Maninblack, Livi Lion, Punk, Munro Bagger, Indy 🏴 Self governance is fine for the other 195 countries in the world then it’s fine for Scotland.
Livingston, Scotland
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scottinblack retweeted
25 years of oil in Rosebank. Remember the lies about being poor and oil running out. Time for Indy before an English coloniser steels our future wealth. Imagine our country free from WM with oil revenue. bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cxnv0e…
scottinblack retweeted
Front page headlines in today’s so called Scottish Daily Express are ‘Now Go Full Blast on North Sea Oil Drilling.’ This is coming from the same yoon lying bastards who in 2014 told us that Scotlands oil was running out and voting No was the only way of remaining in the EU!
scottinblack retweeted
For those who voted NO in 2014 because you believed oil was running out, listen to this. Do you feel you were lied to? This is why England won’t allow Scottish independence and you bought the lies with your vote. It’s on your head, fucking morons.
scottinblack retweeted
Whenever quislings and colonsisers try to gaslight you about the lies Westminster told them in 2014, remember this:
Oil will be running out just as our population gets older. Being in UK means sharing the risks #indyref
scottinblack retweeted
Talking about oil and gas …. Imagine Brussels had taken all “uk” gas and oil output and then built a million skyscrapers in Brussels, paved the roads with gold and then had to fucking “subsidise you uk cunts”. That would be one fucking good argument for Brexit! 🤷🏼
scottinblack retweeted
But for the broad shoulders of the Union, Scotland would be as poor as Norway.
scottinblack retweeted
Exclusive: Grangemouth misses out on £200m sustainable aviation fuel fund - despite Project Willow recommending the industry for the site of the former oil refinery.
Just £3m went to Scottish projects, with £160m going to English ones.
scotsman.com/news/politics/g…
scottinblack retweeted
A 2018 article by @jasonhickel:
"There is a story that is commonly told in Britain that the colonisation of India - as horrible as it may have been - was not of any major economic benefit to Britain itself. If anything, the administration of India was a cost to Britain. So the fact that the empire was sustained for so long - the story goes - was a gesture of Britain’s benevolence.
(Familiar at all, my fellow Scots?!)
New research by the renowned economist Utsa Patnaik -just published by Columbia University Press - deals a crushing blow to this narrative. Drawing on nearly two centuries of detailed data on tax and trade, Patnaik calculated that Britain drained a total of nearly $45 trillion from India during the period 1765 to 1938.
It’s a staggering sum. For perspective, $45 trillion is 17 times more than the total annual gross domestic product of the United Kingdom today."
cadtm.org/How-Britain-stole-…
scottinblack retweeted
The Derbyshire wildfire was declared a major incident 13 days ago. No military assistance has been sought by the UK Govt.
The smaller Cairngorms wildfire was declared a major incident 2 days ago. The Scottish Govt has been attacked for not seeking military assistance sooner.
scottinblack retweeted
After the “British” Army moved in ⬇️ - no similar containment or troop numbers required for England around the same time.
scottinblack retweeted
In 2024 Anas Sarwar mocked Humza Yousaf with a nosediving gesture which reflected SNP polling at the time. It hasn't aged well. Today seems an appropriate time to retweet the clip.
The motormouth wouldn't appreciate this being retweeted.
scottinblack retweeted
NEW: An economic expert has ripped into Andrew Neil for writing 'specious drivel' about Scotland in his column for the Daily Mail thenational.scot/news/260931…
scottinblack retweeted
JOHN SWINNEY MUST RESIGN!
Oh, sorry, it's England...it's nobody's fault 🙄
BREAKING: Major rail disruption hits southern England
news.sky.com/story/rail-disr…
scottinblack retweeted
Insane this....Aberdeen is the oil capital of Europe. London has none.
Scotland cannot borrow but has a deficit of 11.6% (GERS). Romania has the worst deficit in Europe at 9.3%. That stat alone should be a wake up call to anyone who thinks the union is Scotland's best choice.
scottinblack retweeted
The SNP has protected NHS Scotland from both the austerity of the Tory Govt and the privatisation of both Tories and Labour.
Over 10% of the NHS in England is now privatised.
The SNP have kept privatisation to less than 1% in Scotland.
All while maintaining lower waiting lists, higher doctor to patient ratios, no charge prescriptions, no hospital parking charges, no charge personal social care
and more hospital beds.
All for about £100 a year extra in tax.
I think @theSNP have done well with limited powers.