Letters / All she needs is democracy
I have friends who voted No, I made new friends on the campaign trail who were No activists, I have ensured No voters were welcomed and free to debate on https://www.facebook.com/YesShetland and removed Yes supporters who went over the line with intimidation or abuse.Never at any point would I tell anyone how to vote or that they were wrong to vote in a particular way.
The referendum has been and gone.
No won.
Well not exactly, because Westminster won and democracy lost.
After 12 hours of seeing Scotland reject independence like no other country in the world has ever done, I was back to normal!
Not for one minute did I trust Westminster’s false promises. We’re not getting any “new powers”.
Even the timetable, promised on the day after the referendum, failed to arrive.
Don’t leave the station though, the train’s due shortly.
On board will be austerity, a chopping or complete ditching of the Barnett Formula, removal of Scottish MPs’ voting power in Westminster, £1.4 trillion of debt, HS2 and Crossrail for London, £100 billion on Trident and 800 unelected peers sitting in the warm, flatulence of the House of Lords on £300 a day.
Pensions? Welfare? Not looking good now.
But enough of the positives!
School closures, council house rent rises, public transport cuts, road budgets slashed, social care prices up, NHS cuts (yes it’s separate in Scotland but its budget is not), the list goes on.
Depressed yet? No need to be.
Never before has there been a need to join the 2,000,000 with the 1,600,000.
Please help.
Not me , but your bairns, grand bairns and their bairns.
Long after the Camerons, Milibands, Cleggs, Browns and all the other little Darlings have gone, Scotland will still be a beautiful country.
All she needs is democracy.
People died to get the vote, people died for gay rights, people died for a lot less. So if any of you thought I was going to give up after 18 months campaigning you don’t really know me.
We need the help of the No voter now. There is no other way to stop the train arriving.
Aye, in hope over fear.
Douglas Young
Sumburgh
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