Scottish Civic Nat urging people to see through the spoon-fed political dupery from our resident London led LabLibTory sock-puppets. Views stated are my own.
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The Anglo-state media are just beyond demented now.
The question is, what are the parties for YES going to do about it? Continue the squabbling about who can identify as a man/woman? Throw some mud back and forth around our personal favourites in Alec, Humza, Nicola?
We all have opinions. For example, Humza was not my choice for FM. Neither was the Alba lass. Not because of any dislike or other negative nonsense - I genuinely like the man - but simply because I felt we needed street fighters at this point in Scotland's journey, with an increasingly insane and rapacious Anglo-state. But he's now the FM, I'm not not going to support him. Indeed, I'll support him 100%.
The point is, my opinion here doesn't matter. Winning our political freedom does.
Do I think Alec Salmond was stitched up? Yes. Do I suspect he might feel let down by those he regarded as closest compadres? Yes. Do I think aspects of his personality probably enabled that? Probably. Do I care? No - not really - he was our best. And, in all honesty, my joint favourite Scots politician. With Nicola Sturgeon.
Do I think Nicola Sturgeon has been stitched up? Yes. Do I suspect she might feel let down by people she once regarded as brothers/sisters in a single cause? Yes. Do I care? No - not really - she was, also, a superb FM.
The barometer for both is easy - Westminster struggled with, and despised them both. That's what matters when you want to take the fight to an enemy like the media apparatus of the Anglo-state.
From debate to interview to panel on enemy turf, when either walked away having easily dismissed Anglo-state hacks, that's what mattered to me. The movement wins.
We all have differences. We've all got different opinions. And the YES movement has always has been a very broad church. We used to understand and accept that.
The point is, politics and true democracy exist to enable those differences of opinion, no matter how passionate, to be laid out in front of the citizenry of our country...
...it's just that we don't actually have a free country to enjoy anything like democracy whilst this 'union' persists.
The many arms of that Anglo-state actively interfere with our journey and, in the case of Scottish independence, wilfully manipulate our differences to attack the movement. Surely other people see this?
Arguing in our own ranks about personalities or specific aspects of policy - right now - will only ever play into the hands of those very people who control mass communications and broadcasting. And that's not us.
YESsers need to understand this. If the movement remains divided - a priority for the Anglo-state (I can assure you) then Scottish Independence is gone for decades, and potentially forever. If Labour get in, their #1 mission will be to defang the Scottish Parliament for Westminster, such that there's no real democratic mechanism to escape their clutches.
But there is a way to slam-dunk the vile machinations of Westminster. It requires only this:
- our leaders show some solidarity
- they begin to work and act together
- they do so with some aggression
- they do so with a zero tolerance policy for this media landscape (refuse interviews, insist on parity in debates)
Critically, the broader movement needs to challenge their media saturation with one voice. Harness the professional creatives and talent across the broader YES pool. Ideas and solutions. And never stop. Be relentless, as they are with us.
Remember, they've got nothing but lies and fear.
We've got truth. Namely the entirely normal wish for a democracy which reflects the wishes of our citizens - every time. Giving our people a voice on the small matters of...oh, I don't know:
- the climate challenge
- foreign relations
- our economic prosperity
- unwanted nukes on our soil
- energy futures
- genocide!
- going to actual f*****g war!
It took them 15-years to learn how to prise open and divide the YES movement. If we show solidarity, they will lose. They know this. That'd be a huge concern for them.
In short, don't play ball - it's their game. What's the worst that can happen? They'll run a negative headline!?!🤣
If the Scottish Government presented a cure for cancer and a new technology that took us to Mars in a day, they'd run negative headlines anyway!
There's literally nothing to lose here, their daily media vomit increasingly bears no resemblance to reality - just their own hateful space. And God knows, Anglo-state unionism truly draws some of the vilest, moronic characters into its ranks. Sectarian crazies. Orange order loons. Ex-BNP racist filth. They're all there.
And, as we've just witnessed, their smear factory has grown legs - they'll happily collude to try and destroy YES politicians. We know this. They rifle through bins. They pitch tents. They doorstep our best.
It's one rule for the vilest unionist politicians and establishment, and quite another for us. MI5 is a thing. British intelligence defending it's desired Anglo-state is a thing.
So....decide.
1 - Fight each other and get nowhere.
Or
2 - Drop the ego. Ditch the hubris. Let any anger you feel on whatever issue fall away. It's entirely meaningless without political independence. Prove me wrong!? There's plenty of time to fight it out in an independent Scotland, away from Westminster interference and their rancid media.
Just think about that! Think about the nationwide parties as we wave ta-ta to nukes. Or when we give the staff of The 'Scottish' Daily Express a special heartfelt send-off. Or when we send the fracking magnates packing. Or when Scotland is heard on the genocide in Gaza and on so many other matters where we can do our bit to at least try and make the world a better place.
That'd be...incredible. Wouldn't that all be worth it?
I'm talking to you @TheSNPMedia @TheSNP @AlbaParty @ScottishGreens and would appeal to our entire movement. It might be a dream, but I'm not embarrassed to state it. Do our leaders have the focus, the imagination, to knock on the door of the other?
What other way is there? Argue until Alba win an election...in 2040? 2045? Too late! Until the SNP magically attract every YES voter again...in 2040? Too late!
We need independence within the next 5-years.
Fight together, and let's get this over the f*****g line.
#SNP #AlbaParty #Alba #ScottishGreens
#ScottishIndependence2024
#TheUnionIsaLie
#DissolveTheUnion
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If the UK government deems Brexit the "will of the people" after "the people have voted", why do you expect Scots to self-impose artificial barriers that England refuses to entertain?
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Imagine giving bought and paid for union shill Sam Taylor chance to say this. Who is asking for the prize on a nil-nil draw? In 2012 YES was polling, what, 28%? The true outcome of 2104 was already 52.7% of Scotland-born voted YES (confirmed fact). Those who tell us 'now is not the time' – the British government – are doing so with 34% of the popular vote. 50 + 1 is the rule. Right now, we are starting at 52% YES, which means 55-56% of Scotland-born and resident. All of this is what is undeniable. Those holding themselves out as Scottish nationalists need to stop handing penalty kicks to unionist operatives like Sam.
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Who said magic bullet? Not us, Tim. It is an enabler of what we all seek - the right to the democratic expression of the will of the people. Not 60% just a solid majority. If you think 60% or 70% will convince Westminster (expressed definitively … how exactly, since their Supreme Court has ruled out even a poll to determine the level of support?) you inhabit a different UK from the one whose record is sitting in front of you!
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Scotland voted to remain. England's 84% of the population forced Scotland out against its will. That's the biggest disaster - and who will address that democratic deficit problem?
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A masterpiece she wrote for her to sing and for her friends Crosby Stills Nash & Young!
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No, Angus that’s like comparing kittens and footballs.
We don’t know each other so I guess it’s easy to assume that Salvo latched onto some imaginary, shiny but unrealistic interpretation of a dead historical issue. That’s my summation of the basic attitude we keep encountering, a judgment which functions as a ‘gatekeeper’ against real dialogue. It is too often the underpinning assumption in the debates we have with sceptics and, sadly, obviates any genuinely open minded exchange with those who already think they ‘know’ that we are misguided enthusiasts who are ‘just not in touch with political or legal reality’. On that basis nothing we present to explain either our argument or our strategy gets past their certainty that what we are doing is just the product of that out of touch, naivety. No fact or evidence registers when that assumption is present.
So I have two invitations for you.
First will you consider the likelihood that two years of prior research and checking, followed by two years of consulting and meeting with experts including but far from confined to Robert Black KC, Alfred de Zayas, international human rights lawyer and former chair of the HRC complaints commission, special rapporteur and author of both resolutions and several books, Ambassador George Papadatos of the European Public Law Organisation- an IGO - an ICJ lawyer and a lawyer representing a state at the C24 (can’t name those two but not Russian!), all of whom confirm or have reinforced and strengthened our case, might suggest that we are onto something? And that something might lie in a hitherto unrecognised, constitutional question which changes our understanding of the framework and conditions of Scottish self-determination? Is it possible that if Professor Black who is internationally known and respected can say publicly that for over 50 years he believed and taught the ‘union orthodoxy’ and that, approaching his 80th year, he now finds that orthodoxy to be a fiction, you might be open to considering why?
Second, I will be happy to meet and explain in detail what is involved in the kind of international recognition we are talking about here and how it clarifies and empowers, not replaces, the right of self-determination for Scotland and enabled us to exercise that right freely. How about it?
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I was’t just replying to you. I was refuting, for the benefit of others who may be equally unfamiliar with the principles of international law, your erroneous statement, repeating Robin’s, that the referendum established voluntary union. It didn’t. I’d let be to be able to explain why in a meme but sadly complex issues sometimes require a few paragraphs.
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Friday saw us clearing Stirling’s fabulous medieval cemetery complex veteran’s graves first but also creating replanting for biodiversity and a bit clearing storm damage.
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We're well and truly in autumn, and I'm reminded of this snap by Oscar Diaz from last year. You could be forgiven for thinking this was an autumnal view of Dowanhill or Hyndland in Glasgow, but these are the brownstones of Brooklyn, NY.
📷 Oscar Diaz
#autumn
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Just Gary Robertson holding up an anti-SNP newspaper with an anti-SNP smear story. All part of the BBC's 'public service' in Scotland.
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Hi @bbclaurak,
Zionism has resulted in the bombing of children & the killing of tens of thousands of innocent people in Gaza.
Again - the actual controversy is the Labour Government are arming that & the BBC 'debate' if it's racist.
How's that for answering the question?
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Not something Scots should celebrate. The defeat and execution of Charles I culminated in the English occupation of Scotland. Cromwell’s troops committed the same atrocities as in Ireland though the history books don’t talk about that. Cromwell then annexed Scotland officially and wrote a constitution for his new state. Because Scotland had supported him, Charles II reversed the annexation handing Scotland back to the Scots. I’m no royalist, I promise you, but them’s the facts.
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It failed to meet normal international standards on every measure. It was designed and managed to produce the final result. By contrast, look at the conditions applied to the referendums in Gibraltar and the Malvinas where the U.K., confident of its settler populations, went above and beyond the standard applied even in its own elections in order to silence any suggestion of improper conduct and silence the critics in the international community. The govt was determined to show it had met every standard for a fair and impartial vote.
Not so in Scotland where it failed every one.
Please note, even all this still did not satisfy the C-24 or C4 and both remain listed as NSGT’s. (Btw, we use the word colony to make the point. The word colony is rarely used in modern law, but the reality people mean is still here: states administering territories beyond their *own* mainland.) A referendum cannot automatically resolve the unlawful annexation of a territory especially, as in Scotland’s case, when it ignores the principal requirement that a state must not interfere in the exercise of that expression of public will. A referendum conducted on the basis that a component part of a state is seeking secession is not the same as a referendum conducted by (not on behalf of), a still sovereign, annexed nation deciding, not whether to secede, but whether to accept its status on the annexing state’s terms, a status that is absent an operative treaty and absent any rights and obligations whatever under that treaty. This is *not* accepted in international law and the UK state knows this. That’s why it’s that state, not Liberation Scotland, which first raised the question - in 1954 - of whether Scotland was a dependency, colony, in order to publicly deny it. It’s time our self appointed pro-indy spokespersons understood this also.
The cosmetic exercise of ‘the referendum’ was organised to produce exactly Robin’s belief that whatever our status before it, after the referendum this became a voluntary union. That, as you can see, I hope, is not true.
The flagrant manipulation of the process aside, if Scotland was annexed prior to the referendum then a poll managed by the occupying state, (including control of the postal ballot), and which allowed that state to break the terms of the Edinburgh agreement but not the Scottish ‘side’, and which was non binding, is not a legitimate expression of self determination. That unmediated and free, fair process is yet to take place.
P.S No matter who agreed to it, a franchise which includes 2nd home owners, temporary residents (students, military, temporary workers) and recent arrivals disqualifies the referendum as a test of the will of the Scottish people.
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Remember the last time Labour ran Glasgow? The debt still hasn't been cleared.
‘People make Glasgow’ - and they should be given more power.
Looking forward to speaking at the @scotcoopparty conference about how Glasgow, and all our regions, will benefit from further power being pushed out from Holyrood.
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Wonder if he would leave his daughter with the brandster while he fucks off and buys new polo necks..
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Nobody believes your pish 🤣🤣
Ask him about PFI
Douglas Alexander: SNP has short-changed Glasgow by £357 million trib.al/yQRAqol
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Labour's House Jock MPs and House Jocklet MSPs have gone from targeting Scotland to now just desperately trying to win Glasgow. Their ambitions are mirroring their stature, both shrinking.
