Post by jonksy on Feb 17, 2023 6:45:10 GMT
RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Farewell then, Wee Burney - a nation mourns
Conga, conga, conga, Nicola no longer, la-la la-la, la-la la-la. Or as the late, great Geordie darts commentator Sid Waddell observed when Jocky Wilson won the world championship: ‘They’ll be dancing, they’ll be singing, they’ll be Highland flinging in the streets of Kirkcaldy tonight . . .’
Well, if not in Kirkcaldy, then certainly in George Square, Glasgow, where a crowd of jubilant Unionists formed a conga line to dance on the political grave of Nicola Sturgeon. It looked like Winston’s wedding in Still Game.
Waving Union flags and swigging champagne, they partied like it was, er, 1997 — the year New Labour unleashed the separatist monster. Remember how Scottish devolution was supposed to ‘strengthen the Union’? Some of us saw through this Fantasy Island nonsense at the time, warning that it was your starter for ten.
I can recall writing back then that if this cynical stitch-up was designed to bring our nations closer together, then why was SNP leader Alex Salmond sitting alongside Tony Blair at the inaugural press conference, grinning like the cat who got the cream?
Over the past 25 years, first under Salmond and then his protege Sturgeon, the Nats have strained every sinew to rip apart the world’s most successful and longest-enduring constitutional partnership.
Well, if not in Kirkcaldy, then certainly in George Square, Glasgow, where a crowd of jubilant Unionists formed a conga line to dance on the political grave of Nicola Sturgeon. It looked like Winston’s wedding in Still Game.
Waving Union flags and swigging champagne, they partied like it was, er, 1997 — the year New Labour unleashed the separatist monster. Remember how Scottish devolution was supposed to ‘strengthen the Union’? Some of us saw through this Fantasy Island nonsense at the time, warning that it was your starter for ten.
I can recall writing back then that if this cynical stitch-up was designed to bring our nations closer together, then why was SNP leader Alex Salmond sitting alongside Tony Blair at the inaugural press conference, grinning like the cat who got the cream?
Over the past 25 years, first under Salmond and then his protege Sturgeon, the Nats have strained every sinew to rip apart the world’s most successful and longest-enduring constitutional partnership.
