“The Scots as always are grumbling again.”
Yeah, they should just shut up and continue to wear that hundreds of years old yoke. The British hounded my forefathers through the Highlands and eventually out of our homeland. Now the P.C. crazy Brits are dragging Scotland into their nightmarish vision of the future. I hope they break from the crown and follow the lead of the Irish.
It is a truly sorry state to see my ancestral homeland in
“Caisteal Foulis na théine”
Wouldn’t it be glorious if they did. Am also of Scottish blood and a little Irish thrown in just to liven up the mix.
‘The British hounded my forefathers through the Highlands and eventually out of our homeland.’
The scots are British - scotland is part of Britain, therefore they must’ve hounded themselves! Which is exactly what they did, clan on clan while the English watched.
‘I hope they break from the crown and follow the lead of the Irish.’
Speaking as an Englishman, I concur completely. The sooner England can be rid of the people’s socialist republic of Jockland the better. Without Scots Labour votes, the Conservatives would have won every election in England since World War 2.
Sadly the scottish nationalists. despite wanting independence, despise free-market America so much instead of electing their own president, they have asked if they can keep HM the Queen as head of state and stay in the commonwealth! :(
Perhaps you could make them the 51st state of the union and the first entirely socialist state of the union? :)
The Scots are the most left-wing PC people in the UK. As Britemp said, the Tories would comfortably win most elections if it weren’t for our Scottish voters.
As for Ireland: you want Scotland to be absorbed into a European super-state with the EU flag flying more often than the Saltire?
I reckon it was the ‘English’ that hounded your forefathers through the highlands. Just a suggestion, as we Brits weren’t really invented yet. It kind of makes sense for such a small island to be united under one banner. Scotlands economy would struggle if they got independence, and for one thing their children wouldn’t be able to have free university education. Its thanks to the taxpayers from England that they can afford such a luxury. One of the perks of being part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Hey, for an Englishman like me, the idea of not having to prop up the scottish economy with my money sounds good. Perhaps I could send my children to Uni for free, instead of the fortune its cost at the moment.
1—The Scots ARE British!.England/the English does not mean Britain/the British.
The Scots,Welsh and Northern Irish are all British.
2—Yoke?...Scotland JOINED the UK in 1707, unlike the Irish and Welsh who were there as victims of earlier English conquest.
Though repeatedly occupied, Scotland was never permanently conquered by England and had always expelled the English after bloody struggles from 1018 to 1640.Hence the invitation to join 1707 which saved England more bloodshed from another invasion of Scotland(and vice versa).
If you mean yoke in a political sense, then you have the right to refer to it in that term(though I would disagree), but to refer to it in a historical sense is simply incorrect and bad history.
3—Sadly, the worst PC excesses are in Scotland, thanks to our uber-socialist viewpoint and politicians.
Check your calendar. Its 2007, not 1297. The Scots, oil and all, are a drain on the Exchequer. The PM is a Scot, and Scottish MPs dictate local government policy for the English, while the English have no say in local affairs north of the border, as the Scottish Parliament manages those matters for Scotland. If the Scots want to "break with crown" the average Englishman will give them a hearty AMF.