Kicking over the dust
Sep. 19th, 2014 01:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylI've been pretty ambivalent about the whole Scottish referendum thing, largely because, despite Alec Salmond's sweeping rhetoric, a yes vote was never going to result in radical change. But the process itself has been deeply positive, increasing public engagement with politics and bringing issues which matter deeply to people elsewhere in the UK.
Now all the parties have to deliver on their promises for devo max; something they can't be allowed to renege on, otherwise there's no point in believing in anything they say ever again.
But the signs, on the Tory side at least, aren't good. The BBC are currently interviewing a parade of appalling Tories who seem determined to use the devo max promise as a stick to beat Scottish MPs with — something that will hurt the Tories, with almost no presence north of the border, far less than it will the parties — rather than make a show of positive intent and reconciliation. I suppose I shouldn't be disappointed, but it's hard not to be...
Now all the parties have to deliver on their promises for devo max; something they can't be allowed to renege on, otherwise there's no point in believing in anything they say ever again.
But the signs, on the Tory side at least, aren't good. The BBC are currently interviewing a parade of appalling Tories who seem determined to use the devo max promise as a stick to beat Scottish MPs with — something that will hurt the Tories, with almost no presence north of the border, far less than it will the parties — rather than make a show of positive intent and reconciliation. I suppose I shouldn't be disappointed, but it's hard not to be...
