When put that way Annie, the entire story is exposed as utterly ridiculous - as most countries that suffered from Anglo-British colonialism can see.
We're being asked to believe that Scotland was the only country in the world that England decided to help out, not exploit, through the sheer goodness of their hearts.
Only the sort of person foolish, or ignorant enough to believe the Anglo-British Empire was an exercise in altruism would swallow that one.
What I am suggesting is to turn the desire for independence against England's political parties, then watch as England sees itself as demanding to be English again - if Ukip had rebranded to that then England would be even more independent out of the UK as it is in it.
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Riding Whoosh highspeed train between Jakarta & Bandung built by China with Indonesia in 7 years for $7bn for 132km, reaching 350km/hour. The English colonial state can't build HS2 in already 17 years, will need over 30 years, over $130bn & steals billions from Scotland for it. As an English colony, Scotland's potential is completely squandered and its wealth plundered. With its liberation, Scotland can build an amazing high-speed rail system connecting all of Scotland. There is no future for Scotland as an English colony.
@AngGallacher@LiberationScot I just tried to sign up and I'm getting the "your name must be 9 letters or less and no numbers" My first and last names are both less than 9 letters and contain no numbers.
James, there is no ‘the UN’; it’s an organisation made up of representatives from 193 states, six main committees and hundreds of sub committees. We just got back from the C24 seminar in Managua -podcast being put together now. We held the meetings we needed to hold - successfully - and our legal representative put forward proposals for adoption which will speed things up considerably. Also the changed climate meant that he could mention Scotland and others waiting for decolonisation by name without being removed for breaking the protocol. (Previously you could only mention too. the names of the territories already listed.) So the whole C24 heard that Scotland awaits decolonisation! (So much for the colonial secretariat burying our notifications!) Meanwhile we’re working behind the scenes on strategies which will directly affect both international recognition of our right to self determination and our situation right now. (Enforcing rights ignored by our political ‘champions’ until now.)
We have years of campaigning to catch up on and have been at this, working internationally, for just over a year! Think about that. And given the way we have already been faced with ‘grey zone diplomacy’ by the British state and its allies, I am sure you’ll forgive me if I only say we have powerful support from other states and do not say who that is!
@IainAlasdair@DannyConway1875@Dougmcg1 It's a notional debt A figure estimated as Scotland's share of UK debt. Said "debt" is then covered by a fiscal transfer where no money is exchanged. If RUK tried to assign Scotland a debt on independence, Scotland would also claim a share of UK assets, easily covering any debt.
The middle class, or rather the modern middle class, own politics no different to the rich in owning them and the media as king makers.
And if you think ReformUK, Tories, and especially Labour are the parties of the worker class - I have some magic beans for sale.
Graphic factually corrected for accuracy. The party leaders for Tories, Labour, LibDems & Reform as registered with the Electoral Commission for the ScotParl election were: Badenoch; Starmer; Davey; Farage. None are registered Scottish parties.
@tmtrnrx Some of us in Scotland are really trying to piss off but your friendly and welcoming disposition is making some want to stay. If you could be a bit more forthright with your opinions, more Scots might want to piss off too.
@LiberateScot@GMac_Dod@HazelLyon16@Mearns4Indy It's become a wicked problem. There appears to be no way to convince a BVSNP that there is another way. We're three elections down that road and no closer to convincing enough people of #bothvotesindy instead. Turnout is the casualty as people feel scunnered by the hopelessness.
Well done SNP and Greens but ...
625,949 SNP list votes got 1 seat.
Had the SNP gotten their 62+ seats they would have had no list seats.
If 625,949 votes had gone to other independence parties then that would have meant another 14 or so indy seats.
73 + 14 = 87 which is a super majority.
So what we predicted came true.
We lost a super majority to SNP 1&2.
We can only hope John Swinney gets that section 30 he promised.
The surprise is that Greens got 15 seats and Reform 15 rather than the 19 predicted.
I'll do another round of what if https://t.co/png8sbPzSE starting next weekend to see what we could have won.
I have no confidence that anything will change for the next 5 years.
Fast forward to Friday.
We settle down for more asset stripping of Scotland by Westminster and the SNP don't mention independence again until the General Election.
It's sad. But this is Scotland's Electoral Cycle.
If you want change, get voting Alliance to LIBERATE Scotland!
The vote on Thursday isn’t getting counted until Friday. Plenty of time to rub out votes & doctor them if the powers that be chose to do so. The way to ensure this doesn’t happen or for you to be confident it won’t happen is to take a pen with you & don’t use the polling pencils.
@Mearns4Indy@alexmassie They never do. Either the "journalists" or the Brit punters, especially the blue ticks. It's quite the revenue generator, being against #Scottishindependence
@barbiographer@alexmassie The union appears to be the safest with the SNP, which Massie surely knows. If some Brit party won, their union would be over before you could say unmitigated Westminster policies.