We don’t know about you, readers, but that seems to us an altogether more cheering story about an independent future than it initially Cameron said “I intend to meet REAL people””īet he doesn’t want to meet me! I’m a real person, aren’t I? Why doesn’t he want to meet me?! 🙁 Or in other words, detaching ourselves from the UK would mean nobody wanted to kill us any more. It says that even if terrorists had open-door access to an independent Scotland, they’d only be passing through on their way to bomb targets in the rUK. Now, there are all sorts of incredibly obvious stupidities in that argument, but there’s something else quite interesting about it. That’s right – nobody thinks WE’D be getting murdered, but that our bumbling Caledonian incompetence would let fundamentalist nutjobs get into England, and fill every available space there with Semtex. The Royal United Services Institute said national security would be ‘compromised’ as a result and Scottish failure to establish a ‘credible’ intelligence agency would give hostile agents and criminals a route into the UK.”
“An independent Scotland would be a ‘soft underbelly’, providing a haven for terrorists and organised criminals wanting to target Britain, the UK’s leading security think-tank warned today. Rather, the piece had a different concern. And if we’d been halfway alert it was silly of us to think it was, because the Evening Standard is a London regional paper, and why would they care about a lot of Jocks getting blown to kingdom come by Al-Qaeda? We’re so used to reading doom-and-gloom predictions about the apocalyptic future that would await an independent Scotland, readers, that to our shame we occasionally fall foul of a trap we never stop warning you about – reading the headline of a story and not paying attention to the words below.īecause, like you may have done, we immediately assumed “Oh no, another load of old rubbish about how Scotland would just be one giant terrorist explosion the day after independence without the protection of the mighty UK intelligence services, etc.”īut that wasn’t the story at all.
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