Zorba The Celt

62% of Scots voted remain in 2016, that number has now increased to at least 70%!

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As Prime Minister I will always act in the national interest.
Port Talbot not in the national interest (Wales)
Grangemouth not in the national interest (Scotland) Gave Ineos £600m to open plant in Belgium
Scunthorpe that’s in the national interest (England)
National Interest = ENGLAND

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Remind those who can vote int the Scottish elections next year to register, so they can.

Operation Branchform (Police Scotland investigation into possible fundraising fraud in the SNP) was launched in July 2021 and is ongoing.

How can an investigation into ‘missing’ £660K take four years, with no end in sight? And was the £3.6m unaccounted for by the Tories ever investigated?

Former Lanarkshire coal mine to be turned into giant battery park Developers confirms £800m investment across two sites in Scotland to support the growth in renewables

Batteries to power 4 million homes to be built in Scotland.
Our thoughts are with all those at BBC Scotland at this difficult time.
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NHS Scotland coping with THREE TIMES as many flu cases as Scotland shivers under Labour UK fuel allowance cuts and price increases From BBC Health, this morning: There is deep concern at a senior level in the NHS about rising rates of flu. The number of patients in hospital with flu continues to climb, according to latest NHS …

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Another reason for immediate independence.

Get it out of #Scotland vote #snp #independence

The Daily Telegraph's aerial shot of the raid at Peter Murrell and Nicola Sturgeon’s home.

'There is no case that I can find where an organisation of this size faced an investigation over this long.
The Branchform investigation has taken an inordinate amount of time and consumed an unjustifiable amount of resources.'
Jackie Kemp
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Recent opinion polls have shown that most Scots want a country without a Monarchy or a House of Lords but one based on social justice , let’s do that #ScottishIndependence

I'm doing my last Christmas Quiz over on Twitter, if you are interested in creating a team and still have one foot in the door over there. See my pinned tweet (on Twitter) for the quiz rules and please consider giving a donation to Beatson Cancer Charity. 🙏

#YouYesNow #IndyClan?
It's TIME for #ScottishIndependence 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Others see the value of Scotland.

Warning of 'catastrophic' CalMac privatisation after ministers told to justify ferry contract Competition watchdog wants assessment of whether any of the operator’s ferry links “could be commercially provided”

This is an attempt by a Westminster authority to break up Calmac. They hate the fact Scottish ferry services aren't privatised. Public transport belongs in public hands.
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Brexit cost UK £27bn in lost trade in first two years, review finds Despite fall in trade, LSE study says overall impact was more limited than OBR forecasters first estimated

Brexit cost UK £27bn in lost trade in first two years according to the most comprehensive review of the issue since Britain fully left the bloc at the start of 2021
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I live in central Scotland and I've never heard of anyone say they're going to Englandshire tae buy booze!

Sure are a lot of people gathering on Bluesky that endorse restoration of independence to SCOTLAND
Is encouraging and useful
#ScottishIndependence

Scotland was the first nation to have its own regulations and take decisive action on banning single-use plastics Image – RSPCA Thanks to groaver for alerting me to this and noting, correctly, that you never hear any of this in the media. From Commercial Waste Quotes: Scotland has had relatively forward-…

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Bring back Erasmus+ and youth mobility in Europe Taking Britain out of the Erasmus+ programme was a huge mistake. Labour must rejoin and accept the EU’s offer of a youth mobility scheme

Taking Britain out of the Erasmus+ programme was a huge mistake. Labour must rejoin and accept the EU’s offer of a youth mobility scheme

Large complex new ferry comes into service in best ferry service in the World By Professor John Robertson, Genuine Ferry Correspondent BBC Scotland’s welcome for the largest and most advanced ferry ever in the UK, massively subsidised to keep workers in jobs and give i…

CalMac is the best ferry service in the world - here's why the Herald today is so wrong:
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Keep up this momentum by highlighting disappointment at getting a Labour Gov in Westminster suspiciously like the Tory Gov before it. Westminster is not the answer for Scotland, a change of Gov in Westminster is not enough. We need to make our own decisions and money. Independence now!

As ‘Quademic’ looms NHS Scotland has 37% more beds, 33% more nurses, 27% more GPs and cleaner hospitals Professor John Robertson OBA On BBC Breakfast, this morning, we hear that a ‘Quademic’ is looming in England’s hospitals as cases of Flu, Covid, Norovirus and RSV and that out of …

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With the rise of the far right and Reform now in second place in the polls in England, this has never been more apt.
#ScottishIndependenceASAP

Of course for those of us who live in Scotland, experiencing huge British nationalist bias in BBC news and current affairs coverage is an everyday experience. QT is just a continuation of this.

The BBC in Scotland doesn't represent Scotland's people. It represents Westminster bias.

#IndyForUs

An open letter to the BBC Dr Russell Jackson, senior lecturer in communication and public relations at Sheffield Hallam University, writes to the BBC about Question Time

With Farage back on Question Time last night...

...here is your reminder that Farage was on BBCQT a record-breaking 35 times before he became an MP.

And, further, that the panellist selection on BBCQT has been heavily slanted to right-wing think tanks and commentators over the years.

Scotland doesn't need new nuclear. We have sufficient green energy generation. But only regaining independence let's us block Westminster forcing it on us.

And yet @scottishgreens.org still play games over the budget with @thesnp.bsky.social ? We need a disciplined Indy Bloc.

Poster explains that Scotland’s ‘block grant’ from Westminster is not a gift, but a refund of just *some* of the revenue we send to London.

As the Scottish budget is being announced just now, it’s a good time to remember that the ‘block grant’ Scotland receives from Westminster is a *refund* of *some* of the revenue we send to London, not a gift, and that they have recently cut it by 16%.

Hydrogen one of Scotland's 'greatest industrial opportunities' since oil and gas, minister says The emerging European hydrogen sector is one of Scotland's "greatest industrial opportunities since oil and gas", according to the Scottish energy

We've been saying this for a long time and still there's no hydrogen technology manufacturing of note in Scotland.. No electrolysers, no compressors and no storage tanks.

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