It’s the one question where I’m genuinely flummoxed.
]]>Thanks for the outline re: cultural identity.
Tim
]]>2) My family has a blood feud with the Scots. Way back in the sixth centaury the Scots hanged members of my family including some women. The feud has gone on since then. It only got postponed because the decided to share the queen. If they get rid of the queen then the feud is back on.
That’s why I will be voting NO.
These are true..Honestly.
]]>“It’s just a gut feeling,” they say, and woe betide anyone who punctures a gut feeling because seven shades of incoherent bile will come pouring out, spraying indiscriminately over Alex Salmond (fucking smug bastard), Hugh Macdiarmid (don’t you know he was a Fascist!), Margo Macdonald (a fake), egg-throwing thugs (absolutely sickening), Prince Charles(er…?) and, of course, me – malcontent, stirrer, and just generally a smartarse for backing up an argument or for asking why they believe a particular “fact”.
“It’s a GUT FEELING! I feel it in my GUTS!!! How DARE you question my twisted entrails!”
As you will have gathered that stimulating as the campaign has been, we haven’t quite managed to engage sectors of the electorate.
]]>On the way up to the Stadium…soldiers collecting for Help for Heroes (are Scottish regiments only recruited from Rangers supporters?)…leaflets lying about with Jakey Rowling’s face on them explaining why ‘NO’ vote needed…English millionaire speaking unto Scottish plebs…how apt.
‘Rule Brittania’ belting out from the Blue Brigade. Shameful howling down of ‘Flower of Scotland’ by Rangers fans.
‘You’ve no history…You’ve no history’ the Queens fans sung. Never a truer observation. How can any Scots person sit among such self loathing ("Tractor" - Ed)s?
]]>Anyway, so as not to waste a couple of hours effort, I’ve loaded it up into dropbox if anyone is interested.
]]>A Hard Rains A Gonna Fall, Part 2
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