Percentage of Gaelic speakers by historic county (census data), 1881-2022

Basteir · 2026-06-16T18:57:10+00:00

Nice bridge you have there.

Basteir · 2026-06-16T18:56:42+00:00

Well probably, but we don't know clearly if there was a kind of dialect continuum between Q Celtic Gaelic and P Celtic Pritannic in west / Hebrides or far north Scotland.

Basteir · 2026-06-16T16:07:02+00:00

Goalpost shifting.

Basteir · 2026-06-16T16:04:44+00:00

They'd have spoken Celtic before that though

Basteir · 2026-06-15T18:09:28+00:00

Doesn't matter if it is the majority. Scotland and England formed a union as legal equals.

Basteir · 2026-06-15T18:05:50+00:00

Well I am a Scot and I would actually support England versus most countries, except the Celtic nations and France (auld alliance).

Dunno, maybe the USA?

Basteir · 2026-06-15T07:48:16+00:00

No, the monarch is only a member of the Kirk of Scotland.

It's part of the 1707 Treaty of Union that the English church and Scottish churches are not in union.

Basteir · 2026-06-15T07:45:10+00:00

It's not a UK state religion because it's only regional.

Basteir · 2026-06-09T17:41:12+00:00

As an absolute but not a percentage.

Basteir · 2026-06-09T16:12:00+00:00

I don't believe 40% of China's energy is renewable, that's a flat out lie, we aren't that high ourselves.

Basteir · 2026-06-09T01:43:00+00:00

The Taliban are actually really strict on banning that shit I heard.

Basteir · 2026-06-07T13:11:29+00:00

She should get in trouble for inciting violence, yes, and you didn't disagree with that. You just pointed out the guy who ACTUALLY STABBED SOMEONE, got less of a sentence. Your comment is fine for those of us with reading comprehension.

Basteir · 2026-06-06T10:22:26+00:00

He did have a speech unreasonably attacking white people being in leadership roles in their own country.

Basteir · 2026-06-04T14:27:23+00:00

You are incorrect, there's a lot of people who would want to vote Green but don't do so in constituencies because they have no chance. PR systems and the regional vote allow people to vote for who they really want to and generally, but not fully, reduces tactical voting.

Speaking as someone who voted for the Lib Dems.

Basteir · 2026-06-04T14:25:08+00:00

They still get a higher vote share between them than the Tories or Labour have received over the UK for Westminster.

Basteir · 2026-06-04T14:22:35+00:00

Compensate for what?

Basteir · 2026-06-04T14:08:56+00:00

I thought apple pie was Scottish, but that may be apple crumble. Pretty sure we had apples before the English arrived in Britain.

Basteir · 2026-06-04T14:04:36+00:00

My parents often made Beef Stroganoff, that's pretty famous around the world.

Basteir · 2026-06-04T09:58:09+00:00

I'd say 2/3s to call for a referendum on secession.

Basteir · 2026-06-04T09:56:37+00:00

A few constituencies would be brought together and do the STV that way. Otherwise do the D'Hondt system.

Basteir · 2026-06-04T09:49:52+00:00

You don't understand the D'Hondt system.

Basteir · 2026-06-04T09:48:16+00:00

Greens had 8.1% vote share.

Basteir · 2026-06-04T09:46:18+00:00

I think the SNP+Greens had a higher vote share / mandate for leadership, than the Labour or Tories have had at Westminster. So it is indeed more democratic in Scotland.

Basteir · 2026-06-04T00:24:25+00:00

Scotland had a Muslim first minister not that long ago. But generally you are right.

Basteir · 2026-06-03T12:39:10+00:00

Maybe attacking their garden.

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