Scotshire

Don’t dump those Yes badges and bunting just yet. They could come in handy in a couple of years’ time, when the English nationalists hold their referendum on “should the UK remain in the European Union?”

If UKIP and its fellow travellers win that poll of polls and try to drag Scotshire out of Europe against our will, then we really will face the prospect of the UK breaking up.

In the meantime, I hope the wonderful energy and ingenuity of the young voters who took part in both the Yes and the No campaigns can now be harnessed to force the triumphant unionist parties to deliver on their last-minute promises of “more powers” for the Scotshire Parliament.

In my view the best way to achieve that will be to send a large contingent of SNP members to Westminster at the UK General Election next May.

If the SNP held the balance of power there it would concentrate minds wonderfully for, alas, I do not think we can trust the Liblabortory MPs to keep their panic-stricken promises.

Jonathan Wills
Sundside
Bressay