My pub in London Smithfield was famous all over the world for the Full English Breakfast. That is behind me now but A Fool English Brexitfast is in front of me, in front of us all, especially all Scots.
Why they bothered to include Scotland, Ireland and Wales in the EU referendum is beyond me. Let’s face it, what the other three equal partners in the UK think has nothing to do with democracy and more to do with the failing of UK style democracy. You might as well place an ad for leader of the Ku Klux Klan in the Nigerian Evening Post.
Scotland could never influence the outcome in England even if they put Ruth Davidson in charge of the Scottish EU Referendum postal vote.
Many people in Scotland clearly believed that Scotland must remain within the auspices of the EU rather than at the mercy of Longshanks, sorry England. Many of these people are not Unionists, they were Europeans at the Scottish referendum in 2014. Given the ‘threat’ of being kicked out to the back of the EU re-entry queue many of, perhaps all of, these Scottish Europeans voted for the ‘only way to remain in the EU is NO’ bullshit lies.
If only we knew how many of these Scottish Europeans there were, double that number as they move over to YES and that may very well have given us a very, very difference Scottish referendum result.
So what is ‘A Fool English Brexitfast’. So who is the fool. England wanted out, far away from Johnny foreigner, albeit into the arms of Swanky Yanky. The Tory Government bluffed their way past the fact that never in their wildest dreams did they expect the UK to vote out. Immediately Cameron legged it. The people voted on a subject that almost without exception and I would say definitely without exception not a single person had a clue what they were voting for. The ‘fool’ was the UK people without a doubt. The fact that Theresa May seized the reigns as PM when nobody wanted the poison chalice and she was arguably the worst most incompetent Home Secretary ever was a major clue that she would be an even worse PM. Her whole Modus Operandi is based on ‘imagineering’. More fool the lot of us.
So who is this ‘English’; not the individuals per se but the England population as a whole. With a population ratio of 11:1 in favour of England over Scotland any mathematician will tell you that Scotland is numerically ‘insignificant’. Sorry folks, but I didn’t make up the numbers.
So what about Brexit Fast. Let’s get the pronunciation correct and in the Glasgow vernacular, Breks it fast. 2 years to achieve sweet FA except piss off the EU. Quite an achievement. Siding with the US and their disgraceful foreign policy and the fact that the world knows that our biggest achievement is attacking defenseless countries, causing global mayhem – or is that May Hem and selling £billions in weapons to genocidal regimes in Saudi Arabia and Israel. Well, I expect the world will be queuing up to do great deals with us?? Sure there were serious problems in the EU. Many other members are already expressing discontent with the EU structure. What a great opportunity for the UK to step in and lead the reform of the EU – missed!
So, it is always good to look for a classic win-win situation and there it is right under our nose. There is absolutely no chance whatsoever that England will kill the golden goose – folks, that’s us. We have two chances. Declare UDI immediately. Offer England a negotiation to assist them with the debt because we are good neighbours. Inform the EU that we will be staying in. As the EU has already confirmed; Scotland simply stays in and that is a fact. The other option is of course when the Withdrawal Bill is fully written into law. It is no big secret that the Act of Union 1707 included a condition that partners were equal and that Westminster has even re-stated that fact. Equal partners don’t subjugate one another, as in, they don’t simply bring into law without consultation an act that is diametrically opposed to the other partner – that would be the Withdrawal Bill. So in a classic own goal, Westminster has broken the terms of the Act of Union and themselves torn up that treaty. Of course, simply declaring UDI would a) be much quicker and b) save Westminster the embarrassment of the full back who has just toed the winner past his own goalkeeper – oops!
So what about the win-win. Well, in the 19th century the Scottish Enlightenment led the Politico Philosophical thinking in Europe. Scotland has form and we have brought enlightenment to every corner of the world. Scotland can step up to the plate in Europe and help them reform a structure that has morrphed itself down a hole. This could be the New Enlightenment, like New Labour but actually nothing like New Labour.
So, from Fool English Brexitfast to the New Scottish EU Enlightenment faster than a Trump broken promise!