At last! An Englishman speaks for the English

"The English, especially, will wonder why our leaders feel the need to suck up to a nation that sponged off our largesse consistently over the past 307 years, yet is still not satisfied... If [the Scots] really do feel the English are so toxic for them, there is nothing left to say except: clear off, good riddance and tell us where to send the bill for more than 300 years of subsidy." Simon Heffer.

SINCE THE POLLS have narrowed to favour the Yes vote on Scottish independence, our politicians and commentators south of the boarder are becoming more and more alarmed with the prospect of Scotland going it alone. They have become stricken with the nail biting habit, caused through utter confusion; and gives one the impression of suffering en-mass from panic attacks (brown paper bags appear to be in plentiful supply to relive the symptoms). Talk of devo max, which gives Scotland independence in all but name, are now being shamefully used in one final desperate attempt to keep Scotland part of the Union.

           

             It is embarrassing to watch our nation's leaders plead on our behalf, when we never asked them to. I support the Union but would not humiliate myself or my people, were I a politician travelling north, as our contemporary 'Three Stooges' intend doing in one last supplication to the people of Scotland.

            

             I have always disliked the social democratic triumphret that now oversees this nation's destiny, long before Scottish independence became an issue – but I now despise them. The three mediocrities are about to shamefully promise the Scots devo max; the Danegeld of the  modern era.

            

            On the day when the saltier flies over Downing Street our three party leaders are taking themselves north, with as much contrition as their various attendees could persuade them into showing before the Scottish people.

 SIMON HEFFER is a much needed counter- weight to the establishment, who is prepared to do whatever is needed to keep the Union safe. He writes with the same passion and anger many English people feel, but are without representation within the media when it comes to Scottish independence, and are without a voice as Heffer himself points out in his Daily Mail piece.

            

           When earlier in this campaign, the No vote were some 20 points ahead, the establishment carried on as usual. Complacency set in (as is often the case among various entrenched establishments at national, local or even club level). Our leaders attended to their summer holidays without any thought for the Union; the preservation of which, they believed was already safely in the bag.

            

            I will agree with the Scottish Yes voters on one thing; the heads of the London based political class, which has Cameron, Milliband, and (oh dear) Clegg at their head, are to be despised as they are throughout much of England, which is why Ukip are slowly making their advance into more and more English constituencies. More and more of the English people are becoming ever more dissatisfied (like the Scots) with our Metropolitan elite hunkered down and cut off from the rest of the country in London.

            

            The time may have now come for Scotland to go it alone, and as a result, the time has come for the English establishment, from the monarchy down, to accept their fate. Even if Wales and Northern Ireland chose to follow suit in the years to come; we in England must adapt and not lose our confidence; for it would prove fatal to our nation and its unconquerable history.

            

            We as an English people must never go begging cap in hand to cling to any form of alliance, however many centuries it has been in existence. If it is meant to be, then let it go; forget about it: it is the past; it has been written that the past is a foreign country - they do things differently there.

WE MUST ALWAYS welcome the best from Scotland to south of the border if they wish to come. But If they need a passport, visa, and work permit to do so, then it will be the fault of the architect of Scottish independence, and not the English for once, who are to blame.

            

             The English taxpayer, as Simon Heffer has pointed out, has bent over backwards to keep the Union solvent. According to Heffer, who has sourced his figures from the Treasury; Scotland currently receives £17.6 billion a year in subsides from the English exchequer.

            

             Working on the assumption that this figure is correct; then Scotland needs us more than we need them. Just think what such an amount would do over time to our English deficit as well as what it can provide for our nation's defences and our boarder controls. And what if we were to abandoned our Ministry for Overseas Aid, which costs us a further £10 billion a year? We, the English must look to ourselves, and as far as overseas aid is concerned, act upon an ad hock basis whereby taxpayers money should only be forthcoming when natural disasters occur.

            

            If the UK is to be splintered off without any power to prevent it by the English; then England will stand alone, prosperous in the knowledge that, as a nation firmly believing in the kind of fully functioning free market economy with  minimal state interference, that history has long since proven to be the only means to bring prosperity to a nation; then let us go it alone.

            

            Let, if she wishes, Scotland determine her own destiny. Simon Heffer is right: "Now that humiliation appears less certain, and the arrogant dishonesty is so overwhelming, it is time to tell him[Salmond] what some of us [English] really think." There now follows an extended quote from Heffer's piece in today's Daily Mail which we are informed the Mail is in disagreement with: "The sight of English politicians — and Scottish Unionist ones — bending over backwards to encourage the Scots to stay in the UK is as pitiful as it is outrageous. And it has inevitably proven counter-productive.

            The Scots absurdly misrepresent us as oppressors and leeches who have taken ‘their’ oil money since the 1970s, when the opposite is largely true.

Scotland has boomed under the Union, Scots have thrived in the land of opportunity that is England, and much of the North Sea’s oil was extracted only because of English investment."

             

            Scotland must either remain part of the union or divest itself from it. I, as an Englishman, is fed up with Scotland's perpetual rebuke to us south of the boarder. Let them go it alone; let them survive in accordance with their whish for independence. I am fed up, as an Englishman, having to bow-down to the needs of the Scots who hate us English in any event, whether they remain part of the Union or not.