It took me a minute or two to realise the Herald meant that Michael Gove was Scots and that he could let rip Aberdonian style. They go on to change tack and accuse him of Trump impersonation.
I’m thoroughly confused but ‘Scots?’ I know, born and educated in Aberdeen with a first job at the P&J but from the age of 18, thoroughly immersed in a life saturated with the worldview of the entitled Englishman, Tory and Unionist:
- English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford and president of the Oxford Union.
- Writer at the Times and Spectator
- Biography of Michael Portillo where he compared the Good Friday Agreement to the appeasement of the Nazis
- Speech writer for Peter Lilley and Michael ‘Something of the Night’ Howard
- Apologist for the Iraq War
- Referring to Fraserburgh and Peterhead as Peterborough and Fraserhead
The last one is the final nail in his Scottishness and I haven’t had to mention that accent, yet.
I feel sure he claims Scottishness when it suits him but ‘down there’, it’s something to be denied. Wee Ginger Dug summed him up last year:
Some Scots who have moved to England feel the need to effect to despise their fellow country men and women in order to make their new English colleagues and acquaintances feel more at ease with the quasi-foreigner in their midst. They torture their accents, they come down with bad cases of irritable vowel syndrome, they distance themselves from any manifestations of overt Scottishness in order to highlight that they are not like those benighted Caledonians back in the Auld Country.
https://weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2019/05/28/the-politics-of-jimmy-wigs/
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Fit like?
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Fit like, faa wid ken? Wash yersel an come awa Ben.
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The Scottish Cringe can only “thrive” for so long as England is viewed as being superior to Scotland.
Brexit and the complete abrogation of responsibility by England’s government for managing this health crisis are going to put a huge dent in that perspective.
That will be despite the efforts of HM press to hide the situation from us.
Even the Tory unionists in Scotland must be aghast at the actions of their Missing in Action Leader south of the border.
Who needs a leader when you have HM press to keep the herd in it’s enclosure.
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Quite a few years ago, at an OU residential school, I had a Yorkshire bloke blame me for being Scottish and inflicting Gove on him as his MP,,, that was before I’d ever heard of Gove when he was a mere MP, not the scourge he is now, and he was deemed the most awful useless lump of crapness even way back then. A harsh lesson in being painted with the same brush because of your country of birth!
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Johnson fit like?
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Tony Blair on TV at this moment.
Hon Sarah on Radio 4 (talking about the Justice system in ENGLAND AND WALES) earlier.
Micky Gove in government.
Scottish when it suits their careers, but genuine Scots in their hearts? Don’t think so!
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Well he can’t vote in Scotland, that is what matters.
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“Some Scots who have moved to England feel the need to effect to despise their fellow country men and women in order to make their new English colleagues and acquaintances feel more at ease with the quasi-foreigner in their midst.”
Affect!
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On the Marr show, he was simply casting around, trying to find ways of denying the allegations in the Sunday Times article critical of Boris. He alluded to his ability to re-act using robustScots language, but of course could not bring himself to do so. What I found more revealing was his complaint that journalists were seeking to construct a false narrative of blame. This from a journalist who constructed false narratives through the entire Brexit fiasco, and has a back catalogue of untruths going back for years.
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“Irritable vowel syndrome”: brilliant! I’d forgotten about that one from Wee Ginger Dug.
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From the Dictionary of the Scots Language
GOVE, v., n.1 Also goave, †goif (Bnff. 1792 Trans. Soc. Antiq. Scot. 442).
[go:v]
I. v. 1. To stare, gaze; to stare stupidly or vacantly (Rxb. 1825 Jam.; Uls. 1880 Patterson Gl. (with about or round); Ayr. 1923 Wilson Dial. Burns 166; Rxb. 1923 Watson W.-B.; Cai., Abd., Per., Edb., sm. and s.Sc. 1955); to gaze with fear (Gall. 1824 MacTaggart Gallov. Encycl. 233); to wander aimlessly about (Kcb.4 1900; Rxb. 1923 Watson W.-B., Rxb.4 1955). Also in Yks. dial.
Sc. 1728 Ramsay Poems (S.T.S.) II. 112:
But lang I’ll gove and bleer my Ee, Before, alake! that Sight I see.
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