SLIPPERY SALMOND AND SCOTTISH INDEPENDENCE.

Alex Salmond is certainly clever at playing politics, for what is nothing more than the vanity of personal achievement; this not being dissimilar from the farce being perpetrated in Europe regarding the salvaging of the Euro. All this bonhomie, in his endeavour to kick the sassenach into touch, is not unlike a mild dose of National Socialism. Pick an enemy to dislike and instill that feeling of disgust, hoping to get a lot of sheep to follow, metaphorically speaking.

Nationalism in Scotland poked it's head above the parapet at the time North Sea oil began it's comparatively short period of production; there is still plenty more, but very expensive to extract. This may become viable in the future, but right now it will not put the 'jam on the bread'.

The author's view is far different from this use of politics as a game. Politics is something that should benefit the nation as a whole, only spending money as it becomes available, something that any logical household would do. Salmond's view appears to be one of leaving the rest of Britain to pick up the ongoing loans to Royal Bank of Scotland and Halifax Bank of Scotland, presumably until they are back into profit, at which time he'll want them back for their tax revenues.

Salmond is, of course, more like an eel. Should the Scottish electorate run with this fanciful notion, then so be it.


NOT A PENNY OF GB TAX MUST BE LOST.