Originally Posted by
Tumpy:
“Indeed I'm thinking of starting a thread with is Matt Smith really Scottish or perhaps is Steven Moffat really Scottish or John Barrowman really Scottish or Amy Pond really Scottish or David Tennant really Scottish or indeed Vincent Van Gogh!!!! Hmm I think there may be a Scottish agenda after all
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Ha ha ha! That’s almost like the “Is Matt Smith gay??” thread out there! As if being gay and being Scottish are interchangeable! Ha ha ha! The very idea! Oh, you do make me laugh! Indeed, I'm thinking of starting a thread with “Is Matt Smith really Scottish??”. Though, no doubt, the Scotch-loving contingent of this Forum would be out in force to pooh-pooh my points and emasculate my evidence. It’s so predictable.
I’ve been harangued and abused on this thread fairly often but my anti-Scotch views are easily explained. I was brought up in a very conservative family; my father was an English Gentleman and my mother was a Dowdy Housewife. I was never told that there were Scottish people in England (as I believe the United Kingdom was called back then) so I grew up thinking they were dirty and bizarre. I’m in my eighties now so is it so difficult to accept that I haven’t escaped my childhood indoctrination and still believe that Scotchers are foul and unacceptable? Just because I am an “adult”, do you honestly expect me to behave or think as one? I have never, to my knowledge, met a Scottish and no-one I know admits to being one, so are you suggesting I treat them as normal English persons???
They have no place in Doctor Who and I am peeved that Stuart Moffat thinks they do. Is it any wonder the viewing figures are down to an all time low? I have no evidence to hand but isn’t it common knowledge that this series has been the worst
ever due to its Scotch bias? Viewers have stopped watching in their hundreds!
I hear that Beth Willis (one of the Three Who Rule) has been laid off because she insisted on wearing a mini-kilt to a tone meeting. Good riddance, I say. Ed Thomas? Looks Welsh on Confidential but was obviously wearing too much under his kilt so had to go. Tracie Simpson & Peter Bennett? Refused to hunt haggis – despite SM’s direct orders – so had to leave, too.
I know that a lot of you SM Followers have absolutely no idea of Doctor Who existing before 2010 but some die-hards, like myself, have a pathological fascination with Classic Who. We love Doctror Who more than you do!!! That’s why Scotchers turn our stomachs!

The “The Terror of Zygon” story from 1976 has gone down in history as one of the worst pieces of television ever made ever. The Radio Times has it listed as “Too Scottish for a family show and shamefully so”. Why? Well, it features a stark and frank portrayal of Scottish culture and practices never before seen on Dcotcor Who or, indeed, mainstream TV. Why do you think Mary Whitehouse issued her infamous “Scottish acts are thoroughly sickening and illegal” statement on the 30th August 1975?
It's happening all over again. Stuart Moffat should hang his head in shame.