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We're looking forward to welcoming Dr Philippa Whitford to give her presentation "A Wellbeing Economy Vision for Scotland" on 2nd Oct 6.30-9pm at Ravelston House, Musselburgh. Tickets £5 on sale now at Eventbrite. All welcome to come along. More details & Tickets here: tinyurl.com/3fj425c2

'Misleading': Ed Miliband called out over Scottish wind farm claim

Ed Miliband has been called out for a 'misleading' social media post which claimed Labour were 'delivering' a new wind farm in Scotland

Between now and the May26 Scottish general election we can expect much more of this sort of thing from Westminster. They'll claim positive Scottish policies as Westminster's work, and blame Holyrood and the SNP for their own failures, such as the closure of Grangemouth.

A simple history of Scottish devolved powers and how Westminster has systematically stripped them from Scotland even though 74% of voters voted for them.

Seems that, especially for younger voters, Westminster's infamous Powergrab of Scotland's devolved powers is either forgotten or unknown. Perhaps this brief summary of the history may prove useful, though since this was designed the overruling of Holyrood by Westminster has got MUCH worse.

New figures reveal Brexit costing UK business £37bn a year Exclusive: Billions of pounds worth of lost business with other European Union countries prompts calls to re-enter customs union and single market

Well said 👏 @stephengethins 💯 spot on!

“When govt is cutting budgets that will hit poorest in the UK with benefits cuts – and the most vulnerable in world with aid cuts – it is obscene that it continues to pursue an expensive and unnecessary hard Tory Brexit
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Fucked under Labour.

No austerity under Labour.

All UK families ‘to be worse off by 2030’ as poor bear the brunt, new data warns Keir Starmer has been dealt a fresh blow to his living standards pledge in advance of the spring statement

The only choice left for Scotland is guaranteed impoverishment under a right wing pro-Brexit Labour party, far right English nationalist authoritarianism & destruction of the public sector under Reform/Tories or independence and rejoining the EU.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

YouTube video by The Scotland Channel STONES OF DESTINY

Will be updating soon to follow back those like-minded folk kind enough to follow us. In the meantime, here's a wee film about Stones of Destiny (yes, plural!) Enjoy! youtu.be/xZIhWMlJ9c8?...

YouTube video by Shauny Boy Tickling the Void Episode Three: THANOS WAS RIGHT (with Alan Bissett)

Really good interview or rather, chat, between @shiny02.bsky.social & Alan Bissett that I think many pro-indy will greatly enjoy youtu.be/8IM9rfEFcVY?...

Scott and Chapman's censored article on Scottish Independence The full article, republished

One of the joys of moving across to Bluesky has been the re-appearance of a few 'classic' articles, from years gone by, setting out the case for Scottish independence.
Here's one that's getting a fair bit of exposure right now - well worth a read.
pontifex.substack.com/p/scott-and-...

Starmer: "There will be no return to freedom of movement, no return to the customs union and no return to the single market. Instead we will find practical, agile ways to cooperate which serve the national interest.”

Even though the most practical way to cooperate and serve the national interest would be to return to freedom of movement, customs union, and single market. Total nonsense.

NHS Scotland’s stunning 98% completion rate as operations return steadily to pre-pandemic levels less than two years after the end of the ‘Greatest test since World War Two’ By Professor John Robertson OBA Less than 2 years after the World Health Organisation declared an end to the Covid-19 pandemic on May 5 2023, and the ‘Greatest test since World War Two’…

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Screenshot from The Orkney News

Whilst Scots shiver in an Energy rich country, where Energy is a reserved matter, here's another reminder to those against Scottish Independence that this is happening to our country you say is it's too poor & too wee 🙄

This 👇

Full Scottish - 01/12/2024 - Broadcasting Scotland On this week's Full Scottish, Martyn Day, Chris Stephens and Fiona Grahame discuss the weeks Scottish and international news, and Ukraine,.

Join us at 12:00 midday for this week's #FullScottish with Martyn Day, Chris Stephens and Fiona Grahame discussing the latest Scottish and international news including #Ukraine, #Gaza, UK austerity, Scottish Budget and Scottish Government policies.

www.broadcastingscotland.scot/full-scottis...

We should be extremely concerned about this in the run up to Holyrood '26. As uncomfortable a thought as it is there is a very good chance that unionist voters will see this mob winning seats. We don't need more politicians working against Scotland.

then they better start
Backing the party who makes all of this possible or lose it all

#ScottishIndependence

Poster pointing out that Scotland is a rich, resource-wealth country that could well afford become independent again. If it wasn't why are England's 533 MPs not immediately demanding the dissolving of the Union?

There are two kinds of opponents to Scottish independence: Those who oppose it because of a strong, nostalgic attachment to what 'Great Britain' once was. All the rest is just 'The Cringe'.

✍️ 'We must set a new course and, if we don’t, we have reason to be afraid of the consequences' // Robin McAlpine

Have just shared YouTube links to some of the speeches.

YouTube links are up now!

YouTube video by PilarAymara Kenny MacAskill: “Man to man the warld o’er shall brithers be for a’ that."#AlexSalmondMemorial

Finally, a rousing speech by Kenny MacAskill, reminding us of why Scottish independence is important to so many. We are not too wee, too poor or too stupid!
youtu.be/SwU-DFDxsns?...

YouTube video by PilarAymara Tribute to Alex Salmond from Christina Hendry (Alex's niece) #AlexSalmondMemorial #StAndrewsDay2024

And Alex's niece Christina Hendry
youtu.be/mbo2NNtJjRQ?...

YouTube video by PilarAymara Duncan Hamilton's tribute to Alex Salmond#alexsalmondmemorial #StAndrewsDay2024

With kind permission from Pilar Fernndez - here are the YouTube links for some of the speeches at Alex Salmond's memorial.
First up Duncan Hamilton KC
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Working on it!

I said seem not as they may be somewhere but I've not yet mastered the search on here so they could be around 😁 The person sharing full clips is not yet on here, sadly. Might get my son to see if he can upload for this platform as they are worth hearing.

It's a shame the speeches from Alex Salmond's memorial at St Giles seem not to be available to share on here 🧐 Go to our Twitter account @Yes_Linlithgow to see, Kenny MacAskill does not miss the mark of why Scottish independence is important.