Act of Settlement under threat

[Rhyfelwyr]

I always like to remenber Michael Noonans reply to Ken Macginnis about this whole scotii/pict thingy "Not this old thing again ye will have us looking for Leprechauns under the table next"

Most west of Ireland people are still more Basque than Celtic we are who we always were with very little change in between.

Don't get me wrong I don't buy into the whole Cruithin thing, I just think that it is no more of a myth than the idea republicans have of a 'Celtic' Ireland being separate from Britain, likewise there is the Scottish nationalist myth of 'Celtic' Scotland being oppressed by England.

heh some of the pseudo-history I've seen in loyalist literature is completely conflicting. One guy said the Picts of Scotland and Ulster of Cruithin were one people, and that the Gaelic kingdom of Dalriada that established itself in Scotland in the 6th century was one of barbarous Gaelic invaders that drove out the Cruithin in Ulster.

Then another guy said that actually Dalriada was ethnically Germanic and built on older Cruithin and not the Gaels that supplanted them, and that the Dalriadic kingdom in Scotland showed the historic connections between Scotland/Ulster and shows they are one people.

And that's not going into the really far flung theories, like Scots/Ulster-Scots being descended from the 10 lost tribes of Israel, that idea is bizarrely mainstream, was an article about some DUP guy in the BBC recently that believed in it.

As far as Scot independence goes tis a matter for Scottish voters I cant see a change there might be now that is a might be a change in the no Catholic Monarch bit it aint too out there.

IMO it would be more fair to leave it to the British people as a whole, after all the funding Scotland has received it seems unfair to back out and flee to Europe's subsidies instead.