Perhaps. I rephrased it to be reflective that I would like the English officials to be treated like trash because, if you actually read the article, the treatment is inhumane.

I have a lot of gripe with the English for how they treat other people, perhaps if they get a taste of their own medicine they may snap back to reality and forget the greatness that was their empire (obviously /s).

biggest issue in the UK unlike many other EU countries is how deeply polarized their media is. Very difficult to reason and bring the camps together which means the only way to get better is if it first gets worse. A complete shame considering the UK joined the EU because it was the sick man of Europe back in the 70ies and it was welcomed especially by other partners who felt it provided a much needed liberal balance to the power duality of France & Germany. We're all at a loss that they left IMO.

As for vindication the people certainly deserve not what's coming and happening to them, the true villains sit in the news rooms pumping out racist and dividing shit calling itself "free media" but the truth is it's run by a bunch of oligarchs. Eat the rich and bring guillotines to these places so that the poor and brainwashed people who've been fed on a steady diet of divisive garbage and are the real victims in this sham won't get hurt. It's a really easy trolley problem this one. Sadly history shows that the trolley company is the one that tends to win.

I agree. That comment is a sad but common result of people who seek vengeance under the facade of justice.

I much prefer them to the Black and Tans. Scott's will be much better off being part of the EU. It'll be difficult for some businesses to adjust in the long term considering how strongly they're tied to the South economically. But the short term looks terrible anyway no matter what course they take. And the argument of independence becomes even stronger considering there is a) legal base for it and b) the South will anyway end up isolating itself so much from the rest of the world that the economic argument isn't much of a reward in contrast to EU membership (at least not in the long run)

Pejorative comments about the Scottish do not cast you in a very good light.

First, it was a response to perjoritive comments about the English. Second, I made no perjoritive comments about the Scottish, just Scottish Nationalists. I know many excellent Scots.

You appear to be ignorant of the history of the British Empire and the role the Scots played in it. One point worth mentioning: the motivation for the union between England and Scotland was that the Scottish had bankrupted themselves in their own attempts to form an empire (Google the Darien Scheme). The Scots were not conquered; they voluntarily joined the Union.

The British Empire was not the English Empire, and the Scottish played as much of a role in its formation and administration as the English.

The Darien Scheme failed because the English colonial establishment worked hard to sabotage it, because it competed with their own interests.

English Nationalists like yourself are far more toxic than the Scots Nats. You're still trying to play the same spoiler games you were playing more than two hundred years ago.

Aye, perfidious Albion is always to blame for Scotland's failures. And I'm not an English nationalist. I'm a Unionist.

Unionism is English nationalism, as currently structured.

Do you believe then that the majority of Scots who voted against independence were, in fact, English nationalists?

So you're of the belief the son pays for the debt of the father - which country has paid off this debt? The US, Germany, France (ad infinitum)?

Seems a bit unhinged to me.

"and admit their horrific acts" - I don't think any person from the UK/US has engaged in any of this (both educational systems teach about the wrongs of the Empire and American expansionism at the cost of natives AFAIK), but you're prescribing guilt, it's vindictive madness. Does a child born in the UK from African parents inherit this sin?

A person may be free from guilt, but a nation is not. I can, with absolute certainty, tell you that the educational system of the Uk does not go into details on the horrific acts of their empire, they do not get into details of how they pitted communities against each other and orchestrated coups all around the world that resulted in 'interventions', all premeditated, they do not go into details on the torturing they committed.