Scotland is the UK’s footrest? You don’t have a clue do you? The English are taken for granted in the UK. We have a serious democratic deficit in England, the Scotch and the Northern Irish (and to a lesser degree the Welsh) get to run their own affairs whilst still voting to impose health and social policies on England at Westminster. Or celtic ‘brethren’ have got themselves into the position of being Britain’s privileged citizens lording it over the majority, the English, who are second class British citizens thanks to devolution. As far as I’m concerned, celtic nationalism isn’t about independence for those countries, it is about England’s independence from its Celtic overlords, particularly the scotch, who, as Scotsman correctly implies, are over-represented in positions of power in London....
“the Scotch and the Northern Irish (and to a lesser degree the Welsh) get to run their own affairs whilst still voting to impose health and social policies on England at Westminster.”
I hear the same complaints from “British” Canadians (a misleading term, as “former Commonwealth Canadians” would be more fitting given the umbers from Asia) about the Quebecois; the fact is that in both cases they would be much smaller, insignificant countries without them.
“it is about England’s independence from its Celtic overlords, particularly the scotch, who, as Scotsman correctly implies, are over-represented in positions of power in London”
I’d believe that if there was a Scottish monarch on the money, or if they used the flag of Wales (the best of the bunch in terms of flags), or if reunion with Ireland was on a ballot in their six northern counties.