And finally from my Scottish Friend a piece of brilliance

This is something which was almost, but after a bit of discussion and thought, not posted to Scottish Unionist's thread onSuppressed anti-Englishness.

Clearly it doesn't belong there, because that's turned into a serious and lengthy discussion, while this is just a bit of tongue-in-cheek hooliganism. Nonetheless, it does illustrate some of SU's points about the fairly unique nature of British national identity.

This isn't new - you'll have seen it knocking around before - but I've added a Scotland-specific coda.

For those who are offended all I'd like to say is: Hee!

"European Terror Alert Status Update

The British are feeling the pinch in relation to recent bombings and have raised their security level from "Miffed" to "Peeved". Soon, though, security levels may be raised yet again to "Irritated" or even "A Bit Cross". Londoners have not been "A Bit Cross" since the blitz in 1940 when tea supplies all but ran out. Terrorists have been re-categorised from "Tiresome" to a "Bloody Nuisance". The last time the British issued a "Bloody Nuisance" warning level was during the great fire of 1666.

Also, the French government announced yesterday that it has raised its terror alert level from "Run" to "Hide". The only two higher levels in France are "Surrender" and "Collaborate". The rise was precipitated by a recent fire that destroyed France's white flag factory, effectively paralysing the country's military capability.

It's not only the British and French that are on a heightened level of alert. Italy has increased the alert level from "Shout Loudly and Excitedly" to "Elaborate Military Posturing". Two more levels remain: "Ineffective Combat Operations" and "Change Sides".

The Germans also increased their alert state from "Disdainful Arrogance" to "Dress in Uniform and Sing Marching Songs". They also have two higher levels: "Invade Several Neighbouring Countries" and "Lose".

The Belgians, on the other hand, are all on holiday as usual, and the only threat they are worried about is NATO pulling out of Brussels.

Meanwhile in Edinburgh, the devolved SNP Government has also been forced to respond. After initially declaring that it could not do anything because it lacked the full portfolio of policy levers available to an independent state, it has now declared that it has delegated the matter to its local councils via a "Historic Concordat" which does not actually commit them to do anything, but serves the purpose of deflecting any blame away from the SNP.

Well-placed sources indicate that more robust measures have been discussed, but these depend on funding being available from something called the "SFT", which unfortunately does not exist.

The same sources indicate that in the last resort, First Minister Salmond will communicate directly with any terrorists, blaming their grievances on the English and quisling, traitorous, lickspittle Scottish unionists, and beg them to restrict their activities to south of the border."

Second part of Mythbusters Porn subject

Still off-topic: CVF porn

Enjoy pics of the future flagships of Her Britannic Majesty's Royal Navy.

Which will, of course, be substantially built in Scotland (some blocks on the Clyde, and final assembly at Rosyth), unless a certain idiotic separatist party gets its way and manages to destroy both a major Scottish industry and the integrated defence of the United Kingdom.

But it's not going to happen, so why worry?

LMAO at this post by the Mythbuster from Scotland

Off-topic: submarine porn

Now isn't the Astute seriously cool and sexy?

There are all sorts of features on that hull which make you want to sit down with the designer and ask "Why that?"

Except, of course, that all he could do would be to shrug and make slitting motions near his throat.

Creeping sort of back on-topic, it is of course highly gratifying that as part of the UK we will have babies like the Astute defending us. Not something an "independent" Scotland could afford by any stretch.

And, of course, the Astutes are a bit late and over-budget. This is because there was too much of a gap between the last order for the Vanguard-class bombers and the first for the Astutes, which meant that the one yard in the country which can build subs (Barrow) suffered significant de-skilling.

Which leads on to further thoughts about Trident replacement. If this is cancelled or delayed, then we might find ourselves having to order extra Astute-class SSNs. Otherwise, Barrow will shut and the UK will lose, for ever and ever, the capability to build nuclear-powered subs. Which are literally in a different order-of-magnitude class of effectiveness from conventional diesel-electric boats.

This feeds in to the Trident-replacement debate, as you can see. A huge chunk of the apparent cost-saving from not replacing Trident disappears, unless you are also willing to see Barrow close and the loss of a UK SSN construction capability. It's not just about morals or costs, it affects industrial strategy.

A Video for the Nation

I ask you to watch this video then think about what you are doing for your country.

Thanks again to Lionheart.

You Won't Catch Me I'm Part Of The Union

Unlike a few of my fellow Nationalists I despise and hate the Marxists and the SNP who want to break up the United Kingdom - contrary to what they say this would make all four Union Countries weaker and poorer in both our pockets and hearts, when ever a Scotsman and an Englishman argue it is a fight between two brothers and god help any foreign git that steps in to the fray (I personally have seen this happen once in Spain and the poor Spaniard was at a complete loss and couldn't understand how we could fight one moment and party together the next), we all take the mickey out of each other and we argue but when threatened we all come together as one big family which is only right as we are all of the same race.

The following is an extract from the blog Nationalist Mythbusting (a blog attacking the Marxist racist thugs that are the SNP

"Thursday, 13 August 2009

A cost of "independence"

For folks like me, aside from the facts that

(a) we don't want to turn the rest of the UK into a foreign country; and

(b) the numbers (now endorsed by the SNP) show that Scotland would be, at best, no better economically out of the Union than in it;

...one of the things that is bothersome is the inevitable and unnecessary costs of duplicating stuff that is currently done on a shared basis through the UK.

It occurred to me that it ought to be relatively easy to get a handle on the numbers for one aspect of this, namely diplomatic representation: embassies, consulates and the like.

Let us look at some facts.

As part of the UK, we are represented abroad by 261 embassies, high commissions, consulates and so on.

The total FCO budget seems to be around £1.7bn. So, very crudely, dividing one number by the other (and ignoring the fact that not all the costs are associated with the embassies and so on) the cost per overseas mission is £6.5m. Of which Scotland's share (at around 8.5%) is only £550k per mission, for a total of £144.5m.

For comparison, Ireland has only 75 missions abroad. Applying the same methodology, the Irish DFA costs €207m, or £178m - £2.6m per mission.

So, Irish embassies, consulates and so on are cheaper than British ones. Not surprising - not only will they be in less grand and expensive premises, but they will be more lightly staffed and less effective. After all, the smaller and more insignificant a country is, the less the rest of the world cares what it thinks - and so the less point there is in that country paying people to explain what it thinks!

The point is, of course, that Scotland currently gets representation by 261 missions abroad for £144.5m. An "independent" Scotland would, like Ireland, have to pay £34m more to achieve less than 30% of the representation it currently gets. (Oh I know, "independent" Scotland ought to be entitled to 8.5% of the embassy estate. This would no doubt be expressed as a cheque for the capital value, offset by the rental of a couple of portakabins in the embassy grounds until the new Scottish diplomats found new digs.)

Now these are only small numbers, but they are illustrative. Multiply these sort of effects across the health, education and social security systems and suddenly you're into billions. And as the saying goes, "A billion here and a billion there, and before you know it you're talking real money."

Divorce is an expensive business."

The truth of the whole fiasco is that we have a disenfranchised republican minority in Scotland that could not give a monkey's about the state that Scotland would be in if it left the union, these are the same people that never spoke out against Scottish Watch (an organisation set up to terrorise anyone not Scottish and to do anything literally to keep Scotland ethnically clean) and are so anti English that they snub the Queen when on state visits (and yet they call The BNP racist lol).

So a message to all my fellow nationalists "Together we are strong - apart we are nothing".