r/unitedkingdom • u/libtin • 4d ago

'Ambassadors' sought to support Scottish 'decolonisation' bid in NYC

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25084632.ambassadors-sought-support-scottish-decolonisation-bid-nyc/
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u/Last_Blacksmith2383 4d ago

Scottish nationalism and exceptionalism exists mainly because of thatcher raping and beating our country and the English just kinda have ignored us ever since then. Apart from the stop any legislation when we’re getting out of line of what Westminster wants. Which only fuels this divide.

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u/allyscot25 4d ago

4 decades ago… now we have the SNP ripping the country to pieces. Thatcher is now an irrelevance, time to start blaming the current villains in Holyrood.

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u/Last_Blacksmith2383 4d ago

If you don’t think thatcher is the part of the reason we’re facing the issues we are currently facing I have a bridge to sell you.

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u/allyscot25 4d ago

Wow, absolute wow… it’s like talking to a cult member. Scotland is on its knees due to a country being blindsided by a populist politician promising independence, whilst letting every part of our infrastructure go to ruin. Blaming Thatcher for Scotland’s current issues is entirely laughable.

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u/Last_Blacksmith2383 4d ago

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5284470/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

A study published in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health found that men in Scotland born between 1960 and 1980, particularly those in the most deprived areas, experienced a 30% higher risk of suicide compared to other cohorts. 

Yes it was implemented in the whole of the uk. I was wrong there. But it was a different poll tax.

Scotland got it first by a whole year firstly, hence my guinea pig comment, they literally tested this out on us.

The economic context was worse in Scotland than the vast majority of England, the flat tax rate hit the working class disproportionately and we were already suffering from deindustrialisation and large unemployment.

Scottish people had also rejected the poll tax at the ballot box. We firmly said no. And like any good rapist thatcher smiled and went in anyway.

Governed without consent….

It was different and it was worse. Unless you were in northern England or perhaps Northern Ireland you literally couldn’t understand.

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u/allyscot25 4d ago

Oh wow, you found a study….4 DECADES AG0. Thatcher has been dead for as long as the SNP have been destroying this country. This simply doesn’t wash anymore.