As you may or may not have heard, the militant wing of the Braveheart fan club (or the Scottish National Party as they would prefer to be known) is campaigning hard for independence. As well as covering their faces in wode (that interesting blue colour) and shouting, "Freeeeeeeeeedooooommmmmm!" terribly loudly they have secured a referendum on independence. Now they are quibbling over which confusing form of words the ballot paper will assume in order to obtain the results they want.
While they are debating the critical question, the members of the party are busy strutting around as if the whole thing is a done deal. This is all rather sad and best ignored in favour of the magnificent glens, the mighty hills, the sublime whisky and, if you're feeling kitch, shortbread from a tartan tin shaped like a Scottie dog.
However one issue that was raised today and really makes my blood boil is the issue of Europe. According to the SNP, an independent Scotland would carry on in Europe as if nothing has happened. According to Europe, an independent Scotland will have to re-apply for admission and potentially face some fairly stiff competition from the likes of Spain who don't want a precedent set. The question that is making me down right angry is why the HELL is the SNP bending over backwards, forwards and every which bloody way to gain sovereignty from the rest of Britain only to surrender it again to bloody Europe of all cases. Leaving aside the fiddly bits of academic constitutional theory for another day it's just so mindlessly bloody stupid.
This is the one potential advantage to independence and the SNP are planning on frittering it away like Britain's rebate was frittered away in the mid-90's and for what? So the already overburdened taxpayer can fork out more of their hard-earned cash to an organisation that only makes their daily lives harder. Really fucking clever there.
Rant over.
JR
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