Letters / So what’s Alistair’s point?
MP Alistair Carmichael’s critical comments about the SNP’s pledge on further autonomy for the islands is on its own fair enough, because of their constant centralisation (Carmichael criticises SNP over isles autonomy; SN 18/2/14).
However the SNP are practicing no more than a scaled down version of what Westminster are doing, or Europe with their corrupt bureaucracy and unnecessary red tape.
So what is Alistair’s point?
The SIC’s war on rural Shetland is but a smaller example of the Holyrood administration’s clawing all things into Edinburgh.
Ditto the nasty and greedy Westminster administration and its “we love the bankers and hate the poor” philosophy.
So Alistair’s comments are nothing other than a statement of fact in the current rotten political cess pit.
What makes Alistair’s comments noteworthy is that they are an example of his Scotlaphobe ideology, aligning himself with the established and self interested ruling elite in England and it’s total capitulation to the corrupt dictatorship that is the EU.
The only disappointing part of the independence debate is why the SNP are so in love with the EU which, with Westminster’s help over the last 40 years, has ruined Scotland along with the rest of the UK as it slips under the waves of unnecessary regulation, EU membership fees, business costs, the death of sustainable local communities and their economies.
The Better Together campaign have nothing to offer Scotland other than the same rotten anti-social, individual greed based philosophy which will one day bring about riots by the massively growing population of cold and hungry have-nots.
However the SNP’s love affair with the EU is also as bad if Scotland remains a net contributor and rubber stamps every rule emanating from the Federal States Of Europe HQ, as Westminster has been doing ever since the UK was undemocratically dragged in.
Vic Thomas
Clousta
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