The Scots are making history, whoever wins. Of England and the rest of the world. Here is the bet of the heirs of William Wallace. What they do not know how many out of England is that, in fact, the United Kingdom began as an acquisition of Scotland on the rest of the Kingdom. It was 1603 and the great Queen Elizabeth (to Shakespeare) dies without heirs, the throne was acquired by James the sixth, King of Scotland, who rules over both nations with different names. The last two prime ministers – Tony Blair and Gordon Brown – are Scottish.
to gain the Union are, of course, the subjects with the kilt for which the state spends per head – a bit ‘as Italy with the Trentino – each year one thousand five hundred pounds more than the others. Of course some difference is the oil of the North today only virtually in the hands of Scotland, but the oil is not a business of the future, the price is volatile and more revenue – estimated at £ 4 billion – would be insufficient to pay the cost of a welfare system that is now funded by London.
In the short term it is likely that the Scots would agree – that already enjoy wide autonomy and parliament – to be together to the British. Meanwhile, the United Kingdom would come out strengthened from the test: would have given a lesson to all of you for showing what it means to be democratic assuming the risks to the hilt.
If the tear was rejected, the effect would be to lock down the Union for fifty years, and mark – if London meets the promise of more concessions – a setback for the Independence Party. For the independence of the whole world a defeat of the measure would not be much worse than a victory for secession: Catalan, Venetian and Eastern Ukrainians have solid arguments to ask to be able to decide, by invoking what the head of the British government has solemnly promised when gave the go-ahead to the referendum: “This UK will not take no more inside a country without his consent.”
In any case, this referendum is forever changed – as James Naughty argues in The Guardian last Wednesday – the relationship between citizens and politics. From the front of the Yes and the referendum has expired, these days, the winds of change, the expectation of change that affects the whole western world and it will show in a few hours the data on turnout at the polls.
It is true that there is the economic crisis, but, more importantly, many citizens feel a strong crisis of democratic institutions. Moreover, the most serious fault of the ruling class that the European project has developed in recent decades has been to think that Europe is an idea too complicated to be explained to European citizens. This does not mean that flourish wherever referendum on the euro but, of course, will be much more difficult to ignore – as was done for the vote of the French and the Dutch on the Constitutional Treaty of the Union – the signs of disaffection that comes from a company that, wherever in the West, seems far removed from politics.
Friday, September 19, 2014 – 00:38
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