On a momentous and sad day for the UK, which is obviously not at all ‘united’ we though we should break with tradition. We are posting this as a tiny little reminder of what was great about the EU. It’s a small Parisian patisserie and espresso bar in beautiful Stockbridge, Edinburgh. Run by lovely French folk and producing wonderful food that you cannot get anywhere else. They don’t do scones but ‘vive la difference‘!

EH4 1HU      tel: 0131 332 8455        Patisserie Madeleine

Scotland, having decisively voted to remain in the EU, has once again to bow to England. And a bunch of numpties who want to leave. Bad enough for the UK but it could also herald the breakup of the entire EU. Scotland cannot continue like this, it needs to do something to take control of it’s affairs.

What is the UK

Perhaps it is worthwhile reminding folks that the UK is not a country. Rather it is a state made up of two equal and independent sovereign countries, England and Scotland. The same does not apply to Wales, being a Principality and N.Ireland, being a Province. Neither are mentioned in the treaties that brought about the UK.

Oddly, in 2016, for us north of the border, the Declaration of Arbroath in 1320, still applies … more than ever. ‘Yet if he (Bruce) should give up what he has begun, and agree to make us or our kingdom subject to the King of England or the English, we should exert ourselves at once to drive him out as our enemy and a subverter of his own rights and ours, and make some other man who was well able to defend us our King; for, as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom – for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.’