The assumption of English moral turpitude is an ingrained tic in nationalist circles. Both SNP members and senior figures in the party jab constantly at England’s opposition to immigration and racist and imperialist attitudes. This of an England which has, proportionately and of course absolutely, by far the largest population of immigrants and their descendants in the British Isles. The three most senior members of the present Conservative cabinet – Chancellor, Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary – were born respectively to an immigrant Muslim, Hindu and (part) Jewish family. Yet overheated rhetoric and assiduous cultivation of a latent anti-Englishness is essential to a party and government whose pitch rests on apparently slender grounds for nationalist arousal.
The SNP Evil in Scotland Part 32
