A new GAZA.CUT of our song 'The Gift' Pt. 1 is now on youtube and soundcloud. Improved, shortened for radio & with a new and hopefully impactful ending in response to the ongoing genocide in Gaza and Westminster's complicity.
Please share widely.
Irish Independence was won on a majority of seats and less than 50% of the vote.
The Brits said no.
Who won?
Labour, do you really need taught that lesson again?
NEW: Labour have dismissed the SNP's new policy on independence, saying it has "no mandate"
The motion is set to be introduced at the SNP conference next month
1/ I believe we can have no confidence in Indy polling. I suspect that Yes is already above 60%. Private polling companies have agendas & can be compelled by Government (in a similar mechanism to a D-Notice) not to publish data threatening to "National security". Gove said Indy
This is just one aspect of how Indy polling is 'managed' to create a fake 50/50 limbo in which we are imprisoned. It's a lie.
Yes is already over 60%. 'Getting the polling higher' is an endless trap designed to thwart Indy. Don't fall for it.
In the 3 years from 2021 to 2024 190,000 people have passed away in Scotland. And approximately 175,000 have become eligible to vote. So, how come this isn't reflected in the Savanta
#Indyref2
polling samples?
50% +1 is Independence.
He says we've been hovering around 50% for years.
But somehow Independence is not 'frustratingly close'???
Is he self-imposing some 'threshold' now?
Troubling start on Indy.
“I don’t accept that independence is ‘frustratingly close’ ; I think we’ve got to win more hearts and minds”
John Swinney MSP, who looks set to become Scotland’s next First Minister, tells
#Newsnight
he wants a persuasion exercise on Scottish independence:
SNP members and the wider Yes movement should be considering NOW whether - immediately after this election - the SNP needs recaptured & rebuilt or destroyed utterly to make room for a worthy Independence Party. Two years passes quickly so which is it and how is it accomplished?
@80_mcswan
Because our languages, especially Gaelic, are an enduring reminder that the Scots are a fundamentally different people to the English and as such our languages are an obstacle to our full and final absorption into the 'British' Greater England project.
So they must be erased.
@geoallison
The British media in Scotland actively and brazenly opposes the aspiration for self determination of a nation and actively campaigns against at least half the nation.
That's NOT journalism.
'Journalism' is the cover for overt political propaganda. We will oppose it - robustly.
In Sunak's recent speech supporters of Scottish Independence are cast as dangerous extremists. With the claim that we are trying to "even tear the UK apart" we're a whisker away from being deemed terrorists for simply holding a view.
Will this harden Indy support or weaken it?
It will be desperately disappointing if Scottish Independence has to follow Irish reunification. We have the opportunity to lead the way here and actually lend a hand to our Celtic cousins.
Let's take it, Scotland!
@agcolehamilton
@allianceparty
Even bigger gains for SF, record breaking even.
Looks like Ireland is gonna be unified before scotland achieves independence, although it'll be a close run thing.
Either event will be a tipping point for the other though.
Interesting times.
@msm_monitor
Overt bias in Media - which Robertson has shown can be documented & quantified, & so, PROVEN - should be made illegal in Scotland.
Make it a criminal offence to lie directly or by omission or give unbalanced coverage on TV news or in print.
Repeat offenders being shut down.
If you believe in an indy Scotland then you believe in the Scottish nation.
The Scottish people are a 'broad church', left leaning, centre & right.
To win Independence you need to bring them all with you.
Narrow party politics is effectively Anti-Scottish & Anti-indy.
@HunterNorrie
He's got it backwards. You're born Scottish & it's been that way for over 1000 yrs.
We were later MADE British at the stroke of a pen - & with a stroke of a pen we will no longer be British.
The Scottish is unchangeable, it's British that's merely a temporary 'identification'.
@Douglas4Moray
Your disgusting, Ross.
Decades of a Tory War against working class Scots & their livelihoods, Tory cruelty, neglect & austerity - which broke those it didn't kill - drove countless Scots to drink and drugs. You did this.
And you want to perpetuate it, so you can blame the SNP.
If Kate Forbes becomes FM she should refuse to engage with the BBC reporters and other Britnat media except in Gaelic as a protest against their anti-Scottish machinations.
We all know the truth. If a Referendum were held today we'd likely see a 65%+ win for Yes. THAT'S why a Referendum is denied and THAT'S why Gove's (accurate) Government polling his hidden!
If we'd started from 50% in the run up to 2014 we'd have won by 65%.
So we've won NOW!
Revolutionary movements need their own rebel songs. We hope to help in that regard over the next year or so leading up to Indyref2. Our first, 'The Gift', is now on YouTube as a rough demo. We hope you like it and, if so, please share it.
@Annemarieward
Sure, UK treats them as criminals & most ignore the fact that it's Scots broken by the grinding hopelessness & poverty imposed by decades of Westminster austerity & neglect that drives them to drink and drugs.
But, no, blame the SNP for not somehow magically 'treating' it away.
@blairmcdougall
@agcolehamilton
What a waste of your time Blair. I've seen the video - and watched the one you posted in case I'd missed something - and he says exactly what we are saying he said.
Did you hope we wouldn't notice?
3/ This is why we must not fall into the trap of endlessly accepting delay, "trying to get the percentage higher", or of trusting the polls, which somehow, conveniently, hover in limbo. I suspect we will be carefully maintained in that data limbo endlessly, unless we reject it.
2/ was "the greatest challenge this Government needed to confront". That sounds like a serious "threat to national security" & they would take measures accordingly, such as controlling polling data available to the public & HIDING Government polling data (as Gove is still doing).
Should the Scottish Independence Movement "unite behind the SNP"?
Or should the SNP unite behind the Independence Movement?
Should we, the people, "hold our noses" to support them, the party, or should they be striving to represent us on this single issue that unites us all?
@blairmcdougall
@agcolehamilton
An Englishman stands in a kilt in Oxford and says Scotland is a nation that "cannot and should not exist" - and we're accused of racism?
You're priceless Blair.
Please repost the above. I think the reliance on & trust in polls among some in the Independence movement is a grave mistake that can be exploited & and used to impede our progress.
I'm curious about those insisting indy supporters must vote SNP as the 'only vehicle' capable of delivering Independence - no matter how far people may feel the SNP has strayed from the cause.
Will they still be as loyal to the SNP and as insistent if Kate Forbes becomes FM?
@WeeIzabella
Maybe because the leader of that party is a former First Minister of Scotland, the only one to secure a referendum on Independence, and who still has much to say which many in the Movement (SNP included) find worth considering.
Like him or loathe him, he's still significant.
A reminder that the absolute proof the Unionist's arguments against Indy are all utter garbage lies on an island just 12m from Scotland, home to Scotland's Indy 'sister' nation, which was once in the Union & the UK & which now thrives - without such oil or energy as we have. 🏴🇮🇪
With the SNP losing favour with it's membership & ALBA now apparently imploding is it time the Scottish Independence Movement united & divorced itself from the pitfalls of competing political parties & stopped seeking expression though them?
@NeilDrysdale
@poloandsons
London sent William Wallace's severed arm to Newcastle to be displayed "as a warning to Scotland" and Newcastle was pretty much Scottish territory in this period.
Come on Newcastle, you can do better!
@2351onthelist
It's of interest in that it's a significant part of the UK that left the Union, having secured a majority of seats - but not over 50% of the vote - which is exactly what is being proposed. I think a lot of Scots are interested in the fact that this has happened before.
@DrTerryPickwick
@SSalyers2
@NewnhamTony
@TheChucker1
Darien is a "quarter of the planet"? Who knew.
Unionist's argument is that Scotland is not a "country" but an indivisible part of the "country" of the UK.
Until it suits them.
Scotland, the country, had no part in Empire as it had no Parliament, no power, no choice during it.
@msm_monitor
We should crowdfund screens across Scotland in town centres showing a range of MSM Monitor's tweets on a loop.
A direct Rebuttal to the British Media lies ans propaganda.
@JoeEDwyer
It's also regularly said of the SNP and it's why Tories (who are opposed to democracy and don't understand it) keep falsely referring to Scotland as a "one party state" simply because of the SNPs repeated democratic success.
We all know that Scotland is a COLONY. It meets the definitions & that will at some point be internationally recognised.
This is about how you feel. With only Unionists media, PMs calling us extremists, & democracy blocked, do you FEEL colonised and in an occupied country?
Looks like ALBA's Ash Regan voted with the Unionists in the failed VONC.
Many die hard ALBA members believe the SNP is an irredeemable obstacle to independence that must be destroyed, in which case they would applaud Regan's vote.
Others might think this a grave mistake.
@marcuscarslaw1
Independence polls higher than the SNP.
SNP are defeated and your solution is to further abandon the very thing which polls HIGHER than you do?
The thought that perhaps you're too SOFT on Independence's and THAT'S why voters are dropping you doesn't even occur?
Bad mistake.
@rooftopdennis
So you're blaming a bad poll for the SNP on SNP members you clearly disagree with, yet who wield zero influence and power within the SNP? Wouldn't this be a titanic failure to self reflect? 🤔
Do you think Hate Crime Law is already the same In England as it is in Scotland?
What's the difference, if any, and can you prove it?
Please give your opinion here and then post your EVIDENCE.
@pix3lpro
@SSalyers2
Another post Culloden Duke of Cumberland medal looked like this. A Scot forced to kneel before a crowned English lion that rears and roars in his face. Still another has Scots being hanged and more awaiting their fate.
@BjCruickshank
@PAlanMcMahon
It's time to take the gloves off. We are going to be demonised and criticised no matter what we do or how polite and careful we are. It's got us nowhere. Time for Scots to get loud and disruptive. There's too much at stake to play around now.
Well done Wales.
@Jen4Scot
@dm180914
Able to take action in its own time rather than Boris Johnson's? Able to shut its border as England through Westminster's negligence made itself the COVID epicenter of the world and the 'bodies piled high?
Yeah, it would have been terrible.
@RozMccall
1 drop of Bruce in 10,000 drops of Saxe Coburg Gotha really doesn't make Charles Scotland's King. The Lion Rampant is the Scottish standard that flew over countless battlefields where the enemy was an English King. If Bruce were alive he'd have an axe with Charlie's name on it.
"I was long resistant to suggestions that Scotland has been colonised. But as I read Alf Baird’s arguments, I found myself quite unable to refute them. Everything that he says about what constitutes a colony I recognised as applying to Scotland."
So the Author of 'The Vow' - arguably the final deathstroke to Indy in 2014 - a man who once told 'Vow deniers' to 'bugger off' is now CEO of the SNP?
Reflect on that.
What are we meant to conclude from this? What do loyal SNP members make of this?
@DaddyKool_72
@agcolehamilton
Fair enough Pablo - except I think saying that Scotland should not exist as a nation goes much, much further than "one wrong word". Don't you?
Scottish Independence is now needed as a moral imperative to clearly demonstrate that we stand APART and SEPARATE from the genocide which the UK Government is condoning and supporting.
@IrishUnity
As in the person of Connolly, the foundations of Irish and Scottish freedom are the same, intertwined and inextricably linked. We will be free.
@SSalyers2
Salvo's greatest challenge is explaining complicated and obscure legal matters concisely and in a way that is understandable to everyone. Analogies will be crucial.
This may be a master plan but if not everyone can be made to understand it then the deserved support will be lost.
@AmyBryce2038057
@border_scottish
@SSalyers2
There is no 'decision' to make. That the Scottish people are Sovereign is a fact, established long ago. The only decision is if we are going to honour that fact or allow a foreign government to trample over it.
@Eyeswideopen69
@SSalyers2
@RishiSunak
You can't base your future on the oil of a country that will be leaving the UK soon anyway.
You can't deny democracy forever. Or is the plan to leech as much Scottish resources as possible before you let us go, like you did your other colonies?
@castlvillageman
@Basil04013438
I'm a fan, but your generalized comments about Scotland are unfair. There's a reason the IRA never attacked here. The OO is a blight wherever it's found, Ireland or Scotland.
@Jimblaeloch
@BBCandrewkerr
Jeez. Of course he called him a thief. He said that he "stole".
"Definition of thief
: one that steals especially stealthily or secretly"
@blairmcdougall
We don't need "dog whistles" from anyone to recognize your ilk. It's because of who you are & what you do that we recognize you as traitors to your own country. The SNP didn't write Burns and we don't need them to interpret Burns. It stings because, deep down, you know it's true.
@PeteWishart
@janforindy2
You'll 'let it pass'? will you? Christ. She worked herself ragged for the SNP and is devastated by this wipeout, as are many. A bit of compassion and respect is perhaps due. No? It's not the time for the piss-taking of losers, of whichever party.
@G1910090398
I don't see the paradox because I don't see any 'sheltering umbrella' of Britishness for ethnic minorities.
It's a word that's slightly more accessible because of the racism that would deny them the label 'English' but 'Englishness' NEEDS to be reformed & 'British' abolished.
@AlanNicolson6
@BjCruickshank
@tomfrench85
@dick_john
@theSNP
@GOVUK
Lord Forsyth, Secretary of State for Scotland 1995 - 1997 under John Major, also served under Thatcher, told the BBC:
"When I was in government, we used to say if the Scots wanted independence, the SNP needed a majority of seats in Scotland.”
@RichardJMurphy
If we're labelled as 'extremists' for supporting Independence & perhaps penalised as 'extremists' for advocating it then no one should be surprised if this eventually provokes some extreme reactions in response.
@blairmcdougall
Surely all this means is that Foote has found the answers to his questions & concerns regarding Independence & has responded honestly & rationally to them, as he became better informed, by switching his stance from No to Yes?
You might yet do the same.
@indy_swim
Devils advocate. Isn't her vote conditional on demands surrounding Independence and making the SNP more electable to women? So couldn't it be argued that if Humza rejects them he is less interested in Independence than she is?
The Attorney General has written to Rishi Sunak to warn him that the UK is complicit and culpable in the War Crimes that Israel is committing in Gaza.
A few months ago it was just the Government's legal team, but now it is the boss.
Rishi Sunak could end up in the Hague.