Scots not consumed by nationalistic fervour know they would be heading for catastrophe if they voted out
Spare a thought for the majority of Scots Nicola Sturgeon does NOT represent as she demands a new referendum
English patience
ENGLAND’S patience with Scotland may be wearing thin. But spare a thought for the majority of Scots Nicola Sturgeon does NOT represent as she demands a new referendum.
It is true the SNP polled roughly half the votes at the 2015 and 2016 elections. But its sole aim, an independent Scotland, was comfortably defeated in 2014.
Ms Sturgeon’s government is failing in key areas and its time is running out.
Calling for a new vote, pretending Brexit makes it essential, betrays SNP weakness and even panic. It knows it may never get a better chance.
Scots not consumed by nationalistic fervour know they would be heading for catastrophe if they voted out. With the oil price low, and stripped of UK funding, their living standards would plummet.
The EU would never welcome back a country in such a state.
Brexit has risks for the UK, but a potentially golden future. Scotland going it alone has only grim certainties.
Many are sick of Ms Sturgeon’s griping.
But we should feel for the millions who back the union — yet could be dragged towards ruin by irresponsible SNP games.
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Fortune blown
DAY in, day out we hear how the NHS is on its knees, starved of money.
Patients die in pain because under-funded district nurses have to ration care, a top think tank says.
Yet when the North Bristol Trust needed two fans it bought Dysons from John Lewis for £720. And that’s the tip of an iceberg. Nationwide, the NHS bill for Dyson fans approaches £1.2million.
Dyson is a great British firm and we like their stuff too. But it’s pricey. John Lewis can be too. Fans can be bought for a few quid.
Why is a single health service purchasing manager signing off on such extravagances — let alone so many?
The NHS cannot blow a fortune on state-of-the-art gadgets while credibly claiming the Tories are running it into the ground.
Brexit bounce
IT is great to see our firms rising above the Remainers’ gloom as Theresa May prepares to hand in our notice to Brussels.
A boom in corporate mergers and buy-ups in the first quarter of the year may mean little to most people. But it represents a huge vote of confidence in our future as a global trading nation.
These deals are not down to the Pound’s fall, either. Most buyers were other British companies.
The big banks do seem more jittery. But, as London mayor Sadiq Khan says, the EU won’t be the ones cashing in.
Any staff leaving London are more likely to end up in New York or Dubai than Paris or Frankfurt.
EU negotiators hoping to play hardball to lure City high-fliers are kidding themselves.