Skottawa

“Scotland is a country, not a county.” … To independence and beyond …

[Talking-up Scotland @ProfJWR]

Why might BBC Scotland snub the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce's big news about Scotland leading the UK? https://t.co/pPn6f5v3HQ

[Talking-up Scotland @ProfJWR]

Independence cover-up: We would be rich https://t.co/5iOLS6HCYP

[John McKissock @JohnMcKissock]

Glasgow ten years after the extraction of North Sea Oil began
Not only was Scotland's wealth stolen but its industry broken down to keep it powerless, to remove its potential to stop the theft.
So finding oil made Scots poorer.
Now colonial bargain hunters deliver the final blow

[ScotNews @indyscotnews]

The English Crown has as little legitimacy in Scotland as the English state. The constitutional hoax of the 1707 Union is becoming common knowledge.
#occupiers #colonisers

[Talking-up Scotland @ProfJWR]

The power of nightmares - the real reasons why the BBC made THAT Glasgow documentary? https://t.co/XDPrBl1GNB

[@Toberonochy @tober70986277]

As #WilliamWallace is trending, remember that he was wrongly charged as a traitor. He had never sworn fealty to King Edward of England. He was not a rebel, he was fighting invaders, defending Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 against foreign conquest. https://t.co/ODndfsrlTZ

[Tock @yvan_theriault]

De Gaules

Quand il était président, Charles de Gaulle estimait que l’argent public devait être strictement intouchable.

Au Palais de l’Élysée, il était impensable que l’État prenne en charge la moindre dépense personnelle.

Son épouse, Yvonne de Gaulle, tenait un petit carnet dans lequel elle notait avec rigueur toutes les dépenses du foyer : électricité, nourriture, vêtements, savon… rien n’était laissé au hasard.

Chaque mois, le couple envoyait un chèque au Trésor public afin de rembourser ces frais strictement privés.

Un jour, le comptable de l’Élysée lui fit remarquer que cela n’était « pas nécessaire ».
Elle répondit avec fermeté :
« Tout ce qui n’est pas public est privé, et ce qui est privé, c’est à nous de le payer. »

Leur exigence allait encore plus loin :
leurs enfants et petits-enfants n’avaient pas le droit d’utiliser les voitures officielles pour des déplacements personnels.
Charles de Gaulle refusait les privilèges liés à sa fonction.
Il réglait lui-même toutes ses dépenses à l’Élysée — jusqu’au savon ou aux repas de famille — et avait même choisi de renoncer à son salaire présidentiel, vivant uniquement de sa pension de général.

À sa mort, il ne laissa aucune fortune, seulement sa maison à Colombey-les-Deux-Églises, acquise avant la guerre.
On raconte même qu’il envoyait spontanément des chèques au Trésor public dès qu’un doute existait sur une dépense privée réglée par l’État.

Un sens de l’intégrité et du devoir qui force encore aujourd’hui le respect…
et qui rappelle que le véritable prestige ne réside pas dans les privilèges, mais dans l’exemplarité. 🇫🇷

[Saganism @Saganismm]

"Thomas Jefferson taught that a democracy was impractical unless the people were educated. No matter how stringent the protections of the people might be in constitutions or common law, there would always be a temptation, Jefferson thought, for the powerful, the wealthy, and the unscrupulous to undermine the ideal of government run by and for ordinary citizens.

The antidote is vigorous support for the expression of unpopular views, widespread literacy, substantive debate, a common familiarity with critical thinking, and skepticism of pronouncements of those in authority—which are all also central to the scientific method."

— Carl Sagan

[Iain Mackenzie 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿󠁧󠁧🇪🇺🐦 @iain_00]

ANTI-SCOTTISH INDUSTRIAL SABOTAGE BY UK GOV:
Former @scotgov economics minister, Kate Forbes, said at the time that the decision was ‘simply, sabotage of Scotland’s industrial future’.
Even Vince Cable agrees...
https://t.co/cdb6dya3Og

[Talking-up Scotland @ProfJWR]

A third of only 131 staff, out of 1 000 plus GB Energy staff promised by Labour in 2024, live outside Scotland:

[Sara Salyers @SSalyers2]

Every pro-independence Scot needs to understand this. Please share and keep sharing.🙏

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

Same population as Scotland but independent & running their own economy. Just more evidence Scotland should as well.

[Talking-up Scotland @ProfJWR]

Fantastic news as Scotsman predicts its readers with second homes WILL face tax rises of 300% https://t.co/5SMmwB7uWY

[The Scotland Channel @ScotlandTh82958]

Officials from several nations have privately expressed their support for the efforts of Liberation Scotland to join the United Nations list of countries seeking decolonisation, a statement from Salvo confirmed. #UnitedNations #Scotland #LiberationScotland #Salvo #SaraSalyers

[Andy Wightman @andywightman]

I have published a blog (link in last tweet of this thread) digging deeper into the controversy (first reported in @ScotNational on Sunday) over the dues demanded for the exercise of ferry rights over the Caolas an Lamhachaidh at Kyle Rhea. 1/5

[Alan Ferrier @alanferrier]

A reminder, following the @billykayscot stramash, of the late, lamented Derek Bateman's opinion on the matter, which which I happen to broadly agree.

[Sara Salyers @SSalyers2]

PACK THE GALLERY THIS THURSDAY!

​The UK government is trying to sideline distinct Scots Law to block our judicial review of the Palestine Action proscription. We cannot let English judicial decisions overrule Scottish legal autonomy.

​This case hits three massive pillars:
1️⃣ Ending complicity in Gaza & UK weapons production.
2️⃣ Defending free speech & the right to protest.
3️⃣ Protecting Scots Law and the Claim of Right from Westminster overreach.

​We need 100 people to fill Court 1,
Court of Session, Edinburgh.

📅 Thursday, August 20th at 9:00 AM.

​If Craig Murray loses this argument, any Scots law Westminster dislikes could be set aside. Show up, support the review, and defend civil liberties!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙

[Liberation Scotland Committee @LiberationScot]

@cabinetofficeuk You liars. These 'investments' are extractive of Scottish energy and water, contributing a handful of low-grade jobs for locals while doing as you always do; rob Scots of our sovereign resources. This is not your territory; get out.

[James Campbell @J4m35c4mpb3ll]

''I’m not an Englishman, I was never an Englishman, and I don’t ever want to be one. I am a Scotsman! I was a Scotsman and I will always one.'' Sean Connery.

[Liberation Scotland Committee @LiberationScot]

This is an important cartoon. It shows an American understanding of the British empire as nothing other than an English enterprise.

Puck was a US magazine, founded in 1876 by Astrian-born American cartoonist, Joseph Keppler. It had huge influence in its day. Keppler shows in the mid 1880s Scotland as the foundation stone of a burgeoning, if teetering, English Empire. Capitalism had taken root in that country by virtue of its particular brand of feudalism, and the intense enclosure activity that it permitted, and rapidly led to a drive for resources and markets by way of imperial expansion. Keppler and his audience took the colonisation of Scotland for granted.

Most interestingly, Liberation Scotland's experience among diplomats in Geneva, New York and elsewhere is that nothing in this regard is any different today. Our colonised status under an English hegemony is simply regarded as a given. There is even a surprise they should be asked.

So many in Scotland have a serious blind spot; can't see this truth, or won't see it. That it should be so prevalent in the main nationalist party and among so many independence pundits, viscerally opposed to taking our case to the world ­– as we've seen recently in myopic @ScotNational pieces from certain independence protagonists – is particularly distubing.

@Dr_W_E_Bulmer reposted this cartoon, and it's pleasing to see his comments on the colonial character of Scotland it depicts, calling it the "inner empire"