How Globalisation means there is no "independence"

The SNP argue against the fundamental principles of Globalisation in the sense that Britain should not stay within a domestic globalised unit but Europe as the European Union should, resulting in absurd hypocrisy.  

Much has changed in the last year; I have been outraged with the incompetent Scottish executive and their leading agenda to end the current United Kingdom.

The SNP and their Yes campaign propose “independence” for Scotland, although when we think about independence we think about a country that stands on its own feet, a country that can work and act for its citizens on its own accord; the offer we have at the moment from the Scottish government is more “dependence” than “independence” and this is simply due to the globalised world we have created.

The idea that we can separate from the rest of the country and still share the many intstitutions that we have only have thanks to being part of our UK is absurd, the nationalists assume that we can take the good from what we have established as a United Kingdom and leave the so called “bad”, they are under the deep illusion that “independence” or maybe “dependence” will indeed solve all of our problems, but in reality it can’t.

Separatists are branding the “independence” idea as a solution to get away from the current coalition government, a government that whether we agree with it or not; is not an everlasting dictatorship, it can be altered and changed when the British people go to the polls in 2015. Separation on the other hand is a permanent change, if we vote to leave the UK then we have officially kick started the process of tearing up and dissolving all that has been established and created over the last 300 years or so.

This brings me to a point that I like to make, or more so the theories of globalisation, and how that has impacted the world and those who support the idea of collectivism rather than separatism.

Believe it or not there has been three stages to globalisation, first occurring in 1492 when Columbus founded the Americas (Globalisation 1.0) , thus starting the rush to imperialism and the start of colonisation by the European powers, this turned the thinking and agenda of  European Kingdoms from focusing on little domestic domination to international domination- the fight of gaining world control began, empires were on the rise and in all- the start of the globalised world exploded and has evolved since then.

In this Britain was awakened to a new reality, the reality that our differences on this little island should be put to bed, and together we should step up and face this new rush together as a united Kingdom- and in 1603 and 1707 that is exactly what happened- two former foes joined together and created a single unified sovereign state- a state that went on to create the largest formal empire that the world had ever known. As such, its power and influence stretched all over the globe; shaping it in all manner of ways.

The next step in creating the world we are in today was the industrial revolution, and the technological advances (Globalisation 2.0), this starting in the 1800’s, the main difference between 1.0 and 2.0, is the fact that prior it was countries that became multinational in force, the era of the industrial revolution had seen companies become multinational, thus creating a world that became  more connected , a world that yes still held the bearings of war and bloodshed, but still for the first time in our history had a clear agenda of creating a global economic market and the makings of a global telecommunications structure.

Within this European states grew their sense of identity, the need for a strong united identity in Britain was  there, and the former regional identities that once caused so much war and anguish was diminishing, for once in Britain’s history there was peace domestically, our people were united for the greater good- so in this sense the rise of the British identity created a belonging of unity for each other , and in my view the slow decline of the English and Scottish identities due to the rise of globalisation created the most peaceful time in our Islands history as a governing island of people.

Although now in the 21^st century our economic output is not as strong, the world has been graced with another economic downturn, it is now in this era that we have seen the rise of separatism, is this due to racism and hatred, partly, but I believe that it is a naive natural step within our history to revert backwards, the need for unity to many has faded with the once powerful empire, and the once unified British identity seems now irrelevant to many , so the idea that has now dominated our  island is separation, to pull away from what we have established and revert back to a time when this Island was an infant.

Many have said within the independence debate that we should not use history, but when we look at history we see that the true destiny of our island over the past 400 years has been unity, the Great British parliament that was established 300 years ago has a direct duty to uphold that unity, it serves the British people, and should serve our unified identity equally, if it fails in this then it will fail the country that has been established.

We are now at the stage in our history where the world is minuscule in size, this is due to (Globalisation 3.0) with the advent of the internet and the openness that has spread not only within Europe but around the world.

If we take what happened during Globalisation 1.0, when the Kingdoms of Europe united within themselves, such as the strong sense of identity within each nation state and the strong advent of the British identity away from the separate regional identities that once reigned the island, it took this new era of Empire to unite Britain and other states across Europe.

 What we see now though is not each Kingdom uniting in the way we had seen 400 years ago, but we see that Europe as a continent has united and is still trying to unite in the next step of globalisation, whether people agree with it or not, is it happening.

This showing that the UK was the first state on the planet to successfully unite into a single entity, not in a global sense but in a domestic sense, which is why the structure of our current United Kingdom is looked upon as a model of the future, and what can be achieved when former countries do unite, our small structure of globalisation within our small island has shown  that coming together is better, our island is the model of the future not the past, and that is what the people that do seek to destroy our United Kingdom need to realise.