Comment: Scotland the colony is just a broken Toilet (don’t believe me, watch the Prism)

Our colony is a toilet – watching The Prism today what is clear, not just that we keep talking about the same things week in week out, I am as guilty of that as anyone, and one of the reasons I just don’t blog all that much any more, but it really doesn’t matter how often we talk about free ports, poverty, colonialism, the SNP, it really does come down to the people who live in the colony.

Our excuse of what passes for politics in the colony might be split down the middle between those who want to get off their knees, and those who are happy to spend their lives on their knees like good house jocks, the simple reality is what was previously known as Scotland has been anglicised over the last 400 years, throw in people from the south who have bought cheap houses in the jockland, and you have the perfect storm.

From UK chain stores and supermarkets, from new buildings and houses no different from those down south, to shared poverty, shared ignorance, shared indifference, from a shared race to the bottom, to cowardice. We pretend that we are less racist than many down south, that we are more left leaning than those down south, that we are more social democratic than those down south, but are we really.

If we were, we would actually do something about it rather than moan about it, I am equally guilty, colonised jocks eat pretty much the same food as those down south, most football fans have an English team they follow (I don’t, never have, never understood why you would want one), we watch the same rubbish that passes for TV if you watch it at all.

Anglicisation is a form of cultural assimilation whereby something non-English becomes assimilated into, influenced by or dominated by the culture of England. It can be socio-cultural, in which a non-English person, people or place adopt(s) the English language or English customs; institutional, in which institutions are modified to resemble or are replaced by the institutions of England or the United Kingdom; or linguistic, in which a foreign term or name is altered to become easier to say in English. It can also refer to the influence of English culture and business on other countries outside England or the United Kingdom, including media, cuisine, popular culture, technology, business practices, laws, or political systems. (Wikipedia)

When I was watching the Prism today, the above was what came to mind, was the reality of what we are. There is no Scotland, it has no meaning any more, it is a photo on a short bread tin, it’s 90-minute patriots at Hampden Park singing about a history they know little of, and care about even less. If Westminster is the poodle of the United States of America, then we are the midge to the state of England, until we actually admit that to ourselves then nothing will ever change.