The Scottish Eagle

[cronus]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-25917819

MSP Jackson Carlow likens proposed eagle symbol to Nazi emblem

Conservative MSP Jackson Carlaw has attacked a proposal to make the eagle a national symbol of Scotland, recalling its use by the Roman empire and later by Nazi Germany.

Mr Carlaw sits on a Holyrood committee considering a petition to make the golden eagle Scotland's national bird.

He suggested the eagle was a symbol of "imperial power".

Wildlife photographer Gordon Buchanan, who backs the petition, denied any Nazi links.

The Scottish Parliament's public petitions committee questioned Mr Buchanan and RSPB Scotland's Duncan Orr-Ewing.

Mr Carlaw said: "The golden eagle is the symbol of an empire that once invaded large parts of Scotland, and more recently of another empire that tried to.

"In the lifetime of many people in this country it was the last thing their relatives saw as they were marched to their deaths.

"It has been a symbol of imperial power of which Scotland is emphatically not, never has been, and hopefully never will be."

Mr Carlaw said the robin would be a better national bird, but wondered why another national symbol was needed at all and where such thinking would end.

"Do we have a national domestic animal, a national wild animal, a national grievance?" he asked.

Later Mr Buchanan said he doubted "if the symbol was shown to people in Scotland as the national bird, that anyone would see it as Nazi."

(continued, in due course the drunken Scottish hoards will scale Hadrians wall once again to rape and pillage the southlands that remain above water....)

[Clinton Huxley]

Scotland never "Imperial"? Tommyrot.

[Svartalf]

Except back when I played Medieval II Total war and wiped out the English, Danish and French, whenever was Scotland and imperialistic state?

[cronus]

Imperial powers these days are like computer companies - as they expand so they move onto smaller premises.

[Clinton Huxley]

Except back when I played Medieval II Total war and wiped out the English, Danish and French, whenever was Scotland and imperialistic state?

there were a number of Scottish attempts at founding colonies and they were disproportionately represented in the admin and the fighty bits of the British Empire. The Scots bloody loved it.

[Svartalf]

Lo and those suffering colonisation long to make others suffer the same ills.

[mistermack]

Should be the Scottish Mouse, after the national poem : '' Wee sleekit cowrin tim'rous beastie ''.

[klr]

Except back when I played Medieval II Total war and wiped out the English, Danish and French, whenever was Scotland and imperialistic state?

there were a number of Scottish attempts at founding colonies and they were disproportionately represented in the admin and the fighty bits of the British Empire. The Scots bloody loved it.

Yup. Panama. That died a death - literally.

[klr]

Should be the Scottish Mouse, after the national poem : '' Wee sleekit cowrin tim'rous beastie ''.

Better still ... Nessie.

[JimC]

It should be humorously animated haggis...

[Clinton Huxley]

It should be humorously animated haggis...

The rainbow-hued gold-shitting unicorn. Everyone will get one if the Scots vote yes in the referendum.

The Scotch Gnat, a nasty, whiney, ginger-bristled insect that doesn't play nicely with others.

[Thinking Aloud]

I propose the midge.

[rainbow]

I propose the midge.

Is that like a minge with a cold?