It’s certainly a new take on the infamous ‘Scottish Cringe’.

http://snptacticalvoting.blogspot.com/2009/04/disgraceful-smear.html

Numpty.

This might have appeared true thirty years ago, but it certainly isn’t since the cultural turn and the fact that women, black people etc did women’s and black history. No one was co-opted or ‘brought on board.’ All these forms of history are very much part of the historian’s trade. But there is a proviso – all work that is done in these fields must be backed with sound scholarship and proper archival work. It must be unsentimental and be prepared to reach conclusions that are uncomfortable, particularly if they are uncomfortable to one’s own way of thinking.

From what I can see, David Miller’s wiki, uniting Vlaams Belang, the Communist Party of Spain, the Guardian (employer of Seamus Milne) and King’s College London (employer of Alex Calinnicos) is just a way of name-calling people who piss him off under the pretext of scholarship. Bizarre and shameful.

Perhaps culminating in “whiteness studies.”

You reap what you sow.

Similar confusion in when the lambaste bid bad America-pants can be seen in his fondness for those Scots who gravitated towards the Antebellum South (yes, and what commodity was it based on), and those freed slaves in the Postbellum South taking on the names of their ‘masters’ who took on Scottish names. Not to mention Empire in general: there’s a reason why Scottish-names predominate in regions where the previous populations were supplanted!

You seem particuarly uninformed about the man. McConnell seems to have the same relationship to the IRA that Galloway has to various Arab dictatorships.

2002: “JACK McCONNELL, the first minister, intervened to help leading IRA-aligned activists stage a sectarian march in his Lanarkshire constituency”
2003: “A REPUBLICAN march timed to mark the 31st anniversary of the Bloody Sunday massacre is expected to take place in Wishaw next week after the personal intervention of Jack McConnell.”
2005: THE first minister has been criticised for inviting an IRA supporter, who has been jailed for inciting people to attack police officers, to tomorrow’s summit on sectarianism in Scotland.”

Let’s try not to be too despondent. There are plenty of decent people in Scotland who would have no truck with any of this.

It’s all about politicians’ egos. They can’t do anything about domestic affairs in Scotland so they busy themselves looking important on the international scene, like Pauline McNeill and Alex Salmond.

On a cheerier note, there’s hope that the Al Makhtoum Institute of Dundee concerns itself with the turf.