From today's English version of The Sun. Thankfully, like many with principles I don't buy this rag.
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This is how Scotland is seen in the largest part of the UK today. There’s nothing new about Scots being portrayed as “stealing” money rightfully belonging to England, of course, nor in the stereotype depicted by the Jimmy hat. It’s the word on the placard that tells the story: “immigrant”.
We are not like them. Not fellow citizens of the same nation, not respected partners and equals, but scrounging, wily, contemptible foreigners. Those of us who live in England may always have felt like visitors in another country, albeit in a much more benign sense. But in right-wing British tabloid newspapers, there’s no mistaking the tone intended by the word “immigrant” in 2015.
The cartoon is obviously a joke, just like Steve Bell’s week-long portrayal of Nicola Sturgeon and Alex Salmond as kilt-wearing, Highland-dancing Tory collaborators. But racist 1970s comedians calling foreigners “nig-nogs”, “wops” and “Chinkies” were joking too.
Jim Davidson, Bernard Manning and their ilk would have called Scots “Jocks”, but still considered us their countrymen. But our status in the eyes of a UKIP-driven England has fallen since then. To our increasingly xenophobic neighbours south of the border, we’re now outsiders. Alien parasites. The enemy within.
Even for those of us to whom the word “immigrant” isn’t a pejorative, it’s a chilling insight into how we can expect to be regarded and treated after this election is out of the way, should we choose to send to Westminster representatives whose first loyalty is to something other than Scotland.
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