Scots? Scousers? They all sound the same to me
Posted by Jack in Uncategorized, tags: knobheads, prejudice, strikes, Tories, unionsWhere would you say the man in the above clip comes from?
It doesn’t take a dialectologist to correctly guess he probably grew up in the Liverpool area. He’s Len McCluskey, assistant general secretary of the UNITE union, and the union official currently responsible for leading the BA cabin crew strike.
With the Tories desperate to try and make it look as if Labour is being run by the unions ahead of the election, and Labour desperate to try and out-Tory the Tories on looking anti-union, he’s someone who’s become a target for the right wing media. Both major parties care about the core of right wing voters from southern England who put Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair in power, and are keen to shit all over the working class to get their support.
But the Tory smear campaign took a turn for the bizarre this weekend, when Tory Vice Chairman Margot James attacked McCluskey for his “Scots accent”!
“On the airwaves all day yesterday, that familiar Scottish accent that we’ve come to associate with militant trade unionism.”
James is a millionaire former PR guru, and a prospective Tory candidate in the upcoming election. She also clearly has as much experience of talking to working class people from north of the Midlands as a monkey driving a bus.
TALKING.OUT.OF.ARSE.
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There is no single Scottish accent anyhow.
We need to reclaim Scots and increase the knowledge and not revert to speaking like the Tory here, which is what they are after by downing everything Scottish. A way to erase our identity. They hate Scots. With some minor work this lot won’t understand it, which is fine by me.
Nou spakis richt braid Scots leid the day! Doun wi aw thon lege-pouste Tory huirs!
*eyeballs melt*
Just, fuckin hell URGH. If this nostalgic hard on for blatant working class hatred and union blaming starts to encompass the old standby of any accent other than RP being acceptable I may have to mount a one woman angy letter writing campaign.
Bruce Wallace; dinnae think you’ll have much luck getting folk to use the -is genitive again
Tories must think there is a generic accent called “north” which applies to everyone outside the home counties.
Maybe I’ll draw a dialect map with big sweeping isoglosses.
Fuck it!!!
Just go with it!
John Lennon was a Jock…. I’m happy to go along with that.