comrade Brown bankrupting Britains

[expat]

I see, you're including when the Scots were doing the oppressing as well.

As in, failing to be conquered? Don't remember Scotland invading England much.

[Mich the Tester]

As in, failing to be conquered? Don't remember Scotland invading England much.

Ever heard of the Border reivers? They were a bunch of freelance socialist cattle herders who quietly and politely asked the inhabitants of Northumberland to lend them some livestock indefinitely. Or get chopped to pieces if they didn't agree.

[Bob Dalek]

As in, failing to be conquered? Don't remember Scotland invading England much.

They've got our bus shelters and doorways in Hammersmith.

[expat]

Ever heard of the Border reivers? They were a bunch of freelance socialist cattle herders who quietly and politely asked the inhabitants of Northumberland to lend them some livestock indefinitely. Or get chopped to pieces if they didn't agree.

The name was given to a loose bunch of cattle rustlers living on both sides of the border, not particularly recognising the border which after all they predated, who redistributed cattle around each other regularly.

But why not just categorise them as Scots stealing from the English?

[Mich the Tester]

But why not just categorise them as Scots stealing from the English?

Just keeping up the senseless jingoism for the hell of it.