Oh ! no,no,no . . .Yes
Remember the comedy program " The vicar of dibly ".
The past few days have been like that in media world. The frenzy of the referendum in Scotland has evoked all sort of debates and all kind of speculations about what will be the outcome and the effects of it.
It is ironic that until very recently this whole issue of Scottish referendum has been pushed to the back burner by the all major political parties.
And now !
They are all acting as if they have woken up from a bad dream and trying effect a change that they all want.
One may ask whose fault that the situation has arose that all three main party leaders had to put their differences aside and rush to Scotland to keep the unity of the United Kingdom.
Some may put the blame on our Prime Minister`s doorstep since he is the one who agreed to allow this referendum to be held.
The other mistake some may point out is that while Alex Salmond asked that the people should be asked to questions on the ballot paper our PM steadfastly refused and said that there will be only one choice available on the ballot paper.
But how far is that true ?
The plain fact is does the Scottish public has the will to go it alone ? And has there been all the necessary economic calculations has been done ?
Well I for one among the population that was ignorant to the real effects this voting saga going to cause until I saw a recent program by Andrew Neil.
What a revelation it was !
Yes whether the Scottish public votes "YES" or "NO" this is going to make a permanent change in lot of aspects.
Yes now all the parties are talking about great devolution of powers from West Minister to Scotland . In reality it means that Wales and Northern Ireland will expect the same degree of devolution for themselves.
Where would be the poor "England" population will be left ?
At the mercy of others I suppose, as usual.
Times are changing . What was unthinkable few years ago is becoming a reality now. There are two ways we could react to this.
We could be dragged into the changed environment kicking and screaming or
We could just accept the change and make that work to our advantage.
It is a waiting game is it not ?
But who are the "game changers" ?
Sakthi Sakthithasan
Remember the comedy program " The vicar of dibly ".
The past few days have been like that in media world. The frenzy of the referendum in Scotland has evoked all sort of debates and all kind of speculations about what will be the outcome and the effects of it.
It is ironic that until very recently this whole issue of Scottish referendum has been pushed to the back burner by the all major political parties.
And now !
They are all acting as if they have woken up from a bad dream and trying effect a change that they all want.
One may ask whose fault that the situation has arose that all three main party leaders had to put their differences aside and rush to Scotland to keep the unity of the United Kingdom.
Some may put the blame on our Prime Minister`s doorstep since he is the one who agreed to allow this referendum to be held.
The other mistake some may point out is that while Alex Salmond asked that the people should be asked to questions on the ballot paper our PM steadfastly refused and said that there will be only one choice available on the ballot paper.
But how far is that true ?
The plain fact is does the Scottish public has the will to go it alone ? And has there been all the necessary economic calculations has been done ?
Well I for one among the population that was ignorant to the real effects this voting saga going to cause until I saw a recent program by Andrew Neil.
What a revelation it was !
Yes whether the Scottish public votes "YES" or "NO" this is going to make a permanent change in lot of aspects.
Yes now all the parties are talking about great devolution of powers from West Minister to Scotland . In reality it means that Wales and Northern Ireland will expect the same degree of devolution for themselves.
Where would be the poor "England" population will be left ?
At the mercy of others I suppose, as usual.
Times are changing . What was unthinkable few years ago is becoming a reality now. There are two ways we could react to this.
We could be dragged into the changed environment kicking and screaming or
We could just accept the change and make that work to our advantage.
It is a waiting game is it not ?
But who are the "game changers" ?
Sakthi Sakthithasan
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