You cannot love what you do not know. If you knew Scotland, her true history, her unique constitution and her centuries of common good statutes and provisions, including an education system that ensured every Scot could read and write by the 1500s while boys got grammar school education in the burghs, if you knew the horrors of the so-called union (a forced treaty whose single kingdom was replaced by subjection of Scotland to a renamed English crown), if you knew what deserts were made where thriving communities were burnt out by an occupation that covered every inch of this land, if you saw the terrible graveyards they are and not your lovely treeless and sheep filled ‘wilderness’, if you loved the real Scotland and not your wee Brigadoon fantasy, you’d want to see her free and restored to her true identity. But you do not love Scotland. You can’t love something imaginary. Actually you are afraid of it and so clearly hostile to those who really do love her. But you keep your ‘love’ of your made up communal version of this nation. And we will go about freeing the real thing.
@andalg1 Have heard quite a few people say they had much worse side effects from the recent jag than previous ones....something has changed. Haven't taken it myself.
Scotland unified behind the team. The whole country behind Steve Clarke's men.
Crabbit faced Unionists spreading gloom and moaning about the First Minister flying to the USA to support Scotland.
No joy. No pride. Just pettiness and division.
Same as it ever was. 😏🏴
@JimSpenceDundee Scunnered or not with our national party...you would have to be a total bloody airhead to switch allegiance to an anti democratic 'no referendum 'London luvvy party.The unionists have shown their hand by their contrived arrogance...game over🏴!
@SirTomHunter His assets and bank accounts would be frozen would they not ? Now he has been pleased guilty the legal aid may be recouped
Why do you always think the worst of Scotland ?
Three huge Scottish stories from the last seven days that BBC Scotland either refused to report or quickly killed.
Labour's £600m PFI legacy bill
Douglas Alexander/Peter Mandelson
Renewable projects £1bn connection charge
BBC Scotland reporters *must* wonder about this surely?
Alexander originally declined the Scottish Secretary post because the job he really wants is Foreign Secretary. However, when he realised he wouldn't get it he briefed against Ian Murray to get SS because he realised he wouldn't be in the Cabinet at all otherwise.
The male guest on HIGNFY tonight looked stoned...surely not! Think he was a former minister for everything in the brexit Boris English government.Could be wrong of course.
A complaint has been lodged with the BBC after James Cook claimed the SNP's auditors resigning was a warning sign that there was something awry with the party's finances.
The auditors confirmed the resignation had nothing to do with the party's finances or the police probe.
A reminder that @AnasSarwar is 43 years old and @RussellFindlay1 is 53 and yet here they are acting like fucking children. No wonder they got decimated at the ballot box 😂
Atrociously misleading wording from Laura Goodwin. John Swinney didn't admit anything, the FM revealed that the SNP had *pro-actively* contacted HMRC to check VAT claims hadn't been made against Murrell's fake purchases.
This is unethical and embarrassing from Goodwin. It comes on the same day Andrew Kerr asked if the Scottish Greens were the "SNP's little helpers". Are these people really unaware how juvenile and tawdry this is? Have they no professional respect?