Referendum – the ‘do-knows’

I don’t mind whether Scots vote ‘yes’ or ‘no’.  Scots have always been a divided nation – and probably the stronger for it.  Those Scots who ‘don’t know’ but want to know to help them decide deserve our support and encouragement.

My advice is to focus on the question, ‘Should Scotland be an independent country?’ …YES or NO.  Forget about shared currency, the EU, Trident and whatever else is ‘fear of the day’.  That is SNP policy for the 2016 ELECTION not the REFERENDUM in 2014.

If Scotland gets a YES vote they will be queuing at our door to do business and forge new relationships.

Here’s a question and there are no prizes because it is too easy.  It’s 19 September 2014 and Scotland has just voted YES.  We call up the EU and ask if we are in or out.  They tell us we will have to apply and that could take a few years.  We say ‘don’t leave it too long as the EU has no nuclear defences as we have them at Faslane’.  So we ask them again if we are in or out.  I think that is an IN, don’t you?  Somebody please tell Alex Salmond.  Told you it was easy!

However, back to the don’t know/don’t care lot.  I DO mind the ‘don’t know/don’t care’ and the ‘didnae bother to vote brigade’.  I thought that feeble minded lot had died out in Scotland but they’re still here under the title of the ‘missing millions?’.  Apologies if you thought that was a reference to Sir Fred Goodwin

The Better Together campaign has the ‘missing millions’ in their sights with their devious and creepy Patriot System {just 3 letters away from Patriot Missile}.  But why target the ‘missing millions?’

So here’s the thing.  Lots of countries all over the world have struggled, fought and died for independence and the right of ‘self determination’.  I picked out just some examples from Africa and Asia.  I have copied some examples below but you can follow the links for more details.

If we could go back in time and ask some of these poor, uneducated, downtrodden peoples in their 3rd world countries what they have strived for. They will tell you they wanted independence, self determination and hope into the future for their children and their children’s children.  Ask them what they think of the Scot who ‘don’t know’ and they would probably say ‘we are better than them because at least we knew what we wanted, and we fought to get it.

What a scourge on the brilliant Scots men and women we have produced.  We have in our midst a breed of spineless people, so lacking in confidence and motivation  that they would opt for apathy and ‘status quo’ rather than measuring up to the aspirations of the peoples of the 3rd and 4th worlds.

I say to all these people and especially the 60 plus’rs amongst them.  This is not for you, you won’t see this anyway.  You lot, and I include myself in this, are for our bus pass and our winter fuel allowance. This is about confidence and belief in our children and their children and their right of freedom and ‘self determination’ which you are about to deny them.

Before it’s too late, and you damn them to servitude for which they will blame you forever, grow some balls, inform yourself and get out and vote.  If you vote NO I will be very disappointed in you but I will at least respect you for forming your opinion.

Let’s show the third world that we have hopes and aspirations too.

So here is a short list of countries that have already done what some of you, so far,  have failed to do:

From Africa –

• South Africa, 3 December 1931 as a Realm – withdrew on becoming a Republic on 31 May 1961, rejoined 1 June 1994
• Ghana, 6 March 1957 as a Realm – became a Republic 1 July 1960
• Nigeria, 1 October 1960 as a Realm – became a Republic on 1 October 1963 – suspended between 11 November 1995 and 29 May 1999
• Sierra Leone, 27 April 1961 as a Realm – became a Republic 19 April 1971
• Tanganyika, 9 December 1961 as a Realm – became Republic of Tanganyika on 9 December 1962, United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar on 26 April 1964, and United Republic of Tanzania on 29 October 1964.
• Uganda, 9 October 1962 as a Realm – became a Republic on 9 October 1963
• Kenya, 12 December 1963 as a Realm – became a Republic on 12 December 1964
• Malawi, 6 July 1964 as a Realm – became a Republic on 6 July 1966
• Zambia, 24 October 1964 as a Republic
• The Gambia, 18 February 1965 as a Realm – became a Republic on 24 April 1970
• Botswana, 30 September 1966 as a Republic
• Lesotho, 4 October 1966 as a Kingdom
• Mauritius, 12 March 1968 as a realm – became a Republic on 12 March 1992
• Swaziland, 6 September 1968 as a Kingdom
• Seychelles, 29 June 1976 as a Republic
• Zimbabwe, 18 April 1980 as a Republic – suspended on 19 March 2002, departed on 8 December 2003
• Namibia, 21 March 1990 as a republic
• Cameroon, 11 November 1995 as a Republic
• Mozambique, 12 December 1995 as a Republic
• Rwanda, 28 November 2009 as a Republic

From Asia –

• Afghanistan
• Bangladesh
• India
• Nepal
• Pakistan
• Sri Lanka
• Burma/Myanmar
• Cambodia
• Indonesia
• Philippines
• Thailand
• South Korea
• Hong Kong