There is absolutely no truth in the rumour, that I’ve just started, that during their private meeting yesterday Elizabeth 1st of Scotland (2nd of England) was heard by a passing footman to say to the First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, that she should ‘Just go for it Hen. I’ll back ye up this time. I’m scunnert wae that wide-o, humphy-backed numpty, wandering aboot in a daze looking like an unmade scratcher, drunk and annoying everybody. I shouldnae have listened tae Cameron the last time. Just you get me up oan ma feet in front of the cameras ootside Crathie Kirk this time and I’ll swing the tweed suit and wellies brigade in your favour. I’ll even hum two verses of Caledonia as I’m getting in the motor’. (Her Royal Highness of course is famous for adopting the use of the Scots Language on her many visits to her highland estates and Edinburgh palace).
We can but imagine what the content of yesterday’s conversation was, but isn’t it great the day after the announcement of the date of our decisive independence referendum is made the way that a procession of English-based politicians are wheeled out in London’s parliament and on to the TV studio interview couches to tell the audience what it is that the people of Scotland want. Where do they get such rapier-like incisive inside knowledge?
Their political parties almost extinct in terms of being democratically electable by Scots, one after shamefully betraying their roots and troughing themselves into near Tory-like gluttony, the other, the Tories themselves, not electorally relevant in Scotland for nearly 70 years, yes 70 years, they seem to, according to them, still know an awful lot about what the people of Scotland want.
If that is the case why haven’t they tried to utilise these priceless insights to meet the needs and expectations of Scots and therefore help get members of their parties elected? Keep it up though. There’s nothing more guaranteed to swell the numbers of not-yet-decideds swinging towards a preference for self-government than a load of shouty politicians from somewhere else telling them what their problems are and how to think. Oh yes, that is indeed a vote winner.
On another related matter, we all know that once again, just like last time, the old chestnut ‘Oh woe are us, those nasty nats and all of this unsettling independence talk causes division, hate and the tragic breakup of families’, (a grossly exaggerated fallacy if ever there was one) will be wheeled out on a regular basis to muddy the waters when the voices of Union, with no real case to put forward, are cornered.
Probably like me, you occasionally get a bit disappointed at times that often we come across examples where the subject of Scotland’s future, such an important subject, is not being debated in a respectful adult manner, and it seems to somehow always be our side, those who advocate for a self-governing progressive outgoing Scotland, who get the blame for generating emotive division.
As I did during the last campaign, I again would seriously question that premise, particularly when I look at the photograph on the front page of yesterday’s rabid dog Scottish Daily hate Mail. If you haven’t seen it check it out. Yes, there are those trying to churn up hate and distrust. It isn’t us.
Independence is normal. Independence is inevitable. Independence is coming.
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