Better, stronger together!
The advantages of a strong United Kingdom
A questioner elsewhere asks why I favour the Continuation of the United Kingdom. I offered:
Many thanks, Linaire McRae for your question. Since 1979, under the New Labour, Neoliberal Conservative, Fif&Con and Con&DUP governments, *no-one* in the Union has benefitted: anywhere in the United Kingdom and Northrrn Ireland.
That is because inequality right across the Union has been increased. And maintained at a hugely harmful level (see 'The Spirit Level' book and www.equalitytrust.org.uk for the evidence that inequality -income inequality - is harmful to everyone in an unequal society).
But my certainty that we are better together is not based on a self-interested national-, personal- or family-, self- interest.
Rather, it has to do with our shared historic mission to abolish capitalism and all forms of opptession. Peacefully through the Parliamentary process.
To do that we need the vibrancy of an nonviolent culture that is articulated in the English language: one that is as well-heard, globally, as is the Military-Banking-Capitalist brain-bashing American-English (anti)cultural voice that emanates from Hollywood, Madison Avenue and the US Ivy-league Monoversities (Universities-not).
The cultural tradition developed on these islands (and I include the entire island of Ireland in this regard) have, variously and diversely added to that historic mission.
And are invaluable in that ongoing mission.
To take one example.
Of the so-named 'Auxilliaries' in the Co-operative Movement, the Co-operative Womens' Guild in England has been unilaterally closed down. But its sister Guild in Scotland, thankfully, continues.
For evidence of the importance of this, reflect that our whole-Union NHS and National Insurance provision was considerably inspired by our Guildswomen: across the Union.
More-over, it was the Guildswomen that invented the White Poppy.
Not as a symbol, as now usefully used, of the harm done to noncombatants in war (by the Peace Pledge Union and others) but, rather, as a symbol of the peaceful , beneficial alternative to capitalism: The Co-operative Commonwealth (see the book photograph attached).
So, yes, better, stronger, more diversely creative, better to be heard, together.
I hope this helps,
Very best wishes,
John Courtneidge
The advantages of a strong United Kingdom
A questioner elsewhere asks why I favour the Continuation of the United Kingdom. I offered:
Many thanks, Linaire McRae for your question. Since 1979, under the New Labour, Neoliberal Conservative, Fif&Con and Con&DUP governments, *no-one* in the Union has benefitted: anywhere in the United Kingdom and Northrrn Ireland.
That is because inequality right across the Union has been increased. And maintained at a hugely harmful level (see 'The Spirit Level' book and www.equalitytrust.org.uk for the evidence that inequality -income inequality - is harmful to everyone in an unequal society).
But my certainty that we are better together is not based on a self-interested national-, personal- or family-, self- interest.
Rather, it has to do with our shared historic mission to abolish capitalism and all forms of opptession. Peacefully through the Parliamentary process.
To do that we need the vibrancy of an nonviolent culture that is articulated in the English language: one that is as well-heard, globally, as is the Military-Banking-Capitalist brain-bashing American-English (anti)cultural voice that emanates from Hollywood, Madison Avenue and the US Ivy-league Monoversities (Universities-not).
The cultural tradition developed on these islands (and I include the entire island of Ireland in this regard) have, variously and diversely added to that historic mission.
And are invaluable in that ongoing mission.
To take one example.
Of the so-named 'Auxilliaries' in the Co-operative Movement, the Co-operative Womens' Guild in England has been unilaterally closed down. But its sister Guild in Scotland, thankfully, continues.
For evidence of the importance of this, reflect that our whole-Union NHS and National Insurance provision was considerably inspired by our Guildswomen: across the Union.
More-over, it was the Guildswomen that invented the White Poppy.
Not as a symbol, as now usefully used, of the harm done to noncombatants in war (by the Peace Pledge Union and others) but, rather, as a symbol of the peaceful , beneficial alternative to capitalism: The Co-operative Commonwealth (see the book photograph attached).
So, yes, better, stronger, more diversely creative, better to be heard, together.
I hope this helps,
Very best wishes,
John Courtneidge
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