(Typed this under the wrong Comment/Reply, so apologies for the repetition)
Those who should have been loyal to Scotland, long ago became part of
‘the English Establishment’, who accepted into their ‘sewers of lies/deceit/theft/treachery’,
those ‘thirty pieces of silver/brown envelope quislings’.
It is shameful that the ‘Colonialist mindset of POWERLESS Devolution’, was also accepted and adopted by the SNP, a Party created to free us from the IMPRISONMENT of ENGLISH COLONISATION.
Thankfully, there is now Liberation Scotland/Salvo and all who support them, to present our case to the UN and, at last,
Reclaim and Restore Our Rightful, Sovereign Independent Nation of Scotland
FREE of the FOREIGN English Colonialists and their endless theft/plundering/pillaging etc of our Nation, within/above/around our territories, which belong to the Sovereign People of Scotland.
That a FOREIGN power, aided by quislings, has been allowed to get away with so much for centuries, is a disgrace.
In the words of Michael Collins, whose 101st Anniversary of his ‘Demise’ is today, 22 August.
He spoke of Ireland, but the words still resonate today for Scotland/WE Scots.
“Give us the future, we’ve had enough of your past. Give us back our country, to live in, to grow in, to love.”
No Nation today, should remain under the Jackboot of the
FOREIGN English Colonialist/Imperialist Occupying Dictators
As for Murray harping on about drugs in Scotland, we all know that English drugs gangs are literally invading Scotland, 'cuckooing', ie taking over vulnerable peoples' homes, forcing them to be drugs distributers, and it's become a HUGE problem for Scotland, and the Scottish government who have actually managed in a few short years to reduce drugs use in Scotland. What are police 'Scotland' doing about it? Very little it seems and of course with some of them seemingly stationed in N.Ireland, for whatever reason, there are fewer of them to tackle these English drugs gangs in Scotland, and saying as they are controlled from London, there will be little done to stop these ENGLISH DRUGS GANGS in Scotland, which apparently are bringing in more lethal drugs to kill more people.
On Labour's watch, their EngGBUK party at Holyrood did NOTHING at all to reduce drugs use or drugs being imported into Scotland. I talked to someone who was a bit in the know about such matters years ago, who said that because Scottish waters/coasts are not really policed (marine policing, another reserved power to Westminster ENG's administration) there are ample opportunities for boats to land and import drugs into Scotland, the coastline is vast!
I wonder which countries this is also happening to, hmm? Oil rich Venezuela and other Latin American countries. Classic tactic to make sure a) the government chosen by the poeple is labelled as incompetent, corrupt even, and unable to govern, so needs to be ousted by whichever means the colonisers see fit, and b)to ensure the indigenous (usually poorer) people are drugged up, because of despair, joblessness and poverty etc, imposed by the thieving colonising country.
So although I agree in part, the fact that the BritEngGBUK rule over 100's of years, is a legacy that will be hard to throw off and the ScotGov are working against HUGE odds in running Scotland (LabCons would ruin it), in fact given the fact of drugs gangs invading Scotland (don't be surprised if some maybe all, are EngBrit gov ops) right now and getting worse, no border control, it's going to be impossible to tackle this scrourge on Scotland and Scottish communities.
As for parcel of rogues, it's not just for status etc it's for money they shaft their own country, and it's despicable. Hope karma is real. Money, power, greed, always wins.
Also far as I have read, the UN wouldn't consider Scotalnd a colony (even though it is) because there are reps sitting in Westminster, and even if the now handful of SNP MP's came home, the BritNat shills sitting there would still be seen to be reps for the colony of Scotland.
Ps, shh, there are too many English folk in Scotland, many with 'second homes' that lie empty half the time. As an adopted Scot who once was English, I hold nowt against, but I'd like it if they had to study Scotland's history and take an exam and swear allegiance to Scotland's sovereignty. :-)
Thanks for mentioning the drug gangs, the County Lines, which are invading many of Scotland's small towns. This is rarely mentioned on the mainstream press, including the BBC, who tend to suggest the reasons for the increase in drug deaths is home grown and the fault of the Scottish government.
Until we are independent we have no means if counteracting this as we do not control our borders.
An Irish writer, the late Tomás Mac Síomóin, wrote a long essay called 'The Broken Harp' in which he described 3 stages of Irish colonisation by England, the last of them being 'colonisation of the mind'. The dominant culture is drummed into the population, their own culture and language suppressed. It explains the well-known 'cringe' -- one of whose manifestations in both Scotland and Ireland is speaking our own national languages in private but being embarrassed to use them in public. It's particularly noticeable in Irish people, a large proportion of the population expressing raw hatred of the Irish language which they feel they were 'forced' to learn at school and which they dropped as soon as they could. All of 100 years after independence that stigma remains. Native speakers of Irish in the west coast Gaeltachtaí are gradually dwindling in number, although there is some indication of revival in urban centres. Scotland has only been a colony for about half as long as Ireland was. Its prognosis should be more optimistic. Perversely, it's the fact that Scotland is blessed with huge energy resources that makes Westminster so determined to keep hold; being a backward agricultural economy as Ireland was 100 years ago proved to make letting go easier.
Thank you, Derek. Yes, Scotland's curse is its great natural wealth and England's insatiable greed. As Scots are in the grip of the colonial mindset, so is England stuck in the imperial mindset.
Following on from the 'cultural genocide' written about by Mac Síomóin, and on the subject of the colonial mindset - an oppressed (haud-doun) people need to understand why they may ‘crave dependence’ and oppose their own liberation:
Thanks for the interesting article. Mac Síomóin indeed also refers to Fanon and Memmi in his writing. Essay is what he calls the Broken Harp, but I note that it's more short book length at 200+ pages.
I agree with your assessment that Scotland is effectively an English colony. When I first saw that description in print years ago I thought it was an overstatement, but the more you witness and understand UK governance in these islands, the better the description fits Scotland’s status.
You mention economic exploitation, political control and settler occupation as evidence, but we’ve also suffered (and continue to suffer) cultural suppression (the national broadcaster consistently frames its news and current affairs output in a highly critical, and frequently fallacious, light) and the daily conflation of the UK with England is simply “othering” of our nation, its customs and its people. In doing so, it excludes Scotland from any role and relevance and involvement in UK current affairs. Re cultural suppression, I recall a typical Scottish education in the 1950s: use of the Lowland Scots language in the classroom was strictly forbidden, except for Rabbie Burn’s birthday when it was undeniable if the National Bard’s work was to be recognised. A similar embargo applied In native Gaelic-speaking communities. I grew up in a busy mill-town where Lallans was the predominant language on the streets and we all grew up being bilingual – one language for the school and another for just about everything else. In some schools this was enforced by the tawse if transgressed. In the 1950s all civic buildings flew the union flag every day with the exception of St Andrews Day when they were permitted to fly the Saltire and I remember having to ask my mother what the blue flag on the Town Hall was and being startled to find that Scotland had a national flag. In those days, the Lion Rampant, the flag of Royalty in Scotland, would be seen at sporting events, but I don’t remember the Saltire, so supporting a Scottish sports team was effectively an endorsement of Royalty, not of Scotland or its sportsmen and women.
International Law enshrines the right of colonies to leave the colonial overlordship if it can show a majority in favour of leaving. No such agreement exists in relation to Scotland and Wales within the UK and we all know how the Westminster Government plays that card. With the SNP currently in a deflated state, the onus now lies with the people of Scotland and Wales to take on the UK government. One legal distinction may lie in the entirely contrary definitions of sovereignty in Scotland and England. In Scotland it lies with the people, it is enshrined in Scots Law Statute from before the Union of 1707 and has been ratified in recent years in both Holyrood and Westminster. This right is therefore legally protected. In England sovereignty is supposedly reserved to Westminster and its ruling party, but it is nowhere to be found in Statute as there is no formal UK Constitution. Instead it has come into being through the opinions of mainly 19th century parliamentarians and subsequent precedence; i.e. not through Statute. These fundamental differences might be exploitable to ensure Scotland’s right to secede from the UK. What we need now is something akin to the Constitutional Convention which preceded devolution in the 1990s.
(Typed this under the wrong Comment/Reply, so apologies for the repetition)
Those who should have been loyal to Scotland, long ago became part of
‘the English Establishment’, who accepted into their ‘sewers of lies/deceit/theft/treachery’,
those ‘thirty pieces of silver/brown envelope quislings’.
It is shameful that the ‘Colonialist mindset of POWERLESS Devolution’, was also accepted and adopted by the SNP, a Party created to free us from the IMPRISONMENT of ENGLISH COLONISATION.
Thankfully, there is now Liberation Scotland/Salvo and all who support them, to present our case to the UN and, at last,
Reclaim and Restore Our Rightful, Sovereign Independent Nation of Scotland
FREE of the FOREIGN English Colonialists and their endless theft/plundering/pillaging etc of our Nation, within/above/around our territories, which belong to the Sovereign People of Scotland.
That a FOREIGN power, aided by quislings, has been allowed to get away with so much for centuries, is a disgrace.
In the words of Michael Collins, whose 101st Anniversary of his ‘Demise’ is today, 22 August.
He spoke of Ireland, but the words still resonate today for Scotland/WE Scots.
“Give us the future, we’ve had enough of your past. Give us back our country, to live in, to grow in, to love.”
No Nation today, should remain under the Jackboot of the
FOREIGN English Colonialist/Imperialist Occupying Dictators
As for Murray harping on about drugs in Scotland, we all know that English drugs gangs are literally invading Scotland, 'cuckooing', ie taking over vulnerable peoples' homes, forcing them to be drugs distributers, and it's become a HUGE problem for Scotland, and the Scottish government who have actually managed in a few short years to reduce drugs use in Scotland. What are police 'Scotland' doing about it? Very little it seems and of course with some of them seemingly stationed in N.Ireland, for whatever reason, there are fewer of them to tackle these English drugs gangs in Scotland, and saying as they are controlled from London, there will be little done to stop these ENGLISH DRUGS GANGS in Scotland, which apparently are bringing in more lethal drugs to kill more people.
On Labour's watch, their EngGBUK party at Holyrood did NOTHING at all to reduce drugs use or drugs being imported into Scotland. I talked to someone who was a bit in the know about such matters years ago, who said that because Scottish waters/coasts are not really policed (marine policing, another reserved power to Westminster ENG's administration) there are ample opportunities for boats to land and import drugs into Scotland, the coastline is vast!
I wonder which countries this is also happening to, hmm? Oil rich Venezuela and other Latin American countries. Classic tactic to make sure a) the government chosen by the poeple is labelled as incompetent, corrupt even, and unable to govern, so needs to be ousted by whichever means the colonisers see fit, and b)to ensure the indigenous (usually poorer) people are drugged up, because of despair, joblessness and poverty etc, imposed by the thieving colonising country.
So although I agree in part, the fact that the BritEngGBUK rule over 100's of years, is a legacy that will be hard to throw off and the ScotGov are working against HUGE odds in running Scotland (LabCons would ruin it), in fact given the fact of drugs gangs invading Scotland (don't be surprised if some maybe all, are EngBrit gov ops) right now and getting worse, no border control, it's going to be impossible to tackle this scrourge on Scotland and Scottish communities.
As for parcel of rogues, it's not just for status etc it's for money they shaft their own country, and it's despicable. Hope karma is real. Money, power, greed, always wins.
Also far as I have read, the UN wouldn't consider Scotalnd a colony (even though it is) because there are reps sitting in Westminster, and even if the now handful of SNP MP's came home, the BritNat shills sitting there would still be seen to be reps for the colony of Scotland.
Ps, shh, there are too many English folk in Scotland, many with 'second homes' that lie empty half the time. As an adopted Scot who once was English, I hold nowt against, but I'd like it if they had to study Scotland's history and take an exam and swear allegiance to Scotland's sovereignty. :-)
Thanks for mentioning the drug gangs, the County Lines, which are invading many of Scotland's small towns. This is rarely mentioned on the mainstream press, including the BBC, who tend to suggest the reasons for the increase in drug deaths is home grown and the fault of the Scottish government.
Until we are independent we have no means if counteracting this as we do not control our borders.
Yes, Scotland's subordinate colonial status is now firmly established, and more Scots are starting to realise that independence is decolonization:
https://salvo.scot/scotlands-colonial-status/
An Irish writer, the late Tomás Mac Síomóin, wrote a long essay called 'The Broken Harp' in which he described 3 stages of Irish colonisation by England, the last of them being 'colonisation of the mind'. The dominant culture is drummed into the population, their own culture and language suppressed. It explains the well-known 'cringe' -- one of whose manifestations in both Scotland and Ireland is speaking our own national languages in private but being embarrassed to use them in public. It's particularly noticeable in Irish people, a large proportion of the population expressing raw hatred of the Irish language which they feel they were 'forced' to learn at school and which they dropped as soon as they could. All of 100 years after independence that stigma remains. Native speakers of Irish in the west coast Gaeltachtaí are gradually dwindling in number, although there is some indication of revival in urban centres. Scotland has only been a colony for about half as long as Ireland was. Its prognosis should be more optimistic. Perversely, it's the fact that Scotland is blessed with huge energy resources that makes Westminster so determined to keep hold; being a backward agricultural economy as Ireland was 100 years ago proved to make letting go easier.
Thank you, Derek. Yes, Scotland's curse is its great natural wealth and England's insatiable greed. As Scots are in the grip of the colonial mindset, so is England stuck in the imperial mindset.
Following on from the 'cultural genocide' written about by Mac Síomóin, and on the subject of the colonial mindset - an oppressed (haud-doun) people need to understand why they may ‘crave dependence’ and oppose their own liberation:
https://yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com/2024/03/03/the-colonial-mindset/
Thanks for the interesting article. Mac Síomóin indeed also refers to Fanon and Memmi in his writing. Essay is what he calls the Broken Harp, but I note that it's more short book length at 200+ pages.
Have ordered Broken Harp. Mac Síomóin notes his anti-colonial literature is still censored in Ireland, much like my own text here also:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=doun-hauden&i=software&crid=3HUXXMJDVSAH8&sprefix=doun-hauden%2Csoftware%2C87&ref=nb_sb_noss
I agree with your assessment that Scotland is effectively an English colony. When I first saw that description in print years ago I thought it was an overstatement, but the more you witness and understand UK governance in these islands, the better the description fits Scotland’s status.
You mention economic exploitation, political control and settler occupation as evidence, but we’ve also suffered (and continue to suffer) cultural suppression (the national broadcaster consistently frames its news and current affairs output in a highly critical, and frequently fallacious, light) and the daily conflation of the UK with England is simply “othering” of our nation, its customs and its people. In doing so, it excludes Scotland from any role and relevance and involvement in UK current affairs. Re cultural suppression, I recall a typical Scottish education in the 1950s: use of the Lowland Scots language in the classroom was strictly forbidden, except for Rabbie Burn’s birthday when it was undeniable if the National Bard’s work was to be recognised. A similar embargo applied In native Gaelic-speaking communities. I grew up in a busy mill-town where Lallans was the predominant language on the streets and we all grew up being bilingual – one language for the school and another for just about everything else. In some schools this was enforced by the tawse if transgressed. In the 1950s all civic buildings flew the union flag every day with the exception of St Andrews Day when they were permitted to fly the Saltire and I remember having to ask my mother what the blue flag on the Town Hall was and being startled to find that Scotland had a national flag. In those days, the Lion Rampant, the flag of Royalty in Scotland, would be seen at sporting events, but I don’t remember the Saltire, so supporting a Scottish sports team was effectively an endorsement of Royalty, not of Scotland or its sportsmen and women.
International Law enshrines the right of colonies to leave the colonial overlordship if it can show a majority in favour of leaving. No such agreement exists in relation to Scotland and Wales within the UK and we all know how the Westminster Government plays that card. With the SNP currently in a deflated state, the onus now lies with the people of Scotland and Wales to take on the UK government. One legal distinction may lie in the entirely contrary definitions of sovereignty in Scotland and England. In Scotland it lies with the people, it is enshrined in Scots Law Statute from before the Union of 1707 and has been ratified in recent years in both Holyrood and Westminster. This right is therefore legally protected. In England sovereignty is supposedly reserved to Westminster and its ruling party, but it is nowhere to be found in Statute as there is no formal UK Constitution. Instead it has come into being through the opinions of mainly 19th century parliamentarians and subsequent precedence; i.e. not through Statute. These fundamental differences might be exploitable to ensure Scotland’s right to secede from the UK. What we need now is something akin to the Constitutional Convention which preceded devolution in the 1990s.
so true and so well put Leah. Loved the Burns quote.