John Mair

Scotland as Britain: A medieval thread Nationalists pretend Britain is an extension of England Between the 1380s and 1520s, Scottish historians didn’t treat Britain as synonymous with England. They saw Scotland as Britain’s rightful heir, central, enduring, and legitimate. 1/

@CaptainPog1 @Phoenix4517 @axiochrono No it wasn't a project of any English crown or government or laws It was enabled by Scottish laws and carried out by Scottish landowners Also more people were cleared in the lowlands

@Phoenix4517 @axiochrono Lowlanders participated in the Highland clearances, but at baseline it was a project of the English crown and government. Also some of the lowland nobles left Scotland for England to rarely return. Also the oppressive laws were passed in the English parliament.

Scottish people pretending that Scotland was a victim of colonialism and not an accomplice will never stop being annoying. Never ask these people why so many people from the Caribbean have Scottish surnames.

@notquitemaoism @axiochrono Tom Devine found in his research that more lowlanders were cleared than highlanders. Land owners all over Scotland were clearing their land and in England the Enclosures were really the same process

@axiochrono there *was* colonialism in scotland. it was called the highland clearances; it was by lowlanders against highlanders. it's the same kind of white nationalism as liberal anglo-australians who blame british imperialism for their country's ills -- when they *are* the imperialism!

@SamFish88695053 @CitizenJour2030 Nope Spain invented and named concentration camps

@CitizenJour2030 Actually... I'll think you'll find it was the British that invented terrorism, just like we invented the use of concentration camps too and most of the military intelligence networks and their techniques, along with helping all western nations set up their agencies. All British.

They also targeted British personnel at the King David Hotel terrorist bombing. Who invented terrorism? Hint: Not the Muslims. Is Rothschild a zionist? You betcha.

@staylorish "We need to explain that" Yet not a single separatist anywhere can explain it

“Our problem, when we’re independent, will be being too wealthy.” From today’s SNP conference, which is being held on another planet.

@TadhgHickey Scotland loves being part of the UK

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@Its_ereko @MikeStewart79 2 Million plus of us VOTED to stay, we LOVE being part of the UK Maybe stop making things up

@MikeStewart79 Why Force them to stay when they feel they need to go?

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💥 BREAKING: Scotland just lit the fuse. The SNP passed a pro independence motion. Telling the UK to prepare for Scotland's exit from the Union. While London bombs Iran, Scotland plans exit. While Westminster plays empire, Edinburgh builds nation. The Union is dying. Scotland is leaving. Not tomorrow. Not yet. But the motion is law. The process has begun. The UK thought it could hold. Thought the Scots would stay. Wrong. About everything. About Brexit. About Scotland. About history. Scotland sees the empire for what it is. A sinking ship. Building a lifeboat. The vote will come. The exit will happen. The Union will end. The world is watching the first crack become a canyon. Scotland is leaving. The UK is shrinking. The empire is crumbling. One nation at a time.

@annie_mcginley @ukkcbeard @piarais91 Yeah, especially when it's ahistoric Haymarket was never Gaelic, it was part of Anglo Lothian for centuries before Scotland existed And then you have Aberdeen which was a Pictish area, that's why you have "Aber" Pictish for river mouth of the river Dee. So what's the point?

@ukkcbeard @piarais91 So do you consider money spent on the Welsh language or Scottish Gaelic to also be a massive waste of money ?

Insane, that the first parents were threatened with imprisonment from the state for opening an Irish Medium school. They were right.

@MJGhacv @BDakoo @iambeerd @BpdLion But you're referring to a period where there was no welfare State The State didn't force the Irish to breed like rabbits. That's definitely a decision they took Anyway, like the other guy said. Everyone involved is long dead "We" don't bear any responsibility

@Tedii69 @BDakoo @iambeerd @BpdLion But we still exported food from both countries. Just because we weren’t the only to blame, doesn’t mean we don’t have any blame .

They are now advocating for paedophiles on notes now. I literally said they would. Dirty fuckers.

@HeatherM1000 @ShelaghFogarty @LBC It had nothing to do with rleigion and anyway most of those evicted were Protestant

@ShelaghFogarty @LBC During the Highland Clearances, Protestant Landowners evicted lowly rural workers. BECAUSE they were Catholic.

@ShelaghFogarty @LBC I wholeheartedly support the right of ANY oppressed people, to overthrow - and execute - their oppressors. Don't you?

@Abu_Salah9 I have seen Starving people, they can't run They don't run towards tanks Nobody is shooting It's mostly young men

One of the most brutal scenes in human history has been exposed. Israeli soldiers opened fire on thousands of starving Gazans as they ran in desperation for a piece of food during the war on Gaza. A moment the world must never forget.

@canncreativ @SenTuberville That's untrue The English cleared their own people in the enclosures The vast majority of landowners in the Scottish clearances were Scots

@SenTuberville We should have followed England's lead: The Highland and Lowland Clearances. In the 18th century, an England-First campaign forcibly removed lazy unproductive Scots-Irish farmers from their land. Well, England didn't send us their best....

I don’t give a rip about being politically correct. Innocent Americans are being gunned down in the streets almost daily by Radical Islamists whose ‘religion’ teaches them it’s righteous to kill Christians. I won’t be silenced about this.

@LouiseS56531957 @RobLooseCannon Or the English enclosures

@RobLooseCannon Similar to the Highland Clearances.

Today in 1846, a village in east Galway vanished. Ballinlass was a small settlement near Mountbellew in County Galway. Its sixy-odd cottages stood along a patch of land reclaimed from bog by the labour of the people who lived there. Many of the tenants were regarded as comparatively prosperous by the standards of rural Ireland. The eviction was ordered by the landlord, Marcella Gerrard, owner of roughly 7,000 acres in the district. The village stood where she wished to establish a grazing farm, as cattle, were more profitable than people. The tenants were not in arrears. Many had their rents ready to pay. That fact meant nothing in the legal world of nineteenth-century landlordism. Ireland in 1846 was part of the United Kingdom, governed from London, and the law of property rested firmly on the side of the landlord. At dawn a sheriff arrived in Ballinlass with a large police force and a detachment of the 49th Regiment under Captain Browne. Soldiers and constables spread through the village. The people protested. They pleaded to pay the rent that had been repeatedly refused. The work of destruction began. One by one the gaffs were dismantled. Their roofs were torn away and walls were knocked down. Gardens were trampled. Families clung to doorposts and dragged away what little property they could carry. Women wailed and children screamed. Men cursed helplessly as their homes collapsed around them. By the end of the day, around seventy-six families, roughly 300 people, had been turned out of Ballinlass. The newly homeless tried to shelter in the ruins of their cottages that night. The next day the police and soldiers returned. Even that miserable refuge was denied them. The tenants were driven from the ditches where they had begun constructing makeshift shelters of sticks and mud. Their neighbours were warned not to harbour them. News of the eviction spread rapidly across Ireland and Britain. The incident was so shocking that it was raised in the House of Lords by Charles Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry. On 30 March he reported what he had discovered after investigating the affair. He told the Lords he was “deeply grieved.” Seventy-six families, he said, had not only been turned from their houses but had been “mercilessly driven from the ditches” where they sought shelter. These unfortunate people, he added, had their rents actually ready. If scenes like this occurred, he asked, was it any wonder that acts of outrage and violence sometimes followed? But sympathy was not universal. Only days later, the formidable lawyer and politician Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux insisted, it was perfectly within the landladys rights. If she refrained from eviction she was showing kindness, but if she chose to enforce her property rights the tenants must learn that the law stood firmly behind her. Property would become worthless, he warned, if landlords could not do as they pleased with their estates. Ballinlass happened at the very beginning of the catastrophe we now call the Great Famine. The potato crop had failed in 1845 and would fail again. Hunger was spreading across the country. Yet grain and livestock continued to be exported, rents continued to be demanded, and evictions continued to be carried out. The people of Ballinlass were scattered. Some drifted into neighbouring districts. Many likely emigrated. The village itself disappeared from the landscape, replaced by grazing land. Today, a memorial stands near the site of the destroyed cottages, listing the names of the families who once lived there. Buy the Dublin Time Machine a pint and support the DTM Book ko-fi.com/buchanandublin…

@MJGhacv @BDakoo @iambeerd @BpdLion Bengal famine had many contributing factors, mainly the Japanese. We didn't cause Potatoes blight Spain Invented concentration camps and it was Spain that set up the transatlantic slave trade

@BDakoo @iambeerd @BpdLion Bengal famine. Irish famine, We trafficked opium into China, Invented concentration camps in South Africa during the boer wars Setup up the transatlantic slave trade . Just to name a few

@JohnDuncanS30 Zero people voted for Alba conquering and annexing Strathclyde Let that sink in

177 People voted in the Act of Union with 110 votes in favour to 67 against and the 110 were wealthy commissioners and Landowners, You get more people on a train from Glasgow Central to Anniesland, 177 People, Let that sink in.

@MouthfulofTom Churchill didn't invent concentration camps, read some books

He was an avowed racist and invented concentration camps

@thrasher_night @quintessonqueer Churchill didn't deny anything about the Boers and We didn't invent concentration camps Churchill initially refused the Welsh request for military aid and sent police. No confrontations with military The Bengali Famine had many causes, Churchill sent over a million tonnes

@quintessonqueer 1. Denied how bad the Boers were being treated in the concentration camps we had invented during the Boer War 2. Sent the army in during a strike 3. Bengali Famine in WW2 4. Was so massively unpopular that he lost the GE after the War to Attlee

Okay, keep the historical figures, but replace Churchill with Attlee🙂‍↕️

@rae_alister @TiceRichard Where on earth did you read that? It certainly wasn't a history book

@TiceRichard Didums ! The man that invented concentration camps!

Why is the Bank of England abandoning Churchill, Britain’s greatest hero?

@DWeller50261 @j1874t @80_mcswan So why are you 100 x more likely to get killed by a gun in the US where it's legal? That stat is not exaggerated by the way

@j1874t @80_mcswan It is not difficult to get an illegal gun in this country if you want one. The kind of person who would do that probably has an illegal gun, or knows where to get one anyway.

Nigel Farage has said that the handgun ban in the UK is ridiculous. The ban was introduced after the tragedy of Dunblane. His comments are a disgrace and an insult to all those who lost their lives at Dunblane. The ban must never be reversed.

@SereseUK @Shinners198 @80_mcswan You are 70 - 100 times more likely to die a gun death in America It's not just about mass shootings. It's just easy to kill with a gun The ban should never be listed

@Shinners198 @80_mcswan "Has there been a mass death in the UK since Dunblane?" Now go and check the mass death events in the 70 years before that shooting. Then compare that to the last 20 years of Islam in the UK. Come back when you are better informed.

@RangersFC Thanks and I agree. Graffiti and celebration of deaths of 66 football fans who never came back from a game, is utterly vile. The people who do so are a disgrace to humanity

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