Cal wrote:degoose wrote:Hey guys i've got an old friend who is scottish and now lives in Canada,he started talking politics and it was very interesting. His thoughts are that the SNP are really popular all over the UK and everyone in England wanted to vote for them but couldn't so that's why they aren't running the country,people in England want the Scottish border to also be moved so far south it is below Manchester so Manchester would be part of Scotland officially and Scotland can go independent any time they like now they just haven't.
Thoughts?
My thoughts about the SNP follow on from a comment I saw posted in another place. The poster suggested that whenever we hear SNP members talking about nationalism for Scotland, we substitute 'England' and 'English' for 'Scotland' and 'Scottish' and ask ourselves whether such nationalist talk would be acceptable to the media in the way the SNP's seems to be?
And if not, why not? Could double standards possibly be at work? Perish the thought!
That argument is an old white supremacy argument where they say "Why can black people talk about how they are proud to be black, but we can't?". (Just a little history, as it doesn't have topical significance.)
The same answer applies: Because English people are
not a minority inside the UK. They do not need greater representation, nor would breaking up a union which serves their majority be in their favour.