Many in Scotland will soon wish that they had voted YES in 2014

By Anonymous

I think this “notion” on the SNP increasing their lead over Labour in a succession of polls may just continue.

Labour , since taking power in July, then announced measures that they declared would be “painful” for many of us , but the purpose behind these “painful” actions were apparently, to implement a plan for them , as a government, to then deliver long term growth.

So as many now suffer for what Labour have stated is for the ‘greater’ good i.e. Growth , then we hear today that the:

“UK economy unexpectedly shrinks for second month in a row“

“Official figures showed a 0.1% drop, despite expectations that the economy would return to growth after a fall in September”.

Labour have been constantly reiterating how bad the situation is in respect to there being a deficit in money available for them , as a new government , to change things for the better, which they have blamed on the previous Tory government , but they have not sought to blame this shortfall on Brexit which was a Tory policy.

Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer (and in respect to Scotland Ian Murray too) have reinforced the message that growth in the UK economy (and Scotland) was their main mission as a UK government so that is then what they, as a government, must succeed in achieving and delivering for the UK.

Starmer stated that “he wants the UK to secure the highest sustained economic growth of the G7 group of rich nations” which I suspect will not happen as Brexit will prevent that ever being a reality.

The blame game that Labour have been utilising as a weak excuse since coming to power will not be accepted by the public as a long term response to any failures by Labour, especially via Brexit , as Labour assured us prior to the GE that they would “Make Brexit work”.

Starmer has been saying recently that he wants to have a closer relationship with the EU , but not by actually re-joining the SM or the CU , so as to his UK getting a far better trade deal with the EU , it seems that his UK will be no further forward regarding this than it was under the Tories, and what will happen with NI and Brexit ?

I think Brexit will destroy Labour as it destroyed the Tory party and that is totally down to them , as parties, in them both allowing themselves , as parties , to pander to the likes of Nigel Farage, whose rationale for supporting Brexit was to make those who fund both him and his various political parties , even more richer in what they hoped would be a future UK ripe for exploiting for their own financial gain.

The irony of course being that Reform UK, Farage’s latest party, may win subsequent seats in elections from both Labour and the Tories so that he , and those who fund him and his various parties, then get an opportunity to claim that which they have strived to obtain, and that is for them to have the political power to change things for those who need more deregulation within the UK .

Reform UK will try to implement a situation that benefits the wealthy far more than the poor within the UK , with lower taxes for the wealthy , less rules and regulations that restricts their profits and then also a new privatised healthcare system to replace the NHS within the UK where it will be a tiered based insurance system. (the more you pay the better the service).

I think many in Scotland will soon wish that they had voted YES in 2014 , because as the future within the UK begins to unfold it will surely reveal that Scotland will not be, in any shape or form, a nation that is “Better Together” with the rest of the UK, but instead , will find itself in the sad and weaker position of being a nation that is now very much Worse off as part of their UK.

Indeed the rot began for Scotland on the morning of the 19 September 2014.

12 thoughts on “Many in Scotland will soon wish that they had voted YES in 2014”

  1. For over 300 years Scotland has been part of the Union and it has proved a roaring success – for some. But for the majority , particularly those who will not/cannot migrate to London , it has created endemic poverty , ill health and a seemingly unshakeable cringe among too many .

    Long past time to shake off this colonial mindset and stand up for ourselves . Certain political parties which claim to know what is best for us should be told to …..OFF !

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    1. The ‘endemic poverty, ill health and cringe’ were all by design, the EnglishBrit state made sure that Scotland was kept down, the people with few if any opportunities, drugs imported (as the Brit state are still doing), terrible housing, well not housing it was hovels way into the 1990’s…only since the SNP have been able to start to repair some of the damage of English colonialism in Scotland, have things started to get ‘better’ you know to coil Bliar’s phrase. There is a massive hill still to climb to make Scotland a 21st century, forward looking, and more prosperous country, but if the Brit state wins in 2026, Scotland will be taken back to the days of lowest life expectancy in the western world, drugs caplital of Europe, a basket case. Just have to look at Latin American countries, with huge resources to see how far the colonists will go to keep taking the riches off of the countries they control. No thanks.

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  2. Well I did predict after the Gen Election result even amongst some staunch Unionist Scots it would bring Independence a step closer as they will soon realise that Westminster has no interest in Scotland whatsoever.

    In fact I would also go furher and predict that they will legislate (or at least fail to protect) Scottish business to ensure the Scottish economy suffers more to enforce their message and dependency on England and being ‘Better Together’. We have already seen the adverse impact from Brexit and recent targeting of the agriculture and farming sectors which IMHO is clearly designed to lower land values in England in their push for more housing developments.

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  3. John Curtice was speaking at the Glasgow Philosophical Society this week. He was talking about the changed polity following the 2024 General Election. He was asked about the 2026 Scottish Elections.

    He pointed out that in addition to the poor start Labour has had (largely of its own making) mid term is usually the low point for an incumbent government in terms of popularity. So, it is likely, that in Scotland in 2026, there will be swing against Labour. In addition, unlike in Wales, where Labour maintained much of its dominance in the Senedd by emphasising its Welshness and fighting Wales’ corner against Westminster, even after Labour won in 2024, ‘Scottish’ Labour hates the very idea of being Scottish and is wholly subservient to Westminster Labour.

    It most definitely does NOT fight Scotland’s corner. Indeed, it disnae wasn’t Scotland tae huv a coarner.

    So, as in the aftermath of 2014 when its collaboration with the Tories during the referendum was severely punished, it could be badly hit in 2026. The list system will deliver it some seats, but, possibly, it will have fewer seats than the Tories and Reform. As it is likely that SNP and Greens combined will be just short of a majority, Labour will be forced into deciding whether it allies with LibDems, Tories and Reform to form a Government or whether it supports SNP and Greens.

    Interesting times.

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  5. Strange that the one example weaponised by those from the NO side, is the one they always use against the SNP and that is that apparently that both Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon declared that the 2014 Independence Referendum was a “once in a generation vote” or even what is sometimes quoted as having been stated as being “a once in a lifetime vote”.

    Though whose life time that is never expanded upon as part of the argument made by those on the NO side.

    Of course now that the same people on the NO side are declaring NO to us having a second (justified) independence referendum then both AS and NS were correct in 2014.

    Correct that is in the real context of what they said.

    That is that people within Scotland were being given a unique and wonderful opportunity to vote on both the future of their country and their own future too in 2014 in them choosing to vote YES to Scotland being independent.

    If they did not vote YES then they may never get another opportunity to do so by those same political parties who supported the UK aka the NO side.

    Now lo and behold that is exactly what has happened .

    This then emphatically proves that what both NS and AS stated in 2014 was indeed a most prophetic statement as all of those political parties who were a part of the NO campaign are now all saying that they will keep denying people in Scotland another (justified) opportunity to vote again on that same Q from 2014 in voting in another referendum.

    As in having another Scottish referendum based upon what is now a very much changed UK for Scotland and also very much what is worse circumstances that Scotland now finds itself in since 2014 as a part of that UK.

    In fact any SNP politician, and others, should constantly highlight to both pro UK politicians and their pro UK media, that the NO side also pledged and promised many things to the people of Scotland in 2014, which they have failed to adhere to, failed to deliver and in fact with Scotland voting NO in 2014 it has not resulted in us, within Scotland , ending up being Better Together with the rest of the UK but instead has seen us now being far worse off and far far weaker.

    In fact both the previous and now the current WM UK governments planned to steal powers from our government in Scotland and then also withhold money from our democratically elected Scottish government.

    The Tories wanted to give it directly to councils in Scotland as now do the Labour party as UK government also want to do this via their WM man in Scotland, Ian Murray.

    “Lead us don’t Leave us” they said in 2014.

    Now it’s follow us and remain our prisoners as part of our Brexit UK internal market, for as long as we still need your resources and all other things sourced from your , checks notes, region , that we can still profit from for our UK Treasury.

    Not so much a winning argument now for remaining in their UK, is it ?

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  6. Can I just remind people of this:

    Anas Sarwar was voted by The Herald as ‘Scottish Politician of the year’ in 2024.

    The same Anas Sarwar who voted against his own party and instead voted with the Conservatives at Holyrood on the Scottish budget , in what he now states was a ‘mistake’.

    STV news, via Colin McKay , caught up with Sarwar after FM’s Q’s and asked him to explain what had happened .

    Sarwar, grinning as if it was all a great big joke, said “It was a genuine mistake that the FM obviously had some fun with today but the serious point is that the SNP have been making even bigger mistakes for the last 17 years which is why we need change in 2026”

    Once more Sarwar deflecting away from his big mistake and also on what was being asked and instead choosing to respond by saying yet again #SNPBAD. (which Baillie also does when asked a direct Q about Labour).

    Colin McKay then challenged him in saying “But given how vehemently your party opposed what the Tories were doing in parliament yesterday in trying to withdraw free bus passes for Asylum seekers it’s a bit embarrassing isn’t it” ?

    Sarwar, still grinning , though what he found amusing about all of this was beyond me.

    However I guess with him winning The Herald’s ‘Politician of the year’ and also with Labour winning 37 seats in the last GE, he may then wrongly assume that Labour in Scotland are then impregnable and also that he is beyond reproach.

    So he then assumes that he can act any way he wants when interviewed, as he responded in saying “Well look I made a mistake yesterday and John Swinney had fun with that but today but the important point here is the big mistakes are that our country……”

    He was then interrupted by Mackay asking him if he was embarrassed.

    Still grinning Sarwar said ” Look I pressed the wrong button people make mistakes and I made a mistake yesterday and John Swinney had good fun with it”.

    So the exceptionalism on display here is that Sarwar is then allowed to make a mistake(s) as leader (ITO) of Labour in Scotland but the SNP, as the Scottish government , must always be infallible apparently , that is according to Anas Sarwar.

    You know this was not a laughing matter him voting with the Tories and I wonder was it a really mistake made by him in that vote, personally I doubt it.

    However what is now very clear is that Anas Sarwar is NOT FM material and he, like his leader Keir Starmer, cares not for Scotland or it’s people but instead his only mission is to keep Scotland in the UK.

    I guess that is why The Herald really nominated and really awarded him the title of Scottish politician of the Year, in the hope that he and his party in Scotland will do their bit for the UK being sustained to still include Scotland, and come 2026 I do hope that their fake award for Sarwar will then prove to have been nowt but a temporary award.

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    1. So he pressed the wrong button just like his boss in London who said in June this year that labour’s commitment to Trident was “ absolute” and insisted he would press the nuclear button!!! INSANITY REIGNS SUPREME IN BRITISH LABOUR!!! Scotland must escape the Westminster madness!!!

      JB

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  8. An excellent synopsis, but I’d argue the rot began long before the morning of 19th September 2014 – It certainly gave Westminster a fright and woke Scots up, but the rot continued and ultimately will be the WM mafia’s undoing…

    From the quotes “UK economy unexpectedly shrinks for second month in a row“ and “Official figures showed a 0.1% drop, despite expectations that the economy would return to growth after a fall in September”, note the expectations – Then ask any decent economist whether they would have expected these results and the answer would be an immediate “yes, absolutely”.

    In any other field when the result of what you tried is not what was expected you’ve done something wrong – You do not endlessly repeat variations of the experiment in expectation a correct result will eventually turn up – Not so for those those in government (or the media reporting on them) only because they ‘did a year’ studying classic economics as part of the degree.

    For growth see tree – For stagnation see UK politics….

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    1. “I’d argue the rot began long before the morning of 19th September 2014”

      Yes indeed you are right , in fact 2014 was just an extension of the rot that began long before 2014 and was totally down to the various pro UK political parties who were different UK governments.

      🙂

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