Farewell to Scotland the Brave.

Two things in the news have caught my eye.

An article on battered wives, where the battery is in the form of words:  and words can break your soul as surely as sticks and stones break bones.  The question on my lips is why does she not leave him? And of course there are too many answers to that question.  The answers may be formulated in terms of love, but this has nothing to do with love, it's about control.  It's about brainwashing.  It's about the constant threat, the tsunami of constant belittling demeaning,destroying words.

An article on Scottish independence, how finally, a majority of Scotland wants to leave the union.  I understand how Scotland feels.  It's a small majority but the momentum is with 'Yes'.  I too have to find a consensus between the various parts of me over when to leave a job or a home or a relationship.  Has this economic and political union called "The United Kingdom", been abusing Scotland psychologically these past four hundred years?  I can't rule it out.  Can you?

Scotland.  We wish you well.  We will always think kindly upon you and we will always love you.

So let's get this show back on the road

I believe that in 11 days from now, the people of Scotland will vote to be an independent country.  I do not for a moment blame them.  What is the point in being part of an economic and political union (the UK) when that union is a member of a larger union (the EU)?  Surely, it is better to be a member of the bigger union directly and cut out the middleman (or middlecountry)?

And what is true of Scotland is also true of London.  We have more in common with Scotland than we do with the rest of England:

• We believe in Social Justice
• We believe in equality
• We are a cosmopolitan, outward looking city.
• We are a net contributor to the English economy.
• Financially, we are more closely linked with New York, Frankfurt and Tokyo than we are with the rest of England.
• Culturally, we are unique - where outside London could you see a band consisting of Djembe, Balalaika and Didgeridoo?
• We are a successful multicultural society tha has more in common with Rotterdam or Hamburg or New York than we do with the more monocultural parts of England.
• As people, we have stronger links to other countries than we do to England.

Let us then, begin working for an independent Free City of London.  I believe the days of massively overpopulated countries are over.  London has about seven million people, maybe an eighth of that of the UK as a whole.  That is much easier to manage democratically and make sure that all voices are heard, rather than the frankly Stalinist way England is currently dominated by an entrenched elite, kept in power by a gerrymandered system.

Let us END the power of a moribund elite based on the dead hand of tradition and instead create a new, vibrant, free London.

Who's with me, who's against me?  Can I rely on your vote for President?

I've been quiet for a while and I'm sorry about that.  Unfortunately, early in 2013, I was diagnosed with locally advanced prostate cancer and so have spent the past year fighting to transform myself from cancer patient to cancer survivor,  Well, next Thursday, my radiation treatment will be complete and I am confident that when it comes to the scan six weeks later, I will be cancer free.

Now I hope to make sure that politics too is cancer free.  Cancer cells seek to sequester the resources of the body for their own use, denying them to the essential organs of the body and ensuring the body's eventual destruction.  The labserverals and their cronies in the City of London and the Banking Industry generally, fit this description beautifully and it is time the cancer was excised before it can metastasize.

In the time I've been quiet, the real economy as experienced by working people has gone down the hill regardless of Gideon's protestations of economic growth.  If an economy can be said to recover when most people are worse off, then there is something wrong with the way the economy is measured.

The Guardian reports today that the crown prosecution service aims to prosecute people for stealing discarded food from a skip behind Iceland.  This illustrates how the way the economy is measured needs to be changed.  If a company fails to sell its products until they become worthless, it ceases to be an asset and should be given away.  We need to find a way of measurement that rewards this behaviour and demonises those companies that pour diesel into their skips to make the waste food inedible.