Case for independence

Published 6 Jul 2010 09:30

Reader William McLeod (Reporter, June 22) still seems to think the Labour Party won the last election and continues to back in his narrow parochialism, which is characterised by the fear and negativity of the Labour Party campaign.

However, the rest of the world has, very quickly, moved no.

In case he does not watch the national news, may I briefly make the following points.

David Cameron, leader of the Conservative Party, is now Prime Minister of the UK.

The UK is now facing, thanks largely to the legacy of appalling incompetence left by the outgoing Labour Government, the worst levels of debt in the history of this country, which it has had to repay.

The Treasury has recently admitted that unemployment will probably rise by at least another 1.3 million, to hover close to the four million mark.

To say that a disaster is looming is putting it mildly.

The social costs alone of the coming crisis will be enormous.

There will be cuts at all levels of Government.

And the Labour Party, with its feeble 41 MPs, will be totally powerless to do anything about it.

A lot of decent, hard working people will be out of a job, through no fault of their own.

Public services will be decimated.

The axe is looming for education, the NHS and defence, to name a few and there is nothing we can do about it, for we voted for unionist parties at the last election.

Yet Scotland is a fantastically resource-rich country with great potential in the fields of renewables such as wind, wave, tidal and hydro-electric power, which we will soon be exporting to the rest of Europe.

Our other assets include water, whisky, forestry and agriculture.

We are a wealthy land and will get wealthier.

And the case for Scottish independence will, in the months and years ahead, become greater than ever.

All the union will be able to offer will be mass unemployment, from a Government we never even voted for.

That, I am afraid, is the reality that we will all have to face, and the only viable alternative will be self-government and fiscal autonomy.

The rest, including our feeble Labour MSP and MP, will be a busted flush.

James Cormack, Dumbarton

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