03 September 2007

It's not really an identity crisis

It will take a day or two of getting used to. I refer of course to the sparkling new website - well, it's not really new and it remains less than sparkling but it does feature in big bold letters 'The Scottish Government'.

It's all for show, really. Legally, the organisation remains the Scottish Executive, at least until Westminster gets around to amending the Scotland Act - this year, next year, sometime, never.

And, paradoxically, it betrays a hint of insecurity. After all, you won't find the No 10 website or even the Foreign Office website boasting proudly that they are the property of the UK Government.

But what must really irk the Nationalists is that they continue to be saddled with the internet and e-mail addresses of "scotland.gov.uk".


Update: BellgroveBelle takes an entirely different view of the matter.

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