Yep. Pains me to say this but the Scots have gone off the deep end. They want socialism and (to quote Mencken) they are going to get it good and hard.
If so then England could vote to leave the UK.
The one burning question that I would like to see answered is: “What will all this do to the price of scotch whiskey?”
Normally, I avoid all things socialist, but sorry, I’ll keep purchasing single malts.
Call their bluff, cut the ties and let them go. Walk away. They’re on their own. Including defense, NHS, pensions and infrastructure. And no loans to the new nation-state, either. Stoke their pipes with the hard realities of being ‘home alone’ with Lenin and see what happens. Sink or swim, commie rotters.
The Scots (I am 1/4 Scot, btw) have also gone insane in appeasing Muslim extremists and Sharia AND at the same time the most radical elements of the LGBT mafia. They are truly lost. If William Wallace were alive now, he would be lopping off heads in his OWN country.
In all fairness, Scotland has always been its worst enemy. Whenever anyone shows the industriousness to become a real leader, he was always undermined and betrayed, and frequently murdered, by some ambitious and incompetent underling.
And this is not a biased opinion, as it has been noted by Scots historians themselves, with a shake of their head at the tragedy.
But for once, if they do vote independence, there will at least be a framework for government, even if those currently occupying it are fools. And this means that it is likely that *someone* will ascend, who for better or worse will at least set a bar for his successors.
Whether they succeed in the long run, or fail, as the English suspect, believing that the most of them are of the same stock as Sawney Beane, will for once be up to them.
Leninist Scotland?
Crazy talk.
I think most Scots are smart enough to realize going down the socialist road is the road to ruin. They'll find out soon enough. It's not like the great majority of Scots are leaping wholeheartedly into independence judging by the failure to get a majority to vote for it in the polls.
PS: De-annexing Wales was a mistake.
Independence will have the dual effect of making the rest of Great Britain more conservative, while forcing Scotland to pay for all its socialist malarkey.
Its a win-win situation.