Why that almost 75% figure who voted against it then? Like Mr Connelly, I do not believe that the English people are any more prone to racism or ‘othering’ than the Scots, but the fact remains that the 2014 YES campaign was anything but Anglophobic, while the rUK, mainly English NO vote showed every sign of being anti Scottish, border-line racist and a tad colonial.

The operative word here is ‘SELF’.Like me, Alf worked at that time in ‘Scottish’ university – though we were not in the same one – I’m sure our experiences of English dominance in these institutions is similar. I’ve been in Spain more than 25 years, and I don’t get a vote. Just as a child trying to cope with his parent’s absence or the birth of a sibling may fall back on a supposed golden age in which ‘His Majesty, the Baby’ reigned, so too may a nation in difficulty seek to regain a storied past. Why? Why is it not like that here? I still hope for Scottish independence but I’ll be buggered if I’ll campaign for it alongside people who indulge in hate speech. UK civil servants lets remember who still run the UK devolved ‘Scottish Government’) told her it would be ‘too complicated’ to do otherwise, which was absolute rubbish, and an obvious Westminster stitch up; since then the same UK civil service did the opposite in the Brexit referendum by excluding anybody it could from voting. Your mean-spirited anglophobia reminds me of the SV. Similarly, I shall continue to love Scotland and its people regardless of the revolting personal abuse thrown in my direction here.It seems to me that Chris Connelly sees Anglophobia everywhere, and that is the problem. Do you think that the Israeli settlers in the West Bank and Gaza, many being of American/Russian, etc origin rather than Sabra Israeli, should be allowed to vote in Palestinian elections because they exist in what is nominally Palestinian territory? I don’t recall Cameron being castigated in Bella for introducing constitutional restrictions – because it is not illegal or even frowned upon under international law. The gaps in the story compel viewers to do more research and ask more questions, and those willing to watch all of its nearly three hours of footage may find themselves indeed feeling like they’re climbing through a dark thicket, being led by only a flashlight, as the film’s opening portrays.Meanwhile, the theme of an overriding power funneling information to the masses in an increasingly dumbed-down format is pervasive, right down to the censorship being fostered by social media. If they did this both Mrs May and Ms Sturgeon would be heroines in thair ain launds. That includes those originating from other countries who have made their home in Scotland. We are well aware that Scottish Unionists voted in far greater numbers when placed side-by-side because there were more of them, but, percentage to percentage, Scottish-born people voted for YES and independence, so, if it was not the Scots themselves who voted against independence in 2014, who was it?
The daily Downing Street Coronavirus briefings are becoming increasingly terrifying spectacles to watch for two reasons. Do we wait for the English working class to waken up and relinquish its Brexit dream, which is delusional, in any case, or do we take our own route to independence without England? But it is attitudes within English society that are in a way more worrying.“For a large slice of English voters, Brexit identity now matters more than party identity. I now live in Spain again, and I wont be getting a vote at the Spanish General Election of 28/4, just as EU citizens don’t get to vote at the UK General Election… In any case, this is clearly one of these cases where the EU should provide leadership and recommend an opt in common European framework for voting rights for non born citizens. If that has changed, we need to know. She is damaged goods. Or Scotland too?.Chris Connolly, if he is not a troll, is pretty close to a troll.

I’m angry too. Seething with resentment against the immigrant and the desire to take back control, they do not care the chaos that Brexit and especially a no deal Brexit will cause to their fellow citizens.As for the elites. Are we in the business now of not acknowledging that many English people in Scotland might just be a tad anti Scottish and neo colonialist in their view of us, but it is perfectly acceptable to accuse angry Scots who feel betrayed and cheated through a whole litany of abuse by central government, and then, finally, kicked in the teeth by the very people we welcomed into our country as new Scots, of racism and anti Englishness. Given the utter contempt in which our elected representatives (and by extension, us) have been held since the day after the referendum, given the clusterfuck of Brexit, the false promises, the insults, the lies, why has support for independence not shot up through the roof? As noted in The New Yorker:In Damascus, meanwhile, conflict between Henry Kissinger and Syrian head of state Hafez al-Assad grew, with Kissinger fearing a united Arab world and Assad angered that his attempts at transformation were fading. The term “HyperNormalisation” was coined by Alexei Yurchak, a Russian historian.In an interview with The Economist, Curtis explained that it’s used to describe the feeling that comes with accepting total fakeness as normal. He is working to his own agenda: which is to try and expose the ‘fascist underbelly’ of independence (just the Scottish variety) whilst marching arm-in-arm with the very people he is duping. And if you don’t think there’s an uprising of English/British nationalism, you’re not paying attention. I’ll read it properly later; that’s a promise.Re the critics, however, Messrs Boland, McNamee and Zaretsky are in no position to make informed comment about the English working class because two of them live in Ireland and the other in the USA. We should be talking about Brexit and how it is going to affect Scotland, we should be talking about indyref 2 and how to mobilize, and whether we need London consent to do it, articles about what we should be doing now in Scotland to protect ourselves from the repression which is coming down the road… What do we get? It’s not helpful and it certainly isn’t original.Hi Chris, for your argument to make any sense Paul Mason, Vicent Boland, Eli Zaretsky and Eoin McNamee would all have to be middle class elitist anglophobic bores too, which they aren’t.There’s things that are happening in my country too that I dont like, but pretending they arent happening doesnt make them go away.“As has been suggested for some time, the forces of Scottish, or Welsh or Irish self-determination, will not on their own be enough to break up Britain.

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