It's natural with Sturgeon's milestone this week to think back on the past decade in Scotland.

I've been looking back at my own archive of memes & visualisations from over the years- and it's a sorry tale of a region gripped by stagnation and waste.

Short thread...🧵
August 2014. Just after the first debate between Darling and Salmond (- Just before the panicked YES campaign weaponised the fully devolved NHS.)

Look at the options & issues: How far we've failed to come any closer to clarity on currency!
This was only a year or two after the No vote; with agitation already beginning for #indyref2

As the SNP were forced, in negotiations and limited refreshing of the case, to let slip time after time that the claims of the NO campaign, of #BetterTogether were in fact correct...
If 2014 case for indy had been honest and credible, the SNP wouldn't need to rely on the grievance of brexit, they could have just published "where we'd be now if we'd voted yes".

Impossible for them, because their own figures issue a damning verdict on their own predictions
This front page from 6 yrs ago could be printed again tomorrow with no changes. In fact it might be!
An Anglophobic tax exile Nationalist celeb, a flag waving nationalist launching a new referendum push for summer, and is that a political obsession with gender & sex in schools?
This pastiche of Sturgeon's opportunistic posturing turns her arguments back on her by showing how a stronger case is made for the UK, even with Brexit. If anything point 4 has been made stronger.
As I look back at these, some I'm just dumbfounded how Scotland has stagnated under Sturgeon.

I get some like the appeal of independence, but it's time to accept, the SNP are not going to provide credible answers. I'm not sure they are even trying to.

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More from @BingoDemagogue

May 9
Again the SNP wooing remainers to indy by claiming that it means Scotland in the EU...

I understand if you are tempted! but Scots deserve to make informed decisions & you. are. being. misinformed.

Don't take my word for it: Just go check everything in this thread yourself.
Knowledge is power. How well do you understand the process by which countries apply, and what hurdles there are, before they may gain membership?

If nothing else, just understanding this process will help you spot so much bullshit and misinformation!

One key blocker is "chapter 17" - the rules on Monetary policy.

It's literally impossible to meet this criteria while using the pound and launching a new currency isn't a quick fix.

Try asking them about it...

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Apr 21, 2021
Just a couple of thoughts on #EFTA

1) if Scotland did become independent I would want it to be in the EU, I just a) don't think that's feasible and b) it doesn't offset damage of leaving UK
Many times when I point out the process and problems of EU membership, and someone realised they can't wish away issues (like keeping the pound and closing Chapter 17) they just dismiss it with "we'll just join EFTA in the meantime"
First: even if that was a trade equivalent of low tarrif EU membership it might be the least of bad options but it's still much worse than the status quo for trade
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Apr 20, 2021
@LADYRAMPANT you claim "of course Scotland could be in the EU" and to have a master's in EU law; I'm hoping you can clarify some points?
Nicola Sturgeon claims we can keep the pound ( pegged or Sterlingised) and join the EU.
How could we close chapter 17 of the Acquis on Monetary Policy without Governance of Monetary policies such as quantitative easing and interest rates?
Can you outline if, when and how we would meet the Copenhagen Criteria for EU membership application?
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Apr 19, 2021
Hi @MairiMcAllan got your leaflet and I have some questions...

1. You show an EU flag; can you confirm or deny that the SNP have a feasibility study into how long it would take an independent Scotland to join, and it makes a direct comparison to Montenegro (19 years) Image
2. You say "once the pandemic is behind us... ...from Boris Johnson"

So logically - if, by the time the pandemic is fully gone, Boris is no longer PM, then you will withdraw the threat of a referendum?
3. You claim we reject Nuclear Weapons - can you confirm you want an independent Scotland to be a Denmark style NATO member- allowing all NATO nuclear armed ships including rUK subs full and free access to all Scottish ports and waters?
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Mar 13, 2021
This is a lengthy, but very worthwhile article. It's as relevant to the UK including Scotland as well as the USA.
You can listen to it as well. I recommend it.

theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
I found two bits it talks about in social media *very* interesting; on different models and algorithms.

One model delays posts by 24 hours. You get a chance to remove or correct things before they go public. It slows discourse.
Another model was how to build consensus; people post something. You either agree with it or disagree. No reply function.

Then the algorithm promotes post with *consensus* not engagement.
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Mar 13, 2021
@MhairiHunter I'd argue lying about there being EU legal advice in 2014, then using our money to cover up the lie, then surpressing the committee findings was controversial.
@MhairiHunter Selecting a small subset of years of figures to base the whitepaper"s hopelessly optimistic economic model on; that was controversial.
@MhairiHunter Having two nuclear reactors in Scotland, but no processing or storage for the waste - all done in England, and glossing over this when it would cost billions and be dangerous for centuries in an independent Scotland: that's controversial
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