Chartered Accountant, Corporate Treasurer, Philosopher, lover of Burns and Shakespeare, pro-Scottish Independence since a teenager
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Thomas P Robinson retweeted
UK Government 'regeneration' schemes slammed as 'against spirit of devolution', 'not new money' and 'a drop in the ocean' talkingupscotlandtwo.com/202…
Thomas P Robinson retweeted
His first move must be to create a devolved National Assembly for England accountable to the State parliament and to allocate equal number of seats in the HoC to each of the 4 nations to ensure England loses its inbuilt majority when voting is conducted
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When other energy-rich nations are supporting their citizens and investing in their public services, why should Scotland put up with soaring energy bills and a £650 million cut from Westminster?
The only way to reach our full potential is with the full powers of independence.
Thomas P Robinson retweeted
Seems like only yesterday Labour was telling us we must thole Brexit forever. Now about that “once in a generation” business…..
@marcuscarslaw1
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Look at the energy sector if you really want to understand how Scotland can never succeed as part of the UK. Biggest offshore wind potential in Europe but we don't manufacture wind turbines. The only "advanced" European economy that doesn't manufacture core hydrogen technology.
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"The Brexit vote should be respected" say English Tory representing a remain voting constituency in Scotland.
The issue is the vote WASN'T respected in Scotland. BBC Reporting Scotland's Andrew Kerr had a problem with this. And WHY was it a UK-wide vote? The 2nd pic here is why
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Not interested in anything this pompous old twat has to say.
Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock has questioned the case for devolving justice to Wales, warning that transferring responsibility would bring ‘more downsides than upsides’ wp.me/p8Mk4U-1wue
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@HarrietCross_MP
It wasn’t the UK that chose to leave the EU
🏴 did that.
62% of Scots voted to stay
Thomas P Robinson retweeted
Scotland's schools still get 20% more per pupil than those in the rest of the UK and the P1 school bags came from a different budget talkingupscotlandtwo.com/202…
Thomas P Robinson retweeted
Peter, you have repeatedly lied about Irish sentiment and involvement in WW2 to suit your entirely transparent agenda.
Suggesting de Valera tried to ‘inflate’ the numbers joining the UK is hysterically inaccurate.
He was at pains to downplay Irish aid, pulling the wool over the Germans eyes and Republicans in his own country who did not want Ireland supporting Britain given its ongoing occupation of the north.
About 70k Irish went to British armed forces.
190k work visas were issued.
About 260k total, 9% of the Irish population.
That is direct contribution via migration which was facilitated by the Irish government (many neutrals banned enlistment or travel to belligerents)
Another 250k odd were involved in defence at home, ready to fight beside the British after secret joint defence plans were made to counter a German invasion.
Ireland had approached Britain in secret in 1938 to kick off this secret cooperation, which was so extensive MI5 said ‘Ireland was of more use neutral’ ⬇️
Zero went to Germany. Not one. More British volunteered for the Nazis than Irish - fact
The Irish won military medals at a much higher rate than other nationalities, a centuries old reality
Your lie about those enlisting suffering mistreatment is complete debunked - Bernard Kelly’s academic work showed that wasn’t the case ⬇️
And the declassified file at this link shows the birth of that calumny -
difp.ie/books/?volume=8&doci…
You call the ‘vast majority of Irelands population duplicitous cowards’? Despite the facts of Allied only support and enlistment?
Your agenda and bigotry are transparent Peter.
Shameful, sad and transparent
Thomas P Robinson retweeted
England/Britain never had any right to be in Ireland & will never have any right to be in Ireland: nitter.cf/itsjohncrotty/status/2… This Scot supports the re-unification of Ireland.
Eamon de Valera, in a response to Winston Churchills disgraceful slander against Ireland at wars end in 1945, posed a powerful hypothetical question
Despite 9% of Irelands population going to the UK war effort, 0 to Germany, and enormous Irish efforts to aid the allies, Churchill falsely accused Ireland of ‘frolicking with the Germans’ at war end
This was a lie. This didn’t happen.
Churchill knew this. He had an agenda.
He had told an American luncheon in 1943, he saw ‘little but an ineffective and inglorious role for Mr. De Valera”.
He took his shot at wars end, his intention to diminish Irish aims at ending the undemocratic partition of Ireland.
This slander outraged the hundred of thousands of Irish in Britains armies, factories and fields
On the point of Irish neutrality, which was no different to American, Belgian, Danish or any other neutrality, de Valera posed a question.
He invoked the extraordinary, exceptional circumstances that led to Irish neutrality.
The history of Britain in Ireland.
The ongoing occupation of the six counties of the north of Ireland, which finally may end soon.
These are his words…
rte.ie/archives/exhibitions/…
Thomas P Robinson retweeted
So Joani Reid is married to a Chinese spy, had an affair with a military nuclear sub captain, and also an editor of a significant Scottish newspaper, and nobody thinks that's a big story?
Thomas P Robinson retweeted
The uk has no English parliament & Westminster is in fact the English parliament in all but name where English MPs dominate by 543 out of 650 MPs so voting on any changes to the uk constitution is unfair & stood not stand up to challenge in court
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Yet Burnham's nation, England, asserts the right to deny the democratic right of the Scottish people to decide their country's future via the ballot box. It's not a 'union', but a prison. Where's the anger folks?
'No nation left behind' says Burnham after meeting first ministers in Glasgow bbc.in/4BHNVFV
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And yet WM government after WM government continue to run devolved nations into the ground, latest, carbon capture, removed from Scotland and given to England after we were promised. Where's the 200M from Grangemouth?.
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He doesn't want collaboration, he wants obedience.
'We owe it to the people of all four nations to get to a point where the UK government is working in a collaborative way with the devolved governments,' Prime Minister Andy Burnham says in his opening remarks at today's devolution summit in Glasgow.
trib.al/U5KzZNU
Thomas P Robinson retweeted
Brainwashing, gaslighting and lying on behalf of the state @BBCNews @BBCScotlandNews @BBCPolitics @BBCScotPolitics
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More powers for Scotland via devolution is all well and good; however, none of that compares to the powers of independence.
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Working collaboratively will not work. This is a sham.
The primary goal of the Anglo-British state and successive governments is to maintain its hold on #Scotland as colony & continue to extract and exploit our territorial resources for the benefit of England and its elite.
'We owe it to the people of all four nations to get to a point where the UK government is working in a collaborative way with the devolved governments,' Prime Minister Andy Burnham says in his opening remarks at today's devolution summit in Glasgow.
trib.al/U5KzZNU
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Hey @andyburnham
How about you devolve more power to Scotland?
Like, all of it.
You do England. We’ll do us.
You’re not in Manchester now.
Watch as Andy Burnham calls for more powers to be devolved to Scottish cities after a meeting with John Swinney
The Prime Minister spoke to reporters in Glasgow on Friday after talks with the First Minister at a meeting of the National Economic Council, saying he and Swinney had found 'a lot of common ground'