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Because Trews, in a way, is a bit of a scottish word, isnt it?
i think it means trousers to scottish people doesnt it?
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today we're talking about scottish independence,
power, and democracy.
lets have a look though before i start piping up,
at what david cameron's got to say,
a man whose face immediately inspires love, deep within me.
[cameron] Independence would not be a trial separation.
It would be a painful divorce.
[laughing] what emotive piece of language there to use.
What i dont like when politicians are doing emotive rhetoric,
is how they try and do some acting?
like, hes now trying to do the face
of a person
"i better do a face that id do if i was going through a painful divorce"
[cameron] And as prime minister, i have to tell you what that would mean.
It would mean we no longer share the same currency.
It would mean the armed forces we've built up together over centuries
being split up forever.
Money, violence.
Thats his first things he's gone in with.
"Right, well, you cant have the queen on your money,
we wont let you back us up in our needless conflicts
when we're fellating the americans and the corporations within them!"
Oh... good!
[cameraon] It would mean the automatic support that you currently get
from british embassies when youre traveling around the world,
that would come to an end.
"OH NO!!! i love it when i go down the embassy,
when youve lost your passport or somethin like that,
that terrible quagmire!
thats what youre offering up??
Right. Military, money, embassies??
They got to embassies a bit too quick.
"If you think that im going to let you borrow my lawnmower, you can forget it!
Swingball(?) Fuck off, thats MY swingball(?) now!"
[cameron] It would mean over half of scottish mortgages suddenly from one day to the next,
being provided by banks in a foreign country.
Can you imagine that??
A foreigner??
It could be a black person!
we dont know what colour this person is, or what their accent is!
Theyve got their hands in your mortgage!
Not like those trustworthy, city of london plutocrat snides
that we have to bail out to the tune of billions every time they mug us off.
[cameron] This is what would happen.
An end to the things that we share together.
And the people of scotland must know these facts before they make this once and for all decision.
And to warn of the consequences is not to scare-monger.
When someone says "this isnt a scare monger", after theyve said things like
"you wont have any money!
your mortgage is going to be controlled by a man called Abdul!",
that IS scare mongering, that's why he's had to say "this isnt scare mongering".
[cameron] I say all this because i dont want the people of scotland to be sold a dream
that disappears.
If i was scottish, i think where have you been, you c__t?
It's like, he's just suddenly shown up,
going on about how much hes into everything in scotland...
"your mortgage, your mortgage is going to turn into seaweed!"
"there are going to be pigs loose in your garden!"
like, where have you been? where have you been?
we've been here, always.
[cameron] Because i would be heartbroken
if this family of nations that we've put together
and that we've done such amazing things together,
if this family of nations was torn apart.
Now hes using emotional language.
Its interesting isnt it?
"heartbreak", and "family", and "divorce".
Because what they know is that the Yes campaign
galvanizes people on a nationalistic tribal level.
scottish people have got their culture, and their folk heroes, and their myths, and their identities.
How can we get past that?
Fear, a very base...
"youre gonna lose your money!"
"your children! your children! theyll all fall over!"
"theres all broken glass on the pavement!!!"
And then, like, ideas that are deep in our psyche about family, about evoking them,
and heartbreak, love, and emotion.
But these people, like david cameron, like george osborne,
they dont understand emotion in the way we do
because they are institutionalized deeply in privilege for their entire lives,
theyre not people such as we understand them.
these are tools of corporate apparatus, tools of state apparatus,
the reason scottish people are so galvanized and excited by this election
is because as ive long said, democracy is typically meaningless.
here, for once, is a referendum where the outcome will affect peoples lives,
and people are interested.
theyre not apathetic.
That lie ends with the excitement around this referendum.
[cameron] Sometimes because its an election, because its a ballot,
i think people can feel as if its a bit like a general election.
That you make a decision and 5 years later you can make another decision.
If you're fed up with the effing tories, give them a kick,
and then maybe we'll think again...
Dont try and be normal, mate.
Dont try to...
"fed up the effing tories,
and that pie-faced, moon-faced, toffee-nosed, privileged,
tool of the cruel and corporate David Ca... hang onna minute!
I'M david cameron!!!"
[cameron] If scotland voted No to separation,
the rest of the united kingdom would say yes to further devolution.
It's been good in the campaign that we've been able to say more about that,
and i think thats a positive.
"No" doesnt mean no change.
[reporter] But it all looks terribly last minute in terms of the timetable and the detail.
You were the prime minister who agreed the referendum,
but also kept DevoMax off the ballot paper.
Im glad they kept DevoMax off the ballot paper.
Sounds like a drink full of aspartame.
[in kind of west coast american accent] DevoMax, why not try DevoMax?
It's a meaningless compromise!"
Theyre trying to pull you into the bureaucracy all the time.
Can scotland be independent and keep sterling?
hows scotland gonna defend itself?
how much north sea oil revenue can independent scotland extract?
Devolution of the NHS.
Currency union.
EU!
Really though, this is about, well you know what this is about,
this is about peoples emotions, and peoples sense of connection to land;
and their sense of having some authority and ownership of their lives.
Feelings that we dont get anymore
because we know that politics is abstracted from us,
and interacts in some aloof ethereal world of high finance.
with us, theyre just like "oh yes, a billion, its going to cost a billion to save the NHS,
we aint got it im afraid.
Theres been a financial collapse! We need 700 billion to save the city!
Here you go!!!"
I... wh... do... whaaat?
So like now when people get an opportunity to interact and engage
with something they feel affects them,
theyre interested and theyre impassioned,
and i would say that we dont only want devolution for scotland,
we want further devolution,
devolution right down to the city level.
an independent manchester. an independent newcastle.
an independent london. independence everywhere.
so we're all engaged, we're all controlling our own authorities, our municipal authorities,
our own utilities and facilities,
because what theyve got...
when theyre talking about power,
"we're more powerful together!"
Who's power?
who gets to use that power?
does the NHS get to use that power?
do unemployed people get to use that power?
do homeless people get to use that power?
who's power is it?
people like david cameron's, RICH peoples power.
[cameron] I feel passionately about our united kingdom.
i desperately want our country[sic] to stay together.
i very much hope that scotland will vote "No",
and that will trigger further devolution.
but im a democrat.
"im a democrat! i like democracy! where rich people vote about rich people stuff,
and then we do rich people things!
THIS kind of democracy, where ordinary people vote? I dont like this very much!!"
Democracy, in a democracy, you wouldnt have the leaders of all 3 parties all going up,
& even Farage [UK Independence Party leader], all 4 of them going up there together to say exactly the same thing.
Theres your democracy.
theres your choice.
they all believe the same thing.
the y all work for the same people.
for scotland, i hope its better.
i hope alex salmond and the government that you get in an independent scotland
is better,
and that the power goes to the people,
not to the corporations that the politicians work for.
[cameron] I want our united kingdom to stay together.
i believe we're stronger, safer, better off.
i think YOURE stronger, safer, better off.
[cameron] In this dangerous world of instability and problems and threats,
the most recent of which we can see from Syria and Iraq.
WHAT???
What? ISIS?
"Like... we've spoken to ISIS, they said if scotland go independent,
theyre gonna go over there and lop heads off left and bloody right!"
[reporter] do you wish that you personally perhaps and the union campaign,
had made more effort earlier on?
[cameron] Well i believe i fought this campaign very hard,
this is something like my 11th major intervention into this campaign.
"IM INTERVENING! IN THE CAMPAIGN!"
[singing] "This is the campaign! It's going quite badly!"
What this is, is people sense a little bit of autonomy,
people sense a little bit of democracy,
and people are impassioned and people are interested.
i think, give people more democracy, give people something worth voting for,
and everyone will vote for it, including me.
[cameron] It is a campaign of all of those parties and people and trade unions
and voluntary bodies and charities,
and people who have nothing to do with politics
who want scotland to stay part of our family of nations
and those who want us to leave.
Well just decide for yourselves, eh?
if i had any opportunity to vote and fuck them lot off?
id vote for it.
i hope one day all of us get an opportunity
to vote for a new kind of politics...
im not saying thats what scotland are getting,
but im saying that the feeling, the euphoria,
the excitement, the unity,
among scottish people,
is precisely because it does feel like theres a point.
and that exposes the flaw in our democracy,
that it IS meaningless,
and they DO serve absent corporate bodies,
not the population theyre elected to serve.
That is some trews!