People have complained that I’ve been spending too much time promoting the Alba Party and not enough time attacking unionists, so I’ll just take a brief interlude to nod towards the barking mad story in the Telegraph suggesting that there might be a ‘Union Island’ midway across any bridge or tunnel connecting Scotland with Northern Ireland. The idea is that a small maternity unit will be constructed on the “island” to give patriotic expectant mums the opportunity to give birth to babies who are “not Scottish, not Northern Irish, not English, not Welsh, but quite simply British”.
You really have to worry about people who think it’s normal to say that sort of thing out loud. Years of talking to themselves about “Our Precious Union” have caused them to lose touch with reality. Rory Stewart’s madcap “let’s link hands on top of Hadrian’s Wall to raise Union awareness” plan suddenly looks quite sane and restrained in retrospect.
