The Union Jack in crisis

Yesterday I took part in THE BIG AERIAL NO in which 5,000 NO supporters formed a human NO in Edinburgh. I held aloft the flag of my country – The Union Jack.

However - It was hung upside down.

When the Union jack is hung upside down, it is a sign of distress.

There has never been a time in its history, of more distress than this. If Scotland votes YES in 2 days’ time, this flag will be no more.

It will no longer be my flag because I will no longer be part of the UK

It will no longer be the flag of the rest of the UK because the Scottish cross of St Andrew will be taken from it – the blue part.

It will be a deceased flag – as deceased as Monty Python’s parrot.

I am full of despair and increasing anger

How dare these people with their crazy dreams of utopia take away from me so much which I hold dear.

They are taking away:-

Two thirds of MY country (England, Northern Ireland and Wales)

All my history from (England, Northern Ireland and Wales)

All my heritage from (England, Northern Ireland and Wales)

The BBC

Music heritage such as The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Dire Straits, Eric Clapton, The Who, Pink Floyd etc and instead be left with Lulu , Rod Stewart and The Bay City Rollers –

And let’s not go into Classical music!

Art heritage such as Constable, Gainsborough, Turner, Reynolds and Millais and instead be left with The Scottish Colourists and the Glasgow boys (actually I think they are great) but what of all those wonderful paintings in the London Galleries that will no longer be mine.

Architecture / places such as London and Bath and all those gorgeous little English villages and churches. I am left with all that is mostly grim and grey and Scottish and inferior and mostly not so old and historical.

The NHS. What will be left to us in Scotland will be inferior. Every year Scots are referred to England to specialised NHS units and expertise not available in Scotland.

The Bank of England - Oh how I will miss you and your financial security.

British Embassies – where will I go when I lose my passport abroad?

My British/UK Passport. When it expires it will be replaced with a lonely Scottish one.

My money which will be converted to a Scottish currency - which will devalue and devalue and devalue and devalue and devalue

Defence – who will protect me when Putin decides to push further into Europe?

Intelligence – who will find out about terrorist plots and stop them

My husband’s pension from a life spent working for The NHS and which at present is paid by a Scottish government pension department. It will be paid in the new Scottish currency for as long as the Scottish government remains solvent – How long will that be?????

Food which will cost more

All my relatives and friends in England Northern Ireland and Wales – we will no longer belong to the same country. We will be foreigners - unbelievable

Etc etc etc

It is all just unthinkable and yet it is going to happen – in just 2 days’ time – unless a miracle happens