In these days of political nannies, the gloom has been punctured by reactions to the Government’s call for a ‘oath of allegiance’ to the Queen and her collection of expensive and time-wasting kids.
Scotland was quick to announce unswerving hostility to the idea.
Scottish enterprise minister Jim Mather said it would not be supported north of the border. He told BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland: "We don't support it and neither do the vast majority of parents, teachers and children in Scotland".
Oh good.
One thing about the Scots, they are blissfully keen to kick the English Establishment in the bollocks. The first hint of ‘Thou shalt’ and it’s ‘Scots wae hae’ and the bannocks start flying.
The Scots minister who is certainly enterprising, went on to say “People are hanging together, their loyalty is to each other here in Scotland. Sovereignty still lies with the Scottish people."
That cheered me up so much, I nearly packed my bags for Scotland straight away.
I refuse to swear ‘allegiance’ to a family of royals who are overpaid, overstuffed, and over here: and doing bugger all for us peasants.
I wanted to send the royals back to Hanover, but the Kraut refused the offer. We don't need 'em.
We can have lots of parades, (so very good for tourism) without them.
Think about it; keep the guards changing horses and have a coach driving up and down the Mall, with a card cut-out figure flapping a hand in a regal sort of way.
Keep the tourists happy won’t it?
On state occasions we can have card figures on the Palace balcony, with a flunky pulling strings, (lots of hand flapping)
I don’t suppose anyone will be able to tell the difference.
If any reader has the Gaelic for ‘I’ll do you in the bollocks, you Sassenach gits’ post it here.
Yep.
