Frank R

Former European small cap fund manager and investment trust non exec director. Charity trustee and landlord.

[Frank R @FFASMR4]

@Alison1mackITV @KemiBadenoch @ITVCentral In terms of finance in most certainly is Edinburgh.

[Aye News @newshacksreboot]

No doubt her only achievement as an MP will
be as the most annoying self publicist in SNP history
and given the competition
that is quite an achievement.

[Frank R @FFASMR4]

@Malser @BenKentish Please don’t tar us all in Scotland with the same brush. Many Scots, myself included, find this attitude/ behaviour embarrassing and pathetic.

[Frank R @FFASMR4]

@TRHLofficial @RachelT1722 England did nothing of the sort. Britain did. Someone clearly skipped their history classes!

[Frank R @FFASMR4]

@ArchieHicoxGB @Mr_Andrew_Fox Archie, no one is questioning where the BoB took place. I just don’t believe that this football song is trying to educate us on the geographical location of the bases. For interest the 1st bombing over the UK was over Shetland & the first downed German fighter was near Edinburgh

[Frank R @FFASMR4]

@Spijker51 I agree with you wholeheartedly. There should be a specific English anthem. However using Rule Britannia is inappropriate. It is a song about Britain not England and the power of the Royal Navy which is a British service recruiting from all of Britain. Jerusalem 👍❤️

[Merryn Somerset Webb @MerrynSW]

Much of Scotland's problem in a nutshell. Mean spirited suggestion that somehow living in a flat on a taxpayer funded salary is superior to being the kind of person who gets up every day to make the real money and pays the taxes. And can then afford the things you can't....

[Frank R @FFASMR4]

@Friar_Balsam @PeteWishart Really? One of the founders, Robert Rintoul, was Scottish.

[Frank R @FFASMR4]

@alexmassie Then I apologise.

[Frank R @FFASMR4]

@alexmassie That’s not what you implied.

[Al Carns @AlistairCarns]

The UK served on the frontline in Afghanistan and often way beyond it!

[Frank R @FFASMR4]

@AngusBMacNeil And yet he hasn’t let Quebec secede from Canada. Perhaps you misread him?

[Cllr Todd Ferguson @ToddFergusonNAA]

Absolute mince, so allow me to respond to this tartan tin foil hat brigade! I’m sick of the utter garbage they spout!

The idea that Scotland is a “hidden colony” is not just historically illiterate, it’s an insult to the very nation this person claims to defend.

We built ships that crossed the world. We have mountains and seas named for our explorers. We led the Enlightenment. We engineered industries that powered continents. We founded universities others still envy. We were generals, inventors, philosophers, and statesmen. We are NOT some gagged underclass needing to be rescued. A people with Scotland’s proud legacy does not need fabricated chains to justify our worth.

If Westminster were an imperial master, we were hardly the subservient cousin. Scotland has steered Britain’s direction countless times: socially, militarily, intellectually, economically. We’ve produced Prime Ministers, driven legislation, led regiments feared and respected worldwide. We forged the Empire in the fire of our might, we didn’t cower beneath it.

Our country stands in the Union by choice, with representation, votes, devolved powers, and we are the only part of the U.K. who has had a vote on whether we stay or go. That’s not colonisation.

The tragic thing is this melodramatic victimhood from Nats sells Scotland short. It reduces our nation of world-shapers into a pretend prisoner. It swaps our pride for paranoia. It tells me and my fellow Scots to see themselves as oppressed rather than powerful.

I’m proud to be Scottish, not because someone tells me we’re fragile, but because history proves we’re anything but. We’re innovators. Fighters. Builders. Thinkers. We don’t need fantasy chains to feel significant. Our achievements speak louder than any conspiracy can shout.

And I refuse to let anyone rewrite our past into a a pathetic tragedy just to justify their narrow insular politics.

I’ll leave you with this from The Bard:

“DOES haughty Gaul invasion threat?
Then let the loons beware, Sir;
There’s wooden walls upon our seas,
And volunteers on shore, Sir:
The Nith shall run to Corsincon,
And Criffel sink in Solway,
Ere we permit a foreign foe
On British ground to rally!”

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[Frank R @FFASMR4]

@nick_anstead @KennyFarq Apologies….. H band

[Frank R @FFASMR4]

@nick_anstead @KennyFarq That certainly wasn’t my experience as a G band property owner in Edinburgh where my 2017-18 council tax increased by 26% in a single year. That’s a £612 increase. The average for band G was in fact £335.