Colin Smith

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[Colin Smith @NoteTaker_X]

This is a masterclass in statistical lying to manufacture a constitutional grievance. You claim the Prime Minister is taking “up to £4bn from Scotland's pensioners to pay for social care in England”, but your own Deputy First Minister’s letter admits that £4bn figure is an unadjusted cash-terms extrapolation for 2049–50, nearly a quarter of a century away. Terrifying pensioners today with compounding spreadsheet projections for 24 years in the future is cynical politics. More importantly, the claim that Scottish money is going south to fund English care is completely fabricated. Social care is fully devolved. If the UK Government invests money into an English National Care Service, the Barnett formula automatically triggers massive, proportional block grant windfalls straight into Holyrood's bank account. Scotland doesn't pay for English care; Holyrood gets a cash payout because of it. The ultimate irony is that Scotland’s population is ageing faster than the rest of the UK. Scottish pensions are currently underwritten by a 68-million-strong UK tax base and an annual £25.3bn UK Treasury fiscal transfer. If Scotland were independent, facing a 10% structural deficit without a central bank, you couldn't maintain existing state pensions on Day 1, let alone in 2050. Honest John?😂

[Colin Smith @NoteTaker_X]

Oh, look at John Swinney deploying the classic SNP “I am disgusted!” shield to completely dodge a perfectly legitimate administrative question.
Russell Findlay pointed out the reality that a Green MSP was elected while holding a temporary visa and does not have the legal right to remain in the UK for their full parliamentary term ending in 2031. How exactly does an MSP plan to legislate and serve their constituents if their visa runs out halfway through the job? Instead of answering the logistics of this, Swinney throws a grandstanding moral tantrum, completely ignoring the fact that Holyrood's own Standards Committee urged the government to reconsider this rule and that 77% of the public consultation firmly opposed it.
Dismissing your own parliamentary committees and the vast majority of the Scottish public just so you can fire insults at the opposition is typical SNP arrogance.
Another thick as mince article from the National.

[Colin Smith @NoteTaker_X]

Oh, look at John Swinney deploying the classic SNP “I am disgusted!” shield to completely dodge a perfectly legitimate administrative question.
Russell Findlay pointed out the reality that a Green MSP was elected while holding a temporary visa and does not have the legal right to remain in the UK for their full parliamentary term ending in 2031. How exactly does an MSP plan to legislate and serve their constituents if their visa runs out halfway through the job? Instead of answering the logistics of this, Swinney throws a grandstanding moral tantrum, completely ignoring the fact that Holyrood's own Standards Committee urged the government to reconsider this rule and that 77% of the public consultation firmly opposed it.
Dismissing your own parliamentary committees and the vast majority of the Scottish public just so you can fire insults at the opposition is typical SNP arrogance.
Another thick as mince article from the National.

[Colin Smith @NoteTaker_X]

Billy, you just cannot stop digging this hole😂
You get humiliated for using a Walter Scott novel to invent a fake medieval archer, so what is your brilliant comeback? You start scrolling through 19th-century French literature magazines to find a quote from an 1856 review to prove that... Scotland is romantic?
Oh, fantastic work, Billy😂
Yes, a 19th-century French writer talking about the “poésie” and “imagination” of Scotland completely undoes the fact that you presented a fictional Walter Scott character as a real-life figure.
You are trying to prove that your romanticised view of history is accurate by quoting 19th-century romantic poetry reviews😂
The total lack of self-awareness is embarrassing here.

[Colin Smith @NoteTaker_X]

@NiadhMcaoidh @billykayscot Billy is an idiot

[Colin Smith @NoteTaker_X]

Lesley Riddoch confidently declares, and The National enthusiastically subtitles, that Estonia is “the country that became independent most recently”. Really?
Have you guys completely forgotten about South Sudan in 2011? Or Kosovo in 2008? Or Montenegro in 2006? Or East Timor in 2002? Or Eritrea and Slovakia in 1993? Being off by a full two decades and entirely forgetting the creation of over half a dozen modern sovereign nations is just embarrassing for a supposedly serious political commentator😂
Also, boldly calling a Baltic state one of our “Nordic neighbours” just tops off the complete lack of basic research. “Speechless” is right & thick as mince also.

[Colin Smith @NoteTaker_X]

The absolute desperation here is palpable.
You are clinging to my mix-up over the polling case like it’s the Titanic's last door, entirely because you are terrified to answer the actual question. The “entire basis” of my argument was never about a specific poll; the basis of my argument is that your SNP administration wastes hundreds of thousands of pounds of taxpayer money fighting in court to hide documents from the public. And you proved my point for me earlier by listing out the £73k they spent hiding the James Hamilton documents and their ongoing 2026 FOI appeal.
I freely admitted my mistake, but you still refuse to admit yours: that your government is fundamentally allergic to transparency. You claim I have nothing “substantive left”, but your government’s massive legal bills for FOI obstruction are the absolute substance. Now jog on back to your main account; the 0-follower burner routine is incredibly tired.

[Colin Smith @NoteTaker_X]

Look, a nationalist on Twitter demanding evidence that the Scottish Government spent hundreds of thousands of pounds trying to hide their own independence polling!
How incredibly on-brand.
Moira thinks because she personally hasn't heard about it, it “never happened”. Well Moira, allow me to burst your bubble of fabricated ignorance.
Not only is it true, but they were dragged all the way to the Supreme Court over it.
But wait, it actually gets even better: just a few months ago in June 2026, the Scottish Information Commissioner had the Scottish Government found in contempt of court at the Court of Session for unlawfully hiding files.
The entire nationalist grievance machine is currently having a meltdown over Andy Burnham allegedly keeping a UK poll secret, completely oblivious to the fact that their own SNP administration treats transparency laws like optional suggestions and requires court orders just to release basic documents.

[Moira @FinnGunn]

@NoteTaker_X I expect he is oblivious to it because it never happened.

If you think you know differently, feel free to provide evidence that they...

"used hundreds of thousands of pounds of public money trying to hide their internal polling on Scottish independence from the public."

[Colin Smith @NoteTaker_X]

@ScobbieJames Dropping your ridiculous “bigotry” accusation, I see😂 Claiming the difference between a temporary contract and permanent chattel slavery is just “academic” is despicable. Servants were humans; slaves were property whose children were sold as livestock.

[Colin Smith @NoteTaker_X]

“recognizing”?
Mate, if you are going to use ChatGPT to write your replies for you, at least remember to change the American spelling to British English before you hit send. And maybe ask the AI to fix your primary-school “Your” typo while you're at it.
You are so completely out of your depth trying to equate a 3-7 year indentured contract with permanent, hereditary chattel slavery that you are literally outsourcing your Scottish victimhood complex to an American chatbot.
Getting completely fact-checked on your fake grievance and then immediately replying with a typo-ridden, AI-generated Americanism is embarrassing 😂

[James Scobbie @ScobbieJames]

So what was the mortality rate for indentured in the mid 1700s ?

Your the one focused on one race rather than recognizing it affected many more.

[Colin Smith @NoteTaker_X]

@Peter__A__Bell @BornonLoveStre1 😂

[Colin Smith @NoteTaker_X]

Peter, why on earth are you asking me, a Unionist-how to “create consensus” within the Scottish independence movement?
I don't want you to have consensus.
I think it is hilarious that your movement is entirely fractured and at war with itself.
And thank you for doing my job for me by declaring that the SNP only uses the word “independence” as a “sloganeering soundbite, nothing more”.
You just told everyone that the supposed “party of independence” has no actual plan, that your movement has no “singular and specific” point of agreement, and that you all despise each other. This isn't a profound political philosophy, Peter; it's a stunning public suicide note for your entire campaign😂

[Colin Smith @NoteTaker_X]

@ScobbieJames Accusing me of “bigotry” because I expect a Scottish nationalist to use British spelling is hilarious.
And no, equating a temporary 3-7 year contract to permanent chattel slavery is NOT a “main stream” argument. It's ahistorical nonsense to feed your victim complex😂

[Colin Smith @NoteTaker_X]

@Peter__A__Bell In what way?

[Colin Smith @NoteTaker_X]

@weirb @NiadhMcaoidh @billykayscot When presented with the fact that your side is comparing Scottish history to a religion to justify praising a fictional character, your only response is a five-letter slang acronym😂

[Colin Smith @NoteTaker_X]

For someone whose bio boasts about having a degree in “Politics, Philosophy and Economic”, blaming a domestic Labour packaging tax on a “daft Brexit” is spectacularly lazy.
Robert Jenrick's tweet is complaining about a new domestic tax on packaging driving up shopping bills. Throwing “Brexit” as a magic, catch-all excuse for every single domestic tax policy just proves you didn't even read the tweet you are replying to.
What exactly did they teach you in that Economics degree?

[Colin Smith @NoteTaker_X]

Moira, my “mate” Tony is absolutely correct, and you are projecting right now. You are so desperately trying to paint me as an “ill-informed buffoon” because I mixed up which specific government was hiding which specific documents, while you are defending a nationalist grievance machine that is crying about Andy Burnham allegedly keeping a UK poll secret, completely oblivious to the fact that your own SNP administration treats transparency laws like optional suggestions.
You want to talk about “ill-informed”?
You created this account in September 2024, have exactly zero followers, and have made a grand total of 43 posts, almost entirely dedicated to fighting people about Nicola Sturgeon or John Swinney. This is 100% a burner account created just to cater for the SNP.
Jog on back to your main account, Moira.

[Colin Smith @NoteTaker_X]

@dishgirl4 @80_mcswan I think you have been on your knees more than any of us

[Colin Smith @NoteTaker_X]

Moira, I hold my hands up, I mixed up the UK Government's polling cover-up with the SNP's James Hamilton cover-up. My mistake.
But clinging to my mix-up like a life raft doesn't change the substance of my argument. You are using a typo to avoid addressing the reality that your government wasted £73,000 of our money at the Court of Session fighting the Information Commissioner to hide documents.
And now they are facing the Supreme Court in August 2026 for further unlawful FOI obstruction.
The exact documents change, but the SNP's expensive, taxpayer-funded secrecy remains exactly the same.

[Colin Smith @NoteTaker_X]

This is what's called Scottish Government hypocrisy.
Oxfam is begging Holyrood ministers to set an “unapologetically high” tax on private jets to prove that their “climate leadership does not stop at speeches”.
Do they not realise who they are talking to?
The Scottish Government owns Glasgow Prestwick Airport, which effectively operates as a massive, state-run petrol station for international private jets and US military flights😂
They are supposedly going to crack down on this “extraordinary excess” by 2028, while simultaneously keeping their own nationalised airport afloat by selling endless thousands of gallons of aviation fuel to the exact same super-polluting VIPs😂
You can't pose as a global climate champion when your government is the one holding the VIP fuel pump.

[Colin Smith @NoteTaker_X]

The absolute projection here is off the charts😂
You are defending the First Minister of Scotland, the leader of a Scottish nationalist party, who used an official government letterhead to throw a defensive tantrum just because an MP accurately noticed his social media team messed up a scheduled tweet at 11 am... and you have the absolute cheek to call me a “member of the britnat cult” who suffers from “toxic nationalism”?
John Swinney couldn't just act like a normal leader and say, “Whoops, administrative error on the 11 am post.” Instead, he demanded a grovelling apology like a fragile medieval king, and you are instantly right here in the replies posting silly little cartoons to fiercely defend his honour.
Look in the mirror, who is really the one acting like they are in a cult here?

[Colin Smith @NoteTaker_X]

@skarabrae580129 @NakedEngineer2 @OnThe7thDay1 Or me😂

[Colin Smith @NoteTaker_X]

Deleted i see @OnThe7thDay1 😂😂
If GERS is compiled “independently”, then it's an objective National Statistic.
Which means the massive fiscal transfer it shows is an undeniable fact.
You just debunked your own conspiracy.
Also, who makes dinner out of bottled water?
Actual ingredients are zero-rated.
Thick as mince again John.