Why does the scottish hate the english




















For they, too, fought against an evil English tyrant in their own war of independence, some five hundred years after the Scots. Why are they, at the same time, encouraged to overlook the great advantages bestowed on Scotland by its neighbour following the Act of Union?

Just as the 19th century gave birth to the flourishing United States, so the 18th century saw the creation of a highly successful union albeit not for Ireland in the form of the United Kingdom. Irish Catholics in Scotland were oppressed by Scottish Protestants. But the Brexit referendum—in which the majority of Scots voted to remain—soon changed that.

Devolution was strongly premised on having endured 18 years of Conservative rule, which Scots had not voted for. Working-class communities were the worst hit. The sociologist Tony Dickson explained in This summary could apply to any number of Tory politicians today. The actual implications of an independent Scotland far exceed any jumped-up rhetoric.

Like a teenager, then, we trade in some of our autonomy for financial security. How would the SNP make up for this loss? Apart from the obvious fact that this would be the most effete mafia in mob history, it's unfair to suggest that there's a Scottish conspiracy to ruin Westminster.

Or sinister face is there? Following the Duke of Cumberland's "no quarter" order, hundreds of fallen Jacobite soldiers, not dead, were shot where they lay, others burned alive in human fire pits.

Many were taken prisoner only to be summarily shot, one after the other. We shouldn't have done any of that. Many of the Highlanders headed for Inverness and were hunted down and killed without mercy by Cumberland's dragoons. No wonder you call him "Butcher" Cumberland.

True, Scottish aristocrats cleared their estates of crofters and other Highlanders to make more money from their land, but we were classic enablers. The Tenures Abolition Act ended the feudal bond of military service and the later Heritable Jurisdictions Act removed the virtually sovereign power the chiefs held over their clan.

Both these acts made it easier for Scottish landlords to clear their estates of Highlanders, and those pieces of legislation became law thanks to votes in parliament at Westminster. Yes he is Scottish, but we voted for him. He wasn't that bad, really. He was trying to make a joke, we suspect, relying on the lame racist suggestion that Scots are so proverbially unhealthy that they like their Mars bars deep fried. Not funny. You don't export tramps. And even if you did, they'd be lovely.

And that was in Cheltenham, which just goes to show that his loony anti-Scottish sentiments don't go down well even in middle England. In particular that one of the most imposing pieces of Scottish architecture, the railway viaduct at Glenfinnan, is now called the viaduct from the Harry Potter film. Yes, we know that some of the episodes were written by Steven Moffat who is a Scot, but he does live down here now and so has probably been corrupted by English ways.

It's not because he's Scottish that he sucked at being prime minister. And your reputation for grumpiness, let's be honest, was compounded when Alex Salmond said that Scotland "yearned to be a good neighbour, not a surly tenant".

The SNP leader seemed to be confirming what you are not, namely, surly. Or maybe you are? If so, probably our bad. She is a late, great Scottish entertainer obviously, but not an engineer. Sorry for the misunderstanding. Or maybe there was. We haven't bothered to check. We thought it was hilarious. Sorry for that. To be fair, you could always stop if you become independent. The Americans didn't when they went independent, but you could make your national language Gaelic if you go it alone.

Maybe he's right. After all he is an economist, albeit one at the worst bank in the history of banking, namely the Royal Bank of Scotland. It probably undermines the fiscal basis for independence. But we've always been sneaky, as you know. Apparently, it was a time-travelling revisionist critique of the aftermath of the battle of Culloden, so might have been worth seeing.

True, she was trying to topple her cousin, Elizabeth I of England, and install herself on the throne but executing her was a bit rich. Especially that bit when the executioner held up her decapitated head and her wig fell off. We know he's an arachnophilic national hero and all that, but when he came to pitch the movie of his life on CBBC's Horrible Histories , we shouldn't have been so dismissive.

He was, as you know, dragged by horses four miles through London to Smithfield. In Al Murray's new show the comedian travels to his country's nearest neighbours to try and find out why everyone hates them so much. Al has already been to France, Wales and Ireland, while next Monday will show what happened when he went to Germany.

We told how a German company had launched a map of Europe with an independent Scotland in it- and IndyRef 2 fans were loving it. And Gerard Butler earlier revealed that he has to thicken his accent whenever he returns home to Scotland after years of living in the US.

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