Comments by "iggle" (@iggle6448) on "The New Culture Forum"
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@Andy Jarman A few thoughts, if I may. Generally, loathing for another tribe becomes ossified when at a distance. Up close it becomes diluted by reality, familiarity, it's less likely to become part of the loather's self-identity.
Having said that, it's not hundreds and hundreds of years since atrocities and rank, inhumane discrimination have been committed against the smaller UK nations. It's just over a hundred years since the Irish Easter Rising and the attendant atrocities committed by those acting for the British government - and so it continued throughout the 20th century in some form or other. The Welsh have been variously colonised then dropped on from a great height throughout latter day history depending on the nation's utility in Westminster's economic schemes - Thatcher's treatment of miners and their families was nothing short of atrocious. Similarly, Scotland's been a bag of goodies for the English elites to dip into and then cast aside (I would be writing this from the Highlands and not England if Scotland had been on a par with England and not been treated as an afterthought, starved of the support and services enjoyed by the English. My great-grandparents' village did not have electricity until the late 1960s ).
Note that throughout I attribute these abuses entirely to Westminster and English elites. IMHO, successive UK governments have not served the Union well. For hundreds of years, they and not the English people have abused the smaller constituent nations of the UK in just the same way as they've latterly covertly trashed 'Britishness' in their avaricious gallop towards Europe and globalism (as well as, against the sensible qualms of ordinary citizens, having imported - yes, as commodities - millions of immigrants, cheap, tax-paying labour to keep British wages down).
Sadly, loathing for 'the English' is very misplaced. 'The English', the ordinary people, have certainly been subject to Westminster's whims and inhumanities too! An initial remedy might begin with a genuinely representative British Parliament for all of Great Britain's constituent nations and governments that are not commandeered by the sons of empire (in this 21st century, how can it possibly be right that most of our current Cabinet members are drawn from public schools and privileged families?? Note that I'm not a socialist! But there is little authentic equality of opportunity and just plain fairness when such Parliaments and Cabinets still hold the reins.)
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I wonder why no one in these comments has picked up on Brendan's point: lockdown only had one aim, to protect the NHS from being overwhelmed by covid cases ? Indeed, that was the first priority in the gvt's 3-point mantra: "Protect the NHS - Stay home - Save lives". (Now it's represented as 'stay home, protect the NHS, save lives'). Cynically, I would say that, if we'd been allowed to live more or less normally, the gvt would never have recovered from an obviously failed NHS, due to years of their swingeing £cuts. Lockdowns IMHO therefore are primarily political decisions, not health protection measures. The NHS simply isn't fit for purpose. This is the huge elephant in the national room that no one is talking about, still less tackling.
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