Scotland. Tale of an elderly lady of the Clyde’s islands and the Polish beggar
Secret Scotland (which is a bit of an oxymoron assuming it’s a blog) in one post managed to create a special oxymoron… a fairy tale on a foundation of a news, but they got it all wrong… in the other hand it’s just a blog – link here.
The news part says:
(…) Polish was reported as now being the second language in half of Scotland’s school areas. Although totalling less than the number speaking Punjabi and Urdu as their first language, the Polish speakers are distributed across the country, while the others are concentrated in Glasgow and the West of Scotland.
then we learn that:
(…) many Polish workers that had come to Scotland were now deserting the country as their homeland was returning to prosperity. At the moment, the Polish economy is growing significantly faster than Scotland’s, and those who have returned are able to double and even treble their salaries.
That is all fine so far, even though it lacks source reference, but then comes usual prejudice and crap hits the fan.
(…) Interestingly, some don’t even bother to speak English (and this is not a blatant generalisation - only recounting two recorded incidents).
(…)In the first (dating from a year or two ago), (…) at (…) front door by shabbily dressed individual carrying rolled up (…) oil painting (…) and (…) on a scrap of paper (…) “I am Polish and cannot speak any English. I have no money and am trying to sell these paintings I have made. Please help me.”
(…)an elderly female resident of one of the Clyde’s islands reported that a group of Polish immigrants had knocked at her door and were carrying a sign asking for money.
(…) Consulting the police, these incidents were described as law breaking, and that there had been a number of arrests made in similar circumstance
Look fuck. I don’t care what you think. It’s your blog and this one is mine. I know that when you take ‘oxy’ from ‘oxymoron’ only ‘moron’ is left.
Don’t populate image of Polish being 100% illiterate. Get some spelling classes first and work on ‘totalling’ in particular.
It is a prejudice without justification, like saying “UK is a land of paedophiles and vanishing children”.
Time to wrap-up and history knocks at the gates…
Back in the 1940’s motherfucking Unions in Scotland (read :commies) were pushing Polish former servicemen fighting for them and Britain’s freedom in the WW2 to get back home ASAP - to country occupied by communists and likely for certain death… maybe even your elderly lady was one of the species.
In the 17th century we had 40,000 Scotts immigrating to Polish Kingdom for better life and we never sent them back. Some established families, respected and considered Polish for generations now…
I almost would have forgotten to mention a very curious reference. Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ Birmingham speech on immigration was allegedly trigged by a letter of an elderly woman abused by black immigrants.
What makes it so special about the old ladies in the UK?
Tags: beggar, beggars, elderly, elderly female, elderly lady, illiteracy, illiterate, paedophiles, poles, Polish, polish migrants, Scotland, uk paedophiles
April 11, 2008 at 12:17 am
If you can’t keep a civil tongue in your head, please don’t post bigoted comments to Secret Scotland, especially if you don’t care about the content.
All stories are taken from current news events, which may or may not be linked depending on the availability of a link, whether or not we have time to add the link, or even (at the moment) if the WordPress link option is functioning
If you care to look at the BBC News items for Scotland (which it is clear you are at least aware if) you will find archived there the news items the blog entry recounts. If you make a little more effort, you will also find news items online for the Isle of Bute, together with details of those concerned and the police involvement. This makes the items a matter of public record, and fair game for review.
I do not think an individual came to my door with a scrap of paper claiming they were Polish and could not speak English, he did! This is not hearsay or urban myth, it is fact. If you wish to take issue with someone, go find him and ask him if he really was Polish, or only impersonating someone Polish - I only recounted what the person at the door claimed.
Oh, and by the way, in Scotland, we Scottish/Polish halfbreed illiterates spell ‘totalling’ correctly, with the letter ‘l’ appearing twice in the centre, and not the using the bastardised Americanism that omits one, and only shows a single as the incorrect ‘totaling’.
“Happy Fieldhand” should undertake a review of its own entries before throwing out free spelling lessons, or referring to anyone else as ‘illiterate’
April 11, 2008 at 6:39 pm
I didn’t dare to comment on you blog. It would be waste of “bits and bytes” of such luminous example of xenophobia and selective presentation of facts.
I just posted a comment on mine instead and linked to you, it worked.
It’s you who come and comment here and it is me a plain Polish “fieldhand”, Eastern European publishing your comments without cuts. Freedom of speech.
This blog is for people like you. To make you all understand that we are not going anywhere. Some people are Polish get over it!
As to “bastardised Americanisms”. Well that’s the way I spell it, pal
and world with me… how do you feel at the chemist when you see “bastardised” COLOR and not COLOUR.
Empire is long gone, same intellectual and language influence of Britain.