It is official now. After a long march towards a referendum, the climax has turned out to be quite tepid. The Scottish people have voted to stay put with the United Kingdom in what was,a nail biting game of vote counting. A 55:45 percentage tilted the decision to stay back with the United Kingdom.
A result at the end of an arduous 3 year campaign between Yes Scotland and Better Together groups saw a closure this week. As Cameron rightly mentioned," A decision has been made for a lifetime."
Not many are aware of all the political horse trading and the haggling that had gone behind the referendum. Today, that the decision has been made, I shall share some of the conspiracy theories that weighed considerations during this tumultuous time for the Scottish people.
For a long time, there were parallel discussions going on between the Scotland's Shetland district authorities with the Iceland Government. The idea was to propose a referendum to create a union of Scotland and Iceland to create a Scotch on the Rocks Union. There was a significant amount of support towards this cause. Iceland had also conveyed its readiness to be a part of the Union on the Rocks.
Reason for Failure - The "spirited" union did not find takers in the other parts of the country who still wanted to have their whiskey with water.
Another conspiracy theory around the Elixir of Life (Whiskey) or uisge beatha as it was known in the earlier days is that the British Government was paranoid of losing the revenue from Scotch sales if Scotland decided to export it's most famous produce via the North Sea to the rest of the world. A bigger worry was what if Scotland set up an export embargo to England!!!!!
An interesting buzz doing the rounds was that the celebrated Master chef and restaurateur Gordon Ramsay had issued a veiled threat to the powers-that-be : if Scotland were to be separated from the United Kingdom, he would force himself into each and every restaurant in Scotland and do what he does best on TV. This resulted in restaurant owners association issuing a support of Better Together group.
A result at the end of an arduous 3 year campaign between Yes Scotland and Better Together groups saw a closure this week. As Cameron rightly mentioned," A decision has been made for a lifetime."
Not many are aware of all the political horse trading and the haggling that had gone behind the referendum. Today, that the decision has been made, I shall share some of the conspiracy theories that weighed considerations during this tumultuous time for the Scottish people.
For a long time, there were parallel discussions going on between the Scotland's Shetland district authorities with the Iceland Government. The idea was to propose a referendum to create a union of Scotland and Iceland to create a Scotch on the Rocks Union. There was a significant amount of support towards this cause. Iceland had also conveyed its readiness to be a part of the Union on the Rocks.
Another conspiracy theory around the Elixir of Life (Whiskey) or uisge beatha as it was known in the earlier days is that the British Government was paranoid of losing the revenue from Scotch sales if Scotland decided to export it's most famous produce via the North Sea to the rest of the world. A bigger worry was what if Scotland set up an export embargo to England!!!!!
An interesting buzz doing the rounds was that the celebrated Master chef and restaurateur Gordon Ramsay had issued a veiled threat to the powers-that-be : if Scotland were to be separated from the United Kingdom, he would force himself into each and every restaurant in Scotland and do what he does best on TV. This resulted in restaurant owners association issuing a support of Better Together group.
Another splendid rumour doing rounds is that of a conversation between the Scottish National Party's Alex Salmond and British Prime Minister David Cameron. Cameron asked Salmond,"for an instant I believe that you guys will have your way and go separate, pray tell me what will you guys do all day long?" Alex replied, tongue in cheek,"Nothing, just drink some of the whiskey that we will be exporting to the world, play some golf, listen to some Bagpipe music and munch on some Haggis- all things Scottish; you see."
David Cameron laughed out aloud,"Well in that case, you know what we will do? We will simply colonize Scotland to be a part of our Commonwealth nations. We will forcibly take away all Scotch and sell and make enormous profits. All things British; you see!!!"
Finally, as the day of the referendum came close, one event caused a setback for Yes Scotland school of thought and caused the Scottish people to rethink their priorities and think from their heart.
This was the last straw.
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