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If "Yes" had won by 50.1% in 2014, would the Scottish Greens be offering the public another vote today to rejoin the UK? No, you wouldn't. For nationalists, "democracy isn't a one-time event"; it only applies when you lose. When you win, it's irreversible forever. Demanding never-ending reruns until you get the result you want isn't democracy; it’s a refusal to accept a vote you lost.
Democracy isn't a one time event. So why do unionist politicians keep telling the people Scotland, that they can't have a say on Scotland's future?
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You set statutory child poverty targets in 2017 to reach less than 10% by 2030, yet child poverty currently sits at 21%. You already have full control over income tax, council tax, and massive welfare powers through Social Security Scotland. You don't need "full powers" to fix this; you just need to stop blaming the constitution for your own government's domestic failures.
We are making progress with our limited powers, but imagine what we could do with the full powers to cut your energy bills, eradicate child poverty and use Scotland’s vast resources for the benefit of people in Scotland.
That’s exactly what independence is about.
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The Vice-Principal of St Andrews has literally just had to publish an article explaining that the Scottish Government dictates "precisely how many they can admit every year". If the university goes "even one student beyond our cap, they are fined". Trying to frame St Andrews as anti-Scottish when it is the SNP’s own funding model that restricts domestic student numbers is entirely dishonest.
Some students arrive at St Andrews University with classist views – but they tend not to leave with them, vice-principal of communications Niall Scott writes✍️
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The "Scotsman who started the B. of E." was William Paterson. Do you know what else he started? The catastrophic Darien Scheme, which completely bankrupted Scotland and left the country with no choice but to sign the Act of Union in 1707 to survive. Using the man who effectively caused the Union to argue for breaking it up is a spectacular historical own goal.
I don't care what currency we use what's 2 stop us using the £after all it was a Scotsman who started the B. of E. with the amount of Oil energy & natural resources Scotland has it can use wallies for all I care just get us out of this UK sh** Hole before we've nothing of value
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Handing over handwritten notes to a colleague with the word "Research" misspelt right at the top is the kind of self-own that writes itself, especially coming from a former Education Secretary!
Mercurius never misses an opportunity to highlight the remarkable administrative competence on display at Holyrood.
Mercurius understands that at a recent Holyrood meeting ex Scottish education secretary @AConstance23 handed over her own handwritten meeting notes to a fellow attendee.
She had titled them "Reserch".
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The real "brass neck" here is the SNP feigning outrage over the two-child cap when the Scottish Government has the devolved welfare powers to completely mitigate it tomorrow. Holyrood mitigated the bedroom tax, yet they deliberately choose not to fund the mitigation of the two-child limit. Why? Because keeping a grievance to wave at Westminster is politically more valuable to the SNP than actually using their £60bn budget to fix it.
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First, calling thousands of drug deaths "paltry" is despicable. Second, since you asked: England implemented the Dame Carol Black review with dedicated, ring-fenced funding for treatment and residential recovery. Meanwhile, the SNP government actively slashed funding to local Alcohol and Drug Partnerships (ADPs) by over £15 million, gutted residential rehab capacity, and left Scottish services seriously fragmented. When one country protects rehab beds and the other cuts them, you get a Scottish mortality rate 2.4 times higher.
You're going around in circles now as you've run out of actual arguments.
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For anyone still trying to blame "English supply routes" or population totals, look at the official age-standardised data. England, Wales, and Northern Ireland share the exact same borders and reserved drug laws as Scotland, yet their mortality rates remain firmly at the bottom of the graph. Scotland's rate didn't skyrocket because of the border; it skyrocketed because the Scottish Government systematically trimmed rehab funding.
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It is remarkable how a poll of 1,001 people commissioned by your very own independence campaign always finds massive support for another referendum. Let's look at the actual ballot box: in the May 2026 Holyrood election, only about 20% of the entire registered electorate actually cast a constituency vote for a pro-independence party. You can manipulate hypothetical polls all day, but the real-world electorate already rejected this.
🔎 Only 20% of people in Scotland say there should never be another independence referendum.
🟦 You don't have to be Yes to believe Scotland deserves the right to decide its own future.
✍️ Support Scotland's right to choose by signing today: believeinscotland.org/indyre…
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If the supply chain dictates the death rate, why does Scotland have a drug mortality rate 2.4 times higher than England? You claim Merseyside is the "warehouse", yet Liverpool doesn't have a fraction of Glasgow's overdose rate. Illegal drugs flow across every border. The difference is that health, addiction services, and rehab funding are fully devolved to Holyrood. Blaming "English routes" for a Scottish public health collapse is another nationalist deflection.
And not a single word about the main supply chain? Hm.
England does not merely leak drugs into Scotland. It feeds the market through two arteries that have shaped the country’s overdose crisis. The older one is wholesale.
Now, for half a century Merseyside has been a warehouse for cocaine and heroin that Scottish crime groups buy by the kilo. Cash travels south on the M6 and M74, product comes back north. EncroChat files later showed the same map in messages: loads staged in London, Essex, Newcastle and Liverpool, then pointed at Glasgow. Liverpool’s importers sit closer to the ports. Glasgow’s firms sit closer to the customers. They trade rather than annex each other.
The newer artery is county lines. Gangs from Liverpool, London and the West Midlands no longer sell a consignment and leave. They keep the phone, send runners up the east-coast rail line and the A9, and occupy flats in Inverness, Aberdeen and Peterhead. Police call it cuckooing. The line sells crack and heroin in towns too small to sustain a local cartel, then extracts the cash. Highland officers count a dozen such lines at a time and work with Merseyside’s Project Medusa to hit the exporters at source.
When wholesale cocaine tightens, both systems starve, prices jump. Adulterants follow. Nitazenes appear in the mix that kills people in Glasgow closes and Highland bedsits alike.
The English routes are not a side story. They are how a South American harvest becomes a Scottish death certificate.
But what do I know...
| #Scotland #England #BBCnews
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And for this reply Pete blocked me 🤭
You literally participated in the June 2018 Westminster walkout when Ian Blackford threw a PMQs tantrum, Pete. Your party turned storming out of the House of Commons into an annual fundraising drive. You are the last politician in Britain who can lecture anyone on parliamentary walkouts.😂😂
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If you move out of a rented flat, your name isn't on the lease just because you used to live there. The UK signed the EU Treaties, not Scotland. The European Commission stated repeatedly in 2012 and 2014 that an independent Scotland would be a new third country outside the EU treaties on day one, requiring a full accession process under Article 49. Claiming "there is no specific clause" is like saying the highway code doesn't explicitly mention skateboards.😂😂
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You called me a "dummy who can't count", then confidently posted a graphic claiming there are 543 English MPs and 117 MPs for the rest of the UK. 543 + 117 = 660. The House of Commons only has 650 seats. You mixed the 2024 English boundaries with the 2019 devolved boundaries and accidentally invented 10 phantom MPs. An absolute masterpiece of irony.😂😂
Not at all, now I know you're a Scottish dummy who can't count and loves being dominated by the English
Time well spent
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"Once in a generation" right up until the precise second they lost the vote. We have endured 12 years of constitutional gridlock and neglected public services simply because the SNP refuse to accept a democratic reality they themselves agreed to.
John Swinney was adamant in 2014 that there wasn’t going to be another referendum if Scotland voted no.
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Nationalists love complaining about "Westminster debt," but look at the actual breakdown. Scotland has 8% of the UK population but generated over 15% of the accumulated deficit. England has 84% of the population but only 57% of the deficit. This is the Union dividend in one image.
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The Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs claims she is "unaware" of public bodies owning crofting land. Scottish Ministers literally own 95,000 hectares containing 10% of all crofts in Scotland. A staggering level of incompetence and utter ignorance of rural issues from a government that claims to represent all of Scotland.
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We went from a 2026 political poll, to Covid conspiracies, and now you’re just throwing out AI catchwords like "gradient descent" and "RoboCop" alongside a video of a power washer😂😂.
If this is your way of recovering from failing "o grade level" addition, it’s not working. I couldn't script a more spectacular meltdown if I tried.😂
No argument here, just taking you at your x @ handle & leaving a breadcrumb or two for RoboCop to pick up on once it understands gradient descent & back propagation optimisation better than some random dropping o grade level stats & a karscher video, 😘
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This Finnish register data (Ruuska et al.) is an absolute wrecking ball to the Scottish Government’s entire approach over the last decade. For years, Holyrood ministers dismissed evidence, branded critics bigots, and repeated the line that medical transition solves adolescent mental distress. A 25-year, mandatory national study tracking over 2,000 adolescents shows psychiatric needs actually climbed to over 50–60% post-reassignment. The ideological capture of Scottish policy ignored child safeguarding in favour of political optics.
Every glib, arrogant, virtue-signalling celebrity who’s broadcast the lie that kids will kill themselves if not allowed to transition deserves to have this read aloud to them non-stop through a megaphone for a year.
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Look at the signs. "GENOCIDE IN" is in size 10 font, "TIME TO TAKE" is practically invisible, while "PALESTINE ACTION" is printed in massive 72pt bold capital letters. It’s a cynical visual gimmick designed to flaunt support for a proscribed extremist group while hiding behind a technicality to cry victim to The National. The police aren’t blind; they arrest based on intent and public display, not bad typography games.😂
Police Scotland is facing calls to 'come clean' after arresting members of the public for displaying a lawful pro-Palestine slogan👇 thenational.scot/news/265622…
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