tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post7120915107873858619..comments2024-03-28T17:17:52.949+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: Brexit Day - what is happening? Bruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-2675970382290865512020-02-01T13:05:43.431+00:002020-02-01T13:05:43.431+00:00Herself had second thoughts about dinner last nigh...Herself had second thoughts about dinner last night. Even more British, she thought, to have Bangers and Mash. Inspiration: she'd cooked a new batch of curry powder this week so we had mildly curried baked beans too. Delish - reminiscent of childhood when my mother liked to use mild currying with some dishes. What isolationist, inward-looking, parochial near-Nazis that generation were, eh? At least that's the account from the EUquislings.deariemenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-6265999382639342302020-01-31T15:14:44.058+00:002020-01-31T15:14:44.058+00:00@d - Sounds like a plan...
When I was living in G...@d - Sounds like a plan...<br /><br />When I was living in Glasgow c 25 years ago, and being assailed by the BBC Alba output (Gallic speaking Scottish TV) I worked out that the then-cost of providing a dozen hours a week of Gallic TV and radio could have given every Gallic Speaker (men, women and children) about £20,000 a year in pocket (a lot more than the average national wage). <br /><br />No doubt that figure will be manyfold greater now. <br /><br />If the question was put to the Gallic speaker - which would you rather have, the media or the money? ... it would not take a genius to predict their answer. Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-89056087444393293212020-01-31T14:32:20.455+00:002020-01-31T14:32:20.455+00:00Brexit Day? Didn't that already happen a few y...Brexit Day? Didn't that already happen a few years back? Must be that Mandela Effect again...Wm Jas Tychonievichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07446790072877463982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-9919455913028302102020-01-31T14:26:37.661+00:002020-01-31T14:26:37.661+00:00If the next Scottish referendum is couched in term...If the next Scottish referendum is couched in terms of "Do you want your constituency to leave the UK?" then almost all the area of Scotland will vote "no". The small but populous Irish-rich areas in the Glasgow conurbation and Dundee will vote "yes". <br /><br />Therefore the large bit - to be called Scotland - will remain in the UK (and be a prosperous part of it). The little bits - to be called perhaps Alba - will have coasts on the Firths of Clyde and Tay and therefore will not strictly be enclaves in Scotland. A noble gesture by the UK would grant Alba generous access to the Crinan and Caledonian canals so that the mini-state's mini-navy can roam to and fro between the two provinces of West Alba and East Alba.deariemenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-90001003260542366372020-01-31T13:18:40.522+00:002020-01-31T13:18:40.522+00:00@C - We shouldn't think about anything 'fo...@C - We shouldn't think about anything 'forcing' England - that won't happen, or if it did, it would do not good. It will either happen because the English People want it, or it won't be worth having. As for London, as things stand there is zero chance - it would be something that might only emerge at a much later stage. If many intermediate steps are not taken first, it doesn't even seem worthwhile thinking about, beyond the bare possibility. Remembering always, that no future will be worth having unless it is aimed at Christian Good - that must come first. Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-24641081503074857792020-01-31T13:13:15.159+00:002020-01-31T13:13:15.159+00:00I'd like to repeal the Acts of Union, yes, but...I'd like to repeal the Acts of Union, yes, but even more so I'd like to get London out of the UK. I consider our continued union with it to be more dangerous to England than our union with Scotland. I know it's part of England, but it's better to lose a hand and enter life than keep them both and descend into hell.<br /><br />One good thing about Scottish Independence, though, is that it could force the English to go back and search for a pre-union, and so pre-imperial and pre-industrial, identity. One of the worst things that happened to this country was the British Empire.Cerereanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14935694167944319731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-68871159543863150752020-01-31T11:57:22.989+00:002020-01-31T11:57:22.989+00:00@d - Do you agree with me about Scotland - or is t...@d - Do you agree with me about Scotland - or is that too sensitive a question? Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-70045022869718381532020-01-31T11:10:55.803+00:002020-01-31T11:10:55.803+00:00We shall celebrate with a Burnsian late January ha...We shall celebrate with a Burnsian late January haggis and neeps, and a glass of non-brandy. As the Great Man said:<br /><br />Never but by British hands<br />Shall British wrongs be righted.deariemenoreply@blogger.com