Johnson Says an Independent Scotland Would Risk Losing the Pound

[Denzil_DC]

9. That's for sure, T_i_B.

Today's footage of Johnson in Scotland was galling. Seeing him disrupting these essential workplaces with a vanity visit was the worst sort of pointless pandering. And then there was what he said ...

That aside, one thing Johnson, Rees-Mogg, Gove, most of the Tories and too many of Labour and the Lib Dems don't seem to be able to grasp is that we in Scotland can watch proceedings in Parliament. We can see the arrogant disdain and insults and non-answers and jibes that are directed towards our MPs (and not infrequently at those in Scotland as a whole).

It seems impossible for them to understand that whenever they insult and talk down to our elected representatives, they do the same to us. How thin-skinned we must be to take that personally.

Combined with the ridiculous secrecy around the ineffective and too often belated Westminster COVID response and the stubborn resistance over the past year to working with the devolved administrations to counter it, it should be no surprise that many yearn for a better way.