So,whats the problem??

Question

I am constantly hearing in the news about the working class English in England complaining about Scotland and Northern Ireland getting more money for health, infrastructure and educational facilities and about the Muslims getting higher priorities.Some even claim that they feel like invisible nobodies in their own country.It is probably true that the English are having to give more to their neighbours,but why are they complaining when for centuries England exploited Ireland, Scotland and Wales for England's benefit?It was time they compensated us,so whats the problem?

Answer 1

I get sick and tired of having moans from some people from Scotland and Wales about English this, English that. It's boring and tiresome and old. Sorry, but this is the 21st century and why should anyone in the modern world have to apologise for stuff that happened hundreds of years ago?! I think that the UK should spread money around to all of the UK included Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, no problem. I just think the South East of England should get less funding, because other areas of the UK are neglected, ie South West England and the North. The funding should be equally shared out amongst all of the UK countries. If the Scots, Welsh and Irish want independence from England then it should be done, no problem either. So long as it's done in a diplomatic and fair way, but I'm not going to apologise for being born in England. I'm British not English, because I have Welsh, Irish and Scottish blood in me as well. Most of us do  you know oh and one last thing to be so obvious, we're all human, so what's the issue really? Oh, the irony of life.

Answer 2

To be honest, I'm sick of all this stupid nationalism going on in the UK. In my eyes, we are all citizens of the UK and that's all that matters. I think we should just all have the same laws, regardless of what "country" you live in. We have the same government, the same flag (kind of), so whats the problem. I don't understand it but maybe I'm just not patriotic enough. I personally have never heard anyone complaining though.

Answer 3

It may be something to do with the fact that the people who are doing the complaining (21st century working classes) aren't the people who benefited from the supposed exploitation (18th, 19th and 20th century middle and upper classes).

Answer 4

I always find the moaning of the English to be so paradoxical.

On the one hand, they claim (incorrectly) that England hands out vast sums to money to Scotland.

Yet, where is the greatest opposition to Scotland re-gaining its independence? England!

Why? Because the oil is OURS. An independent Scotland will an economically viable state. But England, no longer able to steal the oil revenues for itself, will be reduced to little more than a third-world backwater.

Proof? Look at the Scottish National Party (SNP) success in taking Labour's third safest seat in a by-election last week. Look at the SNP who now hold the seats in the Scottish Parliament that make up Gordon Browns's Westminster seat. Look at the Scottish Parliament controlled by the SNP. And who gives the SNP this advantage? The Scottish voters.

For three centuries, Scotland has had to endure England's continual breaking of the terms of the Act of Union for its own good. The time has come for change, and then, revenge.

Answer 5

Misinformation is the main problem .There  is a general conception propagated by the London based media that Scotland lives on English subsidy . The latest figures stated in the GERS report ( Government Expenditure and Revenue in Scotland ) reveals that in 2006/07, Scotland's current surplus is estimated at £837m, or 0.7 per cent of GDP. The report adds that the UK had a deficit of £4.3bn, or 0.3 per cent of GDP.