A C Barrett

Retired NHS Librarian. Strong supporter of a fairer independent Scotland which serves the many, regardless of nationality, age, gender....

[A C Barrett @Anneofstirling]

I've just signed the Declaration of Calton Hill in support of a Scottish republic. Add your signature now! https://t.co/STcFkhDgiD

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Severely ill patients dumped in the street in the US because they can't pay their hospital bills.

What kind of freedom is this?

[Talking-up Scotland @ProfJWR]

Nine SNP initiatives to tackle child poverty all unique to Scotland and all of them not news for you apparently https://t.co/dhgP0Fvgbz

[Stephen Hay @Alfaromeo170]

GERS keeps telling us Scotland runs a deficit. This study tells us Brexit costs Scotland £30bn a year in lost output , and we're the worst-hit devolved nation. Scotland's fiscal position is measured after absorbing the damage of a decision 62% of us rejected.

[Sir Mike Jansen #FBPPR #FBPE #RejoinEU #PropRep @MikeJPretzel]

King's College and the University of Nottingham study says Brexit has reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8% compared to what it would have been, and double that predicted. Investment fell between 12% and 18%. Employment dropped 3% to 4%, and productivity by the same margin. Let’s #RejoinEU

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Jeremy Clarkson complains about no village Doctor, no village shops, no village schools, no bobby.

This is the same Jeremy Clarkson who loves Margaret Thatcher and David Cameron who made all these things happen with their cuts.

They love complaining about what they voted for.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

You don't need to replace the Royal Family with a President.

Replace them with nothing, like Switzerland which manages just fine.

[Kathleen Nutt @kacnutt]

EXC: New study finds Brexit has made Scotland almost £30bn a year poorer - and is the worst hit of the devolved nations.

@heraldscotland

https://t.co/UC1hwHbgQL

[Mhairi Hunter 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @MhairiHunter]

Jeezo. A new academic study has found that Brexit has cost Scotland £30 billion a year in lost economic output. We are the most damaged of the UK devolved nations. That's even worse than I thought.

[Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza]

🇺🇸🤔🧐🇺🇸Epstein case revelations: U.S. Congresswoman Lauren Boebert stunned Newsmax after reviewing the unredacted Epstein documents:
“It’s far darker than anyone could have imagined: emails about torture, constant references to ‘consumption,’ a place literally called the ‘Cannibal Restaurant,’ and code words like ‘jerky’ and ‘human meat’ being tossed around as if it were nothing.”
Yes. She directly asked whether we are dealing with cannibalism. With literal human consumption.
This is no longer some fringe theory. A sitting member of Congress is openly saying what no one else dares to say: these monsters not only abused and trafficked children — they may have eaten them as well.
And the women? Ghislaine Maxwell, Rachel Chandler, and an entire network of female predators were deeply involved in delivering children into this nightmare machine.
This isn’t “elite pedophilia.” This is satanic depravity. This is ritualized evil in suits and private jets. The documents are so horrifying, she warns, that the public may not be ready for them. But you know what?
We are more than ready. We are furious.
Enough redactions. Enough excuses about “national security.” Enough protecting these flesh-eating demons. Release every page. Name every name. Burn their world down.
The American people deserve the truth — even if it makes us sick.
Especially if it makes us sick.

[Talking-up Scotland @ProfJWR]

Scotland's road deaths plummet by 16% in one year and 55% in the SNP era https://t.co/Vus3MBWkdx

[Talking-up Scotland @ProfJWR]

Unemployment in England 19% higher than in Scotland after nearly 20 years of not being governed by a social democratic party like the SNP https://t.co/XFCvGaJlbd

[SuzieWong 🌹🍄🌲🌳☀️☔ @SuzieWo20886208]

Hospitals, public offices, private companies with a leasehold agreement (does not own the Land Freehold despite owning the building) must continue to pay Ground Rent to the owner of the land. Usually the crown or an aristocrat.
Charlie made £80M from NHS car parks last year.

[The Royal Family Revealed @royalfamilyrevd]

For the record, this 13-CAR entourage picking up the royals and staffers from Ascot yesterday is conservatively worth approximately 4 MILLION POUNDS. That’s the car values alone and not drivers or maintenance.
Their endless lectures on sustainability and environmentalism go down the drain when you witness this kind of excess and obscene extravagance. Hypocrisy at its finest.

[The National @ScotNational]

Brexit cost Scotland more than £3 billion last year alone, MSPs will be told in a statement, 10 years on from the vote to referendum that saw the UK vote to quit the European Union https://t.co/nvUzZMN7pW

[Talking-up Scotland @ProfJWR]

Early prisoner release - Re-offending plummets to 5%, one seventh of that in England, due to more prison officers and more police officers to deal with it but BBC Scotland try to scare you with tabloid reporting the day before a by-election https://t.co/kD8F33JDvU

[A C Barrett @Anneofstirling]

@BladeoftheS And monarchy

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

I hate people who scam the Welfare system, who cost BILLIONS...

Just by themselves.

Here's some of the worst offenders, about 200 companies cost you 3x as much as all the Disabled People they rant on day and night about put together.

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

22 YEARS LATER AND NOBODY HAS ANSWERED FOR WHAT HAPPENED TO DR DAVID KELLY

His name was Dr David Kelly. Most people have forgotten him. They shouldn't.

He was a quiet, mild-mannered scientist who spent his career inspecting weapons facilities around the world.

He knew more about Iraq's arsenal than almost anyone alive.

In 2003, Tony Blair's @InstituteGC government published a dossier claiming Saddam Hussein could deploy chemical weapons within 45 minutes. That claim was used to justify a war.

Kelly knew the intelligence behind it was being exaggerated. He said so, privately, to a @BBCNews journalist.

That one conversation destroyed his life.

The government found out he was the source. Instead of protecting a man who had served his country for decades, they quietly let his name reach the press. He was publicly identified, dragged before two parliamentary committees, and grilled by his own employer.

His wife said he came home a broken man.

On the afternoon of 17 July 2003, he left his house for a walk in the Oxfordshire countryside. He was 59 years old. He never came back.

His body was found the next morning in woodland. A knife beside him. A blister pack of painkillers nearby.

Here is where it gets worse.

Tony Blair personally intervened to replace the normal coroner's inquest with a private inquiry run by Lord Hutton.

The original inquest was suspended before it even properly began. It was never resumed. To this day,

Dr David Kelly is the only person in England and Wales in living memory to have died in unexplained circumstances without receiving a full coroner's inquest.

Lord Hutton concluded suicide. Case closed.

Except eight senior doctors and a former coroner wrote to @thetimes saying the verdict was medically unsafe.

The wound found on Kelly's wrist, a severed ulnar artery, would not cause fatal blood loss in a healthy person.

There were no fingerprints on the knife. The painkillers found were not in a quantity that experts considered lethal.

The government's response, delivered by Attorney General Dominic Grieve in 2011, was essentially: the Hutton Inquiry was good enough, stop asking questions.

Think about that. A man quietly raised concerns about the biggest political deception in modern British history, a war that led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. He was publicly exposed, professionally destroyed, and found dead days later and the government personally made sure there would never be a proper independent investigation into how he died.

Tony Blair went on to become a Middle East Peace Envoy. He has a knighthood.

Dr David Kelly got a private inquiry, a rushed verdict, and a sealed post-mortem report that was not released to the public for years.

Nobody was ever held accountable. Not for any of it.

This story should be on the front page every single year. Share it if you think it matters.

Sources: @BBCNews @guardian @thetimes @PrivateEyeNews

[A C Barrett @Anneofstirling]

@jeremycorbyn water is in public ownership in Scotland

[Candice Holmes @hol40900]

BBC cuts hundreds of jobs while its *royal coverage remains £86m-a-year PR machine* for the Palace .

Licence fee payers fund a monarchy that *pays zero capital gains tax*, while workers lose livelihoods. 🎭📺 ##AbolishTheMonarchy