Excellent stuff as ever, Bruce. Some Scottish folk might disagree with an Englishman, but my view is that the working classes of both Scotland and England have been treated like crap over the centuries. We only have what we have now because people have fought for it.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 ай бұрын

Of course

@Sandwich13455

2 ай бұрын

Absolutely,I remember reading about the treatment of Africans picking cotton and the white working class children ripped to pieces on looms processing the cotton,the peterloo massacre, Ireland,the Scottish clearances,scots miners etc!who are these "elites"?

@anthonyferris8912

2 ай бұрын

I think you'll find the UK is hardly unique.

@user-st7wb3yf3d

2 ай бұрын

The world over. By the way, we don't just disagree due to Nationality.

@Sandwich13455

2 ай бұрын

My comments are being ethnically cleansed from the comments section !

this is becoming a world wide issue, as long as there are 100 of us

Boy, do I agree with that. I knew you'd say that at the end. It matters a lot. They are unlikely to use a physical axe, but the tactics and strategy to get the money into the 'right' hands are the same. We still have one way to help stop it. We can still vote. In our own country, please.

@viperscot1

2 ай бұрын

Agree remember they can take your citizenship away so making you a nobody a nothing

@rolandhawken6628

2 ай бұрын

If voting changed anything they would soon stop voting

As a former NUM official and trade union official for unison unite ect I have been fighting and warning that our very limited rights are under threat. This video shows that very little changes unless people stand up and fight. They will take your rights away, and blame you 🫵. History it's a circle.

@jesusislukeskywalker4294

2 ай бұрын

get involved bro 🎤🐥

@Bigtimecharliepotatoes

2 ай бұрын

Feds

@dalestaley5637

2 ай бұрын

Oligarchs are running things. Imo Tories are fascists now. In bed with Russia.

@viperscot1

2 ай бұрын

Hi been warming people about your rights since the Tories came to power in 2015 ,warned about leaving the EU would affect your rights keep up with your work I will with mine

@sixbass4491

2 ай бұрын

​@viperscot1 100%, Blair's government also had a lot to answer for with loss of rights and intrusive laws but at least we gained significant rights and protections via the EU. I'm glad that I left 10 years ago and am now a Dutch national, it's shocking to see what's happened over there and very sad to see after serving the country you were born in. I will certainly raise a glass if Scotland ever gain independence.

Very thought provoking Bruce, Scotland can do better than that...

Thank you very much for speaking up, Bruce. I love your work & I'm very glad to see that you're not scared off by the disgusting politics & attacks on our liberties that we're lumbered with

important freedoms get pulled back regularly.its quite scary

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 ай бұрын

😢

@anthonyferris8912

2 ай бұрын

And then they surge ahead of any pullback.

@EQOAnostalgia

2 ай бұрын

Our gov are all globalist satanic bastards.

Totally agree Bruce. We’re headed for something that’s not good and I fear for my children and theirs. All the best. 🇦🇺🇦🇺

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 ай бұрын

😢

@fredgillespie5855

2 ай бұрын

And the "something not good" will come regardless of who is (pretending) to run the country. The strings are being pulled from elsewhere in case you haven't noticed.

@brendanleach4735

2 ай бұрын

@@fredgillespie5855 Oh I’ve noticed and it’s the whole world not just Scotland.

@r.williamcomm7693

2 ай бұрын

Many here in the US agree that we’re heading for something that’s not good & fear for our children as well. It feels like we’re all trapped in a bus that’s driving towards a cliff & being told there’s no way to steer nor apply brakes.

@rolandhawken6628

2 ай бұрын

Here speak the voice of fear and anger

How it grieves me, Mr. Fummey, that this is happening today. I, too, see this as the way things are trending, and fear that the last beheading on British soil will soon not be the LAST beheading on British soil. Because the powerful think that "rights" are what the strong give to the weak, and if they are opposed, they often feel that bloody constraint is what must follows. The trend you speak of is happening across the ocean, as well. Because the powerful are the same everywhere.

@DonBean-ej4ou

2 ай бұрын

Wasn't Lee Rigby in Britain?

Thank you for this important & extremely timely video. As a friend “across the pond” in America, there is a roll back on civil & human rights taking place around the world. Thank you, sir, for shedding light on this critical issue.

In the 1980s I was a young conservative. I cheered when the miners were defeated. In the last month, at age 57, I've become a union rep fighting for safety and equality in my workplace. My mind was slowly changed by personal experience, by the news and by historians telling the stories of the past. We must believe minds can be changed and allow space for that to happen. Thanks Bruce.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 ай бұрын

True

@markrainford1219

2 ай бұрын

@@ScotlandHistoryTours It wasn't the miners who were defeated. It was Scargill and his kremlin masters.

@bunk95

2 ай бұрын

Cheerd for performing slave labor? Are you sure?

@colincampbell4261

2 ай бұрын

​@@markrainford1219Nonsense snowdrop

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 ай бұрын

It was the whole working population. The miners were just a stepping stone to zero hours contracts and much else

People being arrested for standing silently in the street as well Bruce…

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 ай бұрын

😢

@eamonnclabby7067

2 ай бұрын

​@@ScotlandHistoryTours...very prescient and sobering, given what has emerged in Russia...cheers ..E..😮

@bunk95

2 ай бұрын

Arrests are fictional. Do you use that fiction in attempts to cause/to cause behavior? Are you being kept as a slave until death because of behavior such as that?

@anthonyferris8912

2 ай бұрын

But not if they demonstrate for Gaza.

@mauricefrost8900

2 ай бұрын

@@bunk95I can confidently say that I don’t have a clue what you are trying to communicate

Excellent and powerful video. Thought provoking in these times when Human Rights are targetted on a regular basis by our own government

Jings Bruce! Your videos are always great, and often thought provoking, but now and again you come out with a belter. This is one of those.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 ай бұрын

Wow, thanks!

We, unfortunately, are told lies constantly by our politicians would be great if they actually had to be held responsible for these lies...

@Tijuanabill

2 ай бұрын

They are accountable. On election day. But so many people are tribal partisans, that you can't get the entrenched politicians out of office, because they won't vote for another party, even for just one election, to get the guy out.

Some say that history doesn't repeat itself but it does rhyme. Thank you for this video! It shows that the struggles of the past have been reborn and battles that were fought and won now have to be fought again. It sure does sound like the past! Bruce, your history lessons are important and in this case, very relevant today!

@joanhoffman3702

2 ай бұрын

And it rhymes badly!

@canaan5337

2 ай бұрын

Pretty sure that’s a Mark Twain quote.

The current situation is why you fight against a surveillance state. We have the same problem here in the States

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 ай бұрын

😢

Bruce, once again you have produced a gem. This is proper history, not simply stories of stirring battles between large armies, over regents’ whims. The Industrial Military Complex, first described by President Eisenhower, has been alive and well in Great Britain for centuries. Ably abetted by numerous Scots. And your comments about watching Strictly broke my heart; because they were true.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 ай бұрын

Aye

@anthonyferris8912

2 ай бұрын

Back WW2, some in Europe were probably relieved that was the case.

@resourcedragon

2 ай бұрын

@@anthonyferris8912: I think most of us would see WW 2 as a bit of an exception to the usual wars.

Fantastic video with a great message that is so important to the health of our democracy

On this topic although from North West England near me on the moors is the Hunger Walls, which are dry stone walls, that were built in exchange for food, they were made around this time and again during the Potato Blight.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 ай бұрын

😢

I eagerly await the day the spirit of Freedom stirs the Free People to action. We’ve all given too much ground from generation to generation. There can only be so much pressure before the inevitable eruption. I pray that is soon.

Freedom and equal rights for all !

There is also thoughtcrime coined by George Orwell in his book 1984, but it is now an actual crime in the UK 7th March 2023. Clause 11 (formerly Clause 9 then Clause 10) of the Public Order Bill could criminalise any form of “influence” outside of abortion facilities - including in the form of silent prayer. Whether or not, you agree to use it in the case of abortion facilities, it does open the door for its use elsewhere!

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 ай бұрын

😢

@jaystevens1965

2 ай бұрын

...and a couple of years ago there was the case of the former police officer (whose name unfortunately I can't remember) who had a visit from his old comrades in order to "check [his] thinking".

Steady on, Bruce, the year is still young.

Great history well told. Shared.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 ай бұрын

Thank you

Another excellent video Bruce. Inspirational indeed👍

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 ай бұрын

Many thanks

Great point at the end. We are a nation of half-boiled frogs, if people had known what life would be like in Britain in 2024 when Thatcher started stripping away our rights, they'd have burned down the House of Commons.

@anthonyferris8912

2 ай бұрын

Like the record levels of unemployment. Oh, hang on!

@mikeoglen6848

2 ай бұрын

Well, we don't seem to have "Unemployment" today, do we? We find ourselves with a massive shortage of labour...@@anthonyferris8912

Bruce, Superb video. Thanks for showing how history isn’t just boring stories in dusty books. History is connected to our experiences every day.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 ай бұрын

True dat

Lovely to hear from you Bruce.Love from UK.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 ай бұрын

I live in UK

We're seeing more of these kinds of things even here in America. Recently 3 men who had been arrested and convicted for a plot to kidnap the Governor of Michigan had their convictions overturned because it was discovered that more than 20 FBI agents did all the planning, purchasing and recruiting, illegally entrapping 3 men that they had duped into a scheme they would not have thought up on their own.

@bunk95

2 ай бұрын

Fiction is being used to market humans slaves, what they’re forced to do and where they are?

@israelizzyyarrashamiaak766

2 ай бұрын

Is that what happened January 6 because that video of CCTV sure looks like it was a major scheme of illegal activities on the part of the capital coppers! What really happened there?

Great wee informative vid Bruce aw the best 👍

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 ай бұрын

Thanks 👍

interesting stuff !!!.... gawn yersel big man.

You hit the nail on the head more and more are seeing but its worse than people think

Your warning resonates with your viewers across the pond, as well. Thanks.

Thank you for discussing important topics Bruce.

Bruce, I bow to your sincerity and your knowledge mate!! A brilliant and prophetic piece was that...

Sadly this is so true and we are still moving in that direction. Let's hope it never gos backwards again. And we enshrine in law that we never do. Watching this world were you could vote and suddenly have an elected dictator. With freedoms and people jailed for having different political views. Democracy is a fragile thing. It dose not stay like that. Its threatened by others who want power. Let's hope people will wake up to that threat. Not just in nations over seas. But also at home. With even our own wee parliament now being questioned by some and others. Thanks again Bruce. For making people think. If nothing else it wakes people up and ti think how close we and others are to losing our own freedom. To a dictator in waiting.

@fredgillespie5855

2 ай бұрын

Democracy without individual rights is a dangerous thing.

I have just recently become interested in Scottish History. I’m 73 years old, born and raised in Texas in the USA. I learned some things about Scotland in my world history classes in school. I have always been told that my ancestry was England. Some time ago I had my dna analyzed by a couple of places and discovered that I am somewhere I the neighborhood of 50% Scottish. So I am studying more about Scotland and my heritage. I appreciate your channel. Thank you!

I'm 49 English not proud of some of our past We can only learn from our mistakes ..even more so when they are as truly wrong as in this and many more cases. I truly believe in peace love and unity .man woman and child should all be counted and as equals . May no other brother and or sister has to die for the Couse. Further more I've just found this channel and will be doing a bit of a dive so to my brothers and sisters as one peace and always much love ❤

Great video Bruce, I live I Stirling and never knew this stuff.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 ай бұрын

Glad to help

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Love all your videos Bruce, but especially well done for this one 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 ай бұрын

I appreciate that!

Bravo Bruce! Well said and sung mate. We need to all ‘face the music and dance’ to the upholding of our democratic rights. I’m sure Irving Berlin would have approved of your use of his tune. Looking forward to the album! Cheers, Pete Hobart

Your final summary was quite chilling. I have always thought I have NO right not to vote. However, in the next election (British general election) I will not be voting FOR anyone but I will be voting AGAINST.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 ай бұрын

Aye, in a first past the post system that's what most of us do

@gyorkshire257

2 ай бұрын

At least in Scotland you've got the SNP to vote for. Starmer's a very scary man... he was dead set on sending that poor daft lad who hacked the pentagon looking for aliens to die in an American jail.

@jaystevens1965

2 ай бұрын

I too believe that we have a moral duty to vote but I'm done with tactical voting. When Lib/Lab/Con get in again, at least I won't have contributed to their victory. If there is no-one I want to vote for, I'll spoil my ballot paper.

@sandemike

2 ай бұрын

Why not just stay at home?@@jaystevens1965

@iaindcosta

2 ай бұрын

​@jaystevens1965 yeah, it's one thing having a vote, it's another to have anyone to vote for (who truly represents the people)

Well said big man.Great bit of history with a real warning for us all.Many can feel it.Lets hope for humanity.Not the death cult.

Well Bruce, I think I can understand what your saying as I'm living in the States were having really crazy things going on here, and I really hope things get better for you and your country men and women, I just hope you keep up the good fight because that's what we're trying to do here, well Bruce I hope you have a great rest of your day, and go out for a good pint. Thanks for all your great videos and history, I've learned a lot, I hope you can make it to the state's sometime.

What you've described here at the end is not just happening in Britain, it's happening all over the world. It supersedes borders and political parties. I see a flashpoint on the horizon, as you said, this ship isn't turned around.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 ай бұрын

Indeed

Thank you for another great and informative video about important events in Scottish history. I think you make a great point about the "avalanche" of rollback. I only hope we can all find our way. I might be just an American, but I intend to vote and to encourage everyone I can find to also vote.

Well said! Thank you for that. ATB. Nigel

Hello my friend this is the first time I have commented on one of your videos, although I watch them all. I love the way you tell your stories. This one in particular. There should be a movie made about this story. 🤗🤗

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for taking the time to comment

Well researched and delivered by a skilled natural orator.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 ай бұрын

Thank you

What a very interesting video. Thanks Bruce for sharing. My Dad was very into his Scottish history and would have enjoyed your videos. He's got me passionate about Scottish history. I'm from Glasgow but now live in England. I have watched some of your other videos.

Love history, stand firm.

Another absolutely brilliant video! Thank you so much - a superb, well observed, presentation - brilliantly thought out and presented as ever! Thank you Bruce! So nice to find some actual content on KZread!

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 ай бұрын

Many thanks!

Top tier video, Bruce. You do powerful work making old injustices vivid and important today. 👊

Thank you for this Bruce. Insightful as always!

Thank you, I always find myself totally focused on you after hearing, "let me tell you a story." This was a great piece of history you shared with us today, and yes, relevant more than ever. The messed up thing is that history has all the answers we need! Now, I'm going re-watch your "Greatest Hero of Scotland," video! You're my favorite storyteller!

Fascinating, as always. Thanks, Bruce.

I found it fascinating listening to you. Keep up your great work.

God bless Scotland forever ! Cheers from Australia

"The past is never dead. It's not even past." William Faulkner

I've met some other Scots, brave and gentle souls. This is a scary truth by far. May we steer away instead of towards. Thank you ✌️✌️✌️❤️❤️❤️😂😂😂

Food for thought Bruce. Thank you.

God bless us all!

When I saw that people at "Speaker's Corner" in Hyde park, the birthplace of the term, getting on one's soapbox, were being arrested for.....well, speaking, I knew things were getting bad. Free speech is under attack. We need to be more tolerant of what others say. We must allow everyone to have their say, even if we think it is crazy and hurtful. We just have to have the guts to say, "hey, that's crazy and hurtful!" But have to follow up with why we think so. We have to be willing to get on our own soapbox and voice our own opinions and let the people decide. Thanks for continuing to do so!

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 ай бұрын

😪

Great content! Thought provoking and engaging!

I always enjoy your videos - educational and interesting - in addition to a great presentation style

This was really good. A true story teller. You're right. We are heading in that direction so we end up like the patrician in Ankh-Morpork One man. One vote. He was that man and he has that vote.

I mourne the loss of freedom of speech, in England. I remember it well.

Thank you so much!! I had no idea about the placard and arrests in this present day!! We needed this, thank you again from 🇺🇸

@resourcedragon

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, the Murdoch press chooses what a lot of us do and don't hear.

You drove past my dad's local, the 1314 Inn!

Love your work, Bruce. Even more food for thought 🌞

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 ай бұрын

Thank you kindly

Brilliant presentation!😎👏👏👏 🤔(very poignant, as well): "... about where we're headed... for some time, we've been moving in that direction." (don't we all know it of late over here🇨🇦, btw)😞 "Our blood, shed on this scaffold... for no other sin but seeking the legitimate rights of our ill-used and downtrodden Countrymen." Andrew Hardie (O for more of the like of them and Muir about us today!)🙏💪💪💪 Many thanks, Bruce👊😉👌

This was fascinating!!!!

Brilliant stuff again, Bruce. Very apt. Well told

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 ай бұрын

Thank you kindly

You got to be that somebody, no one will rescue you.

Thank you Bruce very well done on your final words...

This is not just a warning for the people in Scotland. Over the pond here in the US we are fighting to keep out democracy. The Bread and Circuses the media offer keep lots of people in their places, but I'm hopeful because channels like this exist and facts are being presented to inform us of the dangers. If you don't know where you came from, you won't know where you are headed.

I blame the start of this disfranchising of worker's rights to Thatcherism in the UK & Regan in the US. The resent arrest of Greta Thunberg, on trumped-up charges, highlights the slipper road the UK is on. A 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 living in 🇮🇪

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 ай бұрын

😢😖

@resourcedragon

2 ай бұрын

💯%

well said, exactly why our history matters, all around the world history is repeating itself again, seems we have learned nothing, hard times ahead.

Thanks!

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 ай бұрын

Thanks so much

for my sins, i've not kept up with your videos for a little bit (do please blame the algorithm as much as one might me) but i must just say - a truly awesome step up in production quality. very cool camera work now in place!

So let me get this straight: there were a series of acts passed to combat the discontent of the huddle masses by increasing their discontent. “Floggings will continue until morale improves.”

@resourcedragon

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, they made sure that land owners who produced grain didn't miss out on their money, just like the compensation after slavery was ended in the US went to the slave _owners,_ not the slaves themselves. It's called capitalism.

Thank you! We have similar concerns here in the U.S.

Excellent commentary, in one of my favourite towns. My personal favourite visit there was to the Old Town Jail, which is worth a post in itself . We are of one mind as to the potential for extreme policies.

Preach, Brother.

Poignant connection to history ❤

This story could apply to so many places for ao many who met unfortunate ends trying to make a better world. And the march towards authoritarianism continues in many of our countries. Another great lesson Bruce!

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 ай бұрын

Indeed

Wow. I wish every history teacher would make history as personal and immediate as you. I can't think of more than a handful of the people I know who see themselves as part of the ongoing history of us, or ask themselves important questions such as 'how bad could this be' and 'is this forward or backward". You could write a bestselling book, but it would be far more effective to have a Netflix or Amazon series, with the promotion your messages need. There's a difference between learning history and learning to participate in History because you can use the lessons our past can teach everyone. Each day I feel we're further from being able to recover the progress someone else paid so dearly to accomplish. Thanks.

Woah! I'm an American, I thoroughly enjoyed this video. I clicked to learn more about history but I did not expect the powerful words at the end. I applaud you, sir! Very moving stuff!

We all collectively need to turn the ship around and not be divided

Thank you.

This makes me so sad. So glad you have presented the Truth in such a witty way that your message cannot be misunderstood.

Yay!!! A new story!! I love these videos.

Love your stuff. Absolutely love it.

Your narration, the history, the deliberation with which you tell it, brilliant.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 ай бұрын

Ah thanks

I love your videos dude. You rock. My name is Randy Nesbit, i live in waxhaw, North Carolina. Your editing is getting better. I love hearing you say "let me tell you a story" lol

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 ай бұрын

I appreciate that!

Relevant in so many ways. Leaders seem to keep using the same playbook

Another incredible history that absolutely deserves to be remembered. Things are no less moving backwards across the pond as well. You are not alone in the concerns you summarized with. Thank you for producing quality content always. Unrelated topic that sprung from your video… you drove by a great mural. Which made me curious? As an artist and a commissioner for the arts in my community, I find that I’m always interested in street art. We have many gorgeous ones locally as well. They all have meaning. Some historical, some depict modern relative issues, some to highlight an amazing event or person (s). My questions are… do you have many murals in Scotland? If so, are there intersting stories about Scotland represented in those artworks? What are they? I’d love to know! My daughter is in the middle of a semester at the University of Edinburgh. Shortly to take a weeks break and travel about. I think I will charge her with the task of showing momma some more art! I’ve seen some cute things from right around the dorms already. Thanks for reading my queries. Have a brilliant day! 🖤

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 ай бұрын

Hmmm, I'd have to research that

Excellent stuff!!