Tuesday 8 October 2013

Q: WHAT KIND OF SCOT SAYS THIS?

A: I suppose the answer is, a pretty uninformed one or the kind that gives up his constituency and constituents and accepts a job at vastly more money, and prestige (even if it is as a patsy) located in Brussels... and the obligatory elevation to the arsetocracy (spelling error intentional) so that he can ponse about calling himself "Lord". In short a pretty despicable one.

We've no language? You tell that to people like Donny Macleod, a man from your own party, Robertson, who were strapped by teachers for speaking Gaelic in the school playground during London's attempt to stamp the language out for good.

They failed and fortunately OUR government is supporting the language. 

As well as Scots Gaelic, of course, there is Scots. In the refined circles of the House of Parasites you probably don't hear it much spoken, with all the plumby Eton and Oxford voices, but it does exist in Scotland...(you know, the place where you started to dizzy climb to fame and wealth). They did their damndest to get rid of that too.

We've no culture you say? Well, that reminds me of George W Bush, who said of the Arabs that they had no culture... No honestly, he did. But he was an ignoramus too.

I suppose that in down there in London you'll not know much about it. And why would you. it's foreign to them. And it won't have been taught to you in school because when you were a lad education was run from London. 

You'll not have learned Scottish history or literature or music. You'll know about King Henry and his 6 wives, the virgin queen and 1066; you'll have learned Shakespeare and Milton and Wordsworth, and you will have been taught the words to Jerusalem and Greensleeves. But before you make speeches about it, try examining the works of Scots authors and poets, and look at the music and paintings we have. 

And it's not all in the past. You need to have a look at National Collective. Have a look at the talent and the work that is being produced today. Whilst we enjoy them too, it's not all Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tom Stoppard, which I'm sure is what you hear about when you are dozing on the red leather benches or enjoying subsidized meals in the restaurants and bars of the palace of Westminster.

Have you been to Edinburgh recently?

Incidentally, I expect that the Spanish government will be indebted to you, such a great international figure, a man of substance, for offering support to the independence movement in the Basque Country. Or maybe not.

29 comments:

  1. “Catalonia and Flanders have language and culture. We don’t have any of that.”

    LIAR!

    We have a Knife culture! We have a Binge Drinking Culture! We have a culture of ‘grievance and grudge’! We have Sectarian Culture (my personal favourite that one)! We have a deep fat frying culture! We have all this Culture! We even managed to win the Internationally acclaimed English Booker prize once, using our ‘Illiterate savage’ language culture!

    All this wrapped up in our most important and powerful culture of all……… Our Dependency Culture!! (Also known as our world renowned, often copied but never bettered, ‘Something for Nothing Society!)

    Them’s the FACTS Mr Lord Baron George of supposed Port Ellen! When, oh when will your obvious smear campaigns stop undermining our achievements!

    One Scotland. Many Cultures!

    Braco

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    1. LOL... well, there is that too...

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  2. tris


    This will perhaps give a clue to his motivations


    Stockholm syndrome, or capture–bonding, is a psychological phenomenon in which hostages express empathy and sympathy and have positive feelings toward their captors, sometimes to the point of defending them. These feelings are generally considered irrational in light of the danger or risk endured by the victims, who essentially mistake a lack of abuse from their captors for an act of kindness.[1][2] The FBI's Hostage Barricade Database System shows that roughly 27% of victims show evidence of Stockholm syndrome.[3]

    Stockholm syndrome can be seen as a form of traumatic bonding, which does not necessarily require a hostage scenario, but which describes “strong emotional ties that develop between two persons where one person intermittently harasses, beats, threatens, abuses, or intimidates the other.”[4] One commonly used hypothesis to explain the effect of Stockholm syndrome is based on Freudian theory. It suggests that the bonding is the individual’s response to trauma in becoming a victim. Identifying with the aggressor is one way that the ego defends itself. When a victim believes the same values as the aggressor, they cease to be a threat.[

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    1. LOL, Niko. If I were clever, I'd find someway to point out out that at least in Stockholm they are independent...

      As it is I'll just agree with you...

      It's good something motives him though.

      :)

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  3. LORD ROBERTSON OF SOMEWHERE EXTINGUISHED,ELEVATED TO HIS HIGHEST LEVEL. HE MADE IT. A SECOND CLASS ENGLISHMAN

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    1. For someone I never rated as being particularly bright, he has done quite well for himself, but he does appear to have "gone native".

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  4. Numptie, Neep I am sure there are others.

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    1. You bet your life there are, but well bred people wouldn't use them.

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  5. Lord Robertson
    Not the sharpest sandwich in the Unionist Tool box.
    He has lived too long in a PR bubble and is so out of touch with realty in Scotland he thinks we lap up his words of wisdom.

    We are way ahead of him and has no chance of ever understanding that or ever catching up.

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    1. Erm yeah snotty. I doubt he has had a sandwich for a long time, being more used to canapés, but although he may not be much use to them, he's bloody useful to us.

      I mean even pretty diehard unionists aren't too keen on being told that we are just English with a funnier accent.

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  6. Unless things have changed dramatically recently there is a pretty strong Gaelic culture in Islay.

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    1. Mr Baron Lard Robertson is probably more acquainted with Islington than Islay, John, and I suspect that where he gleaned his information.

      Great asset though, to us.

      Feel free to come up here with your high and mighty brit aristocratic title and sneer at us, Your NOBleness. We realise that you have a personal interest in being allowed to go on claiming £300 a day tax free, which you'll not get from Scotland.

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  7. Looking at that photo you can see who Burns had in mind when he wrote "Great chieftain of the pudding race"? Saw him and Hellen Liddlell holding each other up in Euston Station bar one night when I happened to be sober. Not in a Dick Turpin way, you understand.

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  8. What a very very unpleasant image.

    They must have been getting the sleeper ... for the colonies?

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  9. It is true that Scotland doesn't have a single 'Scottish language'. Gaelic is not the language of the east coast or borders... those where the dead language of the Picts, and Scots. This tartan short-bread nationalism (promoted aggressively by the SNP) is as crude as it is a white-wash of our real dynamic multicultural Scots history.

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    1. Thanks CH. That is really interesting stuff

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    2. Dean... I don't recognise your description of SNP policies there...

      Wrong kind of nationalism for them.

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    3. They are the ones aggressively promoting Gaelic signs, schools and lessons parts of Scotland where it was never historically spoken... I'd say if the glove fits...

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    4. In their efforts to put Scotland down, CH, they are making right fools of themselves. Stirling is a tourist area, if they make it just like Cheltenham, people will probably just visit Cheltenham. it's warmer.

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  10. Dean, for many years there have been pockets of Gaelic learning, and culture, in parts of the country where the language hasn't been spoken for a very long time. In Blairgowrie, for example, the street names have been in Gaelic for a very long time... Edinburgh has become more Gaelic since the opening of the parliament, and of course parliament is conducted in Gaelic and English, and all the signage and information for it is in the two languages. But of course that was decided by the designers of the place, Labour. Not the SNP. I agree with them that the main languages of the country should be represented.

    I'd also encourage the use of Gaelic or Scots, not just in areas where it was traditionally spoken, but in a society where we are supposed to be able to move around to follow opportunities, in other areas too, so that we can easy move to say Stornoway, should a suitable job become available there.

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  11. Dean,

    "short-bread nationalism?" I'm really surprised that someone of your intelligence could post that and denigrate my native language to boot. Reminds me of the time when I was waiting for the Butterworth/Penang ferry and a loud English voice was directed at a rick-shaw driver "Why can't you speak proper English, you ignorant peasant"!

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    1. Aye, what an embarrassment they are, John. The number of times I've heard brits (including Scots) abroad bemoaning the fact that the natives can't understand them when they talk fast in a regional accent of English. I bet they are the same people who bemoan foreigners being here and not able to speak English.

      Something really strange about brits that they seem to take pride in being pathetically bad at what all these ignorant peasants seem to manage quite easily.

      I have an Indian mate who speaks 7 languages involving at least 3 different scripts. And he's not a linguist; he's an engineer. His British contemporaries struggle to speak understandable English.

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  12. I wonder who the last Scottish peer will be. Lord Jeremy Purvis, dribbling soup down his House of Lords napkin; deaf, half blind, and wholly pointless, kept on by the English as an act of personal kindness and a national reminder of their previous authority over Scotland - a country sitting at #2 in the national well being charts after Norway?

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    1. I liked this littel bit of news from the Hootsman about the Noble Jeremy:

      NEWS fresh off the hill is that the newly enobled Lib Dem Jeremy Purvis has settled into the higher echelons of society.

      Purvis has shot his first stag – a highly sought after Royal (12 points to the antlers) no less. Purvis was blooded at the top of Glen Tilt in Perthshire. His stalking companion was Ben Thomson of the Reform Scotland think tank. After the beast was gralloched, Thomson presented Purvis with the stag’s head as a trophy when they met in Edinburgh later. Purvis had to walk through the middle of town to carry it to his car – a sight that was greeted with surprise by Lib Dem voters.

      Meanwhile, it has yet to be announced what Purvis will call himself when he is formally elevated to the Lords. The smart money, however, is on Lord Purvis of Tweed – whether that refers to where he lives or what he now wears is unclear.

      Blood as blue as the river Tay on a grey day. What a complete dick. And him a Liberal... huh!

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  13. I suppose Mr Robertson needs to support the union at all costs so that he can hold on to his job, whatever that is. Also, if Scotland had been independent at the zenith of Mr Robertson's political career, is it likely that he would have risen to the dizzy heights he did. That's an achievement a lowly laddie could only attain in the United Kingdom, and I'm sure the world would be a poorer place without Mr Robertson's unforgettable tenure at the helm of NATO. Another powerful argument for the No/Better Together party.

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  14. Completely agree. It's all about them and how important they can imagine themselves to be. I expect he was chosen by Blair and Bush because he was too dim to do much except exactly what they told him to do.

    His job, I think, is to sit around in the House of Old Fools making himself a tax free income of £15000 thereby a week. He is also probably required to eat at subsidised restaurants and drink at bars where we pay the bulk of the cost of keeping that not inconsiderable body at the size to which it has become accustomed. How useful.

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    1. BTW... sorry Tommy, I should have welcomed you. I don't remember seeing a comment from you before.. :0

      So ..erm....welcome indeed. Don't be a stranger.

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