I want to remind you of something I have told you before, when I speak about the Scots I am speaking about the people who live in Scotland, regardless of race, ethnicity, country of origin, or how long they have been resident. If they live here, if they vote here, even if they don't vote, they are Scottish in my book, and what affects Scotland economically, politically and socially affects us all equally. I now want to remind you of something else I have told you before, that the notion that Britain is a democratic society would be funny were it not so tragically wrong.
Great Britain is anything but great. It is a deeply divided class society, elitist and very exclusive. By exclusive I mean that the British spend most of their energies excluding people and make little attempt to include them. The British elite go to inordinate lengths to exclude great swathes of people from meaningful participation in society and indulge in a truly tragic waste of talent and ability on the basis of class, ethnicity, gender, colour and religion. Just look at the Westminster gang, ask yourself how many working class representatives are elected by the party of labour, the party funded by the trades unions. In addition we exclude people on the basis of accent, post code, the type of school they attended etc. The first question that our ruling elite ask of someone is "are they one of us?" That, by the way, was admitted by Thatcher and was the iron criteria for advancement under Blair. Britain's greatest institution of representation, the Westminster Parliament, is recognised as one of the most unrepresentative institutions in the developed world.
Westminster politicians pay the normal lip service to democracy but they hate it with a vengeance, why? because they belong to a particular elite that has controlled power and decision making in Britain throughout its history and are determined that nothing will be allowed to alter that situation. Britain did indulge in a democratic experiment for about 25 years following the Second World War and made real attempts to make decisions on behalf of the people of the country. To that experiment we owe the NHS, the Welfare State, comprehensive education, access to university etc. However, that experiment limited the ability of the elite to rob the Treasury, amass inordinate wealth, and exercise the amount of power they demand should be theirs. As a result they declared all out war on democracy and the society that was attempting to provide a decent and acceptable standard of living for the majority. They were very successful and that is why they still deify Thatcher, their greatest general and a quite wicked person.
However, they are now being challenged by a great democratic revival in Scotland. This was driven by an alteration to the Scots electoral system which gave voice to those who had previously been unable to be heard, and to the fact that Scotland's systemic exclusion had become so graphic that the Scots said that enough was enough. These changes gave the Scots the understanding that they could effect meaningful change. Democracy was suddenly possible again with politicians being accountable for the first time in living memory. This latest drive has been further fuelled by Scotland's anger at Labour who have determined to embed Scotland's exclusion by insisting that we accept our subservient status under the Westminster system and the first-past-the-post voting system that ensures that this subservience will continue. The Scots have challenged Labour's power base and for that they will have to be defeated. That is the great alliance that unites Labour and the Tories. Never forget, Labour is controlled by Tories, those Tories who calculated that there were not enough opportunities for advancement within the Conservative Party and who therefore simply borrowed a new suit to join the club. The days when Labour were a party of working people are long gone, and that is the real democratic deficit in this sorry country. All Westminster parties represent the same group of people and the greatest number of our population are excluded, we have no one to represent us. That is changing in Scotland and is not going to go away. That is what is fuelling Westminster's open hatred of the Scots, we are daring to challenge their monopoly on power, we are no longer doffing our caps to a shower of elite gangsters. Indeed if I had a the choice between Cameron, Osborne, Miliband, or Tony Soprano and Nucky Thomson, I would have difficulty deciding who was the most honourable and honest. You have been warned.
Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat
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