The day Scotland broke my heart

It’s just after 5.30am. This is a sad day. This is a sad day for… I would say my country, but it’s not a country. We’re just a region. A region that gets told what to do by other people. Imagine going on holiday and a tourist or local asks what country you’re from and you tell them Scotland. “Oh, that’s not a country, that’s just a region”, they’ll be able to say and you’ll have to agree.

We had our chains off yesterday to vote, and now we’ve voted to put them back on.

One day to go

I was asked today what I made of Gordon Brown’s speech at the Better Together rally.

This is a man who once wanted to get rid of nuclear weapons when the Labour party were in opposition in the eighties (no really!). When he became chancellor, he sold off a vast number of the UK’s gold reserves. When the financial crisis came round, do you remember how he was jeered and derided from the opposition benches? I know the Daily Mail rarely say anything nice about anyone (unless they’re “all grown up”. If you don’t know what that means, I suggest you look into how the Mail is a rather creepy publication using that phrase.), but do you ever know of a time where they had a positive word to say about Gordon? Hell, even Jeremy Clarkson called him a “one-eyed Scottish idiot”. What else did Gordon Brown do during his brief tenure at Number 10? Ah yes, brought Margaret Thatcher to Downing Street, shake her hand at the steps, as he tried to appeal to the crowd of Middle England.

Margaret Thatcher, who spoke about “Building Scotland’s Future” as she came to power.

Within her first two years, Scotland lost 20% of its workforce. TWENTY PER CENT.