Braveheart

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1. A real breath of fresh air! Would that we could find someone like him in this country of eunuchs.

   1. Calgary in Scottish Gaelic

      https://en.glosbe.com/en/gd/calgary

      Calgry

2. Already posted this in the aborted Readers Tips thread that appeared earlier.

   Article is paywalled but comments aren’t.

   https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/03/28/independence-risks-economic-havoc-scots/

   Douglas Templeton
   28 Mar 2021 11:56AM

   It isn’t just about economics.

   I am a Scot, born in Scotland, living in Scotland. I love my country; I am proud of its history, its culture, its sense of humour and fair play.

   My career was in England, my daughters were born in England. I feel equally at home in London as in Edinburgh, many of my friends are English. My forefathers fought under British standards alongside their English comrades in the mud of Flanders and on the beaches of Normandy.

   I rage at the SNP for wishing to break these familial, emotional and historical ties between the nations, and for creating daily divisiveness in our society. They ignore democratic decisions; at the last (once in a generation) time of asking we chose to remain.

   To me, and many like me, the SNP brand is toxic, their current and previous leader more so; their daily infantile grievance agenda shames our nation. History will not judge them kindly, nor remember them fondly.

   My country is, and remains, the United Kingdom.

   It isn’t just about economics.

   1. That was accidentally published instead of put in the queue for later, sorry.

      1. I knew it was too good to be true. It was before my bed time.

3. Darwin and Galileo

   “totally breached the Facebook community guidelines of the 1700;s

   1. “totally breached the Facebook community guidelines of the 1700’s”

      1. That’s some good humor right there !

4. The times of “I’m so angry I think I’ll protest vote” need to end.

5. As I posted earlier in “Across the Pond”, Britain is done like a dogs dinner!! Scotland has been bleeding its best since ’45. The early emigrants were shipped off to the Colonies by the British Crown where they were instrumental in writing the Declaration of Independence and the American Constitution. Then there was the Irish Famine that bolstered the Scot/Irish diaspora, that assisted the North in the American Civil war and ensured freedom for everyone, something that had been denied the Irish by the British Crown. After the Second World War the last of the independent thinkers left and now the SNP think that their problems will be solved by returning to a United Europe? Good Luck with that. Hat in hand and touching your forelock, while saying ‘Please can we come in.’ is not going to cut it in the European Union. The last vestiges of a once proud nation that helped enable the creation of the British Empire are a sorry reminder of the people that created the Declaration of Arbroath.

6. Reform Party UK economic platform here may be of interest to all of us.
   https://reformparty.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/ReformUK-Economic-Plan.pdf

7. Damn. Canada sorely needs someone like that, with fire in the belly and a razor sharp tongue.
   Too bad that Erin ain’t a Scot.