Scotland will vote No even after Obama
told her to.
That is a whole other level of
independent-mindedness.
If Obama told some people to do anything,
then they would do the opposite out of spite or pique.
But not the Scots. They really are making up their own minds.
But not the Scots. They really are making up their own minds.
Brilliant.
ReplyDeletePeter Hitchens rightly says today he wouldn't blame the Scots for voting Yes just to tell foreign politicians to stay out of their business.
ReplyDeleteFollowing Obama's candid remarks on our EU membership, we should vote to leave the EU for the same reason
"What part of "national sovereignty" does Mr Obama not understand? asks Peter Hitchens.
No recent American President has ever believed in it for anyone but themselves.
It would be understandable, but it would be childish. The Scots are just going to ignore Obama completely, as is far more sensible. And vote No, as if he had never spoken.
ReplyDeleteThey may ignore Obama but they won't and haven't ignored the attempted blackmail and threats from Westminster.
ReplyDeleteI've seldom seen anyone so badly misjudge the character of the British.
Free people just don't put up with being blackmailed by their rulers.
They're gone now.
"Blackmail and threats"? You mean statements of cold, factual reality? But you may be right that even those will have as little impact as Obama's intervention. Just as there would have been a No vote with that, so there would have been a No vote without them, either.
ReplyDeleteNo, I mean blackmail-and lies.
ReplyDeleteThe Scottish put in more than they take out of the Union. It's a lie.
Supporters of the Union all agree that the No campaign made a disastrous mistake focusing on financial threats.
You were wrong on the European elections.
You're wrong on this, too.
When was I wrong about the European Elections?
ReplyDeleteI mean, apart from when I said that no one would care about the results after about a week or so, which has turned out to have been perfectly correct?
This referendum has over since before it began. Like next year's General Election, in fact.
There is no way that Scotland is going to vote Yes. And there is no way that either of the current Coalition parties is going to be in government in a year's time.
As, in both cases, everyone has always known.