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A lot has changed in the world since 2014, but the need for independence has never been stronger.
That's why we published the #WeeALBAbook, the new case for Independence. Read it here below;
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That's why we published the #WeeALBAbook, the new case for Independence. Read it here below;
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You might not want to read this book right now.
That's no bother. (2/35)
#WeeALBAbook | #ScottishIndependence
That's no bother. (2/35)
#WeeALBAbook | #ScottishIndependence
Keep ahold of it by:
🔖 Bookmarking this tweet
⬇️ Downloading the book here: albaparty.org/wee-alba-book
...and it'll be there for you when you're ready.
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🔖 Bookmarking this tweet
⬇️ Downloading the book here: albaparty.org/wee-alba-book
...and it'll be there for you when you're ready.
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1. Scotland can't run a wellbeing economy if our monetary policies try to mimic those of the UK Government. @GOVUK policies are built, not on a mountain of govt debt - but on a mountain of myths about govt debt. Remember, the UK Government can't run out of money.
2. Government finance in a monetary sovereign country is not scarce – the only things that are scarce are the country’s resources. Those resources are its people, their skills and the physical/technological resources of the country.
3. The government can afford to invest in green technology, in education, in research, in healthy citizens, in a more equal distribution of opportunity & wealth. It can invest in ensuring the planet doesn't burn to a crisp. Resources are limited - not finance.
Once you become aware of how much Scots are being shafted by Westminster - it's difficult to get it out of your mind.
#YesScots #ScottishIndependence2023
#YesScots #ScottishIndependence2023
Shafted. An example: Scots having one of the highest energy costs in Europe. Which apart from anyone else - is enough to scare off companies wanting to invest in Scotland.
#YesScots
#YesScots
Shafted: another exaple is Scotland being pulled out the EU against our will! Shafted by Westminster.
#YesScots
#YesScots
With another Scottish independence referendum just around the corner I thought I'd write a thread on what was pushed last time by the 'better together' side, just to remind everyone of the tactics employed.
1. "Scots will be worse off by £1,500 per household per annum." The Times wrote back in April of this year that UK households will be worse off by £2,300 with a further £1,500 predicted. I know inflation has alot to do with it, but amongst the worst rises on the continent.
2. "Scotland can't join NATO if it doesn't host nuclear weapons" multiple nations in NATO have dispensation not to host Nukes. & It looks like a relatively straightforward process given it took 🇸🇪& 🇫🇮 about 4 months to join. Neither of whom have nuclear weapons.
1/ Still not convinced this is going to happen. The Tories are allegedly planning for GE in August next year (& they may well have been assured of this). This will give the SNP more excuses for delay. Even if the ref still takes place in October 2023 after an August GE...
2/The mandatory General Election will then be circa 2027. By this point Sturgeon will probably have stepped down and the promise of independence will no longer her "problem" to manage. Rather than as move towards independence...
3/... this perhaps yet another sign that an early General Election is in play. Others include Crosby attending cabinet and Right Wing Labour MPs laying the groundwork for leadership campaigns. Apologies for the scepticism but past behaviour is best guide to future action...
Superb to see the Scottish Parliament discuss and pardon the Miners after the aggression of the Tory Party under Margaret Thatcher during 1984-5.
If you doubt the power of a media over packed by the right and underrepresented by the working class, the
If you doubt the power of a media over packed by the right and underrepresented by the working class, the
Thatcher government's vicious attacks on the Miners, and the propaganda of a quisling press (and I don't use that word lightly), really should be an education. Our present media is as biased, as is the fact that presence on social media can be
bought. Twitter, Facebook and YouTube are becoming unusable because of advertising and the promotion of views that at present represent a few entitled people. Swamping social media helped a right wing, ultra nationalist
If you have doubted those who have said that the Tories have been taken by the far right, the suggestion that the UK will legislate itself OUT of the ECHR and force ably remove people and dump them in Rwanda should be a HUGE wake up call.
The Tories are
The Tories are
not afraid to provoke outright racism in order to deflect from the billions of pounds of wealth they are siphoning off to their sponsors. The fascism our grandparents fought against in 1936 and 1939-45 landed here, thanks to Cameron, Osborne, Clegg, Gove, May et al. They (and
media friends) enabled Farage, Johnson, Patel and their Brexiter gangsters. Not only was what has happened in Britain since 2010, a criminal act of asset stripping, it has also been an act of human rights stripping and one of low wages, and no rights.
Enablers have driven
Enablers have driven
🧵 a no to yes journey, the consequences of Brexit and get us out of here @theSNP
In my younger days I was a ‘Global Scot’; an entrepreneur; I commuted to London weekly (30 years); travelled the world on business and genuinely thought the UK was better together. I voted No (to my shame now) in 2014.
Then Brexit was discussed. And worse, it happened and I’m now firmly yes #ScottishIndependence2023 The fall out from it is only just starting. International companies before 2016 saw Scotland (and the UK) as an easy route to doing business throughout the EU.
"Britain is doing the right things by Ukraine, but we should never forget that it is not our people who are fighting and dying."
"In the eyes of Conservatives, there is still a pragmatic case for retaining Johnson. Yet if the future of Britain and public faith in our politicians are to count for anything, the alternative principled case for removing him must be recognised as imperative."
"In the harsh economic times ahead, Johnson’s inability even to simulate compassion will intensify the government’s unpopularity."
"Asked if he agreed that the people of the UK, like those in Ukraine, would “choose freedom, every time”, Sunak replied: “I do think people in this country prize their freedom. Of course they do." "
"And there’s lots of different ways they express that, whether it’s through elections, through referendums, and other democratic means.”"
#Halfon MP: “The way I see it is the prime minister was saying we’re a vibrant democracy. We’re such a vibrant democracy, we’ve had a referendum. Ukraine wants to be a vibrant democracy and the Russians are trying to stop that.”
