Sandy Mathers

..been here and gone...Blues Harmonica, Scottish Fiddle and dissent...only ever been in two political parties. Baith ae them threw me oot...🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇵🇸

[Olga Rodríguez Francisco ✍️ @olgarodriguezfr]

Cargas policiales en Gran Vía, un chaval con herida en la cabeza, otras afectadas por spray pimienta

Han acorralado a gente en calles aledañas e identificado a decenas

En Arenal han desfilado así

La huelga es un derecho. Nos vemos en la manifestación esta tarde

[Eòin J Màrtainn @EoinJMartainn]

In 1950 Westminster itself admitted it was "aware of the support which this document has received". Seventy-six years on, that support is being called "absolutely FA", here, in defence of a man who went on camera at the SNP conference and likened the unpaid volunteers of Salvo and Liberation to an MI6 project.
"Don't be silly" was the defence offered. So let's study the record instead of brushing off with just a sneer.

Two million Scots signed the Covenant between 1949 and 1951, in a country of five million. Here is what Westminster did with them.

First it refused to count them. In May 1950, with the Covenant at a million and a quarter names, the Lords were asked for a plebiscite on the Voters' Roll to settle it. The response: the issues were "much too complicated to be dealt with by way of a plebiscite" (Hansard, HL Deb 17 May 1950, vol 167, c380WA).

Then it moved the goalposts. In July 1950, Attlee's ministers wrote to the Covenant Committee that the question could not be dealt with by a plebiscite, and that constitutional change is "considered and settled by the normal process of Parliamentary democracy" (The Scotsman, 31 July 1950).

Read that again. Scots had shown their will by signature, so signatures no longer counted. They asked for a vote of their own to prove it, so a vote was ruled out.
The only forum offered was Westminster itself, where Scotland held 71 seats of 625.

Scotland's will was moved onto a franchise where Scots could never be the majority. That was done in 1950, in writing, while the names were still coming in.

1979 was the same move again. The vote finally came, Scotland voted Yes, and a 40% rule written into the Act beforehand set the result aside.

Now we are told nothing happens until 60% in the polls. Every time Scots meet the test, the test moves, because every one of these was addressed to Westminster, and Westminster marks its own homework.

The Covenant did not fail. It was binned by the people it was addressed to, and anyone who calls that "achieving FA" is blaming two million Scots for Westminster's contempt.

Sixty per cent is a fairy-tale figure. Nobody in Westminster has ever said what happens when it is reached, and the record above tells you what would. Anyone still sending Scots to chase a number set by the people who move the number is doing Westminster's work for it, paid or unpaid.
Estonia did it the other way round. From 1989, volunteers registered 790,000 citizens on their own register, addressed to no one, and elected a congress from it. The referendum and the recognition followed.

The will of Scots was shown in 1951. What was missing was a record the people hold themselves. Unpaid volunteers are doing this the right way, which is why they are the ones being smeared

[James Roderick Burns @JamesRoderickB]

This 👇

[Rafael Araya Masry @arayamas]

"Queridos periodistas
Palestina no está simplemente “inundándose”. Israel destruyó las bombas de agua, las cuencas de aguas pluviales, los hogares, las carreteras y los hospitales, luego atrapó a la gente en una franja de playa sin adónde ir.

Sin tiendas de campaña, sin prótesis, sin protección básica contra el frío. Los niños están enfrentando hipotermia sin un lugar seguro para buscar tratamiento. Y de alguna manera el mundo sigue mirando hacia otro lado.

Esto no es un desastre natural. Es una catástrofe hecha por sionistas".
"Haganlo mejor"
Vía @abierkhatib 👇👇👇👇

[Cú Chullain @paddyb53]

So, Jensen Huang CEO of tech giant Nvidia had an affair with a suspected Chinese spy, huge news, yet a Scottish Labour MP whose husband is accused of being a Chinese spy and who had dalliances with 2 submarine Commanders and an affair with a tabloid Journalist barely registers...

[Normal Island News @NormalIslandNws]

Disclaimer: We are still supplying weapons to Israel and we still aren't imposing any sanctions against Israel. We also haven't joined South Africa's legal case at the ICJ, but we are posting angry words on Twitter and that's what counts ♥️

[Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha]

Just so you know, some accounts are exploiting the suffering in Gaza by creating AI-generated content to solicit donations and pocket the money. One recent example shows children supposedly swimming inside a flooded tent.

What’s worse is that people blindly like and repost this content without taking a moment to verify its authenticity.

Stop amplifying suspicious AI-generated content. Stop giving these accounts attention, credibility, and money.

Verify before you share. Don’t let Gaza’s suffering become a business for scammers.

[Andy Burnham Sardaukar @bigburnrt]

@MikhailaFuller

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

Yesterday, Ed Miliband vowed that the government “will not stand by” and “will not rest” until the suffering in Gaza ends.

Yet not a single arms export licence was revoked or suspended under his latest restrictions on Israel.

https://t.co/TGLZaQVKWo

[Dani @_danieletto]

En Instagram (aunque parezca mentira) no hablo casi nunca de política. Pero hoy tocó poner esto.

Mañana, todos a la huelga.

[Yaman Military @YamaniMilitaryX]

Thousands of ISIS fighters have arrived to battle our forces in Yemen.

Saudi Arabia is amassing mercenaries from every corner of the globe to kill us.

We shall make an example of them—a lesson for every mercenary who has sold out his own homeland.

[Andrew Feinstein @andrewfeinstein]

Of course she has.
The British state is being handed over to a bunch of racist fascist profiteers

[Lloyd Quinan @QuinanLloyd]

Scotland Wales N.Ireland get behind the Basques
support recognition of all small nations.

[Sandy Mathers @macteeth]

That'll be a bit like promising abolition of the House of Lords for the past 100 years...

[Joe Fagan @JoeJFagan]

Rejoining the European Union is in the interests of Scotland and the whole UK.

Scottish Labour will work to make that happen to better the lives of Scots.

[Christophe Dorigné-Thomson @thomsonchris]

Escocia sigue siendo una colonia inglesa, mientras que Irlanda ha logrado liberarse. La economía escocesa es saqueada y expoliada por el Estado colonial inglés. Todos los puertos escoceses han sido desmantelados o subdesarrollados para canalizar todo el comercio a través de Inglaterra. Los recursos y los ingresos por exportación de Escocia, como el whisky, son expoliados por el Estado colonial inglés. Escocia es una colonia inglesa; por eso no está alcanzando su verdadero potencial.

Una Escocia liberada y descolonizada será, potencialmente, el país más rico del mundo per cápita. Por ello, la descolonización de Escocia para la reanudación y recuperación de su Estado soberano ha comenzado a través de los mecanismos de la ONU.

[jimnarleneTaylor @jimnarlene]

Translation:
The people of Glasgow rejected us after 70 years in power, the people of Scotland also ejected us from Holyrood.
So we'll by-pass the elected representatives and be 5th columnists rith the hope someday we'll return to our cushy fiefdom.

[Muhammad Mazen @mhmd_s09]

Gaza has vanished from your screens, but its hell has not vanished from our lives;

you have moved past the scene, while we remain trapped within it.

[Dr Paul Monaghan @_PaulMonaghan]

Europe is warned.

Any contribution to striking the people of Iran now very clearly risks a defensive retaliation.

UKGov has no mandate for any war.

[Batallón Matteotti ll ☭#Oficialidá @emp_nort]

Mar Báltico
26-9-2022
19:12
Barco de carga alemán "Cellus"
Fotografía tomada por el Capitán Jürgensen
Momento de la explosión de una de las cargas que volaron el Nord Stream
¿Realmente piensas que fueron explosiones convencionales?
...Ahora pregúntate por qué nunca la has visto.

[Tamanisha J John @TamanishaJohn]

Who in this “blue wave” is calling for the US to end the blockade and sanctions regime against Cuba? Who in this “blue wave” is demanding that oil be shipped and allowed into Cuba? Who in this “blue wave” is demanding the release of Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores?