The spud pickere hobknobbing with American presidents

I don’t know much about Scotland. We were always assured they are our lost Celtic cousins in a way that the English are not. It’s fair to say though that we were never ‘kissin cousins’. Apart from the spud pickers of Donegal most Irish emigrants went to England. I notice that the SNP is once more seeking a second ‘indyref’. They argue with justification that things have changed dramatically since 2014. The uk was in the eu and Scotland voted remain. Both major parties in England oppose a new indyref claiming the issue is settled for a generation. That it would be high risk for the Scot’s to leave the union is beyond doubt. They gain massively from inclusion by any standard. By any rational calculus they should stay put. The problem is however that rationality has ceased to exist as a political imperative in the Western Hemisphere. As you listen to the British right top dogs reading out the balance sheet in favour of the union you automatically think, ‘where have I heard these arguments before’. For the political, economic and security arguments they make are an exact replicas of everything they so violently opposed about the e.u. The upshot is a massive credibility gap that the Scot’s nats are all to willing to exploit. But a new indyref would be far from a foregone conclusion for the nats. To me it seems that the momentum for it is much more driven by the elite than the plebs. To explain this you need to look to Ireland. For if there is one country that the Scot’s could always look down their nose at (and did) that country is Ireland. But things have changed and now when Holyrood mp’s look across the Irish Sea what they see is the spud pickere hobknobbing with American presidents, eu leaders and the rest while the highlight of their week is a trip to Westminster where they will be mocked and jeered by Johnson’s mates. The implications of Scottish independence are sobering for Ireland. The big one is that overnight the unionists position goes from merely desperate to impossible. Mary Lou is licking her chops.