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Burns still resonates

Letter

Dear Editor

The recent enjoyable Burns Supper event set me thinking about some of Robert Burns’ works. One short poem in readable English comments on the 1707 Parliamentary Union of Scotland and England, which to this day is controversial and spawned partial devolution in 1999 and now Brexit problems.

In this poem he slams the Scottish negotiators with the recurrent line – “such a parcel of rogues in a Nation!”

One has to wonder what Burns would think, say and write about our leaders and world affairs today. 


R. H. Wood

North Battleford

P.S. The poem was written as a song in 1791 entitled “The Union” The first line reads “Farewell to all our Scottish Fame.”