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[🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Scotland-UN @Scotland_UN]

Scotland’s Inalienable Right to Self-determination:
The Fight for Self-Determination is on the Global Stage as it must be
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Illegal Denial of Self-Determination:
Violating UN General Assembly Resolution 1514 (XV), which states “all peoples have the right to self-determination”

[Liber8 Scotland #AEAS @separatescot]

@WingsScotland Yessssss !
Absolutely brilliant to hear this. Cheers.
(My mood is on the up.)
All the Mrs Murrell stuff was really getting me down.
Well done thon drummer !!!!

[CaledoniaLad @CaledoniaLad]

@WingsScotland @Indy4Scotland Fantastic news! Will the guilty parties close ranks or will they stab each other in the back? Damage limitation will be the overriding priority particularly for the smaller cogs in the conspiracy. It couldn’t happen to a more deserving bunch of dirty rotten scoundrels. 😁

[Wings Over Scotland @WingsScotland]

Alex Salmond legal action against SNP Government 'moving towards' court hearing https://t.co/kCYMcLeZBp

[Robert Slavin @slavin_robert]

Getting exposed in a court near you shortly 🤓😉💪

[John Smythe @JohnSmytheInves]

https://t.co/K0qEY420mh

"Those who persist in believing her guilty, and without offering any evidence, should take a hard look at themselves."

Does the leaked video where Sturgeon warns people about questioning the finances not count as evidence then?

[GBC @GBC_Press]

🚨 BREAKING:

Hundreds of people gathered in Manchester, England, for a pro-Palestine march.

[Bill Cruickshank @BjCruickshank]

A majority of Scottish farmers support the so called union, I have never understood why? https://t.co/CZBIniork7

[liam cunningham @liamcunningham1]

This is Zionism. A psychopathic society.

[The National @ScotNational]

Scottish Labour MPs have been labelled 'lapdogs' after fresh analysis revealed that they use PMQs to ask more about devolved areas and the SNP than UK Government-related issues 👇

[Syrian Girl @Partisangirl]

BREAKING🚨 Jewish terrorists are invading a Christian town in the holy land.

Tens of extremist Jews are invading one of the last Christian villages in the holy land, Taybeh in the West Bank, Palestine.

[LustraSkye @LustraSkye]

A Spanish-owned wind farm off Iona will send power to the GB grid and profits to Qatar and BlackRock. The islands get the view & nothing else.

MachairWind: proposed 2GW fixed-bottom project NW of Islay & west of Colonsay (visible from Iona, Mull, Colonsay, Jura, Staffa).

Up to 91 turbines ~335-340m tip height (or more smaller ones) over ~448-450 km².

Owned by ScottishPower Renewables, wholly owned by Iberdrola.

Profits flow to Iberdrola & major shareholders including Qatar Investment Authority (~7%) BlackRock (~6%). Seabed rights from Crown Estate Scotland’s 2022 ScotWind round.

Consent decision expected ~2027.

Power lands near Girvan & enters the GB transmission network via SP Energy Networks’ Western Link 2 (HVDC with National Grid) at the proposed Grangestone switching station, enabling flow to Wales & the grid.

None goes to the host islands. Both Scotland and Wales are already net exporters.

Once connected, the electricity will be sold on the open wholesale market (or under any private deal).

If a later Contract for Difference is won, a government company tops up or claws back to a fixed price.

The system operator decides use based on demand & grid limits. No specific customer is locked in.

The host communities are not even on the distribution map.

Local resistance is clear & documented.

Iona Community Council reported ~92% of responding households formally objected while supporting renewables in principle and better locations.

National Trust for Scotland has formally objected over significant impacts on island communities, landscape, tourism, marine life & the cultural heritage of Iona, Staffa & the Treshnish Isles.

Visit Mull & Iona & other local groups have done the same.

This is not Nimbyism. It is communities defending nationally important seascapes against external extraction.

Consent is fully devolved. Scottish Ministers decide Section 36 consent & marine licences on the recommendation of the Marine Directorate.

They can refuse, condition or demand redesign.

Westminster does not control the consent decision.

Political responsibility sits with First Minister John Swinney, Cabinet Secretary Gillian Martin MSP, Minister Jim Fairlie MSP & Minister Stephen Gethins MSP.

If the Scottish Government prioritises Iberdrola’s shareholders over the people of Iona, Mull and Colonsay, rural Scotland will notice in the May 2027 council elections.

This is a test of whether communities who live with the impacts have real weight.

A decision that treats nationally important cultural landscapes as a resource zone for distant capital will be remembered.

Scotland already has the power to act.

Within existing powers the Scottish Government can: treat community & NTS evidence as high-weight; be prepared to refuse or require major redesign; secure binding local equity or revenue shares instead of voluntary crumbs; enforce real local jobs & supply-chain commitments; & protect key viewpoints from Iona & Staffa.

Doing so would show an SNP-led government protects the sovereign democratic and human rights of Scottish communities by standing with them against external vested interests.

It would prove Scotland already exercises meaningful control over its marine resources & that independence is the logical next step to complete that control.

A protest vote for Reform would be an unforced error.

Reform’s UK-centralising politics have no interest in expanding Holyrood’s powers or prioritising Scottish landscapes & community ownership.

MachairWind is not just a planning file. It is the moment to prove Scotland’s renewable transition can be done with, rather than to, its coastal communities & that the value of the wind over Scottish waters belongs first to the people of Scotland.

Contact your MSPs. Support the island community councils and the National Trust for Scotland. Make clear that consent without real local ownership and protection of the seascape is unacceptable

[Roger Gall @Shambles151]

"Ben Gvir: "There are people there who are not alive. They don't need to live. They are not people. I'm doing them a favor by calling them people."

Andy Burnham's Labour Govt has not condemned this openly GENOCIDAL statement.

Please RT until they do.

Thank you.

[Dave Llewellyn @TheIndyNinja1]

Don't get into bed with an Israeli unaware that there's an STD im the post.

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

🇵🇸💔 NEVER FORGET WHAT ISRAEL DID TO GAZA!

[Andrey X @the_andrey_x]

These are Israeli Border Police officers who helped the settler-terrorists starve Palestinian children in Qusra.

MAKE THEM FAMOUS.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

It is just matter of time before they respond of their crimes: soldiers, ministers, bureaucrats, finance, tech and weapon companies CEOs, in Israel and beyond. For it we must keep pushing from all sides, sparing no efforts, for justice in all corners.

[Parody Jeff @Parodyjeffx]

IMPORTANT.

A CNN journalist witnessed Israeli settlers abduct and blindfold a Palestinian farmer for refusing to leave his land, as IDF soldiers stood guard.

He was later shot, while the IDF blocked the road to prevent anyone from coming to his aid, making sure he would die.

[SCC.Public P holleran @pat11060]

McCRONE REPORT.
Withholding the McCrone Report Misled Scotland To this Day
1974–2005
One of the most duplicitous acts the UK perpetrated

In 1974, economist Gavin McCrone wrote a confidential report for the UK Treasury assessing Scotland’s economic prospects if it became independent during the North Sea oil boom
During independence voting .

The report said Scotland would have had.
a strong fiscal surplus
a strong currency
high export revenues
long term financial stability
It was classified and withheld from the Scottish public for 31 years.

What the Report Said
(Key Findings)

McCrone stated
Scotland would be
“embarrassingly rich”
with oil revenues.

An independent Scottish currency would be.
“one of the strongest in Europe.”
Scotland’s balance of payments would be

“massively in surplus.”

The UK Treasury would lose significant revenue
if Scotland left.

These findings directly contradicted the UK public narrative at the time.

Why Withholding the Report Misled Scotland

It concealed Scotland’s true economic strength

The UK public was told Scotland was.
too small,
too poor,
too dependent on
UK subsidies

The McCrone Report showed the exact opposite.

It distorted democratic decision making
Scots voted, debated, and formed political opinions without access to crucial economic information.

This undermined
informed consent
constitutional debate
public trust
economic confidence
In other words they lied to deflect the independence movement from making decisions that would have decisively ended the union if you can call it that.
When a partner lies and is disingenuous it is often time for a divorce.

It protected Westminster’s political position

Releasing the report would have,
boosted independence support
strengthened the SNP
weakened Labour’s dominance in Scotland
destabilised UK political strategy during an oil boom

Withholding it preserved the false narrative.

It allowed that false narrative to dominate for decades

For 30 years, and to this very day the dominant message was
Scotland is subsidised
Scotland cannot afford independence
Scotland is economically weak

This narrative was politically convenient and contradicted by the McCrone Report.

It shaped generations of public perception

The secrecy meant
Scots grew up believing Scotland was financially fragile
economic confidence was suppressed
independence was seen as risky
Scotland’s viability was underestimated
The UK pretended it was a good honest partner?

This has had long term political consequences.
For Scotland (1974–2005) till today Scott’s have been and still are being misled.

This Lost opportunity for early independence debate undermines the true picture now as then.

The 1970s were the moment when
oil was booming
the SNP was rising
Scotland’s economic leverage was strongest

Withholding the report removed the strongest argument for independence at the exact moment it mattered.

Reinforced dependency
Centralised UK control over
oil revenues,
the word centralised doesn’t cover it the UK took control, reserved all oil matters to itself and used it to support its own country while destabilising Scotland.
industrial policy
taxation
economic strategy

Keeping Scotland dependent and unable to demonstrate its true viability.

When the report was released in 2005
many Scots knew and felt deceived
The mistrust of Westminster increased
independence arguments gained new credibility
the secrecy became symbolic of wider political manipulation

This Altered Scotland’s constitutional trajectory

It is impossible to know what would have happened if the report had been public, but
independence support was high in the 1970s
oil wealth was at its peak
Scotland’s economic case was strongest
Withholding the report undeniably changed the country the UK misled Scotland about its economic strength, suppressed public confidence in independence, and allowed a false narrative of Scottish weakness to dominate political life for decades.
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[Mark Hirst @Documark]

The signs were all there, in fact, they were evident much longer than 10 years ago.

[Fergie @Fergie_CJ]

One thing about Alex Salmond. Even after the attempt to jail him, when he'd seen what former colleagues, people he'd given careers to, mentored, and thought were friends had done, I never heard him badmouth anyone. Even Sturgeon. When pressed, he refused to. By contrast...