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20 Feb, 4 tweets, 1 min read
@JodeHarrisonHT Your opening question in this article is faulty. It's not a question on whether Scotland CAN or SHOULD have the power to legislate for Indyref - It already does. Indeed, the UK has advanced no argument against our legal opinion that it does - All they've....
....tried to do is say that we mere plebs can't ask the question to ensure clarity. Snobbery basically!
heraldscotland.com/news/19105410.…
Which is a bit rich if you think about it, considering the last time we looked, the lord advocate, the advocate general, the entire cabinets at WM and Holyrood, the parliamentarians - all of them are paid by the taxpayer. Of which 10,000 support this case.

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21 Feb
I have vehemently stayed away from expressing an opinion on certain rights debates at the moment, and that's not because I have no interest, or am being dismissive of it. I'm an optimist - I believe a solution can be found to enshrining the rights of one group without....
....diminishing the rights of others.

No, my focus has been on the larger threat to the human rights of all of us. A post-Brexit Tory UK Government.

With independence, we have the ability to enshrine rights for everyone, without having our nation's hands tied behind our backs.
But right now, the biggest threat we face is a right-wing Tory Government that has the power to overturn the rights already won over hundreds of years. All of which, if we do not act now and move to independence, will be sacrificed on the altar of shareholder dividends.
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20 Feb
If you love the SNP vote for them on the constituency ballot.

If you hate the SNP vote for them on the constituency ballot because the only thing holding them together is independence so they'll disintegrate after indy.
If you love the SNP vote AFI on the list so they can support them wholeheartedly on the question of independence.

If you hate the SNP vote AFI on the list because they'll keep on at the SNP about delivering independence (their sole goal) and keep them honest.
I guess what I am saying is that love em or hate em, everyone wins with SNP 1 / AFI 2.
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20 Feb
So I have been up to the eyeballs this week building the new home for AFI on the web (the website). Should be online in the next week with easy access for everyone. Woohoo!
The AFI team now churning along and gaining speed. Just like Scotrail - we're getting there!
Choooo chooo.
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19 Feb
All the Adv Generals counsel has done today by trying to character assassinate me in open court (by taking tweets out of context) is make me more determined to push for independence. One more reason being to get rid of the Office of Advocate General from Scotland. Permenantly.
For the record by the way, the RT interview, was scathing of the Advocate Generals waste of public money. He read one half of the conversation and simply said that I opined on the UK Government. Of course he wouldn't want to read that in open court. Because it gave context....
....and it also called out the office of the advocate general for wasting taxpayers money.
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19 Feb
Mr. Webster now quoting my tweet on @joannaccherry opining that Wightman and Cherry were lost in the outer house and then won on appeal.
I assume Mr. Websters intention here is to try and make out that the intention was to proceed regardless of resources.

Which is just patently ridiculous. A few tweets about rallying the troops, he seems to be saying that I should add the caveat of "resources" dependent on the..
...end of every single comment I make.
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19 Feb
Mr Webster for the UK Government is arguing that because the backers of the case have donated, this is proof that I have substantive means. I think it is pretty clear that the UK Government are going hell for leather to try and bankrupt me.
He is using tweets in order to justify his submission. I do, however note that previously, the Lord Advocates counsel has stated that comments of politicians should not be taken to be anything more than rhetoric. Different rules for the common man vs politicians!
Now he is referring to tweets from back in December.
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