English Heritage: With the UK’s General Election Ever Closer, Whose Culture Are We ‘Celebrating’?
‘It was of course to be expected that, having shown herself to be a better representative of Scotland than Cameron, Milband and Farage can ever hope to be of the United Kingdom, a rightwing paper should immediately come out with a baseless smear against Nicola Sturgeon. But that is Westminster for you, and yet again I feel shamed by our politics.
I loathe the efforts of politicians and media to persuade me that the Scots hate me or that I hate the Scots. What have we ever done that would generate such feelings? I am however experiencing a real abhorrence for Westminster and all it represents.
So I fear the outcome of the general election; I fear the deals made by politicians desperate to stay in power, deals that will further harm the disadvantaged poor. I fear the ideological belief in ‘austerity’ being the only way out of national debt, an austerity that will never affect those in power, whatever party they represent. I fear that we may end up with what we already have, that we may not seize this chance for genuine change.’
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