David Maddox: Preparing for the end of the world in 2012
So it looks like a referendum on independence is now most likely to happen in 2012 if at all, as predicted in The Scotsman on Saturday by a senior SNP source and Professor John Curtice.
After the Lib Dems decided not to support the referendum bill next year at their conference on Saturday, but have clearly left the option open for the future we can fairly predict it will be a negotiating tool after the 2011 election.
However, today's Yougov poll on Holyrood voting intentions suggesting Labour would be the biggest party with 45 seats compared to the SNP's 41 seats in a George W. Bush style victory where they win less votes, means that it is not totally certain the Lib Dems would jump into bed with the Nationalists.
But, assuming for a moment that they do and the price of a ministerial Mondeo for Tavish Scott is a referendum and this happens in 2012 then it seem that even a vote for independence may be a hollow victory.
The end of the world may be a reflection of how ardent unionists would feel about separation, but according to a cult using the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar - from the Mayan culture - the world will literally end anyway on 21 December 2012.
The popular myth has been taken up by New Age types around the world and is now the subject of a new movie - simply entitled 2012 - so Scotland may get its "freedom" in May of that year but only have seven months to enjoy it.
By a strange coincidence, Labour's Holyrood campaign in 2007 was largely based on the four horsemen of the Apocalypse (pictured above) visiting Scotland should the SNP win power. Looks like they just got their timing wrong.
The good thing is that at least we will be able to squeeze in the London Olympics before Messrs Death, Famine, War and Pestilence arrive.
After the Lib Dems decided not to support the referendum bill next year at their conference on Saturday, but have clearly left the option open for the future we can fairly predict it will be a negotiating tool after the 2011 election.
However, today's Yougov poll on Holyrood voting intentions suggesting Labour would be the biggest party with 45 seats compared to the SNP's 41 seats in a George W. Bush style victory where they win less votes, means that it is not totally certain the Lib Dems would jump into bed with the Nationalists.
But, assuming for a moment that they do and the price of a ministerial Mondeo for Tavish Scott is a referendum and this happens in 2012 then it seem that even a vote for independence may be a hollow victory.
The end of the world may be a reflection of how ardent unionists would feel about separation, but according to a cult using the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar - from the Mayan culture - the world will literally end anyway on 21 December 2012.
The popular myth has been taken up by New Age types around the world and is now the subject of a new movie - simply entitled 2012 - so Scotland may get its "freedom" in May of that year but only have seven months to enjoy it.
By a strange coincidence, Labour's Holyrood campaign in 2007 was largely based on the four horsemen of the Apocalypse (pictured above) visiting Scotland should the SNP win power. Looks like they just got their timing wrong.
The good thing is that at least we will be able to squeeze in the London Olympics before Messrs Death, Famine, War and Pestilence arrive.
Labels: Apocalypse, David Maddox, end of the world, independence referendum, Liberal Democrats, London 2012, London Olympics, Mayan culture, Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, SNP
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