Bowie made me cry!

The BRITs all in all were a bit shit - either commercialised artists won an award or if someone decent won, the creepy commercialised fans would kick off. Twitter was a warzone last night! Noel Gallagher sold out and presented an award after spending years slagging off a lot of the people in that arena but did redeem himself a little when it turned out that the award was going to David Bowie. This pleased me because it showed that even if the music industry is full of crap, the public can say that they don't want it. 'Best British Solo Male' was, for me, the best category. With Jake Bugg, James Blake and David Bowie nominated, my hopes for the ears of Great Britain were raised.

Of course, Bowie was too cool for the BRITs and asked Kate Moss to accept his award for him and read out a speech which ended in "Stay with us Scotland." As I am so against Scottish independence and think that the English aren't doing enough to stop it happening, I was so touched by those words from such a God.

Of course, some of my fellow Scots didn't think so. I have seen many tweets with this kind of message: "PAH! David Bowie saying 'stay with us' when he lives in America... well nawww!" but of course, like everything to do with the SNP, this is under researched and flawed. The fact that SNP activist Alan Cumming, who has recently picked up an American citizenship, and Sean Connery another SNP activist, who lives in Greece, are hailed as heroes by the party and it's supporters shows how narrow-minded and hypocritical they are.

If you choose to vote SNP in the autumn that is up to you and I respect that decision but hypocrisy is not the answer. If you have a problem with Bowie's comment last night, you should also take a balanced and un-biased opinion and disregard those who support the SNP from a distance. These people pretend to be the voices of the people but when hardship comes (which it will because that is the reality of reform) they will be hundreds of miles away from you under someone else's government. I appreciate that the likes of Cummings and Connery believe independence is the way forward for Scotland but I also appreciate David Bowie doesn't and that is politics.

I was so touched by David Bowie's comments because it shows he cares unlike so many English celerities and politicians. It was a nice comment made by a nice man about a fabulous country.