Why Are We Appeasing The Sweaties?

[ToraToraTora]

If they are going to be "independent" next year why do we let them have the ship building up there to the detriment of Portsmouth? Surely its a result for the UK they Leave the UK & EU so why bother giving them a bauble? Many have been saying it's political but I can't see how it can be, it must be some sort of commercial decision.

[murraymints]

Anyway our op has cut and run........United nations at its best !...

[hawksley]

Oh dear sorry for inviting all the rants ,but I did not know what a sweaty was sorry.

[emmie]

perhaps you should know some of the terms the English get called by some Scots, good friends of mine were not above saying rude, insulting things about us, mostly unprintable... and a mate was always known as Jock, though that wasn't his first name, he never minded if anything it was what he preferred, don't ask me why...

[Quizmonster]

Jock is just a a 'friendly' variant of John, as Taffy is just a 'friendly' variant of David and Paddy is just a 'friendly' variant of Patrick. (No, it really doesn't have anything to do with the river Taff!)
In other words, these are just forms of actual male names.
As a Scot, I am perfectly happy to be called 'Jock' or 'a Jock', though I understand people have been known to try to raise a case of racism - which seems absurd to me - for using any of the three names I've listed.

I don't know why, but there is no such 'friendly' name for an Englishman. Of course, one can use offensive "words" about the members of any nation, which is what Emmie seems to be saying, but these are not "names" as such in my experience.