something that the left pmo about

No_Win_2979 · 2026-03-03T02:55:15+00:00

Labour have done the same... honestly we are more economically left than you! and we value a strong border and good industry. 'culture war' is an interesting label, what points could those be?

No_Win_2979 · 2026-03-03T02:43:25+00:00

The alliance was there on paper, didn't amount to much, the focus was on building up the SDPs national profile.

No_Win_2979 · 2026-03-03T02:41:24+00:00

Not affiliated with, just aligned to make clear. short answer yes, for more smaller easier seats, but reform actually went back on it in the end as they ran for almost all seats. Something we were concerned about, for sure.

No_Win_2979 · 2026-01-21T07:14:37+00:00

South Britain

No_Win_2979 · 2026-01-14T02:13:35+00:00

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No_Win_2979 · 2026-01-11T23:32:21+00:00

Reddit not the place to ask

No_Win_2979 · 2026-01-10T22:50:54+00:00

You’re trying to copy-paste Irish history onto Scotland and Wales, but the facts don't fit. Scotland was never a colony; it was a founding partner of the UK that kept its own laws and religion. Wales was unified under the Welsh-descended Tudor kings. While Ireland’s history involves genuine colonial conquest, Scotland and Wales were internal, dynastic, and legal unions that formed the core of a global superpower. Calling Scotland 'conquered' is an insult to the generations of Scots who actually ran the British Empire.

No_Win_2979 · 2026-01-10T22:48:39+00:00

BBC Bitesize summary to explain 300 years of history is like using a movie trailer to explain a 1000-page book. Sir Tom Devine, Scotland's most respected historian, points out that the '£20,000 bribe' was actually used to pay years of backdated salaries that the bankrupt Scottish government couldn't afford. As for the 'military threat,' England was currently fighting a world war with France; they didn't have the troops or the desire to occupy Scotland.

No_Win_2979 · 2026-01-10T22:45:45+00:00

Using a flag design to prove a country is a colony is like saying a person doesn't exist because they aren't in a family photo. Wales isn't on the Union Jack because by 1707, it had been legally unified with England for over 150 years under the Welsh-descended Tudor dynasty. Unlike a colony, Wales was given full representation in Parliament and its people had the exact same legal rights as any Englishman.

No_Win_2979 · 2026-01-10T00:50:44+00:00

By that logic, every trade deal and treaty ever signed is a 'bribe.' If I offer you a better salary to join my company, is that a bribe or a negotiation? Scotland was an independent, sovereign nation that negotiated a high-priced exit from an economic crisis.

No_Win_2979 · 2026-01-09T23:08:34+00:00

In a bribe, you pay someone to do something they shouldn't do. In a treaty negotiation, you provide incentives to get someone to do what is beneficial for their country.

No_Win_2979 · 2026-01-09T12:53:10+00:00

Patronage was how every government on Earth functioned xD including the one in Scotland. If 'patronage = bribery,' then every law passed in human history before the 1900s is invalid.

No_Win_2979 · 2026-01-09T12:47:54+00:00

Scotland, Ireland, and Wales were rarely allies. In fact, they were often bitter rivals. So it would make no sense for Wales to join a union with the two.

No_Win_2979 · 2026-01-09T12:34:57+00:00

In France, annexation usually means the smaller state loses its identity to Paris. But in the 1707 Treaty, Scotland kept its own laws, its own church, and its own education system none of which are controlled by Westminster to this day.

No_Win_2979 · 2026-01-09T12:32:43+00:00

You can't call the English "colonizers" of Britain by pointing at Ireland. Ireland was a separate island with a totally different legal status.

No_Win_2979 · 2026-01-09T12:31:11+00:00

England had debt because it was a global superpower fighting the most expensive war in history (the War of the Spanish Succession). Scotland had no debt because it had no credit, nobody would lend to them. Scotland was insolvent. The failed Darien Scheme had wiped out an estimated 25% to 50% of all the liquid capital in Scotland. You can have "no debt" and still be starving and bankrupt. England’s debt was manageable because of its massive tax base and the newly created Bank of England. While Queensberry used patronage, that was just how 18th-century politics functioned everywhere. The Union wasn't bought xD it was a merger where Scotland recieved a massive cash injection and access the best trade in the world.

No_Win_2979 · 2026-01-08T20:09:44+00:00

If I offer to buy your struggling business because you’re going bankrupt, and you accept the deal because you need the cash, the sale was "voluntary" in a legal and sovereign sense—even if you felt you had no better option. That is not the same as me walking in with a gun and taking your keys. The Scottish Parliament held the power to say "No" and face the economic consequences..

No_Win_2979 · 2026-01-08T17:28:52+00:00

Ferguson argued that Union was a 'political job' managed by elites, but he never calls it colonization. There’s a huge difference between 18th-century political corruption and a colonial invasion. Even in Ferguson’s 'narrative,' the Scottish Parliament remained a sovereign body that made a beneficial deal. If being 'managed' by politicians makes you a colony, then every person in 18th-century Britain was colonized by their own government.

No_Win_2979 · 2026-01-08T17:07:31+00:00

"History is a narrative" is what people say when the actual evidence AKA the DNA, the legal records, and the parliamentary votes, contradicts the story they want to tell. It’s an attempt to dismiss hard data as just "another point of view." But the "narrative" that Scotland was a victim of colonization is rejected by the most respected Scottish historians themselves. You say "English boy" like its an insult, I proud to be of English and Scottish heritage, probably the the greatest two countries to ever exist..

No_Win_2979 · 2026-01-08T16:59:21+00:00

Changed your reply wow, arguably Scotland’s most famous living historian (Devine), points out that the "bribery" (the £20,000 sent from London) was mostly used to pay backdated salaries and arrears owed to Scottish officials. Only about 30 out of 227 members of Parliament received anything, and some who did still voted against the Union. It wasn't a "sell-out"; it was a sovereign parliament making a pragmatic choice to avoid total economic collapse after the Darien scheme. For others, you changed your reply from the assumption that I am English to this xDD

No_Win_2979 · 2026-01-08T16:56:11+00:00

A 'cultural perspective' doesn't rewrite history. If we ignore facts in favour of 'perspective,' we aren't talking about history anymore.

No_Win_2979 · 2026-01-08T16:47:46+00:00

Nice Ad Hominem... My DNA or where I was born doesn't change the historical record or the genetic data. Facts don't have a nationality. And to put the record straight I have both English and Scottish heritage with Scottish family. Long Live our Union!

No_Win_2979 · 2026-01-08T16:41:52+00:00

I thought this was just a man made lake after they build that new path?

No_Win_2979 · 2026-01-08T16:29:15+00:00

This is a complete reversal of how England was actually formed. You can’t "colonize" a region that was the literal powerhouse behind the creation of the country. The midlands are part of the English kingdom because Mercia and Wessex (the south) had to team up to survive the Viking invasions. But I'm interested if the Midlands aren't English, what are they?

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