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    • Mia on The shifting sands of memory: “Which part of the word “kingdom” do you not understand” I understand the full lot of it. Now, which part…May 22, 12:10
    • Chas on The shifting sands of memory: “I think you will find that ‘the Union! Whatever that means to each individual, has existed for over 300 years.…May 22, 11:45
    • James Cheyne on The shifting sands of memory: “RobertKknight. It is strongly debatable wether Scotland was taken over officially into international treaty with England at all. Or simply…May 22, 11:25
    • TURABDIN on The shifting sands of memory: “SCOTTISH NATIONALISM is becoming like some abstruse theology concerned with the details of process at the expence of aim and…May 22, 10:53
    • James Cheyne on The shifting sands of memory: “Lying to the Scottish people for hundreds of years that they were in a treaty of union with England and…May 22, 10:44
    • Hatey McHateface on The shifting sands of memory: ““hoodwinked the rest of the world” Aye, James, with true, Scottish Exceptionalism of the highest purity, it’s only a tiny…May 22, 10:41
    • Hatey McHateface on The shifting sands of memory: “Which part of the word “kingdom” do you not understand, Mia? Your lot chucked the Kingdom Of Scotland into the…May 22, 10:36
    • Aidan on The shifting sands of memory: “What word are you expecting from London?May 22, 10:32
    • James Cheyne on The shifting sands of memory: “Lorn, If it is discovered that the 1707 treaty of union is indeed faux treaty it has ramification on all…May 22, 10:29
    • Hatey McHateface on The shifting sands of memory: “Knuckle draggers gonna get friction burns from the nylon carpets in their bedrooms.May 22, 10:23
    • Hatey McHateface on The shifting sands of memory: “That’s right, Alf, there’s no union and there never has been. And so we Scots, with true Scottish Exceptionalism, are…May 22, 10:21
    • James Cheyne on The shifting sands of memory: “Bbc might have a hairy fit and explode a zillion times, after all it is funded by the England Great…May 22, 10:18
    • James on The shifting sands of memory: “A country that is allegedly an “equal partner” in a “unitary two party state…..but; has no control over it’s own…May 22, 10:17
    • James Cheyne on The shifting sands of memory: “Which is also why Westminster invented The Scottish referendum, (which if the treaty of union is not a hoax) and…May 22, 10:11
    • James on The shifting sands of memory: “Trolls gonna troll.May 22, 10:00
    • TURABDIN on The shifting sands of memory: “Scots Law: Domestic only, zero impact on English law regulated British state apparatus. Presbyterian Church of Scotland: Assured the Protestant…May 22, 09:56
    • Mia on The shifting sands of memory: ““The Kingdom of Scotland was extinguished” On this point, I have to disagree. I do not believe the Kingdom of…May 22, 09:51
    • Vivian O’Blivion on The shifting sands of memory: “In his latest musings, Robin McAlpine claims that Scotland is a feudal state rather than a democracy. He believes that…May 22, 09:49
    • TURABDIN on The shifting sands of memory: “THE VIEW THAT SCOTLAND is a part of England is the normative perspective of foreigners looking at the history of…May 22, 09:42
    • Oneliner on The shifting sands of memory: “Realism over romance? Absolutely Deception over truth? Certainly not In a parallel universe, Grangemouth Refinery remains open and Distillers plc…May 22, 09:40
    • Alf Baird on The shifting sands of memory: “It disna maiter when the ‘UK’ deceit occurred, the fact is the ‘union’ disna exist an haes nivver existed, apairt…May 22, 09:35
    • Chas on The shifting sands of memory: “This article is ‘manna from heaven’ for all the fringe nutters and cranks who habitually pollute Wings. Much gnashing of…May 22, 09:14
    • Hatey McHateface on The shifting sands of memory: “I think that that’s a reasonably accurate summary of the historical situation. So that’s how we came to be where…May 22, 07:51
    • Hatey McHateface on The shifting sands of memory: “Strong, the “wanking on and on” is, in this one. Or should that be “wan” 🙂May 22, 07:33
    • Hatey McHateface on The shifting sands of memory: ““the next ref” Aw, bless. Barbie’s pinning her hopes on there being another referendum! Ah well. Decades of pointless pish…May 22, 07:29
    • Big Jock on The shifting sands of memory: “The deid Queen called herself QE2. It was on the coinage. Yes I know she was QE1 officially in Scotland.…May 22, 01:00
    • Geri on The shifting sands of memory: “Not necessarily. Kosovo manages just fine. There are many countries who have ongoing disputes. It’s countries that recognise other countries,…May 22, 00:53
    • Geri on The shifting sands of memory: “It was meaningless because it wasn’t written down legally anywhere that they’d actually enact the result – just that they’d…May 22, 00:36
    • Geri on The shifting sands of memory: ““no matter what some nit picking academics poring over 3 centuries old dead parchments might argue.” Wait a minute there,…May 22, 00:26
    • robertkknight on The shifting sands of memory: “Scotland was effectively acquired, through hostile takeover, by England, who had threaten to cut off Scotland’s international trade through naval…May 21, 23:38
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