SAINTS OF THE FUTURE

Ceud mile fàìlte – a hundred thousand welcomes. That’s what Blair and Bush will be getting from the people of Scotland and around the world gathered to oppose their world of war, poverty and exploitation. Welcome to Scotland, the home of golf and the worst poverty rates in Britain. While diners at Andrew Fairlie’s restaurant in the Gleneagles Hotel tuck in to “Roast Anjou Squab with Black Truffle Gnocchi”, one in three children are born into poverty and a quarter of our senior citizens live below the poverty line. In Glasgow’s Shettleston, life expectancy is 63, the same as Iraq.

Welcome to Scotland – home to all of Britain’s nuclear weapons at Coulport and the strategic nuclear submarine fleet at Faslane. Our seas are littered with munitions dumps, our soil is scattered with disintegrating military bases and our air is full of the sound of fighter jets training to bomb foreign lands.

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