In 2019 the Tories won a Westminster majority of 80.
If Labour had won every Scottish constituency held by the SNP the Tories would have had a majority of . . 80.
Scotland gets the UK government that England votes for. #IndependenceIsNormal#IndependentScotland#Scotland
Something I'd missed which, while I understand the reasoning for it, seems to me unwise and unhelpful: #zelenskiy talking about the ethnic #Ukrainian populations who live furth of Ukraine.
I'm not persuaded that nation states are a good idea, but they're what we've got. We need to stop basing states on ethnicity and instead base them on community: contiguous territories where a significant majority in every locality choose to be citizens of that state. >>>
@HeavenlyPossum strongly agree. I am anarcho-communist, not a statist of any kind. I support an #IndependentScotland only as something better than what we have now – because I believe Scotland would be a better community, a better influence on the world, than the UK can ever be.
Not because we Scots are "all of one blood," we're very much not; but because we have a tradition of inclusive and democratic institutions.
I'd still prefer to see Scotland wither away, with all states.
Interesting to see Tories up here sooo desperate to distance themselves from the Sunak Shitshow they’re referring to themselves as ‘Scottish Conservative’.
In reality all Parties up here are Scottish.
But Tory scum is still #ToryScum no matter which airport control tower they squat in…
(and no, we won’t be returning the survey as it contains our address details on the other side)
@therightarticle ‘You made your bed, now lie in it’ springs to mind. Why on earth would the EU let the UK back in a heartbeat, given the bad faith, rudeness, lawbreaking, arrogance, wilful ignorance and refusal to accommodate that has been indulged in by those under ex-PM Johnson, Farage, Banks, Bannon and others? Join the queue and wait twenty years like anyone else. Meanwhile #IndependentScotland would be in PDQ, as would NI once part of a full #UI. #ToryCriminalsUnfitToGovern
@MadeyeTheCarnaptious He can’t renegotiate it. He has to work to dismantle it and get us back into the EU, or feck off into the far distance. #Starmer is doing everything possible to show #Labour as #Tory. Couldn’t put a sheet of paper between their policies at the moment. While he’s at it, #IndependentScotland would remind him they would like their country free from England; Northern Ireland would also remind him there are increasing numbers who now #think32
@Geri A man on £180K PA [plus expenses] tells people on less than £20K they have ‘too much’ and should be prepared to have less; while our empty pockets are picked for £100 million for a man and his former mistress to wear a Big Hat for a day; we are supposed to adore and be loyal subjects to him. #AbolishTheMonarchy#IndependentScotland#think32#UI#ToryCriminalsUnfitToGovern