Kevin Hague
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i keep seeing “yeah but what are the positive reasons for Scotland to remain in the UK?” tweets, so thought i’d have a go at creating my personal Top 10 …
#thread
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I got so sick of seeing tweets claiming that Westminster keeps some of Scotland's tax revenues that I wrote this blog - please share it far and wide so we can perhaps put an end to this madness
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this won’t make me popular, but this seems like a pretty trivial human mistake - driving to Barnard Castle it ain’t
Scotland's first minister Nicola Sturgeon 'broke Covid rules at funeral'
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@Turning_Pages7
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transfomed in his bed into a gigantic fucking insect.
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the SNP when in government: we can’t really do anything until Scotland is independent
the SNP up for re-election: look at all these amazing things we could if you re-elect us
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just watched
@afneil
's evisceration of Corbyn
I didn't think Sturgeon's performance last night was a "car crash" - I thought she largely got away with it, she's a good performer - but Corbyn's tonight wasn't just a crash, it was a multi-car pile-up of epic proportions
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i was just wondering - does anybody else think it’s time the SNP started being honest with the people of Scotland?
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@Turning_Pages7
Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy. This story is about something that happened to them when they were sent away from London during the war because of the fucking air-raids
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the SNP are rolling over - what was once their dark underbelly is now becoming their face
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hope a silver lining in this dark cloud will be more people coming to realise the value of having a trusted public service broadcaster like the BBC
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watch this - watch what Sturgeon has just said to the Salmond inquiry and contrast it with what she said in response to
@AndrewMarr9
’s direct question
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it depresses me that so many Scots think the answer to every problem they see is to break up the UK - to withdraw and struggle for survival alone rather than unite and strive for improvement together
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going to be quiet on here for a wee while - had to say goodbye to this beautiful, loving and deeply loved friend yesterday - she was a special one, we’ll miss her so much x
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forgive my typo-laden tweets - but to see Sturgeon given a free pass by interviewers when she spouts absolute horse-shit about how Scotland’s deficit is funded really does get my goat
is this country going to die of ignorance?
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@DavidWohl
wouldn’t it be great if we could observe the empirical evidence of what happens in countries with and without strict gun control?
hold on
*googles*
oh well now lookie here 👇
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how’s about we talk about a second independence referendum when the majority of Scots want one and the SNP have worked out what their economic prospectus will be?
until such time, let’s focus on addressing poverty and reducing inequality *now*
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SNP MP & Westminster group leader Ian Blackford here, failing his audition to be head of the McStasi
#TheLivesOfOthers
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this really is pathetic, there is no other word for it
Anas Sarwar asked a reasonable question as to how the working poor can complete their shifts and get home as all late trains are cancelled. A fair question, but this is Swinney’s response👇
This is the pitiful standard of debate in this shambles of a pretend parliament.
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back in 2018 Sturgeon offered this unequivocal denial - yet her own evidence to the Salmond inquiry now tells us she'd been informed about an alleged incident at Edinburgh airport in 2017
Watch this and remember it next someone tells you how sincere and honest she is
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i struggle with “Boris is a boorish liar with an over-inflated ego, we have to get away from an electorate who would vote for such a rogue” coming from people who voted for Alex fucking Salmond
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be great if a Scottish journalist responded to Sturgeon’s condescending “i suggest you go back and read what we said in 2014 …” with “I’ve read it cover to cover First Minister - i suggest you stop trying to tell me how to do my job and just answer the question”
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amusing to hear Ian Blackford on GMB claiming "powers have been taken away from Scotland" - it's shameless stuff
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what have the SNP been doing for the last 14 years if they’re only now claiming to be ready to take their first steps?
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i live in a country where individuals’ failure to agree with the party of government’s desire to break up the UK leads to businesses being boycotted, people being professionally snubbed and charities being told to step into line if they want government funding
Scotland, 2020
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the SNP’s obsession with splitting the UK has succeeded only in splitting Scotland, the social and economic costs of which will be felt for generations to come
that will be both Sturgeon and Salmond’s legacy - and history will not judge them kindly
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if the SNP had spent the last 10 years in government focused on improving lives in Scotland instead of pursuing their dogmatic obsession with breaking up the UK, just think how much better life would be
it doesn't have to be like this
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every report of an SNP election promise should be prefaced with the words: “After 14 years in power and coincidentally with weeks to go to an election, the SNP have suddenly decided that they can ...”
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this does look an awful lot like an SNP party political broadcast by the Scottish Government - aren’t there rules about this sort of thing?
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shocked to hear the Supreme Court judgement that Scotland is not a former colony and that Scots are neither oppressed nor denied meaningful access to government
shocked i tell you
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dear BBC news
please stop unquestioningly repeating the SNP’s line that education is their main priority
their main priority always has been and always will be independence for Scotland - under any circumstances and whatever cost
ta
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we’d lose UK-wide sharing of tax revenues, put a border between us and 60% of our exports, launch a currency that would devalue vs Sterling*, incur huge disruption costs unpicking integrated defence assets & machinery of state .. and that would help how?
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the whole “the UK will pay pensions in an independent Scotland” myth is worthy of a case-study — the idea is ludicrous and the SNP have accepted that it’s nonsense … and yet there’s a cabal of cybernats who now insist it’s true and are no doubt persuading some gullible voters 🤷♂️
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Scotland’s pandemic response is starting to feel like one of those “+1” digital tv channels
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Scots are not being supported through this pandemic by “Westminster” or “England”, we’re being supported by the UK and the institutions that we helped build
quite right to - it’s our United Kingdom
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this by
@jk_rowling
is an unsurprisingly brilliant, surprisingly personal and compellingly well argued riposte to those who have been abusing her on this platform for having the temerity to have a considered, nuanced view on a controversial issue
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one for friends down south: did you know that in scotland, weather is presented to us by the first minister?
UPDATE: Nicola Sturgeon says Storm Corrie is set to hit on Sunday afternoon and may be more severe for parts of Scotland than Storm Malik.
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let’s keep things simple:
the Scottish Government publish National Statistics which show Scotland’s 8.2% of the UK population generates 8.0% of tax revenues but receive 9.2% of spending
the SNP argue this shows Scotland is hard done by within the UK
discuss
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i wonder if the SNP’s “ramp up the hatred” strategy is in any way related to the fact that they’re about to publish a feeble excuse for an economic case and *badly* need the focus of debate to be elsewhere?
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supporters of scottish independence put out an awful lot of obfuscatory nonsense designed to obscure these two simple, irrefutable facts:
1. you can’t keep the pound and join the EU
2. you can’t pursue MMT and join the EU
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if this ludicrous pensions debate tells us one thing, it’s that the SNP have no serious plans for independence - false grievance might keep the core happy, but there’s not a cat-in-hell’s chance that stuff persuades switchable voters
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Blackford spread false information deliberately intending to mislead pensioners
Forbes agreed with him
Sturgeon backed him, then U-turned while still threatening to throw pensioners under the bus
Now they’re denying it all
Independence by Gaslight 👇
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Scottish Politics:
a party retains power by taking credit for policies paid for by the union dividend, while simultaneously campaigning to eradicate that same union dividend ... and they get away with it
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at a time of national crisis with people across Britain dealing daily with matters of life and death, i wonder if the separatists ever, even just for a moment, consider giving it a fucking rest?
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This is actually very funny (and doesn't cheat - there are no repeats)
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opinion:
Nicola Sturgeon underestimates how weary Scots have become with her relentless focus on division
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it is fun watching somebody walk straight into a bear-trap:
£12bn is the amount an independent Scotland would have to find to replace the fiscal benefit Scotland currently receives from progressive tax redistribution across the UK
Interesting development in Budget debate as Labour suggest hiking taxes in Scotland to raise an additional *£12bn* to deliver their Budget asks. That’s the eye-watering equivalent of doubling income tax revenues in Scotland from every income tax payer.
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nothing sums up Scottish nationalists’ economic illiteracy better than those who believe that Scots in an independent Scotland would continue to get paid out of the UK’s pension scheme but no longer have to pay into it
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Alex Salmond was always manifestly unfit to be FM and the SNP should never have elected him leader or sustained him in office for as long as they did. But the problems run much deeper than one individual. The SNP is broken.
2. Boris Johnson was always manifestly unfit to be PM and the Tories should never have elected him leader or sustained him in office for as long as they have. But the problems run much deeper than one individual. The Westminster system is broken.
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OK, so reading this in detail now - may make some observations as I go …
1/?
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the fact a Scottish football team took a training trip to Dubai is, of course, the UK government’s fault ...
How can we get numbers down if people keep returning from trips abroad to COVID hotspots like Dubai? This is a reserved power to U.K. govt. They are undermining all local efforts to suppress bc they’re not putting in place any real travel restrictions.
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scottish nationalists *want* this to be true and have worked hard to try and make this true - it’s one of the reasons why some of us find their politics of division so distasteful
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the condescending tone of this - Nicola Sturgeon could start a fight in an empty barn
"If he wants a grown-up conversation, he only has to pick up the phone"
Scotland's first minister Nicola Sturgeon defends Manchester travel ban following criticism from Andy Burnham
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this is incredible - the changes to Scottish income tax bands was forecast to raise a meagre £68m (in fact it’s unclear if they actually raised anything) - the “benefits” Sturgeon lists here all predate that; they’re funded by UK-wide fiscal pooling and sharing
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quite tired of Scottish nationalists who appear to think that advertising their inability to comprehend basic economic facts is somehow an argument for separation
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detail of our parachute policy must wait until after we’ve persuaded you to jump out of this plane …
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the fact that Angus Robertson won’t stand for SNP leader tells us a lot about the state of the case for independence - he’s been carrying out detailed polling and testing the arguments for years; if he thought a case could be made and won, he’d be standing
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that moment when you're asked to name a credible economist who thinks Scexit is an economically sensible idea ...
Nicola Sturgeon refused to name an expert who would argue there is a good economic case for Scottish independence when questioned by
@PeterAdamSmith
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this is a remarkable thread - I’ll wager that if the PM pulled a stunt like this there would rightly be widespread outrage - but we do thing differently in Scotland, apparently
Nicola Sturgeon has just quoted unpublished figures when questioned about these figures below by
@Mike_Blackley
, which she branded "inaccurate"
FM said as of 8.30am, 34% of over 80s vaccinated in Scotland, and gave other breakdowns.
So, will FM now publish daily breakdowns?
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a Scottish Nationalist is someone who votes for a party that, due to simple arithmetic, can’t form the government at Westminster ... and then complains that they don’t get the government they vote for at Westminster
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latest slew of pensions disinformation from SNP is so blatant they must be assuming their claims will never be tested by a referendum campaign - which means they’re just stoking grievance to shore up their core support, with the sole aim of retaining power of a Scotland in the UK
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something risks getting lost amongst the outrage about Sturgeon deleting her covid whatsapp messages:
*why* did she delete them?
what was so damning about them that she would rather take the inevitable political hit than have the public see them?
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OK, so I've taken the time to dissect *that tweet* from the SNP's
@KateForbesMSP
... and her claim is indeed as misleading and inaccurate as I first thought
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if the SNP supported Brexit, there would at least be an intellectual consistency to their “Westminster power grab” rhetoric - but they don’t, so there isn’t
griping about powers they actively want to give back to Brussels just exposes the SNP’s grievance-reflex hypocrisy
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Nicola Sturgeon checking up on the health of the economic case for Scottish independence 👇
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i’ve had cause to be reminded that some influential people in the Scottish press have frozen me out, apparently because i wrote this piece - please read it, and think about what that reaction says about the chumocracy i dared to challenge
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I’m *not*
@theSNP
because i feel a bond of solidarity and a sense of common citizenship with the people of Newcastle, Liverpool and Manchester as much as with those in Dundee, Aberdeen and Inverness
I’m
@theSNP
because I want those who live in Scotland to make our own decisions about our own country’s future. Simple really … …
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Scottish Nationalism 1.01
if the data undermines your case, seek to undermine the data - if that fails, just stop publishing the data
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very much worth reading - has Scotland’s education system been turned into a nationalist propaganda machine?
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in GERS, 29% of Scottish Government ferries costs and over 50% of Scot Gov’s Creative & Historic Scotland’s costs are charged to rUK (i.e. are not charged against Scotland’s GERS deficit)
isn’t it weird that scottish nationalists never mention this?
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the SNP’s current line on pensions:
“The UK state pension is rubbish … but an independent Scotland couldn’t afford to pay it, so pensioners in an independent Scotland would have to rely on the beneficence of the UK state to continue to pay for it”
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here’s SNP Finance Secretary
@_KateForbes
in the National (print run sent to over 1m homes is Scotland) - there is simply no economically rational way to defend this statement, as anybody familiar with the Scottish Government’s GERS report would know (1/2)
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if Nicola Sturgeon was merely following the rules re Whatsapp deletions, does that mean Kate Forbes was breaking them?
surely only one of them can be right?
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woah - Sturgeon just said that *wasn’t* the first time she’d heard complaints about Salmond’s behaviour!
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the fact that this essay is upsetting all the right people fills me with unbridled joy - thank you
@thecoastguy
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precisely £0 for either of these infrastructure investments is charged to Scotland in the GERS figures (which we all use to assess Scotland’s fiscal balance) - but nationalists like Ruth never let inconvenient facts get in the way of a contrived grievance
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SNP supporters overwhelmingly believe “Scotland sends more to Westminster than it gets back in public spending” - in fact most Scots are more likely to believe this than not
thread🧵 …
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not overly convinced by Visit Scotland’s latest ad campaign ...
Scottish nationalists on the Berwick road telling English people to “stay the f*ck out” of Scotland.
Lovely stuff.
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i’m sorry, but deleting this tweet doesn’t erase what writing it revealed
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the picture chosen could not be a more perfect illustration of what some in Scotland consider journalism to be
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a wave of anonymous twitter accounts pushing a veritable tsunami of disinformation and false grievance follows the SNP’s latest push for separation as surely as night follows day - apparently this is the new normal in Scottish politics
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this issue deserves so much more attention - how did we get to place where Scottish children are being drip-fed nationalist propaganda in schools?
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seems like a good day to remind people of this …
back in 2018 Sturgeon offered this unequivocal denial - yet her own evidence to the Salmond inquiry now tells us she'd been informed about an alleged incident at Edinburgh airport in 2017
Watch this and remember it next someone tells you how sincere and honest she is
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SNP’s Ian Blackford saying on Radio 4 it’s normal and good practice to occasionally change auditors
ftaod: it is neither normal nor good practice not to have auditors in place for a 7 mth period spanning year end and for that to still be the case 3 mths before filing deadline
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i see this is now close to 100,000 views, which is nice
back in 2018 Sturgeon offered this unequivocal denial - yet her own evidence to the Salmond inquiry now tells us she'd been informed about an alleged incident at Edinburgh airport in 2017
Watch this and remember it next someone tells you how sincere and honest she is
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just when we thought the bottom of the grievance barrel had surely been reached, a new scraping is found
The actor Alan Cumming has hit out at the “insidious and subliminal racism” faced by Scots who work in London, drawing a sharp distinction between the warm reception he received in America with his experiences in the West End.
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at last - *this* is the real story, this is what Sturgeon should under pressure for
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in 2018 Marr asked Sturgeon about Salmond’s alleged indiscretions, asking directly if she’d “heard any stories about him” - she answered unequivocally: “absolutely not”
yet she now tells us she was informed of an alleged incident in 2017
discuss
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