That Glasgow is a curiously dependant city existing on the hand outs of industrious citizens way south of the Reiver line is beyond doubt now. The inhabitants have been hand reared in the birthplace of Labour as the original guinea pigs in their Frankfurtian nightmare.

The negative reinforcement of reliance on the state, and parasitical subordination to the ‘workers’ in the South East has been going on for far longer than merely the last 13 years.

Filling the tower blocks recently vacated by citizens who wished to work and had thus moved on, with the unskilled asylum seekers who had no chance of a job only increased the sense of despondency that has resulted in some startling figures, relating the full extent of the ‘carers’ required to enable the citizens to have something approaching a ‘life.

I went in search of the official statistics after reading this piece:

Glasgow’s pioneering model of merging social work and frontline healthcare to save hundreds of millions of pounds is on the verge of collapse, The Herald can reveal.

The future of the groundbreaking community health care partnership (CHCP) system, often cited as a model for the rest of Scotland, has been thrown into doubt after the reluctance of the city council to commit to £400 million up front despite an agreement from last year.

Whilst the popular press promote an image of Scotland, invariably illustrated by Glasgow, as being a ‘lawless’ place – pace the many stories surrounding drugs, corruption, and death in dark alleyways, the official statistics paint a different picture of a land of helpless imbeciles.

Of the 503,700 people employed just by the devolved bodies, a mere 23,800 of them were paid to maintain law and order. Double that number, 43,600 were employed to help them sort out their dole payments, to monitor the way they brought up their children, to help them settle back into normal life after leaving a mental hospital and all the other duties of the social services staff.

A staggering 1/3 of them were employed to nurse back to health the sickly Scots.

56,000 of them were employed to teach them to read and write, and a further 36,400 to supervise those efforts to teach them to read and write.

Half a million people! The 2010 population of Scotland is only 5,168,500. Can it really be that the proud Scots have become so utterly reliant on someone telling them how to think, how to dress, what to do with themselves, that 10% of the population is fully employed holding their hand?

These figures exclude those people who are employed in Scotland in UK wide bodies, civil servants, Inland Revenue etc, the armed forces, if we add them in, we have another 100,000 odd.

It gets much worse – it is not only the wages of those 600,000 people but the infamous benefits; the unemployment pay, the sickness pay, the disability payments, that must be added to the total figure.

There were only 31,000 British in India in 1805 – of which 22,000 were in the army, a mere 2,000 in the civil service, in order to maintain law and order and help a fiendishly uneducated and dependant population to exist in something approaching civilisation. Even after the mutiny, there were only 164,000 Britons paid to ‘administer’ the continent.

The Scottish Bloggers that I read are proud and fiercely independent, and I doubt that this post will be welcomed by them; to them I apologise.

I accept that there are decent hard working individuals north of Hadrian’s Wall, but I am totally stunned at the picture painted by these figures of a pathetic, bedraggled and helpless population waiting patiently for the national handbag to disgorge it’s next meal – and help it lift the spoon to its mouth. Or navigate the voicemail to access yet another government help-line.

A resurgence of national pride is called for – not just nationalism.

Did William Wallace’s descendants emigrate? Is the gene lost forever?

Old Holborn
May 1, 2010 at 07:25

Fantastic post. Please do make sure Tom Harris MP is aware of it

Saul
May 1, 2010 at 07:49

but they’ll never take… OUR FIEFDOM!

Mike Spilligan
May 1, 2010 at 07:56

Another excellent posting. As an Englishman with no Scots blood (except there were rumours in the 1880s about one bairn got on “the wrong side of the blanket” with a generous girl fra’Aberdeen) and as someone who’s travelled widely, I can say that the best of the best are the Scots I’ve met abroad – and even unstinting in help towards another from the “home nations”. What a pity. What happened to their famous “get-up-and-go”?
Perhaps it was the adventurous and spirited that got up and went – abroad?

Hardon
May 1, 2010 at 07:56

Actually, the picture in Scotland is not disproportionately different to that of England. In fact were it not for London (and its economic activity of shifting government backed financial securities about the place) the situation in England would be even worse than Scotland.

Indeed, on average, unemployment and economic inactivity/worklessness rates are correspondingly higher in England than in Scotland and higher again in Wales and Northern Ireland.

The most Sovietised rotten boroughs of the UK are in the North of England. Places like Bolton, South Shields or Doncaster.

Saul
May 1, 2010 at 08:05

The reason that the North votes Labour?

They at least get a kiss and a cuddle before they get Shafted!

Anna Raccoon
May 1, 2010 at 08:08

My we’re on form today Saul!

Vimes
May 1, 2010 at 08:48

Where is this mythical “Glasgow”, of which you speak? It’s clearly not the same place where I live and work – that city may be flawed and it may, on occasion, make some of its citizens shake their heads in disbelief, but I rejoice in the fact that, unlike some, we don’t elect fascists on to our councils and the concept of “Jock Tamson’s Bairns” can be actively seen working, on a daily basis. Maybe it’s time to haud the wheesht, as this crabbit mince is getting pure scunnerring, by the way.

Ed P
May 1, 2010 at 09:54

A once great and innovative nation reduced by socialism to a sorry state. Scots invented and developed many of the world’s advances in technology – they were at the “leading edge” and their influence has been global. The picture you paint of their present condition is profoundly depressing.

Ally
May 1, 2010 at 10:18

As a west coast Scottish woman my instinctive knee-jerk would be to defend by attack. But Anna I have to accept that you are almost entirely correct, my kids are both hard working as is my family, but I know too many that sit exactly as you describe. The Scottish Labour movement, and the de-industrialised cities throughout Scotland are a national disgrace, our once great edukashun system fails to meet what any sane person would describe as adequate standards, and the numbers employed by the state raise serious questions over the financial viability of an independent Scotland, even with oil revenue.

I suspect there is more to the SNP administration’s decision to put the referendum on the back burner than many would care to admit.

RantinRab
May 1, 2010 at 14:35

Spot on Anna.

I have moaned many a time over at mines about the state of Scotland and it’s downward spiral over a few generations of socialism. It’s not all Labour these days, the SNP are as bad. If not worse.

And Glasgow is a cess pit. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwis