| So now that Scotland has been confirmed as an English colony in law 11:11 - Nov 23 with 6953 views | bluelagos |
Can we now adopt an England first approach to Twtding?
Glassers, DK, Homer et al to have their posts quality checked before posting.
We'd need some volunteers to do the hard lifting / checking so maybe we also limit their posts to 5 a day?
Any objections from the English posters? (Scottish posters / residents can button it) |  |
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| So now that Scotland has been confirmed as an English colony in law on 09:47 - Nov 24 with 500 views | Keno |
| So now that Scotland has been confirmed as an English colony in law on 09:40 - Nov 24 by WeWereZombies |
Although the wind power coming down to England is doing a good job of helping United Kingdom emission targets, and the Hollow Mountain at Ben Cruachan is a lifesaver for the National Grid at peak demand, I don't think Scotland is quite the prop for the economy that it was when it dug Thatcher out of a fiscal hole back in the eighties... |
ha!! I wasnt expecting a serious answer to that but that actually makes a lot of sense |  |
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| So now that Scotland has been confirmed as an English colony in law on 09:50 - Nov 24 with 493 views | WeWereZombies |
| So now that Scotland has been confirmed as an English colony in law on 09:41 - Nov 24 by DJR |
I am aware of that passage which strikes me as being a bit of a fairy tale. I am also aware of the mongrel-like nature of the Scottish people. I don't think it is so much a case of conquest by the Scots, but an assimilation of the various tribes, coupled with the influx of the Norman barons. Nothing is simple in Scottish history. But interestingly, people of my parents' generation were never taught Scottish history.
EDIT: my dad was born in Saltcoats, so I know Ayrshire well. [Post edited 24 Nov 2022 9:46]
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After more than nine years living in Scotland I still feel like a novice in both my knowledge of the history and the landscape, it is a perpetual set of wonders. And there are many Scotlands, the Islands, the Highlands, the less explored and consequently less spoiled Far North, the Borders, Fife and all its jumbled strangeness, Ayrshire, Aberdeenshire and so on. My latest intrigue is coming upon the term 'Horseman's Word' in a poem by Don Patterson and looking it up on Wikipedia - a sort of guild that subsists between people who work with horses but only in Aberdeenshire and East Anglia. |  |
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| So now that Scotland has been confirmed as an English colony in law on 14:20 - Nov 24 with 427 views | Churchman |
| So now that Scotland has been confirmed as an English colony in law on 09:41 - Nov 24 by DJR |
I am aware of that passage which strikes me as being a bit of a fairy tale. I am also aware of the mongrel-like nature of the Scottish people. I don't think it is so much a case of conquest by the Scots, but an assimilation of the various tribes, coupled with the influx of the Norman barons. Nothing is simple in Scottish history. But interestingly, people of my parents' generation were never taught Scottish history.
EDIT: my dad was born in Saltcoats, so I know Ayrshire well. [Post edited 24 Nov 2022 9:46]
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Nothing is simple in English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish history. The people of this country are the product of a melting pot. The attached on DNA make up demonstrates that.
https://www.ancestry.com/corporate/international/press-releases/DNA-of-the-natio
Your point about what history was taught is interesting. I was taught limited ancient stuff - Hammurabi, Persians, Assyrians, Alexander, ancient Egyptians, Romans etc. Fast forward to the Norman Conquest. Fast forward to the Reformation / Tudors and then on to Clive of India, empire, abolition of slavery, reform bill, Victorians. History ended with the arrival of Campbell-Bannerman in 1905. The unsavoury bits were left out! Along with 20c.
It was largely dry and boring. There was nothing about formation of the countries of these islands, with regard to this thread. The Viking invasions and creation of England, wars of independence, 1707, Edward 1st trampling all over Wales, King Billy and the muddy ditch scramble (Battle of the Boyne) etc etc.
School history gave me no sense of anything really. It’s not as if I didn’t have a decent education either. It’s just how history was taught in the last century, I suppose. [Post edited 24 Nov 2022 14:21]
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| So now that Scotland has been confirmed as an English colony in law on 16:24 - Nov 24 with 385 views | GlasgowBlue |
| So now that Scotland has been confirmed as an English colony in law on 08:18 - Nov 24 by GeoffSentence |
In the same way England does not keep voting for the Tories but we get lumbered with them year in year out. |
Indeed. As er my previous post: 'As we know, under our FOTP system we keep getting Tory governments. But the people, of the UK don’t keep voting Tory". |  |
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