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dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts)
Mon Oct 21, 2013, 05:52 AM Oct 2013

Vans to tour English pubs telling Scots to go home after Independence.

The Home Office has put in place plans to encourage Scots to go home in the event of a ‘Yes’ result in the Scottish independence referendum.

After favourable coverage in the right-wing press for sending a racist van into immigrant communities telling them to go home, it has been decided that a similar tactic will be used in areas with a high concentration of pubs.

A spokesperson for the Home Office explained, “It’s important the newspapers see that we’re against evil immigrant Scots stealing English jobs and yet at the same time lying in bed all day living off benefits.”

Potential immigrant Scot Angus MacDonald said that he was concerned that this was just the start.

http://newsthump.com/2013/10/21/vans-to-tour-english-pubs-telling-scots-to-go-home-after-independence/

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Vans to tour English pubs telling Scots to go home after Independence. (Original Post) dipsydoodle Oct 2013 OP
Bwah! This is an Onion-like site, the satire is pretty good. djean111 Oct 2013 #1
bwahaha! LeftishBrit Oct 2013 #2

LeftishBrit

(41,208 posts)
2. bwahaha!
Mon Oct 21, 2013, 06:26 AM
Oct 2013

But the dreadful thing is that it isn't all that far off some of the real things that happen! Didn't Jeremy Clarkson call Gordon Brown a 'one-eyed Scottish idiot'? Or on a somewhat more 'upmarket' level:

http://liberalconspiracy.org/2010/09/06/why-does-the-bbc-tolerate-anti-scottish-bigotry/

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