XPost: soc.culture.irish, soc.culture.scottish, soc.culture.british   
   XPost: uk.politics.misc   
   From: ciaran@ciaran.com   
      
   Boedicia@isp.com wrote:   
   > Ciaran wrote:   
   >> Boedicia@isp.com wrote:   
   >>> Charles Ellson wrote:   
   >>>> On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 07:59:14 -0000, "Walker"    
   >>>> wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> "Charles Ellson"  wrote in message   
   >>>>> news:f1v2p2loqncmeirabloaq5chdu881hjqgd@4ax.com...   
   >>>>>> On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 16:52:53 -0000, "Walker"    
   >>>>>> wrote:   
   >>>>>>    
   >>>>>>> Shipman is right. Sassenach means a speaker of the Saxon language in   
   the   
   >>>>>>> British Isles, which includes just about everyone in the U.K. except   
   some   
   >>>>>>> recent immigrants.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>> *nglish (language) = Beurla   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> You had better take your dictionary back for a refund.   
   >>>>> *nglish, I think that you have to learn how to spell the English language   
   >>>>> before writing about it.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>> I'm not *nglish.   
   >>>    Are you a *cot?   
   >>>   
   >> Better for Alba to be completely independent within the EU. Citizens of   
   >> Eire and Norway have a much higher standard of living than Scots -   
   >> despite having oil deposits like Norway and the same innovative people   
   >> with a wide diaspora like the Irish they are sucked dry by the English   
   >> so that there is much higher unemployment and lower standard of living   
   >> than the English.   
   >   
   >    "*cots receive 1565 pounds more per head than the English".   
   >   
   >    *cotland receives 11 billion pounds in subsidy based on "need" not   
   > population".   
   >     Telegraph   
   >   
   >     If they need to get their welfare money from the English taxpayer   
   > in order to survive,   
   >    how will they be any better off when those subsidies are cut off?   
   >   
   >     How will their unemployment situation improve if they leave the   
   > U.K.?   
   >   
   >    How is England "sucking them dry" when it is England who is keeping   
   >    *cotland afloat and paying for that 2 bit Parliament of theirs?   
   >   
   >     The so-called "cots nats suffer from the same disease that all tiny   
   > tribes   
   >     suffer from - an inferiority complex and they will still have it   
   > after they get   
   >     their "independence".  Millions of them choose to live in England   
   > just as   
   >    the Irish did after Ireland got its independence.   
   >   
   >    Britain should withdrew from the EU and spend the billions it is   
   > sending down *that*   
   >    rathole where it belongs, in Britain.   
   >   
   Better idea ? ENGLAND withdraws from the EU and leaves Alba, Cymru,   
   Mannin, Kernow (including Devon ?) as independent nations within the EU.   
   We'll see the truth or otherwise in what you say then :-)   
      
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