Getting The Tone Exactly Wrong

[poliphilo]

"Politics is not a game" seems to be the hastily agreed soundbite for dealing with the second referendum on Scottish Independence. Mrs May used it- in a little speech reeking of condescension and nannyish exasperation- and so did a beardy government spokesman we've never seen before. Apart from being untrue- because politics is exactly that- I can think of no line better calculated to annoy the Scots. So Brexit is a serious matter and Scottish independence isn't? Sod off back to Westminster, Tory scum!

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Accelerating the contradictions

[qatsi.livejournal.com]

As someone who grew up in the north east (of England), with a somewhat neighbourly antagonism toward the Scots, I'm torn. Last time I thought "Go if you want to, though I think it would be better if you didn't". Now I'd quite like them to go, and make a success of it, Euro and all, just to wave two fingers at May, Farage, et al. But I also recognise that the voting pattern in England would push the remainder of the UK further to the right, which hardly seem a good or desirable thing.