Hadrian's wall,Culloden, the poll tax, and Jacob Rees-Mogg: yes,England has inflicted an awful lot of angst and pain on Scotland down the centuries – but, contemplate, and we still don't want you to leave1 Sorry for calling every final one of you "Jock". We now know it's offensive,especially whether you're a woman.2 So sorry for the years of heartless Conservative governments that you never voted for that ripped the heart out of the Scottish mining, steel and shipbuilding industries, or butchered public services and imposed an unwonted,dismal neo-liberal ethos on a land to which such a callous political and economic philosophy was inimical.
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Source: theguardian.com