I don't accept the concept of a 'british people'.
All nations have the right to self determination.
As far as I'm concerned, britain is not a nation, but a construct.
All nations are constructs - it's the imposition of that construct on the middle-East in the late 1800's and early 1900's over the heads of their pre-existing tribal delineations that's a major element of so much of the trouble we're reaping now.
O.
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Yep.....and guess which 'Land of Hope and Glory' was largely responsible.....this so-called 'great' Britain.
Yes. A Britain of which Scotland was an integral and important part - it provided the nation with explorers and inventors and scientists and politicians and surveyors and soldiers. As someone with a foot in both camps, as it were, the rise of nationalism on both sides of the border - more dramatically in Scotland - saddens me. I don't think of myself as English or Scots or half-and-half, I think of myself as British.
O.
Absolutely, Outrider.
Scots did, unfortunately, play their part in empire - and a fair population of the English speaking former colonies are descended to those cleared from the land in an early example of ethnic cleansing - another invention, to add to the concentration camp, genocide, exploitation, etc, of which the British Empire (including Scots) was guilty.
That's why 'Land of Hope and Glory' is a shameful song.
That's why, too, that I believe that, just as the British project built up gradually over the centuries, it's long past time for its' disintegration.