and a miserable splinter or two side tracking into Scotland. And now we have a Parliament in Edinburgh. Better than nothing at all, without a doubt, but dominated unfortunately by the Labour group who, whether you like it or not, have their bosses in London.
   There is only one true path for Scotland; complete independence.
That does NOT mean isolation from friends or even family in the South. There will not be another "war of independence". The Scots have it in their power to take their country back under their own control, and to do so without physical strife or violence. I have no great hope that this will happen soon, however. The only vote which can possibly bring this about is a vote for the SNP. Of those who persist in voting British Labour, I would ask "Why do you vote for a Westmister hegemony, when you claim to be a Scot? And why shun the SNP when they are the only party which has no other interest than the welfare of YOUR country, Scotland? Surely, to be 100% Scottish, you must have no other false allegiances?"