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In light of the disgraceful image in todays Scotland on Sunday (below) which attempts to link the Scots self determination movement with both the Nazis and the Klu Klux Klan and the scaremongering associated article it is worth considering whether the?British themselves have something significant to hide in terms of links to fascism both before and?after the second World War.

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I should start off by saying that the Scots, English and Welsh?all played an honourable part in defending the World from the fascist threat of the Nazis. During that time however Churchill regularly referred to Britain as 'England' and during the war Scots were buried under an avalanch of propaganda that rarely if ever?mentioned Scotland.

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Perhaps it is because of this (possibly unintended) insult that the post war years saw a?gradual but ultimately impressive?increase in support for the Scottish independence movement.

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London's?actual attitude towards Scotland at the time however is rather more disturbing. According to official documents Britain would?actually have allowed an invasion of Scotland to happen and that England was seen as "the total priority for defence".

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These damning allegations are contained in a book called When Hitler Comes which is available from Amazon here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/If-Hitler-Comes-Preparing-Invasion/dp/1843410621

The book also exposes fascist Scots in Scottish society however as the above article notes these?were linked?within the British Unionists (which was the old name of the Scottish Conservatives) and landed aristocrats.*

Hitler's ultimate agenda was not entirely understood before the war. Though there were obvious indications of his hatred of the Jews the full extent of the Nazi Holocaust was only exposed fully afterwards.

In England in particular there was substantial support for fascism and in fact Oswald Mosely who was a politician who had been a Westminster?MP for both Labour and Tory formed his own army of Brownshirts under the label of the British Union of Fascists.







The BUF (flag above) used to martial support in the thousands and held various parades. After the war started their support died away however?an English minority attraction to fascism has continued?until today with some modern support for?Nick Griffin's?British National Party who have even managed to gain enough support in England?to get MEP's elected to the European Parliament!

The BNP and the non-fascistic but still xenophobic and offensive and anti-Scottish UKIP (UK Independence party)?an oxymoron as the UK are already independent have made zero headway in Scotland. In England however UKIP are rising fast and the British Conservatives (who with one MP are also as popular as the plague in Scotland) have taken them so seriously that an in-out referendum on the EU?is officially planned in the next few years. ??
In short then England had a real pre-war problem with home grown outright fascism and has an?on ongoing problem with?a modern equivalent of the French National Front in the BNP.

Given the above facts?the attempts by the Scotland on Sunday today via a book named 'Fascist Scotland' which is illustrated on the web by a picture of Oswald Mosely but had a disgusting mock up of a Saltire shaped into a Nazi flag in the paper (see top of article) to suggest there was real support in pre WW2 Scotland for fascism based on much innuendo?and speculation?are desperate and rather absurd and I suspect this has been a desperate?attempt to bury the bad news of the original damning book and its conclusion that Scotland was seen as expendable by British military planners during World War II.

Clearly the writer desperately?wants Scotland and early Scots nationalists to be tarred with the Nazi brush but he admits himself that BUF demos which were organised up here were disrupted and fought against in Scotland just like the English Defence League (which they renamed as Scottish Defence League in Scotland but no-one believes it) demos in Scotland involving a few hundred English skinheads?have been in recent times.??

The Orange Lodge can muster 10K anti-independence Union Jack waving marchers down the Royal Mile (much of them imported from NI) but no-one could argue that they credibly dominate the political debate in Scotland. In fact their sectarian views are rightly seen as repugnant by the vast majority of Scottish society.

The summation of the article shows the writers intentions and marks a new low even for the Scotsman:

Today, the ruling party of Scotland has nationalism as its creed and is suspiciously coy about its own history. Elsewhere in the nationalist family, the BNP, before it plunged into fratricidal warfare, trounced the Far Left in recent Scottish elections and, in 2010, received a respectable 1,000 votes in Alex Salmond?s stamping ground of Banff and Buchan. To this should be added growing sympathy for the agenda of Ukip. The Scottish electorate now appears more receptive to radical nationalism than Mosley?s blackshirts could ever dream of. With fears of globalisation and mass immigration on the rise, and the political ?old gang? unpopular, there might still be living space in Scotland for the ?Brown Beast?. In this way, we would be very much in line with our European cousins. Wha?s like us? Quite a few.

The facts are that the SNP are a civic nationalist grouping which warmly welcomes support from all sections and ethnic groupings in Scottish society. Even in it's earliest incarnations it supported self determination and opposed right wing extremism. Read the Flag in the Wind by John MacCormick to read the early (and proud) history of the SNP.

Even early outspoken radical Scots?like Wendy Wood (who was often involved in civil disobedience such as moving the border post to it's more accurate position just after the River Tweed) were firmly rooted in legitimate campaigning and democratic politics.

Despite the British State's best efforts?the Scottish independence movement?has never ever been linked credibly to any political violence of any kind. This is despite the fact that the?UK authorities (as exposed by Gaelic doc Diomhair still available on Youtube) attempted to?supply young Scots students with fake explosives. MI5 have also regularly spied on Scottish demonstrations and the British Government itself deliberately and persistently lied about the extent of North Sea Oil during the original 1978 devolution referendum.

British mainstream parties like Labour and the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats are also nationalists but of the British type. It could be credibly argued that British nationalism which constantly harks back to the glory days of the British Empire and seems to embody a distrust of foreigners and immigration is of a much more negative nature than the 'national freedom' type nationalism of the SNP which has much more in common?with those countries who?eventually escaped the imperial yoke. ?

To insult the SNP and the wider Yes campaign in such a desperate and sickening fashion shows the desperation of the No lobby which has came up with zero positive arguments for union. A fact effectively illustrated in this video which was temporarily?banned from youtube for daring to use embarassing pseudo-patriotic?footage of Better Together's own?activists. ?

* Incidentally the former English King (Edward VIII)?was in fact known to be a Nazi Supporter who had meetings with Hitler and who would almost certainly have been installed as a puppet ruler of Britain if Germany had succeeded in their invasion plans.

Source: http://politicalnewsfromscotland.blogspot.com/2013/04/brits-not-scotland-have-fascism-problem.html

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