Sturgeonland

[57vintage]

You lost me at “I’d like to think”. That sort of ‘we’ exceptionalism fûcks me off. It’s one of the ‘one size fits all’ homogenisations that allows areas of Scotland to be treated the same way as the new Party heartlands where needs and aspirations are quite different. A sort of mini-Westminster.

One of the key props of the devolution I fought fûcking hard for in 77-79, and throughout the 80s and 90s via the Wright Convention when The Party was in the huff, was the PROCESS of devolution which had subsidiarity at its heart, ie DEVOLVING MAXIMUM DECISION-MAKING TO AS CLOSE TO PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE. That’s been total(itarion)ly trashed by the past 9 years of obsession with centralisation and control by She Who Has Just Run Away Before The Shîte Hits The Fan.

Eroding people’s local and regional identities isn’t attractive to me. My ‘micro-we’ is as important as anyone else’s macro.