I worry about my friends in England. I worry that there are folk down in England wondering what all this is about, and if I and everyone else in Scotland have gone crazy.
It's about good government. It's about social justice. It's about 35 years of abusive Westminster government, which since 1979 has been little more than a vehicle for asset-stripping the public sphere. It's about a Holyrood government which since its inception in 1999 has done a thoroughly decent job.
Frankly Westminster has had it coming, and now it's come.
It's not about nationalism. It's not about Scotland. It's not about who your parents were, or where you were born, or the colour of your skin.
From the beginning, this movement has said unequivocally -
"If you're here, you're in. I don't care where you came from. I don't care how Scottish you feel, that's up to you. But you're part of this country, and part of this movement."
On Twitter I follow English Scots for Yes, Asian Scots for Yes, Arabs for Independence, Polish for Yes, Italians for Yes, Welsh for Yes, Irish for Yes, Catalans for Yes. It is a wonderful and extraordinary thing that a movement for national independence should be conducted with the enthusiastic support of its minority populations, and with only friendship offered to the country from which it seeks its liberty.
On sink estates all round Scotland, people with no hope are registering to vote for the first time, beginning to believe that this time they might make a difference.
Scottish business has organised around an anti-austerity agenda, around the simple principle that you can't sell stuff to folk with no money.
The artists and intellectuals who have long held Westminster in contempt are like dogs with two tails: finally, ideas matter!
The movement is multicultural, international, joyful, irreverent. Check out BBC Scotlandshire, Yestival, the Spirit of Independence, the Margo Mobile. Follow the Loch Yes Monster on Twitter. Mirth is everywhere. Look at the open heart and shining eyes of the people who wish this movement to succeed, and you would need a heart of stone to wish it to fail.
I was born in England. I spent half my life there. My family all live there. England is my country too.
England, Wales, Northern Ireland (and Eire) - all should wish us well. All of us here hope that Scottish independence will deliver the shock to Westminster that opens the door to reform, to a better, more civilised politics for all the people on these isles.
We want union, just not this one. We can and should share institutions. We share a language and a culture. We should share a currency, an energy grid, an open border, and many other things. We should pass patients seamlessly between the English and Scottish NHS. We should fund research in one another's universities. We should share and co-operate wherever and whenever we can. But Scotland should not have to give up her sovereignty to a corrupt and discredited Westminster parliament in order to do so.
So people of the British Isles, wherever you are, don't take your news from the TV and the printed papers. Look at Common Weal, Radical Independence, Business for Scotland, National Collective, Bella Caledonia, Wings over Scotland. Take a few minutes on the internet to look into the true nature of this extraordinary grassroots movement. And wish us victory, for all our sakes.
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