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The point of being British is not banging on about being British. But when your country is three days away from being dissolved in part because the emotional case for the UK has not been made properly then people do start to say what their national identity means to them. The long list of Spectator readers letters was one example, and we were delighted to welcome a bunch of them for tea in the garden of at 22 Old Queen Street this afternoon.
As you can see, we had four younger readers this kind of captured the spirit of the rally. It was about family, in every way: people like me, who quite like being countrymen with other members of their family and don t want to see that changed because we live five hours down the road. And even Americans, who know and value the idea of unity and wish for people from all parts of the UK keep that advantage. There were rubber leeks (from Wales), roses for England and all kinds of Scottish objects. The young lady at the front of the picture, above, took her Highland cow to the rally (below).
That rally was, think it s fair to say, one of the most moving moments of my life as a citizen. adventure alaska cruise private vacation It s fairly obvious why we Scots who have made England our home don t want to see the partitioning of Britain nor do we want to be made foreigners in our own country. But today was about the English, Welsh and Northern Irish who also came to say they care passionately about the union. They like being British, as well as English. Here s one woman I spoke to who came down from Oxford:
Jenny Coglan read a list of what she loves about Britain (including 01-811-8055). WH Auden s poem, The Night Train, was read. Bob Geldof spoke very well: he has an immigrant s gratitude to Britain, adventure alaska cruise private vacation he said, and speaking up for the UK was part of his payback. If Scots are fed up with Wesminster, they should know that England is also very fed up (but he didn t say very or fed up ). England and Scotland should adventure alaska cruise private vacation be co-operating rather than competing: the people here want Scotland to stay because this a family and we love each other.
STAY TOGETHER, BRITAIN! No matter how you slice it, a united Britain is much better than a divided one. This means national security, ease of movement, work opportunities, adventure alaska cruise private vacation economic strength, and a sense of brotherhood in an often hostile world.
That love bomb video is ineffective. adventure alaska cruise private vacation It offers no information, and seeks only to romanticise a vague notion of nationhood. Emotional cases are made, and flags waved; both things that the better together campaign have criticised the yes campaign for. Nationalism is okay if it s UK nationalism, apparently.
The latest vow from the promise breaking millionaires is a joke, and frankly, insulting to our intelligence. It assumes we have short memories and have forgotten the promises broken by the same party after the last independence referendum, or the promises broken by this coalition government already. It assumes we are stupid enough to think they will prioritise adventure alaska cruise private vacation our needs against the wishes of the english electorate after they no longer have to.
Politicians who cannot be forced to act in your service will act in their own. This seems obvious, and the politicians who promise they will act in our interests once we no longer have power over them are lying, to stop us exercising the power we do have over them now.
Load of party hacks rounded up in a last minute establishment panic. Anyway why should the only the Scots be allowed a vote on whether to end the union. I demand the English be given the right to vote on whether they want to remain joined to Scotland, that s only fair I think.
Hope it will be yes, no more Tories in Scotland. If England wants to keep them, feel free, Scotland has never chosen the tories. At least, Scotland is supposed to cost a lot of money to the uk, so why would England like to keep us? If Scotland is free, this will also be a good thing for Europe. England will have to shut up in stead of annoying the european community. Hope it will be yes and hope Scotland will reach the european community, YES!!!
In keeping with the neurocratic adventure alaska cruise private vacation times in which we are governed, required to be politically compliant, adhere to the dogma of multi whatever, accept adventure alaska cruise private vacation that we are all a danger to each other and (as a former Labour minister once said to me) we need to be controlled I m surprised that the Speccie hasn t taken the Daily Mail s lead and pixelated the face of that young lady with the highland cow.
If you think you have a diverse and dynamic multicultural society and are proud of it, then think for a minute. Imagine into the future. It could be the turn of this century or soon after. You the original English are now in a minority. Your vote, if such things as voting rights still exist, means little, since it will have little effect on your view. All churches will have either been burnt down or converted adventure alaska cruise private vacation into mosques. Common law along with property ownership will be non existent. The history books will have been burnt, so new generations coming into this world will know nothing of past times and the eviction from your inherited cultural world. Just as today the younger generation know smaller and smaller amounts of what the country once was. The future society adventure alaska cruise private vacation will contain no reference points because adventure alaska cruise private vacation all will be gone and you beneath your cloak will be a slave.
Yes, I see you have 5. I am impressed. There is no Islamic adventure alaska cruise private vacation plot to takeover Scotland. We have achieved pretty good integration so far. I am very proud of indeed so reject this islamophobic drivel as the racism it is. You, sitting there looking at your screen, are the threat to democracy and civilised values as you slander people whose religion is different to your own.
You can t spend decades (probably more but I can only speak for my experience) castigating an entire country of people as psychopathic, violent domestic abusers or inveterate, work-shy drunks or, as is usually the case, ALL of these and expect your population to care very much about whether they stay or go.
You can t spend those decades with your entire media telling the population of England that Scotland is a Subsidy Junkie (filled with actual junkies) adventure alaska cruise private vacation and that it is their taxes keeping Scotland afloat and then expect those people to want to demonstrate in support of continuing that situation.
Only two things really mattered to the Scottish electorate, oil revenues (and for those with more economic knowledge VAT and Corporation Tax equalisation) and full local democracy. Both could have been achieved by Devo-max, certainly with some strain on England s fiscal budget adventure alaska cruise private vacation but maintaining the economic and currency support of Scotland s Resources and Current Account Surplus. It wouldn t have been everything but at least it would be something.
But the choice was made to have a binary poll and every subsequent choice from Cameron and Better Together has done nothing but re-inforce that. They never understood what the Yes campaign was, they never understood WHO the Yes campaign was. It was a campaign for democratic accountability and it was run by a huge cross-section of the population, not even a majority of whom were SNP.
This complete adventure alaska cruise private vacation and total misjudgement was spectacular. The White Paper which is a MacGuffin has been attacked adventure alaska cruise private vacation over and over again, yet most of the Yes campaign aren t arguing adventure alaska cruise private vacation for the White Paper, it has no impact when you attack something which is irrelevant to the Yes campaign. Yes has one message Government of Scotland by Residents of Scotland. And that message has never been address, AT ALL, by the Unionist campaign.
This has continued to be compounded by spectacular campaign failures. And a continued and fundamental refusal to accept that the electorate adventure alaska cruise private vacation are not ignorant, indeed they are incredibly well informed adventure alaska cruise private vacation about the debate and most aspects of the debate. Young children s latest playground put down is Eat Your Cereal .
Just think about that. When would you ever think that 10 year old kids would be using a failed message from a Political Broadcast as their buzz-phrase adventure alaska cruise private vacation put down? While those kids also understood why it came about.
I feel sympathy for the ordinary English person. They have no idea how much they have been lied to, how much their economy has been propped up for decades by redistributing Scottish wealth into the City of London. They have no idea just how much of a shock their economy will face within 5 years of Scotland s Independence. But while empathising with those poor unfortunate people, adventure alaska cruise private vacation it is impossible to feel sorry for them.
They have the opportunity to educate themselves, to get away from the lies the London media is predicated on to maintain the Establishment. There has been no willingness to do so. Scotland s people have done so, it s why Yes is going to win.
too late ..goodbye UK, I hope our vote on Thursday gives you the courage and strength to stand up to your broken political system and the MP s who are making millions off your taxes. Stand up and tell them why this is their fault and demand change.
Can those who have been condemning the Yes campaign as unpleasant nationalism please explain to me why this demonstration in support of a No vote held in London isn t an expression adventure alaska cruise private vacation of British nationalism?
There are even those being as ridiculous to compare what is happening in Scotland at the moment to the Krystalnacht in 1930 s Weimar Germany and the YES campaign to the NAzis that arose from German ethnonationalism.
Please note that term Ethnonationalism . This is the sort of pernicious nationalism that happened in Germany before the war where the zeitgeist was Germany for the Germans everyone not German enough should be cleansed. Our creed, our religion, our appearance are all .. much like what is happening in the rise of the far right in politics South of the border.
This is not what is happening in Scottish nationalism. What is happening in Scotland is Civic Nationalism an ethos that says Scotland s future should be determined by those who live in Scotland .. it matters not what cr