Dr Liz Gardiner

Cultural Planner

[Dr Liz Gardiner @lizfable]

Creative research on the White Cart reveals the threats and beauty of invasive species there. #jamiewardrop sharing findings: Saturday 6th June. 12 till 4 in room D133 at UWS Paisley Campus. #CreativeRenfrewshire #uws #studiofv #turningthetide https://t.co/WQkg7feFZM

[Dr Liz Gardiner @lizfable]

Creative research on the White Cart reveals the threats and beauty of invasive species there. #jamiewardrop sharing findings: Saturday 6th June. 12 till 4 in room D133 at UWS Paisley Campus. #CreativeRenfrewshire #uws #studiofv #turningthetide https://t.co/WQkg7feFZM

[Dr Liz Gardiner @lizfable]

The UK is back in the Erasmus+ programme as of this month which is good news. If you’d like the UK to rejoin the Creative Europe programme too, please add your name here: : https://t.co/zThwgExncX.

[Dr Liz Gardiner @lizfable]

Oh dear Paisley…. This is our MP

[Laird of the Extremists. #ScottishIndependence @Lairdysnr]

Hey @AnasSarwar - the internet keeps receipts you know.

[MSM Monitor @msm_monitor]

These two clips have been available to every broadcast news outlet since Last Friday. They kill Anas Sarwar's smear campaign stone dead. Not one broadcaster has shown them. So, why aren't they being shown? Is pressure being applied?

Show these to your friends & family folks.

[Dr Liz Gardiner @lizfable]

@NHSGGC is this true? Shocking if yes.. and what could be the reason? To save money? It doesn’t sound as if there would be huge savings..baffling, worrying and undermines confidence for patients, staff, family members, visitors….(all of us really). Can you explain please?

[MSM Monitor @msm_monitor]

In 2009 Greater Glasgow & Clyde Health Board signed a contract for a ventilation system that reduced air to rooms in the QE Hospital to less than half that recommended by Scottish Govt guidance.

The board also instructed contractors to remove the 'maximum temperature variant' which meant the maximum temperature [28 degrees] set out in Govt guidance could not be met, nor could the recommended six air changes per hour.

[The Lady J of Tay @brawday]

Booming tourism spending shows 'Scotland is one of the world's great destinations' https://t.co/H4c8QU8GlT

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

SPOT ON DESCRIPTION ‼️

[Dr Liz Gardiner @lizfable]

Yaaaaaaaaaaasssssss!!!!!! 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

[Raman Bhardwaj @ramanbhardwajTV]

St Mirren fans gather at Paisley Town Hall after club wins League Cup final

[John Swinney @JohnSwinney]

New study from LSE, York & Glasgow universities shows the Scottish Child Payment is transforming lives.

Without it, 70,000 more children would face deprivation and food insecurity.

We will keep investing in families and lifting children out of poverty.

https://t.co/xgbzdnYPSs

[Fraser MacDonald @fr4ser]

I booked my NHS flu vaccine online yesterday afternoon. Got it this morning before work. Absolutely excellent service from Scotland’s NHS

Also good to see @HomeEnergyScot at the vaccine hub offering support to folk to stay warm this winter 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

📰 - @TheScotsman

[Paisley Heritage SCIO @PaisleyHeritage]

A note from Paisley Tours to save disappointment — the 2026 Paisley calendars are flying out. Click & collect on their website and they post internationally too. Pop in to 2 County Place to grab one and keep a bit of Paisley close wherever you are.
https://t.co/weXFZJYnnM

[Dr Liz Gardiner @lizfable]

@elonmusknews30 B

[Dr Liz Gardiner @lizfable]

@ohhanxiety 2

[Paisley Heritage SCIO @PaisleyHeritage]

The Witches Tour from Paisley Tours returns on 20 December.
A place-based telling of the 1697 witch hunt, the last mass execution in Europe.
Told where it happened.

[Dr Liz Gardiner @lizfable]

@Grouse_Beater So sorry to hear this news. 💔. Sending love to Angela Hogg and all other family and friends. What a remarkable, impactful life and legacy though… a truly inspirational trail blazer….. Pam Hogg❤️‍🩹

[ScotNews @indyscotnews]

"Scotland today has a vastly diminished indigenous population. In post colonial theory, this is known as banishment of natives, although 'ethnic cleansing' is the widely held scholarly term used today."

Prof Alf Baird, Geneva Speech Part 2 (audio enhanced)

"Culture and identity are very closely connected and post-colonial theory views national independence as a fight for a national culture, a desire for nationhood as a cultural emotion.

Like many colonised peoples, the Scots were sold the idea of a British or English identity. However, as many former colonies, now United Nations member states, discover, this manufactured identity, which is the primary tool it needs use to retain power, is a cultural illusion. Within the colonised territory, rather, new forms of land development and imposed heritage narratives became normalised via the cultural recreation of the coloniser.

Examples included, land clearances with entire communities being removed and villages destroyed to be replaced by sheep.

The process continues today, with large Highland estates used as speculative investments, by external tax-avoiding interests, limiting and preventing social and economic development of the people and nation.

A further colonial tool, employed in the domination of Scotland, is demographic manipulation. Since the 1707 annexation and following the atrocities of the 18th century Wars of Independence, Scotland has endured centuries of clearances, evictions, transportation of people, export of endangered abour and empire resettlement programmes.

As a consequence, Scotland today has a vastly diminished indigenous population. In post colonial theory, this is known as banishment of natives, although 'ethnic cleansing' is the widely held scholarly term used today.

In just 60 years between 1870 and 1930, 2 million people were shipped out of Scotland, almost half its then population.

In total, some 4 million Scots have departed Scotland since annexation, which is the largest loss of population in Western Europe.

For a country of our size, the loss of Scots was at least eight times that of English immigration.

At the point of annexation, Scotland's population was one quarter that of England. Today it is less than 1/10 and Scotland's population remained static at 5 million for much of last century, when natural growth should have seen at least 10 million.

The majority of people settling in Scotland come from one country, England. Inbound flows markedly differ from outbound, mainly comprising middle class English people given professional and managerial jobs in Scotland. This has resulted in an ethnic and cultural division of labour with a social hierarchy favouring the dominant Anglophone culture.

In effect, much of the Scottish population has been displaced and institutions in Scotland are made Anglo-centric.

The population of Scotland has recently been growing since 2000, but this is only through accelerated in-migration. Again, mostly from England.

Scotland today has its lowest birth rate on record. Many Scots remain unable to bring up families due to low wages, lack of economic opportunity and a chronic shortage of housing.

Existing and new housing stock has been absorbed through increased in-migration and settlement of people from England.

With excessive demand from our much larger, 10 times larger populated neighbour, bidding up house prices to unaffordable levels for Scots.

Essentially, the conditions have now been created which prevent Scottish births, which means the Scots as a distinct people remain firmly in the process of perishing, as is their culture.

Migration is a matter reserved to Westminster, and England as UK as administrative power. The long term oppressions of manipulation of the Scottish population, including large scale displacement and replacement of indigenous Scots, which can be considered ethnic cleansing as well as cultural genocide, may be regarded as a continuous colonial process not yet ending.

Let us also consider the essential features of dependency. Politically, every attempt to assert Scottish self-determination through democratic means, through referenda or electoral mandates has been selectively managed, blocked or ignored by Westminster or deemed legally ineffective by the England-as-UK Supreme Court.

Scotland is governed from outside, its national identity is suppressed, its resources are controlled without accountability and its democratic will is subordinated to an external majority. This is precisely the pattern of dependency and domination that the United nations has recognised in many decolonization cases since 1945.

In this situation, there is also gross misrepresentation in that the United Kingdom has consistently portrayed Scotland as a willing partner in a democratic union, not as a colonised nation.

This false narrative has prevented Scotland from being listed as a non self-governing territory, shielding the UK from legal obligations it would otherwise incur under Article 73 of the UN Charter.

And finally, in regard to psychological subjugation, domination by another culture results in a people developing a colonial mindset which is a feeling of cultural inadequacy, including self-loathing also related to internalised racism.

Post-colonial theory tells us that colonialism is based on psychology, and with colonial oppression resulting in a mental pathology that's suffered by a colonised people.

This colonial condition is viewed as a disease of the mind, for which the only remedy is liberation.

Independence and decolonization therefore bring about a need for the oppressed group to decolonize the mind, as well as reclaiming sovereignty and self-recovery of culture, ending economic plunder and external political and cultural control, in order to become fully liberated.

To summarise, the Scottish people remain subject to features of oppression that run parallel with colonial rule.

This includes external political control, plunder of economic resource and domination by an alien culture and values.

The reality is an Anglophone cultural hegemony associated with racial and ethnic hierarchy. It is these oppressions that give rise to an independence movement, based on the solidarity of the oppressed ethnic group, the Scots.

Economic exploitation and cultural domination have therefore combined to leave the Scottish people and nation diminished, underdeveloped and in the process of perishing. Oppression is obscured, via the cultural assimilation process and prevailing institutionalised colonial narrative.

A colonised people are further subdued by the inevitable internalised racism accompanying a dominant racist ideology, subordinating the indigenous ethnic group.

And we should remember that colonialism always involves racism.

And here today we unveil the reality therefore that the Scottish peoples, inalienable and lawful right to elf- determination and independence demands decolonization, the ending of the scourge of colonialism as a matter of urgency. Thank you."
@LiberationScot @ScotSalvo @thomsonchris @SSalyers2 @SSRG2021 @IndyScotParty @LiberateScot @Scotpol1314 @MarkMmcnaught1 @Allanpetrie91 @mickbrick54 @Indy4IndyNow

[Dr Liz Gardiner @lizfable]

@IQTestBrain 2

[Howard Beckett @BeckettUnite]

The partnership of Netanyahu 🇮🇱; Trump 🇺🇸; Starmer 🇬🇧 did this

They call it a ‘ceasefire’ to stop the international anger

It’s not

20,000 murdered children
Total destruction
Starvation

It’s apocalyptic

Disgusting
Genocide
Evil

The Hague for all of them

Free Palestine 🇵🇸