Scotland In The News

Yesterday was my day off and I woke in a bit of a blurred vision daze hangover, switched on the kettle then had a flick around the five TV channels that I have (yes, I am the only person that I know who still has analogue TV. I know you can pick up a digital box for about fifteen quid but I’ve just never picked one up when I’m out and about). I came across the turgid stench that is The Wright Show. I can usually only muster a minute of it and that was all I managed today. Mathew Wright wasn’t hosting it but it was still just as bad. Instead some Scottish woman was the host with guests Joe Mangle from Neighbours, some yokel dressed like Crocodile Dundee and a woman I don’t remember much about. The topic in question was ‘Should Scotland have independence?’ The guests were clearly out of their depth and after Joe Mangle mangled his clueless answer I switched it off. Next time that programme darkens my screen it won’t last a second.
Apparently two thirds of Scotland would like independence. They might say this now but when it all gets broken down and they realise the downfalls of independence nowhere near two thirds will vote for it in a referendum. For a start if Scottish people still think they’ll get free prescriptions and free higher education. Yeah right, forget it.
Scotland has also been in the news about the rise in sectarianism. Celtic and Rangers can’t play a game of football without a fight breaking out or the manager getting sent a parcel bomb or a fan running onto the pitch to clock him one. What’s wrong with these people?
I went out with an Irish mate of mine on St Patrick’s Day. He brought along a Northern Irish bloke who he works with. Within ten minutes of meeting him he let it be known that he was on the catholic side of Northern Ireland. As the evening wore on and more drinks were drunk he began to shout out anti-protestant songs. I said to him “What are you singing about? Catholic, Protestant its all the same, don’t get so uptight about something that doesn’t matter. It’s the same God.” I new that it would antagonise him, and it did.
Its just hating for the sake of hating. The Scottish Football Association will pussy foot around the issue because there is no other way. But really they want to say ‘Let history be history and grow up you idiots.’