I’VE been following the recent entangled debates anent history and monarchy. It’s very revealing that the English regime, its supporters and media, are fixated with the 16th century, and in particular with the despots Henry VIII and Elizabeth Tudor. These people were the enemies of Scotland and attempted to subvert our sovereignty just as their modern counterparts are doing. So it comes as no surprise that their childlike and risible “UK” citizenship test is all about defining people with reference only to English regional history and monarchy while suppressing the other histories and cultural identities of these islands.

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But I find it depressing that so many correspondents are swallowing Whitehall propaganda with regard to these issues. The fact is, the Scottish monarchy was extinguished in the 18th century and the English regime has since attempted to fill the vacuum with Saxe-Coburg-Gothas and Von Battenbergs imported from Germany and Greece and periodically maintained at the point of bayonet and saber, as in 1746 and 1820, or with tanks as in 1919. Far from being an ancient “royal dynasty” as mythologised almost nightly on the English Nationalist Channel (aka Channel 5) and others, these people were fabricated as recently as 1917. And to disguise their recent foreign origins they adopted an oh-so-English name, language and identity which is precisely why we find them such a turn-off in Scotland.

They have appropriated the prerogatives and identity of the former Scottish Crown in contempt of the Scottish people’s conspicuous tradition of anti-monarchial sentiment. They have gone out of their way to disparage this nation, including calculated slights against the FM and Scottish ministers, and are now provocatively in our faces as part of Downing Street’s anti-indy axis of EVEL. But they are actually irrelevant to real, working Scottish citizens who will, I am certain, sensibly vote when the time comes to consign these interfering strangers to the dustbin of history.

Linda Horsburgh
Dundee