RANDOM THOUGHTS

Crikey. Did I miss that?

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Today Anas Sarwar will be making a speech in which he will say that the way forward is a legally binding duty of cooperation between the Scottish and British governments.

Odd, I thought.

SIR Keir, his boss, has said that he will not talk to the SNP. In fairness, I’m not sure that the SNP would be prepared to work with Labour and given their reluctance to involve themselves in matters concerning other countries in the UK, a coalition would be most unlikely. As silly as the coalition between Theresa May’s Conservatives and the DUP, which cost taxpayers upwards of a billion pounds..

Now I know that Mr Starmer isn’t in government anywhere, but I assume that Mr Sarwar would like him to be.

What, I wonder, would that mean? In the current situation the British government does, for once, “hold all the cards”. They can change the law.

They did over the realignment of matters which used to be in the hands of the EU, but devolved to Scotland, and they always have a majority in the Westminster parliament lower house… and of course, in the Upper House there are no SNP members. That’s before you go down the road of the Privy Council.

Clearly, there is little chance of Edinburgh and London cooperating over the question of independence.

After all, Mr Johnson has said no. The much vaunted “will of the British people” seems to be less important when it’s only the will of the “North British People”.

So, impasse. And this, despite the two voting systems in our two countries electing majorities for independence, there will be no referendum, says Boris Johnson.

I’m not sure how cooperative Scotland can be in that case.

And, if he means between a Scottish between them and a future Labour government in Britain, it’s hard to see how that could work when his boss won’t talk to the Scottish government.

Maybe a Labour supporter could explain how that would work, because it’s beating me.

While Anas is explaining stuff to us, it might like to have a go at this…

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Very Liberal.

And then there’s Alex Cole FU-Marie Hamilton, who says that even if we go into a General Election with just one policy, Referendum, and win, it should still be denied.

Because he “leads” the “LIBERAL” “DEMOCRAT” faction in the Scottish parliament. You really couldn’t make it up.

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Celtic Cousins kicking off.