Bet the French Blame This On Us, Too
By Mitch Berg
Scots want to split from the UK:
In an ICM poll published this month by the Scotsman newspaper, 51 percent of Scots said they favored independence and 39 percent said they preferred keeping things as they are. Ten percent were undecided.
A poll conducted for the Sunday Times newspaper by YouGov found that 44 percent of Scots favored independence and 42 percent were against. The number favoring independence has nearly doubled since 2000, when YouGov asked the same question.
Rumor has it that parliamentarian Angus MacMcCain is pitching the Brit parliament on the notion of “Independence Campaign Finance Reform” to cure that.
Scotland has enjoyed a kind of quasi-independent status since 1999 after it was granted a parliament of its own and control over most of its internal affairs under a process called devolution. Many analysts thought devolution would put an end to calls for full independence. Instead, a taste of self-governance seems to have left the Scots hungry for more.
The Brits are paying the price for cutting and running in 1783; bit by bit, an ideology hostile to the one on which their government was built at the time has gobbled up most of their land and people; the US, Australia, Canada, India…
