Proud to be Grumpy

What next, post referendum? After an interminable two weeks the Scottish Referendum took place yesterday. I'm glad I had something scheduled yesterday and was able to avoid most of the TV coverage until late in the evening. Even then I watched old recorded programs (Thank goodness for the PVR.) rather than the 'talking heads' programming that apparently was scheduled to run all night. So this morning I woke-up to the news that our Scottish friends (well, a majority of them) have decided, for now, to stay in the Un ion. The result mirrors almost exactly the outcome predicted by Daniel J Mitchell in his column 'Would Scottish Independence Be a Net Plus for Liberty?'   Posted September 17, 2014 on  finance.townhall.com. While I agreed with much of his 'Libertarian' take and analysis of the referendum it  also raised, for me, a number of issues at the very heart of the Union. The current 'shower' of mainstream politicians at Westminster (I'd li...

Scottish Independence. Is this vote an abuse of 'democracy'. With two weeks to go before the 'Scottish Vote', as a 'Brit' there are a number issues I would like the Scots to consider. Am I English, are YOU Scottish and are WE British? If the answer is YES then WE should have decided first if WE want a part of OUR Country to choose to dissolve the Union that is Britain. I'm not sure that, as a Unionist, my campaigning and vote for the Union, had there been one, would have carried the day but at least it would have gone some way toward legitimizing this upcoming 'democratic' folly. Can Scottish Nationalists please tell us the model they are using for the  peaceful division of their State from our Country. Perhaps they can give us four or five successful examples of where this has happened, in say the last fifty years? Do the Separatists (for that is surely what they are) understand that, should they win the vote, what they are proposing is...