That’s like, what, a whole
percent away from 50/50. Want to play Roulette
but don’t have a wheel? Just have a Scot
tell you if you’ve won or lost. Rather
than going to the voting booths they could settle the referendum with one coin toss. If they’re not sick of the sight of the Queen’s
face. But really it was all down to JK Rowling, she donated a million pounds
to the ‘No’ campaign. So they’re all voting
‘Yes’ to spite her. (That’s what I’d do.) She is just a children’s story-writer and not 'truly' Scottish. It might as well have been Mrs
Doubtfire. Rowling’s only claim
to Scottishness is by marriage. She’d
have more credibility draped in salmon and wearing a Tam o’ Shanter cap.
A ‘Yes’ vote may spell woe for pensions, security and the
economy! So Cameron and Miliband have
united suddenly, just over a week before the vote, to propose more powers to
Scotland. Looks like they’re really
going for broke. A Broke Britain that
is, so useless and ineffectively timed the gesture. Salmond
thinks that “they are not serious” anyway, that it’s just a measure “to bribe
us”. But Scotland may become an
independent republican system within the EU. Leaving one Union while staying in another. So perhaps the whole ‘No’ campaign has been
one big bribe to get those very powers. Either
that or it's mere hypocrisy (but let’s not go there).
Appealing to the emotions of the public is a way of gaining
power yet I am surprised Scots have been so affected by Salmond’s Braveheart rhetoric. We must leave sentimentalism
out of this debate. Whether that is a
nationalistic pride in all under the Saltire - or whether a romantic attachment to what it means to be a United
Kingdom.
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