CONFRONTING HISTORY

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Frances McKIE refutes Dr Young’s article in last week’s Sunday Herald.

Dear Sir,

Neil Mackay’s article last Sunday presented Dr John Young’s perspective on the (extended) Plantation of Ulster. While asserting that historians have an “obligation to tell the truth” Dr Young did not hesitate to use his personal, extremely selective version of this particular history as the basis from which to condemn any notion that Scotland- like Ireland- has been colonised and abused by the so-called “British” Empire. On this issue- past and present- Dr Young is simply wrong.

By limiting themselves to “facts” historians should indeed aim to provide the truth. However, there is, of course, also a “truth” that is not the “whole truth”. Dr Young, apparently and accidentally abetted by Mr Mackay, is not entitled to omit those facts which contradict his political argument. 

England’s incessant political and military attempts, sometimes successful, sometimes not, to colonise Scotland as a vassal state, had been going on for hundreds of years before Bannockburn- never mind the Plantations of Ireland by English and Scottish protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries. In the 1650s, Scotland was “annexed” by the London Cromwellian Government. The English Alien Act in 1705 was outright economic blackmail towards the 1707 union; this was not supported nationally: opposition was vehement – led by George Lockhart and Andrew Fletcher. There are many more facts missing from Dr Young’s assertion that Scotland has not been treated as colony- including, after Culloden, brutal cultural, economic and social oppression- the infamous Clearances -and so on.

However, without the space and word count of your “Big Read” , to demolish Dr Young’s insidious appeal to ignore reality, all we have to do is jump to the modern history of two thriving ex-colonies- Ireland and India – and their struggle against the ruthless, cynical, asset-stripping, “divide and rule” tactics of that insatiable empire, determined- without moral limitation, to retain global power and rapacious wealth.

For Dr Young’s information, the last colony- Scotland- has been living through those very same tactics ever since we terrified Westminster’s rotten dregs of empire by daring to come close to independence in 2014.

And the whole truth of that- asset-stripping, demoralisation, divide and rule, attacks on leaders, constitutional corruption and manipulation- continues-on a daily basis- starkly-within all of our lives. 

That modern reality of Scotland as the last colony also lies in front of Dr Young- but only if he cares to look for the whole truth.

Yours sincerely,

Frances McKie

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33 thoughts on “CONFRONTING HISTORY”

  1. Who is Dr John Young and in who’s tongue does he speak.

    Sadly their are academics who, shall we say, are less than rigorous in their assertions, and who let their political biases colour their so called analysis.

    Lord Haw Haw of academia.

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  3. Excellent letter and comment. The evidence is all around us.
    We spent a fine week in the North East based between Nethy Bridge and Tomintoul – week before last. Had a good rake around Banffshire, Nairn and Invernesshire. Beautiful – we have the most magnificent country on God’s earth. But I came away feeling dispirited – if not depressed.

    In the restaurants, coffee shops, farmshops, and other venues – in places like Inverdruie, Logie Steadings, Findhorn, Spey Bay and Cullen. It’s like being in the Home Counties. Yah-Yahs everywhere. And don’t even mention Ballater! Lost and gone!

    I have no problem at all with English visitors – happy to see them enjoying our beautiful country.

    But among the business owners, staff and customers – it was quite clear that these were not just visiting. These were settlers – and by God don’t they moan! Very loudly! All we heard was them complaining (just as this is all you hear on BBC Scotlandshire News).

    It was all I could do to stop myself from saying “of its so elfin aweful here, why not go home!” (Actually it washy wife who stopped me!)

    We’ve been visiting the North East for nearly fifty years – we have family there, My wife has deep, deep roots there. But I have never before heard this extent of colonial penetration. It is truly scary from the point of view of self-determination.

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    1. “of its so elfin aweful here, why not go home!” (Actually it washy wife who stopped me!)

      That should be ‘If” not “of” and Actually it was my wife who stopped me”

      Predictive text and my ten thumbs!

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      1. I find that when talking to these people I slip into my Lanarkshire venacular which leaves them with a puzzled expression. Had a similar experience visiting the Fife coast recently.

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    2. Aye John, it’s getting very much the same here in Dumfries and Galloway. The indigenous Scot is getting to be a rare breed.

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  4. You can bet that, when Irish were trying to escape the clutches of the British Empire just over 100 years ago, there were plenty of people like John Young arguing that Ireland was not a colony and that the systematic rip-off of its assets and annexation of its lands to the severe detriment of its own folk by private British and British government-sponsored carpet-bagging landlords was merely an expression of goodwill exhibited towards the country by a benign ‘Mother England’.

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    1. they were/are called Unionists/Loyalists. Latest manifestions of their supremacist attitudes are as the DUP, UUP, the TUV and loyalist paramilitary organizations.
      They believed Brexit “was merely an expression of goodwill exhibited towards the country by a benign ‘Mother England’ until the UK govt and parliament supported the Wndsor Framework.
      Now a minority, they have wthdrawn from all instutions and brought the governance of Northern Ireland to a standstill, convinced that Dublin, Westminster and the EU will give them the hard border across Ireland that they so deeply desire

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  5. The Pyramid game has served the London elite well. For Centuries vast wealth has flowed into the hands of a handful of families. The Monarchy being one of the leading benefactors. To exercise that drain from other Nations they always ensured that the lower levels of the Pyramid are allowed to “wet their beak”.
    It is amazing how easily the stolen Trillions vanished from view.

    They engineered poverty to drive cannon fodder into their Army and Navy ( plus private Armies like The East India Company).

    The UK is built on “Greed is Good”. The 1% of 1% who harvest that mission have no real interest in Nations or Cultures, and certainly not People.

    Great Wealth enables you to buy Political Parties, drive Brexit, Change Laws, manipulate currency etc etc.

    Only when the People are Sovereign will this change. That is why the London elite are terrified of Independence. The same panic ran through London during the French Revolution. “What if the People actually took control”

    The Westminster Short Money is a very small but clear example of how the lower level of the Pyramid works. It turned an Independence Party into a Business Unit.

    The Plantation of Ireland was no different from India, Rhodesia, Wales, South Africa etc etc. The elite of Spain, France all copied it.

    The elite even control our history books as this article so clearly highlights.

    Your view alters as you climb the Pyramid……However that is an illusion too. You can never get close to the real money and power. The top is reserved for those still using Centuries of hidden stolen wealth.

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  6. Skye is absolutely full of English settlers. Ditto the West Coast mainland.

    No wonder the census was delayed is only being partially released. Colonisation is, well underway.

    And make no mistake, plantation of Scotland, will do for Scotland, what it did for Ulster.

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  7. John O’Dowd has hit the Nail firmly on the head. All of us need to take action against the Current referenda voting franchise. we must get it changed to “Only indiginous SCOTS can vote in any future Referenda” If you are a political party member you need to put forward a motion to your party to make this a manifesto committment. We must also get this message to ALL Yes Groups.

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    1. I was born 40 miles south of the border but have lived and payed tax here for over 23 years, an ex SNP member and current member of ALBA, SALVO and Liberation Scott, myself and my wife are passionate about independance. Please don’t tar us all with the same brush.
      I thinki I recall someone in another thread sugested a minimum residency option before being given the vote, I think that would be fair and would suggest 10 years.

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      1. Sorry alanc51.
        I would rather lose your vote. Sad as that may be but no other country in the world opens itself to such referenda abuse.
        No matter how long I lived in any other country I will ALWAYS be a Scot and therefore be ineligible to vote on any referenda they may run.

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      2. Fortunately for me, you’re probably in the minority.If Scotland was a recognised country I could have applied for Scottish citezenship but because Scotland is only regarded as Englands golden goose, I can’t. Catch 22 much.I still wouldn’t be Scottish born so maybe you still wouldn’ let me vote? I was maybe born at the wrong time, 30 miles south of my birthplace is Muncaster castle, built to stop the Scotts advancing any further into England, if only the Scotts had dug in eh. I’d be Scottish. Off topic, but how do you feel about an English football team playing in the Scottish league?  Or do you think Berwick should be part of Scotland?

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      3. Blinkin phone!!
        I was asking would you like freedom OR you to have (and all other non Scots) a vote. I would gladly give up my vote to get Freedom from this dastardly union.

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      4. alanc51: this is a dilemma, and I, too, think that if we go down the route of putting restrictions on the vote (and I feel uneasy about that, although I understand why many feel this way) it should not be too onerous. After all, many rUK-born people who reside in Scotland feel as you do. However, the majority do not, and I think this is where we must establish constitutional and legal principles in law that give credence to our both ancient and modern rights to our independence, as SALVO and SSRG, and other groups are doing. No one can then claim that we have no right so that they can vote against independence on that basis.

        I must admit that I find it a complete mystery as to why anyone would come north and not support what the people want, even if that means keeping out of the debate. If even just half the population wants independence, that should be a reason, if you have come to Scotland from elsewhere, to be cognizant of the fact that it might well achieve independence soon and do nothing to hinder or thwart it. To do so, as happened in 2014, is so arrogant and self-centred towards those you have come to live amongst, to be beyond rational acceptance.

        If you feel that independence for Scotland should not happen, do not come here because it will blow up in your faces. We are not an outpost for rUK refugees from Brexit or mismanagement of the economy. We are a people with our own problems, many of which are there because we do not have independence. Independence is rational, while Unionism is not in the mess that we all find ourselves in, in Scotland.

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      6. After a successful Yes vote all people living in Scotland can be offered citizenship in our country, even settlers .However its nieve to think that the majority of settlers allegiance is not to their mother country England, and as a consequence will vote accordingly like they did in 2014, voting No . The indigenous Scots population voted a majority for independence 52% in 2014 as revealed in the Edinburgh University study on the Referendum . The English settlers stopped our democratic right to self determination this cannot be allowed to happen again.
        Remember the UK government used a constitutional voting franchise to stop EU citizens who where living and paying tax in the UK form voting in the EU referendum. A constitutional voting franchise is the UN recognised standard for such issues under the Decolonisation process so the colonisers cannot subvert the indigenous populations right to democracy. The SNP colonial administration has still not disclosed the Scottish Census results because they know we will hit the roof when we find out the true level of migration from English settlers.

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  8. Sorry,
    they are being led astray by McIntyre Kemp who is trying to set himself up as the leader. See recent conference article purporting to give the grassroots a say!!!! Total Unionist control Bullshit

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  9. For indisputable evidence of colonial subjugation, we need only look back as far as 2016, when voters in Scotland, that is our sovereign citizens, voted emphatically that the the UK should remain in Europe, but yet Scotland was removed from Europe regardless, and in that process, our sovereign constitution and sovereign democracy were both unlawfully set aside.

    We don’t need to win the argument over the definition of some contrived colonial misdemeanor. We seem to be doing so for the convenience of process. Scotland suffered a brazen and directly unconstitutional act of subjugation; the will of another nation was forced upon us.

    And before you say it, it doesn’t matter a jot, not one bit, whether the Brexit vote was a UK wide referendum. The UK is an amalgamation of two sovereign entities, with neither entity entiltled or empowered to alter the other’s constitution. Scotland is sovereign. Scotland was canvassed for it’s opinion. Scotland said no, – a “sovereign” no.

    The Brexit result meant we had one sovereign entity voting in favour of the UK’s Brexit, and the other sovereign entity rejecting it. Thus the result was a constitutional stalemate, and the result of the Referendum should properly have been null and void, with the UK defaulting to remain in Europe, since any Brexit was undeliverable, and constitutionally unenforceable.

    The removal of Scotland from Europe was an act of unequivocal subjugation, and Sturgeon’s SNP should hang their heads in disgrace, and suffer perpetual infamy, for their cowardice and supine acquiesence to such outrageous impropriety, particularly since the resultant constitutional stand-off left the whole Treaty of Union hanging by the barest of threads.

    Independence was right there for the taking in 2016, and while the iron has cooled under eight wasted years of Sturgeon’s incompetence, I remain of the confirmed belief that Scottish Independence remains there for the taking. The outrage of our subjugation remains raw. I maintain that unconstitutional subjugation is unlawful subjugation with no statute of limitation, and the 1707 Treaty of Union has been irremediably breached.

    Scotland can yet rightfully walk away from the Union, and justifiably hold the high handed, colonial style misadventures of the Westminster Government as being entirely responsible. Furthermore, the onus for breaching the Treaty of Union is entirely on London; a responsability which should be recognised in the subsequent dissolution process wherever Scotland’s interests have been deemed to suffer injury.

    We have a binary legal right to do this, and I believe the world at large, the International Community, will recognise we have the right to do this.

    It might, by itself, be insufficient persuasion to secure International Recognition from certain countries, however if UK Sovereignty is even recognised as disputed Sovereignty, then resolving such a dispute can only ever have one conclusion.

    Only the Scottish people, Scotland’s Community of the Realm, are sovereign in Scotland, with Scotland’s Claim of Right duly recognised by London’s own Westminster Government, and recorded in Hansard on multiple occassions, and lately averred by King Charles III, prior to his coronation.

    https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2018-07-04/debates/18070455000001/ClaimOfRightForScotland

    https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2020-01-27/debates/63B5AE03-C711-4310-BB11-A02502FCBFB2/ClaimOfRightForScotland

    This is over, bar the shouting. Game, set, and match. It’s done.

    Let the talks concerning the dissolution of the United Kingdom begin. But for goodness sake, don’t let the SNP present our argument. In fact, can we bar this Devolved “Government” from room, and leave them in the corridor while the affairs of state are conducted? Again, it seems we have Brexit for our precedent.

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  10. Last week watched a great programme on BBC Alba. All in subtitles for folk like me who unfortunately don’t have the Gaelic and although I went to classes for a year found it really hard to learn.
    A girl was visiting some of the outer islands with elderly local residents to view deserted villages and hear their stories.
    In Barra she visited one village that was cleared quite late. It had become a ‘safe haven’ for people coming from other cleared villages and hamlets. Shockingly some people had suffered multiple clearances moving not just around the island but from island to island. By multiple she meant sometimes as much as five moves as each ‘safe’ village was subsequently cleared.
    This was one aspect of the Clearances I was totally ignorant of. Unimaginable to think of our countrymen evicted, burnt out or at the very least having roofs removed. The very elderly, disabled, pregnant or nursing mothers, children, men and women, all uprooted to satisfy the greed of absentee landlords. And, going through this on several occasions in horrendous weather.
    My Irish daughter in law, in her own words ‘suffered’ through Gaelic lessons at school. She says it didn’t take with her either BUT she knows how to pronounce all those Irish Gaelic place names without effort. Wish the Scottish populace could say the same. So many places and mountains we have no idea how to pronounce, let alone some names of very fine whiskies. Strangers in our own country.

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    1. The clearances often occurred during colonial wars, when the younger menfolk – husbands, sons, brothers – were away abroad, leaving only the elderly and women and children, who did try to resist valiantly, but those sent to clear them used brutal tactics. It is a shameful episode (or series of episodes).

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    2. I think it is time we referred to these things without the sanitisation of our colonial masters language this was ethnic cleansing and genocide.

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  11. More like this should waken our Scottish position as it has been and still is, a colony in practice but not in name. We all need to say enough is a enough. This so called ” Union” has never been what it is portrade as, a secret colony the world must now be seeing. Not before time, well past that actually.
    I hope all Scots now recognise that, and end this neferious “Union” Very very quickly now.

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  12. Historians may choose «the facts» after their fashion.
    Cherry picking is the hallmark of the trade.
    You cannot match the classic OxBridge British/English histories for flights of exceptionalizing fancy.

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  13. The dictionary definition of a colony is “an area over which a foreign nation or state extends or maintains control” which seems to me to be indisputable with regard to the Union and England’s absolute control over Scotland’s affairs of state. In fact, one could say that the Union is the last bastion of British colonialism and Scotland is indeed, as Frances says, its last colony.

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    1. The coloniser has flooded its supporrers The English into Scotland and we like the Wee Stupid Poor people we are let them vote No. They also told the Europeans living here they would be taken out of Europe if they Voted YES. Thus we lost our chance!!

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  14. How stupid and cowed down are we? We have the King of England giving the highest Scots Honour to the person he calls Queen. This charlatan did not take the oath of Scotland and is therefore not our King.
    We now have the gutless SNP trying to convince us to accept this load of Royal perverts when we become Free. I thought we were wanting our freedom from this class system and forelock tugging.
    I certainly do.

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  15. It really worries me when even Ian Lawson is sdvocating Civic Nationalism (which does not exist)
    You are either a Scot or you are not. True Scots are the only people who should get a vote in Referenda. Realistically this UK mob will NEVER allow that to happen again until they are sure they can be victorious by whatever new or old dirty tricks they can use.
    TIME WE WOKE UP

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      1. Correct me if I am Wrong but I understand ONLY citizens get a vote. Is there a route to Scottish citizenship?
        Residing here is not sufficient because they will always be whatever Nationality they were born into. Maintaining the stupid franchise as ir is guarsntees defeat!!

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