Scotland's "Braveheart" honored, 700 years on

Reuters via Yahoo! ^ | Tues. Aug. 23, 2005 | Gideon Long

[Victoria Delsoul]

LOL, I bet that was a great experience. Congratulations.

[Northern Yankee]

Thanks...

Back to work...; )

[kstewskis]

"And dying in your beds many years from now, you would be willing to trade one chance, just one chance..."

With Mel??

Good grief, I'm sure that made the groom feel just grand on his wedding day.

I hope this maid of "honor" didn't catch the bouquet this time around.

[Kevin OMalley]

BFLR = Bump for later reading.

[NZerFromHK]

If they declare their independence from London, it is plainly speaking just switching their alliegance from London to Brussels. These Scottish independents are all pro-EU federalists - the historic pro-freedom Scots have all migrated to the US ages ago.

They want to get out of the frying pan that is the United Kingdom, into the naked fire aka the United States of Europe.

[pau1f0rd]

Our country is still ruled from somewhere else

Oh, the 100% Labour Scots don't do badly out of Conservative England. They have their own Parliament, so they have more independence than England for a start. They are allowed to legislate on English laws, but the English aren't allowed to legislate on theirs. The Prime Minister is Scottish, the Chancellor is Scottish. The next Prime Minister will likely be Scottish. And if the Scottish people want to leave the Union, they can do it any time they want. It would just be another EU Socialist state living off England and Germany. But then, England would have a right-wing government finally, so we'd probably leave the EU anyway.

[Churchillspirit]

In 700 years no one has done anything to recognize the man.

A slight exaggeration, Mr Ross. The Wallace Monument in Stirling - along with the castle - dominates the landscape.

[Churchillspirit]

Many thanks for the ping.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Scotland bump!