Great week this in one of my favourite topics (that probably bores everyone else), Scottish politics!
The leader of the Scottish branch of the Labour party, Wendy Alexander (remember her? The one they always make look daft in photos? See below for more proof) suddenly decided in response to a TV interview question that she had actually always supported a referendum on Scottish Independence and hadn’t in fact spent the last 6 months setting up a commission to avoid it.
Looks like she forgot to mention this long held conviction to her boss G. Broon. He said today that what she meant by “Bring it on!” was that we should all wait for the findings of a lengthy review that won’t even be looking at the topic.
I remember that the argument of the Unionist parties used to be that those who wanted independence were gambling with Scotland’s future. Now they have only been out of power for 12 months and they are happy to come up with policy on the same topic based on TV discussions.
I’m split over the idea of holding a referendum now. I think that people have been brought up to believe that Scotland is too wee, too poor and too stupid to stand on it’s own feet and it will take a long time to overcome that propaganda (maybe another generation?).
On the other hand, strike while the iron is hot and there is a feel good factor in the country. I’ve a funny feeling that the country is split right down the middle on this one.
