It must have been a slow news week for the Berwickshire when that respected organ has space for letters from well known, er, eccentrics. The self- styled Regent of Scotland has featured in previous posts as a bit of light (about 2.3kgs) entertainment but repetition is beginning to blunt the cutting edge of his satire. If that is what it is. I wonder how many Borderers give the proverbial about the present whereabouts of the real stone of Scone. Certainly those daring Nats who nicked the alleged stone from Westminster Abbey some years go must be feeling sick as that other cliche when they learn that what they liberated from foul Edward's thrall was no genuine article but a "lump of local Perthshire sandstone"*. Its enough to make the Hammer of the Scots to trek southwards "to think again"



SIR, - One of the Ten Commandments in the Bible is given in the King James Version of the Bible as "Thou Shalt not Steal".As far as the Kingdom of Scotland is concerned the stealing of the Kingdom of Scotland by the Kingdom of England in two stages, namely in 1603 and in 1707, in flagrant breach of the Treaty of Edinburgh/Northampton of 1329 between the the King of Scots, Robert the Bruce, and the then King of England, Edward III, was a flagrant breach of that commandment.It is stated in the preamble of that treaty that "the Kingdom of Scotland shall remain for ever separate in all respects from the Kingdom of England in its entirety, free and in peace...That treaty has never been abrogated by the Kingdom of Scotland which is thus under Scots law and under international law legally Scotland, the only Scotland, as much as it was when Robert the Bruce became King of Scots in 1306, exactly 700 years ago, crowned upon the true Stone of Destiny which is still in safe keeping until the Regent and Parliament of the Kingdom of Scotland legally take over Scotland on behalf of the sovereign people of the Kingdom of Scotland.The stone Edward 1, King of England, stole in flagrant breach of that Commandment was a lump of local Perthshire sandstone fobbed off on him by the then Abbot of Scone. The true one will, of course, be restored to Scone in due course by the authorities of the Kingdom of Scotland. (Name withheld as a kindness)

(I thought the Stone of Scone was made from Perthshire Sandstone? What else? Blogg-ed)

PS Spell Checker suggests 'Nuts' for 'Nats' Enough Said?