Many of us fall into the trap of thinking that Scotland is better than England, and in many ways it is especially around social protection measures, but in other ways we are not so different are we. Kevin McKenna has an interesting article in the Herald today (the link will take you to the article).
Kevin writes THE revelations about last year’s month-long Christmas festival in Downing Street have prompted a cluster accusations on a familiar theme. It’s just “one law for them; another law for the rest of us”. Usually, it’s the Tories we have in our sights when this apercu is deployed.
Tricia Marwick the much-respected former Holyrood Presiding Officer captured this in a tweet last week. “The UK politicians, media and the civil service are all pals together. Same schools, same universities, same circles. It is a bubble which prevents proper scrutiny and accountability.” We know that poor students in England are more likely to go to University than poor students in Scotland for example. MSPs are now five times more likely than the average Scot to be privately educated, according to research after the last election, while Westminster is still ahead on 32%.
Researchers at the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission found in 2016 that 45 per cent of senior judges were privately educated compared to less than 6 per cent of the country’s overall population. Half of Scotland’s top media professionals and 46 per cent of the country’s MPs attended the four “ancient” universities of Edinburgh, Glasgow, St Andrews and Aberdeen. Nothing has changed really and it never will unless we are willing to support independence and rid Scotland of this elite, Victorian Age, establishment crap and unelected Head of State nonsense, and not replace it with something worse. We need a written constitution that ensures equality, but we are further away from that today than we have ever been.
It’s all good and well fighting for independence but if or when we achieve it we have to look at the policies being developed by people like Common Weal rather than put our trust in any politician because they will mostly look after themselves and shaft the rest of us no matter which party is in power, it’s what they are once they get a taste of the life style and privilege that we give them.
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