The Anonymous Widower

Will The Scottish Independence Referendum Settle Anything?

I’m from the Don’t Care Tendency on the Scottish Independence Referendum.

But after listening to the debate about who owns the oil in the North Sea, I worry about the result of the referendum!

I can’t believe that if the vote is No, that the Scottish Nationalists will accept it quietly for ever, judging by the passionate arguments they put forward this morning.

And if the answer is Yes, will those against prolong the argument as long as they can?

Either way, it doesn’t bode well for people like me, whose taxes go to finance all of the whims of politicians.

If there is a way, then there should be a gradual disintegration of the United Kingdom. Scotland, Wales and London have shown that it is not a bad idea to devolve powers to locally elected bodies.

But then it was suggested that the North East might like an Assembly and that was rejected.

Abraham Lincoln is supposed to have said.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.

Even with fool replaced by please, it’s probably pretty true and sums up why devolution is so difficult to get right.

February 24, 2014 - Posted by AnonW | World | Politics, Scotland