Come on Scotland – be Scottish!

Here we are in June and in three months time Scotland goes to the polls; and what are they voting for? For Independence, that's what. 

Not to split the United Kingdom but to go it alone and I wish them well.

But I have to ask a few questions: if Scotland succeeds in gaining Independence – and I mean the word gaining – it will mean that a group of Scottish Labour MPs will no longer be MPs in Westminster.

I know that won't happen straight away, of course, as I think there will be some kind of transitional period, but when it does it will mean that the Conservatives will not need the Liberals to give them a parliamentary majority in the next General Election.

So why are they against Independence for Scotland? Maybe there's something in Scotland, something in its future that Britain want: fracking? An influx of immigrants? A completely independent government who can look towards Norway and learn how to build an economy with their oil wealth?

All of the above are pluses – yes immigration is a plus and many immigrants will arrive and Scots from all over the world will return to pay taxes and pay them to their own government for a change.

There are some stupid figures being banded about; the 'yes' people are saying that Independence will make everybody in Scotland £1,000 a year richer; the 'no' people came back and said that a 'no' vote will make them richer by £1,400.

That's something to think about isn't it? Yeh!

In less than seven weeks there is a little matter of the Commonwealth Games – for people who don't know what the Commonwealth is it is The British Commonwealth – all the countries that used to belong to the British Empire but retained Commonwealth status.

When Pakistan were suspended from the Commonwealth a few years ago (because of some skulduggery there) – unbelievable, Pakistan aye? - the ABC Newsreader in Los Angeles said 'Pakistan have been suspended from 'something' called the Commonwealth.' Something called the Commonwealth.

Anyway – my point is they are being held in Glasgow – Scotland's biggest city – and you know what the Olympics did for Britain?

Put your money on a YES vote and all you disseminated Scots!! Pack your bags!

 But don't expect to see Sean Connery when you get there; he's probably in Spain practising his golf swing, but there again he is coming up to 84; he has campaigned for Scottish Independence for most if not all of his life. 

I have spent, I suppose, 3 months in Edinburgh and I remember a lot of places, shops, coffee shops and the like, with photographs of him on the wall. Not signed autographed head shots like in Los Angeles but beautifully framed portraits with information. 

The Scots know he doesn't live there any more but they're not like some of the English who fall out with some stars because they have emigrated to sunnier climes.

By the way – 5 years or so ago, someone came up to me and said they saw my photograph on the wall of a dry-cleaners on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles.

It had been there since 1995; I know that because I used to live close by then and they asked me for the photo but . . . I wonder if it's still there?

Go take a look – on the south side of the street just east of Maltman in the mini mall – lemme know!!

The Scottish flag.