doug

DUFC, My children, Independence.

[David Henry @DavidDhenry]

The UK has been badly managed by decades of incompetent Unionists. The Unionists have never needed to run the economy well as they had another country to rob to subsidise there economy. The Empire made them rich but that's all gone and since Thatcher sold almost everything off followed by #Labour who removed regulations and left the UK open to hostile foreign investors who strip profits and pile on debt so revenue is transferred to tax havens.

Well done you sold off the future and now all you have is debt. At least you can trade with the #EU and their 450million consumer's. Oh wait a minute no you can't because you left the #EU. Fantastic they even sold off oil refineries to £Billionaire tax avoiding spivs who live in Monaco. Now the price of Diesel is over £2.00 a litre. Watch out more inflation you will soon not be able to pay your rent or mortgage. 🇬🇧

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

Former UN Chief Absolutely Demolishes October 7 Lies

[doug @douglasgibb77]

Learn a language with me for free! Duolingo is fun, and proven to work. Here’s my invite link: https://t.co/1l6wXtGs1A

[doug @douglasgibb77]

@JNHanvey sorry Neale, jokes are meant to be funny. what this is, is a man turning Scotland into an unwilling international joke. It is us being laughed at. We need to get rid of the SNP and start again. This is not a serious party of independence. all it does is enforce dependence.

[doug @douglasgibb77]

Losing My Religion: https://t.co/ZblwEy2pm4 - via:@CraigMurrayOrg

[doug @douglasgibb77]

@JNHanvey @seedsgirl I thought the whole point of having a RCN rep was that they could understand any problems you may have from the perspective of a nurse. take that away and what is left?

[doug @douglasgibb77]

@CraigMurrayOrg maybe Russia should start a "friends of Russia" lobbying/donating group for "our" politicians. bought and sold for Israeli gold...

[doug @douglasgibb77]

@Documark @JohnSwinney They are turning my beautiful country into a banana colony.

[𝐏𝐚𝐧𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥 @SankaraDispatch]

A Chinese lawmaker delivers a brutal lecture to the United States at the UN Security Council:

"Where does a country ruled by the Epstein class, while turning a blind eye to the genocide of the Palestinians, get the moral authority to lecture us on civil liberties?"

[doug @douglasgibb77]

@Annemarieward just stood up and clapped after reading that. Brilliant post.

[Annemarie Ward 💜 @Annemarieward]

Yes, it is. The disappearance of the working-class voice from Scottish politics is not a footnote. It is THE headline. A young Scottish man today is three times more likely to die early than his counterpart in England, Spain, or Italy. The causes are not mysterious: drugs, suicide, cancer. The fallout of poverty, neglect, family breakdown, and political inertia. Scotland is now the only developed country where mortality among men aged 25 to 44 is rising. Life expectancy in parts of Calton sits closer to post-Soviet mining towns than to a modern Western European city. The kind of statistic you expect to find in a World Health Organisation briefing on social collapse, not in a nation that endlessly describes itself as compassionate and progressive.

And nowhere is this failure more visible than in our prisons. Young men face staggering levels of despair, with suicide attempts at terrifying rates. Yet we continue spending almost as much incarcerating people for a year as it would cost to provide meaningful residential rehabilitation and recovery support. When over 70% of crimes are committed either under the influence of substances or driven by addiction itself, does it not make more moral, social and economic sense to invest seriously in recovery rather than endlessly recycling damaged people through systems of containment?
We were promised that devolution would bring power closer to the people. But for those I know, in addiction, in recovery, in poverty, in communities where hope itself feels rationed, Holyrood has often felt further away than ever.

Yes, we have improved representation in some important areas, sex and ethnic diversity, and that matters. But let’s be honest enough to admit the Parliament increasingly looks more like Scotland while sounding less like Scotland.

The accents of managerial politics have replaced the voices of ordinary working people. The language is polished, therapeutic, procedural, endlessly consultative, yet somehow emotionally weightless.

Politics has become a performance of compassion rather than the hard, costly business of practising it.

As @PaulEmbery put it: “Britain isn’t experiencing social turmoil because of ‘far-right’ beliefs; it is doing so because of luxury beliefs, held by unrepresentative elites who govern our institutions. If you don’t understand that, you don’t understand anything.”

And who, precisely, is carrying the burden of this failure? Not the professional classes. Not the comfortable managerial elite. The poor. The working class. The forgotten communities whose children die younger, whose streets decay faster, and whose voices are heard least.

Yet policy is still too often written about them rather than with them. Consultations become curated exercises in institutional self-reassurance: polished, centralised, filtered through anaemic, on-message voices carefully selected not to disrupt the consensus. Not real representation. Not real experience. Just management.

https://t.co/XZrkIFQBWQ

[Sara Salyers @SSalyers2]

Singing, “Send him victorious, happy & glorious, long to reign over us’ Swinney is seated to one side, an irrelevance, a minion shown his place in his own country while England’s king and Prime Minister sit in the first rank. Unionists are crowing over this. He has shamed us all.

[doug @douglasgibb77]

@TwisterFilm nicola sturgeon didn't let us know (as any kind of a courtesy) that she was going to sell the country down the swanee, prosecuted her predecessor, and fuck off to London leaving her emasculated husband in jail after her stole from people's dreams to keep her in hairdryers.

[Unpopularfootyx @Unpopularfootyx]

🚨🎙️ ZLATAN IBRAHIMOVIĆ ON LIONEL MESSI'S INFLUENCE ON ARGENTINA AFTER THEIR WIN OVER AUSTRIA:

“I'm obsessed with watching Messi.

Not because he's my friend.

Not because of nostalgia.

Because after all these years, I'm still trying to understand how one player can control a football match without touching the ball every minute.

I watched Argentina today and the first thing I noticed wasn't the scoreline.

It was the way Austria reacted whenever Messi moved.

One step to the left, defenders follow.

One drop into midfield, the entire shape changes.

One glance over his shoulder panic.

That's not football.

That's psychological warfare.

And that's why I laugh when people reduce him to goals and assists.

They don't understand what they're watching.

Messi isn't just Argentina's best player.

He's Argentina's system.

He's their confidence.

He's their belief.

He's the reason every teammate walks onto the pitch thinking the impossible is possible.

People ask me about the GOAT debate.

What debate?
Seriously.

What debate?

For me, there isn't one.

The debate exists because television needs content and social media needs arguments.

When I watch football, I don't see a debate.

I see Messi.

Then I see everybody else.

That doesn't mean other legends weren't incredible.

It means I've never seen another player influence a match, a team and an entire generation of football the way Messi has.

And today was another reminder.

He didn't need a hat-trick.

He didn't need to score from 40 yards.

He just needed to be Lionel Messi.

And suddenly Argentina looked like a completely different team.

That's greatness.

Not when everything depends on you.

When everybody becomes better because you're there.

I've played against great players.

I've played with great players.

But Messi is the only player I've ever watched and genuinely thought:

'This isn't normal.'

The scary thing?

Opponents know exactly what he's going to do.

And they still can't stop it.

That's why I don't waste my time with comparisons anymore.

Some players become legends.

Some players become icons.

Messi became a category of his own.

And after today's performance, if you're still asking me who the greatest footballer of all time is...

You're asking the wrong question.

The right question is:
Will football ever produce another one like him?”

[Liberation Scotland Committee @LiberationScot]

LIBERATION SCOTLAND:
NEW MEMBER APPEAL🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙
Dear Supporter of Scottish Independence,

It is now clear that the recent election has delivered a fractured ineffective administration at Holyrood that will spend the next 5 years unable to progress either (a) independence for Scotland (despite its ‘pro-indy’ majority) in the face of Westminster refusal, or (b) expand national domestic investment in services and infrastructure to improve living conditions for Scots (to at least parity with other western countries with which Scotland is regularly compared) without the necessary control over the revenues from Scotland’s own resources, especially energy.

The presence of ‘nationalist’ administrations in Cardiff and Belfast means that Starmer (and his Downing Street successors) will simply double-down on blocking ‘indyref2’ in response to any repeat demands by John Swinney! Westminster’s constitutional arrangements with NI, Wales and Scotland are NOT identical and there is a real danger that Westminster/Holyrood could trap Scotland within a future ‘devo-max’ settlement that undermines our historic popular sovereignty and strengthens England’s illegal grip on our nation, its territory and resources.

The only deliverable route to restoring Scotland's full historic nationhood is through engagement with the international legal mechanisms of the UN and associated international organisations. It does NOT pass through Westminster or its Holyrood administration.

Liberation Scotland’s key mission is to secure international recognition of Scotland as a Non-Self-Governing Territory (NSGT), as defined by the UN (i.e. colony), and to initiate the UN-mandated process of decolonization of the Scottish nation and sovereign people, including via the UN Special Committee on Decolonization (C-24) and terminate England’s wrongful act of 320 years of colonial annexation of Scotland.

It is this important international campaign by Liberation Scotland, with support from Scots at home (including Salvo’s domestic campaign) and our extensive global diaspora, that gives Scotland an international voice where it matters and provides a clear and deliverable route, free from Westminster interference, to the restoration of Scotland to its rightful place as an independent and sovereign nation state within the international community of nations.

Details of Liberation Scotland’s UN campaign (including attendance by Liberation Scotland representatives in March at the UN Human Rights Council 61st session in Geneva) can be found on our website and in our latest member newsletter, along with details of Salvo’s domestic campaign to protect Scotland’s historic national Common Good assets, which are currently under threat of loss to our communities from sale, transfer or change of use.

Thanks to our extensive work during the last 2 years, Scotland’s case is now firmly on the agenda at the UN and our nation’s voice is being heard once again – most recently at the C-24 Regional Seminar in Nicaragua, where Liberation Scotland contributed towards four interventions on the very live issue of the advancement of decolonization.

However more work remains to be done, and with three further interventions and a side event programmed for New York and Geneva later this month and next, we ask you to please join us and support our campaign any way you can to restore Scotland’s nationhood and sovereignty and to return its alienated assets and resources to the ownership of its people.

Sign up as a Liberation Scotland member today via this link: https://t.co/idA8qO9FSi

Liberation Scotland Committee 07 June 2026

[Bruce Bowman @boswelltoday]

@threadreaderapp unroll

[Neale Hanvey🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @JNHanvey]

To those so blinkered they continue to defend the indefensible, consider this.

Defending suspected criminality in the movement pushes independence further & further away. It is not those of us seeking truth & justice that are doing the union’s job for them.

That would be you.

[doug @douglasgibb77]

@DavidDhenry @SSalyers2 can you take this to the police or use it in a civil case?

[FrankLeeBrian @FrankLeeBrian]

Sacked as a solicitor. A notorious bully and liar. 7 hours of “no comment”. Didn’t notice a £1400 luxury coffee machine in her kitchen because “she has no passion for cooking” nor a £6000 set of custom-made fitted bookshelves in her ‘library’. Presumably drank water out of the toilet and made herself a sandwich in the garage because she was “hardly ever in the kitchen".

Nope, just the chief liar in a mob of nationalist liars.