Comments by "Taint ABird" (@taintabird23) on "Scottish independence: How likely is a second referendum? - BBC Newsnight" video.

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  9.  @gordonmills7798  My opinion is based on evidence and rational deduction. You should try it sometime. It is quite true that everybody in the UK had a vote. However, against a backdrop of a diminishing British Demos across the union, it has left the union deeply divided. It is no accident that the areas of England that voted most for Brexit corelate closely with the areas of England where people in the 2011 census people identity firstly or exclusively as English; the Scots are increasingly divorced from the union and they voted to remain as did Irish nationalists in NI. Even in Wales, were there is a large population of people who identify as English, we can assume there would have been a vote to remain but for the English who brought their politics with them. This whole issue of the democratic deficit of Brexit was been the subject of academic study. The fact is, there is no democratic account for the fact that Scotland and NI voted to remain in an country where the overarching common British identity is rapid retreat. That's the problem with Brexit. There was no need for England to 'force' anybody , the die is already cast. In your country large swathes of your print media are owned by Rupert Murdoch and other right-wing tax exiles. They controlled the narrative of Brexit. And they lied and distorted the issues to an infantilized audience into thinkin that EU membership is akin to being 'governed by the EU'. England is not bad, but it is big when compared to the countries it hides behind. My question is this: when will the English grow a pair, admit they are a nation, stand on their own two feet and leave the right union?
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  11.  @gordonmills7798  'You never cease to amaze me with your anti-English/Westminster rhetoric.' I'm not anti-English, but I am against the form of English nationalism that led to Brexit. You don't find it in Scottish, Irish or Welsh nationalism, which is inclusive and civic, not binary and ethnic. As for Westminster, it is a joke. 'You really do believe you have all the answers wrapped up in your oracle of facts and assumptions.' I don't have answers, I only have observations and logic. 'This is your arrogance of which I repeatedly lay at your door each time I correspond with you.' It is me calmly and coldly holding a mirror up to you, and all you are doing is focusing on my lack of emotion and confidence. Sadly, like many English people unaccustomed to he being critiqued, you assume I am somehow 'anti-English'. There is no reason why the English cannot be their own nation, they are as entitled to it as anyone else - my question is when are they going to grasp it, admit it and stand on their own two feet? No answer is ever given. 'The arrogance you portray is equal to blaming all Germans for the Holocaust.' You have lost me here. If you have a guilt complex because your ancestors past, that is your business, but it is not healthy. English nationalists need to be able to acknowledge the good and the bad of their past in equal measure. Then you will no longer feel bound to defend the indefensible but be able to critique and understand yourselves and where you have come from as a people. Most of Europe has gone through this process in recent years, including the Germans. But not the English.
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