Renton was almost right

In the Telegraph this morning, a Mr. Stuart Rivens from Glasgow wrote a letter complaining that "not wanting a Scot to become prime minister is simple, unadulterated, racism."

Besides Scotland being a nation rather than a race, what Mr Rivens fails to realise is that many of us English have simply taken the words of that great Scottish junkie Renton in the film Trainspotting and turned them on their head:

"Some people hate the Scottish, but I don't. They're just wankers. We, on the other hand, are colonized by wankers. We can't even pick a decent culture to be colonized by. We are ruled by effete arseholes. It's a shite state of affairs and all the fresh air in the world will not make any fucking difference."

Iain Dale has a good piece on the wider subject of an English Parliament here

N.B. Before anyone start accusing me of being anti-scottish, I've got bugger all against Scots. I just think its richly ironic that they should moan about us English so bloody much and then get upset when we moan back.