The basket case

*sarcasm alert*

Maybe it's time for us to fess up: Scotland is a basket case.

If it's not failing hospitals, it's failing schools. Theresa May says (admittedly contrary to the views of economists) that the Scottish economy is doing worse than that of the UK. We're such a basket case, we have to be subsidised by the UK government. Aren't they good to us?

We're obviously incapable of running our own affairs, so useless that Westminster has had to appoint an overseer with a brand spanking new building in Edinburgh to prop us up. We'll pay for the building, of course - and the 3,000 civil servants who are going to be working there. But we won't mind, because we need to be looked after by the nanny state. Don't we?

Now it's drugs.

We have known for 3 decades that drugs are making a mess of some of the poorest areas of Scotland. But we also know that drugs are a 'reserved' matter: Westminster decides drugs policy and rejects any attempts by the Scottish government to change anything - like, by introducing clean drug rooms. Not that you'll hear that mentioned by the UK government or its friends at the BBC.

Makes you wonder why the UK want to hang on to us if we're such a liability. Let me think...

I've stopped worrying about the cak that comes out of the mouths of Westminster Tories. In fact, I would really like it if they would pile on the insults. Every time they insult us, another few people decide: That's it! Time to vote to leave the UK.