Alex Salmond And The Raising Of The Saltire In Edinburgh - Do None Dare Call This Treason?
A thought occurred to me after my post of yesterday afternoon - the unilateral decision of the Scottish National Party's minority administration to remove the Royal Coat of Arms from government offices and rename the Scottish Executive as the Scottish Government is not a 'rebranding'; it's a rebellion.
That's what you call the removal of lawful authority's symbols in conjunction with unmandated, unsupported and unsupportable claims to the sole title to govern nations. They're called rebellions; acts of treason. You don't use words like 'rebranding', more suited to the merchandising of soap, chocolate or dog food; you use difficult words, hard, nasty words with long provenances in the histories of peoples, nations and kings.
It says much for how deeply, and dismally, the dismal science has seeped into the hearts of the British people that so much reaction to the rebellion has focussed on 'How much does the rebranding cost?, rather than the more pertinent question of 'How dare you try to take our country from us?'
Rebels always wait until the king's back is turned before lighting the fires. Alex Salmond, The Great Pretender, might be calculating that apathy, and greater concern over the blood and treasure being wasted in Iraq and Afghanistan, will lead to his toytown rebellion going largely un-noticed, or, if anyone actually does care, more attention being applied (in the Great British fashion) to the bill it will incur rather than the principles at stake.
That is his game - and it is one he should lose.
He should be called upon to restore the Royal Coat of Arms and to learn his place. He and his band of rebels do not 'govern' or 'rule' Scotland, so should stake no claim to be its government. If he refuses to do so, then he should be taken to London to face trial for treason.
Hysterical? Perhaps. But condign with the principles underpinning our constitutional settlement? Absolutely.
In 1997, Scots other than myself voted for devolution, not revolution. If The Great Pretender doesn't like the outcome, he should remove himself to exile - to listen to 'Lochaber No More'.
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Can the English please have a say?
I vote for an independent Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Having seen the sheer hideousness of the 'wee pretendy parliament' with my own eyes last month, I was somewhat surprised that the Scots lacked the confidence to call it 'The Parliament' on its signage etc rather than 'The Scottish Parliament'.
What Ed says!
In fact, let's save ourselves the hassle and just vote for an independent England or "do a Yeltsin" as we say in the trade.
Leaving a rump-UK of S, W and NI to pick up the EU-tab. Tee hee!
What Mark says.
Gordon is being taunted.
Alex Salmond will have his comeuppance.
Long live Salmond I say. FCUK the Unionist rabble!!
I thought they had taken the crown off post office wagons going to Scotland ages ago,still one step closer,maybe he'll do a Rhodesia.
Fuck Sc*tland and fuck the now very far from 'united' UK.
I'm English, not Br*tish, and I want independence from Br*tish tyranny for my homeland, England.
For years I thought the Scottish Nationalists were a hilarious bunch of petty minded, paranoid provincialist cunts like [anonymous] above - so imagine my delight to discover the emergence of even more hilarious, even more unjustifiably paranoid, even more provincialist English Nationalist cunts like Mr Gruff above...
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Shockingly, most nationalists are "pretty minded, paranoid, provincialist cunts" - whether of an English or Scottish flavour.
It's simply tribalism. "We won, so we'll piss off everybody else" - not a wise stance to take in mature "government".
Bearing in mind that "Scottish Government" is purely a (non-legally protected) marketing term being used by the Scottish Executive, I am establishing a new Scottish Government in the East Midlands.
I would welcome applications for Ministerial positions.
I hope you lot really go for independence. The sooner we're shot of you the better.
The parliament in Scotland has devolved powers, i.e. the parliament at Westimster allows them to enact legislation for Scotland.
To call that the Scottish Government is effectively treason. The Westminster Parliament should withdraw devolved powers from the Scottish parliament forthwith.
Fat Chance.
When will you jocks just piss off and leave England alone.
I support what Alex Salmon is doing, pity theres people up there in jock land that seem to want to be English, silly silly, just be Scottish and be done with it, we are the real English.
And you can keep your battered mars bars.
I am Scottish, many of the correspondents here are English.
Two distinct nations with a proud heritage and histories.
I have absolutely no problem with my English neighbours, some of my best friends are English. I do have a problem with those who think they are British though, like the writer of this article.
Britian is not anything, not a nation, not a nationality.
Lets both go our own ways, be friends, and to hell with those Brits, they are the ones who are holding our two nations back.
It's not treason, because raising the saltire is not betraying Scotland. "Britain" maybe, but that's not our country.
Raising the Butcher's Apron in Scotland should be considered treason.
It's not treason, because raising the saltire is not betraying Scotland. "Britain" maybe, but that's not our country.
Raising the Butcher's Apron in Scotland should be considered treason.
"When will you jocks just piss off and leave England alone."
Believe me, many of us do want to leave you alone. It's just some of your number, and some resident quislings with a nose in the trough like Gordon who don't.
As far as im concerned, anyone that chooses British over Scottish has no morals what so ever.
Independence, and nae union.
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