Just a quick one today, Scarlet needs to get back to checking out the immigration policy of several nations around the world.
It looks more and more likely like Labour will get into bed with the SNP and seize control at the election next week, this may not be the disaster it looks on the face of it in economic terms, at the end of the day Mr Milliband's policies aren't all that bad but there is a bigger threat which concerns Scarlet. The United Kingdom is predominantly made up of England both in terms of land and in terms of population, it is natural that the English would hold a lot of the cards politically, it has been part of the union since day one and it is fair this way, one person one vote. A growing nationalist fervour is growing in Scotland, the Scots have remembered that 500 years ago there was some unpleasantness and apparently 300 years of being the same country doesn't quite make up for it.
The SNP exist to break up the UK, that is their top line policy, the SNP care about the people of Scotland and will always put them first, this is the problem on nationalism, this is why the EU hate UKIP, because they don't want to be in Brussels in the first place. Now it appears that the bias in the system towards local parties as opposed to national appeal (such as UKIP, who will maybe get 3-4 MPs) is going to hand the power in the house to the nationalists. You cannot blame the people of Scotland, they have been fed this nonsense that in some way everyone in England has a much better life and look North only to give the troublesome Jock's the occasional penny to keep them happy, they have been fed it and they have swallowed it, it is a lot easier to get people to believe your message if you tell them they've been hard done by and could do better. The simple numbers show how Scotland benefits from being in the UK, ever heard of the Barnett formula? Ah yes but of course the nuclear submarine base is in Scotland and that is a great burden for the Scots to carry... But, hang on a minute wasn't it put there to boost employment in the area? Does it not give Scots stable work? Seems to me that if they had built it in Scotland the SNP would be calling it another example of Westminster giving work to rich England instead of poor Scotland.
The SNP will overstep their mark, Milliband will be a lame duck and the resentment will start, the English will rebel, they will have enough of it and it seems the United Kingdom will crash down with a thud. Scarlet has mentioned this before but it is really bothering him now. To have a small party espousing 19th century nationalist nonsense dominating the commons will be too much to bear, it will be proof that our nation is finally ready to die, an experiment which saw the largest expansion in the history of the world will fall on its face, this is how it ends...
So Scarlet will be off, probably to another nation which has some pride in itself, struggles like recessions bring people together rather than rip them apart, Scarlet may be about to leave our nation, because he loves it too much to see this happen.
I may be wrong, there may be a surprise in the offing, but it appears that the UK is going the way of many nations before it, we are blaming each other rather than working together and it'll cost the UK a patriot, a romantic and a dreamer...
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