@Remittancegirl I worry that the same playbook is at work with respect to Scotland and independence too, but on the other hand I can hardly blame them for wanting a divorce after we dragged them into Brexit.
@PoliceStateUK @Remittancegirl It was quite the reverse. See the video London Calling on YouTube. The UK state has had a long history of using dirty tricks, propaganda and state resources, including money to counter any moves toward self-government. From long before the Act of Union with Ireland in 1801and ever since.
@samueljohnson There is and has never been a power structure that did not seek to preserve itself. The only question is... how much atrocity is any given power structure willing to commit in the goal of its power?
And that really varies from nation to nation. But there is no ideal 'master'. There is no governing body that doesn't, either through manipulation, brainwashing, threat of force or force, that doesn't seek to preserve its own existence.
@samueljohnson This is the essence of all human organisation. It has played out on the level of families, of tribes, of regions, of nations and of multinational entities.
There are only two things that can mitigate this tendency. Ethics and consequences. The first has seldom been dependable.
@samueljohnson You'd need to provide better pointers than that.
#LondonCalling is the title of about 417 billion YouTube videos of the hit song and groundbreaking eponymous album by #TheClash.
If that's not what you meant, try pudding a link.
@2legged @PoliceStateUK @Remittancegirl Fair. I didn't have a link to hand. A search on "BBC Scottish independence referendum" turns up many links
https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=TXQYuLUAbyw
https://ayetv.substack.com/p/london-calling-bbc-bias-during-the
Etc
@samueljohnson I wasn't looking for lists of links. Just something to identify what you might mean.
John Robertson did good work during indyref. But I hadn't heard of him since.