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Farming Matters: Exit Music

“From Pakistan, England and from the Ukraine, We’re all Scotland’s story and we’re all worth the same” (The Proclaimers, Scotland’s Story).

Time to look at our country and what’s being done to it.

“well, there’s an end to an auld sang”.

The hope may yet kill us, but the dream is still alive.

“If I walked on water, my accusers would say it is because I cannot swim” (Berti Vogts, former Scotland football manager)

It’s a dangerous fallacy, falling to the belief that the arc of human progress is constantly upward.

I’m a Stranraer man who deals in yeast and silage additive.

Without knowing our history we have no way of understanding the present malaise in which we find ourselves.

Nothing happens in a vacuum and all actions have consequences. But sometimes it takes decades to discover what these consequences are.

And for Scotland? The Brexit endgame is the reintroduction of direct rule from London.