Quote Originally Posted by Donanddusted View Post
Is that the old, "too stupid" or a new, " too incompetent" that we can add to the many reasons why Scotland should never be an independent country managing it's own affairs?
You’d need to ask Swinney, since the original quote was his.

Managing one’s own affairs is only possible after a fair, advantageous negotiated settlement. I think the individuals who would presumably be involved in negotiating that have already proven their incompetence, and probably laziness, in day-to-day management and would not give me any confidence going into the bear-pit of an independence settlement as ‘our’ representatives, supposedly our best people. FFS.

I worked fuucking hard in the 77-79 and 97-99 Assembly/Pariament campaigns, and among those giving local input to the Constitutional Convention during the 1980s and 1990s when nationalists were in the huff for 20 years, and I’ve watched the subsidiarity aspiration, the true extension of devolution, totally fuucked over by successive and quality-draining power grabs for partisan control.

Vote in some competent, knowledgable politicians with respect for all parts of the country, to the extent of empowering them, and then I’ll perhaps offer them some respect and support.