Well, not long to go now.
Don't have much to say, or much time to say it in. We were never meant to reach this point. There was never meant to be a Scottish Parliament with
real powers, a Scottish government that could actually
challenge the UK one, and most of all there was never meant to be a free and democratic referendum on independence, with Downing Street bound by it's own agreement to respect the result.
The entire UK state was designed to prevent this, and has spent the last 307 years delaying, ignoring, or stymying the calls for it, keeping it all discretely in the background. But here we are. It's all out in the open now.
I've been very impressed by the speed and zeal with which the English regions, Welsh Assembly, and various city councils have begun demanding greater autonomy and devolution from Westminster (already!). Regardless of the result tommorrow, things have happened here as a result of the referendum that cannot be undone. Good things. We have breached the gates, and now it's up to you to storm the castle. Get in there. The power has always been yours to take, you only have to...uh... take it.
Demand better, and keep demanding better. It's the only way anything will ever improve. The UK state does not give away power easily, and it does not give out prizes for good behaviour either, but if you worry it sufficiently while keeping your nose clean you'll get what you want in the end. Or at least, you'll be promised what you want. A watered-down version of what you want. Often hastily, and in a shaky voice, and in direct contradiction of earlier dismissals.
Mac, it's a shame you can't vote, but I'd say you've done your bit here anyway.
Let's see how it turns out at the polls. Hearing very good things from canvass results - 2 to 1 for Yes in most of the areas near me. Whether that translates to the overall vote remains to be seen.
Hell of a turnout in George Square tonight - Councillor Matheson won't be happy. He must feel like Ceaușescu in his palace, just before the end. Let's make Gordon Brown a
real ex-politician. Let's make David Cameron an ex-Prime Minister. Let's make Niall Ferguson's revisionist rehabilitations of Empire redundant. Let's make Jim Murphy unemployed. Concurrent with all that (and not wholly unrelated to it) let's make a better country.
Anyway. Onwards and upwards. We were never meant to get here, but here we are.
EDIT: That Better Together spoof reminded me of some of the darker stuff from Limmy's Show (the compulsive cereal eating) - those moments where your brain might not fully get the joke... because it's not a joke, as such... but your subconcious knows exactly what's up.
). There has been the odd angry exchange on the doorsteps, but not much more than what you'd expect during any important political debate.
... but that really does come from both sides.
from thousands of miles away.
