What they Don't Say About Highland Clearance
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- The Highland Clearances seem like a relentlessly negative story of downtrodden victims. However there were small victories for poor Highland tennants. Scottish history tour guide, Bruce Fummey, tells the tale of the women of Coigach, and how they made a stand against the family with the worst reputations of all clearing landlords.
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You can tell the legacy of history by asking some simple questions.
Where have all the Highlanders gone? Where has the Scottish Gaelic language gone?
Where have the majority of unique Celtic cultural traditions of Scotland gone?
The English establishment and it's language and culture ...won history
How did yer gig in Hali go? Survived, at least, I see ;-)
It took me a few tries, but I finally worked out your shirt's English translation - "I hope you have a good day." Please stay safe [fuirich sàbhailte]and keep the educational videos coming.
Just down the road in gairloch the laird decided to help the tenants by introducing new farming methods,no one was cleared .the lairds descendant still lives here.
That is so good to know! 🙏🏴🇮🇪🙋👌⚖️
How's the Scottish gaelic language doing there?
@@penderyn8794 Still taught in the school and museum keeps it going .
Makes sense. Long-term it would’ve been proved the quality of the land I meant that down the road the landlord up the rents for the tenants but also it would improve the local economy because odds are the Lord would have property in the immediate villages and towns so which would increase the need for things like shops and other facilities resulting in the local economic boom.
The very least it would keep the rents coming in and his Lordship not having to deal with a bunch of angry people wanting to string him up by his privates . Plus solicitors are not cheap and I suspect for whatever his more spent on improving the land and helping the local tenants improve their yields was probably less long-term than he would’ve spent on solicitors fees and thugs kicking people off the land.
Fun and games would really come though during World War I when so many young men were shipped off to fight. I don’t think a lot of places have ever really recovered in terms of some locations in terms of population of locally men because so many were sorted.
For instance, the Scottish wildcat only survived because a lot of the keepers we shipped off to fight and those that were left were probably busy doing other things on the estate. Try to cover for the absence of so many people who would be working land reducing food and raw materials,
It will be interesting if Bruce made a video about that state and especially that period in World War I and World War II won so many of the young men were all fighting and the women had to stand step into what traditionally male roles. My own maternal grandmother worked in Vickers in Barrow ib llfurnace along with her sisters and countless of the young women because the young men got shipped to fight.
@@alistairjamesheaton9155as with the Rowntrees and Lord Leverhume not all the rich were just money grubbing horrors. They built solid houses and paid decent wages. Provided schools for the education of children. Funded other improvements as well. Ok they made money but the workforce was respected.
Alot were quakers. An underrated Christian sect.
I'm 23 and In my honest opinion, you are the best scottish history channel. I love your content and alot of young scottish people appreciate the work you do. Please continue educating scotland ❤
From the very North to the South of this United Kingdom,the class system has driven the very worst of government decisions,irrespective of nationality,at different times in history the working class British have been exploited to the enrichment of the Aristocrats, landed gentry and the Victorian industrialists,no better today,working folk of every creed and color have so much in common and yet too many seek to divide,we are and have always been the largest constituency!
Indeed, the concept of "race" simply being a deflection.
politics in itself is another form of division, you must choice one party and align your world view and values with them. We are the largest group of people in the world the working class have so much strength and those in charge know this hence why they decide to maniuplate us along these illusory lines
You know that the word United Kingdom isn't some fantasy internationalist word about uniting people.
It's a kingdom under one king or queen ... Which use violence to unite the whole Island.... And eventually invade huge of the world
We fought for better working conditions and pay in this country for decades, even after WW2 it was a constant struggle between unions and bosses. Blair, leader of a supposedly pro working class party stuffed the working classes, many unions were hijacked by liberal,globalist elites who brought in their own ideological friends. Media,charities and other institutions were also taken over by stealth. Many British workers were replaced by cheap foreign labour or agency staff. Today, nobody with a job is safe, wages are a pittance and conditions are borderline iffy. Thanks to all 3 political parties for screwing over the worker
Surely you mean the united kingdoms, of Scotland and England, as opposed to the singular
Lovely video as always Bruce. What you said about the police really hit home.
I am ex police for North Yorkshire and I went in with rosie tinted glasses on thinking I was going to help the world. My colleagues destroyed me mentally. The amount of knives in my back were countless and because of my age at the time I thought it was all my fault.
I am now 32 and over my policing experience and genuinely feel sorry for the good ones left in who want to do good. They are few in places.
I had never been bullied in my life until joining the police. Turned me into a border line alcoholic who was a nervous wreck.
Anyone still in who is thinking of getting out do it for your happiness. ❤❤❤
It's a shame that the bad cops cause good people to quit the job!
@@lindahouston5635 it is but I am sure things will balance out in years to come. There's good and bad in all walks, you should just cherish the good ones you happen to meet.
@@yorkshireaquatics9537 well said.
I did the same in the NHS. I would go above and beyond to make sure my work was "all present and correct". Like you found in the Police, there is whole lot of bad in the NHS despite people's perceptions. I am glad you got out and wish you well in whatever you are doing now. ♥️🏴
Telling the story of the police being seen as a threat or a weaponised threat was good analogy.
I reckon I would have been on the beach.
Same...I'd be on the beach ..
Me too
Proud pict. I'm that too 🙂
Crazy thing is the clearances continued up to and into the early 20th century in Shetland.
It just shows how well balanced an argument you can give, Bruce. Excellent video. As always, thank you for taking the time to share 🌞
Very welcome
History has always been written by the victor.
But, there's always two sides. What about the looser?
That's where Bruce's videos are far superior to many "historians" who only tell one side. Bruce at least tries to give a balanced view, makes the viewer think.
His videos aren't a historical lecture, in fact I often have more questions after his videos than I did at the start, because he makes me THINK, makes me question history, which is what we should always do
I absolutely love this story! What brave and good women!❤️❤️❤️
Sheros💃🏾
I saw a weaponised police force in the 80s, I will never forget or forgive it.
The miners in my village mine in St Helens could be seen giving the few coppers cups of tea and standing round the fire chatting. They thought there mine was safe because they had a brand new mine shaft lift system built. So the miners were going over to support the Yorkshire miners. When maggies bought and paid for police force who were about to attack. Police got 3 pay rises in three years 13% year later 12% third year 11%. Better pensions as well. Thatcher bought police loyalty to the Tory party. I had friends on both sides. But my loyalty is still with the miners.
Ps. The mine closed 3 years later. They said the mine was loosing money. It was the cost of the new shaft. But I had warned my friends to look for new jobs or trades to do night school.
I had photographed the plans for slide shows for the owners. None of the structure bolts were to be welded. It was very easy to dismantle and re sell. The mine is now a dog walkers site with a statue of a women’s head in white stone over looking the m62. The is no work in the village except a garage one corner shop a couple hairdresser and chemist. Never vote Tory.
@@garygalt4146 Are you suggesting a Labour Government would have handled it differently?
Today the police just arrest for thought crimes while violence is rampant... I think id rather go back to the days of The Sweeney...
Man.. Scotland/ highlands are incredibly beautiful…, 5 years we still missing it.
Another fantastic example of Scottish history Bruce. Always both sides to any story. Something that is often seen on the internet today. Keep up the good work. Look forward to your next posting.
Many thanks!
I 2nd that.
Hey Bruce, I love the eye level "STORIES OF SCOTLAND" ad banner as you walk in the little gift shop. Way to go!!! I wonder how many others noticed it...
I was told one of my Highland great-great grandfathers was given the choice of remaining on the land or being freed of his tenancy by working on the construction of the Caledonian Canal. He was off like a shot and ended up living in Inverness.
Could this include Thaibairn (so)? We’re Mackenzie McLeod here in New Zealand yet our ancestress held her ground against the land clearances 🧝🏻♀️🏴
As usual, there are two sides to every story. I love the part about the brave ladies. Hope they get their memorial. Thanks for another informative video.
I hope so too!
There are two sides..... The winners and the losers.
The English establishment was the ultimate winner
@@penderyn8794 corporate take over. After many years on political debate sites, hearing the same argument about Scotland being bankrupted in 1707, and to this day, I done a very quick check.
It certainly surprised me, I'd encourage everyone to look into it.
I checked on the national debt of both Scotland and England at that time How much was lost on the Darien expedition How much compensation was offered And of course the terms of the union.
History is indeed written by the victor.
A wonga loan would have been better, and cheaper, to pay off the losses from Darien, instead of accepting the corporate take over
John Prebble's book "The Highland Clearances" is excellent on this, he too emphasising the men's passive acceptance, whilst the women aggressively resisted. The book is a rather long in the tooth now, but it remains in print as an inexpensive paperback.
Strong Highland women with Pict blood running through thier views 💪
Proud of these strong women! ❤️❤️❤️
@@crofterlass3459whilst there’s undoubtedly some Pictish dna in most Teuchters there’s a higher percentage of Norwegian especially in the Hebrides, Ross, Sutherland and Caithness.
Yes i am aware @fearnpol4938
@crofterlass3459 I'd say it's got more to do with the fact that men got more severely punished back then and in some cases still do to this day.
Once in Aberdeen Scotland🏴 Remember seeing this area" on a little welcome center Map 🗺️It's like mohair cliff's here in Ireland. and the coastal line even seem the exact same . 🚢❤
I'm on the shoreline (but I have eyes in the boat)
Once you wrap your head around that, things get a bit easier to tolerate
I guess I’m in the shallow water. I’ve never found the police as a threat, but I would have supported the people on shore. Glad that the “little” people prevailed.
Greetings from Ireland ☘️☘️☘️
Wonderful stories...about real events. A very nice difference from the weirdness going on otherwise! Thank you Bruce!
You're a great story-teller Bruce...Look forward to meeting you in Montréal later this month
Wilhoit's law. Conservatism consists of exactly one preposition, to whit: There should be an ingroup that the law protects but does not bind and an outgroup that the law binds but does not protect.
“This quotation is often incorrectly attributed to Francis M. Wilhoit:
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.[10]
However, it was actually a 2018 blog response by 59-year-old Ohio composer Frank Wilhoit, years after Francis Wilhoit's death.” ( from Wikipedia)
The more things change, the more they remain the same.... I felt I had that original thought, turns out some French bloke got there first....Like I genuinely thought I came up with "There's never a mongoose around when you need one." Only to hear Niles Crane say it on a Frasier rerun. Which kind of makes the first statement true.......kind of. Thanks for posting.
Excellent video. Highlights how the problem is much more systems rather than individuals yet still recognizes that the consequences for those in more powerful positions are most often much lighter than for the less powerful. Also great at drawing modern parallels to policing today. A work of art
There is no sign of a Climate anything in the data on anything. But that's a long and involved discussion.
Interesting video Bruce, the law has always been on the side of money, as I've never had a lot of that I'd have been on the beach.
The law is written by those with money to protect themselves. That's why law came into being, so the criminals could legitimise their unwholesome actions. Then of course all other laws are a spin-off; to protect property, to protect employees, etc.
@@haraldtheyounger5504I think laws to protect workers meet with a lot of opposition from enterprise owners just as laws to protect the environment never have an easy passage.
@@Wee_Langside Yep, employees had to fight for their laws, and if/when possible, employers will circumvent such. Hence, Freeport's are a very bad idea as the companies operating such can make their own laws, rules. Seems to be the way Big Business is attempting to shift workers rights back into the 12th Century, not the 21st.
So, how are things lookin from the boat?
My great great (I think maybe add another great for good measure I can't quite recall) was involved in something her funeral notice called The Battle of the Gruinards, which as I've not been able to Google any references to may have been resistance to clearances or something to do with her activity in bootlegging.
I think that was in 1598
@@905royals that's an incident that took place on Islay, the one I'm talking is said in the newspaper announcement took place on the south bank of the Carron
My Grandfather was a Sutherland, and my Grandmother regaled me with stories about how during the clearance our family came to Canada and America.
"Can you put yourself in the minds of each group..." is such a powerful thing to say and I hope we can all step back from the brinkmanship of social media's digital mindset (i.e. it's either 1 or 0, wrong or right, the best or the worst, etc). Thanks Bruce, yer a guid loon
What a beautifully told story Bruce. And from the point of view of the women involved as well! That honestly takes a truly objective standpoint. Most members of the opposite sex can't do that (that means women too!) so I'm impressed! I was born into a family who would've been on the boat. As I grew older, I started to firmly stand with those on the shore! Now, as a senior citizen who has been wooed and badly hurt by both sides, I understand that we are all people who deserve to live a life, not just survive. Just surviving happens on both sides. This story is well over one hundred years old. It bothers me that not much has changed. The generation coming up is keenly aware of this. Perhaps they will finally do better. Folks like you and me raised them to believe in better. When that happens, the boat will bring welcome guests who will be greeted warmly on the shore! We all need each other. 😊
Let's hope for better days
It was good to hear about how the poor won, without blood, for what was right.
My family's been here in Ontario since the 1820s when my great-great-great-great grandfather was dispossessed in the Sutherland Clearances. Lost the land, kept the name. :) Those families founded Lanark and Renfrew counties here in the Ottawa Valley.
Bruce what can I say, Jesus Sir once again you have excelled yersel. Bruce you tell our story like no one else. Live long and prosper Bruce. SAOR ALBA GU BRATH
Ah thanks mate😘
The shopkeeper in the background has the most beautiful smile
Ty Mr Bruce.
Great video! Great history lesson! I like that you presented the story from different points of view. It helps us understand the complexities of the story. I wish your tour would come to the US!
Very interesting history. Thank you.
You have a way of diplomatically explaining the history of the stories in a rare way. I appreciate how you go about it - to few folk in the world will take into account both sides of any story.
Thanks so much
I think you should have a look at the "Ådalen shootings" in Sweden. Strikers shot by Swedish military because the strikers didn't want pay reductions... Have a look at "ådalen shootings".
I grew up knowing Captains Masterton and Beckman were bad people, and they were. My grandfather was there when it happened. It's a shameful part of Swedish history that will never be repeated again, not as long as people remember. There's a film from 1969: "Adalen riots". Have a look, if it's possible. I know you'd love it. There's a poem on the stone where the victims of the military were buried:
"Here rests
a Swedish worker
fallen in a time of peace
unarmed defenceless
Fusilladed
by bullets unknown
The crime was hunger
Never forget him"
Oskar Berggren, Erik Bergström, Evert Nygren, Sture Larsson (and Eira Söderberg, she was just a bystander, but bullets didn't care then, and they don't care now. Eira got her own stone).
Never knew any of that very sad
Interesting 👍🏼Thank you👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Thanks!
Thank YOU
Thanks
Thanks so much
The question is: who owned that land? Was it the ones who descended from the people who had been working that land for generations, or is it the ones descended from the people who owned the land for generations? And does legitimate land ownership change via a use of force? Because that is how the original owners from across the water got it. And that was how the people who worked the land for generations such as Mary and Stewart, et al got the land in the end. Who was in the right? Hard to say.
Excellent! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you sir
Been saying the same about blue, red and green for years! 🤠💚
If you want to do what's best for the people of Scotland you need to get independence first, then we can decide everything for ourselves.
🤔
And what is your pronoun?
Today, Glesga's green n white, Brucie!
I widnae ken, I'm in Canada
Is that the green of Hamza's mob ? What's his pronoun BTW ?
@@jcoker423Is this mob in the room with us now? Let’s get you back to bed granda.
I saw the show in Halifax! It was great to meet you, My ancestors were actually named Hay/Hunter...I had to look them up again... on closer inspection, of course, they were from Fife!!! 🤦♂
😂
Scots women have always influenced history. The most recent I remember, was the rent strike in Glasgow.
Why is there always a Cameron involved in conflict?
Now I’m not sure if I’m on the boat or on the land.. see I believe in the rule of law but I also believe the law can be wrong and it’s up to us to challenge it where it doesn’t make sense or is treating people in an unfair manner..
I think in this instance I’d probably be on the shore.. or possibly trying to get the two sides to sit down at the dock and talk.. hmm confusing
I love your stories…
My stories live you😘
The exception that proves the rule. It's the Exceptional people that Scotland needs today, as does everywhere else. Try looking in on Salvo and Liberation Scotland. They are free and non political research groups that have critical information about Scotland as a nation that will crack open the myth of the "UK".
Great work as always.
Thank you! Cheers!
My family of Mackenzie's ended up in Nova Scotia during these clearances. I've always wondered if our Catholicism played a roll in the clearances as well. Eastern Nova Scotia where i'm from is predominantly Catholic and originally highland Scots.
I liked your story about leafleting for the Greens, I remember handing out leaflets for Independence, must have been the same toff in the Barbour jacket 🤣 he said I will most certainly not be voting for you lot, I'm a unionist and I vote UKIP. I said, so you want your independence as well then? 🤣On a serious note, I'm just as pro Green as Independence.
Good to see you big man👊🏼
One sheep’s worth more than a highland score……
Oh aye the summer isles. Is Mr Iain Wace still doing work on tanera mor?
A wonderful story ❤ Our destiny is in our own hands 🏴🏴🇪🇺🇪🇺
Mon the Saints
C,Mon st.mirren
In the US, our Supreme Court has decided that our police have no intrinsic duty to protect. Let that sink in for a moment.
Good grief!
@@janetmackinnon3411 Right?
Is that Gaelige written on your hoody ? 😂
Gàidhlig - Gaeilge is Irish.
My 15 time great grandfather is King James 2 king of Scotland
Bruce your number 1 after the big yin he is ma fave.
Ah thanks
Perspective; Hadrians Wall, barricade or defense?
I don't think the right and wrong mattered to these people. Not having the land could mean starvation and death. They knew this. That was the motivation that mattered
Great job Sir ,,, I like the video,, freedom for Palestine 🇵🇸
Freedom from political islam would do them far more good. It was never a nation state under the Ottomans & their forefathers & mothers rejected the chance to have one & then lost territories in a war started by Arab nations who asked them to move out whilst they sorted the Jews out. Didnae work oot for them so they started a campaign of violence & exported it abroad. Not forgetting all the land that Arabs sold to Jews whose ties with region date far further than the apply named Philistines as the Romans called them & they were outsides who moved in to grab lands that the Romans removed the Jews from. Israel is far from perfect, yet that does't stop the 20% of Israeli Arabs preferring living in Israel to all the surrounding nations. It is also ludicrous when too many out there call the present conflict ethnic cleansing, some cleansing when your population goes from 700,000 to close to 7 million in 70 years.
I see you are yet another flag waver on social media, for all the good it ever does you or other flag wavers.
@@KeithWilliamMacHendry That's not entirely honest there, Keith.
Whilst it's true that in 1922 the British Mandate of Palestine had a population estimated to be as small as 750,000, 4/5ths of which were muslim, by the time any significant number of Zionists had moved to the area British accounts have the Muslim population of Palestine at over 1,000,000 (1945) and when Israel was created as a nation-state out of that British occupied territory, as many as 1,300,000 muslims considered "Israel" home.
More importantly, you're either woefully ill-informed or being exceptionally hypocritical to highlight that supporters of Palestine deployed and exported violence in desperation to achieve their goals; Have you never heard of Irgun, Palmach, Lehi or Haganah? These organisations pre-date the atrocities that would come in Europe, even.
The truth of the matter is that anti-semitism, to use that most incorrect phrase for anti-jewish sentiment, was as present on these islands as it was in central Europe, and that there were many on Britain and Ireland who saw the relocation of their Jewish populations to the Levant as a convient solution to their own "Jewish Problem"...
It seems that little has changed, even today.
@@KeithWilliamMacHendry...
Agreed
Great story Bruce, and very well thought through (as usual). Good on you for voting Green too, brother!
Thank you kindly!
I like your stories Bruce. I like hearing you talk even more. It's like hearing my grandparents speak once again.
I love what you shared here about your Green party experience. You are a gem, Bruce. Thank you!
My father is, now retired, cop, my mother a lawyer. I still do the mental check to see if I did anything wrong when I see a Police officer or vehicle.
Keep away from the kiddy porn then.
I'm completely surprised that there would be Highland clearance activity still happening as recently as the mid-1800s. Even after watching so many of your videos it still is hard to imagine that the British still endeavored their best to move as many Scotts from their own land as possible. Part of me still wants to say it couldn'tve happened.
For that matter I'm even more surprised that such activity would have gone on during the reign of Queen victoria. I mean by all outward appearances and according to modern historical leanings one would get the idea that both her and Albert were much more progressive thinkers than that.
So, why would they also in turn want to foster and put forth such egregious activity?
4:01 Oh no! The landing party has arrived! Is there gonna be a confrontation?? (Behind you to the right.)
EDIT: 4:51 It's just one man, and his dog.
do a vid on the seven ill years..never mentoined in scottish history but very sad time
Well, as a descendant of the Clearances, did my Great X 4 Grandparents have more opportunities in America? Maybe, maybe not.
What does your shirt say?
scotland-history-tours.creator-spring.com/listing/larger-gaelic-language-hoodie
Wow, that was a lot of "McLeods" and you weren't even talking about Skye.
Well Bruce, thanks for another great video, but in a lot of ways we here in America went through the same sort of thing, when the people who came from the other side of the pond came here all was fine for awhile, then things change when these new people decided to start running off the local Indian tribes, because they said they had the right to the land, and that's what started in what the Indians loosing the land and put on reservations, but they fought back time and time again and the federal government sent the army's to go after them and round them up and to put them in their place, but it was on that fateful day in 1876 when a arrogant man by the name of Gen. Custer when out into the plains of Montana where I live, but what he didn't expect that there were over 15,000 Indians waiting for him and he and his command were whipped out, so you can kinda see how one group was right and so was the other.
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I'm sure some of the police must be nice buggers, but I've only ever seen them either being used against my family and friend. Or being bloody useless when we've asked for help.
Colonialism isn't pretty...... 😂
Hullo
Morning.
Hola
Thank Bruce!
Very welcome
@@ScotlandHistoryTours I loved the personal bit, sounded just like myself. Better still, asking us to consider both sides of history instead of choosing a side. That is what we need now here in USA...time will tell🙀
I've noticed that nobody descended from the nobles who did the evictions ever brags about it.
Why would they?
@@ScotlandHistoryTours Given the long memory of most Scots, it's probably to keep from getting their arses kicked.
Bruce did you have fun in Nova Scotia?? Bruce and Crew this was really what I wanted. As a West Coast girl I love every west coast around the world its wavy Rrr. I truly feel you answered a requests of my a few years back , about more female stories of Scottland So thats the West Coast Female heros plus a great place to hang. Thats a 3 in one vid. I just love that style that you do. Huggies everyone & a Kiss to Bruce
Love the Greens .
I fought the law... and i won...!!!
😘
The Scottish Greens, eh? Pity they no longer seem interested in environmental policies. They'll come to regret that at the next elections.
Of all the daft political kneejerk comments on this, there's sadly an element of truth to this one
@@ScotlandHistoryTours Lol, I think there's a back-handed compliment in there somewhere so I'll take it. FWIW, they've had my vote in the past, I'm not criticising you.
@@ScotlandHistoryTours And your pronouns ?
Tapadh leat Bruc
A'reyt Bruce. The story of folk leaving the land and finding new lives has happened elsewhere, but it was the force used in the clearances that you made clear, with great background views, as usual. What about Dundee United fans though? Nieve on StuntPegg did a walk from Dundee's ground to demonstrate the closeness of their rivalry. She does some good videos, which I commented were almost as good as yours sometimes.
I'll have to look her up
So close you had Dundee Utility
I'm not one for confrontation, but as a proud dyed-in-the-wool peasant, taking a side is a no-brainer. Even today, I tend to see the police as a club in the hands of the privileged, not as a force for justice or for my protection.
Hello Bruce🌷🕊
Hello 👋
Bruce. I think my position on the rozzers has moved away from Mr Barbour Jacket (I don't think I was ever that "entitled") and fully towards to other end of the spectrum.
Funny that you're touring Canada which still retain the military police (you mentioned military force), the RCMP, a legacy of Empire. Wheras Britain doesn't/didn't have a military police. The mounties have lost their shine of late...can't think why for a moment 😉
Greens are a let down
Just wanted to say I drove 3 hrs from Cape Breton to New Glasgow for the night to see Stories of Scotland and it was amazing. My wife and I loved it, my only regret is not sitting closer to the stage. Not like it helped me hide in the end anyway, the technical guy left a light on directly above us in the second half.
😂 Were you Superman? Hopefully next visit I'll manage to get a show sorted in Cape Breton. I loved it there
@@ScotlandHistoryTours yes that was me, same guy who's wife was looking at pics of her new grandbaby at intermission and forgot to shut it off 😆. I am glad you enjoyed Cape Breton and I would be dragging my friends for their own good if you ever have a show there.
@@caperknightMan, he has been on 3 miles down the road and I never thought I would enjoy it.
Maybe I'll get another chance.
I take no sides, I won't be a prisoner of any man's truth. That's what all sides want, to attain prisoners isn't it?
All it takes for evil to triumph, is for feckless moderates to stand by and do nothing.
By ' betters' do you mean lackeys of the 'given ' landowners. Who gave them the land??
I should have thought it was clearly an ironic title for the nobility
@@ScotlandHistoryTours Clearly spoken like a true lackey, he said ironically
@@michaelbolger745 Aye, right😁😁
Those Skye videos you did are amongs your best. Everyone, if you havent seen them, do!
An interesting one in the sense of your story about them or is. It seems that there are many battles between them and us yet are very much the minority, yet those small battles after the majority that are on neither side as it has nothing to do with them. I’m one of those that grew up with the police always being somewhere else. Yet knowing if I did bad I could be visited by them. Not by what others said or done but by my own actions and being caught. I think there are many like us. Being called upon to take sides of those minority groups that need the support from the majority. And this is exactly how the Green Party got their power. A minority of people needing the majority whom had no real interest in what their politics are. And that’s why we see Scotland where it is today. Lending our vote to people we have no real idea about. As the saying goes. There’s 3 sides to every story. Mine, there’s and somewhere in the middle.
sometimes difficulties seem insurmountable but they turn out for the best, it was horrible and in humane however many Scots went to the new world and prospered, the cream always rises to the top!
Except for the ones who didn't survive the voyage of course, and there were plenty of those
If you compare the specific gravity of cream to that of turds, you will find the turds float on top of the cream. So true in life...