montesquieu
pfm Member
Thanks for explaining your position which is clear though some of your assumptions, conclusions and view of Britain’s global ambitions seem a little odd to me. Might I ask where outside Scotland you are living.
Berkshire. For the last 11 years.
Prior to that I spent over a decade in Somerset, though in the middle of that I had a couple of years back home in Lanarkshire where the kids suffered badly at school for their English accents, even though my daughter had been born in Glasgow (my son was born in Bristol).
Moving to Scotland with a foreign wife and English-accented kids was an eye opener. I saw an ugly side to Scottish culture that hadn't been apparent to me before. 'Jokes' that simply weren't funny. Kids acting out on newcomers at school the bigotry they routinely heard at home. Casual anti-Englishness from people I used to think were civilised. I could go on.
My experience is that all of the above has got steadily worse over recent years and I blame the SNP primarily - it's undoubtedly a strategy of theirs to poison the well of civility.
I can tell you now that the English are streets ahead of the Scots in accepting strangers (in which category they barely even put Scottish people - something that is certainly not reciprocated).