scotlandisdifferent

Sunday night is random thoughts night:- Still uncomfortable (to put it mildly!) with EU referendum result. If this is post-truth politics, where you win democratic decisions by lying longer and louder, then it stinks. Definitely Vote Jeremy to change that! Tired of people calling us bad losers. We just think the process was crap. Probably can't change that without changing the first-past-the-post system, that's why there's no nuanced politics in England. First-past-the-post is obviously the best, the UK has had it for centuries, it's the way the Britain works. Can we have an explanation of why none of the devolved governments have it? Sooner the Labour party splits, the better. At the moment we have two Labour parties anyway, the one the party memebers belong to, and the one the parliamentary members belong to. Guys in parliament are out of touch! (or as a Labour commentator on BBC Radio Four put it today, "the roots and the flowers", and what he mean...

In an earlier post for IndyRef1 I quoted my old friend Thingy, who said (basically), "It was always an English Empire! - go for it!" Now my friends Whatsit, who live in Scotland but spend time in France, and have children and grandchildren in Spain and Switzerland, have emailed to say: D and I have been so distressed and confused recently it has been difficult to know what is best to do;" and: "We have certainly been through all the obvious feelings of anger, disgust, frustration, feeling sick, sadness, mounting to fury at the complete idiocy of what has happened and spitting blood at the awful people who have allowed it to happen! You may think that their responses are overstated, but these are ordinary middle-class Scottish citizens, who are totally pissed off with the UK response. On a less despairing note, our constituency MP for Glasgow North, Patrick Grady, convened a meeting today to reassure those of his constituents who were frazzled by the EU referendum re...