Celebrating Great Britain

300 years ago today, having been ratified on 16 January 1707 by the parliament in Edinburgh by 110 votes to 67, the Act of Union came into force, providing "That the Two Kingdoms of Scotland and England, shall upon the 1st May next ensuing the date hereof, and forever after, be United into One Kingdom by the Name of Great Britain."

How strange that in two days time Scotland could well take its first serious steps towards independence and the eventual balkanisation of the United Kingdom, itself a step towards our complete absorption into a federal Europe...

Now, that would be some legacy for the Scottish born and bred Tony Blair.