Scotland's Future Hangs in Balance

Townhall.com ^ | August 28, 2014 | Cal Thomas

[Rockpile]

On the anecdote level:

I met a couple of middle aged Scots in the ‘90s. Both were big time lefties. They would have wet their pants over our current Sultan and his gang. I hope they were not representative of the majority.

[the scotsman]

Utter crap, and I am a diehard NO voter and Unionist.

Scotland contributes more to the UK than it gets. The subsidy myth is just that.

[the scotsman]

Nope, what nonsense.

[EternalVigilance]

Turns out Robert the Bruce (Braveheart) is my 20th Grandfather (or however you say that....)

Then we're cousins.

Oddly though, my family tree also includes Edward I, Longshanks, who subjugated Scotland in the first place.

[the scotsman]

95% of Scots may get some money from the govt, even if working, like working tax credits, basic child allowance.

But then most British get that.

[the scotsman]

Is the American media covering this story at all?.

We get Fox News here as well as CNN, MSNBC and some ABC/CBS news coverage. But I haven’t been watching them.

[Kaslin]

You know name calling isn't necessary.

Got it?

[Kaslin]

That’s “whisky,” not “whiskey.”

You had better check again, or I believe that you are a real Neanderthal

*snicker*

[Kaslin]

Excellent reply! ^5

[Kaslin]

Your questions stinks of ignorance. Shame on you

[Kaslin]

Wow

[Kaslin]

I only watch Fox News and don’t recall them covering this story. I haven’t watched ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, MSNBC or as Rush call it PMSnbc in ages

[Zionist Conspirator]

Good. I recommend the English re-annex Wales, cut Northern Ireland loose (or let the Scots have it) and change their name to The Kingdom of England!

Hey . . . Anglo-Saxons need an ancestral homeland too, y'know.

[Zionist Conspirator]

These brave hearts who filled our frontiers and won the land from their murderous predecessors, first came to fight against Americans in the Revolution, because they were promised for that service to be able once again, to wear the tartans and carry arms, and to pipe the terror-inducing war threnodies calling for valor in battle, which tokens were forbidden under English tyranny for many years because of their allegiance to the Stuarts, esp. to the memory of "The Bonnie Prince, Charlie."

Correction: it was Union tyranny, not "English" tyranny. The Jacobite rebellions were never wars for Scottish independence and the Protestant lowland Scots hated the Jacobite Highlanders more than the English did.

[Zionist Conspirator]

BTW, Scottish nationalists are Communists, not conservatives.

[Zionist Conspirator]

If any country can get out of alliances with the EU and the tentacles of global banks, where’s the downside?

ARG!!!

Scottish nationalists are pro-European Union! They're hard leftists!!!

Some people have such a swooning cult of Celtishness they simply refuse to be aware of what's going on.

[Zionist Conspirator]

The naive argument by one young man, who appeared no older than 30, that ridding Scotland of nuclear weapons will somehow make the country safer might make some liberals feel better in the short term, but it denies the reality of peace through strength and the superior argument that having nuclear weapons serves as a deterrent.

This is a perfect illustration of one difference between the Western Left and the Third World Left.

When a Third World Leftist country gains independence, it arms itself to the teeth and celebrates its new-found military (even nuclear) might. The Western Left wants to create pacifist hippie states.

But who knows? The Western Left does have the "patriotism for the socialist motherland" going. Maybe they'll eventually become saber-rattling militarists as well.

[grania]

So, Scotland wants to become independent of England so they can be even more dependent on the EU, victims to the intentions of European bankers, and to rely on Europe/NATO for defense? That’s too weird.

[Zionist Conspirator]

So, Scotland wants to become independent of England so they can be even more dependent on the EU, victims to the intentions of European bankers, and to rely on Europe/NATO for defense? That’s too weird.

It's also 100% true. You weren't aware of that?

Alex Salmond, the leader of the Scottish National Party, is called "the Trotsky of Scotland." Leftwing nationalism has a long history in Scotland going back to John Maclean, who claimed that the ancient Highland clans practiced Communism, making it as Scottish as haggis. One of his mottoes was "backward to Communism and forward to Communism!"

The same goes for all the other Celtic nationalisms too . . . and the nationalisms of the Spanish minorities as well.

Americans have this foolish notion that a person with pale skin can't be a left-wing nationalist.

[JSDude1]

From my American opinion, I hope that Scotland does become independent for these three reasons: #1) I SUPPORT self determination, secession (heck our own US Declaration of Independence was based on these principles) so they should get to live under the government they want. #2)It would FORCE socialists to grow up when they CAN’T rely upon the charity of the whole of the UK. And #3) If Scotland becomes independent, since a large portion of Labour’s support is from Scotland, it will leave the rest of the UK (England, Wales, Northern Ire, and the minor territories) MUCH more conservative.