Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/12/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Marc: > to serve as the king of the real Scotland, and let us.... What's this? I can't begin to count the times that you've claimed to be an anarchist. ;-) Jim Marc James Small wrote: > At 06:02 PM 12/16/05 -0500, lrzeitlin@optonline.net wrote: > > >>As a recently repatriated former long term resident of the UK I found it > > hard to underestimate the mutual antipathy between the English Anglo-Saxons > and the Celtic Welsh, Scots, and Irish. To a foreigner, all Brits seem > alike, but that's not the way they see it. The English regard the Scots as > clannish dour folk, living in a cold forbidding country, who spend all > their time fighting, drinking, doing sports that involve throwing heavy > objects, and inventing practical things like steam engines, television, and > penicillin. Whatever language they speak, it certainly isn't English. > >>The Scots view the English as lazy wimps who cheated their way to the > > Scottish throne and are incapable of running their own country. They regard > helping the English manage their affairs as a form of missionary outreach > work. Scots point to > >>the fact that if the British Cabinet were not 2/3 Scottish, England would > > slip slowly into the sea. > > Argh. There are truely two Scotlands, the Highlands and the Lowlands, and > they are vastly distinct. The Highlands are Gaelic -- a misxture of the > Irish intrusion on the West side and the Picts on the East, with a lot of > Norse intrusions into the Islands. The Highlands seized the Lowlands from > the British more than a millenium ago, but the folks there remained a > mixture of Briton, Saxon, and Viking and had little nexus with the Gaelic > Highlanders, though they soon corrupted the Highland leaders through sheer > graft to become one with them. > > Me? I want Highland Devolution. The current system simply transfers the > Highlands from being an appendage of Westminster to being an appendage of > Edinburgh. Fie on that. Let the Highlands go -- the current holder to the > Stuart claims is a Wittelsbach prince in Germany, but let us haul him over > to serve as the king of the real Scotland, and let us allow the Lallans go > their own way. Can the Highlands surive econmically? Ah, there is the > rub, as they properly own all of that oil money the guys in London have > been glubbing up for decades. > > Free the Highlands. Ted Grant for Prime Minister! > > Marc >