dspp wrote:1. I can be very sure politics does not enter my doings at work, and I don't see it around me either. Individuals may talk to each other, but the job does not talk politics, except in the objective terms of scenario planning. It is simply too divisive - especially in Scotland, and NI, but increasingly so in post-Brexit England. Here in TLF you may think you know my thoughts, but that is not the way of things at work.
2. I am issuing redundancies which include folk in their 50s and 60s with 30-40 yrs of continuous service. Looking around the area I can see that some of them will struggle to ever get employed again. Far away from the frictionless world of economic theory is the far stickier reality. That is both a personal tragedy for many of them, and an economic drag for wider society.
3. There is some real voodoo economics being proposed on this thread, which I am staying out of.
4. My sense - when I am in Scotland - is that there is a substantial contingent that was prepared to vote Remain in IndyRef, and voted Remain in BrexitRef. They are keen on Union. But in the next IndyRef referendum, which imho will come, they will again vote Remain, but this time to Remain/Rejoin the European Union via Scottish independence. Many of them were also previously Conservative voters, and I don't think they will ever vote Conservative again. I am as interested to hear the opinion of others in Scotland on this, as I can only listen to bits of gossip at work, since it really is an area we try to avoid except when it directly affects our planning.
regards, dspp
I am one of the former Conservative voters in Scotland who will struggle to give them my x, most of the time, except re regional list to the Scottish Parliament and local authority elections, it was a waste of time but it was the thought that counted.
I was also fairly vigorous online in my defence of the Union in 2014, I doubt I will again bother -fool me once and all that.
I can make no short term economic case for Scottish Independence but current Westminster behavior is starting to suggest that in the long term being ex England & Wales may well be safer- stable government tending to be good government.
It is all a bit of a kick in the proverbials for me, as someone whose father moved here as a child in the 1930s (Army posting for my grandfather who was from Wiltshire with my grandmother from London), my upbringing, whilst Scottish, had certain other English factors blended in, especially as I never knew my grandparents/any family on my maternal Scottish side ( Camerons ex Rannoch living in Perth and then later Dundee), accordingly I have always considered myself British (though in Scotland v England sporting events I am always Scottish) but when all is now said and done I now think breakup is inevitable and I am not sure that my sadness at such a happening will be as it would have been in 2014- this is true throughout my immediate family, I think my wife and two grown up children have crossed the house, so to speak,though with my son it is academic as he is getting married to an American and moving to the USA as soon as his right to work there is sorted so he likely will have no vote if Indy Ref 2 happens.
All really totally unnecessary but now I think the divorce is inevitable.