tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5752826158262183491.post4488982099634718399..comments2008-11-15T17:38:25.400ZScottish Unionisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09852056180313432298noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5752826158262183491.post-59164642661960048442008-11-15T17:35:00.000Z2008-11-15T17:35:00.000Zpete wishart for all his bluster does reveal a particularly endearing British trait..that of Understatement the quintessentially British subject never flaunts their Britishness..Nikostratoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17947981226979621912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5752826158262183491.post-76685400238280458092008-11-15T16:45:00.000Z2008-11-15T16:45:00.000ZHa! Well spotted, DG.<BR/><BR/>Mind you, MacAskill's fairly clueless about it too. Fish and chips, East Enders... give me a break!Scottish Unionisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09852056180313432298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5752826158262183491.post-61580839271967763222008-11-15T16:07:00.000Z2008-11-15T16:07:00.000ZStrange, he can't have been speaking to Kenny MacAskill recently:<BR/><BR/>"What is meant by Britishness? Is there a concept of Britishness? Yes, just as there is a concept of being Scandinavian. We eat fish and chips, we eat chicken masala, we watch East Enders."<BR/><BR/>But that said, of course the reason the SNP want to devolve broadcasting is to prevent talk of Britishness on the telly. They're hardly discreet about it.DGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06144347543667242514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5752826158262183491.post-4265907961404199972008-11-15T13:07:00.000Z2008-11-15T13:07:00.000ZSay what you like about Sinn Fein - the political wing of a violent sectarians and gangsters, that sort of thing - but at least they declined to take their seats at Westminster. Some principles there.<BR/><BR/>This link comes from They Work for You. Two thirds of the Perth and North Perthshire constituency did not vote for Wishart. And here is he telling them that, potentially, he cannot begin to comprehend and even actively dislikes a central point of there identities.<BR/><BR/>Kitty Atholl must be turning in her grave.Alec Macphersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03234743636500643168noreply@blogger.com