My article in The National yesterday was tweeted by them using this, slightly worrying, image:
As I concluded:
Once fraud is accepted as normal in a society, as is becoming the case in the UK right now, it becomes very much harder to get rid of it. Scotland will, however, have the chance to reset its approach to this issue when it becomes independent. If its economy is to work then; if business and the people of the country are to be protected from fraud; if there is to be fair competition and if all taxes are to be collected at that time then a very strong policy on corruption will be required. The reason is simple. Keeping fraud to a minimum gives a country a competitive advantage over neighbours that do not. Westminster may be indifferent to fraud but Scotland must never be. And by not being so Scotland will win, handsomely when the Tories are, right now, literally choosing to be losers.
Staggeringly, the Tories do not seem to appreciate that, which shows how out of touch with their roots they are.
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Excellent article. The white anting of the UK continues apace.
Should Johnson go, and I do not believe that it is a given, we have to consider that the replacement will be WORSE. After all, Cameron (bad) was replaced by May (awful), replaced by Johnson (dreadful). On that trend, the next should be catastrophic.
A conversation had in my house this morning
Quite correct, given that Sunak and Truss are reportedly the main candidates for the role. Johnson is disinterested in anything but his own career so has let all sort of bad things occur as he concentrates on attempts to remain in power, but I think either of the other two are maliciously incompetent enough to make everything worse. Sunak doesn’t apparently have any sort of interest in the health of the economy (possibly due to a lack of understanding – what on earth do they teach these Oxford PPE-ers about economics?) as his policies such as the coming NI rise show, whereas the best description of Truss I’ve seen is that she’s a right-wing random word generator.