Sorry Nick I was of course talking in general terms and of course tongue in cheek. But on a serious note why are the Queen's honours entitled things like Order of The British Empire. Now I'm never gonna be offered one, but that is not a title I would wish to have bestowed upon me, nae thanks tae that.
How can people vote yes if they do not know what they are actually saying yes to?
What we will say YES to on Thursday is to have a government of our own choosing, to have policies put in place that we have voted for, rather than have a Tory government imposed upon us, a millionaires cabinet of Eton Bullingdon boys - the Westminster elite. Labour? New Labour = New Tories.
I think a lot of people in the rest of the UK don't understand how we got to this point. A quick history lesson - For decades Westminster has been worried about the rise of nationalists in Scotland, particularly as Scotland struck it rich with North Sea Oil. In 1997 they gave us The Scottish Parliament, giving us day to day control of a number of key areas ie devolution of select powers. This parliament was designed to solve the Nationalist issue forever. It was designed so that it was impossible for any one party to hold an overall majority. A proportional representation parliament that delivered coalition government (you know the kind of government that the UK didn't believe in anyway but good enough for the Scots). The nationalists policy is take what you can get when you can get it, so Scotland voted for it. Naturally Labour, the party of Scotland came to power supported by the Lid Dems. And that should have been that - the Nationalists tied up for ever and a day - problem solved. But Labour then took it's orders from London. Time and time again The Scottish Labour Party caved into the big boys at Westminster and Scots didn't get the polices that Scottish Labour promised. And it wasn't long before everybody could see that London called the shots. So this time it wasn't just the Nats telling London to piss off, it was all the Labour voters too. So what happened? The Scots eventually did what was supposed to be impossible, they voted in an SNP majority in a coalition parliament. What's always in an SNP manifesto? Yup a referendum on independence! But that's not within our powers. But considering what had just happened to Labour up here, London had no choice but to grant it.
So are we to understand that he will continue the campaign regardless of the decision made by the Scotish people until he gets independence and most importantly, his own way.
Not quite. Yes he will. But I'm not a member of the SNP, I voted Labour at the last general election. This is not about Alex Salmond, it's not what Alex wants, it's about democracy, what people in Scotland want. I've wanted it for over 20 years, I want it on Thursday, I'll always want it. I do not want to be ruled over by an English Tory elite for one second more than I have to.
I think if it's YES on Thursday, something else will happen. A lot of people in England, Wales and Northern Ireland will wake up on Friday morning and think - fucks sake look at what the Scots have just gone and done, they've rid themselves of the those scum bag fucking Tories bastards. You might start thinking - we can do it too.