I expect most readers will have already seen former British ambassador Craig Murray's description of the United Kingdom as a rogue state - if not then it's well worth a listen. Now I don't usually have much time for the tribal nonsense that sees, for example, a Carwyn Jones, or heaven forbid a Tony Blair, as being somehow morally superior to their Tory opponents, so can a 'no voter' be a decent person? Well I suppose you could argue that as the SNP hopes to remain a member of both NATO and the increasingly aggressive EU, then plus ça change.
What a yes vote will do is pose an existentialist threat to one of the cornerstones of the rogue alliance currently headed-up by America's out-of-control neocons - both the New York Times and the Washington Post carried frankly insane, pro-war opinion pieces this last weekend. At least the SNP want to kick the nuclear missiles out of Scotland, there are those in Washington and London who sound all-to-eager to use them.
If I was a Scot I would certainly vote Yes, despite the timorous attitude of their leaders towards real independence - a currency and a foreign policy of their own. I wouldn't think a Yes vote would lead to independence though, the rogue state has a lot more tricks up its sleeve before it would allow that to happen.
On the SNP and NATO a well placed YES journalist has said the SNP's acceptance of joining NATO was the price it had to pay to be allowed to join the EU.
ReplyDeleteI personally wouldn't want to be a member of either given the endemic global corruption they represent, but the SNP like any future Welsh Government has to deal with the world as it is rather than the idealized version many want.