(Lucy Mangan) The cowering, timorous beastie
There are those who argue against it, of course. Scotland should stay just as it is! Independence, nivver darken our doors! Caledonian nationalism, like all nationalism, is a terrible idea spouted by the worst, most morally and psychologically incompetent people ever to have battered a Mars bar. Think of the ethno-chauvinism it will unleash: the small-mindedness, the petty sense of superiority, the alienation, bile and gracelessness that will wash over the land, poisoning e'en unto the last crystalline Highland spring, you sunless goons!
But I say, "Tish tosh!" to such dour preoccupations. I think the "ayes" have it right, and not just because it's short for "aye, have ye no' seen wha's in charge of England the noo? Jes' a wain, wi' a face lik' a bloated haggis an' a mind mair sleekit, cow'rin an tim'rous than any wee mousie ye ivver saw! They'll aw be greetin' afore he's done". This line is carved into every shovel currently being smuggled down to Hadrian's Wall, so that the digging can start on polling night, and the country rowed 4ft north by sun up on 19 September...
... More realistically, who wouldn't like to be unshackled from the leaky ship Britannia, with its crumbling economy, despairing jobless, debt-ridden graduates and an NHS once the envy of the world but now being stripped and sold for parts to the cowering, timorous beastie's friends? If I were Scotland – even if I were just Scottish – I would be readying the Kenneth McKellar hologram to belt out a suitably amended rendition of Fare Thee Well ("I'll no' be back"
as the bonds were irrevocably severed.
Would the weight of all the money sucked out of the regions, towards London and into the bank accounts of the seven families who own little England, unbalance it at last...?
/... http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/jul/12/scottish-independence-across-uk
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