Scotland turns to social media to mend relations with England

Scottish tourism ministers are attempting to bridge the gaps with their English neighbours by harnessing the power of Facebook and other networking sites.

Scottish Minister for Energy, Enterprise and Tourism, Fergus Ewing explains:

Back in 2009 I started a Facebook group “I bet I can find 1,000,000 people that like the English”. We’ve only had 300 people sign up so far, but it’s still early days.

The group is used to post light-hearted stories that highlight incidents where citizens of the two nations have come together —

I posted a story there last night… An English fireman in Paisley had saved some old biddy’s cat from a tree. It’s small things like this that’ll bring us together. It was just after that that I started the “I

Opposition leaders have come forward to say he should:

Stop pissing around on Facebook and do some work.