THE Minister for the Union, aka the Prime Minister, has on several been occasions reprimanded by Mr Speaker for referring to the third-largest party in the House as the Scottish Nationalist Party when he knows perfectly well it is the Scottish National Party. Clearly he believes nationalism is shameful and distasteful, but equally clear is the selectivity in his reference.
English nationalism is alive and well, increasing aided and abetted by that same minister. The continued growth of it will be illustrated in the next General Election of the UK Parliament, which hopefully will not be contributed to by Scotland.
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The Boundaries Commission has determined that Wales and Scotland will lose respectively seven and three constituencies while England will gain 10, meaning effectively an increase in overall count of 20 to England. Fair? Democratic?
The plain fact is that English nationalism has always been prevalent and a feature of the elitism nourished by all the governments of the UK. To pretend otherwise is undisguised sophistry. It will of course be no concern of an independent Scotland.
John Hamilton
Bearsden
SO the PM continues – and this time there was no intervention from the Speaker – to refer to the SNP as “the Scottish nationalist party”. Would there be any value, then, in referring to the party, in government, as the “Conserve-a-Twats”? Or should we just allow their continued and persistent display of disrespect for Scotland to boost the numbers for independence?
Ned Larkin
Inverness
I AGREE with folk who argue that we should refute, and expect all our politicians to refute, every claim about the 2014 referendum having been promised as a once-in-a-generation or lifetime event.
It never was, and never could have been. It was an opportunity which too few grasped at the time, that’s all.
Bill Craig
Glasgow
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