In my latest article for the Imaginative Conservative, I offer an Englishman’s perspective of Scotland’s recent referendum:
Voting for the Devil
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About the Author: Joseph Pearce
Joseph Pearce is a Catholic author and biographer who has written about subjects as various as GK Chesterton, economics, and Shakespeare.
This is a most compelling piece; I too favored a yes vote for the same reasons you’ve outlined.
Your essay is, as far as I can determine, the only one to support a severing of the union based on the principles of subsidiarity. As you correctly point out, the enormous power of big business – including big media – and big government brought undue influence to bear to obtain a “no” vote, but even the relatively few voices in favor of independence for Scotland cited economic concerns, a desire to withdraw from NATO’s nuclear network and the desire for a increased government programs that would secure generous health and societal benefits.
While there will be great pressure to suppress and marginalize subsequent independence movements, I believe the grass roots desire to cast off the global bureaucrats will grow even stronger in the years to come, not only in Catalonia, but in places like Holland, Venice, Quebec and, dare I say, even the US.