Dae ye think so, aye?

Really? Are we still paying attention to these people? Are we still equating what comes out of their mouths with reality? Dear goodness, they are as monotonous as they are consistent, and as they are delusional.

No, says Alister Jack, the current incumbent of the title of Viceroy of Joy (although by the cut of him each time he gets interviewed a more joyless man would be hard to find) we can’t have a referendum. We’ll have to wait at least a generation, which when it comes to the subject of Scotland and the constitution, for the party of  British nationalism, actually means not until the second ice age arrives, or until Mars changes a Snickers back to being called a Marathon, or until Keith Richards applies for his bus pass.

No, according to the fella who only got the job of Secretary of State Against Scotland because his predecessor, the Fluffmeister Pursuivant, couldn’t offer his London colleagues the opportunity of good digs, plenty booze and the chance to blow the living daylights out of the wildlife of Scotland on weekends, we just can’t have it, so there. London is in charge, not us. (Poor old Davey Mundell had the wallpaper picked out too for his new office in the shiny Edinburgh Hub before he was rudely bounced into the gutter, wee shame).

Who gives a flying foxbat what a London appointed politician has to say about our country? Not me. In the last couple of days we’ll all have seen a couple of pieces of Holyrood legislation on Children’s Rights and Local Government in Scots getting the bums rush in the English-based Supreme Court, with the inference being that Holyrood has overstepped its devolved powers. Big Brother flexing his muscles, as we allow him to do.

Let them try that move once the Scottish government make the formal request for a section 30, which they know will be refused, a refusal which they will then hurdle over to arrange a referendum anyway. Let Johnson and his clown school try it. Denying democracy and then enforcing that denial through the courts in a relationship which is supposed to be a Union of mutual consent will not stand any longer than one of the parties legally imposing its will over the democratic rights of the other. 

There is no hiding place from that, there is no spin which can be applied to dilute in the eyes of the people of Scotland the impact of being told that despite a democratic majority, as demonstrated by voters selections to represent their views in both Holyrood and Westminster, expressing their will to have a referendum on the future of governance in Scotland, we will be denied by a decision made by another country forbidding us to do so. 

Let’s get onto that, right now, if not sooner.