It tells
us nothing about independence - other than the fact that the people of Scotland were not seemingly scared to endorse a party whose reason for being is to end the Union.
Not exact matches
The debate over Scotland's future has, especially recently, served up the incongruous (and unromantic) image of a nation of «bean - counters» basing its decision
about independence on the expected profitability of either outcome, yet calculating this expectation (on either side) off the back of political and economic assumptions that resemble
nothing so much as declarations of blind fear or faith.
The open secret
about this kind of independent expenditure is that, since you can't legally ask for the money, you can credibly claim that you have
nothing to do with it, and that your
independence is immune to campaign money.
District 9 is partly presented as a faux documentary (rather than a mockumentary, which is what Roger Ebert wrongly labels the film... there is
nothing funny
about this movie), detailing how 20 years earlier, a huge alien spaceship (think
Independence Day) parked itself over Johannesburg and... sat there.
The bills, which you can read
about here, are
nothing more than ways to limit charter growth, harass them and take away any needed
independence they now have.