Start from this premise: all things are possible.
You have an advantage over me, English viewers. The chances are that most of you pay very little attention to Scottish politics, so your heads probably aren't spinning like mine still is at the staggering, incomprehensible magnitude of what's just been achieved. But I'll do my best to paint you a picture.
Readers of a spiritual or elderly bent may be aware of the parable of the Deck Of Cards. (You can listen to a splendidly reverby take of Wink Martindale’s definitive version by clicking this convenient link here.)
But you don’t have to go back to the 1950s for a similarly instructive metaphor for the contemporary age. Because the iOS game Coin Dozer serves, if you don’t want to carry around a bulky copy of Das Kapital, as a bible of the modern capitalist world. Shut up, it’s not bollocks.
If a week is a long time in politics, 26 months is forever, right?
“This talk of alliances comes up a lot, doesn’t it? Everyone wants
to be in our gang. So I want to make something very clear today.
Will I ever join a Conservative government? No.
Will I ever join a Labour government? No.
I will never allow the Liberal Democrats to be a mere annex to
another party’s agenda.”
– Nick Clegg’s first speech as leader to the Lib Dem conference, March 2008
Wings Over Scotland is a thing that exists.
