A change is gonna come

Now I am not prone to blipping the same thing more than once, but sometimes one has to realise that standing still is not a worthy option, and change,although it may be difficult to start with, is nothing to be afraid of.
This building is sort of symbolic to my point. This is the Sir David Rice building at Aberdeen University. Open to both students and the public. It is only a couple of years old, if that, and it replaces the seventies Queen Mother Library. It polarises opinions, either it is liked or hated. Too modern maybe. Too different.
But, although I have used this building before, see it from a different angle.

Yesterday the Scottish Government issued it's white paper on how they are going to do things if next year's referendum goes with the 'Yes' vote and, in 2016, full standing on our own grown up feet, independence becomes a reality.
I make no bones, and never have, about being a 'Yes' man. I always have been ever since I cast my first vote back in the late sixties. When it made no difference.
All we are hearing from the bounces in the a'No' campaign, when we have heard anything at all is negativity. No positives as to resting the Union. Only criticism.
The Secretary of State for Scotland, weeks after announcing that the likes of Andorra and the Catalan region of Spain, have a right to independence as they have Culture and a Scotland doesn't, he said yesterday that we would not be allowed to continue using the pound as it would be against " international law." Which law is that Mr Carmichael? The same one that the Channel Isles, Isle of Mann and Gibraltar have been breaking for decades and decades.
I watched a short debate on the telly on Monday evening, where, in the studio, they had about a dozen people. All of them ordinary people; all of them, as yet, undecided. They all said a few words about why they are undecided. By the end a few of them were almost giving reasons as to why voting yes was a better option. One chap however, started going on how it is not the current thing for states to be fragmenting, that happened 200 years ago. Nowadays they are joining together. This is so wrong in many ways.
First of all Scotland is not a state. It is a fully fledged country with our own laws, our own health service and our own education system amongst many other unique things. Secondly two hundred years ago colonialism was rife, and contrary to separating countries and states were being seconded, to be polite, into the bigger, bully countries, of which Great Britain was one. If countries nowadays are not fragmenting, or going on their own way, then where did all these Baltic a Countries come from? Or, even more recently, like last year recently, when Sudan became North Sudan and a South Sudan. A country which, in one way, parallels ours. As one half has oil and the other half didn't. Guess which half didn't fancy complete inedendence?
Another stupid point raised by some person on BBC Radio 2, ?( by the way, up here, the way good old Auntie Beeb has been reporting the campaign, negatively reporting may I hasten yo add, it has been renamed The Biased Broadcasting Company) was that she was voting 'no' because she " Didn't like Alex Salmond. "
This is a vote for being an adult country, leaving home and standing on our own feet, making our own decisions and mistakes. Not a popularity contest. It doesn't mean your are noting yes for Alex Salmond, as much as voting no means you are voting for Herr Cameron. If you don't like him, there will be elections in a few years when you can bite whoever you want in to power. It isn't even if he is a blood thirsty, extreme dictator. He was legally voted in.
Others have said that because they like The Queen they might vote no. Pardon? What has the Royal family gave to do with it? She will still be head of state, as she is in Canada, Australia and various other independent countries around the globe. Keeping the Royals or Dumping them may be a debate for the years to gone. Not now.
Yesterday morning, before the paper had been made public, the Spectator speculated what was in it. Amongst the things it criticised was decreasing Capital Gains Tax to encourage more businesses to set up in a Scotland. Also ensuring free childcare for all children over the age if one, to go along with free prescriptions for all, free university education, and free nation wide bus travel for everybody over the age of sixty, that exists now.
They were wondering how they figured they were going to pay this. Well in the tax situation, imagine you have 10 companies paying £100 each, so by reducing that to, say, £75, you might encourage another 10 new businesses to relocate here. Therefore increasing the money taken in to £1500 as opposed to £1000.
Now I realise that is perhaps oversimplified, but the point is correct.
Already we have separate trade agreements with countries.

In conclusion, use your vote wisely, not stupidly. What are you afraid of, we rode the recent recession better than other parts of Britain.
It is better to regret something you have done, that regret something you haven't done.