...and still all to play for. We'll not really, we'll maybe. This isn't a game of football. Let me explain.
For the politicians this game is over, they'll go through the moves but, by now, they've said all that needs to be said. [We'll come to the vow in a moment.] We've been given the facts, such as they can be ascertained, we've been warned of the doom that we face, the promised land has been painted. The bozos will keep at it of course, that they would understand that what they say no longer matters would be asking for a self-knowledge that we all know that they don't have.
That doesn't mean that the game is over. The people on the cobbles are still playing.
Today I had a talk with a couple of undecideds.
"I'm a yes. Still I'm not going to pretend that this isn't a leap in the dark..."
[some concrete problems are raised...]
"Let's look at who's ag'in this shall we?" They are expecting the usual suspects.
"How much do you pay your union a month? How much does the boss of that union get paid? £120, 000 isn't it? Have they ever helped you? Have they ever asked you what you thought? When you were trying to get your equal pay money back were they helpful, or just not there? And he, and it is a he, has the blatant gall to suggest that we're better together! Better for him."
"Everybody who is predicting doom, or promising us the world, has an interest in things remaining just as they are.. Why are they so keen that the subsidy-junky scots remain on board? If we're that shite why don't they just cut us loose? It ain't an emotional attachment to us that's for sure."
See, I can play as unfair as the best German Banker with a portfolio.
Which brings me back to the vow. Stupid thing to do? They now have two choices.
- They stuff the scots with a lie that they'll be called on
- They satisfy us, the scots. In which case they are going to have to satisfy everyone else on these isles too
We've won!
I imagine that, like the expenses issue they imagine that we'll move on and forget. Oh no. Not this time.
This time we are going to deliver the bill,
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Surely it is an emotional attachment? Just how many of us south of the border have Scottish ancestors? The English living in Scotland get to vote ... how about the Scottish living in England? (or anywhere else for that matter).
Scots Wha Hae
My mother was Glaswegian, worked for the Glasgow Herald in the 40's and 50's.
My grandmother lived in Mosspark, Glasgow. Was the first female headmistress in Scotland (or a part of, childish memory of that ). Spent many a summer's holiday 'up there'.
I'm English. No doubt about that. My mother worked her way as a journalist all the way down to Jersey.
Funny that.
I do hope the Scot's vote yes. If only to stop their greeting about the 'English/Sassenachs/Germans'. Too many times the problems have been put down to Westminster/Sassenachs. Now it's their turn. Good luck and the best of British.
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@Jon
This was thought about, there was no good way other than that people living in Scotland on a certain date get the vote.
@ Mike
This isn't about being anti-English/being a Scot. I'll try to explain in my next post.
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