tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2623721153002721356.post9002719994110472410..comments2024-03-28T17:49:01.125+00:00Comments on Three Thousand Versts of Loneliness: British columnists writing on Russia and a genuine example of 'Scottish cringe'.Owen Polleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00567787385096905811noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2623721153002721356.post-76954579639080621672010-11-29T21:27:17.241+00:002010-11-29T21:27:17.241+00:00Chekov:
I'm not sure why the SNP would take u...Chekov:<br /><br />I'm not sure why the SNP would take umbrage at this article, they dropped the Labour slogan, "The Best Small Country in the World", almost as soon as they took power in the Scottish Parliament and Scotland is also not so bad as it's made out. If you take Labour run Glasgow out of the equation then Scotland isn't that bad as far as health goes.<br /><br />I can't see anything he says as being anti-SNP and even if it was anti-SNP no-one would raise an eyebrow if it appeared in the Scotsman as that is a paper that hates the SNP.<br /><br /><i>These habits in turn are inspired by a mixture of despair, boredom, poverty, dreary weather and an almost Dostoyevskian pleasure in self-annihilation</i><br /><br />Yep, what Scotland needs is the confidence and self-reliance that independence brings. It's quite obvious that the Union has bred a dependency culture.DougtheDughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02952281599715356995noreply@blogger.com