Go for Scottish independence.
Let him have his referendum, Mr Cameron. You know that it is in the interests of both England and the Conservative Party, which is now clearly irrelevant in all the nations of the Kingdom other than England. Not your fault, Dave. The tide of history is moving against traditional British Unionism. You just happen to be in post as the tide turns. Accept it and start shaping the future of England.
I used to be an English Conservative Unionist but no longer. I am, henceforth, an English Conservative.
Let us have a treaty of federation under the Crown. Four nations: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
All right, a caveat: Wales being too weak to sustain itself, I suppose we must accept England+Wales which, despite the traditional Taffy anti-Englishness, would be tolerable: we have put up with the Welshness of the Welsh for a thousand years, an irritating but venerable tradition with a biliously sentimental Red streak running through the beleaguered, occasionally incendiary, ultra-traditionalist, quasi-Amish minority in the vah-lees beyond the Marches. Yes, the Welsh can stay shackled to England and pretend they rule themselves. England won't
care mind.
But Scotland, no. England can no longer afford to keep Scotland in the style to which she has become accustomed, which is to say dependent on the English taxpayer. Scotland has enjoyed the luxury of being England's kept woman while its people dislike us, ever more intensely and noisily. Well, so be it.
Let Scotland strike out alone. Let its Parliament try to wean its hundreds of thousands of unemployable welfare slaves and
Westminster-government employees - Gordon Brown's children, assiduously cultivated at England's expense - off England's fiscal teat. Let Scotland's political class transform workshy and featherbedded Scots into hardnosed Swiss and Icelandic entrepreneurs, to make Scotland's fortune. Let Scotland's taxpayers, personal and corporate, however few of them there may be, fund Independent Scotland themselves. If Scotland needs money, she can apply to Brussels.
Oh - and that oil. Most of it is England's. Check where, at sea, the border runs.
The most exquisite consequence of Scottish independence would be the total elimination of the Labour Party from my - and the Conservative Party's - political landscape, as far as the horizon and beyond.
In Scotland, the Nationalists have crushed the arrogant and complacent Labour Party, not least its former leader and our former Prime Minister. Gordon Brown's MSP is now a Nat.
(I am trying very hard not to salivate as I type.)
Until recently, Labour owned Scotland but last night Scotland finally told Labour to bugger off and stop taking it for granted. Labour seemed on course to win. Jonah Brown, English Balls and The Wrong Brother tramped the streets of Labour's very heartland handing out Labour leaflets and suddenly the sky was falling. The Nats, led from the front by a genuine political leader (an endangered species in Scotland) and with Liberal Democrat wool removed from voters' eyes, upended the entire Scottish polity.
Those Scottish votes which enabled Gordon Brown and his Clydeside mafia bosses to rule England as well as Scotland are now denied to the Labour Party. Scotland is no longer Labour's powerbase.
England is a majority-conservative nation and at the next general election will be a majority-Conservative nation.
2010 election result
Only with bought-and-paid-for
Scottish Labour votes was England polluted by Labour, its industry killed off by Labour's union paymasters who have, amazingly and assisted by subtle Marxist 'political analysts' and the BBC, persuaded many otherwise-sensible people to blame Margaret Thatcher for
their dirty work.
Only with bought-and-paid-for
Scottish Labour votes has England's social fabric been seriously and deliberately damaged by uncontrolled immigration engineered with cold-blooded determination by a Scot-dominated Labour government of the United Kingdom.
Government as a United Kingdom, wished upon us, let us remember,
by the Scots at the end of the 17th century, once benefited both of us. More recently, not so much. In truth,
very recently, moral disaster for both. Enough is enough.
So go ahead, Mr Salmond. Have your referendum. You could only be stopped if Prime Minister Cameron and the Queen join forces against you, which is not going to happen. Independence is your for the taking. Take it. Take this tide of opportunity at its flood. Please.
We'll miss your fine Regiments, but not much else.
And as England recovers from Scotland's now less than tender embrace, she can also begin easing her way out of the European Union, repatriating her dignity, sovereignty and treasure, and leaving the road to Brussels clear for Scotland to make her presence felt in the councils of the EU superstate and enjoy what will then pass for 'independent' nationhood.
