If ever there was a nation on earth that should be celebrating it's culture, sport, arts, heritage & tourism it is Scotland, a nation fully part of Great Britain yet having it's own unique identity visitors from all over the World love to embrace.

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The key cultural elements are embraced in its symbols and attire that includes the kilt that has distinctive patterns related to the clans and what greater sight can there be for the visiting tourist to witness a pipe band dressed in distinctive tartan marching along the street of our great Scottish towns and cities? It is our view however that with lockdowns and controlled medical interventions that all of this has come under attack over recent years and it is our intention to be proactive in seeing this area thrive again.

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Scottish food is renowned globally with the mystery of the haggis, the carefully distilled Scotch whisky from peat laden rivers, succulent shortbread, and Scotch pies with their distinct flavour.

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Further to all this are our traditions and events, the Highland Games so loved by all including the Royal Family at Braemar. These games include caber tossing and Highland dancing, lively Ceilidhs that traditionally are unannounced and just happen with folk music and dancing. Scotland embraces it clans with regular gatherings bringing representatives of the clans from all over the world.

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All of this is commonly linked to specific local areas, there needing therefore to be local councils who understand the heritage as part of their culture. This cannot be achieved by far off regional councils so local areas again with original county councils will see these areas flourish and grow.

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Music and the arts are so much part of our culture with choirs, fiddle orchestras and pipe bands. In addition to this Scotland has produced famous contemporary bands from the Bay City Rollers to Runrig! In addition we can claim who has become known as the "Cockey Scott" - Rod Stewart!

 

Great literary figures too like Robert Burns and Walter Scott are renowned all over the world and so we need to look forward too and local encouragement for new writers and musicians needs to be given.

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In the area of sport rugby and football are the big areas shared in the Highlands with shinty. Rugby has traditionally been associated with the Scottish Borders providing a disproportionate amount of players to the national team whose home ground is at Murrayfield in Edinburgh. The Scottish Heritage Party is consious if upholding the history of these great sports alongside many others including athleticss and the sports that contribute yo the great many Highland Games in our nation.

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​It is not the place of government to interfere with the way football is played in our country, but with such an important national institution affecting millions of our people, can we not ask about the suppression of two colossal football clubs in our country that should be playing other colossal clubs in the UK just as Welsh clubs do.

 

The Scottish Heritage Party does not support regulation as legislation is going through the Westminster Parliament for England and Wales, but does support liaison that can bring about successful leagues across the UK and that includes Scotland being represented right at the heart of UK football rather than being isolated as at present.

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We should also be giving opportunity for other clubs to grow like Aberdeen, Hearts and Hibs and compete too at a higher level than at the present.

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Strathearn Strategic Consulting provide us with some statistics:

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At a glance

• For the financial year ending 2018 the Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL) generated revenues of £37.2 million, up 7% from the year before, while the English Premier League generated £3.18 billion in revenue.

• Celtic’s turnover, £101.6 million, was more than the other 11 Scottish Premiership clubs put together and almost 3 times higher than the SPFL league revenues.

• In the 2017/18 season the lowest earning EPL team (West Bromwich Albion) earned £23 million more in revenue than the highest earning SPFL team (Celtic) and £92 million more than the second highest earning team (Rangers)

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We can only make suggestions to football authorities but what is worth more and of greater interest:

CELTIC v LIVERPOOL or CELTIC v ST MIRREN?

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It is the policy of the Scottish Heritage Party to ask questions only, not to legislate, but surely it does not take a lot of working out to say that our great Scottish clubs deserve better, and surely being an equal partner in the UK should mean equal access to revenues, so if the Welsh can enter the Premier League, then why not Scotland with its potentially much bigger clubs?

 

The Scottish Heritage Party will be proactive when it comes to at one hand maintaining the traditions of Scottish football clubs encouraging understanding of the past and religious histories of clubs particularly those of Roman Catholic and Protestant heritage. Both these traditions encourage forgiveness and understanding, and it is with this heart we believe Celtic and Rangers can be fully part of an enhanced Premier League without incidents of sectarian misunderstandings.

 

It is with this determination that we offer the people of Scotland a prosperous and peaceful future protected from global ideologies that look to de-stabilize all western countries. In government we will not allow this to happen in Scotland.

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To conclude we cannot discuss sport in Scotland without golf for it originated here at St Andrews, and it is a joy to regularly have the Open Championship on our shores and we fully support moves to bring the Open back to Turnberry on the Ayrshire Coast, one of the finest links courses in the World. This ia all part of our culture and history which we believe has been undermoned by the SNP-Green Alliance for Scotland does not look like Scotland anymore, undermoined by a globalist agenda, our determination with the restoration of local councils is to make our nation Scottish again playing a leading role in the UK, with our great history and landcape.

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We are a unique nation with a distinctive scottish dialect and language from Celtic and Norse histories, we having before devolution separate legal and banking systems which we will embrace wholst still being fully part of the UK which will again be known as Great Britain.

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