Scots living in England should face new Tebbit law ...

The Crow has had quite a few Scottish friends who have told him at length over the years about what a great place Scotland is, and how it’s the best place in the World to live.

The Crow’s usual line of enquiry tends to be “so … why do you live in Hemel Hempstead then?”.

It seems no-one loves Scotland more than the Scot who no longer lives there. Even Scottish Nationalist Party front man and campaigner Sean Connery only became involved in the cause after relocating to Spain.

The fact is there are a lot of Scots who come over to England, buy an English home, take an English job, send their children to an English school, and yet still consider themselves Scottish.



Norman Tebbit put forward the suggestion for a "Tebbit test" for such economic migrants to England. In it, migrants to England would have to prove their dedication to their new country to be allowed to continue to live here.


The Crow would like to go one further on this idea, sending the Security Services around to the houses of Scottish citizens living in England,

• all forms of Tartan would be removed and burned outside
• Scottish football flags replaced by English ones
• bagpipes would be rendered safe in a controlled explosion by specially trained officers
• Bay City Rollers CDs would be made unplayable by judicious application of a blowtorch
• should any copy of Braveheart be found on the premises, the owners will be instantly guilty of treason and sedition against the English government, and taken outside to be shot

The Scotland football strip would be acceptable in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen

Try wearing the same kit South of Greta Green, and the strip will be stripped by the Police under new powers …

Yes, Norman would be proud …


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Scot supports England: Did hell freeze over?

"C'mon you Swedes ..."

From today’s BBC website ...

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A spat has erupted between rivals David Cameron and Gordon Brown over their seats at England's football World Cup clash with Sweden.

The Tory leader's aides said Mr Cameron was in the stands with the fans while Mr Brown was in a box as a guest of the German government.

A source close to the chancellor angrily denied the claim.

They branded Mr Cameron a "Johnny Come Lately" football fan who got a ticket from his "corporate friends".

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The news for me isn’t really this latest posturing from the New Labour future leader and the Conservatives current leader.

No. It’s one far more odd. You see Mr Brown is Scottish, and the Scots have a complicated relationship when it comes to England in the World Cup.

As a (Scottish) friend of the Crow’s once put it – “it’s not so much that we want to see Scotland win, as much as England lose”. You can read all about the history of this football rivalry here.

And indeed during the last World Cup, there was an uproar after a leading member of the Scottish National Party urged his fellow countrymen to forget the ancient rivalry and support England in the World Cup.

So can we really expect in the light of this deep-rooted animosity that Mr Brown was there and cheering on the English side over the Swedish one? Can you trust a politician? Does a leopard change its spots?

In a darker turn to this there was this story, it seems several people were attacked in Scotland for wearing England football shirts. It seems in a multi-cultural country like England you can wear the football shirt of any country and not fear reprisals – not so in Scotland.

For posterity of course – the final result was a draw with England 2: Sweden 2 (more here). We’ve had a good run through this group winning every game so far, so this drawn result against Sweden was us finally facing our Waterloo …


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