BBC Scotland has changed its shocking headline after the FM revealed the SNP had asked HMRC to check VAT refunds on Murrell's bogus purchases. The new headline is even worse. It completely misrepresents the thrust of what Swinney said. Will Laura Miller read a variation of this out on Reporting Scotland tonight?
Just watched @BBCNewsnight & guess what it was all about England. Serious questions being asked about what it means to be English, even mention of a civil war in England. English equating with 'Britishness'. Scotland does not seem to exist. England is lost. Time to leave Scotland
The have no one but themselves to blame. Warned time and time again.
“The Scottish government has been found in contempt by the Court of Session in a “bombshell” ruling relating to the so-called Salmond files.
“It comes after ministers failed to comply with a freedom of information (FOI) request, despite warnings from the information watchdog.
https://t.co/sZKyXrGdyk
SNP Westminster Leader @DaveDooganSNP has called for a investigation into whether Douglas Alexander broke the ministerial code over his role in the Peter Mandelson scandal, after it emerged he failed to declare meetings with Mandelson's lobby firm 👇
For England's former colonies around the globe (which is most of it), Scotland being recognised as a colony at the UN and this leading to the final downfall and termination of the 'UK' itself is the ultimate justified revenge. If you don't think support for Scotland in this endeavour will be massive globally, including at the UN, then you haven't paid attention to history.
Think Luke approaching the exhaust port of the Death Star, about to shove a torpedo up its arse, to have it rupture from the inside out! I seem to recall that going down quite well throughout the galaxy! 😁
@PeterStefanovi2 £1.3bn for south east England & a private company whilst the Ukgov allowed Grangemouth & mossmorran to close. I see their priorities are spot on as usual
@PeterStefanovi2 Tax payers billions for Theme parks in England but promises to safe Scotlands oil refinery broken!
Costing lost industry, skills and jobs forever.
#LabourLiars#RedTories
@PeterStefanovi2 Theme parks in England, whilst jet fuel supplier at grangemouth, Scotland, shut down. We now have to import our jet fuel from England.
Can you see what @UKLabour are doing to Scotland?
De-industrialisation
@PeterStefanovi2 Block the Chinese from investing 1 billion into Scotland. Spend 1.3 billion to get a US investment in England. Let the Grangemouth oil refinery in Scotland close, give the same company a 600 million load for a plastics plant in Belgium that supplies English car makers.
Thievery.
Joani Reid's husband arrested for spying for China. Reid herself reported for being drunk and flirtatious with a naval officer at Faslane. A submarine captain steps back over an alleged relationship with her.
But sure, let's keep investigating the SNP's missing £600k instead.
In the event BBC Scotland presenters start to throw stones at the SNP for possibly claiming VAT on purchases by Peter Murrell now known to be fake.
Around 100 current and former BBC presenters are being investigated for alleged tax avoidance.
https://t.co/3Iyc1G5tVz
The BritNats parliamentary inquiry stunt is a massive miscalculation.
1. The public see it as a waste of public cash after a five year police investigation that cost £millions.
2. Threatening to drag SNP leaders to London for a show trial is not a good idea for obvious reasons.
The truth is, the SNP hasn't had to think about funding any second Indyref. Even without the British government rushing out a tart dismissal of the 12 constitutional 'experts' who, in the Scottish Government paper on referendum mechanisms, unanimously declared that a Section 30 order is the only 'legal' route - summarily crushing any notion that such an order would ever be 'granted' and making a mockery of the paper itself - @JohnSwinney already knew how any request would end. The whole process is a pantomime of internal political purpose, sadly with the SNP in a leading role. It has no validity in international law. The question arises: why does the SNP avoid international law, indeed any international engagement whatsoever?
In reality, there are three internationally lawful routes to Scotland's restored statehood. The Liberation Scotland Committee has detailed them in a paper now going to international lawyers for assessment. Not one of these routes was mentioned, let alone considered, by those hand-picked 'experts'. Interestingly enough, Liberation Scotland's research has been singled out for dismissal.
It’s even more obvious than before your work with the UN ICJ HRC has moved Scotland’s position further within the international community
The SNP should take heed to this and begin the international dialogue in the form of the three First Ministers.
The time for defending the failures of previous administrations is over. Scotland does not need more explanations for inaction it needs leadership that recognises the constitutional reality we now face.
International law is already moving.
UN mechanisms are already being engaged.
States are already signalling support.
Scotland’s case is no longer confined to Westminster’s permission or the limits of domestic law.
If other nations are willing to examine Scotland’s status, if UN bodies are prepared to consider our right to self‑determination, and if international legal routes are opening, then the Scottish Government has a responsibility to act.
The role of the First Minister is not to protect the legacy of past leaders.
It is to protect the rights of the Scottish people.
If Wales and Northern Ireland are prepared to explore international recognition,
Scotland should not be the nation that hesitates.
The SNP party that chooses caution over sovereignty, or silence over the rights of its own people fails to uphold its own founding fathers.
The world is watching.
International law is shifting.
Opportunities are emerging that did not exist even a year ago.
Scotland needs a government that rises to the occasion and is willing to step into it.
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Two legal cases. One at the HRC and one at the ICJ (a lot of work to make those happen but lots already in place so fingers crossed) plus pushing for a C24 inquiry into Scotland’s situation plus a Salvo campaign to begin demanding the rights our own politicians forgot to try to get for us,