Scotland and Wales: The Pretend UK Celtic Nations Anti-Racism Blog

                                   King Charles cares passionately about the five million people in Scotland, who, of course, deserve to keep their devolved taxes, benefit from the unfair Barnett Formula out of English taxes (free prescriptions for millionaires and free tuition fees, etc), and so on. But the 57 million people living in England? Not so you'd notice. We are simply the disadvantaged, demonized rump of the so-called UK... A bunch of mugs... So, King Charles popped off to America and made Scotland his priority. Yep, he asked President Trump, as a special favour, to drop tariffs on Scotch whiskey. Great. Then he nips back to England and continues to ignore the fact that the Barnett Formula awards higher block grants to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, allowing free prescriptions for millionaires in those countries, while the most ethnically diverse country, England, which has no nat...

The man who launched the UK's poisonous Celtic myth in 1707, but only as a linguistic label, not an ethnicity - Edward Lhuyd. Yesterday, we were asked by an American plastic Celt why we negated the 'Celtic culture' of the UK? It was the same as negating the handed-down history of any tribe, she said. Actually not. The passing of time will blur things - and what has been handed down for generations will usually be slightly inaccurate at least - but still have a ring of truth.  However, the UK 'Celts' were not a tribe. They didn't exist until 1707, and then it was only a name plucked by a Welsh nationalist scholar as a linguistic label - and since then this horrible fake 'thing' has become an industry and a way of practising racism. Which is how England, the largest and most multi-ethnic country of the UK, suffers the Barnett Formula (reviled by its own creator, the late Lord Joel Barnett), the West Lothian Question and asymmetric national devolution. By t...

'One Scotland' - but you have to be a Scot - not British, or English, or Bulgarian or... I remember at school in the 1970s being told by my history teacher that the 'Anglo Saxons' invaded what is now England, chased out the 'Ancient Brits', and took it for themselves. All the 'Ancient Brits' (a retrospective naming - they didn't call themselves that - they were not a unified nation) ran off to Scotland and Wales. They weren't unified nations either, by the way. In fact, what became Wales much later was actually a hotbed of battles and rivalries between different factions. 'But how were the were the Ancient British driven out by the Anglo Saxons in England?' I frowned. 'There was no technology to practise warfare on that scale - or genocide. The Anglo Saxons' boats would have been pretty small. They were not arriving here in their thousands, wave upon wave, all at the same time.' My history teacher sighed. 'Well, th...