As you can see, the wrapper is slathered with the Union Flag. And it's not just our daily bread: your sprouts may come from a supplier in Fife but they'll still be branded as coming from the UK, rather than Scotland. We have even reached the point where some supermarkets are branding as UK goods items that come almost entirely from Scotland - seafood, Scotch lamb and beef - and whisky, for example.
I have a few questions to ask about this outbreak of flags on the goods we buy in supermarkets. First of all, when did it happen that goods suddenly got covered in the Union Flag? And how is it possible that all the major supermarket chains - Asda, Tesco, Sainsbury, Morrison, M&S - started decorating their goods like this, and all at the same time? You don't suppose there could be any collusion between the supermarkets and the Tory government? Most if not all of them are supporters of the Tory Party. Or does it have to do with Brexit? Maybe it even goes further?
What point does this UK-branding intend to make? That the Union is alive and well and whatever the Scots may think with their wee pathetic parliament in Edinburgh, it's Westminster that's in charge?
I see it a bit differently: the wee parliament is doing pretty well. It's delivering what a lot of Scots want. It is led by a party I don't support (I'm a Green) but the party in power tends to listen to what other parties - and the people of Scotland - actually want. Maybe the wee parliament is being too successful. The best laugh of the week for me was the rush by politicians in the Northern Isles to claim credit for grants made to support inter-island ferries. But still the pro-independence parties keep on going on, taking Scotland in a direction damn near opposite to the way the Brexit-fueled UK is determined to go. Scotland wants a kinder, more civilised society - and it's not going to get it from Brexit.
Not that we can be complacent. The re-branding of supermarket goods is a lesson to us: the Unionists have a lot more power than the rest of us and we'll need to be pretty well organised to meet the unionist challenge in the second independence referendum.
By the way, 'pan breid' in Glasgow is also rhyming slang: pan breid = deid. That's how I for one see the Union Flag in Scotland.
Jean,Very well said. You cannae wack the heel of a Scottish Pan loaf, lathered wae butter and a big Dad o cheese. Seeing the loaf draped in the butchers apron has tainted the memory of something exclusively Scottish. The Unionists south of the border seem to be genetically programmed to take over anything that does not belong them. Whether it was the 66 countries such as India etc or destroying the Scots with their propaganda spouting BBC or STV and the unionist controlled newspapers.It makes my blood boil.
ReplyDeleteTime to sharpen claymore.