----- Original Message ----- From: "Malcolm N_" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 10:41 AM Subject: Re: [canals-list] Re: Defra puts its foot in its mouth!
> On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 09:20:15 -0000, "Sue Burchett" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Maybe we would be better off if we were left to run our own country >>without the Scots & Welsh trying to run everything. >> > > This isn't the place to get into devolution / independance etc etc.. > > But as someone born in Brighton and living and working in Scotland for > over 15 years I would say: > > I grew up with, lived and worked with people from Scotland, Wales and > Ireland all around me. I had a Scottish primary school teacher. We all > got on fine. > > In Scotland - I have found large numbers of English, Welsh and Irish > people similarly living and working happily - as long as they don't > try to do things " like we do them back home in .....". > > The British and Irish have worked together for hundreds of years to > create Britain as we know it - warts and all - British Empire, etc > etc, from the days of Brindley ( English ) and Telford ( Scottish ). > > So let's just all work together in a civilised manner. > > -- > Malcolm Well said, that man! As a Scot who has lived in London for 30+ years, I like to think that nationality has nothing much to do with anything. People are just people wherever they were born. Dorothy
