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Thread #163811   Message #3911644
Posted By: Senoufou
18-Mar-18 - 09:09 AM
Thread Name: BS: Excellent Highland Clearances discussion
Subject: RE: BS: Excellent Highland Clearances discussion
I almost wished I'd made a badge to wear saying, 'Speaks English but is half-Scots and half-Irish. Please do not bash!'

Actually, the musical play showed how the Scots have been plundered, first by sheep farmers, then by unspeakable grouse-shooting consortiums paying landowners to have access to the grouse moors, then of course the oil/gas in the North Sea. None of these greedy folk had anything to do with Scotland except as a trough in which to poke their piggy snouts.
One song which stuck in my head was,
"We are the men who own your glen but you won't see us there!
In Edinburgh clubs and Guildford pubs we show how much we care!"
It all made a great impression on me.