This entry will not make much sense to any US readers. To aid you, consider the U.K. as a small collection of tiny states that really don't get along. These are England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Breaking news. Scotland doesn't want to be a part of the United Kingdom. They want independance, and I say give it to them. Wales similarly do not seem to see the benefit gained from the tidal waves of tax pennies that wash over the border from England.

The Welsh you can forgive, they're not especially bright. But the Scots should know better. Unfortunately, they're blinded by their timeless hatred of their English cousins. Still they live in a dreamworld where the English are their conquerors, their slavemasters, their nemeses. This self-delusion results in the perpetual and unjustified dislike of their neighbours which is only too well documented. Me, I have nothing against them other than a dislike of their attitude towards the English.

As for N.Ireland, let's not go there. Those issues truly are well documented.

A moment of melancholy at the thought of the U.K. breaking up into individual mini-countries was shortly countered once I considered how the smaller countries of the Union benefit from the status quo. My taxes sweep over the borders in all directions subsidising the lives of people who apparently do not appreciate that English toil raises their living standards. The Scots, who we should remember hate our guts, are able to vote on English matters, while the English have no equivalent right on Scottish issues.

So here is what I propose. Give them their much vaunted freedom (and yes, on the day it happens, we'll see a couple of million Scots dressed as cast members from Gibson's Braveheart, no doubt wearing kilts for the first time in their lives, yet wildly flinging their tartan skirts to show off their shrunken genitals [it's cold in Scotland] as though they were practiced veterans), and let the taxes of the English be spent improving the lives of those who have paid them.

Further, drop out of the malfunctioning P.C. nanny super-state that is the EU, and tell the celts that they need a passport to get back into England. Then we can drop the Human Rights Act, and start sorting out the 'multi-cultural' garbage that has dragged this country back into the middle ages.

Give it a few years, and the celtish mini countries will be begging for a piece of the English pie. And if we have any sense, we'll stick up two fingers.

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Chantal - 2007-01-17 14:09:59

Found your diary through your banner. Read some of your writings. I very much like both.

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