I'll have my Calvinistic pessimism neat, please

So what has today brought us? The destruction of the Labour party as we know it. Whatever happens now it's done for 5 years; the peoples' front of Judea. Pity they did not do this after Gordon Brown, then we might just have had some sort of useful opposition by now.

To those with ears, sounded like Scotland is indeed out of the EU, I had hopes (well not hope really, just ill founded cynical guesswork) the French would offer a deal if nothing else to stick it to John Bull but NON. The Spanish, we all knew. So this is now a MAJOR disaster for Scotland. If I might riff on the 78 theme, I remember the victory parade before we went to Argentina, turned out premature that's what  hope does to you; it's the dream of a foolish man (to quote Bill Donald). So now we are Indied up with nowhere to go.

Don't get me wrong I was for the Union (both), but if Scotland was going to jump then I could console myself we were jumping into the EU. This now seems unlikely, we would jump into the void and hope in five years to get back in.

Ah, you say a typical unionist doing us down. Not at all, if the Yes went over all hard slog on us but no disconnection from the EU, I might have voted Yes (probably not, but I might!).

So having written the check, "I call on my ministers to get indy2 ready", the First Minister will have to decide to cash it or not. To be fair to her, she (and Keizia Dugdal, Willie Rennie, Tim Farron and even Ruth Davidson) are about the only political leaders who I don't wish to shout incessantly at.

Cometh the hour, cometh the woman. She has been a beacon of common sense and grit. I imagine she knows that voting for the void might win Indy2 because let's face it, after the EU referendum voting for a plague of frogs if it meant we could get away from the parlour games, outright racism, chaos and shambles doon sooth would get 50 % of the vote.

However, despite my rejection of all things SNP, there is something in her I admire that I did not in Alex Salmond. Watching and listening to her, she has risen to this occasion.

How about Corbyn, Cameron, Johnson, the corporal, Labour party, Tory party etc lived up or down to this crisis?

She seems to care that she is the FM of all Scots, hence I guess she knows the void option would in fact bring not just the plague of frogs but much worse. We would be out alongside our biggest and recently divorced trading partner (still adjusting unhappily to their unbearably stupid self-harm). The economic consequences would be dire, the potential for vindictive point scoring bust up with John Bull high  and if I look in her face, I sense she knows and unlike Salmond, I think she cares.

Still as the scorpion said to the frog, its my nature. As a politician, she is now in a real bind, having set phasers to independence she either fires or get fired.  My guess is she fires, expect to see her do the Boris Johnson, "shit I own this" face in the next 18 months. After which we get our very own celtic flavoured shit storm.