How many of you remember the poll tax? It was what eventually brought down Thatcher. The resistance to it began in Scotland, where it also revived national sentiment and greatly increased support for a Scottish parliament. This time around, in Scotland the conservatives have stepped into a shitstorm because of something called the "rape clause", where rape victims have to fill out 8 pages of paperwork in order to prove that they were actually raped and confirm that they're no longer with the rapist in order to claim benefits. I'm hoping that this also galvanises support for independence in Scotland. So far both the SNP and Scottish Labour have jumped on the anti-tory bandwagon but how can we make this a truly non-hijacked movement while also helping independence?
Bringing down the Tories isn't impossible
SNP shills get out.
First of all, the Tories are hardly being 'resisted' in Scotland given they're quite quickly becoming very popular (recent polling has them on 30% percent in Scotland).
Second of all, even if you were to achieve 'independence' (not that you'd actually be independent of British capital mind you), the split in the SNP (between those who back Independence as a way to reduce taxation and compete with England in terms of regulation, wages, etc. and those that want a basically early 2000s Third Way Social Democracy) means that with those 30% of the population, they'd easily become the largest post-independence political grouping.
Congratulations, you've just given the Tories total control over your new country and can kick back waving your saltire as they demolish what's left of the post-war welfare state even more completely than in the south.
Nationalism, not even once.
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fuck the SNP, they're a bunch of liberal hacks but clearly the difference in how the media treats them/indepdence versus how it treats brexit/ukip shows that they're still a much greater threat to the status quo than brexiters. "tartan toryism" as a meme has gotten very old, and it seems that the Labour party's complete obliteration north of the border hasn't taught them anything.
The Scottish tories aren't gaining any meaningful ground, most polls show them still just hovering around 25%, and that's also mostly the product of Labour implosion and unionist voters consolidating, than any kind of right wing shift.
In any case, the correct left wing action isn't to keep a somewhat vaguely progressive Scotland shackled to an openly reactionary England and hope for a day when glorious comrade Corbyn kicks middle england out of it's bourgeois slumber. The correct thing to do is to successfully win independence, trigger a crisis in the Tory party, disturb capital and bring down one of the world's foremost imperial states in the process.
Britain is currently in full reaction mode over feminism etc. the tory views about the poor are now common and it's still a racist shithole. No matter what you do reactionaries are going to react so just fucking organize all those "revolutionary" pussies and blow the tories and capitalists the fuck up already.
If Brexit didn't cause a crisis in the Torys, then I'm going to guess that the sweaties going their own way won't as well.
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The Poll Tax resistance only began in Scotland because the Poll Tax began in Scotland.
SNPshills need to learn their history.
Then stop bitching and contribute
Kill yourself for commenting on things you know nothing about.
The entirety of their popularity is down to unionism and the collapse of the Labour party. Post-Independence they've got nothing.