What's Wrong With Targets

The British Home Secretary Amber Rudd has been forced to resign.

Falling On Your Sword Has Been A Political
Requirement Since Marcus Brutus Did It.

For those readers from abroad, I had better explain that underneath the Prime Minister, this is one of the great offices of state in the UK (along with Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Foreign Secretary).

The Last Voice Of One Nation

Well the people have spoken, a Prime Minister gambled and lost .... and now the rows and the inquests will commence. But even before those analysts pore over the result, there are some striking observations to be made:

1. Scotland and London are very different countries to the rest of the (dis) United Kingdom.
2. The result swung, not on the Tory areas, but in the Labour Party's former heartlands.
3. The relentlessly negative Remain campaign drove many into the out camp.
4. If you ignore the Scottish and London results, the vote to leave would have been more emphatic. 
5. We are a very divided and angry nation - half are upset and the other half are somewhat fearful.

EU Referendum - Disaster Or Providence. Only Time Will Tell.

Scotland will certainly demand another independence referendum based on its wholehearted (well 3/5ths to Remain, and 2/5ths to Brexit ... if that counts as wholehearted), vote to Remain, but how that vote goes may not be completely cut and dried. Oddly if the vote is to stay in the UK, then the Scottish Nationalist Party may regret the rush to call it, as it could end the question for decades.