Are Scottish nationalists having delusions of grandeur?

The Scottish nationalists are aggrieved. What’s new, I hear you ask. Well, a diplomatic row, one which has prompted some decidedly undiplomatic language. The Scottish establishment is worked up after it emerged that Angus Robertson, the Scottish government’s pretendy foreign secretary, met with Daniela Grudsky. Who’s she? Why, Israel’s deputy ambassador to the United Kingdom. Their confab took place on 8 August but word has only just got out. 

The pair discussed fairly routine and low-level matters like cultural cooperation and renewables. To hear the howls from politicos and activists, you’d think Robertson leapt into a tank and rolled into Gaza. His colleagues have lined up to denounce the meeting, with one even branding him ‘an absolute disgrace’ and calling for his dismissal. This is for sitting down with a representative of a country which, despite the Labour government’s best efforts, has good diplomatic relations and trading links with the UK. A country currently locked in a war of self-defence against well-funded, internationally-aided terrorist organisations which invaded its territory last October, murdering 1,200 of its citizens, raping women and taking 250 hostages, including children.