Apologies

If you have seen some of my recent posts before I’m just retrieving them from Blogger.

Scottish devolution.

In my mind if the Scots eventually manage to enable a breakaway from the the rest of the UK, it throws up some interesting points.

With regards to finance. If the extra funding which the UK in general provides Scotland is removed, how does Scotland make up the shortfall? As taxes are high in general, how will the Scottish parliament raise the extra revenue. Of course they could raise Income tax, NI, or VAT. Then of course they could re-instate prescription charges, University fees, and anything else they have hoodwinked their electorate with, to win the election. No win situation to me.

Defence. Providing that they want any of course. If they don’t then we just invade them and take Scotland back for free.

If they do in itself raises interesting points. How much do they want? Do they want a bluewater navy or just a coastal patrol force? What sort of Army and Airforce do they think they’ll need?

Of course if they want anything at all in regards to Armed forces, they’re going to have to build a complete Ministry of Defence from scratch.  That won’t be cheap.

Nukes. What happens to the Nuclear submarine base at Faslane? Will they rent it out to the English/Welsh/ Irish?

Now this is not the main thrust of the post. The above is just some of the horrendous nuts and bolts stuff that will have to be addressed after Scotland breaks away.

My point that I’m now making is that the UK is made up of a joining of two kingdoms to make a “United Kingdom”.

By the start of the 16th century, the number of states in Great Britain had been reduced to two: the Kingdom of England (which included Wales and controlled Ireland) and the Kingdom of Scotland. The Union of Crowns in 1603, the accidental consequence of a royal marriage one hundred years earlier, united the kingdoms in a personal union, though full political union in the form of the Kingdom of Great Britain required a Treaty of Union in 1706 and Acts of Union in 1707 (to ratify the Treaty). A further Act of Union in 1800 included Ireland in the Union to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

Surely if Scotland left then we could no longer be called the “United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland” anymore. Just the “Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland”.

In that case, as we have signed up to the European Union as the UK as a whole, would webe obligated to leave the union and re-sign under a new name?

After all. If you changed your name, your bank would expect you to close your account and open one with your new name.

Just a thought.

What have I done?

The day I revamp my blog. Blogger crashes.

It wasn’t me guv.

Cruise anyone?

They really should fix those stabilisers.

Super Injunction song.

Do not press the play button.

You’ll be arrested if you listen to it………………….

Over or under? That is the question.

I’ve just been undertaking some research which will probably get me the Nobel Peace prize this year. Now you might think that FE has worked out how to make Nuclear Fusion work, or invented the ultimate paperclip.

No. It’s more important than that. It’s the meaning of Life, a small room, and the humble toilet roll.

My life’s work is done.

Show time

I’m off to the theatre to see the Wizard of Oz.

Traitors.

Wi Fi in the wild endangered.

God give me strength when I read ramblings of this sort. Written by that silly tart, Louise Gray, in the Tubbygraph.

Stupidities like this.

The signal from wi-fi cannot travel as far when temperatures increase. Heavy downfalls of rain also affect the ability of the device to capture a signal.

For a start the majority of Wi Fi is internal. Ie, in peoples homes. Mine’s about 20 ft from this computer and I can use my laptop from the other end of the garden. Why I would need to use it in the vegetable patch is beyond me?

Regards rain Louise, has your house not got a roof?

At least the government are just starting to maybe realise that they may have made a mistake about building Bird Mincers Wind turbines.

Ministers are backing the construction of too many expensive offshore wind farms too quickly, senior advisers on green policy warn today.

In a report into the future of energy, the influential Committee on Climate Change calls on the Government to scale back plans to build thousands of turbines off the coast of Britain.

I would like to think that this might be a turning point. But when you have a majority of scientifically illiterate politicians gracing the green benches, then is there any hope for us ?

If I had my way the words green, renewable, carbon, wind turbine, and politician would be expunged from the dictionary.

Burn

Nuff said.