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<blockquote data-quote="edinburgh_gunner" data-source="post: 203165"><p>Whoever said the celtic nations are 'relativley poor' is an arse. London is certainly not the most important part of the UK. In Scotland, it's Edinburgh, in Wales it's Cardiff. Scotland is now pretty much so run by itself, and no doubt you'll come up with some shite like 'oh we subsidise you'. Reality is you don't. Look at the trends in the economies before you make sweeping generalisations like us being relativley poor. Our house prices are not falling at nearly the same rate as those down in England. Yes, Scotland has it's fair share of health and crime problems but all you hear on the news these days in that someone in London has been stabbed. I certainly do not feel 'overshadowed' by the fact London is the uk capital. I do not consider myself British in any respect, and nor while I ever.</p><p></p><p>It's actually people like you who cause the contempt shown towards to most English folk, which is really unfair. You belong to the minority of arrogant and ignorant people who give the barmy anti-english lot up here a reason to hate you so much and cause so many problems between us. Yes, in Scotland we're guilty of racism towards you lot and it's not something I'm proud of but if people like you didn't make these asumptions, chances are we could see a slight change in that attitude.</p><p></p><p>Right, I'm putting my soap box away.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="edinburgh_gunner, post: 203165"] Whoever said the celtic nations are 'relativley poor' is an arse. London is certainly not the most important part of the UK. In Scotland, it's Edinburgh, in Wales it's Cardiff. Scotland is now pretty much so run by itself, and no doubt you'll come up with some shite like 'oh we subsidise you'. Reality is you don't. Look at the trends in the economies before you make sweeping generalisations like us being relativley poor. Our house prices are not falling at nearly the same rate as those down in England. Yes, Scotland has it's fair share of health and crime problems but all you hear on the news these days in that someone in London has been stabbed. I certainly do not feel 'overshadowed' by the fact London is the uk capital. I do not consider myself British in any respect, and nor while I ever. It's actually people like you who cause the contempt shown towards to most English folk, which is really unfair. You belong to the minority of arrogant and ignorant people who give the barmy anti-english lot up here a reason to hate you so much and cause so many problems between us. Yes, in Scotland we're guilty of racism towards you lot and it's not something I'm proud of but if people like you didn't make these asumptions, chances are we could see a slight change in that attitude. Right, I'm putting my soap box away. [/QUOTE]
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