Silence isn’t empty it is full of words.

The continual silence from the media regarding the Edinburgh Proclamation has now become deafening.

As an optomist, I would like to think the above saying is true but somehow I doubt it.

Silence is powerful whether it be used positively or negatively, but sometimes it can rebound and have the opposite message it was meant to convey.

Silence can be just as simple as they have no answers, in other words, struck dumb.

By now I’m guessing that Westminster MPs are regretting having voted through Scotland’s Claim of Right, actually they regretted it immediately and tried to erase all knowledge of it in the Hansard transcripts. But some eagle-eyed MPS noticed this and the transcripts were put back in.

I can only assume then that Westminsters silence is due to their astonishment that the Claim of Right is being used in this way and I’m pretty sure those in Westminter who put the vote forward are to.

Of course, there is another way ‘silence’ can be used and that is to bully people. I would say this is the Tory way!

Bullying within No 10 appears to be quite the norm and continues right up to now as desperate measures are being taken to make sure Boris gets away with everything. I use the word everything because the list of misdemeanours is too extensive for me to list here.

I believe those desperate measures have to date cost the taxpayer, [that’s each one of us by the way], £130.000

They should know by now that bullying Scotland just doesn’t work.

So, is their silence a way of trying to bully Scotland into silence or are they dumbstruck and desperately scrambling around trying to come up with a counter-argument in a Legal context?

I bet they wished they hadn’t packed all those documents off to the States!

As they say, ‘it will all come out in the wash’ especially with rumours of a GE next year.

The new PM’s intray will be overflowing by Tuesday what with the Cost of Living crisis and those pesky Scots.