Gordon Brown - Scottish Labour Conference

I am sitting listening to Gordon Brown's speech to the Scottish Labour Conference. What I am hearing from his speech is that Labour still have not come to terms with losing the Scottish Parliament elections. There is a bitterness there and a hatred towards the SNP that is pathological.

Gordon Brown is currently rehashing the Scottish Labour campaign from election time where they argued that Scotland would fall into the sea if the SNP were elected, yet these same arguments which lost them the election in 2007 are being used to justify the continued existence on the United Kingdom. He has been listing the same old tired excuses. Hell, I could have written this speech as a parody if he hadn't beaten me to it.

Let's see, yep, there was the mention of relatives in England and putting barriers between families. This, despite the fact that Europe has open borders. We have the dross about being "isolationist" and that this isn't the way the world is going. Rewind there for a second, was Gordon Brown not one of the world leaders who congratulated Kosovo on their independence?

Gordon then went onto the usual claims how the Scottish financial services couldn't cope because a percentage of their business came from England and how the Scottish dock yards would go bust without UK business. You could not make this stuff up unless you were a Labour Party fear monger. That is the truth you see, the only way labour know how to campaign in Scotland is by using fear. It is this kind of dogwhistle politics which saw them removed from government in May 2007 and it is this that will see them humbled in an Independence referendum.

It is not Independence which drives a wedge and builds barriers between Scotland and the rest of the world, it is the United Kingdom. It is being part of this outdated and needless union that is ensuring that Scotland cannot meet her potential, with Independence we can rejoin the world.