MORE RANDOM THOUGHTS

Remember when they told us there was no border between Scotland and England? Hmmm it must have run away to Kent!

Now, off and write that on the side of a bus. English drivers used to have access to 27 EU countries, now they can’t even get into Kent. Still… Blue Passports, eh.

Hope they didn’t have to go through Kent. I’ve heard there are tailbacks for 2 days…

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The recently appointed branch supervisor of the Con Scotland brigade has been wittering ill-informedly about education in the last few days. He’s bemoaned falling standards in Scotland’s schools, apparently unaware of how well Scotland’s students do at getting into higher education, particularly compared with just over the border where his government runs the show.

He’s also been talking about the importance of free school meals, seemingly having forgotten that he voted against them in his parliament when they were debated for England.

Scotland’s schools were once the envy of the world. Now, too many pupils see their ambitions dashed by a system stacked against them.

We should spend the best part of the next six years restoring local schools and finally making education our country’s top priority. pic.twitter.com/X2nlTva6Ar

— Douglas Ross MP (@Douglas4Moray) September 20, 2020

I imagine that this was Mr Cummings’ idea because I’m pretty sure Dross doesn’t know what an idea is. Anyway, he’s talked a lot about it and even made a nauseating video about it as you can see.

He really is an unappealing candidate for FM.

Compassionate Conservatism, eh? Still, we must never forget the Blue Passports. Incidentally whatever happened to dear old Esther?

Derek sent me this pic with the following annotation, taken from his blog. (I imagine we all know about Kevin the dog food salesman’s analysis of GERS…) Well, Derek has his own and here it is.

A: Amount of Scottish Deficit.

B: Amount that Scotland borrows from the Uk standing on a scaffold with both hands tied behind its back and its head in a noose.

C: Amount that Scotland could borrow in the open market so that it could elect the government of its choice, run its economy as it saw fit and prosper like a normal country.

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And lest, in all this misery, we forget… at the end of all this Brexit hassle, this is what we shall have achieved:

Oh sorry, wait… Something went wrong

Here you are… that’s better:

What’s that you say, Munguin?

Oh… Munguin says we might be able to use that one to get into Kent (although not out of it), but if we still want to be a part of the world, we will need one approved by foreigners, in Canada… that can be read by internationally recognised electronic readers from Kalaallit Nunaat to Kenya and beyond.

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