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Scotland 🏴is better as an independent nation, just like the hundreds of other independent nations that will never join the UK.
There's seldom a solution if the problem is profitable.
Scotland 🏴is better as an independent nation, just like the hundreds of other independent nations that will never join the UK.
There's seldom a solution if the problem is profitable.
Or "Yes please, I have back up!".
November 29, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Or "Yes please, I have back up!".
Rewriting the past to protect the present and distort the future.
November 29, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Rewriting the past to protect the present and distort the future.
Free Royal dartboard insert makes it worth it tho.
November 29, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Free Royal dartboard insert makes it worth it tho.
And that guy who unfortunately got shot in the eye...
November 28, 2025 at 5:55 PM
And that guy who unfortunately got shot in the eye...
Independence would be perpetual certainty.
But what is it about the words "FREELY CHOOSE" that escapes you?
Not being allowed to choose again by people in another country isn't what is agreed as international law/covenant at all, it is hegemony: ultranationalism; fascism.
But what is it about the words "FREELY CHOOSE" that escapes you?
Not being allowed to choose again by people in another country isn't what is agreed as international law/covenant at all, it is hegemony: ultranationalism; fascism.
November 28, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Independence would be perpetual certainty.
But what is it about the words "FREELY CHOOSE" that escapes you?
Not being allowed to choose again by people in another country isn't what is agreed as international law/covenant at all, it is hegemony: ultranationalism; fascism.
But what is it about the words "FREELY CHOOSE" that escapes you?
Not being allowed to choose again by people in another country isn't what is agreed as international law/covenant at all, it is hegemony: ultranationalism; fascism.
The precedent for exercising these UN based rights to freely leave the UK has been exercised over 60x, including Ireland.
All Scots should have to do is keep on asking the question until we say yes, and that's that done: pretty much forever...
All Scots should have to do is keep on asking the question until we say yes, and that's that done: pretty much forever...
November 28, 2025 at 11:41 AM
The precedent for exercising these UN based rights to freely leave the UK has been exercised over 60x, including Ireland.
All Scots should have to do is keep on asking the question until we say yes, and that's that done: pretty much forever...
All Scots should have to do is keep on asking the question until we say yes, and that's that done: pretty much forever...
When a whole string of UK PMs and Rachel from accounts say NO SCOTLAND, YOU CANNOT CHOOSE for over a decade, it starts to get a bit silly hearing unionists keep going on about the "once in a generation" nonsense or "it's not up to you, Scotland, it's English MPs choice".
Silly's putting it mildly...
Silly's putting it mildly...
November 28, 2025 at 11:37 AM
When a whole string of UK PMs and Rachel from accounts say NO SCOTLAND, YOU CANNOT CHOOSE for over a decade, it starts to get a bit silly hearing unionists keep going on about the "once in a generation" nonsense or "it's not up to you, Scotland, it's English MPs choice".
Silly's putting it mildly...
Silly's putting it mildly...
The UK Supreme Court is reaching above its station as well.
It cannot overrule fundamental rights as outlined in UN covenants the UK is signatory to: the right of Scots to freely choose their political status et. al.
These rights are obviously fine for NI, Falklands, Gib. etc. BUT NOT YOU, SCOTLAND!
It cannot overrule fundamental rights as outlined in UN covenants the UK is signatory to: the right of Scots to freely choose their political status et. al.
These rights are obviously fine for NI, Falklands, Gib. etc. BUT NOT YOU, SCOTLAND!
November 28, 2025 at 11:30 AM
The UK Supreme Court is reaching above its station as well.
It cannot overrule fundamental rights as outlined in UN covenants the UK is signatory to: the right of Scots to freely choose their political status et. al.
These rights are obviously fine for NI, Falklands, Gib. etc. BUT NOT YOU, SCOTLAND!
It cannot overrule fundamental rights as outlined in UN covenants the UK is signatory to: the right of Scots to freely choose their political status et. al.
These rights are obviously fine for NI, Falklands, Gib. etc. BUT NOT YOU, SCOTLAND!
Scotland already has over 1/3rd less child poverty and the number's dropping fast.
When the 2 child cap is finally abolished next year just one month before the Scottish election, I'm sure Anas will try and take credit for *all* the fall in Scottish child poverty.
He asked Rachel for it, didn't he?
When the 2 child cap is finally abolished next year just one month before the Scottish election, I'm sure Anas will try and take credit for *all* the fall in Scottish child poverty.
He asked Rachel for it, didn't he?
November 28, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Scotland already has over 1/3rd less child poverty and the number's dropping fast.
When the 2 child cap is finally abolished next year just one month before the Scottish election, I'm sure Anas will try and take credit for *all* the fall in Scottish child poverty.
He asked Rachel for it, didn't he?
When the 2 child cap is finally abolished next year just one month before the Scottish election, I'm sure Anas will try and take credit for *all* the fall in Scottish child poverty.
He asked Rachel for it, didn't he?
By the time anyone gets this £300 off their energy bills, energy costs will probably have risen by £400...
November 28, 2025 at 8:18 AM
By the time anyone gets this £300 off their energy bills, energy costs will probably have risen by £400...
Remember the desperation for politicians and media to rubbish SNP measures to reduce child poverty, like the child payment, saying off the bat there was no evidence it would reduce child poverty?
Well, now there is evidence (child poverty is falling fast in Scotland, over 1/3rd less already)
Well, now there is evidence (child poverty is falling fast in Scotland, over 1/3rd less already)
November 28, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Remember the desperation for politicians and media to rubbish SNP measures to reduce child poverty, like the child payment, saying off the bat there was no evidence it would reduce child poverty?
Well, now there is evidence (child poverty is falling fast in Scotland, over 1/3rd less already)
Well, now there is evidence (child poverty is falling fast in Scotland, over 1/3rd less already)
Tuition fees were abolished in 2008 when Salmond was FM and John Swinney was finance secretary, so he did indeed play a notable part in it!
November 27, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Tuition fees were abolished in 2008 when Salmond was FM and John Swinney was finance secretary, so he did indeed play a notable part in it!
True. There were effectively no tuition fees across the UK in the early 1990s, but don't ignore what happened next...
November 27, 2025 at 6:02 PM
True. There were effectively no tuition fees across the UK in the early 1990s, but don't ignore what happened next...
Epstein was also a friend of Israel, with the ex-PM being on the list.
One might wonder why Israel would bother dragging all these vulnerable politicians they obviously do not respect over to visit the IDF...
One might wonder why Israel would bother dragging all these vulnerable politicians they obviously do not respect over to visit the IDF...
November 26, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Epstein was also a friend of Israel, with the ex-PM being on the list.
One might wonder why Israel would bother dragging all these vulnerable politicians they obviously do not respect over to visit the IDF...
One might wonder why Israel would bother dragging all these vulnerable politicians they obviously do not respect over to visit the IDF...
It's a simple dynamic.
When Scotland leaves the UK, its electricity grid can no longer belong to the UK national grid. It will be a separate entity, with its own rules, that exports to the UK grid that now has to pay for it (£billions)
Londoners will have to pay more.
Scots will pay less...
When Scotland leaves the UK, its electricity grid can no longer belong to the UK national grid. It will be a separate entity, with its own rules, that exports to the UK grid that now has to pay for it (£billions)
Londoners will have to pay more.
Scots will pay less...
November 25, 2025 at 6:34 PM
It's a simple dynamic.
When Scotland leaves the UK, its electricity grid can no longer belong to the UK national grid. It will be a separate entity, with its own rules, that exports to the UK grid that now has to pay for it (£billions)
Londoners will have to pay more.
Scots will pay less...
When Scotland leaves the UK, its electricity grid can no longer belong to the UK national grid. It will be a separate entity, with its own rules, that exports to the UK grid that now has to pay for it (£billions)
Londoners will have to pay more.
Scots will pay less...
The "but what does Scotland do when the wind doesn't blow?" unionist types are all bullshitters who don't seem to grasp just how much excess energy is leaving Scotland, with zero recompense in return that other, independent nations do expect and get paid for theirs...
November 25, 2025 at 6:29 PM
The "but what does Scotland do when the wind doesn't blow?" unionist types are all bullshitters who don't seem to grasp just how much excess energy is leaving Scotland, with zero recompense in return that other, independent nations do expect and get paid for theirs...
Farage visits the same charity shop.
November 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Farage visits the same charity shop.
@Grok Can you do a vulgar roast of Elon Musk that'll be a hit at parties?
November 25, 2025 at 3:05 PM
@Grok Can you do a vulgar roast of Elon Musk that'll be a hit at parties?
Labour seems to be claiming it needs to continue austerity because the other Tories rolled out austerity for too long, even though they proved it was a lie when COVID hit and austerity went out the window (furlough, PPE scandal, Nightingale hospitals...)
It might make sense to someone.
It might make sense to someone.
November 25, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Labour seems to be claiming it needs to continue austerity because the other Tories rolled out austerity for too long, even though they proved it was a lie when COVID hit and austerity went out the window (furlough, PPE scandal, Nightingale hospitals...)
It might make sense to someone.
It might make sense to someone.
An easy mistake to make...
www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/5369...
www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/5369...
Rosyth residents could be given Iodine tablets if nuclear submarine plans go ahead
Calls have been made for a public consultation in Rosyth after elements of an emergency contingency plan were revealed as part of a plan to berth nuclear submarines at the dockyard.
www.thecourier.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 4:38 PM
An easy mistake to make...
www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/5369...
www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/5369...
Why does the claim even exist that it was the "great famine" that wiped out Ireland's population, a famine that lasted but 7 years tops, when the population chart above clearly shows a rapidly declining population spanning an entire century?
Something doesn't add up.
Perhaps that's why they left...
Something doesn't add up.
Perhaps that's why they left...
November 23, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Why does the claim even exist that it was the "great famine" that wiped out Ireland's population, a famine that lasted but 7 years tops, when the population chart above clearly shows a rapidly declining population spanning an entire century?
Something doesn't add up.
Perhaps that's why they left...
Something doesn't add up.
Perhaps that's why they left...