For only about the second time in 68 years I began to feel like a successful prophet when yesterday I wrote about bureaucracies reverting to wild Trumpian guesses and hours later the EU Commission was building a hard Irish border without even consulting the Irish. "Oh it was a mistake," is bit like the world's fear of Donald Trump mistaking the nuclear button for the toilet flush. Perhaps Ireland needs to consider independence ......
A lot of people in England think Scotland is too small and lacking in economic diversity to be successful as a truly independent country. But Singapore doesn't appear to be particularly inconvenienced by either its own small size, or its much larger neighbour Malaysia. It knows because it is small it has to be smarter.
I'm confident Scotland can and should pursue an independent course if that's what Scottish people want. It has to be better for England too in the long run. We all love sport. How successful are teams in which several players can't stand the manager and form their own little clique openly belittling some of his more off-the-wall decisions?
The Scots have been treated like rebellious teenagers for years. First we promise to listen to them, then we promise them their own junior play parliament, then they do or say something we don't like, or even find a leader to follow ......... and we ......... ground them, send them to their room?????? The Scots too have indulged us long enough, whilst we have to learn to accept them being what they are. Equally moving down the road to live with Uncle Manny and Auntie Angela hardly constitutes living independently.
A lot of people in England think Scotland is too small and lacking in economic diversity to be successful as a truly independent country. But Singapore doesn't appear to be particularly inconvenienced by either its own small size, or its much larger neighbour Malaysia. It knows because it is small it has to be smarter.
I'm confident Scotland can and should pursue an independent course if that's what Scottish people want. It has to be better for England too in the long run. We all love sport. How successful are teams in which several players can't stand the manager and form their own little clique openly belittling some of his more off-the-wall decisions?
The Scots have been treated like rebellious teenagers for years. First we promise to listen to them, then we promise them their own junior play parliament, then they do or say something we don't like, or even find a leader to follow ......... and we ......... ground them, send them to their room?????? The Scots too have indulged us long enough, whilst we have to learn to accept them being what they are. Equally moving down the road to live with Uncle Manny and Auntie Angela hardly constitutes living independently.