Piscine Preference
 

Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon are SNP First and Deputy First Minister of Scotland respectively. Where is the half-Scottish Thomas Hood when you need him?

So, land of independence wheezes
Which boasts a sheep-gut dish,
Politically, you spurn Big Cheeses
And go for two Big Fish?

Whoops! Just limbering up for the inevitable referendum competition come September.

This Scottish independence thing must founder -
The ship of state has no convincing skipper,
For Alex Salmond is a scaly bounder,
And Sturgeon doesn't have a single flipper.
The “referendum” cod is sure to flounder;
The whole thing is as fishy as a kipper.

And a cross white on blue
Deserves only a boo.
If they'd made it a tricolour
We could rhyme it with Nicola.

Alex Salmond
Needs his head examined.
What would independence actually mean
If Scots kept Sterling, the Beeb and the Queen?

Rob, I believe you may mean Sterling... unless you know something I don't know about the largest city in central Scotland! (I haven't yet heard any doubt cast on the idea that it would, indeed, remain part of Scotland post-putative-independence).:)

Four blue wedges harmonised on white
Are four times noble worth, virtuous quite.
And if one's seeking rhyming for the Saltire
There is reasoned hope, scope indeed to aspire!

Of course I do. Thanks.

Scotland, famous for midges
Plus a pair of Forth bridges
And the 'silveryTay'
(Near the Fife of G.K.?)
Whisky, salmon and heather
In a wealth of wet weather,
Athol brose, cock-a-leekie.
(Also known as ' Auld Reekie '?)
Now to midges add Nats
Who are patently . . . Drat! Stuck for a rhyme again!

Rats? Twats? Prats? No, you have me.

As well as the neighbouring Forth Rail Bridge and Forth Road Bridge (supplanting the former ferry service between North Queensferry and South Queensferry), there is the Kincardine Bridge much further upriver; and another bridge is presently under construction in between the latter two (on t'upriver side o' the road bridge frae the rail bridge).
But I suppose the first two are the famous ones, to date.