Well it is here, a day when Scotland is more or less ignored for 24 hours, while the people go to the polls. I know very little about the pros and cons of dividing the United Kingdom, but I suspect that whatever the outcome of today things will never be the same again. The Nationalists, in their fervent hatred of Westminster, and the Tory party in particular, have aroused many Scottish people to a height not achieved since Bannockburn, and many will be voting YES, with little consideration of the consequences. No-one can be certain of the outcome, and no one can predict the far reaching and potentially catastrophic results of a yes vote. Maybe Scotland can make it alone, but it is a small country with a small population and I suspect that they are heading towards being the poor man of Europe. Oil revenues will not last forever.
The ballot results will be known soon enough, and ironically on the same day, the possibility of women members being allowed in the oldest golf club in the world, St Andrews, will also be known. The membership have been balloted by post and should their vote favour women, one of the last bastions of male supremacy will fall. Some may think that is a bad thing, while many will welcome that decision, seeing it as a move away from divisiveness.
Division in my opinion is a backward step. The world is divided enough and where there is division there will always be problems. The world should be working towards common goals, but the prevalence of right wing parties such as Cameron's conservatives, will always encourage the division between this that have and those that don't. With a general election looming, and the probably outcome not favouring the current government, you can imagine that the fat cats are already filling their pockets and insulating themselves from the likely chaos that they will have created. None of the major parties seem electable any more and so we are likely to have government made up of a divided bunch of unelectables, with the nasty right wing springing from the ashes of the coalition.
Maybe Scotland should go their own way, but I hope that they do not have to come begging to the rest of us when it all falls apart.
The ballot results will be known soon enough, and ironically on the same day, the possibility of women members being allowed in the oldest golf club in the world, St Andrews, will also be known. The membership have been balloted by post and should their vote favour women, one of the last bastions of male supremacy will fall. Some may think that is a bad thing, while many will welcome that decision, seeing it as a move away from divisiveness.
Division in my opinion is a backward step. The world is divided enough and where there is division there will always be problems. The world should be working towards common goals, but the prevalence of right wing parties such as Cameron's conservatives, will always encourage the division between this that have and those that don't. With a general election looming, and the probably outcome not favouring the current government, you can imagine that the fat cats are already filling their pockets and insulating themselves from the likely chaos that they will have created. None of the major parties seem electable any more and so we are likely to have government made up of a divided bunch of unelectables, with the nasty right wing springing from the ashes of the coalition.
Maybe Scotland should go their own way, but I hope that they do not have to come begging to the rest of us when it all falls apart.
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