I got a rather excited text from a Debate Night producer yesterday, drawing my attention to this tweet:
The critical number is on the bottom line. Tweets on Scottish politics don't often get 938,000 views.
If nothing else, I fulfilled my brief to create a debate when appearing on this programme. Assuming the tweet has only had significant impact in Scotland one in every 5.8 people in the country have seen it.
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Well done, Richard, for articulating a view that clearly has a far-reaching resonance.
British politics suffers greatly from English dominance, which itself fosters a peculiar strain of intolerance with respect to the other nations that cohabit under the name of the United Kingdom.
It would take a particularly unaware sort to miss out on the fact that “English” too often ends up as meaning “Conservative”.
The consequences of this are clearly visible all around us.
Political economic matters are coming to a head after almost 50 years of neoliberal failure. People can now see that independence or much greater devolution or, in the case of local government, the restoration of original autonomy, all of which constitute the much needed devolution to counter the incompetence and corruption of our over- centralised state, offer a practical route out of the current mess.
You implicitly articulate this, even if you use better words than I can, and that is why your interventions bear this resonance, as shown here.
Thanks
Let’s face it, the usual mixture of right wing shock jocks and just-going-along-to-get-along merchants on these programmes needed someone to puncture their little bubble with some real issues and your certainly did that.
First congrats on a very good result. Suggests that the Scots are very interested in hearing voices other than the “Usual Suspects”.
It will be interesting to see the reaction of the establishment as you move from “voice in the widerness” to someone whose economic/political narrative has traction in public.
de-platform/ignore (I’m guessing that point has passed – ish)?
Bring on “experts” to offer counter (= neolibtard ) narratives? (Parr rolls up comfy chair sits back and opens pop-corn).
Find ways to de-legitimise? (how?)
Interesting times.
I would not say I have made that transition as yet