Reply to: The Scots very largely built the British Empire

[scooterscot]

It was a Scotsman who laid the foundations for the business behomoth that is Hong Kong.

Thank you.

Now this explorer is had enough of the North sea for 26 hours he'sbeen trying to cross it.

Hang on a mo is that a bit of land I see ahead? Let's call it Macdeen.

Day light! I can see day light!!!

[larry]

It was a Scotsman who laid the foundations for the business behomoth that is Hong Kong.

[daviejones]

Does it cover the Darien episode?

or is it post union where you cannot (but no doubt you will) really claim sole ownership of anything outside the British label

Nope, it covers it in a bit of detail....you should read the book, it may change that bigoted attitude you have...

[Troll]

But we both know it isn't...
There is a very good book, which, if you are interested makes some startling revelations, both good and bad for the Scots...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/When-Scotlan...7283956&sr=1-1

Does it cover the Darien episode?

or is it post union where you cannot (but no doubt you will) really claim sole ownership of anything outside the British label

[Chantho]

My invoice is in the post...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/m.../09/do0907.xml

Interesting reading, what happened to British greatness and how do we get it back again?

Even if this is true, it is largely irrelevant as the big question is, as you hint at, "Who fL1cked up the British Empire" ??

[wendigo100]

I thought the national anthem was "Things can only get better"

Every time someone mentions that song, I see Mandelson, Blair, Brown and especially Prescott on a victory rostrum somewhere jigging self-conciously to it to show how cool they were.

[Lucifer Box]

I thought the national anthem was "Things can only get better"

[daviejones]

No, you wish it wasn't.

It is a bit of a dirge though.

No, I don't wish it wasn't. I just don't think if fits the current situation...

[wendigo100]

But we both know it isn't...

No, you wish it wasn't.

It is a bit of a dirge though.

[daviejones]

That's what it says on the label!

But we both know it isn't...
There is a very good book, which, if you are interested makes some startling revelations, both good and bad for the Scots...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/When-Scotlan...7283956&sr=1-1

[Troll]

Because it isn't really a National Anthem?

That's what it says on the label!

[daviejones]

Because it isn't really a National Anthem?

[Troll]

I wonder why we never sing the sixth verse of the National Anthem anymore?

[Diver]

Which translates to "St. Mary's Church" and "Golf Halt". Small wonder the Welsh never got to run the world, just taking short notes meant the destruction of several forests.

[threaded]

We welsh named most of these places.
We just gave them names that dumb foreigners could say, because they can't pronounce the welsh ones like

llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysilio gogogoch or

Gorsafawddachaidraigodanheddogleddollonpenrhynareu rdraethceredigion

Which translates to "St. Mary's Church" and "Golf Halt". Small wonder the Welsh never got to run the world, just taking short notes meant the destruction of several forests.