So, I've found out that my neighbour has been robbing my gas & electricity. She's is an old lady that nobody else in the village gets along with; she's pushed everyone away, so I've been helping her out financially too. Now this!
Betrayed!
My name is Scot. Her name is England.
Scotland sends majority pro-indy representation to Holyrood & Westminster; the union ignores that mandate because it isn't a pro-union mandate.
Today, Westminster ignores SNP MPs because it feels it can act with impunity.
There's no democracy for Scots within the union.
None.
Many Scots must feel that being in the union is like being in a relationship with a gambling addict that won't let you leave; they've sold off anything of any worth, maxed out the credit cards & stuck you with a ruinous bill, most of which has been blown on shite you don't want.
Where do all of these anti-SNP and anti-Sturgeon hashtags originate?
One of three sources.
1. Alba
2. Wings
3. Unionists
They all share the same objective.
Think on that.
In Weston-not so super-Mare this afternoon.
A customer of the George & Dragon addresses me in a ‘Lundun’ accent while he’s outside smoking.
I reply with my Scottish accent.
Then I’m met with…
“Jock cxnt”,
The type of hysterical bacon that both Starmer & Sunak are courting.
@elrick1
Before the SNP assumed power, the top ten most deprived communities in the UK were in Scotland (courtesy of the union). Now, the most deprived communities in the UK are in England.
But keep licking unionist crack if it helps you delude yourself in comfort.
Presumably, every Tory wants Scotland to be SNP free.
So, why all the faux clutching of pearls when the leader of the SNP says that he wants Tories out of Scotland?
Does any Tory want the SNP to win seats?
@AnasSarwar
Who elected you?
You're a unionist placeholder, secreted into Holyrood on the list vote, pushing the agenda of a foreign government, subverting democracy in our government - and paid for by the taxpayer.
You're an abhorrence to democracy.
A propagandising shill.
A quisling.
Genuinely, the explosion of race hate within the union is one more reason why I believe Scots are better served by independence.
It's not the way our civic society operates.
What's worse? Saying that we'd like to see Tories obliviated at the ballot box in Scotland - or characterising the entire population of Scots as vermin?
Anas Sarwar winning politician of the year has the same vibe as Jo Swinson declaring herself the probable next Prime Minister of the UK.
Does anyone else remember that?
Barnett.
Devised by an Englishman, at the request of an English PM - leading an English government, and moaned about incessantly by the English ignoratti.
I'm sure that Scots and English alike would happily swap Barnett for full independence.
You would, wouldn't you?
Unionists deride supporters of Scottish self-determination as 'nationalists' as if that is some kind of abominable slur.
But unionists are British nationalists.
If they claim that they aren't nationalists then surely it follows that Britain isn't actually a nation?
Anyone else think that the hashtag Labour are bombing Rutherglen with is just vapid and meaningless?
#Freshstart
Looking at Shanks’ webpage, that looks equally beige; no detail - generic offering from Labour central office.
There’s nothing ’Scottish’ about the Labour campaign.
Alba, Scottish local elections, 2022.
111 candidates stood. Not one was elected.
Brian Topping, a former SNP councillor of 38 years standing, who left the SNP for Alba, won 274 votes for his troubles.
Apparently, these are the people delivering Indy.
@AlasdairSampso1
Put your hate away.
I'm SNP.
I run my own data business. Have done for decades.
Pay top rate tax. Have done for decades.
My family is English.
There's literally nothing unionism offers Scotland that can't be better served by indy. Simple pragmatism.
Westminster doesn't serve Scots. If we can't get democracy in Westminster then it plainly isn't designed for us and it isn't where our elected representatives belong.
What's the point if the speaker actively works against SNP MPs?
BREAKING: Speaker Lindsay Hoyle has denied the SNP a second debate on a ceasefire in Gaza despite previously offering one.
The revelation came after Stephen Flynn raised a point of order in the House of Commons
Media, Albaists, and Unionists - all vehemently anti-SNP today. No policy debate or justification - just old fashioned SNP bad - shouting and screaming at the top of their voices. Desperate stuff.
#VoteSNP
@wildmountain_1
@ChampersChuck
@BigTfromHalfway
Under NO circumstance are you EVER mandated to incriminate yourself. In point of fact, the police are required by law to fully identify themselves to you when asked - you are not required to reciprocate.
We now know that the investigation into the SNP's murky finances has been expanded to include possible embezzlement and misuse of funds.
The SNP must be fully transparent and provide the answers the public deserve.
As is evidenced by Scottish Indy & Irish reunification, unionists will only accept a democratic mandate if it's a pro-union mandate. They'd rather ostracise swathes of the electorate from democracy than deliver it.
Watch the dogs of war be unleashed now against Michelle O'Neill.
@Mike_Fabricant
If actual Tories can't be bothered listening to the head Tory tomorrow, why should any of us give a fig about what any Tory has to say about anything, ever?
@archer_rs
Labour isn't offering anything to Scotland.
They're offering to Scotland is a Brexit we've already rejected - and a union that they're determined to ram down our throats. Why would Scotland vote for that?
Why?
Nicola Sturgeon has the largest mandate of any party leader on these islands.
The full weight of the BritFash machinery is being brought to bear. Democratic norms have been suspended for the Scottish electorate. The union is bunkered in fear.
Rightly so.
Saor Alba.
Anyone else noticing an increasing number of supposed indy accounts that, when questioned, will say that they support neither SNP or Alba - but then actually positively RT Alba and denigrate the SNP?
Reek of 5th columnists. British PsyOps.
At nearly sixty, I’ve never watched a single second of any Queen’s speech - and have zero intention of changing tact to accommodate Chuck Windsor.
Will you be watching the King’s speech?
Absolutely mental.
Certain Alba commentators slating the SNP and its voting body one tweet - and in the very next tweet calling for
#ScotlandUnited
Cognitive Dissonance writ large with these headbangers.
Maybe I’ve missed it; is there a single policy from Scottish Labour that’s distinct from plain old fashioned London based Labour?
What’s the difference?
Genuine Q for any Labour politicos.
Researching the relative worth of 'a vote' across the constituent parts of the Union, I referenced data from the parliamentary library.
Eng has 82% of the seats - & (over the last 100 years) has got the govmnt it voted for >89% of the time.
No other part of the UK comes close.
Quick reminder:
Anas Sarwar, & Douglas Ross continue to 'tell' Scots what they're allowed to vote for - & what their votes mean.
Neither has put themselves before the democratic scrutiny of the Scottish electorate. Both are list MPs; unionist placeholders that no one voted for.
@magnusllewellin
When visiting dignitaries from other countries visit Scotland, who greets them and why?
Nicola Sturgeon greets them because she's the democratically elected representative of Scotland.
Comical watching unionists twist themselves in apoplectic knots about it.
Alba’s NEC. Many of these people are the ones that slate the SNP and it’s support online - but they’re now saying they’re prepared to give up all their electoral success if the SNP surrender some of their seats to them,
@Neilsocialist
Before the SNP, Scotland endured the highest rates of child poverty within the union. In just a little over a decade (two parliamentary terms) that stat has been turned on its head - Scotland now enjoys the lowest rates of child poverty in the union.
Failed?
@KEdge23
Strikes are caused when you don't pay people enough money to live.
Where is the high-skill, high-wage economy we were all promised? Where is it?
@AlStewartOBE
Just forget the union, Alastair.
Scotland has returned majority pro-indy caucuses to both Holyrood & Westminster.
After indy, you won't need to worry about Barnett - you'll have a raft of other things to worry about instead.
I cannot wait to watch you drown in your own hubris.
@suzanwking
@ScottishLabour
Labour either acknowledges the legitimate, democratic mandate returned by the Scottish electorate for an indy ref - or you're disenfranchising Scots from democracy and there's literally no difference between you and a Tory. It's fascism.
@GeorgeFoulkes
Why then have Labour entered into agreements with Tories all over Scotland if you 'oppose vigorously the Tory government austerity and right-wing ideology'?
Why has Labour done that?
Let me paint a picture for Sir Keir, Labour, & the wider unionist cohort.
If, as expected, the Tories get crucified at the next GE, the SNP will likely become the 'official opposition' at Westminster.
Is the mantra really going to be, "there's no desire for another indy ref?"
Quick question about indy 'unity': wouldn't the fastest way to unity simply be for the smaller number of Albaists to vote SNP instead of requiring a larger number of SNP voters to lend their vote to Alba?
@toryman1979
Outside of London, Scotland attracts more international investment than any other part of the UK.
How sad is it that a statement like the one above probably makes you angry?
@princessannehrh
She should try being a single working mother, holding down two jobs but still needing to rely on state handouts - facing down £5k a year energy bills.
That'd devastate her.
@ThomasCArthur
@AnasSarwar
Irrelevant.
What Sarwar is being called out on is his hypocrisy in celebrating independence for Pakistan from Westminster while denying the same to Scots.
@elliot_gc
You seem to think when the Saltire is removed from the union flag and flown with pride & spirit it's being weaponised!?
It's being reclaimed by the people it belongs to.
As I wander through the desolation of unionist Twitter, the overwhelming rejection of Scots indy seems to be predicated on not much more than 'once in a generation'. That honestly seems to be it.
'once in a generation' - & abuse.
Where's the positive case for the union?
That awkward moment when you realise that you've actually explicitly tweeted that the purpose of Alba is to 'destroy' the SNP to the very people that you'll need to get to vote Alba in the next election.
I hope that after the dust of the SNP leadership contest has cleared, Alba learns the lesson that you can't slate the members of another party & expect them to bow to you.
There is no NS telling members how to vote.
Drop the garbage excuses & vitriol.
Bring a positive case.
@SharonDowey_
And Scotland has honoured that vote by remaining in the union - but the union has reneged on the promises it made to win that vote.
Also, Scots didn't vote in 2014 to surrender democracy or the power of rational thought.
@dudleylad1066
False equivalence.
My father was white, Scots-Irish.
He beat all his kids and my mother every day of my childhood. Everyday.
Should I tell my daughters that white men aren't to be trusted?
@bbcdebatenight
"2 minutes late means that you're sanctioned for 13 weeks!"
...
Do Tories acknowledge that such a policy and language is detestable? Do they acknowledge the ill feeling such language incites? Do they own their own villainy?