[Pokey78]

Steyn ping!

[Miss Marple]

Och, my brethren in the Highlands need a good shot of backbone!

[Richard Kimball]

BTTT. Boy, is that guy brilliant.

[NZerFromHK]

Thanks for the ping Pokey.

I recall that a majority the Southern US's population are Scottish descents (Scots or Irish-Scot) and they have inherited the fiercest fighting spirit of their ancestors and are some of the most solidly conservative (in British terminology, classical liberal). It is ironic for them to observe that the descendents of their ancestors' relatives or friends who stayed in Scotland descends to French-clones.

Having said this, English descent may be worse. New Zealand is majority British descent (that is, English. We don't have too many Scots descents apart from the Otago region) and hey, New Zealanders love the welfare state to death.

[brushcop]

"the facts of life are conservative".

Maggie, we miss ya! What a great quote.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

All true!!

[irv]

The other day Esko Aho - oh, come on, you remember, the former Finnish prime minister - presented a report to the European Commission that, in essence, read like a three-year-old Steyn column with an expenses budget

I always knew that Aho was laughable. I didn't know he was funny, too!

[GOPJ]

thanks for the ping

[alwaysconservative]

Belated thanks for the ping, Pokey! Scotland apparently stands in marked contrast to the energy of Ireland in taking its place in the world economy.