As the debate over the EU intensified,\u00a0people living in the UK have had TWO project fears for the price of one and the two camps are only separated by degrees of Tory Evil – one side is relying on Xenophobia and Racism, the other side is relying on tired Economic Horror Stories.<\/p>\n
It is a hard call deciding whether to trust Iain Duncan Smith, the man that slaughtered thousands of disabled people, or David Cameron, the man who allowed Iain Duncan Smith\u00a0 to slaughter thousands of disabled people but you cannot help but growl at the irony of people citing ‘Control!!’ as their main Leave argument.<\/p>\n
I am from Scotland.<\/p>\n
Our MPs make up approximately 9.07% of the UK Parliament. That is 59 MPs out of 650 MPs. We have zero power when things go wrong.<\/p>\n
I want my country back. I want it back from Westminster.<\/p>\n
I watched, powerless, as welfare turned to warfare against the most vulnerable in society; disabled people, families, people who are ill, children.<\/p>\n
I saw the Independent Living Fund destroyed[1]<\/a>. This was a fund for the most severely disabled people in the UK to allow them to have a quality of life. It was scrapped by the Conservative Government<\/p>\n I saw sanctions driving up suicides[2]<\/a> and homelessness[3]<\/a>. \u00a0The conditionality of Universal Credit could see the number of sanctions rise to 600,000[4]<\/a>. It is killing people.<\/p>\n PIP\u2026I\u2019ve written about it many times[5]<\/a>. The abuses, the deaths of disabled people.\u00a0 No one cares. The crimes against basic Human Rights that should (and maybe one day will) be seen as murder by the State, a Conservative Government State. \u00a0History will judge us but right now – No one gives a shit.<\/p>\n The Housing situation in the UK itself is a crisis which I am experiencing myself. I\u2019m now a month closer to homelessness. I won\u2019t survive it to be honest. I\u2019m already disabled (affected by the aforementioned cuts) and I will end my life before I end up in some god-forsaken temporary shelter after losing my pets and belongings. \u00a0I don\u2019t have much to live for. My illness has taken my home, the man I loved, my hopes and dreams and now I can\u2019t afford another private tenancy. There comes a point when one person cannot actually deal with losing anything else and as stupid as it sounds \u2013 losing my pets and belongings is where my thread of life snaps.\u00a0 My local authority, North Ayrshire Council, is offering no reasonable support.<\/p>\n Suicide is an entirely different topic. People like me have been made to feel like it is their only option\u2026because in 2016 it is. \u00a0I think the dehumanisation of people like me is exactly what the Tories want but I also don\u2019t see any other political party rushing to fix it.<\/p>\n I\u2019m in Scotland. I could argue that we\u2019re building more houses and waiting for welfare powers to be devolved but it won\u2019t be in time to save me and so from my perspective they are utterly meaningless.<\/p>\n So when the EU referendum came along I didn\u2019t know where I was sitting.\u00a0 And I started off very apathetic. People told me to \u2018Do what\u2019s right for your family\u2019. What was the point of the EU when, let\u2019s be honest, my own situation couldn\u2019t be any shitter? And I was also bitter over the fall of Greece. That made me angry.<\/p>\n But as time went on I could also see the Right-Wing Xenophobia surge and I realised that the EU ref was becoming a ground-zero for hatred and racism in the UK. It reminded of my grandfather.<\/p>\n My Grandfather died[6]<\/a>. In his lifetime he lost his dad to a Nazi Concentration camp. I think that key event would forever destroy my family. \u00a0My grandfather did not know how to talk to people after losing his dad. His son, in turn, did not know how to speak to me and I did not know how to speak to anybody. \u00a0The scars of the past still pull at the edges of the present. But some people have forgotten.<\/p>\n For me, racism and xenophobia are not far in my past.\u00a0 I still carry the emotional scars of a disconnected Europe and the burns of a racist Right-Wing history.<\/p>\n Let me tell you, from my Grandfather, you don\u2019t want to go back to that.<\/p>\n Leaving the EU would hand our future over to a Conservative Government that\u2019s only agenda is Conserving the 1%.\u00a0 Most of their current policies should be seen as war crimes against the lower classes.<\/p>\n I can\u2019t change my fate, but I can vote in the hope that things will get better. I can vote to keep Scotland out of Westminster\u2019s clutches.<\/p>\n Scotland has far more hope and potential for radical change than London.<\/p>\n We need independence but we also have to try and do the right thing.<\/p>\n And for me and for anyone that opposes the Tory\u2019s in Scotland, voting IN is a way of conveying our feelings.<\/p>\n I would rather be part of Europe than part of the UK and one day, although I won\u2019t be there to see it, Scotland will be Free to make this choice on her own.<\/p>\n Maybe an Indy Scotland will not be part of Europe, I don\u2019t know, but we will never get the truth or full understanding of this decision whilst we are part of the UK.<\/p>\n Our MPs make up approximately 9.07% of the UK Parliament.<\/p>\n One day we\u2019ll make up 100% of an Independent Scotland. Until then I want to be part of the wider world.<\/p>\n I want my country back. I want it back from Westminster.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n ——————————————————————————————————<\/p>\n [1]<\/a> http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/uk-news\/disabled-independent-living-fund-last-5976980<\/a><\/p>\n [2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/344307-benefit-sanctions-suicide-crime\/<\/a><\/p>\n [3]<\/a> http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-35063040<\/a><\/p>\n [4]<\/a> http:\/\/npi.org.uk\/publications\/social-security-and-welfare-reform\/rise-sanctioning-great-britain\/<\/a><\/p>\n [5]<\/a> http:\/\/defiaye.com\/index.php\/2016\/01\/08\/dwp-deaths\/<\/a><\/p>\n