Thursday, June 05, 2014

No you can't

I wonder how roles are allocated to represent the Queen.  Yesterday, Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, got to go on a jaunt to Hanover, where the city museum was celebrating the 300th anniversary of the accession of the Hanoverian George I to the throne of the UK; later he had a jolly at a Birthday Party on behalf of the Queen.  Prince Edward, the Duke of Wessex (and when his dad pops his clogs, the Duke of Edinburgh), had a gala day on 4th June, flying out to Warsaw for the Twenty-Five Years of Freedom celebrations, where in addition to listening to an address by the current Polish president, he got served lunch, tea and dinner of the highest calibre (natch).  Princess Anne, the Princess Royal, got to tour four lighthouses in the Shetlands - she may protest she's a patron, but we all know how this works.
Of course, the Hanoverians always knew a united island.  Not since Queen Anne (whom the lawyers mourned) was there the question of two political entities, if under one crown.  The Guardian really seems to be gunning for an independent Scotland on the mistaken belief that it will signal the final end of empire, irrespective of the fact that it was mainly Scots who built the empire and a breakaway would lead to the dominance of Tory governments in England in a way that centre-left administrations used to dominate Sweden (for decades).  Overall though, most rational observers from the Bank of England, to NATO, to the EU and now, with Barack Obama's intervention favouring a 'No' vote, the USA, want Scotland to remain in the UK.  Clearly peeved at the adoption of his slogan, 'Yes, we can', Obama knew what he was doing, further confirmed by saying it was up to the Scottish voters, not once, but twice.
If there is a majority for going there own way, you can bet that Scotland would be excluded from the Five Eyes (USA, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand) surveillance system and might even have it used against them.  Further, after the dissolution of most of the British Empire on her watch, I'm sure the Queen (and those who represent her) will not want the division of this home island to boot.  With three months to go and the Glasgow Commonwealth Games to be factored in to the equation, Scottish independence is not probable but it is possible.  It's just the media to keep things interesting that makes it sounds like the polls are 60%-40% in favour of independence instead of against.

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