Letters / Cold sweat
Oh dear, my latest letter seems to have brought Mr Ian Tinkler out in a cold sweat (Chilling Words; SN, 28/9/14).
May I prescribe a nice hot mug of cocoa (spliced with a generous tot of navy rum) to accompany his bedtime reading of that mouthpiece of jingoistic imperialism, the ‘Daily Torygraph’.
This will reassure him that all is well in the shrunken remnants of the once great British Empire where the Union Jack still flies (hopefully the right way up!) and that Her Majesty is purr-fectly happy with the referendum result.
As to Irish history, had the party of Gladstone and Asquith responded more timeously to the eminently reasonable demands of Parnell and the Irish Home Rule Party, much subsequent trouble would have been averted.
Here in Scotland, we have just had a national constitutional debate where no one has been killed, no shots fired, although the ego of a certain rabble-rousing Labour street politician was slightly dented by one very small egg on target.
The disgusting scenes of violence in George Square in Glasgow after the vote were caused by some of your Unionist bedfellows, Mr Tinkler, thugs waving Union Jacks and giving Nazi salutes.
I hope you wish to dissociate yourself from that disgusting episode.
Bill Adams
Lerwick
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