Well, it’s started. Yesterday the Government announced the first major transfer of powers from Westminster to Scotland in keeping with the promises made to the separatists prior to the September referendum on Scottish independence.

To most of us, this devolution of powers, including control over income tax, seems pretty momentous and almost revolutionary but, predictably, the Scottish Nationalists Party don’t feel they have gone far enough and want more. They will continue to want more until they achieve their aim of full independence and the break-up of the United Kingdom. The clue lies in their name.

That’s fair enough and as this blog stated back in September the eventual break-up of the UK, at least in its current form, seems inevitable. If a majority of the Scottish people want to go it alone so they should.

The pro-independence lobby is not yet in the majority however and our Government must continue to bear in mind that the Scots are no better than the rest of us and whatever rights and privileges are given to them must be given equally to the people of England, Wales and Northern Ireland.