We have seen the future: it involves powdered egg

 If you are one of the many with election ennui, you probably take some comfort knowing it will soon be over. The politicians will no longer hide behind slogans and refuse to reveal exactly how they will reduce the UK’s terrifying £789 billion debt burden. We got a hint of it last week from Mervyn King, the governor of the Bank of England, who confided to an American economist who then blurted to an Australian television presenter: Britain will experience a level of austerity last seen during the second world war. So there you have it, albeit third-hand from the Aussies: we have seen the future and it involves powdered egg.

Except for viewers in Scotland, to adapt a phrase used in those televised leaders’ debates. We will remain in election mode because we have another vote, for Holyrood, next year. The grinding war of attrition will go on — and so will the fudge, evasion and simply not telling it like it is. For the rest of this article go to The Sunday Times here

Comments

[Hamish Scott]

If the comments of Mervyn King are right then the claim that the Scottish economy is being 'protected' by the Union is going to look a bit hollow.

[Vronsky]

Perhaps the world is unfolding as it should. I always hoped that the Scots would be smart enough to take independence simply because it was a good idea, and not because the alternative had finally become physically intolerable. Fool that I was. I now see that there will be no movement towards the lifeboats until the SS Union has stotted off the iceberg and most of the wreckage is already beneath the waves.

But I suppose I won't mind the powdered egg if it's our first breakfast in independence.