Scotland the not very Brave?

After decades of neglect G K Chesterton has come back into favour and his words come back to me from schooldays:

Smile at us, pay us, pass us but do not quite forget;

For we are the people of England, that never has spoken yet.

Well we are not to be given a chance to speak and are most likely to see Scotland sail away from the United Kingdom with a compromise of partial  independance - we are good at compromise - as we retain some powers that are too expensive for a small country.  Defence springs to mind and this has become specially expensive for us since Tony invaded Iraq and Dave and the schoolboys carried on the bad work of strutting around on the world stage instead of staying at home to save ourselves from financial ruin.  But then Foreign affairs have always been more fun than Home affairs where people keep on asking awkward questions.  The Scots' position is quite simple - they want to eat their haggis and have it too.  Let's hope they don't get away with it.  A|nd so to sleep