Now I Ain't Sayin' I'm a Gold-Digga

So it seems the Treasury are due to dump Scottish bank notes.

They took our bagpipes, our ceilidhs and our kilts off us back in the 18th century. And they're taking our money from us now.

From an SNP-supporting viewpoint, the frustrating part of this plan by the Treasury (or should that be 'this ruse by Gordon Brown') is that it makes total and utter sense both logically and politically from a Labour standpoint. Yes the subtext to this whole charade is that it is basically fighting the SNP at their own game but it's also a reasonable, genuine solution to a minor Scottish issue.

Remember there was a mini-palava in the press about Scottish money not being of the same value as English money? (A palava, incidentally, that I like to think I started after a Sunday Mail reporter got in touch me regarding this posting)

Well, I'm sure Nationalists would have hoped that that issue regarding Scottish notes being inferior in value to English notes would result in Scots wanting a better showing on a global stage given we are currently getting short changed, and perhaps indpendence would be the best way to go about achieving that. The response from the Treasury? Dump Scottish bank notes and just use English pounds. So we Scots now get the higher exchange rate wherever we go. What's the problem Alastair Darling can reasonably ask with one thick eyebrow deviously raised.

As for the fire fighting fire? Well, it seems to be going something a bit like this:

SNP: You want to cut deals with Lockerbie prisoners without telling us? We're going to rain on your parade.
Labour: You want to lay a claim on Scottish Nationalism and stir up anti-unionist feeling?. We'll stick a Scot on an English bank note.
SNP: You want to see how we can undermine your socialist principles? We'll return university education to being a right and not a privilege.
Labour: You want the Isle of Lewis Chessmen? Ok, we'll take the RBS and Clydesdale bank notes off you.

Yes, it may all start to get a bit silly but as Kezia Dugdale is keen to remind us, that's politics.




PS Incidentally, I did download Kanye West's excellent, excellent Gold-Digga track but I can only apologise to the man for absent-mindedly singing it out in public on occasion in the past few days.

I am in no doubt that lines such as "his baby momma's car crib is bigger than his" and "she ain't messin' with no broke niggas" lose a certain something when sung by a posh Scottish white boy.