Scotland voted to remain in the UK, which disappointed me a bit because I keep hoping the Great Celtic Uprising will happen while I’m at least around to watch it on the TeeVee and cheer it on. I do hope that at least the vote was enough of a nail-biter to have given David Cameron something to think about.
The Mahablog
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If independence had passed, rest assured Cameron would have blamed it on the decline of the family.
If Scotland left, that would have kilt the United Kingdom.
“that would have kilt the United Kingdom”
Boooooooooo!
joan,
And our Reich-Wingers would have blamed Obama!
They’ll get devo-max instead. So be patient.
If Scotland had left, it would have been a tam shame.
Well, we can allow the Laird of the Loch to celebrate today with a wee dram of the malt, can’t we?
Oh c’mon maha!
It wasn’t THAT bad a pun, was it?
Not every joke works…
gulag…Maybe the joke about McGregor the dock builder would get a more appreciative response.
I’m not sure what the Cameron effect is on this entirely, but my understanding of the situation is that the Scottish Independence is essentially the same sort of ridiculously spoiled children that make up the various deep red enclaves of purple/blue states who think their town of 5,000 people should be able to break off and form a new state.
Brien Jackson — You’ve got it backward. It’s more like what would happen if Washington were controlled by the Tea Party and the blue states tried to separate to save themselves. Scotland is much more pro-labor and progressive than England, and Tory governments keep forcing austerity measures on them they don’t want. And David Cameron is an asshole. I heard at least one English voter express relief yesterday because without the Scottish vote, the Tories would be even more powerful and would run what was left of the UK into the ground even faster than they’re doing it already.