We put out this video this lunchtime:
This is the transcript:
Latest opinion polls are showing that in both Scotland and Wales, there's a very high chance that pro-independence parties will form the next governments after elections in May 2026.
In Scotland, against all expectations, the SNP is riding high, and with the Greens in that country, they will almost certainly be its next government.
The same is true in Wales, where Plaid Cymru is doing better than it has ever done before in polls in that country, right at the top of the opinion poll and looking as though, again, with Green support, it could form the next administration in that country.
Add in Northern Ireland, where Sinn Féin are, of course, in charge and likely to remain.
So we face the prospect that right across the UK, three of the four countries that make up this supposed United Kingdom will, after May 2026, be governed by parties who wish to leave the Union.
What does that say about the future of the UK?
What does it say about the future of England?
Is it time that England came to terms with the fact that the countries that it now governs from Westminster don't want to be there? They want to be independent countries managing their own affairs in their own right, and it's time for England to go its own way.
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My immediate comment might be is why are English politicians not responding to this and either wondering why The Union is at risk or better still looking at what they can do in a positive way to hold it together
God forbid.
And I tell you, this is not England ‘going it alone’.
This is England effectively being sanctioned and kicked out of its own Union. This is England being rejected by those whom it claims it rules.
Bravo to them I say and woe be to England (say this reluctant Englishman – I wish Dad’s ancestors had stayed in Scotland).
Declaration of interest.
As a Glasgow-born Scot with a Scots-born maternal family and a N Wales father and grandfather lineage, and not a drop of English blood that I know of, I would welcome getting 2 more passports. But of course that also make me vulnerable to deportation from England, after being picked up by Reform UK Ltd.’s ICE Stormtroopers. Would they pay my train fare?
I’ll see you in the departure lounge.