A fresh start
Sep. 19th, 2014 06:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rich_jackoI cannot overstate how happy and relieved I am that Scotland has decided to stay with us in this amazing, mad, beautiful, old Union of ours. Forget what happened back in 1707; the reason we now have a United Kingdom at all is thanks to tonight's result.
I hadn't realised quite how nervous I was about the outcome. I've not had much sleep tonight. I woke up half a dozen times and had to go check the latest results on the telly. Eventually I just gave up and carried on watching. Confirmation came at 6:08am.
This result may feel like an anticlimax, but it cannot be the end. A 45% vote for independence is a very, very long way from a ringing endorsement of the status quo. There has been an incredible level of interest and engagement in politics on this, not just in Scotland (where there has been a record turnout), but here in England and in Wales and Northern Ireland too. People really do care about what happens to their country, and that is the real win here.
It's now time for politicians to actually make good on their promises, and that means greater devolution for everyone across the UK. It feels like the United Kingdom has been given a second chance this morning. Don't blow it.
Exciting times...
I hadn't realised quite how nervous I was about the outcome. I've not had much sleep tonight. I woke up half a dozen times and had to go check the latest results on the telly. Eventually I just gave up and carried on watching. Confirmation came at 6:08am.
This result may feel like an anticlimax, but it cannot be the end. A 45% vote for independence is a very, very long way from a ringing endorsement of the status quo. There has been an incredible level of interest and engagement in politics on this, not just in Scotland (where there has been a record turnout), but here in England and in Wales and Northern Ireland too. People really do care about what happens to their country, and that is the real win here.
It's now time for politicians to actually make good on their promises, and that means greater devolution for everyone across the UK. It feels like the United Kingdom has been given a second chance this morning. Don't blow it.
Exciting times...
