Tony Newnham
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Is this the guy who got a massive kick-back for awarding planning permission to a wealthy conservative donor?
The poster boy for Conservative Britain. Posh, stupid,arrogant, incompetent, callous and corrupt.
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England 🏴 can’t afford to keep subsidising Wales 🏴Northern Ireland 🇮🇪 & Scotland 🏴 Its time for the neoliberals to dissolve the union, it’s the natural step after
#Brexit
🇪🇺
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Was Gordon Brown right when he said in 2014, “We’re better together”?
#Scottishindependence
🏴
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Our then chancellor, found guilty of avoiding nearly £5m in tax after denying he was being investigated. Why didn’t the police turn up to his front lawn with spades & half the fleet?
#ScottishIndependence
🏴 The Establishment is corrupt
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Labour misused party funds that were donated to elect Labour to power. The funds were used to undermine Corbyn & stop Labour winning an election. Where are the police & the blue tents 🤷♂️
#Scottishindependence
🏴
Margaret Hodge admits she did everything she could to prevent Labour winning an election and would have done whatever it took to stop Corbyn becoming prime minister
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In 1918, Irish independence won 69% of Westminster seats, 73 of 105. In 1921 Ireland became free, mostly. In 2021, Scottish independence parties have 81% of WM seats, 48 of 59. The 1918 Irish elections were seen as de facto Indy referendum.
#Scottishindependence
🏴
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Westminster has caused the collapse of Scotland’s currency since devolution, making our imports more expensive. The S£ was worth 1.752€ in 2000, now it’s just 1.16€ (-34%). Should we have our own currency with
#Scottishindependence
??
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A reminder,
#Scottishindependence
🏴 is about making our kids better off too. If you’re still No, it’s time to reflect on why, before ideology damages our kids futures
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Czech Republic created their own currency & central bank in 38 days 🤷♂️
#ScottishIndependence
🏴 Social Democracy in a mixed market economy, putting iScottish society first!
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How do we ensure Scots are put first in the future?
#Scottishindependence
🏴
#Yesisbest
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Is there anything that stirs the emotions quite like the bagpipes & drums? Scotland oozes class & im so glad we can campaign in such a jubilant & peaceful way, given the circumstances.
#ScottishIndependence
🏴 It’s about us &
#Timeforchange
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Just blocked
@Douglas4Moray
today. It’s mostly good to see the ‘other side’ of a debate, but has anybody known such a crass, inappropriate individual in public office? My tether was at its end 😅
#ScottishIndependence
🏴
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Japan has been ‘printing’ money for 35 years & hasn’t had inflation above 2%. Japan has a national ‘debt’ of 263% of GDP. Japanese gov bonds are robust, a safe haven for savings.
@malcolm_reavell
@Cat_n_Bagpipes
True but you can't print money forever without that affecting the economy. That would add inflation to our already added inflation.
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Just a reminder of why we keep voting for the
@theSNP
Anybody who thinks another party will have more money to spend in Scotland after the GE is deluded…
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Does anybody 'buy' this...?
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Unisex changing rooms in gyms, sports centres, swimming baths. Unisex toilets in sports centres, in public spaces, supermarkets, since 10 years + are everywhere in Europe. Yet, the Scottish Parliament have invaded women’s rights by introducing the GRR bill. What’s this about?
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Mexico pay around 16% in tax, Norway, c40%. Would you prefer to live in Mexico or Norway??
#Scottishindependence
🏴 Is about improving the lives of Scots, you can’t do that with 16% tax!
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Democracy dies for Scots with Starmer. A majority for Labour at Westminster is neoliberal continuity, don’t vote Labour
It's an absolute car crash interview for Starmer. Martin Geisler left him without a name, exposing him as a totalitarian. Democracy dies with Labour.
#DontVoteLabour
#NeverVoteConservative
#ScottishIndependence2024
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If
@jeremycorbyn
set up a new Social Democratic Party for the GE this year, would you vote for him?
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My feed is being bombarded daily by anti-Scottish memes & tweets from
#ScottishLabour
&
#ScotTories
I support
#ScottishIndependence
🏴 Is Westminster paying to target me & my fellow Indy supporters? Otherwise how 🤷♂️
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Looks like
@UKLabour
have ‘misused’ donations…just waiting for the police tents & the entire police fleet to arrive at Starmer’s house 🙄
#ScottishIndependence
🏴
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Do you think
@scotgov
are doing the right thing, keeping our water sovereign?
#Scottishindependence
🏴 Westminster want to sell it off, just like they’ve sold theirs, we all know the rest!
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@alon_mizrahi
@Scunnert2
Zionism, the USA & U.K., want the hub which is Israel. This is strategic, money, minerals & power in the region, the Palestinians don’t stand a chance, neither do the hostages.
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@BjCruickshank
The D’Hondt system was the ‘insurance’, to stop a party becoming all powerful, like at WM. The SNP have damn near achieved Indy in under 30 years. There is ZERO logic in not voting SNP if you want
#ScottishIndependence
🏴 Michael Gove has unlimited reach & funds to save the union
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@PhantomPower14
@AyeHawick
Lol 😅 Rishi Sunak wasn’t going at all up till a few days ago! It’s a good job Nicola Sturgeon is able to concentrate on more than one thing & represent her country
#Scottishindependence
🏴
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Is it ok, to want Scotland to be independent…?
#ScottishIndependence
🏴 Starmer says not but, that’s subjective isn’t it? Starmer is an authoritarian, is dictating that the people of Scotland, Wales & N.Ireland cannot aspire to self-determination…?
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I’ve had a lot of Unionists saying
#ScottishIndependence
🏴will make Scotland poorer than it is now. Will iScotland be poorer in your view? It’d be good to know why & retweet for open discussion
Yes poorer
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Not poorer
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Should tax evasion & tax fraud carry custodial & financial penalties. Should it also preclude a person from being a public servant? Asking for a nation…
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@implausibleblog
There’s a lot to unpick here, but why is it necessary 🤷♂️ Braverman has been a senior member of the Tory party since 8 years & has supported the highest tax burden in 70 years…
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I didn’t realise…Lyndsey Hoyle or any speaker, can decide whether constituants are represented or not. It isn’t actually down to our MP’s to decide. This isn’t democracy & it blows my mind! 🤯
‘He was not just willing to break the rules, he has now broken his word and he’s not fit to stay in that role.’
The SNP’s
@StephenFlynnSNP
reiterates his call for Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle to step down after he blocked the SNP motion for an emergency debate on Gaza.
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So, Scottish MP’s are calling for a ceasefire & English MP’s are happy to support the status quo. What else would
#Scottishindependence
🏴deliver for Scottish society. Westminster has proved itself immoral 🤷♂️
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The only way to stop the U.K. state (Michael Gove) destroying Scotland’s choice of gov is to vote SNP GE24
What exactly has FM DONE to warrant these VONC? He ended a voluntary cooperation pact with a junior party which ISN’T lodging a VONC. He isn’t mired in scandal or corruption. Unlike the 2 parties lodging VONC. 🤷♂️
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Do you want to live in a true Social Democracy? Which party do you think is more likely to deliver Social Democracy in Scotland? The Scandinavian model…?
SNP
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Labour
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I’m confused, Brexit was going to deliver a ‘high wage economy’, delivered by the Tories. Now the Tories are saying pay rises are impossible, because they are inflationary 🤷♂️ Did they lie then, or are they lying now? Or are they just incompetent? 🤦♂️
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Independent Ireland will grow by 6%, the UK a 0.6% contraction. UK national debt is 100% of GDP, Independent Ireland just 50%. Independent Ireland’s 5m people create double the GDP per capita than U.K. Ind.Ireland is now the US’s gateway to the EU
#Scottishindependence
🏴
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HS2 is costing tax payers £4700 each. That’s £150 billion paid by 32 million tax payers in the U.K. can Scots unionists see the value in that?
#ScottishIndependence
🏴
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Better Together campaign 2014;
“The UK’s ‘financial standing’ helps keep interest rates low, that means cheaper loans & mortgages for you & your family” 🤪
Ireland 3.5%
Denmark 3.35%
Sweden 3.75%
U.K. 5.25%
#Scottishindependence
🏴
‘Better Together’ a con by the Establishment
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So voting Alba loses a seat for SNP
This is what voting Alba will deliver …. Think hard before putting your cross in GE .
#VoteSNP
for Scottish independence
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#Scottishindependence
🏴 Apparently the Metropolitan Police don’t have any ‘blue tents’, perhaps Police Scotland could lend them some…? 🤷♂️
The Government wasted over £10bn on unusable or unused PPE during the Covid pandemic – and lots of that money went to ministers’ mates.
No-one should be above the law. We want to make sure they’re held to account.
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Are you kidding!? We need to vote for leaders, not ‘follow the leaders’. Vote SNP for
#ScottishIndependence
🏴 & a lead on Gaza
.
@VP
Kamala Harris is right. The immense suffering in Gaza cannot go on.
@David_Cameron
and the
@Conservatives
must now join
@UKLabour
in calling for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire.
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Well done to
@scotgov
again following the reduction of the gender pay gap to 1.7% (7.6% WM), child poverty is down again at 22.5% lower than England, Westminster lagging behind…
#ScottishIndependence
🏴
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@RichardJMurphy
What affect have Bank of England interest rates had on energy markets? Energy prices go up, pulling spending power from the U.K. economy. Bank of England interest rates go up, pulling more spending power from the U.K. economy & pulling society even further down 🏴 🤷♂️
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If Neoliberalism does not reflect ‘British values’, why do Brits continually vote for it?
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@WasOnceLoved
None of us ‘win’ if Labour get an overall majority. They’ll continue with neoliberalism, austerity, service cuts & ‘fiscal responsibility’. We need to stop the duopoly, vote
@theSNP
@Plaid_Cymru
@sinnfeinireland
@TheGreenParty
Otherwise we get Starmer’s corporate U.K., Freeports
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What the best choice for Social Democrats in Scotland?
SNP
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Scottish Labour
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@jimmerfaestoney
I’m thinking of setting up a ‘bot’ account 🤖🤖 Promoting
#Englishindependence
🏴 what do you think?! 😅
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Should the Scottish Affairs Select Committee demand
@ScotSecofState
attend to explain himself over the blocking of the GRR bill that passed in the
@scotgov
parliament?? Asking for a nation…
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Brass neck?? Labour in Inverclyde have just refused to freeze council tax for its residents funded by ScotGov. Instead it has raised Inverclyde’s council tax by 15% over 2 years. Aye, brass neck!
Brass neck latest: SNP MSPs vote for a budget that slashes local government funding then trot out press releases bemoaning the cuts that are the consequence, all without a hint of irony.
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@bbcquestiontime
So this 🪴is of the opinion that the Westminster government is better than the Holyrood government 🤷♂️ She is speaking negatively of Holyrood, but she doesn’t speak for all Scots, certainly not me. Why has
@bbcquestiontime
chose to Tweet this particular contribution??
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@Martin_BELFast
@lewis_goodall
Thé DUP put their trust in Westminster & they were DUPed! Now the DUP are gaslighting the Irish, saying it’s the EU’s fault 🤦♂️ffs
#ScottishIndependence
🏴
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#Freeports
Corporate run zones outside of U.K. tax & regulations
@EuropeanPowell
could this allow the practice to become common place?
P&O bosses gave themselves £15m bonuses after sacking 800 UK staff a year ago and replacing them with people from Asia/Africa paid a quarter of the UK minimum wage.
Meanwhile in France they couldn’t fire anyone because of EU employment laws.
Brexit Benefit.
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How many companies would relocate from England to an independent Scotland for easier access to the EU?
#ScottishIndependence
🏴
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Do the Scottish Police think Peter has drawn the £600k from the SNP bank & buried it in his back yard?? 🏝️🤣
#Scottishindependence
🏴 The treasure hunt! 🤦♂️
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Look out Scotland, we’ve Freeports on the way. Well, they’re not ‘Free’ exactly, but £96 ain’t bad for land worth £100,000!
#ScottishIndependence
🏴
According to Private Eye, Tory
chums have been gifted land for a freeport at around a millionth of its actual value...
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@EuropeanPowell
Boris Johnson said
@pandocruises
won’t get away with it, but they did. They sacked 800 crew on the spot & replaced them with cheaper overseas labour. Freeport legislation allowed this.
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@RobinShipston
@JolyonMaugham
So who is in charge of security in No.10, the
@metpoliceuk
? Can we ask the house-keeper if a party aftermath was cleared up, or maybe the kitchen, if they produced party food, drinks?
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I’m a bit confused here…SNP elect A.Nother as leader & FM, ok so far. What stops the unionists & Greens repeating over & over? I can only think that at HR26, our Regional/List vote has to be a different Indy supporting party 🤷♂️
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It seems the union press are advocating some sort of communism for Scotland, where ‘getting-on’ in life is frowned upon.
@scotgov
have done more to lift people from poverty than any other U.K. gov.
Shameless Shona Robison jetted off to luxury ski resort just days after slashing public spending and raising taxes:
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If Westminster allowed Scotland to join the Single Market, just like Northern Ireland, would we still need
#ScottishIndependence
🏴
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No
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@AlDunc
@dtaylor5633
The English finally had their way using ‘disaster capitalism’, pulling out of ‘The Darien Scheme’ & leaving the Scottish investors exposed, who sold Scotland for £400k! No democracy then & still none today, what are we to do?!
#ScottishIndependence
🏴
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@x1ken1x
@PennyGarnett1
If you think the comments on here are saying children in need isn’t helping anyone, then you’ve missed the point
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According to the Guardian, Murdoch considered giving
#Scottishindependence
🏴 the backing of the Scottish Sun, as they did when Labour were ousted. He decided against it because the SNP refused neoliberalism & wouldn’t drop their desire to join the EU. In other words,
#Brexit
🤷♂️
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@RichardJMurphy
Is that the Emily Thornberry that hates the SNP? Claiming its because of the independence mandate, but we all know it’s because SNP have delivered Social Democracy where Labour couldn’t!
#ScottishIndependence
🏴
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Is this the ‘change’ the country is going to vote for? Labour gaslighting the country, collapsing the vote on a ceasefire & then blaming it on the house 🤷♂️ The Establishment exposed in all its ugliness.
#Scottishindependence
🏴
Krishnan Guru-Murthy, "Are you embarrassed to be an MP today?
Lisa Nandy, "Nobody could have looked at those scenes in the House of Commons and felt anything other than utterly ashamed"
"You've got 1.4 million people effectively kettled into a Rafah, a ground invasion about to…
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@labourloyalist
Voting Labour because of the name, or that Labour are not the Tories is not rational. If we want a society focussed parliament, we need it to be balanced with PR. Starmer will not cede to PR, so we find another way. Don't vote Labour or Tory.
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Time for Scotland, Wales & Northern Ireland to leave this union & rejoin the Single Market. This will put £40 billion back into the coffers to spend on our public services.
The Sun
@MrHarryCole
pushed
@Keir_Starmer
on
#Brexit
disaster.
How can an offer of more democracy be betrayal Harry?!!’ Another vote on Brexit was totally in Britain’s best interests!
It’s the Sun which blights Britain and ensures Starmer goes on to rule out joining the Single…
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Interesting graph, Scotland’s policies clearly having a better affect on poverty than England & Wales. Very interesting to see Northern Ireland with the latest results out performing rUK, is this anything to do with EU Single Market access…?
#Scottishindependence
#
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Average cost per hour for a carer (this isn’t what the carer receives) - £18.31 per hour.
Plumber - £50 per hour
Electrician - £50 per hour
Fin.Planner - £200 per hour
Jnr. Doctor - £16 per hour
🤷♂️
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It’s good to know that despite Labour spending untold sums on Social Media, 91% Still think the SNP are more in tune with Scottish society
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A very strong point, my dad wasn’t ready to go at 80, he lived until he was 89. Our PM is a c**t!
How do Tories see people who’ve worked and contributed all their lives?
We’ve always known it.
Now he’s said it.
Disposable..
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@ianbhood
What your describing here already happens. Sean Clerkin & the way the Establishment have handled Operation Branchform could be described as ‘Hate’ perpetrated by both a campaigner’s hate for how the Indy movement was being run & the state’s ‘Hate’ for the success of the SNP 🤷♂️
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So, public sector pay rises will add to inflation & cause wage-price spirals 😅 But, unlimited bankers’ bonuses & 5% tax cuts in April for high earners won’t?? 🤔
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Great piece in
@BylineTimes
Feb’24 by
@soniapurnell
Letting corporations, the private sector ‘take care’ of our environment & public services is like saying neoliberalism is the best! 🤦♂️
#ScottishIndependence
🏴 & Social Democracy please!
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Could
@scotgov
break international law, “in a specific & limited way”??
#ScottishIndependence
🏴
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#Tories
love a slogan, “Eat out to help out”, “Get Brexit done”, “Oven ready”, “Clunk-click every trip” 😅
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If we’re judging leaders on their record, who do you think has performed best for Scotland?
Nicola Sturgeon
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Anas Sarwar
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Douglas Ross
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Alex Cole-Hamilton
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@BjCruickshank
I’ve experienced a little of the same. If we can’t talk openly without getting all emotional 🤷♂️ Michael Gove’s AI generated accounts 🤖🤖 are everywhere. I would say most of the abuse comes from that network.
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@OffYourKnees
You do realise two thirds of parliament voted for both the GRR & HCB? You’re falling for Michael Gove’s tabloids.
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Neoliberalism will be your choice if you vote Labour or Tory. Vote
@theSNP
@sinnfeinireland
@Plaid_Cymru
@TheGreenParty
for PR, Social Democracy & society focussed governance
Sunak is spending £4,92 billion of public money on 74 Special Economic Zones (SEZs), and £300 million on 12 Freeports, BTW Teesside Freeport has had over half a billion pounds spent on it so far. Councils going bankrupt are by design. Michael Gove selling off public assets of…
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Our Establishment are so out of touch with ‘what the people want’, 76% want a ceasefire & 98% think Greece have a point, to coin a phrase, “it’s the right thing to do”! Scot’s can only change this with
#ScottishIndependence
🏴
Parthenon Marbles, taken from Greece. Is it the right thing to do, to give them back?
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Just on my way to the Firth of Forth Freeport, apparently you can buy £100m of land for £96! And you don’t have to contribute to society in taxes! Keep it quiet 🤫
#Scottishindependence
🏴
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@JolyonMaugham
Why do staff keep alleging there is bullying from senior ministers?
#ScottishIndependence2023
🏴 It would be good to distance ourselves from Westminster
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If
@Douglas4Moray
wants to be FM & make decisions for all Scot’s, he should concentrate on getting elected by Scots. This obsession of being WM’s stooge to constantly undermine
@scotgov
is hurting Scotland. Both you &
@thetimes
should be ashamed.
#Scottishindependence
🏴
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ScotGov are bringing Scots together, helping them believe that their country can aspire to the GNP of Ireland, their surplus & wealth fund, with
#ScottishIndependence
🏴 Westminster are sowing division with
#Brexit
&
#Immigration
Starmer will deliver continuity at WM
@theSNP
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HM Government ‘believes’; “It’s for you to decide and you should make your choice knowing all the relevant facts”.
Better Together campaign 2014.
So why is it now, in 2023, HMG is denying us the decision & choice??
#ScottishIndependence
🏴
A choice, not a compromise!
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Given Scottish MSM is 90% unionist, would you subscribe to a pro-independence Sunday paper, that actually promoted Indy instead of the “Scotland is shite” narrative?
Yes
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No
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Just trying to decide if blocking imbecility is closing down my vision of the landscape or you know, just blocking imbecility 🤷♂️
The worst Health Minister on record wants to be the worst First Minister on record. His time is up.
#ScotLab23
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Operation Branchform
@PoliceScotland
I’m thinking of donating to
@theSNP
to further
#Scottishindependence
🏴 Could you advise me please if it is safe to do so, or have you found financial criminality & advise against it?
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Parthenon Marbles, taken from Greece. Is it the right thing to do, to give them back?
Yes
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No
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On Twitter, I engage with
@theSNP
supporters &
#ScottishIndependence
🏴 supporters, mostly. Why am I bombarded with unionist bile daily from
@ScottishLabour
@ScotTories
They are spending fortunes on promoting tweets. I’m code to blocking both, what do you guys think…??
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