This is Ian Montgomery writing.....on his wifes Facebook page..because I dont have my own, the reason being...... Im pretty convinced that social media is, for the most part, for twats....like you lot....!!! However, this evening I had a casual scan through the endless and mostly mindless postings below (YES voters excepted) and concluded that this forum needed some informed and intelligent comment.......this is where I come in folks!!! What follows is from me.... and me alone..........OK....!!! Some facts and figures......................... 1) There are 280,000 millionaires in the UK. 260,000 of them live in London. 2) There are currently, and have been for the last twenty years, more construction cranes working in London alone than there are throughout the rest of the UK in its entirety. There is NO recession in the South East! 3) Back in 1988, when the Channel Tunnel project was announced, we were all told that every city in the UK would soon have direct high-speed rail access, via Folkstone, to the continent. Today, twenty years after the Chunnel was commissioned, only one city has high-speed access to the tunnel...............Can you guess what city that is......???? 4) In an average European country the economy of the nation is reflected in the metropolitan demographic. (Big words....Eeeh.............are you still with me?) In short......The largest city is approximately twice as big as the next city, three times as big as the third city and so on....etc......etc.........Check this on Google if you like......Im not lying. But.....In the UK ...London is eight times as big as Birmingham.......sixteen times big as Glasgow and Manchester....and the other cities are nowhere...........so whats happening? 5) Major projects in London now and pending: East/West Crosslink rail, followed by North/South Crosslink rail, followed by new hub airport..............Elsewhere......not much! A whole succession of Governments of differing persuasions have, passively or actively, contributed to the exponential expansion of London, at the expense of the Scotland, the Midlands and the North of England. 6) There are around 4.5 million voters in Scotland and around 20 million in London and the Home Counties..... If Ed Milliband wants to win the general election next year for Labour.....whose votes does he have to chase?................ Tony Blair knew this in 1997 and re-aligned the Labour Party so that he could win............so we ended up with Tory and Tory-Lite!!! and then...Iraq......... Afghanistan.............Banking Meltdown.........etc....etc. Ed Milliband will have no choice but to do the same....think about it..!!! 7) Last week the Unholy Triumverate, in a panic, swore that new powers would be devolved to Scotland.....if only, please please and pretty please....... we voted NO!..................So we did! Points to ponder here:- David Camerons back-benchers are already applying pressure...........Who gave you a mandate for increasing Scottish autonomy they cry....,,,and theyre right.............who did? England demands an input!!!...........probable outcome:- Fewer Scots MPs at Westminster.......Will the Torys care about losing One MP.....................No! As for Milliband......if he becomes PM and augments Scotlands fiscal autonomy, his English back-benchers and grass roots supporters will, as a bargaining condition, demand a cut in Scotlands presence in Westminster.....most of these are Labour MPs........which means he would have to cut his own throat to meet his assurances of last week................A rock and a hard place? 8) In 1969 man put astronauts on the Moon..a wonderful technological achievement......... 45 years later...in the second decade of the twenty first century, UK subjects still toady to a Monarchy and aristocracy. We still have an unelected House of Lords, including Anglican Bishops, who can veto just about anything from the Commons. We still have Dukes, Earls and Lairds who own most of the Scottish land-mass. Our legal courts are populated by judges and lawyers dressed in gowns and wigs from the sixteenth century and who speak in a pseudo-biblical language. Yesterday we were given an opportunity to begin a journey that would leave all that behind and begin a progress into the modern world occupied by our European partners.....We did not take it. And just to compound our decrepitude, this evening , on the television news, I watched Union Flag waving Loyalists attack YES supporters in George Square ........(We all know which football club they support........no surprise there.......utterly pathetic!) What a sad broken little nation we are........Those of you who voted NO did so mostly as a matter of self interest rather than principal. You have no vision.....no imagination and no moral compass. What lies ahead is your legacy......
Posted on: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 20:12:19 +0000