BS: Scottish National Anthem

Subject: RE: BS: Scottish National Anthem
From: GUEST,jacky
Date: 29 Jan 01 - 03:51 PM

I thought it was "God save our gracious Queen"

Subject: RE: BS: Scottish National Anthem
From: Snuffy
Date: 29 Jan 01 - 07:10 PM

What you are calling Home Rule is really Independence. Home Rule is usually meant to be a halfway house between rule from the centre and full independence.

Under Home Rule a Scottish Parliament would decide on things that concern just Scotland like education, transport, etc while Westminster would decide things that concern the whole of Britain like defence and foreign policy.

That sort of Home Rule is what the Irish were looking for in the late 19th/early 20th century, and it's what Scotland and Wales have got now - a limited ability to run your own affairs while remaining part of the Union. Not independence, and not total submission to Westminster.

You don't have to like Home Rule (or devolution or whatever else you want to call it), but it's not the same as independence

Subject: RE: BS: Scottish National Anthem
From: GUEST,A GEORDIE
Date: 29 Jan 01 - 07:15 PM

Yes it is "God save our the Queen" Its a bit pathetic singing anti-English songs after god knows how many hundred years. Aren't anti-English national anthems a sign of a nation that has nothing else to sing about?

Subject: RE: BS: Scottish National Anthem
From: GUEST,joanne
Date: 29 Jan 01 - 11:20 PM

I dunno really,what wiv all my modelling going on,how about " Hoots mon,theres a moose,loose,abooot this hooooouse".That always gets me going.

Subject: RE: BS: Scottish National Anthem
From: Tony in Sweden
Date: 30 Jan 01 - 02:29 AM

Hoo's aboot,
"If it's a braw bricht moonlichtnicht the nicht, yer awricht ye ken"
T.C.

Subject: RE: BS: Scottish National Anthem
From: Mikey joe
Date: 30 Jan 01 - 07:00 AM

Geordie

A lot of Scots don't recognise the monarchy as being relevant at all to them though they may visit Balmorral now and then. Scots as a people are entitled to a national anthem. This thread however is not about anti english songs. It is about being proud to be Scottish and portraying that through a national anthem. And as I said earlier, you do NOT have to be anti anyone to be nationalistic. And IMHO nations who have an awful lot to sing about still do sing anti insert any nationality you want. Some things should not be forgotten, as you would have seen if you watched the holocaust remeberance. Which was all of 50 years ago now.

Slán

Mj

Subject: RE: BS: Scottish National Anthem
From: Crazy Eddie
Date: 30 Jan 01 - 08:27 AM

Well, we might lend you "The Fields Of Athenry" if you ask nicely.
But perhaps not ALL Scots would be in favour of that :o)
Eddierunningforcoverwhilestillgrinning....

Subject: RE: BS: Scottish National Anthem
From: Tony in Sweden
Date: 30 Jan 01 - 09:18 AM

Hi eddie,
I was over in Glasgow in November to take in a football match,at "PARADISE", and it seems that there are already 60,000 singing "The Fields Of Athenry" every week. But then again, the other side of the city want to keep "God Save the something-or-other".

Subject: RE: BS: Scottish National Anthem
From: TamthebamfraeScotland
Date: 30 Jan 01 - 01:57 PM

I agree, And I don't like home Rule, what I want for Scotland is full independence.