"I don't want them in my country anymore."
In Belfast, a local resident tells us of her frustration with immigration into Northern Ireland, the strain on services it has created, and her belief that politicians are not listening to concerns like hers.
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Ah, I see you’ve learned the history of these islands through Hollywood. How charming.
One might have expected at least a basic grasp of the subject before advancing such sweeping claims.
The 1745 rising was not a simple contest between Scotland and England. It was a dynastic civil war within the British state over the legitimacy of the Hanoverian succession after 1688. The government army under the Duke of Cumberland was larger than the Jacobite force and included significant Scottish elements: loyal clans, notably the Campbells, Lowland regiments, and established Scottish units of the British Army. More Scots ultimately fought against the Jacobites than for them. To frame the rising as a straightforward national struggle ignores the deep divisions within Scotland itself.
As someone who actually lives in Scotland and knows its history from within the country, both as a native and through formal study, I find such interpretations of limited value. They substitute selective myth for documented reality. But by all accounts do continue to educate me on my own culture and history. I’m awa tae walk the dug.
Sorry, sweetheart, there is no such thing as the American language. What you speak, whether you like it or not, is an American dialect of English. Just like me and I’m a Scot (that’s the country north of England, in the British Isles, in the continent of Europe I add as I know the American education system isn’t particularly strong on world geography). I speak a Scots dialect of an English although I’d rather speak Scots (which is a language, and one that’s a lot older than 250years). You’re so cute.
My heart goes out to the patriots in Ireland. You’re fighting an uphill battle against your own government that wants to replace you with migrants. Don’t give up.
Lies! I am not a pompous price of shit, I am a pretentious cunt. But my heart is tied by an invisible string to my ancestors how stayed and tried. We on the right criticise third worlders for leaving their homes, giving up on it, abandoning it. But everyone in America is from the same stock.
And I stand in solidarity with White Americans. I really do. But I have my limits on how much of your silliness I can turn a blind eye to. You are not the greatest country on earth anymore, if you ever were. You are owned by another foreign power and always have been (perhaps as we all are but you are very much their mouthpiece). And as a Scot in my ancestral homeland I get tired of the arrogance of many Americans who claim to be Scottish, and are not, in the same way an African just arrived isn’t either, who bang on about bloody WW2 and then lecture me on my country and history. Look, your libtards are a million times worse, but fair’s fair. Plus I’m also having a bit of a laugh.