Queen of chutzpah

Nicola Sturgeon's chutzpah certainly knows no bounds as she uses the Royal 'we' repeatedly in her letter to European Foreign Ministers this week. Just who does she think she is speaking for when she says "we have no intention of leaving the European Union"? Not Calton, who has every intention of leaving the EU if he can possibly manage it. Not the Scottish people either, given that they have not had the chance to say one way or the other and will not get the chance under the SNP. Now that there is a possibility of an in-out EU referendum in the UK (or rUK), and given that Scotland exports four times as much to the rUK as it does to the EU, it makes far more sense for Scotland to remain part of the UK, either in or out of the EU, than it does for an independent Scotland to tie itself to the EU and risk its biggest market leaving it. Sturgeon and her SNP cohorts may have been blinded to the facts by nationalistic fervour but most Scots know which side their bread is buttered on, as confirmed by the recent drop in support for independence. The Deputy First Minister's letter to the EU Ministers looks like the increasingly desperate tactics of someone who has been handed a poisoned chalice by the First Minister and knows it. Calton could almost feel sorry for her. Almost.