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Embarrassed! - (Well - not really!)


For quite some time now, I've been a little bit embarassed at the situation in UK.
Although I have very little, or rather nothing, to do with the place, I would have to be blind and deaf not to notice the influence of certain people in all aspects of daily life in that country called "a green and pleasant land" - England.
Seems that the English have now finally woken up to the fact that they are a part of the UK, and not vice-versa!
And.......
It seems they don't like it!

Lots of mutterings are going on about another one of those "United Kingdoms'' - 
A little place, that up till recently had to be content with being a sort of
Englishman's Castle, a place where the Englishman' dreams came true, where he could drain off all natural resources, and pour the results into his own coffers, and from there - down the sink!
A place where the natural inhabitants were considered to be "fair game" for anyone who wandered north of Carlisle!
Scotland - The Brave!
Scotland of the "Gay  Gordons" ...... home of Haggis and Robert Burns...... of "wee timid wicked beasties"..... of North Sea Oil (all gone now, apparantly) - of Single Malt.....of Salmon only to be dreamt about....of lobsters, oysters......
Scotland has been awoken, and by purely peaceful means, has got around to seeing it's own Parliament installed, with its own "President" - PM - Chairman, or whatever you wish to call it.
And this has got up the neighbour's nose!
Suddenly Scottish men and women and childrens are not obliged to obey laws and rules passed by people who live hundreds of miles away, and many of whom have never crossed the Border!
And they like it!
Suddenly the Scots are getting free medecines which the English have to pay for, and other treatments for "free" which the English grudgingly pay up for!
Worst of all, for the English, is the fact that wherever they look in their "green and pleasant" land, all they can see - in charge and running their place, are indeed SCOTSMEN and SCOTSWOMEN!
I understand that even the ex-PM, Tony Blair, was of Scottish origins, and I'm not even going to start making a list of Scotspeople in England or UK who are household names, worldwide, in all aspects of public life.
This is a "notebook" article, and "notebook" wouldn't be large enough to take it all!

English-Scottish points of view

I do, however, have a suggestion to make to the envious English (and knowing them as I do, they won't like that one little bit) - Why not do the same?
You could have  Brucie Forthsythe as PM (if you'd started earlier, you could even have had Ken Dodd, or Jimmy Saville) or you could simply name the Queen as PM, or one of the Princes.They must have enough clout to get things rolling!
(Hang on - they've all got Scottish blood, haven't they?)
Anyway, I'm sure you'll be able to find somebody of English blood - somewhere!
Only problem may be, of course, finding enough qualified people of English blood to run all the necessary things, like Health Services, London Transport, Wastebin emptiers etc, you know - all those jobs no English person in their right minds would ever consider doing!
On the whole, I think I'll just stay here, at least until I need a free room in a Nursing Home!
(I'm sure there are many of you, who will read this, and say - He needs that room RIGHT NOW - Maybe, but MINE will be at least FREE OF CHARGE!)

30600, Vauvert, France.                        October 2007.