Wings Over Scotland

What a great representation of Brexit. 🙂

Exactly

Why aren’t these on the front page of the newspapers (By the way I know the answer)

Sums it up perfectly Chris. Time for us all to plan a way to get Hamish out of there

I watched a video from Ireland marking the 100 year commemoration of the 21 January 1919, the day the First Dáil convened in Ireland, and the same day two RIC policemen were shot at Soloheadbeg. Poignant stuff. Photographs. Video testimony. Plaques and headstones. History in the raw.

When Scotland is Independent, there will be a National museum and gallery recording the process and how it all transpired. In that gallery, there will be similarly poignant stuff, photographs, testimony, plaques and all, and also a wall full of these Chris Cairns cartoons. Visitors to that gallery 100 years from now, will look at the pictures and understand everything they need to know about Scotland’s political emancipation from the Union.

First class Chris. First class.

I think Hamish is going to need a good wash down after escape.

Nurse!

link to thetimes.co.uk

A quick response from Donald Tusk, reminding Theresa May & her Government of who is boss in Europe.

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Shocking really. BBC saying “England, Wales and Ireland all have a chance to win”.

But Wales are on 16 points, England 15 and Ireland 14. So it should be “Wales, England and Ireland …”.

Par for the course, frankly.

And the latest from Nigel Farage is that he is going to walk from Sunderland to London in protest at the result of the Referendum being ignored.

Here was me thinking it was a UK wide vote.

So why not start your march in Scotland Nigel?

link to chroniclelive.co.uk

A wonderfully apt too as always Chris. And what we can’t see, but are going to find out about, is that he’s sitting in a nappy full of bull shit.

The plan is still to crash out. Everything else is just timewasting and distraction until the inevitable happens which is that on the 29th March we crash out of the EU BY LAW. Nothing has altered that as yet. Nothing Westminster has done will prevent that happening.

13 days to go.

Encouraging words from Ian and Mhairi this week. I hope they have a plan.

This is powerful and enlightening stuff from someone you might not expect to take this view. link to t.co

But just remember, the figure depicted in the high-chair as a spoiled child, is in reality part of a corrupt and murderous regime – the UK Government /Establishment.

The spoiled child would be more accurately portrayed standing on the chair, applying the contents of a overfilled nappy all over our Hamish – demonstrating for all to see what is usually termed ‘Normal Service’.

Classic Chris. Pure genius.

So fed up with Brexit and the clowns in Westminster. I’m ready to roll on Scottish independence the moment the starting gun is fired.

British John Bull might be happily soiling himself and throwing a/an hysterical hissy fit but is still keeping a very tight grip on his favourite toy Hamish,

apt metaphor Chris.

The masjid murders in Christchurch are wicked and have rightly received headline coverage in the English language media.
Sadly, it is not the case when Christians in Islamic states or states with Muslim citizens are killed. News items of the kind are generally not headline. 40+ plus were killed and many injured in an Jihadist attack on a mostly Catholic village in Kaduna state Nigeria last month. I have found no reporting of the event in main English media.
It has been normative for Christian places of worship to be protected by armed soldiers in the ME for decades, as a child I remember the big guns and bored faces well. Even that has not been enough to deter the zealous. The Christchurch attack by a social media fantasist has had the effect of increasing fear of retaliation among Christians thousands of miles away. Alas, no event occurs in isolation, certainly not in our brave new social media networking world.

Superb!

Aye, but you’ll notice Bully isn’t throwing out Hamish – firm grip on him!

It’s ok for Mrs May to have as many votes as she wants no matter how heavily defeated she is!

But the rest of us …………….

Meanwhile the other cheek of that unionist arse, Mr Corbyn, he more or less shares the same opinion as Mrs May.

Moreover, both tories and labour have thrown Scotland under the brexit bus, while the bbc and others rattle bushes elsewhere to distract Scots attention.

Thank goodness this week Keith Brown has finally complained to the bbc of their coverage of Scotland by the bbc, more of this, highlighted it frequently / every occurrence, keep it in the mind of the public!

yesindyref2 says:
16 March, 2019 at 8:40 am

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Shocking really. BBC saying “England, Wales and Ireland all have a chance to win”.

But Wales are on 16 points, England 15 and Ireland 14. So it should be “Wales, England and Ireland …”.

Par for the course, frankly.
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Scot Finlayson says:
16 March, 2019 at 9:40 am

British John Bull might be happily soiling himself and throwing a/an hysterical hissy fit but is still keeping a very tight grip on his favourite toy Hamish,

apt metaphor Chris.
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galamcennalath says:
16 March, 2019 at 10:07 am

Superb!

Aye, but you’ll notice Bully isn’t throwing out Hamish – firm grip on him!
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@yesindyref2
The London bubble, the BBC’S only concern will always put ingerlund first and foremost. No mention of Scotland, even if it about mentioning how Glorious England will put them in their place, and I sincerely hpoe that Scotland win. Another case of marginalising Scotland and ignoring them as if we don’t exist.
@the ither twa
Well spotted and beautifully crafted Chris. “Why are you not listening to me. I wan’t, I wan’t, I wan’t”, say’s John Bull holding firmly to his prized possession and in abject fear of loosing it.

I can smell a dirty great backstop as well.

2019 March for Scottish independence in Berlin, now live.

link to facebook.com

link to livestream.com

Baby’s waiting for some magical solution to the Good Friday agreement. One might say a Good Fairy agreement, but I don’t see Junckers donning a tutu anytime soon.

I just heard that today the English BritNats will play host to their counterparts north of the border, who are called the Scottish BritNats, where they will chase each other about a field trying to take an egg shaped ball from each others arms.

It’ll never catch on,,,IMHO

A sport that involves sticking your head up your teammates arse should be avoided st all costs.

@DrJim

I’ve just listened to Tom Harris on Shereen’s show bemoaning the relived pain of the IndyRef. They were reviewing the IndyRef documentary. Despite being on the winning side he reiterated his side got so much more abuse so it was more painful. Maybe so.

It strikes me it was so painful for a lot of No’s because they were going against instinctively what was right. They were actively seeking out reasons to denigrate their own country’s ability to manage itself and by implication its people.

No wonder he can’t bear to revisit it. It’s a wonder he can sleep at night.

Wish us luck for the Grand Slam (even though it will be at the expense of your Goidelic brothers and sisters) as we wish you all the best against your (and our, and indeed, many others’) Old Enemy.

SilverDarling says:

it was so painful for a lot of No’s because they were going against instinctively what was right

I am certain that is/was true for a percentage. Many NOs were torn between what they felt was best for their (and their families) finances and security … and what was the right thing. They were looking for excuses to vote NO. They put themselves before the collective good.

Their pain comes from making that difficult decision. Especially if they now see it as the wrong decision for their future security!

While they have reservations about having to face it all again, hopefully the morally right decision will also be the best one for security i.e. Yes!

Welsh Sion , good luck and may the best team win .

But St Patrick may take a hand in the result.

A spoilt brat, nice image, Chris. Be of good cheer, snowing here.

Your essential weekend reading:

In the Mold of Sturgeon: link to wp.me
Good story, soft centre: link to wp.me

Dr Jim@12.35pm

Excellent post. Always worth telling it exactly how it is.

The only point I would add is that with regards to your comments on the Vow/ Smith commission you could have also pointed out that the referee LORD Smith is British as well. So in summary the Smith commission had a referee who was British and there were 3 British parties outvoting two Scottish parties and a Presiding Officer who is British. Hardly meets any definition of fair and balanced. It’s not surprising you never hear any Britnats raising the subject of the Vow/Smith Commission. Just another Britnat pockle.

Sunderland hasn’t really benefitted from the internal domestic politics of Britain (nothing to do with the EU) which tends to ignore anything north of the Watford Gap.

‘The Sunderland population experiences a higher level of social and economic disadvantage than the England average and there is a strong link between high levels of socioeconomic disadvantage and poor health. The English Indices of Deprivation 2015 are based around seven domains: income, employment, health, education, crime, barriers to housing and living environment. They show that 38% of the Sunderland population live in areas that are among the 20% most disadvantaged across England…

As discussed in the previous section of this report, these are important causes of poor health and premature death in Sunderland. In addition, it has been shown that the effect of long-term exposure to air pollution on mortality is most closely associated with levels of fine particulate matter (PM2.5). Recently published data identifies Sunderland as having, alongside Middlesbrough, one of the highest fraction of mortality attributable to particulate air pollution in the North East at 3.7, although this is has been decreasing and is lower than the national average of 4.726. A recent report has identified that an effect on mortality equivalent to 143 deaths at typical ages in Sunderland could be attributed to human-made PM2.5 air pollution27’

link to sunderland.gov.uk

‘Four companies are planning experimental UCG projects that pose as greater threat to the people of the North East as the gas fields fracking companies want to drill elsewhere in the UK’
link to frack-off.org.uk

British politics can never recover from the betrayal of Brexit- it is time for Scotland’s citizens to March to Leave –in the opposite direction. Towards a frack-free future as an outward looking inclusive society that represents a balanced, localised democracy. Independent and making its own way in a globalised world.

Let us hope that all our rugby teams play well and England gets 50 against them. Good luck to Scotland, Ireland and Wales and hard luck to England. I wouldn’t want it said that I’m not inclusive. winky thing

WRT the cartoon, I note that Hamish is pristine in his cleanliness. Representing the SNP MPs being the only party that is actually doing its job?

Did I see something about the LibDems (Paedos protectors) blocking an Indy Ref?

@McBoxheid

So many layers to Chris’s cartoons. They deserve revisiting a few times to get the full benefit.

@winifred mccartney says: 16 March, 2019 at 8:14 am:

” … WM is still living in the past thinking they are the colonial masters and everyone will dance to their tune.”

Well, Winifred, it wouldn’t be the first time Westminster had sent gunboats to the Firth of Forth – and it wasn’t for refits at HM Dockyard Rosyth or Port Edger or to load up armaments from Crombie Armaments Depot.

Last time was while they were forcing the Scottish parliamentarians to sign the Treaty of Union. Mind you we do know the aircraft carriers can at least get as far as Rosyth but why would they need aircraft carriers?

Carriers are to transport aircraft to foreign parts where they can bomb and strafe thousands of brown people. The aircraft we pay for could just fly direct from around the Morey Firth area.

Re New Zealand it is incredible that a white Australian can go to another colonised country and rant about and kill over “white replacement”.

Talk about tone deaf? This Barearsed Trabbant or whatever he is called takes the tone deaf biscuit.

I hope the Mail and its ilk take note and realise pandering to the far right is a serious mistake.

@SilverDarling says: 16 March, 2019 at 12:50 pm:

” … That is all gone now. We see them for what they are, pathetic lying bullies protecting their delusion of an empire.”

Well no, SilverDarling, those people you think of as British won’t change after independence. they will just be what they really have always been – English People from the Kingdom of England. However. I expect it won’t be too long after the Kingdom of Scotland ends The United Kingdom before Ireland reunited and Wales follows Scotland to independence.

The United Kingdom is already dead – it just hasn’t had the sense to lie down yet.

@Robert Peffers

I think there will always be those for whom being ‘British’ is a construct they use to protect themselves from identifying with the worst of English Nationalism. Unable to say they feel Scottish they reside in a mythical hinterland. They will be ‘British’ till they die no matter what happens.

The Scottish view v The English view

May I encourage the widespread practice of linguistically splitting Scotland from the rest of the UK, by always using the term ‘Scotland and
the rest of the UK’, or even just ‘rUK’, both here on Wings and throughout Scotland.
For example, to say ‘Brexit will be very bad for Scotland and the rest of the UK’, instead of saying ‘Brexit will be very bad for the UK’.

The reason behind this ‘splitting UK’ idea, is that the term ‘UK’ contains implicitly the idea of English supremacy. For England, the word ‘country’ means the whole of the UK. But, in England, the term UK, also means England, with Scotland as a part or region, of England.

Each time we split ‘UK’, we will be prioritising Scotland, putting Scotland first, instead of following the customary English usage in which England is first and Scotland is assumed to be be far less important – as befits a colony.

Talking or writing about Scotland in the same way that England talks and writes about Scotland is hardly consistent with the aspiration to be a Sovereign nation in our own Independent Country.

Please think about. And think, talk and write Independent.

@manandboy says: 16 March, 2019 at 3:43 pm:

” … May I encourage the widespread practice of linguistically splitting Scotland from the rest of the UK, by always using the term ‘Scotland and
the rest of the UK’,

Yes! Of course YOU would.

Tom Kibasi pointing out how often BBC flagship programmes like Newsnight invite fascists on to explain their views. very helpful.

link to twitter.com

Another brilliant cartoon Chris and as Breeks says, your catalogue of (historical) cartoons will no doubt grace the walls of galleries for all time coming in an Independent Scotland. Would also make for a great visual teaching and learning tool kit that could be used to great effect in our schools.

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Wee baby bull sitting with egg on it’s face? Screaming it’s head off. Someone should stick a dynamite dummy in it’s mooth to shut it up (only kidding, lol). And I wonder how he’ll (she’ll) behave when his supply of baby milk, yogurt and ice-cream dries up?

link to inews.co.uk

Worse still is replaced by imports from the US.

link to independent.co.uk

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@ Dr Jim at 12:35pm ….. ”British.”

One of your best ever posts Dr Jim …. of many. Succinctly outlines the Scottish predicament. Add to that Cubby’s (1:10pm) point about the very ”British” Lord Smith.

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Posted by Nana on the last thread and well worth a read if you missed it. ‘Bloody Sunday and how the British empire came home’, by Adam Ramsay.

…”It’s not the only new military base in the region: in 2015, the UK announced a major expansion of its military presence in Oman, where the current Sultan is a former UK army officer who secured his role in a British coup in 1970. He already hosts the only permanent SAS base outside the UK and three GCHQ bases which tap the undersea cables running from the Gulf under the Strait of Hormus. His regime, like that of Bahrain, relies on the use of torture to maintain its control. The UK’s biggest corporation, Shell, owns 34% of Oman’s state oil company – with 60% owned by the government. According to Mark Curtis, the two bases will provide the UK with its biggest capacity for military intervention in the Middle East since the 1960s.”…

link to opendemocracy.net

Silver Darling The British Empire effectively finished in 1947 with the independence of India and certainly was finished by 1999 when Hong Kong was returned to China. France has more overseas territories than the UK now

manandboy says:
16 March, 2019 at 3:43 pm
“”The Scottish view v The English view””
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Referring to ‘Scotland and the rest of the UK’ .also normalises Scotland as a separate, stand-alone entity with its own priorities and policies. Just like an independent country in other words.

By such subtle ways does the idea of independence lose its strangeness.

Just like Ms Sturgeon’s travels abroad making friends and influencing people normalise the idea that this is how it should be. Scotland represented by someone Scots have elected.

Wow this is going to be a rout – bowing down to English masters ????

link to opendemocracy.net

This article should contain a caution, if not a warning. Personally I would advise caution to the average reader, and reserve the warning for the SNP Scottish Government. The reason is contained in this article by Adam Ramsay about Britain’s colonial history of extreme violence, torture and murder. That history continued unabated in its extremes into the ‘Troubles’, the war in Northern Ireland from 1968-1998, during which the British government drew on all its previous experience in its colonies and applied them without reservation or restraint against British citizens, just because they were Irish who favoured the cause of a United Ireland and resisted Loyalist oppression and violence.

I say again, I advise caution, for this article will expose you to some of the very worst activities of the British State. That’s the same British State that we have today.

HYUFD

Wales has nevet beem united with England. It was conquered amd subjugated by England.

I’m sure Robert P can give you the definativr history

Apologies, Petra, we must have been posting simultaneously.

Funny how it’s only his opponents that think he’s world class.
FFS

Frogesque Wales has been formally united with England since the 1535 and 1542 Laws of Wales Acts and Wales has also had MPs at Westminster since those Acts were passed. Scot land did not join the Union until 1707 and Ireland not until 1800

SilverDarling

Rockall is Scottish territory it’s included on the Invernessshire Ordnance Survey maps.

I see the Britnat Tory England troll keeps coming back with his lies and colonial mindset.

Wales is too small, too poor, economy rubbish etc etc = Britnat conditioning/propaganda. Where have we heard this before – everywhere Westminster wants to hold on to their resources.

All the wealthiest (GDP per head) countries in the world are small countries. I am sure at some point in time some plonker told them they were too small, too poor to be an independent country.

Yesindyref2 Yes well done Wales on a comfortable win over Ireland and the Grand Slam, looks like England will secure second place, current score England 31 Scotland 0

Thanks for the congrats, everyone … 🙂

Wales was *disunited* from England by virtue of the Wales Language Act 1993 Schedule 2 (although all references to England to cover Wales also had already been abolished by the previous Welsh Language Act 1967.)

Soon Scotland’s Acts of Union with England will be repealed, too.

“Scotland did not join the Union until 1707”

Note he says – DID NOT JOIN

This statement is typical of the misleading crap that the Britnat Tory from deepest engerland troll posts.

There was no existing Union to join in 1707 – so why does the troll post this? He knows fine well that the Kingdom of Scotland created the Union with the Kingdom of England in 1707 as equal partners. I’ll tell you why it is to create the impression that the union is and always has been an English owned and controlled entity.

It’s like a full time job to keep correcting the total propaganda crap he posts. If you read a post By HYFUD it’s pretty much the case that it will be full of lies and misleading Britnat propaganda.

All the Welsh Language Act did was change the language provisions to ensure recognition of the Welsh Language, it had no effect beyond that

Man and Boy
Most Muslims, sorry for the generalization, are appalled that Christian temples have to be constantly guarded by armed soldiers. In Egypt the scholars of AlAzhar, the great Islamic university condemn assaults on Christians and Jews as fundamentally un Islamic, however even they admit that in certain mosques going out and killing a Christian or a Shi’i may be legitimised by legalistic interpretations of the Qur’án and the Hadiths or events in history. Such a situation of ‘uncertainty’ does risk becoming normative for non Muslims. The Turkish republic still vets Friday sermons with a view to checking ultra interpretations.
The situation in the ME is complex to say the least, poverty and political frustration compound the matter. Events such as this possible loner initiated attack on innocent worshippers will tend to reinforce the sectarian divisive narrative.
The non-vengeful response of the Muslims of Christchurch is noteworthy.

@Cubby, you just stopped me from letting rip at this total prat! I don’t think I’ve ever lost it on here but that pillock has totally pushed all my buttons….I need a lie down after reading his crap. Never before has there been a more self opinionated, butchers apron waving arsehole as this smug, self satisfied, deluded eejit posting on here and we have had quite a few, this guy is in a whole different category.
😉

I wonder what the letters HYUFD stand for???
Perhaps we could have a wee competition?
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Thought about that a month or so back – need to look back my notes!

Petra Even alone England would still be the 7th largest economy in the world out of over 190, hardly a ‘shrivelled up, detested nonentity of a country’

Abulhaq Having returned from Israel and the Palestinian Authority last month in Palestine there were a number of Christian churches who did good works providing schools etc. The local community was comfortably majority Muslim but provided the Christian community did not actively convert they were tolerated

What an absolute stonker of a cartoon. Might not get too much exposure in the BritNat press, but this could well be syndicated more widely. I can see it being taken up by all the major papers on the Continent.

Get to it Chris! This one is a classic that will be referenced by history programmes in the future.

In fact an ‘Abolish the Welsh Assembly’ party polled 7% in a poll last December

Did the Welsh Language Act 1993 Schedule 2 repeal The Laws in Wales Act/”The acts of Union 1535-1542″.

YES.

Maybe if you read the Act you’d see, HYUFD.

link to legislation.gov.uk

There is a theory that the size of Mars Bars is an accurate indication of the state of the economy.

In the same way, the number of postings by “LoDud” is surely a reliable indication of the BritNat state of panic that a full-on indy campaign is about to be unleashed. One that they are scared sh*tless they will lose.

And for very good reason.

YYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSS!

@HYUFD says:16 March, 2019 at 5:30 pm:

” … Frogesque Wales has been formally united with England since the 1535 and 1542 Laws of Wales Act.”

That is absolutely hilarious, HYUFD. Where did you learn your history?

Here is a history question for you:-

What was the Statute of Rhuddlan?

Here’s a wee clue for you – Who made and passed The Statute of Rhuddlan.

Welsh Sion since when was Chapters 27, 34 and 35 the whole Act?

Draw at Twickers. So close.

England 38 Scotland 38 Great match and well played both sides

@HYUFD says: 16 March, 2019 at 5:34 pm:

” … most Brexiteers aim is to expand trade with the rest of the World, particularly the Pacific rim and Far East where the global economy is growing strongest”

Just a wee jog for your memory, HYUFD, in all trade deals there are at least two states that need to agree the terms.

” … do not forget over 50% of UK exports now go outside the EU.”

Oh! We don’t forget. Neither do we forget that you are quoting UK percentages and that includes also Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish exports. Not to mention that the way Westminster accounts what is individual UK country exports is by where they leave the UK and not which UK country actually produced them. Thus much of those , “UK”,exports are not actually English exports and Exports and there probably won’t be a United Kingdom in the very near future.

Didn’t the SNP leader of the HOC contingent say, just the other day, “Scotland will not be dragged out of the EU against her will”? He didn’t say if or maybe he said will not.

What a game!!!

Nicola Sturgeon: ”OK, a bit heartbreaking at the end – but what a heroic, historic performance @Scotlandteam – well done to Gregor and all the guys. The Calcutta Cup is coming back to Scotland!”

link to twitter.com

Jings

HYFUD sts on this site like a vulture on a baobab.

Hoping for the taste of carrion to assail his nostrils.

Well done Wee Wales! And well done Smashing Scotland!

Patrick came good, eh, Dorothy Devine? 😉

(Mind you had Ireland won, I’m sure our cousins would have said the same!) 😀

Well done, Scotland – sorry you didn’t quite make it.

2nd half went to plan basically, get the scores, Townsend threw in his major subs, quite early this time, get near, England get rattled specially Farrell, he’s historic for late tackles (and off the ball ones), he does one (he did turn the shoulder though the commentators threw a wobbly), then gets rattled at a very close knock forward decision and that clever swine Eddie Jones immediately subs him for the level-headed Ford. But for that England wouldn’t have drawn level. Ah well.

Calcutta Cup home to Scotland where it belongs 🙂

@HYUFD says: 16 March, 2019 at 5:56 pm:

” … Welsh Sion Did the Welsh Language Act repeal the Laws of Wales Acts?”

I’ll ask you again, HYUFD, What was the Statute of Rhuddlan and who proclaimed it?

Here is a wee quote:-

“He, (EDWARD), gradually extended English influence, at least partly by chipping away at Welsh law and establishing English legal traditions.

One of the tools Edward used to effect this change was the Statute of Rhuddlan (later, and erroneously called the Statute of Wales).

According to this statute, the counties of Anglesey, Meirionnydd, and Caernarfon were created out of the remnants of Llewelyn’s Gwynedd, and staffed with sheriffs to collect taxes and administer justice – English style justice using English Common Law. In addition, the offices of justice and chamberlain were created to assist the sheriff.”

There you go – Edward defeated the last native Prince of Wales then by military force imposed English law upon what was then not part of England and Edward was not King or prince of Wales.

There is absolutely no doubt that England invaded Wales and forced English law upon the Welsh. I ask again, where did you learn your history?.

Abulhaq Sensible comments, practice Christianity in the Middle East by all means but be wary of being too loud and evangelical about it

How could you believe the accounts of a country that hides the true wealth of the economy of its equal partner.
You will be saying that gers is not a political propaganda tool next.

ROBERT PEFFERS
The French adopted a kind of Pax Romana perspective. Regardless of background, if you ‘became’ French, you were French and there was no restrictions on access to higher education. Generally, in the short term, it worked. However some of the most assertive liberators of the French colonial empire came from the seemingly assimilated, frenchified élite. Algeria, Syria, Vietnam and Sénégal spring to mind.
It may well be from amongst the so called ‘assimilated’ that the revolt begins. Scotland may yet have surprises up its sleeve!
I believe British extra-territories are designated ‘Crown Dependencies’. So useful for financial jiggery pockery! Gibraltar, Isle of Man, Jersey, Cayman, Bahamas, Bermuda…..

Wings, lol:

link to twitter.com

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‘Yes Marchmont and Morningside survey shows change in indy views.’

link to thenational.scot

The *British* told Malta they couldn’t possibly be Independent like they’ve told all the many many other countries who released themselves from the yoke of Imperialism, I’m quite sure if and when Wales decides they want to be Independent then half the world will offer the same assistance as Scotland is about to receive and as seen by *Britain* Ireland has been supported by

The world is watching the *British* establishment implode and no one is surprised and not a finger is being lifted to help it retain its imagined superiority, and it won’t until it realises it’s no more or less important in the world than anyone else

Steve Rodgers of Morgan Stanley, Bloomberg and everything else world financial said: When Scotland becomes Independent they’ll take their oil and seas with them and without Scotlands assets England has nothing to sell so their financial rating will fall to around 18th place in the world leaving Scotland over a very short space of time a position of around 8th richest country GDP

Don’t answer me Troll go and Troll Steve Rodgers tell him you know better, it’ll make a change from Trolling Wings and Scotlands First Minister

@Welsh Sion
Awa ye hence from this place of HIFUD absolute and astonishing total ignorance, to an establishment that serveth alcohol and loads of Welsh and Irish supporters celebrating regardless of result, like it’s going out of fashion! Or many, one after the other. Been there, done that, years ago mind 🙂

Even the article our troll cites opens by using the past simple tense:

“The Laws in Wales Acts 1535 and 1542 (Welsh: Y Deddfau Cyfreithiau yng Nghymru 1535 a 1542) *were* [my emphasis] parliamentary measures by which Wales became a full and equal [aye, right] part of the Kingdom of England and the legal system of England was extended to Wales and the norms of English administration introduced.”