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As I said before,Warren. We don't really care. We treat Scots in England
just as we treat anyone else. The only problem, especially for those
further south than I am is understanding regional Scottish accents,
especially Glasgow. An example of pure Glasgow is the comedian, Billy
Connolly and hias record "The Crucifixion". I seriously doubt if you would
understand a word of it. e.g. one line goes "Ah am a Roaman, Ah hate the
Christians, come tae think of it, Ah even hate the Roamans, Ahm just a wee
jobby!" You might understand part of that.
Billy Conolly, taught himself to speak English with a much milder Scots
accent for most of his stage show so he could be understood.
As for the home rule, Scotland has it's Scottish Parliament which, like
the Welsh Assembly, is much better to live under than the Westminster
government. They do not pay for University tuition and their Health
Service is much morr free athan ours.
The Scottish Parliament is mainly controlled by Alex Salmond and his SNP,
the Scottish National Party and looks like going even more that way.
It is similar in Wales where Plaid Cymru, the Welsh Nationalist Party has
a lot of powere though they are by no means the controlling party.
There has been a move to get the WA to conduct debates in Welsh but this
was dropped as even many of the Welsh members of the Plaid Cymru cannot
speak Welsh.
There is a bit of a move in Scotland for Gaelic to become the official
language but no one takes that seriously as even less Scots speak Gaelic
than speak Welsh in Wales.
The road signs leading into Wales read "Croeso y Cymru", Welcome to Wales
and many signs are bilingual.
The whole thing is more complicated than outsiders think. We don't just
have the Scots and the Northern Irish with their devolved parliaments but
the Channel Islands have their own currency and so does the |Isle of Man
with it's ruling House of Keys, the Manx parliament, all with their own
set of laws but relying in the British armwed forces to protect them.
That is the big snag. Britain has still got a powerful set of armed forces
with a large, nuclear arsenal, even though we rent Trident from the
Americans, the RAF still has bombers, mostly supersonic.
You would not want to see a Eurofighter carrying 100 Mtons, high above
New York.
Of course, we feel even safer with the French and the Germans as close
allies and Scotland feels safer having a nuclear power to the south.
It is all swings and roundabouts. Scotland could become a member of the EU
but that is not a very good idea at the moment with Wall Street trying to
destroy the Euro. They are better with the Scottish Pound, tied to the
English Pound right now until things change financially.
It is quite a complicated subject...
73 - Ian, G0TEZ @ GB7CIP
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