Flatulent1

Highlands. Pro-fairness. Pro-Scotland. Pro-peace. Anti-Westminster for obvious reasons.

[Flatulent1 @FlatulentOne]

@DrRosena Retard

[Flatulent1 @FlatulentOne]

@CRobertsonUK Considering we voted no a relatively few years ago, the polls haven't moved since then and 60% have just voted for unionist parties, how much leverage do we really have?

[Flatulent1 @FlatulentOne]

@history99917180 Fuck all to do with you.

You worry about your own bankrupt little shithole.

[Rt Hon Spike Wallace the 2nd @Anthony58340236]

The absolute shite people of Scotland were conned with.

[Indy Majority @Indy_Majority]

@Bairn74 The SNP/Scotland has no control over the North Sea O&G since you britnat idiots voted for control over it to be reserved to London, you are to blame.

You house jocks are a curse on Scotland.

[Tom Forth @thomasforth]

I've done my four days (of the last six working ones) in London. Hopefully enough for the year. And now on the train home I think I'll do a thread on,... productivity.

[Porridge Drawers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @AwTroon]

I fukn love being Scottish 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙.
We might fight amongst ourselves, that's our business, it's who we are but see when folk fuk us aboot, we become clannish, we fight against wrong.
I love you my bonnie wee homeland, my heart, my fukn warrior country 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙

[Dick Winchester 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @DickWinchester]

@gregorpoynton @ScottishLabour The choice is actually between doing something about this under independence or watching it continue to get worse under neoliberal Unionism,

[Dick Winchester 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @DickWinchester]

@VonnSand @ScottishLabour Yes - it's your fault - you and other Unionists who campaigned to vote for this in 2014. Now, our economy is half the size it should be compared to our small independent neighbours such Denmark & Norway. Sit down..

[Aodh Mag Uidhir - Fìor Titan @Aodh_MagUidhir]

@caie_daniel @FlatulentOne Only an idiot would try use the "once in a generation vote" schtick... Well done, you...

It was only a campaign slogan! Give yourself a slow clap!

It got superseded on the 27th of November 2014 by the Smith Commission report.
https://t.co/rtVVHxfJKV

[Hasan alrabay @HasanEssam29636]

One of the most harrowing sights in human history is seeing a city completely destroyed, as if a nuclear bomb had been dropped on it. Yet the bombing doesn't stop; the relentless gunfire continues. Do you know, dear viewer, that bullets even reach the tents of displaced people, killing and wounding those inside!

[Josh Hunt @iAmJoshHunt]

The British government has wasted more money on failed projects than some countries spend building their entire infrastructure.

After hearing about the cancellation of the Stonehenge Tunnel project, yet it still racking up £179 million in cost, I wanted to look at other projects and costs to see what the picture looks like this century.

Every number here comes from official reports, the National Audit Office, parliamentary committees, and ministers' own admissions.

Let me show you where your money has gone.

HS2 was sold to the country as a £37.5 billion high speed rail network connecting London, Birmingham, Manchester, and Leeds. The first phase was supposed to open this year. In 2026.

Here's where it actually is.

After six years of construction and £46 billion spent, tunnels have been bored, earth has been moved, viaducts have been built. But there is no railway. Not a single metre of track. The legs to Manchester and Leeds have been cancelled entirely. What's left is a line from London to Birmingham with no confirmed opening date, no confirmed final cost, and estimates so unstable that Parliament's own Public Accounts Committee has warned the cash cost of Phase 1 alone could reach £80 billion. Some industry forecasts put it above £100 billion.

The Transport Secretary stood in Parliament last year and called it "an appalling mess." She said billions had been wasted on scope changes, ineffective contracts, and bad management. Fraud allegations have since emerged in the supply chain.

Three times the original price. A fraction of what was promised. And still years from completion.

But HS2 is just one example.

The NHS National Programme for IT was supposed to create a unified electronic health record for every patient in England. Launched in 2002 with a budget of £6 billion. Abandoned in 2011 with the Public Accounts Committee putting the expected cost at £12.4 billion. It delivered a fraction of its promised benefits. Only 13 out of 169 hospital trusts received the systems they were meant to get. Then one of the contractors sued the government and won a settlement of nearly half a billion pounds. On top.

During Covid, the government threw billions out the door with almost no checks. The Covid Counter Fraud Commissioner's final report, published December 2025, found that fraud and error across pandemic support schemes cost taxpayers £10.9 billion. How much has been recovered? £1.8 billion. The Commissioner's words, not mine. The previous government "left the front door open to fraud." Bounce Back Loans were rolled out in under two weeks with no independent verification. PPE contracts were handed to companies with no track record. Defective gowns, masks, and visors weren't inspected for two years. By the time anyone checked, the money was gone.

Universal Credit was supposed to simplify the benefits system. The original programme was budgeted at around £2 billion. The National Audit Office has flagged massive overruns repeatedly as the project ballooned in scope and complexity. Total costs have run many times higher than planned. Nobody was fired.

The smart meter rollout was supposed to be finished by 2020. It wasn't. Costs have hit £13.5 billion. The programme has been dogged by meters losing functionality, missed deadlines, and a failure to deliver the energy savings that justified the whole thing in the first place.

One many of you will be familiar with. The Post Office spent £600 million on a computer system called Horizon. It was fundamentally flawed. Its defects led to more than 900 wrongful convictions. Sub-postmasters lost their homes. Their businesses. Their families. At least 13 people took their own lives. Compensation has now reached £1.4 billion and is expected to hit £2 billion. Fujitsu, the company that built the system, has not paid a single penny toward that bill. It is still collecting government contracts.

The Fire Control project. £469 million. Seven years. An attempt to modernise fire service control rooms. Scrapped. Nothing delivered. What a waste.

The electronic tagging programme. Five years late. Tens of millions spent. Abandoned. They ended up buying off the shelf tags that could have been bought for a fraction of the price years earlier.

The Garden Bridge. £53 million of public money. Not a single piece was built. You might ask what £53 million was spent on exactly.

The Rwanda deportation scheme. £715 million. Four people went voluntarily. Not a single forced deportation was carried out. Then the whole thing was scrapped.

Now here's the part that ties it all together.

In 2019, the Prime Minister's own Implementation Unit looked at the government's £432 billion portfolio of major projects. Only 8% had proper plans to evaluate whether they were working. 64% of that spending, £276 billion, had no evaluation at all. None. The government was spending hundreds of billions of your money with no way of knowing if any of it was delivering.

The National Audit Office has said there has been a "consistent pattern of underperformance" spanning 25 years. Twenty five years of reports saying the same thing. And nothing changes.

Add it up. HS2 overruns. NHS IT written off. £10.9 billion in Covid fraud. Universal Credit ballooning. Smart meters over budget. Post Office compensation approaching £2 billion. Fire Control. Rwanda. Garden Bridge. Tagging. And those are just the ones that made the news. The total runs into the tens of billions. More than the entire annual education budget. Approaching what the government now spends on debt interest in a single year.

And here's the scary part. This is only what we know about. The NAO has been clear the real picture is worse because most projects aren't properly evaluated in the first place. These are the failures too big to hide. Imagine the ones that aren't.

This is the same government that says there's no money for public services. That raises your taxes every year and delivers less every year. That can't build a railway. Can't roll out a computer system. Can't buy protective equipment without losing billions to fraud.

And every time it happens, the pattern is the same. The project fails. The minister moves on. The civil servant gets a knighthood. The contractor gets the next contract. And you pick up the bill.

The UK doesn't have a funding problem. It has a competence problem. And until that changes, no amount of tax rises, borrowing, or spending reviews will make the slightest difference.

[Republican @RepublicanSons]

@ForScotlandSake You voted NO and are now out of the EU and lost your freedom of movement, now paying more for your food gas and electricity while living in a country that has a surplus of each The Union has made you poorer, we will be taking no lessons from you my little subservient

[Very Brexit Problems @VeryBrexitProbs]

The Reform Guide to Patriotism

Step 1:
Complain Britain is a “third world shithole” while living in the world’s 6th largest economy with free healthcare, free education, clean water and a functioning democracy.

Step 2:
Worship billionaires who don’t pay tax in Britain then blame immigrants on minimum wage for ruining the economy and your life. Bonus points if your hero is a crypto bro, a convicted fraudster or an American tech mogul who would never set foot within a thousand miles of your town.

Step 3:
Hate London with every fibre of your being despite not having visited since a school trip to the National History Museum. Call it a “foreign city” and deny it’s one of the world’s great capitals, the global centre of finance, culture, theatre, music and sport that generates a quarter of the UK’s entire GDP and quietly pays for your roads, your hospitals and your benefits. Disown it because you saw a TikTok.

Step 4:
Share hideously designed memes over and over again. Ideally featuring AI generated angry crowds with mashed up faces carrying upside down flags. Or barrel chested bulldogs.

Step 5:
Cheer every piece of bad news about your own country like you’ve won the lottery. Crime stats, NHS queues, potholes, you love it all. If it’s not true share it anyway. If something goes well pretend it didn’t happen. The only time you’re proud to be British is when you’re telling everyone how awful it is.

Step 6:
Discover Christianity despite not setting foot in a church since your mate’s wedding in 2014. Post about “defending Christian values” then spend the rest of the day calling strangers c*nts online.

Step 7:
Shout “Britain is broken” every single day while devouring GB News and trashing the BBC. Get your worldview from a channel owned by a foreign hedge fund or tax-dodging non-dom aristocrats.

Step 8:
Import American MAGA culture war talking points from people who couldn’t find Britain on a map and still insult your military, your cities and your food. Then call everyone else a traitor.

Step 9:
Obsess about boats in the Channel, the EU and the state of the entire developing world despite having practically zero personal experience of any of them.

Step 10:
Vote Reform, a party with no policies that benefit you or survive contact with a calculator. Then wonder why nothing changes.

Bonus:
Change your profile pic to a lion with a Union Jack painted on its face or a historically inaccurate crusader, misspell sovereignty in your bio and tell a stranger on the internet to “wake up” at least three times before lunch.

[Moog @a_toots]

I’ll tell you who’s been suspiciously quiet about his best mate threatening that a “whole civilization will die tonight”.

This cunt.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Nigel Farage was screaming to scrap furlough because it was a waste of money, while he had already claimed £120,000 for himself.

He is a fraud every word is a lie.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Israel continues to demolish the homes of more than 600,000 people in Lebanon, because Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide is what they do.

Can you imagine the outrage if this was being done to Israel?

But Israel does it.

Complete SILENCE.

[Alan Shanks @AlanShanks4]

When you cast your votes in the May remember

Anas Sarwar reports to Keir Starmer
Russell Findlay reports to Kemi Badenoch
Alex Cole-Hamilton reports to Ed Davey
Malcolm Offord Reports to Nigel Farage

John Swinney reports to YOU
Ross Greer and Gillian Mackay report to YOU

[Dorriefraser 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇵🇸 peace, always. @Dorriefraser1]

For those asking what to vote on the list...

[James Kelly @JamesKelly]

I wouldn't normally want to "over-promote" one of my blogposts, but could I seriously encourage everyone to read this one to the end. It contains important information proving that the Scotland In Union propaganda polls are producing fake results -

https://t.co/TaTQ1zuRS6