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What is fair about a political system that has given rise to an elite and an underclass?
What is fair about a 100m running race in which one person wins and another loses?
In both cases, a set of rules which apply equally to everybody who starts.
Elites and underclasses existed long before parliaments, so you can't really say that anything in our current forms of government gave rise to them. At best, you might say that our form of government perpetuates them, but then so does every other form yet devised, many more so than representative democracy.
Imposed government from afar is colonial rule.
That may be true, but it's irrelevant to this discussion. Scotland is part of the same small island as England and, for all the faults of our mutual history, acceded to the union voluntarily, so the rule of Scotland from Westminster is neither 'imposed' nor 'from afar' in any common meaning of those terms.
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That may be true, but it's irrelevant to this discussion. Scotland is part of the same small island as England and, for all the faults of our mutual history, acceded to the union voluntarily, so the rule of Scotland from Westminster is neither 'imposed' nor 'from afar' in any common meaning of those terms.
'Voluntarily'?
In the sense that an unelected clique of landowners and lords got together having bankrupted both themselves and the country and performed the merger without the consent of the population at large to save their own privileges?
That they then followed this up with what can only be described as cultural genocide in forcibly clearing people of their lands, burning houses and putting them on ships to the colonies where they were then used to displace other vulnerable people is pretty indicative of how 'voluntary' it was.
I'm also curious as to how you're arrived at the declaration Salmond was only acting in self-interest? Surely he could do all these things as he likes now instead of quitting?
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a set of rules which apply equally to everybody who starts
Ha! You’re funny.
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BringMeMyFix
Bollocks.
What is fair about a political system that has given rise to an elite and an underclass?
Imposed government from afar is colonial rule.
Anything that can unite George Galloway, Nigel Fruitcake and the Orange Order automatically repels me.