The Great Transfer - Dissolving the Union

What do people think of the proposed dissolving of the Union?

The Union of the Kingdoms, to whit the United Kingdom. Scotland seem to be heading towards complete devolution and the disbanding of Great Britain and becoming their own sovereignty, and they have some high-profile supporters, such as Sean Connery.

It will be sad to think that the Union Jack may no longer be in use within my lifetime. I say this because, with how well we've done at the Olympics this year, the SNP (Scottish National Party) will probably find a lot of resistance to pressing through becoming a separate country whilst people are still training under the Team GB banner, not least from the Scottish athletes who'll suddenly find themselves cut off and will have to buy their own shoes and mouthguards. And personally, I wouldn't be the one to tell an Olympic Boxer that he has to buy his own gloves...

Whilst it is sad, though, if the Scottish people really want to be separate from the rest of us, then they can feel free. They are, of course, ignoring the fact that the Acts of Union made Britain one of the strongest countries in the world but they're not considering one major fact:

How much we're going to charge them for that.

Think about it; our government allows banks to charge us £10 just for our statements, so imagine how much they're going to charge Scotland for the migration of millions of people's data across hundreds of databases!

"Well done Scotland, you're a free country. Now, here's your bill..."

Scotland looks down at the paper handed to it.

"There mus' be some mistake, we canno' affor' this!"

"Well, there is one thing that you could do instead of paying us..."

"And that'd be?"

"Your national anthem has to be Daphne and Celeste's song 'Ooh Stick You'."

Cut to the football match that Scotland play in and imagine 40,000 Scottish men standing up, putting their hands on their hearts and singing 'Ooh Stick You'...

That would almost be worth the dissolution of the Union. Almost.