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@LeRef5 @agcolehamilton If your comment refers to @scotgov then you had better provide evidence to support your claims.

If, your comment is based upon partisan tactics from opposition parties to smear the incumbent @scotgov then you have no evidence since their goals are entirely party political.

@scotgov "We are reminded also that the UK has changed significantly during its history. It is also a union which evolves and is CONTINUING TO EVOLVE, as the introduction of devolution in 1999 for Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales demonstrated."

@scotgov "The Scottish Independence Referendum represents the latest stage in the evolving story of the political and
constitutional shape of the UK."

@scotgov "However, and while this may also apply to some within Scotland, the external view of the Scottish Independence Referendum, and the issues that drove the demand for such a ballot, have largely been misunderstood and misinterpreted."

@scotgov "For many observers, not least from London and English based newspapers this was a nationalist issue; an issue of national identity, of a national independence
movement."

@scotgov "However, to interpret the entire pro-independence campaign and wider independence movement as nationalist in this sense would be SERIOUSLY MISTAKEN."

@scotgov "Central to the entire campaign for Scottish Independence – and this was crucial in shaping the debate that took place over the past two years, culminating of course on the September 18, 2014
ballot ..."

@scotgov "– was a concern with what might be broadly termed social policy and social justice issues (Mooney,
2014a)."

@scotgov "The main policy-making areas devolved to Scotland in 1999 fall largely under the umbrella of social policy/social welfare concerns – notwithstanding that KEY social welfare issues (benefit payments, pensions, employment legislation and so on) remain as RESERVED powers ..."

@scotgov "...under the control of the UK Parliament in London. But health, education, housing, social work, social care and criminal justice, policing the law, all fall under the jurisdiction of the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh."

@scotgov Witness, recent UK Government attempts to undermine the 'competences' of @scotgov and @scotparl 👇

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotla…

@scotgov @ScotParl theguardian.com/politics/2021/…

@scotgov @ScotParl bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotla…

@scotgov @ScotParl publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5801/ldse…

@scotgov @ScotParl "From the very beginning of Scotland’s devolution journey in 1999, issues of social justice were at centre stage."

"The first First Minister, the late Donald Dewar, for example, stated that (on the re-establishment of the first
devolved Scottish Parliament)."

@scotgov @ScotParl "Gordon Brown (2014), who was to play a key part in the NO to independence campaign in the week before the September Referendum, argued that social justice lies at the heart of Scottish political values but commends the current union as ‘a union of social justice’."

@scotgov @ScotParl The UK upon which, arguments opposing #ScottishIndependence 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 were based, has radically changed since the corrupt EU Ref 2016 - won by illegalities.

The enforced minimal Brexit by consecutive Tory UK Governments has overridden the will and therefore, the consent of citizens.

@scotgov @ScotParl Witness today, illegalities present within the Internal Market Act 2020 and the consequences for all devolved governments and administrations.

@scotgov @ScotParl "This is not a big bang abolition of the Scottish Parliament. Westminster has instead put in train the slow demise of devolution in the hope that no-one will notice."

gov.scot/publications/b…

@scotgov @ScotParl "The current (2014 but also true in 2021) SNP-led Scottish Government’s vision for Independence, Scotland’s Future: your guide to an Independent Scotland, asserted the centrality of social justice but within an independent state."

@scotgov @ScotParl "The political map of Scotland and the rest of the UK is very different today from those of the early years of
devolution.

This statement is even more applicable today in 2021 - post-Brexit and post-COVID19.

@scotgov @ScotParl "The 2010 UK and 2007 and 2011 Scottish elections showed Scotland and the rest of the UK as
diverging, and emerging with different political parties forming the governments in Edinburgh and in London."

This divergence is even starker in 2021 as sleaze engulfs UK Government.

@scotgov @ScotParl "Scottish Government policies offer proof to
Scottish voters that devolved administrations could make a difference and withstand the austerity cuts of the
Westminster Government (Haydecker, 2010; Lodge and Schmuecker, 2010; Mooney, 2014b; Mooney and
Scott, 2012)."

@scotgov @ScotParl "That welfare issues have become even more entangled with the constitutional debate is not surprising. Social
welfare was central to discussions in the post-1945 era of Britishness and of the UK itself."

@scotgov @ScotParl "Nevertheless it should be noted that even in the so-called ‘classic period’ of the Beveridgean welfare state during the 1950s-1970s, the welfare state in Scotland was in some ways different from other parts of the UK."

@scotgov @ScotParl "In this respect there is considerable leverage in the argument that it is ‘England’ that is diverging more from the principles of large-scale state welfare provision as opposed to the devolved areas of the contemporary UK."

@scotgov @ScotParl theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

@scotgov @ScotParl theguardian.com/politics/2021/…

@scotgov @ScotParl thenational.scot/news/19229585.…

@scotgov @ScotParl "According to the Ashcroft post-result poll, 25% of No voters voted that way because they believed that Scotland would receive significant devolved powers while remaining as part of the UK (Ashcroft, 2014)."

@scotgov @ScotParl "One result of this was that the Lord Smith Commission was set up in the wake of the referendum to produce proposals for a safe and secure transfer of more powers to Holyrood by the end of 2014."

Those that voted against #ScottishIndependence 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 in 2014, were BETRAYED!

@scotgov @ScotParl "The capacity of both the UK state and the political status quo to protect the life chances of individual families and guard against future insecurities could be read as reasons for the pattern of voting."

@scotgov @ScotParl In UK post-Brexit and post-COVID19, the threats to life chances and insecurities resulting from dimished rights and protections for individuals are exacerbated by a corrupt Tory UK Government that legislates for overriding devolution settlements and breaking international law. ⚖️

@scotgov @ScotParl "Even if this is not the case there can be no doubt that the widening of debate during the referendum campaign beyond mainstream political debate provided evidence of a belief that a Scottish state following a different route to that of Westminster..."

@scotgov @ScotParl "...could play a strong role in developing policy and public services that would be socially inclusive."

@scotgov @ScotParl "In a series of papers published by the Jimmy Reid Foundation (2013), for example, proponents of the Common Weal advocated a far reaching vision of Scotland as a fairer, progressive and more sustainable society."

@scotgov @ScotParl "Social goals would drive economic development, not the pursuit of private profit."

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-563199…

@scotgov @ScotParl "We defend, define and change the law to uphold democracy, protect the environment and ensure no one is left behind."

goodlawproject.org

@scotgov @ScotParl Innumerable reports of corruption within Tory UK Government today and its' deliberate activities that erode Democracy in UK, the case for #ScottishIndependence 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 is URGENT.

@scotgov @ScotParl "The impact of the Scottish Independence Referendum
on Devolution and Governance in the United Kingdom"

niassembly.gov.uk/globalassets/d…

@scotgov @ScotParl

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