It's exactly a year since I blogged the world with my thoughts on the Scottish elections of May 2007.

Now I'm at it again.

Nu Labour/ Owld Torie (The Scottish New Labour Party, a Unionist party)) are is such a mess with Wee Windy and Team Aliexander, Noddy Stephen's is still doing his 'Miss Piggy' for the FibDems (Liberal Democratic Party, a Unionist party) and Miss Nanabel Goldie, is hoping she can make the Nu Tories (The Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party, their name says it all) a force in Scotland

Whilst the wee green meennies (The Green Party, a strange party), are savouring their apparent 'influence' in budget setting, Not to forget the Edinburgh Boudicca aka Big Margo (Margo McDonald, an Independent Nationalist) the champeen o’ a’ things Reekie!

Well, you may ask, what has this got to do with the Scottish Elections?

The answer is fairly straight forward.

The Scottish National Party (SNP), under the leadership of Alex Salmond, won enough of the votes last year, to enable them to form a Government, unfortunately, although they were the largest single party, they did not have an overall majority.

What with all the Unionist parties ranging against them, a coalition Government for the benefit of the citizens of this wonderful country, was out of reach.However with the aid of the other minority parties and independents, Alex Salmond was elected as Prime Minister* of the Scottish parliament.

Eight months have now passed, and the funding settlement from the Westminster government has duly been announced, a figure which is below that which was expected.This has caused, problems for the SNP administration, in as much that some of their manifesto promises can’t be delivered, in this year of the Parliament (although factors, such as the Edinburgh Tram Link, costing in excess of half a billion GBP for a single track tramway, which will probably not relieve the congestion on Edinburghs' roads.

So after some discussion with ‘interested Parties’ , namely, The Greens, Scottish Tories and Big Margo, the first Budget by a non Unionist Government in Scotland for over 300 years is to be voted on today at Holyrood. Because of the anti-Independence stance of the Unionist parties, and their proclivity to sycophantically pander to their London based masters, The Scottish Prime Minister, Alex Salmond, has intimated that if his budget is defeated then he will resign.Many see this as an ‘empty threat’ as it is expected that the Conservatives will back his governments’ budget, along with the Greens and Big Margo, thereby given him the necessary majority.

My own view, however, is that since coming to power in May, the Westminster government and the London based Unionist Parties have done everything the could to destabilise the elected Scottish government. (The biggest culprit being Prime Minister Brown, former Prime Minister Blair and their cohorts at Westminster, so petty are this band of ne'er do wells, that PM Blair could not even lift the telephone to congratulate PM Salmond on his victory (what a petty little man))

Mr Salmond is now saying to those agitators and ne'er do wells, that if you block this, you then can go to the country, to explain to the citizens, why you have blocked this budget by the duly elected government of Scotland.

This may be oversimplified, but the Scottish Parliamentary system requires, that should the First (Prime ) Minister resign or his Party loose control of the chamber, then a new First (Prime) Minister must be elected from within the Parliament no later than 28 days after the said resignation. If this is not accomplished, then another Scottish Parliamentary Election is held.

Quite good tactics, as the people of Scotland are quite annoyed with the previous New Labour/Owld Torie administration, who are now imploding due to the rancid stench of electoral fraud, illegal donations and incompetence. It then would take a seismic shift in attitudes towards New Labour for them to retain the seats they already have let alone gain more to put themselves in a position to form a government.

If Mr Salmond loses the vote, which I think highly unlikely, then the main beneficiary would be the SNP, as the good people of Scotland, would rightly perceive, that this immoral and bankrupt force, known as Scottish New Labour, are indeed only interest in their liege lords in Westminster's bidding and not the well being of this wonderful and beautiful country of ours. Scotland will not forget!!!

*Under the terms of the Scotland Act, the correct title is FIRST Minister, this was insisted on by the English Prime Minister Tony Blair, who insisted that as it was only a 'Parish Council’ and not a proper government it can’t have a ‘Prime ‘ Minister. (what a pathetic, criminal, obdurate, niggardly , self centred and wholly disreputable little man!!)

A Short History of one of the oldest National Flags in the World, even older than the Flag of England!!!

According to legend, in 832 A.D. King Óengus (II) (or King Angus) led the Picts and Scots in battle against the Angles under King Aethelstan of East Anglia near modern-day Athelstaneford in East Lothian. King Angus and his men were surrounded and he prayed for deliverance from his terrible enemy Athelstan. During the night, Saint Andrew, who was martyred on a saltire cross, appeared to Angus and assured him of victory. On the following morning a white saltire against the background of a blue sky appeared to both sides. The Picts and Scots were heartened by this, but the Angles bottled out and were defeated.

Elated by his victory over Athelstane, King Angus decreed that 'fae noo til thon tyme when a' thi deid raise oan thon dae o' jujemente, then wul thi Crosce o' St. Andrew oan the blu o' thi skye  be thi lawfu' flag o' a thi Scots'

This saltire design has been the Scottish flag ever since.

Material evidence of the saltire's use dates from somewhat later. In 1385 the Parliament of Scotland decreed that Scottish soldiers should wear the saltire as a distinguishing mark. The earliest surviving Scottish flag consisting solely of the saltire dates from 1503: a white cross on a red background. By 1540 the legend of King Angus had been altered to include the vision of the crux decussata against a blue sky. Thereafter, this saltire design in its present form became the national flag of Scotland.

The National Flag of Scotland, or 'The St. Andrews Flag', or 'The Saltire'.

More on the History of Scotland to follow.