Divisions rage despite the Union
by Brian Taylor Political editor, BBC Scotland
So just how should we commemorate the Act of Union - whose tricentenary falls next year?
Perhaps you favour a special coin? Maybe an exhibition at Holyrood and Westminster? Both are in train. Then again, perhaps we might mark 300 years of political marriage between Scotland and England by filing for divorce - and abolishing the Union.
Such an option will be on offer to Scots at elections next year, albeit indirectly.
First, though, the celebrations that are already in hand.
The exhibition and related school projects will, apparently, "inform and stimulate debate about the legacy left by the Act of Union 1707" (Source: the Scottish Executive).
Alternatively, it will amount to "a few half-baked parties about a Union that is past its sell-by date" (Source: the Scottish National Party).
What about that coin, then? Chancellor Gordon Brown announced that he had obtained the
approval of Her Majesty the Queen to issue a £2 coin in honour of the treaty which conjoined the parliaments of Scotland and England.
Rest of article is here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/6199275.stm
So just how should we commemorate the Act of Union - whose tricentenary falls next year?
Perhaps you favour a special coin? Maybe an exhibition at Holyrood and Westminster? Both are in train. Then again, perhaps we might mark 300 years of political marriage between Scotland and England by filing for divorce - and abolishing the Union.
Such an option will be on offer to Scots at elections next year, albeit indirectly.
First, though, the celebrations that are already in hand.
The exhibition and related school projects will, apparently, "inform and stimulate debate about the legacy left by the Act of Union 1707" (Source: the Scottish Executive).
Alternatively, it will amount to "a few half-baked parties about a Union that is past its sell-by date" (Source: the Scottish National Party).
What about that coin, then? Chancellor Gordon Brown announced that he had obtained the
approval of Her Majesty the Queen to issue a £2 coin in honour of the treaty which conjoined the parliaments of Scotland and England.
Rest of article is here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/6199275.stm
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