Maybe this will come as news to Fanny Butphuque (social conscience hack for Bolshevik Broadcasting Corporation) et al, but the Jocks are more than capable of looking after themselves. As anyone who has ever witnessed a Scottish infantry battalion getting up close & personal, at the point of contact, the boys have a full & proper appreciation of how to generate violence. Lets be frank here, when it comes to Scotland, we are talking about a country that regards hand-to-hand combat as a national pastime – be it on the streets of Blairgowrie, Basra or Baghdad – it makes little or no difference.

Sure as shits brown they are going to take casualties – that’s what happens to soldiers & that’s what makes out politicians recent treatment of our armed forces all the more perverse. However the regiment was raised in 1725 it has fought where & whenever required – gaining an ferocious fighting reputation & a list of battle honours longer than the list of Gorgeous George’s excuses made of behalf of Saddam Hessian.

Soldiers go to dangerous places & do dangerous things. They are not there to facilitate this or assist with that. They are there to kill people & blow things up; The Black Watch are very very good at that. It is what they are trained & paid to do. Interesting that there has been no comment in the UK media that the US Marines they are relieving are off to do an even more dangerous job – then again, the our tattooed fertility symbol toting sandal wearers have scant regard for the lives of our allies' servicemen.

As for the title of this post, for those of you that didn’t pay attention in class, its literal translation is "No one injures (attacks) me with impunity". I need say no more.