Living off of Carrots

Us Scots live off a diet of carrots, well that’s what too many believe anyway –  So Gordon Brown-Stuff has discussed a poll that his pro-Union think tank Our Scottish Future had on the cost of living crisis but which also found that when people were asked “To what extent do you agree with each of the following statements? A serious plan to change Britain could be more attractive than independence for Scotland,”  they allegedly found that some 47% agreed, 22% disagreed, with 26% saying neither. While most of those supporting a reformed UK over independence were Tory and Labour voters, the poll also showed that 30% of SNP voters also agreed with the question(doesn’t surprise me with the new Britnat SNP).

According to the Herald Brown is due to publish a report on recommendations for reform of the UK in the coming weeks but when asked what those recommendations were said

Carrot alert Carrot alert

“We are going to outline over the next few weeks and months what a changed Britain would look like. And it will mean a lot to the people of Scotland. We want to see a Britain that works for Scotland in a better way than is happening at the moment.

Brown stuff then goes on to troll out the old trusted Better Together mantra that the carrot eaters just love as it gives them all of the excuses they need to vote no to Scottish independence when he says

“But we don’t know what independence means to be honest as the SNP have not spelt out what it means for the pound, and thus the currency, for trade and thus the border, for membership of Nato which want to have but not to be a nuclear weapons holder, for all the different things that the SNP talk about. “Pensions. They can’t spell out what pensions mean. They seem to think that the UK Government will fund pensions in an independent Scotland.”

Just the usual unchallenged LIES that unionists tell on a daily basis and that carrot eaters lap up in all of it’s glory.

There are risks though, the poll also found that,

• Scots fear the next year will be worse for their finances than the Covid crisis. Some 48% said they feared their financial situation would worsen over the next 12 months, with only 14% saying they think it will improve. This compares to the 37% who say that Covid made them less financially secure.
• 40% of Scots said they were either “struggling” or described their finances as “tight”
• The cost of living and inflation are now twice as important to households across Scotland than any other economic issue. 63% ranked it as a top 3 issue, as against 30% for pensions, the next highest
• On how an unexpected £500 bill would affect their finances – 47% – said they either would not be able to pay it, or would have to borrow or save money elsewhere to do so.

Us Scots are risk averse, carrots eaters, or cowards, or all three

I must admit that I have been thinking about the cost of living crisis and have blogged about it a few times recently, as I have been blogging about our cowardly reaction to the assaults on Scotland’s well-being since at least Thatcher and the 80’s when fear of losing what little we have has resulted in fear of change.

I fear that this cost of living crisis, which will get worse over the next year, maybe two, will both be enough for Nikola Sturgeon and the SNP to delay action on our constitutional future and give enough reason to the soft no’s to allow them to fall for another Project Fear Part Two and vote against the chance for something better. I also ask myself

Where is the fight back?

against the Better Together narrative of the yoons, Kenneth Gibson, the SNP MSP, said: “Gordon Brown is the very last person anyone in Scotland can trust when it comes to Scottish self-government. Of course that is 100% true but it is not enough, it is not enough for Gibson to say

“Instead we have had continued Tory austerity, Boris Johnson as Prime Minister, and Brexit imposed on Scotland against our will – a Brexit which Gordon Brown’s Labour party now supports.

“It’s staggering that as the cost of living crisis heightens, Gordon Brown continues to align himself with Westminster control that sees the poorest families have vital Universal Credit support cut by £20 a week.

That is NOT ENOUGH.

Where are the counter arguments, the answers are there and have been made, enough of the Blackford like platitudes and get on the front foot for a change FFS. The SNP are losing the unofficial campaign for independence against the unionists already. Living off of carrots is a comfort blanket for far too many and why, because the SNP are the ones picking them for the unionists to feed them to the gullible.

Enough, the campaign needs to start now before we lose before we have even started.

The unionists aren’t the greatest risk to the YES cause right now, the SNP and Nicola Sturgeon are. Carrots and the cost of living crisis just don’t help when the party of independence answer is more platitudes.