I think the Tories have just made a (logical) bet that a mix of technology and behavioural changes people want to make anyway will get us there with limited pain. That being the case, we might as wel… (View Post)

Lol! You’re retrospectively saying they aren’t proper Scots? I mean, we’ll happily take all their achievements. You’ll be left with... erm... Burns and Robert the Bruce. Edit: Fleming, Smith, Hume, J… (View Post)

It’s like a once skilled boxer seeking just one more fight when he keeps getting his head kicked in, isn’t it? (View Post)

Yes. Also add in the pure politics of it. If you’re the SNP you can create the expense and disruption of a referendum once or twice and lose it, and be forgiven. Keep doing it and the voters will pun… (View Post)

Sigh.... The media being lazy as ever and reaching for any analogy it can remember. In what way is their relationship to date anything like early Blair/Brown? Answer? It isn’t. (View Post)