Most, by far, of the UK's oil and gas is from Scottish territorial waters.
Scotland is far, far ahead of the rest of the UK in
decarbonising... but with the Westminster Tory Government has a huge say (the final say) in oil and gas, leaving these fossil fuels in the ground needs the help of activists to highlight what is happening here and what Scottish Govt is actually fighting to achieve (and how
tories and their pals are actually retarding that).
Criticism of progress does not help. Aiding faster progress does.
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I was very emotional for most of the walk from Kelvingrove Park to George Square. I shed a few tears,watching and listening to young people & children who really, cynical oldies NEED to listen to. Let's
not be the generation who patronised the we'ans, "awww'd" at their cute signs, and then left them a dying world.
Before I set out, I watched one of the "important people," a CEO of the corporation that owns IKEA, speak of his concerns and his pledges on the BBC, but
prevarication when asked about growth that is created by constantly telling people to consume more. He also faltered when confronted by the fact that @IKEA are opening a big new store in Central London, creating more traffic, and adding to "growth," ie a consumerism that is
As a citizen of Glasgow... I agree with @GretaThunberg. Cop26 is excluding lots of people lecturing is. Glasgow has been excluded. Low income countries are excluded. Low income families and their representatives are excluded.
I cycled all around Glasgow today, talking to
activists who lectured me and i gave them stickers.
The security, although not at Mondays level (the last time I cycled around) is still quite something. I'd recommend anyone who can to take a tour around- Kelvingrove Clyde walkway, Partick, George Square etc. Though today
there seemed to he more religious nutters about proclaiming the end of the world which was interesting, and depressing.
At the security gates from secc , i stopped and watched as delegates came and went... all very tall, beautiful, middle class. I some very beautiful
When I first arrived in Scotland, from Northern Ireland in 1993, I looked forward to voting for politics not poisoned by what Church your family went to. John Smith was the leader of the Labour Party and seemed to be a man who
was leading the party in a more pragmatic centre, but leftward direction. Then came Blair. I was a mature student at Stirling Uni. The floor I stayed on in Andrew Stewart Halls was perhaps, quite unusual, as it was very political and a melting pot of class... but
vastly working class. Represented there were SWP radical lefties, Militant Tendency left, centre left Labour Party, centre right Labour Party, SNP and Tory. I was definitely more attuned to the radical left, but selling papers, shouting slogans on the Link Bridge seemed
It's no longer Scottish Independence Bampotless Tuesday.
So here is a bampot.
It's really difficult to avoid thinking conspiracy theories about Mel and the accounts agreeing with her.
But let's come from the pov that she believes this shite. I'm not totally familiar
with Mel's history. I do remember engaging with her when I ran the SSP social media between late 2011- mid 2015. She was always a bit hyped up about things. Took weird angles. I took it to be that she was a recent Scot and had not lived in Scotland, or North of Watford, during
the Thatcher/Major Tory decimation of the North of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, or the total neglect of the Labour Party during their almost total control of our councils and the early days of the Scottish Parliament. She never experienced the poverty and
Guest Ungagger here in solidarity with prolific tweeter Neil, who gave us live coverage of the latest roaster spectacular 'Failure in Freedum Square'...so that we didn't have to. Thanks Neil 👌. On a serious note though, how sad is the place where we find ourselves now (thread)
How many of us looking on remembered 19th September 2014, the invasion of the unionist fash and their violent victory outing in that same square, then the resignation of Salmond as FM and we felt really hammered, bur there was a strong sense of solidarity..
Those post 18the Sept days were the absolute pits, but we bashed on best we could. Found our own activism; our voice in an online forum, or joined a party or pressure group. Now look at the betrayal by those absolute charlatans who profess to speak for us as a movement and weep..
1 feel listened to
2 grow a community
3 bring people together
4 sow discord amongst alienated people
5 pull alienated people together in cultist, right wing anger
6 create angry community
It is an incredible space to manipulate.
"Thought Reform" is on display on social media, constantly, injected in to movements in order to create discord and splits. To do this, the bad actors need to control the narrative and make people believe sometimes what was the opposite of what they once believed. Edward Hunter
came up with eight criteria to describe how totalitarian regimes/cults go about this.
1 Milieu control. The leader, or a select band, has complete control of information. Isolate people from outside information. People are taught to trust only the internal publications