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Nov 23 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
1/4 So the mendacious language of separation evolves. #sturgeon
2/4 The recent nationalist trend has been to describe the union between Scotland and England as 'voluntary'. It was only ever voluntary in the sense that 315 years ago two parliaments volunteered to legislate for a union.
3/4 Section 1 of the Act of Union says that the union is 'hereof and forever'. Forever. That's permanent.
4/4 But now, according the the first minister, it's no longer even a union. It's a 'partnership'. And a voluntary one at that. Not true. LESSON: don't let nationalists kidnap the language along with everything else they want.
'according to the ...' of course.

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Nov 23
1/14 I was surprised to hear a BBC headline today in the wake of the supreme court decision on the Scottish Parliament's right to enact a Bill for a second Scexit referendum ...
2/14 The headline (Radio 4 earlier this evening) said that there were 'protests across Scotland' against the decision. There are some things you need to know, especially if you were listening from outside Scotland.
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1/10 This article (h/t @graeme_from_IT) sums up nicely a number of points about the SNP and the recent Scottish council elections that have come to prominence in the last week or two.
2/10 The article confirms the posturing about entitlement that the SNP at all levels (local activists to cabinet secretaries) are bringing to a new grievance about council elections.
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Jan 30
1/ A recent FOI request established 11 Scot Gov civil servants are working on the SNP's ‘detailed prospectus’ for separation. A referendum on the subject is very unlikely in the present parliament but the news raises issues about the probity of the exercise.
2/ The UK has a unified civil service. Scot Gov civil servants are also UK civil servants. Their loyalty is not to any party or administration.
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1/10 M'learned friends discover the true nature of Scottish Government consultation, this time on the subject of legal 'reform' (the image taken from a long thread by @AamerAnwar well worth reading).
2/10 Scottish Government consultations, often on large complex subjects, are reduced to a relatively simple online questionnaire.
3/10 The questionnaire comprises questions chosen by the government based on what they want to know, not what respondents might want to say. They do not want to know that you fundamentally object to what they propose.
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1/ Here's a response to a tweet of mine that read 'I can sense why Andy Wightman felt increasingly alienated by your party's intolerance.' And here's a thread on what I think is wrong with it and why it suggests my comment was accurate.
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Angus Robertson's pro-separation outfit 'Progress Scotland' commissions a poll that purports to show a major shift in Scottish opinion towards Scexit.
A spread in the pro-separatist journal The National leads with misleading headlines.
Now, there's a trickle of claims from the poll on the Progress Scotland website, many prefaced with weasel words like 'If we remove those who "Don’t know" or are completely undecided' and 'A clear majority of respondents who hold an opinion'.
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