Sunday, 22 January 2012

A Light-hearted Look At The Case For Scottish Independence



Thankfully Scots are quite good at laughing at themselves. Maybe it's our way of handling the inferior complex we have inherited from previous generations. Now the debate is underway it's good to have a little humour involved to lift the mood.

Precious Few Heroes explores many of the myths and misconceptions that surround the debate.

The film was written by Jack Foster and Alan Hunter, also examines the history of the movement, from the very foundations of the Union in 1707, to the North Sea oil discoveries of the 70s, to devolution, exports, inventions and economics.

But remember, this film is past history. We need to start planning our future history.

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15 comments:

  1. Gedguy22 January 2012 at 11:11

    Superb.
    I think that the Scottish parliament should put up a huge sign above the Presiding Officer's chair with the words from Burns:

    'Sic a parcel of rogues in a nation'

    to remind all MSPs of the betrayal of the Scottish peoples.

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  2. Brian22 January 2012 at 12:02

    Or, outside, a banner with the words from the Bonzo Dog Doo-dah Band:

    "No Matter Who You Vote For the Government Always Gets In (Heigh Ho)"

    to remind all voters to pay their taxes promptly. :)

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  3. Gedguy22 January 2012 at 12:12

    Brian,

    Or as my father used to say:
    "Never vote for a man who wants to be a politician".

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  4. pa_broon7422 January 2012 at 12:15

    This is a bit more like it.

    A reasonable measured approach to the independence argument.

    I'll think about posting it on facebook... I think I will anyway just to annoy that pal who reacted so negatively to the last one.

    ;-)

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  5. Gedguy22 January 2012 at 12:17

    pa-broon,

    Too late. I've already done it.

    ;-)

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  6. Michele22 January 2012 at 12:37

    Gedguy Agreed - and underneath why not :-

    "... For never but by British hands
    Maun British wrangs be righted !"
    and
    "...While we sing God save the King
    We'll ne'er forget the People!"

    Also by Burns, instigated I believe by some shenanigans over in France.

    EU anyone?

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  7. footdee22 January 2012 at 19:10

    Michele-----------------Rab was forced to thoses words by an agent of the exchecker threatening him with loss of his custom job--------however he did take part with the audience in the dumfries theatre in a sing song praising the French revolution ----thats problable why he was threatened.

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  8. footdee22 January 2012 at 19:12

    Michele---forgot to add that even in those days the forces of reaction were unionist

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  9. Brian23 January 2012 at 00:21

    A few points about the excellent film:

    Scotland is more than capable of running its own affairs as Scottish men and women essentially ran the British Empire.
    The Dominion of Newfoundland gave up self-government for direct rule from Britain in 1934. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_of_Newfoundland

    I must also disagree with the contention that Lady Thatcher was the cause of the collapse Conservative/Unionist support in Scotland - it always had shallow roots:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unionist_Party_(Scotland)

    Finally, I wonder why there was no mention of Wendy Wood, Hugh MacDiarmid and Arthur Donaldson.

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  10. subrosa23 January 2012 at 00:27

    Glad you enjoyed it Gedguy,

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  11. subrosa23 January 2012 at 00:27

    A friend of mine says that Brian. :)

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  12. subrosa23 January 2012 at 00:28

    I've posted it on my Facebook page pa_broon. :)

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  13. subrosa23 January 2012 at 00:29

    Maybe they couldn't fit everyone in Brian. :)

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  14. pa_broon7423 January 2012 at 12:09

    The response I got was a youtube video from Naked Video's Outer Hebredes Broadcasting Corporation with Gregor Fisher (I'd supply a link but I'm at 'work' and they don't let us look st youtube, you can google it though and it pops up, so to speak.)

    He commented that this is what Scottish news would be like after independence.

    I think this counts as the 'too parochial' card, I replied with a video of some morris dancers commenting that that would be what English nightclubs would look like after independence

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  15. subrosa23 January 2012 at 12:48

    Well done pa_broon. I always think humour is best in these circumstances -once you've got past your ire. :)

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