I am the descendant of refugees from the thousand years of conflicts with the Angles. Ask the children of the exiled too. The Treaty of Union was good for the present day Lairds and Lords but did nothing for the common Scot...
As one can see, most of the bad things happened after 1700. It was a good thing that the BBC stopped at 1600. After that, the only argument for Union appears economic with an obedient enslaved population, the very same greedy rational for the Clearances.
Deported populations went onto North America and Australia to build vibrant independent nations, with class equality, religious freedoms. A majority of those pioneers were Scots, not French, not English. ...And these Nations were modeled on the hopes and aspirations so wanted for Alba. ...
Most of the generations have forgotten the homeland, and the supplicating toadies that were left behind. We are the last of the free. Scotland is only the place of, not the spirit of Wallace. ...For example, the first Prime Minister of Canada was a MacDonald.
Interior freedom cannot be legislated, created or controlled. ...We the last of the true Scots build a Scottish independence far from its shores, free from the clutches of Union. I would not want my ancestral homeland to have less political freedom than I enjoy.
Gordon Duncan Campbell - Toronto, Canada
As one can see, most of the bad things happened after 1700. It was a good thing that the BBC stopped at 1600. After that, the only argument for Union appears economic with an obedient enslaved population, the very same greedy rational for the Clearances.
Deported populations went onto North America and Australia to build vibrant independent nations, with class equality, religious freedoms. A majority of those pioneers were Scots, not French, not English. ...And these Nations were modeled on the hopes and aspirations so wanted for Alba. ...
Most of the generations have forgotten the homeland, and the supplicating toadies that were left behind. We are the last of the free. Scotland is only the place of, not the spirit of Wallace. ...For example, the first Prime Minister of Canada was a MacDonald.
Interior freedom cannot be legislated, created or controlled. ...We the last of the true Scots build a Scottish independence far from its shores, free from the clutches of Union. I would not want my ancestral homeland to have less political freedom than I enjoy.
Gordon Duncan Campbell - Toronto, Canada
3 comments:
'...the thousand years of conflicts with the Angles.'That's a bit of an exaggeration.
'We are the last of the free. Scotland is only the place of, not the spirit of Wallace....We the last of the true Scots build a Scottish independence far from its shores, free from the clutches of Union.'This reveals a condescending arrogance towards the reality of present day Scotland and the expanding efforts to regain Scottish independence. This will be achieved despite the romanticised ideas that exist about Scotland.
You are right about exaggerating. Given that Kenneth McAlpin reign began circa 840. I am shorting it by at least two hundred years. A unified Alba, (Gaels, Picts,) But the first modern major battle was at Brunanburh 937 AD. The founding peoples of modern Scotland fought the English.
As for arrogance, not at all. Its only that so far its all been all talk. Its designed to give a swift kick to where the Scottish mind is usually located.
It is not the English fault that Scotland is not a free and equal partner in the United Kingdom. Its the fault of the Scots, their clan Lairds and their panty wearing politicians.
'Kings ceased to address the various races among their people: all of them were simply subjects of the king of Scots, and therefore themselves Scots. The time came when a baron of Norman extraction who spoke French, a bishop whose tongue took more readily to Latin than to English, the English-speaking traders and farmers of the burghs and the plains and the Gaelic-speaking pastoralists from the mountains, all began to look on themselves not as a collection of different races ruled by a single sovereign, but as one nation.
In view of the of the lack of an obvious frontier between north and south Britain, the existence of physical barriers within Scotland, the difference of race and language among its people, the contrast between Highlands and Lowlands and the affinities between the Lowlands and England, it is remarkable that a separate state, with its frontier at the Tweed and the Solway, ever came into existence and preserved its identity. No doubt the persistence of some native institutions despite all southern innovations had something to do with it, and no doubt the retention by the monarchy of its ancient trappings contributed too, but the full explanation remains mysterious. One element was this: Picts and Britons, Scandinavians, Angles and Normans, all alike laid aside their particular memories of the past and adopted as their heritage the history and mythology of the original Scots, who had come as Irish invaders. What else, it may be asked, but the acceptance of a single history, or of what men imagined to be history, could have made one nation? The mythology was symbolised and enshrined in the royal line, for which a quite unhistorical antiquity was claimed in remarkable flights of fancy which may, however, represent some vestigial folk-memory of early migrations.'
SOURCE: 'Scotland: The Shaping of a Nation' by Gordon Donaldson, pp. 23-24, ISBN 0 7153 6904 0.For my own part I have a blog The 'Sanitization' of Scottish History at http://follonblogs.blogspot.com/ and wrote a guest post Understanding Scottish Independence for The New England Tartan Day Initiative at www.newenglandtartanday.com/ (click on Understanding Scottish Independence in the HOT LINKS.
FACT- In the three months in which the Articles of Union of the proposed treaty were being discussed by the Scottish parliament there were riots throughout Scotland.
'...their clan Lairds and their panty wearing politicians.'That infantile remark shows a complete ignorance of the political realities facing modern day Scotland - GROW UP.
"Vive La Quebec libre"
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