Added context is mine. Its like he wants the SNP to take over Holyrood next year. Not doing his little Englander image any good in Scotland with comments like this, just another colonialist

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    Scotch is a bold word to use when trying to take the moral high ground, you xenophobe.

    Can you provide a source for your claim of being the most vigorously committed members or are you just talking out your arse?

    The first English overseas expansion occurred as early as 1169, when the Norman invasion of Ireland began to establish English possessions in Ireland, with thousands of English and Welsh settlers arriving in Ireland.[3] As a result of this the Lordship of Ireland was claimed for centuries by the English monarch

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_overseas_possessions

    Scotland’s colonialism began in the 1600s, quite a bit later than the 1100s…

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      Chaps like Henry Dundas (literally put upon a pedestal, and former head of the EIC) made a vast amount of wealth that was used to build Scottish cities, found its banks and institutions. Scotland was obsessed with education, and what the educated did was they got work administering colonial affairs. And of course, the very enthusiastic colonisation of Ireland.