Phil MacDonald, fact checking nationalist claims. Not affiliated to https://nitter.cf/t.co/EsLVGb2OCq, it’s just a bloody marvellous website. Go have a look.
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standing charges are bad - unless they’ve been removed by “Westminster” in which case they were good? 🤦🏻♂️
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I’m demanding a stronger Royal Navy. You wish to dismantle Britain’s defences. You have zero interest in military matters. I think we’ll leave it to others to decide who is more ridiculous.
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Nothing more ridiculous than the SNP trying to sound robust on defence when its policy for defending a separate Scotland is a white flag and a loudspeaker saying ‘we surrender’ in Russian 🤣
OK once more for the slow @weegingerdug at the back.
THE
MARKETS
WONT
LET
SCOTLAND
USE
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PEG
TO
STERLING.
What part don’t you understand?
Don’t ask permission and try to hold one and the civil service will refuse.
The SNP Government should stop asking for permission to hold another independence referendum, a Scottish political commentator has said. #SNP #Independence #Scotland #News4Scotland #TheScotlandChannel
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I would respond to Tim directly, but he unblocked me to send that reply, and then immediately blocked me again. I wonder why?
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Taking inspiration from Emma Harper, SNP councillor Roza Salih has solved the intractable currency problem.
Scotland already has its own banknotes, so we could simply carry on printing our own money if we became independent? We can set our own central bank if we have the powers. That’s it simple.
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Scottish banknotes are issued by commercial banks under UK law and fully backed by Bank of England assets, not sovereign currency. An independent Scotland would require new institutions and arrangements for any currency or central bank, per official proposals.
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As an independent country, Scotland would have to put up with energy bills soaring higher still, and budget cuts that would make a £5 billion black hole look like a trifling matter.
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Swinney’s failure to support Rosebank is not simply about emissions. Rosebank is 20% owned by Ithaca Energy, which in turn is controlled by Delek Group - an Israeli company. Swinney cannot support Rosebank without enraging the boycott Israel people. And he is terrified of them.
CURRENCY is the lever.
Nationalists constantly talk about how independence gives us the LEVERS over the economy.
What they actually means is currency and monetary policy.
Now they tell us it’s just irrelevant.
These people are idiots.
Honestly @weegingerdug if it’s baseless how come your entire movement can’t answer it and haven’t been able to for generations.
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Please stop WHATEVER you are doing and take one minute to digest the single greatest moment of white savior petard hoisting ever witnessed during Black History Month.
The pay off is commensurate of a Scottish civil service cover up NDA cheque.
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If independence was so good, these questions would be easy to answer.
The reality is that it takes Olympic levels of mental gymnastics to come up with a half baked plan which is debunked within minutes of its release 🤦♂️
NEW: SNP must answer mortgage question if it’s serious about independence
My latest column in @thetimes
thetimes.com/article/d21f886…
