The last couple of days have been interesting and amusing. Since 2014 the Unionists have had a pent-up need to attack Scotland and the very idea of independence. While we in the independence movement bemoaned the SNP’s lack of movement over the past eight years, the Unionists bemoaned that they couldn’t get to do their favourite thing, girn and trash Scotland, their nation of birth!
Nicola’s rather damp squib on Tuesday was all the union weans needed. The English chattering class and House Jock media went into indignant meltdown. Jeremy Vine dedicated a programme to the topic. He should have named it ‘How dare these sweaty socks insult us superior English with their inane drivel about leaving the English Empire.’ The usual middle England right wing arrogant ignorant, ill educated came on to expose for all to see their complete and utter ignorance of the British Union and Scotland’s place inside the UK.
That arrogance and pomposity that takes it as proof positive that it is only because a small faction of Scotch agitators hates the benevolent all knowing perfect English that this disgusting desire to separate exists.They truly believe their own hype and their corrupt media regarding ‘their’ nation. Scotland is a possession, not a separate ancient country.
For centuries now a false narrative has been developed that makes the English believe that they are superior to all other nations on the earth, with one exception, the US who they see as their only equal on the planet. The two most despised and broken nations on this earth, both afflicted with the same exceptionalism disease. They truly believe everyone loves them. Delusion on stilts and steroids!
England and its people truly believe everyone in the world envies them and their nationality. They believe that immigrants only go to England because of the massive welfare benefits. They think it is common knowledge that no country is as lawful, kind, considerate, generous, welcoming as England. They even throw in generous rendition flights to Rwanda at no cost to the asylum seekers!
They have been led to believe everyone loves the English monarchy and wishes she was their Queen too. They block out the reality that all of the Caribbean nations and now Australia too have indicated they intend to become republics. I would also expect Canada to indicate the same once the present Queen departs her mortal coil. They block this out just like they have blocked out their recent 4-0 home defeat to Hungary in the Nations League.
Acknowledging these realities would mean having to accept some other difficult truths. That just perhaps they are not the best at everything. The possibility that there are flaws in anything to do with England’s democracy, law, education, world standing, economy form of governance.
The narrative is that the NHS is failing because too many foreigners are taking advantage of the system, it is not because the corrupt government has starved it of proper funding for decades. It also has to be denied that Brexit has caused the staff shortages. That would mean admitting England requires foreign help and that just cannot be allowed! All faults and shortcomings are blamed on nameless faceless individuals and trade Unionists. It must not, and can never be about horrific policy making and governance by the English Public school elite that pollute the political, civil service and media in the UK.They must at all times be free of any blame.
For forty odd years they were able to lay every dysfunctional part of the UK’s governance at the door of Brussels.That resulted in Brexit, however to admit that this too was a monumental cock up has to be hidden.That is why the EU has to take the blame for Treaty that the UK negotiated. The responsibility for anything that is less than perfect has to be someone elses fault it can never, ever be the fault of England or its governance by the English Public School elite!
It is the same in sport when an English team loses a contest the post defeat discussion is always why certain English sportsmen didn’t perform as they had been instructed or the English manager made a human error with the tactics or team selection, the ball wasn’t at the right pressure or it was a long season for the England players. This, of course, ignores the reality that it was an equally long season for the opponents, and the ball is the same for both teams. It can never ever be admitted that a foreign team is ever in any way just better than any England team at any sport. It has to be a fluke, a bad referee, a sub-standard non-English playing surface, non-English weather, bullying fans, any excuse except some other nation is better at anything than an English team. This doubly applies when it is Scotland ,Wales or Ireland!
That is why the programmes of Jeremy Vine, Nick Ferrari, James O’Brien, SKY News, BBC London all take it so personally that any Scot could possibly contemplate not being under England’s superior maternal governing wing. It is just ingratitude and Scottish bigots that could possibly not want English rule over their rather backward inadequate country. Doesn’t it always rain in Scotchland too?
That is why our media, drama, current affairs in the UK is all so Anglocentric. They truly believe there is nothing fairer or more balanced than telling the inferior Celts all about England because nothing of interest or newsworthy ever happens in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland. Have you noticed in our drama how the smart main character is always the Home Counties middle class English man or woman? The helper, the crook, the drunk, the aggressive ill educated buffoon are always Celts, the leading characters middle England, middle class Anglos!
In governance in our unequal Union, we have Secretary’s of State for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland apparently and obviously England doesn’t require a voice at Cabinet it already has a megaphone. GERS and equivalent are released for the Celtic nations but of course, none are ever produced for England. It is just a given the only reason England has any debt is because of the Scots, Welsh and Irish are proliferate with their fixed block grants/pocket money. The generosity of England apparently knows no bounds.
In the coming months this narrative will be pumped out more and more. Those in governance in London know that Scotland is the money tree. They will convince England, and they hope enough Scots too that without an English subsidy Scotland would be a failed state. Sadly, a great number of Scots will also believe this lie. Most of the English will believe the lie too, because it plays into their false superiority complex.
Too many will fail to take a step back and apply some logic to this oft repeated nonsense. Just as they are willing to accept continual failure on the world stage at sport is because of cheating Johnny Foreigners, freaky weather and bent referees it is best to believe ungrateful Jocks are subsidised for £ Billions every year with English taxes not that Scotland is being robbed to subsidise their impoverished nation!
Nobody ever thinks that this UK government, that taxes, their granny’s spare bedroom, denies pensions to the WASPI women, cuts Universal credit to the bone, gives pensioners in effect a pension cut all to save money will though give Scotland, Wales and NI £ Billions and £ Billions of subsidies each and every year!
For a nation that thinks they are superior to all other nations the people are not very smart to accept that! Why would any English politician Tory or otherwise allow such a thing to happen year after year to England and its impoverished people? We in the independence movement know the answer of course! England is and has always been a parasitical nation maintaining its elite and lifestyle by stealing the wealth and resources of other nations. It has always been so, as an example just ask India.
https://historyofyesterday.com/how-britain-looted-45-trillion-from-india-2e923dfb2efb
It has been stealing Scottish resources and wealth since 1707. They have managed this sadly because many Scots over the past 300 + years collaborated with the English ruling elite. Today many continue to do this. These Scots born people are the ones I hold in the greatest contempt.
How any decent human being can work in the interests of another nation against the best interests of their own nation of birth, disgusts me. When you ask them to justify this, they are unable to answer. I have asked every single leader of the English registered parties in Scotland and as many of their elected and membership and supporters as I can find this simple question. ‘Name three things that can only be achieved by the British Union that cannot be achieved by an independent Scotland.’ To date, I have never received a single credible reply to that simple question.

The reason is equally simple, the answer is nothing! An independent Scotland can do anything the UK does now, and so much more. We will also be able not to do many of the things that the UK does too! Like WMD, foreign wars at US behest, rejoin the Single Market. We can have as many immigrants as want or need to come. We will always get the government we elect not the one a foreign country elects. Our own foreign policy, our own media, our own drama, our own history, our own narratives!
It leads me to this conclusion, if they cannot answer that satisfactorily it means they cannot even justify to themselves why they would work for a foreign country to the detriment of their own nation. There is a word for people like that, it is not a patriot!
So buckle up folks, over the coming days and weeks you, our nation and everything about us is going to be trashed, demeaned, degraded, discredited, shamed and bullied. The saddest part in all of this is that certain Scots and ‘scottish’ journalists in the pay of England will be heading up these attacks on our nation and people.
Take heart, though. It is because they know England’s hegemony over Scotland is coming to an end. It is their last throw of the dice, and they know they are destined to lose! What we do with these people post independence is anyone’s guess. I know what I would do with them!
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Last night’s Debate Night was appalling and disgusting in equal measure. I have said often enough that I have no problem with rUK or other immigrants into Scotland who have respect for us and our nation. I do have a problem with people who come here to live then try to trash us and our country.
Debate Night had the usual Unionist suspects bumping their gums, but a new dimension was added when obvious immigrants with strong accents started to do the same as the young rUK chap who thought it a jolly wheeze to turn on the ‘too wee, too poor, too stupid’ narrative.
Had I been in that audience, I would have asked several questions: when you came here, did you or did you not know that there was a SNP (independence) government in Scotland? If you did know that, and it would be hard to believe you didn’t, why did you come and why did you stay if you were not prepared to respect the wishes of the people of Scotland? People are entitled to their own opinion, but that opinion does not outweigh the opinion of the indigenous population because that is colonialism in the raw, and not just colonialism, but also racism, except, in this case, it was in reverse.
Bring on the constitutional tools and stick them in their arrogant faces. We have had enough. Be warned!
What angers me too is Sturgeon, not just for her feckless ineptitude as “Leader”, but she has given Scotland’s enemies so much ammunition to use against us. Ammunition they didn’t have in 2014.
In spite of everything, there was every opportunity for the United Kingdom to end and both Nations to go separate ways without rancour and animosity. I still believe yet that Scotland can find leverage to smooth our transition to Independence by easing England through the dreadful mess it’s creating for itself with Europe.
Scotland will be Independent. I firmly believe the Claim of Right will deliver where our politicians have failed, but a clumsy and ineffective Campaign run by Sturgeon can only generate the unnecessary rancour and animosity that we might otherwise avoid. She hasn’t the vision to steer a good path.
She has already gifted the Unionists the initiative and watchword vocabulary of “wildcat” or “unlawful” referendums. She is a MASSIVE liability for Scotland.
Yes everthing you say is right UK,OK is not a proper country it is a feudal medieval theifdom for the rich and big corporations . The rest of us live hand to mouth in their Prince John economy. While the rich engorging themselves at every opportunity milking the peasantry. Law is only for the gentry we a colonial subjects of a new Imperial English Reich who think they are the new master race. Delusions of exeptionism a third rate banana republic now turned into a Tory elected dictatorship it will all end badly. International law human rights are all disregarded. The British state is like an Iran a backward country run by inbred upper class twits in the pay of mega wealthy Oligarchs.
Lorna, The Herald has been the same over these past few days – completely over the top with its anti-indy stance and all the usual culprits, columnists and letters, contributing to various newspapers. Worse, increasingly filling in with agency news more relevant to England, they cannot find time to seek out Scottish stories.
Scottish newspapers and media only talk down on independence, yet that was the medium chosen to present the new case. Without Scottish newspapers, the goal of independence might be easier given the scant attention to Scottish affairs in UK “nationals”.
I hate to be pedantic The Herald like most of ourcMSM is not Scottish. The entire MSM is the same as Labour,Tory, Liberals House Jocks, sell out merchants nothing more.
That’s correct. And if we think they’re bad already, just wait until the Claim of Right begins to flex its muscle and assert Scotland’s Constitutional strength.
I’ve found myself shouting at my telly again as the unionist media attacks the thought of another indyref, this seems a tad strange to me because for the last few years I’ve berating Sturgeon and her party for letting us down badly. However there’s something more galling about unionists especially ones that don’t live in Scotland telling me and my fellow Scots what we can and can’t do, than Sturgeon stabbing us in the back.
I don’t want to type any negative comments on the possibility of a coming indyref even though its more than likely that Sturgeon is just dangling another carrot in front of us.
Excellent post, BB. If only you had mentioned that the result against Hungary was England’s worst home result since 1928, when they lost 5-1 to … Scotland.
You make many accurate and justifiable criticisms, Roddy. For me, one of the memorable things about living abroad was not having to listen to those wholly contrived and standardised home-counties accents reading the news, and voicing-over near each and every advertisement on TV. Where else, but in a mature colony, would such linguistic chauvinism go unremarked upon and remain unchallenged?
It does seem that IF we are to get a referendum in 2023 we are accepting all of the same conditions as the last time out. In fact it’s worse. It’s like a 3-legged race where your assumed partner is reluctant to commit, won’t share their strategy with you and are likely to head off in a different direction. Meanwhile your opponents have a 10m start – courtesy of the media, franchise etc, will change the rules if it looks like you’re going to overtake them and cheat their way to victory with no recourse.
The traitors shall get their just desserts.
Hi Scott Egner, howde ye do, I’ve been wondering about that too:
With regards to the naming of dates for next October’s (ahem) ‘indyref2’ and as noted by James Kelly, traditionally, this referendum would have to be held on either:
Thursday the 5th October 2023
Thursday the 12th October 2023
Thursday the 19th October 2023
Thursday the 26th October 2023
Let’s play the rest of this out for fun… SO if they’re wanting to further maintain tradition, then at the point an ‘indyref2’ date is set and communicated to the people, the Scottish Government are ALSO obligated to commit to and confirm when our future ‘Independence DAY’ will be as well. These two dates will always be announced in tandem (No ifs! No buts!). So we need to maintain the pressure on NS to confirm both these dates before they all go aff on their vacations. And if they’re even further wanting to maintain tradition… in the event that the people of Scotland do indeed vote Yes next October ’23 😉 Scotland’s Independence Day will be either:
Thursday the 10th April 2025
Thursday the 17th April 2025
Thursday the 24th April 2025
Thursday the 1st May 2025
And that’s because our original re-independence day from a successful Yes vote in 2014 would have taken us up to Thursday the 24th March 2016 (553 days later). Ye never know, if the SNP get ahead of schedule and feel really gallus with their indypreps, they could replicate the original date (but have it exactly 9 years later for nostalgic purposes).
INDEPENDENCE DAY:
Monday the 24th March 2025 (and what a great start to the week that would make!!!)