What are you thinking right now?

[Minty]

Yeah, it's funny how nationalistic Scots get when they're no longer living there.

I can understand to a certain extent the moans about "white settlers" - Home Counties more money than braincells types who decide to retire early & move "up north" because it's far cheaper or to property speculate, & who do everything possible to upset the locals. Or New Age hippy types trying to turn another place into another Findhorn (same as the SW gets on everywhere that intersects a ley line!)

But the flip side is I cannot remember the moans ever being about anyone OTHER than English incomers. You get rich Germans buying up holiday homes (or whole islands) & acting like the worst WW2 stereotypes, but not a word said. The part I cannot abide about Scottish nationalism is how much of it begins & ends with blaming England & the English for everything - same crap as over in Ireland, & that most of the worst horrors were carried out by fellow Scots is glossed over.

It was Scottish landowners who presided over the Clearences (Highland and Lowland), Scottish troops which imposed it (mainly the Black Watch), & Scottish newspapers with Scottish journalists (The Herald & The Scotsman) who spoke in favour of the removal of "an inferior race" for sheep - virtually the only mainstream newspaper journalist voice condemning it was a certain Karl Marx in London (ironically one of his major grievances was the way "the opium of the masses" were forced to sell church lands for a fraction of their worth to the treacherous clan chiefs who betrayed their own kin because without their mass-deported congregations they were white elephants).

I used to annoy some of the most rabid ones at uni by asking them if they intended to firebomb The Broons' Butt And Ben - that one always made me laugh. A Scots family living in a rented tenement, but who owned a Highland holiday home! Only in the world of DC Thompson would that make any sense.