Whereas this web site stays mothballed, it’s good to maintain a gentle trickle of site visitors going simply in case it ever must spring again to life, eg if somebody truly fascinated about independence all of a sudden someway turns into chief of the SNP once more.
So we thought it may be enjoyable to simply briefly hyperlink to some outdated articles as and after they grew to become topical as soon as extra, and as luck would have it tomorrow is such an event.
As a result of that’s when the SNP will launch the primary of a sequence of recent papers outlining the First Minister’s “imaginative and prescient” of independence by waffling on about how it might be a jolly good factor, within the unlikely occasion that she ever received off her extraordinarily well-paid arse and achieved it.
The preliminary one apparently focuses on how different small nations have made a hit of independence, an concept pioneered by Wings greater than 5 years in the past with plenty of articles beneath the banner of The Too Wee Membership.
The Too Wee Membership #1 – Malta
The Too Wee Membership #2 – Iceland
The Too Wee Membership #3 – Luxembourg
The Too Wee Membership #4 – Switzerland
The Too Wee Membership Redux – The Faroe Islands (by Phantom Energy)
(And one which the SNP truly stole the next 12 months and are simply reheating now on the idea that the majority of their loyal members may have forgotten about it.)
Right this moment we additionally seen a superb piece by Robin McAlpine on how the upcoming brutal austerity squeeze on Scottish Authorities spending is the results of a lure laid by the UK authorities within the Scotland Invoice that resulted from the Smith Fee of 2015, which devolved tax powers to Holyrood with none powers that will allow the Scottish Authorities to develop the financial system.
Wings opposed the Invoice as quickly as its particulars grew to become clear (a controversial place amongst Sure supporters on the time), declaring that it comprised precisely the lure that McAlpine describes right this moment. In November 2015 we stated:
In February 2016, as negotiations over the Invoice went into additional time, we added “We’ve just lately struggled to see why the Scottish Authorities is even bothering to battle for the Scotland Invoice powers, which to our eyes are a simple political lure.”
(The SNP, in the meantime, was demanding “full fiscal autonomy”, a suicidal proposition which might have made the entire thing a lot worse for a similar causes, ie offering all of the financial downsides of independence with not one of the benefits.)
When a deal was lastly executed we described the brand new powers as “nugatory crumbs” however famous that “the lure designed by the Unionist events with the Smith Fee has been largely defanged, at the very least till 2021”. And positive sufficient, after 2021, right here we’re.
We sit up for the second paper, maybe proposing a new nationwide anthem.
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PS She doesn’t even hassle altering her swimsuit to pump out this cobblers now. One among these entrance pages is from tomorrow, one is from greater than 5 years in the past. With out checking the dates, are you able to ensure which is which?
