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>By Tom Buerkle International Herald Tribune
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>LONDON - To judge by its symbols, the state of Britain is as solid and
>enduring as ever. The guard changes daily at Buckingham Palace, the
>But as voters launched a historic experiment in self-government with
>elections in Scotland and Wales on Thursday, the big question facing
>Britons was whether the devolution of political power would undermine their
>sense of national identity.
>
>The postwar era has seen the decline of many of the institutions that
>traditionally bound the peoples of the British Isles together, while the
>transformation of Welsh and Scottish cultural identities into political
>power shows signs of awakening English nationalism.
absolute gibberish see 'The Avengers' Movie - and decades of National
provocation from England.
The Avengers Movie never made the Cinemas in Scotland because it was
released the same time that people were to vote for Devolution.
Its arrogance would have so enraged the Scottish Voters that it never
made the cinemas on pretext of being a flop ... it is a bad movie but
its special effects are better than 'The faculty' etc etc
It is that overt and arrogant and unreal declaration of superiority by
the English that gets up everyones nose here.
>
>''Many factors behind the Union have ceased to operate, like Empire and the
>dominance of Protestantism, or are coming under strain, such as the cult of
>the monarchy,''
Margaret Thatcher officially dissolved the Union of Crowns in its own terms
in the late 70's, 80's when she Introduced a tax ONLY in Scotland called the
Poll Tax.
This was because it was to be an unpopular tax so it was tried on the Scots
first - there wasn't much reaction, so they introduced it to England and Wales
and there were immediately massive riots in English Inner Cities.
said Linda Colley, a historian at the London School of
>Economics. Ms. Colley, whose views are widely admired inside the government
>of Prime Minister Tony Blair, says the country needs to ''reinvent
>Britishness'' as a collection of different identities that draws strength
>from its diversity.
Television programmes and other media have been deliberately destroying the
Unionist cause for years.
Its as though the English want to break up the Country.
Other bits of arrogance flouted for years at the Scottish working class
are the strips of the English International Soccer and Rugby teams that have
No legal/heraldic entitlement to incorporate the colour Blue.
The English national colours are red and white, but the powers that be
subsume the colours of the Union by running about in Scottish colours,
whilst representing England.
>Pronouncements about the death of Britain are no doubt premature. Mr.
>Blair's Labour Party seemed set to win the largest bloc of seats in
>Scotland and Wales after campaigning in defense of the Union and warning of
>the potential economic and political costs of independence.
Blair has No working majority in Scotland after the Scottish elections
and will be made to repeal cuts on public services by the Liberal Democrats
with whom he must form a coalition.
>Still, evidence abounds of shifting loyalties in Britain. According to
>recent polls, roughly two-thirds of people in Scotland identify themselves
>as Scottish rather than British, a finding that has echoes in Wales and
>Northern Ireland.
>
>In what many people here perceived as the ultimate irony, the British
>Broadcasting Corp. recently warned its own programmers about using the term
>''British,'' because Scots get angry if English soccer hooligans are
>referred to as British, or referring to Britain as a ''nation,'' since many
>Scots and Welsh consider themselves nations within the United Kingdom.
Yes this has happened so often - we've had 30 years of this.
>The Times newspaper blasted the BBC under the headline, ''The nation that
>dare not speak its name.''
BBC recently blocked the opportunity for Scotland to have its own news
programme.
>The success of Labour's campaign and the decline in support for Scottish
>independence, which polls indicate only a minority would favor, suggest
>that Mr. Brown's vision is shared by many Britons.
Incorrect, the Scottish election shows a slump in labour vote and an increase
in the 'National Socialist' vote.
>
>Scottish nationalism developed in the 1980s largely out of frustration at
>the right-wing policies of Margaret Thatcher, whose Conservative Party
>dominated the British Parliament and, as a result, Scottish policy, even
>though it won few seats in Scotland.
Incorrect, The Conservative Party won NO seats in Scotland, and only managed
to get some second class citizens into the recent election on the back of
the policies of Proportional Represenatation which they do not believe in.
Make No mistake here. BLAIRs Labour and the CONSERVATIVES are the same
stale anti-human party.
Today, many Scots see Mr. Blair as
>Mrs. Thatcher's heir, who has succeeded by tailoring Labour's economic
>policies to middle-class English voters.
Incorrect everyone all over the United Kingdom, Scots, English and Welsh
and Irish who has even moderate IQ sees Blair clearly implementing the
Thatcher Agenda.
>Devolution risks a backlash in England itself because the political changes
>have drawn fresh attention to the way in which power and money is shared in
>the country. Thanks to a 1970s formula that took account of Scotland's
>geographic isolation, the British government spends 22 percent more per
>person in Scotland than in England, or �4,772 ($7,800) last year compared
>with �3,897.
Incorrect - that 'formula' comes by cooking the Books - Scotland would,
if Independent be completely self sufficient in abundant Oil revenues.
>Meanwhile, after obtaining its own Parliament, Scotland will still have 72
>members in the British House of Commons, who will be able to vote on
>matters affecting England even though English members will have no say over
>issues like education and health in Scotland. Scots dominate the cabinet,
Incorrect approach - all matters of national Sovereignty are processed at
Whitehall - in fact I believe the guy that has written this article sounds
like a typical English nationalist Scot-basher.
>including Mr. Brown at the Treasury, Foreign Secretary Robin Cook, Defense
>Minister George Robertson and Lord Chancellor Derry Irvine, the top
>judicial official.
>
>''The Scots used to be cold and needy,'' said Teresa Gorman, a Tory member
>of Parliament. ''Now they're bold and greedy. Sooner or later it's going to
>get up the noses of England.''
This is more Racist and Classist Rhetoric by the writer of this article.
If you look at the article I posted recently called 'Anarchy in the UK' or
get out the Movie 'The Avengers' - you'll see why those same evil people
never let their propoganda anywhere near the Scottish people on the month
of their Parliamentary election.
I get sick of English Racism and Hypocrisy.
The Scots - perpetual cannon fodder of the 'British Empire' portrayed as
ignorant, mean, greedy, base, yet the world of the 20th and 21st century
would not have been the same without their genius and inventions.
Go to Europe and say you're English - you get a really hard time,
Go to Europe - any country - and say you're Scottish - luxury treatment.
I wonder why ??
Andrew Hennessey
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