A history of the future

There are really only two narratives on offer at the election tomorrow.

There's a unionist narrative, apparently controlled by Ruth Davidson and Theresa May. This is a story of hard Brexit, closed borders and antagonism towards Europe. It's a tale of tax havens for the rich and food banks for the poor, the dismemberment of the NHS, qualification-by-rape for benefits, and the slow holocaust by suicide or starvation for those incapable but deemed fit for work. It tells of the sacrifice of human rights to provide law enforcement new powers to tackle terrorist threats we previously covertly encouraged to topple foreign governments, climate change denial, Empire 2.0, and poverty and hunger used as weapons of class war, all to "make Britain great again."

Despite the attempts of Scottish Labour's various Blairite appeasers of capital to take control of the unionist narrative, it remains a story told by Tories, and ultimately controlled by a billionaire international of donors of dark money that pays for dark adverts on social media that manipulate the neuroses of the undecided in key marginals. Eventually our democratic institutions will wither and decisions will be made on our behalf by corporations who summon and consult our simulated selves from the Cloud with analytics and algorithms until each of us is reduced to a cost centre or accounting unit.

There is an alternative, a progressive narrative. This tells a story in which refugees are welcome and from which Trident has been abolished. The NHS is fully funded and run according to its founding principles, access to education is based on ability to learn rather than pay, and services are run for public benefit rather than private profit. The electorate is respected and engaged and every member is able and invited to achieve their full potential.

You have one vote tomorrow. You can validate one narrative with it.