Let Scotland go
Everywhere I turn at the moment, I see and hear pundits banging on about Scotland.
This Salmond ego-trip is the big bore of 2012 and apparently looks set to carry on until Bannockburn’s 700th anniversary in 2014.
In my view and I guess a bundle of those born in England, yes please, let Scotland go and while we’re at it why not rebuild Hadrian’s Wall?
We are overwhelmed by Scottishness in England: Prime Ministers (this one’s a Cameron) chancellors, ministers, MPs, trade union leaders, football managers and pundits, BBC announcers, presenters and weather forecasters, not forgetting call-centre staff. Subtitles or interpreters would help.
As a nation we are to blame for this, we have imposed ourselves on other nations and our arrogance is second to none.
Most lines on maps where conflicts occur have been, at least in part, drawn by the English.
This has led to understandable resentment but I reckon the Scottish have more than got their own back.
The transfer window is still open so why not send a load of the Scottish mafia back (I refer only to those who impose) maybe on a free transfer, not on loan!
Will the population of Scotland go along with Alex? I doubt it and as they vote on our issues, will we English have a vote too?
If Mr Salmond gets his referendum and he’s nicely tucked up in Balmoral, I hope his chef is ‘gud with fud’ and he’ll have left the stirling zone and be placing his bets with the new Scottish ‘Thistle’.
And no I don’t lay claim to Andy Murray. Win or lose he’s Scottish.
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Bytor
Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 02:13 PMIf you lot are in favour it almost goes without saying that I am against . Hurrah for Clan MacGreggor and smoked kippers!!
George1916
Monday, January 23, 2012 at 08:30 AMI think that even if Jockland does get independence they will still be leaching off the rest of us and whinging about the past and how bad us English are. I can't wait to see Salmond on the podium flanked by supporters including Abdelbaset al Megrahi and that famous scot, Mel Gibson.
Sir Taxedalot
Friday, January 20, 2012 at 04:00 PMIndependence for Scotland is a fine political ideal a lot like the EU and the Euro. The devil is in the detail and the last person capable to work that out is Salmond. Not only should we let chilly Jockoland go its own way but also Wales and those nutters north of Ireland. Then we can solve our immigration problem at a snap. We can't send back all the stateless and passportless but we can send back the Taff's, the Jocks and the Micks. That'll leave plenty of space, and jobs, for the English. Sounds like a plan.
Derek.Hutchinson
Friday, January 20, 2012 at 06:48 AMLet Scotland go independent, rebuild Hadrians Wall a lot higher and all the way accross the border, Scrap the Barnett Formula and cease all English Taxpayers contributions that give Scotland Free Higher education, prescriptions, life saving drugs unavailable to English patients and anything else that we pay for whilst denying our own the same.Let them keep the OIl and the gas as I am sure we can use a bit of initiative and get it elsewhere as we do allready..Form an English only parliament which is something the English do not have at present which makes the English to be the only ones in the UK not to have representation in reality..
serendipity
Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 11:52 PM#4: It was all part of a deliberate plot to destroy England because they all hate us.
Ivan Eddake
Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 08:49 PMTony Blair, Gordon Brown, Douglas Alexander, Alastair Darling, John Reid, Jim Murphy, Lord Falkener.... Why aren't these brilliant politicians back where they belong - in Jockland? I would suggest that they would have been more suited to cocking up the Scottish parliament than making the mess that they did when in power at Westminster.
seenitall
Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 12:22 PMI should make it clear that my comments are not just directed at the 'lassies' but rather at the whole of the nation beyond the wall which Hadrian had built to keep out the Barbarians!
seenitall
Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 11:23 AMHaving once been married to a 'lassie' I learned that they, in general, have a perverse understanding of history to say nothing of a shoulder chip ...as wide as the Wicker Arches. They conveniently forget that, as a nation ,they were bankrupt when they begged Westminster to form a Union and we, the English, have been made to pay ever since. It would( I suppose)be sad to see them go but at least we wouldn't have to suffer Scottish football results anymore...to say nothing of Hogmanay and their accent(s). Give all of us in the Union a vote!
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