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Scottish Currency Group Conference - 2025 Preparing the way for the Scottish Currency and Central Bank. The Vision for Independence.

On the way to talk and learn about the 'gubbins' of Scottish independence.

#scottishindependence

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Scottish Labour MP joins SNP anger at 'pocket change' for Scotland from UK fish fund SCOTTISH MPs from the SNP, Tories, LibDems, and even Labour Party have united to oppose UK Government plans to hand the English fishing industry…

"“Despite Scotland representing 60% of our fishing capacity, despite landing almost 50% of the catch in these islands, despite more than 75% of all species caught landed by Scottish vessels, we are offered a mere 7.78% of the fund.”
#fishing #funding #Scotland

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Telt

#SNP

Lesley Riddoch: Keir Starmer is doing a grand job winding up Celtic nations KEIR Starmer could be forgiven for feeling a little cocky today.

"Westminster has been quite successful at sweeping successive Scottish independence mandates under the carpet, but the addition of Wales and Northern Ireland will be impossible to conceal.

That stinging verdict on the Union will be visible from outer space."

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Democracy and central banking go under the microscope.

#central-banking
#democracy

Owned.
#snp #scottishindependence

We don't need any unelected chamber in an independent Scotland.

#SNP #ScottishIndependence

Mhairi Black: Charlie Kirk's death shows US is taking cues from Nazi Goebbels IF the United States’ descent into fascism wasn’t obvious enough, the events of the last couple of weeks should surely show how Orwellian its…

"As always, the UK is not far behind following the US into this fascist madness"

#fascism #uk #usa

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Inside the bid to have the UN decolonise Scotland SCOTLAND is a colony of England should be liberated through international legal mechanisms, an audience at the United Nations’ European…

“The people of Scotland have in my opinion a constitutional right to determine their political future.”
#scottishindependence
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Excoriating

#mandelson

First children arrive in Scotland from Gaza for NHS treatment THE first two patients and their families have arrived in Scotland from Gaza to receive treatment, the Scottish Government has confirmed.

"it is right that Scotland welcomes these children and their families."

#gazagenocide
#scotland

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YouTube video by Sam Avery I’m not defending Angela Rayner. But…

Working class? Working class woman, even? Lefty?
How very dare you! You're operating on eggshells love.
Don't mess with the political and journalistic rules in the UK.

#journalism #ukpolitics

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City leaders plead with protesters to treat Aberdeen asylum seekers 'with dignity and respect' It comes as a number of demonstrations have been held across the city.

"Aberdeen has a long tradition of welcoming people from all over the world."

#aberdeen #asylum #immigration

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Irish comedian Tadhg Hickey on why he's taking part in the Global Sumud Flotilla Irish comedian Tadhg Hickey is one of hundreds of people sailing to Gaza in the historic Global Sumud Flotilla aid mission ...

"The Global Sumud Flotilla is the largest civilian mission of its kind in history."

#gazagenocide

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John Swinney announces range of measures against Israel amid genocide in Gaza FIRST Minister John Swinney has announced a range of measures against Israel amid its genocide in Gaza.

"We will pause new awards of public money to arms companies whose products or services are provided to countries where there is plausible evidence of genocide being committed by that country."

"That will include Israel."

#Gaza #genocide #Scotland

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Who is funding Reform and what do they want? We take a look We’ve delved into the records to find out who is funding Reform UK and why they might be doing so

Why mass party membership matters.
#scottishindependence
#snp

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"It was not migrants who imposed austerity on our communities and drove down living standards. It was not refugees who have pushed children into poverty."

#scottishindependence

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Just 7 per cent of Edinburgh TV Festival panellists based in Scotland Kicking off today, the 50th Edinburgh Television Festival, is the annual gathering of broadcasting’s big hitters.

"Edinburgh Television Festival’s office is still located in London"

UK dysfunctional centralisation writ large on a door somewhere on London.
#scottishindependence
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glasgowcity.hscp.scot/sdcf

It is inevitable.
#scottishindependence

Great article, already shared.

Andrew Tickell: What 'top lawyers' got wrong on Palestinian recognition LAST week, The Times reported that Sir Keir Starmer’s threat to recognise the state of Palestine unless Israel takes steps by September to end…

""the tangled web of increasingly manic media opinion formers, who are still trying to persuade the public that their concern about dead, dying and amputated and malnourished civilians somehow represents support for an extremist cause,"

#gazagenocide #palestine
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Owen Jones: History will judge monsters who enabled a genocide WHAT words are there for a spectacle this grotesque?

"The inalienable right of a people to be free is reduced to a crude bargaining chip, a chess piece on a board to be discarded for a greater strategic cause"
notes
@owenjones.bsky.social

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Gillian Martin: Scotland has clean water, Labour have dirty politics WATER is one of Scotland’s most important natural assets – one that we all have a duty to cherish

"While companies in Labour-run England aren’t delivering for anybody except shareholders, Scottish Water has been labelled the UK’s top-performing water company and as the most trusted utility in the UK"

#scottishwater

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Dirty Water, the Minister, the Media and the Union In an extraordinary interview on Channel 4 News, Steve Reed, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, was asked about public ownership of water in England, and stated: “In any ca…

"Labour are here defending the privatisation of the very water than rains from the sky."
#scottishwater
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Water is not a business,
water is a necessity for life.
Scotland rejected this particular neoliberalism.
#scottishwater

SNP minister calls on UK counterpart to retract 'misleading' Scottish water comments Scotland’s Climate Secretary has called on a UK minister to retract his “inaccurate and misleading” comments regarding the quality of water in…

"final report from the Independent Water Commission led by Sir Jon Cunliffe was published this week.

It found that 66% of Scotland’s water bodies are of good ecological status compared with 16.1% in England and 29.9% in Wales"
@scotnational.bsky.social
#water
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Water is an essential for life.
It is not a business model.
We rejected the neoliberal model of water privatisation.
Water is THE public good.
#water