The farce that is the unsightly ‘contest’ to become the next English sociopath to lead the Tory Party is in full swing. To attain the most coveted position in English society you must demonstrate your English exceptionalism to the fullest. The more arrogant and demeaning you are to all other nations and people of the world the more the Tory membership will like you. Bash the EU and Johnny Foreigners gets you lots of credibility among the right-wing membership. Threaten to get even tougher of migrants, and asylum seekers will garner you votes quicker than you can imagine. To give Tory members orgasms promise lots of tax cuts for the wealthy and lots of austerity for the poor. This is the key to No 10 quite literally!
However, if you really want to get their leadership votes, attack the Jocks and Taffies. This gives the average Tory member such a great feeling of superiority and plays to their false sense of Anglo supremacy. This same superior attitude is what led to Brexit. The belief that Johnny Foreigner was incapable of sitting as an equal with any Englishman played well with the voters south of the border.
For years they had been told these inferior Europeans wanted to remove their English way of life completely. They wanted to take away their good English pint and make them drink litres.Indeed these filthy foreigners wanted to stop them drinking that dishwater they refer to as great English beer completely! (The finest beer in the world don’t you know?) That they wanted to straighten your bananas, make you drive on the right side of the road, take MPH from your cars and insist you only have KPH on the speedometer was about to happen any day. In short they wanted to take away their great English way of life completely! The English voter reacts well to simpleton arguments that play to their ill placed superiority complex!
All lies and nonsense of course, and no coincidence it was Brussels based journalists like Boris Johnson that perpetrated these myths and untruths. Too lazy to actually report the true facts from the EU Johnson just made up stories, so he could enjoy leisure time rather than work. It was why he was sacked by the Times. Sadly though, the gullible English believed his lies, because they wanted to believe them!
Nothing though brings out that feeling of superiority in the English like Jock or Taffy bashing.They are somewhat reticent to be quite so disparaging about the Irish because they have form in fighting back. Like all bullies the English do not like metaphorically or otherwise punches on the nose. If they keep telling themselves England is so much better than Taffyland or Jockistan they feel good. Assailing them with stories of how the Jocks and Taffies while inferior to them also look up to them and need their largesse to survive makes the English feel oh so good about themselves.
So when the reality starts to appear that the Scots might want to end the union ‘EU is bad’ type lies and distortions are needed. To keep the myth of English superiority going it has to be pointed out that there are some Scotch that are anti-English racists and that the majority are being forced into holding an independence referendum.
The ‘good’ Scotch like subservient Alistair Jack, Douglas Ross, Ian Murray, Gordon Brown are wheeled out to tell the English public that the Scottish people do not want anything to do with a referendum or independence from Mother England. Indeed, the people of Scotland want the horrible SNP Government to get on with administering the Health Service, Roads, Police, Education that they have messed up anyway and nothing else.
They have convinced the English Public that the Scots hate independence so much and somehow only English Tories can save the poor Scots from under the independence heel. They do however fail to explain why the Scottish electorate has kept electing the SNP in every single election since 2007! That simple fact alone destroys the Tory imperialist lies! Again nobody every mentions this as Tories lie on our TV screens!
Nobody in England or its media seems to question this unusual occurrence at every election. Just as they never wanted to question the straight banana nonsense of Boris Johnson! It suits them to live in this English fantasy world where everything is the best in the world. An England that is loved and envied by all peoples of the world. They are delusional gullible people not a master race as they believe!
What is even more strange is why no English MP or voter has ever suggested throwing the ungrateful subsidised English hating Jocks,Taffies and Paddies out of their beloved English Union! Why has no MP ever said let us English use the Scottish and Welsh annual subsidies to make life better for our English voters? Most of you reading this of course, know exactly why that has never happened! Cognitive Dissonance is at epidemic levels in the British Isles!
Below is an interview with a nondescript Tory haufwit Brandon Lewis where all that Anglo nauseous superiority spews out with every word. Lies piled on more lies the favourite one being ‘once in a generation’ a complete fabrication on reality. As an aside, contained in the Good Friday Agreement is the definition of a ‘generation’ it is deemed to be seven years, except for viewers in Scotland! No UK journalist has ever brought this up when some English politician or House Jock deploys this as a reason to deny Scots their democratic wishes!
He tells his interviewer that Scots do not want a referendum despite voting for them at every election since 2007. Again the so-called journalist doesn’t bother to question this blatant contradiction. He also uses the lies about the dire state of everything in Scotland. He then pronounces what Scots want! Funnily enough it seems us Scots want what English Tories, want, isn’t that a coincidence?
This is a party that has not won an election in Scotland since 1955, 67 years ago! Once again our English journalist doesn’t think to question him on that little nugget.
Will the people of Scotland want to stay in the UK under a Liz Truss government?
Liz Truss has "huge credentials" when it comes to keeping the UK together and the SNP are "failing" the people of Scotland, says former Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis#KayBurley BH pic.twitter.com/XHbBc1afrQ
— Kay Burley (@KayBurley) August 3, 2022
Isn’t it just wonderful that English politicians we never vote for know what we want! Let us be quite clear there is no chance that any English Prime Minister will ever again agree to a Section 30 Referendum. Many of us in the independence new media have been saying that for years. We have been attacked and berated for telling this truth. The English Tories are now telling us there is no democratic mechanism available to Scottish voters that they will ever recognise.Nothing that leads to Scottish independence will ever be accepted by our English imperial neighbours.
This means we need to take a different course of action. That the leading independence party will not even discuss these alternatives at their annual conference is a dereliction of duty. If they are too scared or too incapable of making hard decisions then it is way past time they stood aside and let others carry the torch of freedom. Scotland cannot wait on any longer while our narcissistic racist neighbour dictates to our nation what we want.
There are alternative ways to independence. The entire independence movement though needs to be discussing and implementing the chosen alternative. We need unity of thought and action. Those that oppose unity and action need to be removed or bypassed, Scotland’s need is greater than anything or any one individual!
Great post Rodney, surely the insults of Truss can only help open the eyes of those drugged by Sturgeons lies..
One can but hope
👏👏👏surely!.
Sorry to be pedantic but 1955 was 67 years ago, not 76 😉🏴
Correct bad me 🙂👍
Yes indeed, Roddy: Racism doesn’t like a mirror held up to it, but that was never a good reason for not holding up the mirror. Truss and her advisors know automatically how and when to use racism, and how that particular card plays in the minds of the Tory rank-and-file.
Saying Scotland seeks independence from Mother England gives the false impression that Scotland is a region or colony of England. It is neither. It is a sovereign nation state in an international Agreement with England. While I understand why it was perhaps said that way sadly too many Scots actually do believe the former.
The contest for England’s next PM is a racist, imperialist, bloodlust, competition. Anyone listening to the arguments put forward would be well aware that it is 100% focused on England and what they deem best for it. Even if the English people themselves disagree.
The contempt demonstrated by England’s contenders towards Scots and Scotland is a direct result of Scots not standing up for themselves. Even when they address the English Government it is always “UK” or “this government” never “does thePM of England…” Or “Where does the PM of England or any of the English political parties get off telling Scotland, their treaty partner and equal, what they can and cannot do? Scotland is not an English possession. It is a sovereign nation state and party to the 1707 treaty….” The English government and its establishment do not view Scotland as equals because Scotland refuses to act as such. At some point the Scots need to take a good hard look at themselves and stop making excuses. Others cannot treat you badly unless you let them. If you act like a doormat you cannot complain when folk walk all over you. Legally and lawfully there is absolutely nothing preventing Scotland from suspending the treaty and or making a proclamation to terminate the treaty with immediate effect. (Also known as a denunciation.) Not least because the treaty itself has been fundamentally breached on numerous occasions and the termination clause within the treaty has been enacted through violations by the English establishment. This overrides any need for a referendum or plebiscite. To put into context, if you hired a builder to build a watertight house and he built the floor and half the walls then claimed it was finished you would not hold a vote to discuss whether to retain the builder. You would fire his ass and sue for compensation. So too with the treaty of Union. At what point do Scots stop running around with their drawers pulled down? They must assert themselves and their authority. No-one is gonna do it for them. And what is more, failure to do so tells the rest of the orld that if Scotland should ever reassert its full statehood that Scotland will be a walk over when it comes to trade negotiations or any other foreign affair matter. Not exactly the message Scotland should be promoting by failing to stand up to a tiny English government and its establishment.
Excellent analysis, as ever, Roddy. Its a pity the SNP elite has yet to figure out that racism lies at the very core of the colonial relationship and that “a nation which colonizes – is already a sick civilization, a civilization which is morally diseased” (Aime Cesaire). It seems they have also yet to realise that independence is decolonization, and liberation from oppression.
In my research for ‘Doun-Hauden’ I found that the key ethnic and racism factors influencing, and in turn, determining prospects for Scottish independence are:
1. Colonialism, which always involves prejudice and racism levelled against the oppressed subordinate indigenous native (i.e. Scottish) people and in particular their language and culture, and which may also develop into fascism, as reflecting a cultural and ethnic division of labour due to the imposition, prioritisation and domination of Anglophone elite institutionalised control, and;
2. Appropriated Racial Oppression, in which colonialism inspired racism is internalized by the oppressed (Scottish) people who, due to their colonial domination and development of a ‘colonial mindset’, view their subordination, oppression, exploitation and lack of opportunity as deserved, which it is not.
https://yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com/2021/08/15/determinants-of-independence-ethnicity/
I’d just like to point out that some English beer is very good.
Couldn’t agree more Derek, there’s a deal to be done here. Its a reversible pipeline , water is piped south because we probably have a surplus. Beer is piped North overnight, preferably Fullers London Pride, or Adnams, as the export (ha !) of English beer would be one of the major benefits of Scexit !
Adnams are doing free delivery. Just in case you missed it. Stocking up on Explorer and Broadside for myself.
Scoddish Beer is better https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Slu1OuykMIk&t=
Article sums it all up perfectly.
Yep. You’ve got it right again, Roddy! You’ve hit the nail on the head again!
And Gayle’s comment had me shouting ‘YES! YES! Please Nicola. Shut up about GRA and for one in your rule, tell England to sling their hooks!” I know she won’t. But I’m allowed to dream… Well said, Gayle!
As Gayle says, we have no need of a referendum, why Alba are persuing this is beyond me they seem to be unable to capitalise or are afraid of the work done by Sara Salyers at salvo.scot. We are sovereign we have a claim of right and we have a constitution this is the legal route to an independent Scotland anything else is mere flummery.
Wha the independence movement have been afraid to speak of for years, is if the English refuse all the various democratic routes, and the only option left to us is force of arms .Then we must indeed fight, what say yous??.
Are we going to be the only country that gains independence from the English Empire without violence? Tell me another!
Why not simply say (politely!) “Good bye” and walk away. We wouldn’t be the first to leave the British/English Empire without their permission!
Given all the current hatred and vitriol coming out of the Tory PM candidates mouths ,particularly Truss you think Sturgeon would take some sort of action. It just highlights the fact she is a sleeper agent for the Union. The SNP have become the party of shame.
Dissolve the Union.
A word of caution (several actually)
“Telling Scotland that independence is just a change of manager for the system we already have isn’t good enough”
Robin’s article. We need real change
https://robinmcalpine.org/in-search-of-hope-and-courage/
Every night, every day Scots get England pumped into their cars, their living rooms, their kitchens – through the media. The news is English, the TV programmes are 99% English, the Sport is English so it is no surprise many Scots think that the UK is indeed England.
Now don’t think me unfriendly towards England, I have family there, I lived there as a young child & went back to University there, but I have always been a Scot. And since the age of 16 I’ve been campaigning for our independence.
Indyref was awesome but it’s not what we need this time and if Lady Dunbuggerall thinks it is, we should punt it, and her, richt oot ra windae, in tae the lang grass, doon the road, in tae a puddle, who cares, she has done nothing for the Yes movement in eight years. I think that’s a long enough trial period fur Alex’s apprentice eh ?
We are partners in a two party union – we want out, and the other party only hangs on to us to abuse us. What the **** would your best friend tell you to do? Aye, leg it, before they do any more serious damage.
You don’t ask the jailer if it’s okay to escape. You just go for it. C’mon, let’s leg it.