Why am I writing about an event in England you may ask, because it is an indication of where this Labour government is taking us and Scotland is not immune.
Make no mistake Westminster, irrespective of which Party is in charge has plans for Scotland in the long term. Thanks to Ms Forbes and their Freeports/SEZs and City Deals they already have one huge foot in the door.
The Political map may not be changing but who is in charge of our land is!
The slow creep of corporate power over local democracy exists under this web of secret deals with foreign conglomerates.
The one and only Unitary Authority in Scotland failed [Strathclyde] but that does not mean a new breed won’t spring up again.
The Devolution revolution is upon us and in one way or another we will feel its impact.
Why is it so hard to learn from our past mistakes? Why do we keep believing the lies? Is it because we believe we are stuck in a rut between a rock and a hard place? The alternatives that Westminster provide are all as bad as one another so it doesn’t really matter?
On that score, you are right but surely that means we are looking in the wrong direction for the answer.
The future lies in our hands…..we are the answer to our own problems. When we get that……when the penny drops, then and only then will we see our way out.
We are in a tunnel not a grave! There is a light at the end of it but we have to walk towards it not cower down in the middle of it!
We have been presented with an opportunity and when opportunity knocks we must grab it with two hands! An opportunity to do things differently, to seek a ruling other than that of Westminster, a higher ruling.
Why would we not try this route, it goes all the way to the Hague?
Is Scotlands objective, not Sovereignty?
JOAN’S JOURNEY CONTINUES 
The one and only Unitary Authority in Scotland failed [Strathclyde]
I would contend that the legacy of Strathclyde Regional Council lives on.
Indeed their one great achievement that thwarted the Westminster Tories planned Water privatisation ripoff in Scotland may well have contributed to their demise at the hands of John Major and Ian Lang.
The people of Scotland took the opportunity afforded to them by Stratchclyde to express their will by voting in enormous numbers in the
1994 Strathclyde water referendum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Strathclyde_water_referendum
Direct democracy in Action. 🙂
It in no accident that the public and municipal provision of water and sewerage services was the other main subject of their Westminster Act of parliament reshaping Scotlands administrative order.