This week saw the service of thanksgiving in Edinburgh for King Charles and Queen Camilla. The UK has already spent well over \u00a3100 million on the State Coronation. Now we are to have more pomp,\u00a0ceremony,\u00a0and dressing in ancient style clothing. He is to be offered the jewels of Scotland and a\u00a0brand-new\u00a0sword at extortionate cost. The jewels and the sword will be kept under lock and key in the castle where the tourists may have the privilege of ogling them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Lord Lyon was asked on Tuesday if it was fair that so much pomp and ceremony should be taking place, at such great cost, when the King\u2019s people were struggling financially. His answer was to the effect that occasions like these can help the people forget their hardships for a small\u00a0period. If you leave out all the drivel of the broadcasters, it\u2019s approximately 2 \u00bd hours. It will probably run late.\u00a0I am struggling to find a source as to the cost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is about time these events, if really required, should be cut to a swearing of the oath. A bit like a civil wedding ceremony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On the other hand,\u00a0Mhairi Black has showed basic common sense. She\u00a0is\u00a0accurate in her description of\u00a0the\u00a0Westminster Halls of government. I have seen people I know change. The poison slowly seeps into\u00a0them,\u00a0and they start to play the game, possibly without realising. It is difficult to heed all your principles when the system, the rules of the game, are designed to force you to play their way. There are so many archaic practices that must be carried out before you can participate in debate, and you can forget getting things changed to favour the Scottish people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Once again, the Boundaries commission has been messing around with the size of constituencies for the UK elections. I haven\u2019t seen the map, but I have seen the branches that will be in the new constituency. We have gone from a very long coastal area, which is already a very long drive to get anywhere, to having an additional 3 rural branches inland and 4 voters from a 4th<\/sup> branch area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The only good thing about all this nonsense is it is causing people to attend meetings and independence supporting events. We got a fair few unionists rattled at our street stall last Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This week saw the service of thanksgiving in Edinburgh for King Charles and Queen Camilla. The UK has already spent well over \u00a3100 million on the State Coronation. Now we are to have more pomp,\u00a0ceremony,\u00a0and dressing in ancient style clothing. He is to be offered the jewels of Scotland and a\u00a0brand-new\u00a0sword at extortionate cost. The jewels and the sword will be kept under lock and key in the castle where the tourists may have the privilege of ogling them. The Lord Lyon was asked on Tuesday if it was fair that so much pomp and ceremony should be taking place, at such great cost, whenRead More →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scotsindependent.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3510"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scotsindependent.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scotsindependent.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scotsindependent.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scotsindependent.scot\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3510"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scotsindependent.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3512,"href":"https:\/\/scotsindependent.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3510\/revisions\/3512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scotsindependent.scot\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scotsindependent.scot\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scotsindependent.scot\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}