Gillian Davies

Mother of 4, grandmother of too-many-to-count. Poli/Soc graduate University of Glasgow. Life-long activist. Indy soon please Scotland.

[Gillian Davies @girvind]

Say no to a return to austerity: We need a general strike to restore our NHS - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/WCie5dUnCZ via @UKChange

[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

One NHS, many nationalities.

Huge thanks to every single person who helps keep the NHS going 💙

[Uachdarain 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👑 @SovereignBain]

For thousands of Highlanders, the last sight of home was a green hillside slipping away behind a crowded ship.

In the wake of the Clearances, emigration became the only road left for families with nowhere else to go. They gathered at quaysides across Scotland with bundles, sea chests, and aching hearts, boarding tall sailing ships bound for Nova Scotia, Canada, and beyond. The crossings were long and dangerous, packed below decks where disease spread quickly, and not everyone who set out lived to see the new land.

Yet from that heartbreak grew something remarkable. Whole communities rebuilt themselves overseas, carrying their language, their music, and their clan loyalties with them. In places like Cape Breton, Gaelic was still spoken generations later, and the fiddle tunes of the old country still echo at gatherings today. The Scots became one of the great founding peoples of the new world, their grief turned into a legacy that spans the globe.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿⚔️👑✊👊🪓 written by clan & crown

[Stop the War Coalition @STWuk]

We have to move from talk to action. So, on 10 October, international demonstrations for Palestine. In November international actions against conscription and rearmament. And when the dockers call a day of action, solidarity actions with the dockers!

@JohnWRees sets out the next steps in building a truly international anti-war movement.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Neoliberalism, trickle down economics, the Chicago school of economics call it what you will, it is no longer the high alter of intellectual thinking, it has been exposed as a fraud, possibly the greatest fraud ever perpetrated on the British people.

As my friend Stewart rather brilliantly explains. 👇👇👇Those about to rewrite monetary policy in this country would serve themselves well to study it carefully.

[Richard Corbett @RichardGCorbett]

At last, Baroness Mone & husband to be sued for the millions they took while putting “NHS staff and patients in danger with substandard kit whilst lining their own pockets with taxpayers' money at a time of national crisis."

https://t.co/sK6PD7GINY

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Tulip Siddiq made a point of order in the House of Commons after Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch attacked Bridget Phillipson, again,

"Kemi Badenoch called the Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson a spiteful class warrior"

"And previously she's compared Bridget Phillipson to a gestapo officer"

"Madame Deputy Speaker, I started out working in parliament as a teenager, and for 25 years of being involved in politics I have never seen the atmosphere here in parliament and outside quite so hostile and intimidatory, especially towards female elected representatives"

"Madame Deputy Speaker, words matters and inflammatory language contribute to this hostility towards politicians, especially women"

"Could I ask your advice whether the language that was used by the leader of the opposition today, towards the Secretary of State for Education, who is a woman who grew up in poverty, on a council estate, raised by a single mother, on free school meals, and worked her way up to Cabinet, is appropriate language to be used in the chamber"

"Not only does this language contribute to hostility, it also puts off women, from coming into this very important profession"

[Ross Greer @Ross_Greer]

Over 6,000 people have joined our call for a halt to new hyperscale data centres in Scotland. Have you?

The 24 applications in so far would require 1.5 times as much energy as all of Scotland uses at peak demand. We can't let this free-for-all continue.
https://t.co/emkdUUYoi6

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

"McSweeney quietly inflamed the 'antisemitism crisis' that would dog Corbyn’s leadership from at least 2018.

"He did so by seeding and placing stories into the press that helped to build the narrative that Corbyn’s Labour had become riddled with antisemitism".

https://t.co/YChCpCVXcR

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

The Environment Agency has dropped its threat to prosecute litter pickers over alleged environmental offences while clearing rubbish from a London River.

It comes after Channel 4 News recently exposed legal threats made to Paul Powlesland and other volunteers for undertaking clearance work without a permit.

The East Londoner claims he took action after authorities failed to clear rubbish from the River Roding.

While the Environment Agency said it won't pursue a prosecution, it has continued to warn against future rubbish clearing activities, something Mr Powlesland has said he will ignore unless he's given a meeting with the organisation's chief executive.

[The National @ScotNational]

BREAKING: Art focused on Israel’s genocide in Palestine is set to be shown in Scotland after its exhibition south of the Border was cancelled

The exhibition had been due to be shown in London in May but it was cancelled after an intervention from UK Lawyers for Israel

[PoliticsVideoChannel @politvidchannel]

BREAKING: The BBC has turned Donald Trump’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit against them into a January 6 trial against Trump

The BBC is arguing that to win his defamation case, Trump has to prove he did not foment or incite the riot.

[MSM Monitor @msm_monitor]

Two days after the 2014 Indyref Gordon Brown claimed papers were being drawn up that would give Scotland "Home Rule". It was a lie. It will be a lie when Andy Burnham promises 'Home Rule'.

They've taken back powers since 2014 through Brexit and the UK Internal Market Act.

[MSM Monitor @msm_monitor]

We're sure that there will be some reporters at BBC Scotland eager to cover the turmoil within Scottish Labour but who are being prevented from doing so by a political editor who simply cannot let the Murrell story go and who refuses to accept Sturgeon was cleared.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Today, I’m announcing something new to fight back against Donald Trump and his attacks on our democracy. I'm launching Back The Bold to restore accountability in Washington.
The mission is straightforward: to back leaders with the courage to say what needs to be said, do what needs to be done, and hold Donald Trump and his administration accountable. That means supporting Democrats and Independents who refuse to flinch. It's time to be bold.  Join the fight.
#jointhefight #backthebold

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

Why are there so many Freeports and SEZs being set up across England, Scotland, and Wales?

The Govt wants to do away with centralized powers by handing them over to private small states run under corporate governance to further super-concentrate wealth accumulation.
Big Govt is being hollowed out by both Cons and Labour to facilitate the transfer of powers to those running the zones. Tax exemption is the cherry on top within these privately protected jurisdictions.
Please read, share and subscribe to my Substack where I expose the duopoly’s plans to carve up the UK into corporate governed free zones

https://t.co/KvfbSxIrX7

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

Unfortunately I can't make the debate on second jobs as I'm in America for a speaking engagement before coming back to promote gold bullion then doing my GB News show and squeezing in a few Cameo recordings.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 BOMBSHELL! RT correspondent confirms Israel is illegally building a military base inside Area A of the West Bank.

Jenin Mayor Jarrar warns this completely cancels the Oslo Agreement.

The Zionist regime is intentionally reoccupying Palestinian territory!

[Talking-up Scotland @ProfJWR]

A one-year increase is pounced on by the media but overall crime in Scotland has been flat for ten years after almost halving in the SNP era and who knew - drug possession down 27%, car theft down 60%, vandalism down 31%, burglary down 57% and prostituti… https://t.co/FW40yoCNKo

[Nick Reeves #RejoinEU #NAFO #FBPE @nickreeves9876]

When Farage said his £5 million 'gift' was none of the public's business he was showing his complete contempt for the British people. If a politician receives a £5 million gift then it and what he does with it, and why he was given it become the business of the British public. If the politician refuses to give us that information, then we have every right to assume the worst.

As for being the most endangered politician, he has conveniently forgotten that Jo Cox was murdered by a Brexit fanatic, and he has forgotten about his threats of Brexit violence and his promise to "pick up a rifle" if Brexit wasn't delivered. His rhetoric and that of the Brexit press made a number of prominent female Remainers fear for their lives. He has never apologised for that.

[Uachdarain 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👑 @SovereignBain]

The CoR Paradox: How the Condition Precedent Rendered the Union Void📷📷
Here's how you can answer that question with certainty. As you've pointed out the Claim of Right was made a precondition (condition precedent) of the union and the treaty, because it was specifically named in the overall condition precedent - the 1706 Act for the Preservation of the Presbyterian Church. This was ratified word for word, ('by the tenor thereof') along with the Articles of Union as a condition in all time coming.
Before the British began reframing the CoR as a sectarian act purely concerned with the religious matters suggested by the title of the 1706 Act, neither the Scots nor the English failed to recognise the significance of the inclusion of the CoR Act, the only named Act, in the overall condition. Nor did anyone imagine for a moment that it was just a religious statute. It was then and still is the first and only statutory summary of the Scottish constitution.
"The Laws of Government, (in Scotland), continue as the Government continues establish'd in the Claim of Right, I mean as to the Limitations of Government and Obedience", Daniel Defoe, chronicler, Propagandist and English spy. Note: the Limitations of Government and Obedience is how a constitution is often described both then and now.
Now, the Claim of Right remains a constitutional statute because otherwise the union is void. But, of course, it is given lip service only and the latest British trick is pretending its all about religion so people stop noticing or caring.
But adopting it at the time, in the full knowledge of what it meant, proves there was never any inention to create a single kingdom (single crown) or a new state.
Why?
Because the CoR requires a lawful monarch - enabling a lawfully assembled legislative parliament, as summoned by a lawful monarch - to take the Scottish Coronation Oath. But the Scottish Crown is the Community of the Realm and not the monarch and so the Scottish Oath of Accession includes a promise by the would-be monarch to defend the Scottish Crown and never to transfer or undermine its rights rents and privileges. The Treaty of Union, however, calls for a (new) single crown/kingdom which would necessitate transferring the sovereignty of the Scottish Crown to a new, merged British Crown.
So a condition precedent/sine qua non of the union made that union impossible!
No pea brain involved in pushing through the Treaty and Acts could have failed to see that the only way their terms could all have been implemented would have been to impose the Scottish Crown, (with its identity as the people, its monarch just the first among equals with no immunity from legal process and its treason laws protecting the Common Weal and not merely the king or queen), on the new 'Great Britain' in place of the English. And that was never going to happen.
The treaty was impossible to implement. The condition without which it was and is rendered void, the continuation of the CoR, prevents the creation of the 'single kingdom (crown) which is its whole purpose. And because the monarch summons the legislative parliament that makes the joint parliament just as impossible.
Either no one had the brains to realise that or the English pushed the treaty through, by threat of invasion, bribery and coercion and contrary to Scots law, without the slightest intention of implementing. Once it was ratified, they could dismantle the Scottish state in preparation for the new one - and then simply fail to dismantle the English state and instead add Scotland to its control and its crown. That is what they always intended and that is exactly what happened. Cheaper and easier than the alternative - invasion.
"Foreigners say publicly, I mean our own allies, that we [England] are a perfidious nation; and since we have violated our treaty with Scotland and laugh at the notion of fundamental and inviolable articles [of Union], there is no great wonder if we treat other nations as we do."
Harley, Robert, "Letter by Lord Harley Earl of Oxford to William Carstares, 1709.
Now the Brits want the world to believe there really is a British Crown and the treaty really was given effect and they hope no one digs up proof of the continuation of the Scottish Crown or realises what that means about Scotland's legal status in the so-called union. Can you say colony?!
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