I notice Scottish Labour's Jackie Baillie made a dame in the King's birthday honours list!!??? Jeezzzzz!!! Unbelievable and undeserved!!
Didn't Robert Burns write about a dame in "Tam O'Shanter?? "Where sits oor sulkey, sullen dame, gathering her brows like a gathering storm, nursing her wrath to keep it warm".
She has indeed worked tirelessly for the rulers of the British Empire and their supremacy over the communities and people of Scotland. Is she going to accept it? Of course she is! Dame Commander of the excellent order of the British Empire?? Commander of what empire one may ask? Most excellently, the horrible, barbaric British Empire no longer exists, except in the fevered imagination of the backward-looking idiots who backed this bestowal - not the King btw: backed by his loyal servants of the Tory-Brexit Brit govt!! Also the definition of a commander: one in an official position of command and control!!!??? You couldn't make this up!!! An anachronistic throwback to feudal medieval times - a system that should be abolished together with The House of Lords aka The House of Cads.
Lastly, to any reader who has any doubts re the damning description of the now defunct British Empire, I recommend the book, "Legacy of Violence", written by Professor Caroline Elkins. I thought I knew plenty about the horrors committed in the name of British imperialism - this book is an eyeopener!! And anyone picking up an honour with the words British Empire attached to it really must be ignorant of the black history attached to it.
Didn't Robert Burns write about a dame in "Tam O'Shanter?? "Where sits oor sulkey, sullen dame, gathering her brows like a gathering storm, nursing her wrath to keep it warm".
She has indeed worked tirelessly for the rulers of the British Empire and their supremacy over the communities and people of Scotland. Is she going to accept it? Of course she is! Dame Commander of the excellent order of the British Empire?? Commander of what empire one may ask? Most excellently, the horrible, barbaric British Empire no longer exists, except in the fevered imagination of the backward-looking idiots who backed this bestowal - not the King btw: backed by his loyal servants of the Tory-Brexit Brit govt!! Also the definition of a commander: one in an official position of command and control!!!??? You couldn't make this up!!! An anachronistic throwback to feudal medieval times - a system that should be abolished together with The House of Lords aka The House of Cads.
Lastly, to any reader who has any doubts re the damning description of the now defunct British Empire, I recommend the book, "Legacy of Violence", written by Professor Caroline Elkins. I thought I knew plenty about the horrors committed in the name of British imperialism - this book is an eyeopener!! And anyone picking up an honour with the words British Empire attached to it really must be ignorant of the black history attached to it.