A Scottish Army Officer has been presented with the honour of being installed as the newest Governor of Edinburgh Castle in a ceremony which took place on 19 June.
Major General Andrew Mackay, who was promoted to the post of GOC of the Army's 2nd Division (comprising Scotland, Northern England and Northern Ireland), was installed as the Governor of Scotland's most iconic landmark by the Lord Lyon, Kind of Arms, which means that the Major General will be a member of Her Majesty the Queen's household in Scotland.
I wish MG Mackay well in his post.
Scotland being named part of the army's 2nd division still riles me. I have yet to hear of any benefit this has brought to the organisation of the army. Another wee story about the gradual stealth of Scottish regimental identities is here.
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Do you know Mike Gow subrosa?
SR,
Morning madame, back from my wee jaunt up the WHW. Good luck to him but he'll be as arrogant as many of the others I've met at his level.
Did you know that his yearly pay rise is based on performance? Wonder what objectives he's been given?
I hope that when Independence comes they'll head sooth again withouth stealing folks' shoes!
Just jokin - they prefer wifies high heels but not as bad as "The Royals" - naked bar!
On a positive note many who I met on my travels I enquired about Independence - the responses were positive in favour and from the newly graduated students from Glasgow and Edinburgh Universities - it was a case of when not if! - Bless the younger generation!
Nae Scots Cringe in sight!
Have a braw day,
Crazy D
No Conan. Should I?
Morning CD. Sun tanned and fit as a fiddle now then surely.
Aye so many have that excessive arrogance CD but don't you think that will change in future years with youngster insisting they keep their accents, or, do you think the following will continue to be the case:
Young Scottish Sandhurst student at term assessment -
CO: You'll make an excellent officer but never a gentleman with an accent like that.
I thought with your military connections you may have known General Gow, ex-commandant of the Castle, liberator of Belsen, Court Martialer of my brother-in-law and the only person I still call sir.
No Conan, I never did any work in Scotland. I know people who would have known him though - does that make me his bestest friend by connection?
This independence malarkey, if it comes to bloodshed again what will we gain? I support a UK Nation fighting The EUSSR. It's in my genes and that of those lying in "foreign fields". First you dumped we Tories, bad, then Labour, good and next?
Five degrees of seperation subrosa;¬)
Speaking of which oldrightie; in an independent Scotland, as in any democracy, there will be all shades of political persuasion.
The SNP is a broad church at the moment, Not quite SSP voters to nutters that think it's only an initial away from the BNP.
Malarky?? Oh dearie me OR, you've obviously not spent much time amongst Scots and I find the cause for independence being called a malarky quite insulting. Then I would, wouldn't i?
Can you tell me OR - why are you so desperate to hold onto a country which would rather go it alone? Don't give me the drivel about the bigger we are the better we are and all that, it's past its sell-by date.
Obviously a wee bittie too far, but I could make enquiries Conan. ;)
He may be Scottish but he still won't fly the Saltire (a large one, not that handkerchief they sometimes put up in a corner).
Orders is orders,and the castle does not belong to Scotland, it is "a British military garrison" (even tho' no soldiers are quartered there overnight), and the Union flag takes priority.
They get brainwashed at Sandhust.
Hello Andrew, yes I agree, he'll stick to the orders of the government of the day.
They don't all get brainwashed at Sandhurst. Some manage to thole the insults and keep their own counsel.
very educational for me across the big pond...
one question...and no pun intended here at all...
Will independance ever come?
Is there need for one?
To me, ignorant North American, the fact that a Scott can say I'm from Scotland is already proof enough of an existing nation. Nations are in people's heart and no physical boundaries or political systems can ever restrict or diminish them....
Cheers all
Independence will come Baron. I don't know if it will happen in my lifetime though. Yes there is need for it. A country needs to look after itself and not be beholding to another country.
It's rather like the child who, when adult, still expects the parent to make the decisions and provide the finances.
We Scots are a nation Baron, we've always been a nation but not regarded as such by unionists.
Subrosa, I see Scotland as a wonderful and valued part of The United Kingdom. Devolution is a very worthwhile and I believe successful, institution. I also feel passionately that The English are better off in partnership as one nation rather than a territorial and separate entity. I also think Ireland, as a separate land mass, should be one Nation. It is all very complex, so I fall back on history. Land shared is better than land fought over.
Afternoon OR. Devolution is somewhat worthwhile and successful OR, but we should have the right to govern our own nation. The problem is Scotland is a nation and England is a nation, so really you want to demolish one of them.
There would be no fighting OR, London's had the best of the oil money, nobody can say that fish caught in Scottish waters doesn't belong to Scotland and products such as our power schemes are ours.
I know you wish for Scotland to be part of this broken union, why I don't know, but that denies the Scots the right to choose doesn't it.
The English should also have the right to decide if they wish to go it alone. I feel, and it's just a feeling, that more and more English are waking up to that fact.
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