Scotland has produced some great thinkers and doers. Engineers and scientists, from a country with a high standard of education. That was then and the truth today is Scotland is a land of poverty. Poor health, poor education and a whining victim status as a national trait. And I say this being half Scottish.
I love Scotland and want its glory to return and its people to be a part of our Union. But we have people like Alex Salmond leading them astray. He wants an independent Scotland by which he means one that breaks away from Union with Britain and joins the European Union. So a country ruled from Brussels, or more accurately, a region ruled from Brussels.
Salmond does give an overriding impression of being an imbecile but he is canny enough to know that if he tries to break from the British teat he needs an alternative, to latch on to. He had hoped the EU would do for his Scotland what it had done (in the past!) for Ireland, but we now have the Eurozone disaster. This makes a contribution from Scotland to the EU more likely and the sum talked about is £8 billion.
For a country that cannot survive without funds from the English parliament they show little gratitude, let alone a firm grasp on reality. Desperate times concentrate the mind and as Scottish people come back to thinking about politics properly, they will turn increasingly against a dreamer such as Alex Salmond.
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