Scotland (and the UK come to that) could go right down the toilet like that Chinese baby and still not be third world. Might be worse than third world, but would still be different.
That baby by the way will need a damn good psychoanalyst when it grows up. A symmetrical double birth trauma, the second one sort of in reverse... no one should imagine it won't remember in some offcentre fashion.
Let's hope though that nothing dramatically cloacal will occur and things will bumble unevenly along as usual. My sister and her other half, both doctors, both trained in Edinburgh, left soon after graduation to be virtuous in Africa, moved on to the Chatham Islands and for decades now have been established in New Zealand. They love it there, and it's certainly very nice, with penguins and so on. Seems a bit far away to me though. Too peaceful somehow if that doesn't seem too picky.
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