Quote from: SM on Sep 19, 2014, 06:01:28 AM
Mebbe, mebbe no.
Terrible when democracy works huh.
Well you say that but is it? this has been a victory for the establishment basically, the London elite that rule...errm London...badly. The only way they managed that was to use a massive propaganda campaign backed by their best mates at the BBC when the vote got too close for comfort. The Scots were basically made to fear change, virtually bullied into it and it worked.
The Labour party basically said anything and everything they could to try and stop people voting yes because had Scotland gotten independence the Labour party would have been literately destroyed for years to come. The UK would have been most probably led by the Tories for a long long time.
Sure everyone got a democratic vote...but after a hailstorm of threats, dubious promises, scaremongering, warnings, various companies behaving badly by abandoning Scotland as if they had the plague, alarmism etc...Watching the BBC right now its so clear how biased they are, so much relief on their faces that the vote went the right way for the big boys that they depend on. I feel sorry for the Scots I really do.