Rudderless and leaderless

UK in post- referendum mess

There can be no doubt the “immigration issue” was a deciding factor in last week’sreferendum.

But not in Scotland – and it’s simply because immigration here has never been an issue.

I’m not sure if England’s “issue” is naivety, anxiety, concern, narrow- mindedness, intolerance, prejudice or just outright bigotry.

But until we have lived in their environment, who are we to judge?

The bottom line was a single Referendum question being answered by a thousand contrasting communities.

The choice of “remain” or “leave” was too simple an answer to a hugely complex problem.

And no matter what your political hue, you can’t help asking where is the democracy in a country that voted for one thing... yet is compelled to accept the exact opposite?

I recall a previous Referendum when both Labour and Conservatives told Scots that the only way to stay in Europe was to vote “No”?

Well, we voted “No”... and we’re out of Europe.

And the United Kingdom we agreed to stay “in” no longer exists.

Labour are now rudderless, the Conservatives are now leaderless and the Nats are throwing petrol on an independence bonfire that barely smouldered a week ago.

We’re in a mess – the kind of mess America has been in for years.

Disillusioned by party politics, they’ve fallen under the spell of man who promises the Earth... with a wall at the end of it.

Yes, I told you I’d get back to Donald Trump!

Cast off into uncertainty, the Good Ship UK is now a political vacuum and ripe for a similar leader who promises mines for miners, steel for steelworkers, jobs for the jobless, schools for schoolchildren, homes for the homeless, health care for the... er... unhealthy.

And who will end “immigration issues” at the stroke of a bricklayer’s trowel.

Let’s hope we see him coming.