please sign my petition

[Braveheart]

By the way Grassfarmer, a small irony, you live just a few miles west of the boundary of Argyll municipality. The house of Argyll was one of the most aggressive lairds in The Clearances.

[grassfarmer]

Braveheart, "terrorism" wasn't a thing back then but I don't doubt that there were some murderers, cattle thieves etc that emigrated. We didn't catch them all and send them to Oz.

I don't doubt there are many, many genuine migrants trying to escape north Africa particularly. You can't write them all off as terrorists or extremists.

It's a good job the native Americans didn't pursue a "no immigrant" policy, lol.

[Braveheart]

They tried (First Nations). Too little, too late.

[hedgehog]

Thankyou everyone for your interest and understanding. This is a terrible time for us, but we have so many people who have supported us which is easing the burden.
The highland clearances happened because only one man decided who could reside on the land, the laird.This is the same exactly. He wants the farming subsidy to himself.
The worst clearances were in 1815 in strathnaver long before the potato
problem, in fact it was the loss of the highlanders grazings and arable in the clearances that forced them to depend on the potato on the miserable plots allotted to them.

[tweety]

Thank you very much grassfarmer