I don’t live in Scotland, have very little Scottish
blood, and I won't be voting in the referendum, but… I have come to the conclusion that it’s really time to end the “union”
that is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The thing
about our union is that it came about, piecemeal, through conquest, repression,
persecution, feudal genealogical alliances, bribery and incompetence among
capitalist interests, hundreds of years ago, before any of our present values
were remotely acceptable, let alone the norm.
When the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was at
its height, Wales had been conquered, Scotland had been bought, Ireland had
been starved, any English workers who wanted rights were transported, and
democracy was a dirty word. So how about ending the Union, not so that little
nation states of Scotland, Ireland and Wales can go off into isolationist
ghettoes, but so that we can re-form, not a union, but an alliance, of modern
adult societies who share civilised values, cultures, interests, and even a
currency, who can agree with each other without having to submit perpetually to
rule by an Eton-dominated public school ra-ra debating chamber in mock Gothic
in the middle of London.