An Gorta Mór the memory of the Genocide

[Bridie Bhoy]

Think I saw somewhere there was a famine in Scotland also no idea if at same time as what happened to the Irish bit is there any truth in Scottish famine and connection??

The potato blight affected crops in the highlands too. Tatties made up a huge % of daily food intake for the poor highlanders and it could have resulted in a huge number of deaths here too. But there was a campaign to help them in the cities and food & provisions were sent up to feed them.

 

[Cairnsybhoy79]

The potato blight affected crops in the highlands too. Tatties made up a huge % of daily food intake for the poor highlanders and it could have resulted in a huge number of deaths here too. But there was a campaign to help them in the cities and food & provisions were sent up to feed them.

Cheers bridie so the Highlands was a natural disaster type thing so they got help? Which makes wot they done to the Irish even more sinister if it cud get any worse they wurnae willing to help them were they bastards tried to wipe them out

 

[DILLIGAF]

Tatties iz the Bhoys
I read that there were about 100,000 deaths attributed to the Scottish potato famine

 

[Tarzan Trombone]

there was especially in the areas that were later highland clearanced

Wasnt quite as bad as ireland because the people were not quite as dependent on the potato

But it was horrific everywhere that British and the capitalist markets generally forced the cheapest foodstuffs on the weakest in society

which was imported potato plants from america

was plenty of food

was plenty of corn

just people with no money couldnt buy it at its prices which were fixed high by authorities

the areas of scotland affected were more likely to be protestant so more likely to get help from national church institutions and theisland folk still had access to sea foods

whig laisez faire|( best policy is not to interfere in markets that have failed) especially if the people starving are not "peepo" let them grow food in the bogs

if you dont own capital you dont get hand out from state

if you catholic you are restricted to jobs you can get

which usually means you need the cheapestfood which was the imported potato plants

and the blight was world wide

but only in the richest part of the world did millions of people die from the starvation

 

[Tarzan Trombone]

there was especially in the areas that were later highland clearanced

Wasnt quite as bad as ireland because the people were not quite as dependent on the potato

But it was horrific everywhere that British and the capitalist markets generally forced the cheapest foodstuffs on the weakest in society

which was imported potato plants from america

was plenty of food

was plenty of corn

just people with no money couldnt buy it at its prices which were fixed high by authorities

the areas of scotland affected were also protestant so more likely to get help from national church institutions and theisland folk still had access to sea foods

whig laisez faire|( best policy is not to interfere in markets that have failed) especially if the people starving are not "peepo" let them grow food in the bogs

if you dont own capital you dont get hand out from state

if you catholic you are restricted to jobs you can get

which usually means you need the cheapestfood which was the imported potato plants

and the blight was world wide

but only in the richest part of the world did millions of people die from the starvation

while irish starved british owned ireland exported more food for profit than would have fed the dying by multiples of times

it was murder not an accident

state authorised destruction of non peepo who they couldnt care less died.

it was all part of the theory of hedonism/sadism which was called utilitarianism

how much money does is cost?
if it costs more than the benefit then sometimes letting people die is the cheapest way to solve the blight

 

[Tarzan Trombone]

while irish starved british owned ireland exported more food for profit than would have fed the dying by multiples of times

it was murder not an accident

state authorised destruction of non peepo who they couldnt care less died.

it was all part of the theory of hedonism/sadism which was called utilitarianism

how much money does is cost?
if it costs more than the benefit then sometimes letting people die is the cheapest way to solve the blight

a similar example of utilitarianism in practise involved a big motor company

they found out that an innovation was faulty and that so many of their cars would explode and kill the owner

instead of recalling all

they worked out the compensation for the people who were killed or badly burned was cheaper than recalling and fixing all the cars which might explode

THE FORD PINTO CASE:

utilatarianism

everything has a cost
therefore everything can be put in a pecking order of necessity

thereforeeverything can be ordered according to its worth

even human lives wherethey have no real power to get monetary compensation for their destruction

and imo

its probably the main reason the elite in uk want out of eu and its higher court

because poland are being forced to compensate people who had their property confiscated by nazi regime

british cant be paying for their worldwide destruction and theft of property and human lives

 

[Tarzan Trombone]

This is how famine forever changed Scottish history

FAMINE has had huge effects on Scotland. The sheer lack of food caused by the failure of crops has on more than one occasion changed the history of…

www.thenational.scot

 

[Tarzan Trombone]

The potato is not a natural food in uk

But british regime realised its cheapness made it ideal for the non peepo categories of humanity

therefore imported it and made sure the non peepo couldnt afford the food they grew for their masters tables

ireland had huge surplas of food during the famine

but it didnt make any money feeding it to the indigenous people of the island who had been forced to eat their cheaper import plants through organised repression

there was a huge kick up about the corn laws artificially keeping bread prices too high

which eventually led to the perterloo maracres in manchester

so it was a whig political pillar (and whig policy is identical to orange order policy, think every single whig mp was high ranking orangeman)

and all whigs detested non peepo

 

[Tarzan Trombone]

After realisation whig were liberal for rich and conservative against non peepo

the labour movements started

and whig party changed names to liberal party

and the great switcheroo in politics started to take place, imo

and an interesting connection between orangeism and liberalism still exists in their favourite tune, ironically stolen from the marching through georgia song about defeating the confedarate liberal democrats in us civil war

see if you recognise the tune