Many many Tory MPs now looking forward joyfully to a cosy, rich, jobs-for-the boys directorships-for-favours-done retirement in a few weeks time. ##WereAllInThisTogether
Voters in Scotland remember this: for Tories and Labour England is the priority and will always come first. Scotland will only ever - ever - get what it needs or wants if it happens to coincide with what England wants. Use your vote wisely. #IndependenceIsNormal#UKGeneralElection#ukge2024#scotpol#Scotland
From BetterTogether "save our NHS by voting No" in 2014, to Labour “The NHS must be privatised." What a difference 10 years make. #IndependenceIsNormal#Scotland
Read the news you're not getting: In England, the only country in the world to have fully privatised water & sewerage systems, raw sewage was discharged into rivers and seas for more than 3.6m hours in 2023. More than double 2022. Meanwhile Scottish Water, publicly owned, has invested nearly 35 per cent more per household in infrastructure since 2002 than the privatised English firms, charging 14 per cent less and not paying out dividends. #IndependenceIsNormal#Scotland#TheNewsYoureNotGetting
Independent Portugal generated the equivalent of 91% of its electricity needs through renewables by March 2024.
It has Europe's lowest power prices.
Non independent Scotland generated the equivalent of 113% of its overall electricity needs through renewables in 2022.
It has the UK's highest power prices. #IndependenceIsNormal#Scotland
Since the 2014 'Vow' of more powers Westminster has accelerated the hobbling of Scotland's devolved choices and is now actively overruling what Scottish voters want and have voted for in elections. Increasingly Scotland must use its remaining devolved powers any way it chooses as long as that is the same way that England does.
This, ands many other independence banner designs available for download from https://indyposterboy.scot/giant-banners/ #IndependenceIsNormal#Scotland
James Kelly: “In a first-past-the-post election, the way to further the cause of independence is to unite behind a single candidate in each constituency.” Spot on.
Meanwhile ‘renewables powerhouse’ Scotland pays the highest electricity bills in the UK, and the highest transmission charges in Europe to feed our power into the ‘national’ grid. Would any other country put up with this rip-off? #IndependenceIsNormal
“INDEPENDENCE supporters risk repeating the lost 2014 referendum due to a lack of understanding about why the Yes campaign failed, it has been warned as a new campaign looks to resolve the issue.”
But we know why it failed: too many people were scared, successfully, by ‘Project Fear’ and the predominantly pro-union media, & particularly by the BBC. As Blair Mcdougall so clearly put it “We’d have struggled to win without the scaremongering.” #IndependenceIsNormal#Scotland https://www.thenational.scot/news/24317446.didnt-scotland-vote-yes-2014-new-survey-aims-find-answer/
It’s only one short step from Westminster Tories* labelling supporters of Scottish independence as ‘extremists’ to officially banning of political support for it. Fortunately for the SNP they appear to have more or less given up on independence to focus on ‘compromise’, so their (dwindling) survival is assured. ☹️
*I expect the New Tories (aka Labour) to adopt the same language very soon as they eagerly chase after the Tories rightward move.
Just a wee reminder that Sunak’s ‘extremist’ Scottish nationalists voted democratically for a second independence referendum. A bigger mandate than Thatcher, Blair, Cameron and Johnson ever had.