Scottish independence news feed. Updates from mostly new & indy media on efforts to restore Scotland’s status as an independent sovereign state.
Mar 20, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
1/ This week three years ago. #AlexSalmond not guilty, having suffered public defamation and character assassination. The people who plotted against him did not care if the stress of false accusations had killed him or if he had ended his days in prison.
2/ Nicola Sturgeon claimed she never cast doubt on the verdict of the jury yet used every and any opportunity to infer that they had somehow got it wrong – doing so even during a Covid briefing.
Mar 10, 2023 • 8 tweets • 5 min read
From 2022, an example of how Sturgeon and her devo-Unionist clique delayed and derailed the SNP’s post-Brexit independence opportunities.
“Twice as many civil servants working on gender reform plans as indyref2 bill” | HeraldScotland heraldscotland.com/politics/19897…2/ Then there were Sturgeon’s invitations to British state loyalists to influence the SNP & infiltrate ScotGov.
1/ “Police are investigating leaks of information about the Scottish government's inquiry into harassment allegations against Alex Salmond.” archive.today/Fkdox
Close aide, alleged to have been involved in criminal leak, turns up in Sharm El-Sheikh with Nicola Sturgeon. 2/
1/ Why is Alyn ‘Reds-Under-the-Bed’ Smith so chummy with the British security sevices? He’s gone from war on cybernats to conflict with Russia. Smith’s time would be better spent planning Scotland’s exit from the UK and its #ColdWar2 foreign policy. 2/ Before he became SNP Spokesman for Russophobia – who now parrots standard UK state condemnation of #RussiaToday – he was happy to appear on the broadcaster. What changed? After all, Putin rebuffed Cameron’s request to come out in support of the UK in 2014 indyref.
Sep 15, 2021 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
From Craig Murray blog January 2021:
“she [Sue Ruddick] expressed the sentiment that, if the police/Crown would specify the precise
evidence needed, she would get it for them…” craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2021/…2/ “There was no conspiracy, it’s a heap of nonsense…”
May 19, 2021 • 6 tweets • 5 min read
1/ Smith: “a project Stewart McDonald and I have set up and have been quietly pushing on with for months – Project No Surprises.”
Explaining Scottish current affairs to a foreign audience is an excellent initiative. But do we want the SNP’s in-house ‘Laurel and Hardy’ doing it? 2/ Smith in today’s ScotNational, “…you’re not trying to make people aware of something they’re not aware of, you’re trying to explain a story people think they already understand.”
Smith & McDonald themselves demand some further explanation ⬇️
“Nicola Sturgeon announced her decision to postpone the vote on independence… She said that "we will not seek to introduce the legislation for an independence referendum immediately," but added that there are plans to come back to it in late 2018” sputniknews.com/europe/2017062…#FailedStrategy
“Nicola Sturgeon argues that before the second independence vote goes forward there needs to be a more clear understanding of Brexit terms and that in the meantime the government will be trying to secure the best deal possible for Scotland in these talks…”