Loyalist Sir: Mr Ludovic Kennedy, in his article anent Devolution,
outruns even the zealots of his own party; for he would undo not only the Parliamentary Union of 1707 but also the Union of Crowns of 1603. I fear that he may be exposing himself to a capital charge of high treason in thus seeking to alter the succession to the Crown of Scotland at his whim, or even to abolish that ancient Crown altogether in favour of a new-fangled republic under the presidency of some well known elder of his way of thinking: who must, I suppose (since Mr Colin Tennant has but yesterday scrambled on to that cart) be himself. I would be sorry to see Mr Kennedy's well published head elevated on the Tolbooth gate; but sorrier to see his bottom lowered on to the throne.
1 note that this is not the first time that Mr Kennedy has sought to invade the royal prerogative. In a late article in Books and Bookmen he pronounced it 'a scandal' that Her Majesty had not knighted his own umwhile colleague Mr Richard Dimbleby. I suppose it is only logical that one who has already usurped the right to bestow titles of honour in England should now seek to discard the Queen of Scotland as an old exploded engine, unserviceable to the Lords of the Goggle-box.
A Loyal Subject Melrose, Scotland
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