Scotland

So Scotland is not to be a separate state. Hmmm. I don’t know whether to be pleased or not. The part of me that is ‘Braveheart’ – “Freedom come all ye, kill all the Sassenach bastards!”* is sorry. And it would have been such fun to watch the civil service not cope with having to pass that much law in one go having been skinned to the bone by the cuts. It would have been a rare joy to see them making it up as they went along.**

The part of me that hates Cameron and all his works*** is pleased, because Scottish independence would have given the Conservatives an easy victory in England for the next ten years. And I couldn’t bear that. Not to mention that half of the ‘yes’ camp’s plans were handwavery to say the least.



* Forgetting that I am one of them, obviously.
** How much policy is decided on the hoof is a secret that none but civil servants know.
*** My mother called him ‘that nasty little spiv’. And she was right.