Police asked to investigate Alex Salmond's 'anti–English' jibes

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.telegraph....ti-English-jibes.html

/// A Lawyer, Colin Shaughnessy said: "I regard Mr Salmond's observation as a display of prejudice of a type outlawed by several pieces of criminal legislation according to the information on the government's own website." ///

/// Mr Shaughnessy, 52, told The Daily Telegraph that the SNP administration repeatedly "trumpeted a zero–tolerance policy on hate crime". ///

/// Its official guidance states: "The Scottish Government believes that there is no excuse for any form of hate crime: it is simply not acceptable." ///

Yes but has no one yet told him that this 'race hate crime' issue is null and void where the English are concerned.

[albaqwerty]

Does the same lawyer need publicity for when anyone other than a Scot refers to Sweaties?
For pities sake, there's more important things for any lawyer to get aerated about.

[rojash]

I can't see that describing a bunch of incompetent Lord Snootys as "a bunch of incompetent Lord Snootys" constitutes a racial attack on the English.

[Quizmonster]

For a start, the English may well be a 'nation' of sorts, but they most assuredly are not a 'race'.

[anotheoldgit]

Quizmonster

/// For a start, the English may well be a 'nation' of sorts, but they most assuredly are not a 'race'. ///

The Scottish Court of Session, which had to decide whether the Race Relations Act, applies to discrimination between the Scots and the English, ruled that national origins should be interpreted more broadly and flexibly than just by reference to a passport. As England and Scotland were once separate nations, the English and the Scots have separate national origins and therefore the Race Relations Act, does cover discrimination between them

http://www.equalityhu...-discrimination-take/

[Quizmonster]

SalmonBut there are lots of Scottish lords

[Quizmonster]

Salmond used the word, 'bunch', so he cannot have been talking just of two people, Mitchell and Osborne - neither of whom is a lord - but rather of the whole government. There are lots of SCOTTISH lords in that body, so on what grounds can he be accused of merely offending the ENGLISH members?
Anyway, Lord Snooty was a comic character to be laughed at and that certainly is a perfectly apt description of most of the leading lights in the Coalition!

[LazyGun]

Its seems an absurd complaint to make - One could almost imagine the initiator being done for wasting police time.

Calling anyone "Lord Snooty" can hardly be called hate speech - plus which, in the context by which Salmond used it, when addressing the SNP convention, it was pretty funny.

[DTCwordfan]

He was a berk at University and still is.

End of matter.

[Gromit]

Private Eye have been publishing fortnightly the "Dave Snooty and his Pals" cartoon strip without any accusations of racism or calls to the Police.

[humbersloop]

you could whip up some serious apathy with this thread AOG.

Waistcoat, upside down Union Flag? Still??

[THECORBYLOON]

Anotheoldgit, since when has the UK government been an English government?

[Quizmonster]

Humber, I have pointed out to Anotheoldgit in the past that the original Union flag was specified by a royal decree issued by James VI/I in 1606. He was, of course, a Scotsman, as was the creator of John Bull, so I reckon Alex Salmond might have more right to wear it - upside down or otherwise - than the OP does!

[Ric.ror]

'A series of Hollywood stars, including Alan Cumming and Brian Cox, spoke out in favour of independence at the launch of the separatists’ referendum campaign in May.

However, the move backfired when it emerged none lived in Scotland.'

Love it

[Quizmonster]

Are you seriously claiming that people who do not happen to live in their native land at any given moment have no right to an opinion on what that country's future should be?
Those you mention are - according to the quote you offer - "Hollywood stars". Wouldn't it seem reasonable that they live in or near Hollywood or wherever else their film careers took them? Is a Scottish soldier serving in Afghanistan or a Scottish oil engineer working in Indonesia not allowed to air a view on Scottish independence?