Re: Life in the UK: A Journey To Citizenship


<ib011f9545i@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schreef in bericht
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the description of the Young gay French speaking Catholic pretender's
supporters as being mainly "catholic tribesman" seems fair comment to
me,

No. Many were their because their Chief or landlord called them out. It
wasn't a war between branches of the Christian Church, english vs scots or
anything else that simple. It was about a couple of men who each thought
they should be running the country and didn't care who died as long as they
got their way. It was about people who honestly believed in one cause or the
other and thought they had the right to kill to impose their belief on
others. And the others who saw soial, political or financial gain from being
on the winning side and didn't care who died as long as they got what they
wanted. And on both sides, as always, were the foot soldiers (in this case
on the scots side mostly subsistence farmers who had to turn out when the
boss called as a condition of their rent for their homes) who turned out
because they had to. No doubt there were plenty of other reasons.
Lesley Robertson


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