Humble Pie

Anonymous and semi-literate internet bampot.
Learning to play the long game.
Reserving the right to be wrong since 2012.

[Humble Pie @OneHumblePie]

My dad taught me two important life lessons:
There are two types of people in the world, those who can and those who can't.
Don't be a cant!

[Humble Pie @OneHumblePie]

@yousef_ki1 .

[Humble Pie @OneHumblePie]

@HigginsKieron Lies, damn lies and statistics.

[Humble Pie @OneHumblePie]

@AnasSarwar @donaldlabour I pray every day that you will never be First Minister of my country. Labour would betray Scotland, as it always has.

[Humble Pie @OneHumblePie]

@jackiebmsp are you at all interested in the health of your constituents? Why the silence?

[STV News @STVNews]

Category A nuclear incident reported at Faslane naval base this year, MoD confirms. https://t.co/1rGg4AZGsu

[Humble Pie @OneHumblePie]

@safialatif Upside down, inside out and back to front.

[Christophe Dorigné-Thomson @thomsonchris]

The Stolen Spirit: How the English Coloniser Hijacked Over £150 Billion from Scotland’s Whisky Industry in the Last Two Decades

1/ Scottish whisky is more than a drink. This national treasure represents distilled heritage, refined over centuries by the Scottish people through the climate, language, land, and lifeways of the Highlands and Islands. The name itself comes from the Scottish Gaelic term uisge-beatha, meaning "water of life." This spirit emerged from Gaelic-speaking communities such as Islay, Skye, and the Hebrides, where knowledge passed through generations shaped a practice intimately tied to the land.

Scotch whisky is a unique, location-specific, high-volume, high-value export product. It stands as one of the most iconic symbols of Scotland on the global stage. Yet, this global success has long been exploited by an external colonial power. The English state has transformed a sovereign asset into a machine for extracting wealth, consolidating power, and advancing British branding while denying Scotland the authority to control or benefit from what it produces. This process has resulted in one of the most severe cases of wealth theft in contemporary Europe. The total value stolen from the Scottish whisky sector over the past twenty years stands between £100 billion and £180 billion. This extraction is not incidental. It reflects a colonial condition Scotland is now actively resisting. Decolonisation has begun. Scotland is engaging the United Nations to assert its right to self-determination and to end the colonial theft and exploitation imposed by its coloniser, England.

The official figures expose the extent of this exploitation. In 2018, Scotch whisky exports totalled 1.28 billion 70cl bottles with a declared value of £4.7 billion, equating to only £3.67 per bottle. In 2023, 1.35 billion bottles were exported with a reported value of £5.6 billion, giving a per-bottle figure of £4.15. In 2024, export volumes rose to 1.4 billion bottles while the declared value fell to £5.4 billion, resulting in just £3.86 per bottle. These figures are drastically lower than market prices. The cheapest blended Scotch in duty-free shops typically costs no less than £10 per bottle. Most single malts and premium bottles are priced between £30 and £100, often more. A fair average export value of £10 per bottle would bring the 2024 figure to at least £14 billion. Over two decades, the gap between real and declared value points to a concealed loss of £120 billion to £180 billion. That loss reflects profit transferred out of Scotland through false pricing, offshore registration, and colonial misrepresentation.

Ownership of the industry has largely shifted out of Scottish hands. Major producers such as Diageo and Pernod Ricard are headquartered outside Scotland. Diageo controls over 30 percent of the market and operates from London. These multinational corporations use accounting structures that allow profits to be declared in low-tax jurisdictions or within English financial centres. The whisky may be crafted in Scotland, but the wealth is booked elsewhere. What remains in Scotland is an image without authority, production without sovereignty, labour without reward.

The theft continues through taxation. In 2022 to 2023, excise duty and VAT on whisky generated £3.8 billion, all absorbed by the UK Treasury. Even whisky sold in Scotland is taxed by the British state. The revenue is not returned to support Scottish public services or invested in the communities that carry the industry. Scotland has no fiscal control over its most valuable national product. What ought to support rural infrastructure, universal services, and a Scottish sovereign wealth fund is used instead to fund the apparatus of English power.

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[Humble Pie @OneHumblePie]

@JohnSwinney You need to stop playing by Westminster rules. If you look likely to win, they'll simply change the rules to suit them. You can never win!

[Humble Pie @OneHumblePie]

@Slimshady1961 @plyons45 STV sold it for £1 about 10 years ago

[Ron Wilson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 @TartanSeer]

Straight from the horse’s mouth - ‘Scottish’ Labour would never work in Scotland’s interests but would simply dae whit they’re telt by London. A Potemkin party in thrall to another country.

[Humble Pie @OneHumblePie]

@ScottishLabour Absolutely not!

[John Swinney @JohnSwinney]

Very welcome news that unemployment in Scotland has fallen to 3.8% and is lower than the rest of the UK.

Scotland’s economy has grown faster than the rest of the UK, but we need to do more to deliver growth and progress - I will be setting out views in a speech tomorrow.

[John Dick 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇩🇪🇪🇺🚴🏻‍♀️ @dick_john]

Why didn’t you explain this? @BBCScotlandNews @STVNews

[Humble Pie @OneHumblePie]

@SarahBoyack @AnasSarwar You could have just omitted "Scotland" altogether from your tweet. That's what you meant, and it would have made as much sense. Don't pretend to care when you clearly don't.

[Joke Tamson's Wean @Whyno_Scotland]

Today electricity consumed in Scotland is almost entirely generated by renewables.
However the price of that electricity is set by the price of burning gas in England.
This is despite the fact that over 2400Gw of green electricity is being transferred from Scotland to England.

[San Marino fan account @SanMarino_FA]

THEY WROTE HISTORY. THEY WILL BE REMEMBERED FOREVER AS LEGENDS, AS THE GOLDEN GENERATION OF SAMMARINESE FOOTBALL. THEY DID SOMETHING WE COULDN’T DO IN 20 YEARS, IN 140 GAMES, IN 12.600+ MINUTES OF FOOTBALL. A WIN, A FUCKING WIN.

[Humble Pie @OneHumblePie]

@ionafyfe Wherever GB Energy is located, it'll be a scam.

[Jim Russell🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jazzyrussell59]

Dear Scots. I have a sense that the message is finally getting through.
#VoteSNP4INDEPENDENCE

[Humble Pie @OneHumblePie]

@Eddiek62 https://t.co/jSfHslDl3O

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

Dear Scots, I love your country, your culture, and your deep-rooted socialist principles.
Whatever you do, please seriously, do not vote Scottish Labour into Scotland, they are after your land, your resources, and your collective sovereignty (people power) in the form of 2 deregulated Freeports and 18 Special Economic Zones (SEZs). Ask your family, friends, and neighbours if they have heard of SEZs, ask them if they know what they are and the dangers they pose to entire regions across Scotland. They will look at you like you have 2 heads. I have been speaking at anti-Freeports/SEZs events across Scotland, I can tell you right now, audiences are shocked by what can only be described as a corporate takeover of Scotland.
Please familiarize yourselves with my research on SEZs, then ask why astronomical sums of State Aid (public money) are being spent on these SEZs that nobody has heard of, SEZs are the final nail in the coffin of socialism, all public services will be absorbed by private equity, those profits from Rosebank will not go into local community infrastructure.
Scottish Labour have nothing to offer you but destruction coupled with their seething contempt for the Scottish people, and the EU, which Scotland overwhelmingly voted to remain a part of.
There is a possible escape route available for you. SEZs are an unlawful land and power grab over Scotland👇🏻
https://t.co/stz4KVWo4j
'Labour is a democratic socialist party. We do not support independence and we believe that we achieve more together than we do alone' - Scottish Labour Manifesto 2024
https://t.co/N9SLa21FIN

[Humble Pie @OneHumblePie]

@ScottishLabour Total lies.