The history of England is filled with ruthlessness and brutality to other peoples and to our own, traditions and institutions bathed in blood—the Highland Clearances for example, that systematically destroyed the tribal society of the Scottish Highlands so that the English and anglicized Scottish gentry could have their grouse moors and estates.
No doubt Devolution has always been a dead duck as far as Westminster is concerned because the English government wants the money from North Sea oil and Scottish businesses have actively campaigned against a separate assembly for Scotland because they know that such an assembly would be returned with a Labour majority. Class interests transcended ones of nationalism in that case.
People have been exploited, oppressed, misled and slaughtered and yet they still flock around politicians and, like Dad, hoot and wave the flag and say that Britain is great.
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