Ret'd Maths/Physics teacher. EIS Clacks. ClacksChoral, languages, cycling, computers, puns. Hoarder of old tech. Indy, SUtR, ClacksALBA convener, EMR, STEP

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On ⚽️ coming home to 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Maths humour. Not 'open' for discussion:
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The real victims of Murrell’s crimes are the ordinary Independence Supporters who gave their hard earned cash to the SNP with the express purpose of furthering the cause of independence. They will want to know how their donations could have been embezzled for so long without 1/6
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December 2022 Rishi Sunak said this “British is just shorthand for English” I'm sure the Scottish Unionists and Scottish Conservatives would hate you to RT this So please do not RT!
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Against the odds, ordinary Scots funded a national campaign and helped us reach homes across the country with a message of hope for independence. Now we build the next stage. We’re launching our new crowdfunder and membership drive to grow a permanent grassroots movement for Scotland’s future, powered by people, not political insiders. If you believe Scotland deserves another voice in the independence movement, now is the time to get involved. crowdfunder.co.uk/p/they-hav… Become a member: liberatescot.scot/membership… They have the establishment. We have each other.
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1 @JohnSwinney @ScotGovFM has Parliamentary support to seek a s30. If that is refused, he must unite the #Independence movement in a convention, use the power in the hands of 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿’s people and declare a Scottish election which is a de facto referendum. Much has changed in 3 years.
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🗣 "We must have that General Election on a #ScotlandUnited ticket." – ALBA Equalities Convener, Eva Comrie 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #ALBAforIndependence | @mickbrick54
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You cannot secede from a state that does not exist! i.e. The legal identity of the U.K. is that of England in every constitutional aspect, Crown to government to Parliament to constitutional doctrine and practice. Scotland at least - and probably Ireland and Wales too - cannot secede from England nor from any invalid or inoperative (ToU) treaties. The route is restoration of a never lawfully transferred sovereignty and constitutional resumption.
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Scotland, the "energy capital" of Europe. Scotland, the most energy rich country in Europe. Scotland, the highest levels of energy poverty in Europe. Scotland cannot prosper in a union that is designed to exploit people, extract wealth & leave the poorest dependent on handouts.
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Liebour the Red Tories:
Here’s @QuinanLloyd on the @l_n_n_26 podcast talking about 2014 how the indyref franchise was manipulated in favour of London. Watch Again open.substack.com/pub/dandf/…
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🕛 Noon today. How did "both votes SNP" a strategy born of loyalty did we end up with Reform UK getting 17 list seats? A difficult conversation for anyone who wants independence. We look at the arithmetic. Orwell might have called it the corruption of language dressed as rebellion. Set a reminder. 👇 #AllianceToLiberateScotland #IndependenceNothingLess #BothVotesSNP #ReformUK #ScottishIndependence
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As @indyscotnews said: some in the SNP have become the antithesis of the inclusive 2014 Yes movement, hateful, entitled, attacking other pro-indy parties. Trouncing? We're 3 months old, we only came into focus a few weeks before the election. The SNP got 1 list seat after a decade. Reform got 17. Now the SNP needs the Greens for a 'pro-indy majority', the same Greens who took two SNP constituency seats. That majority is a sham. Built on a party that cannibalises SNP seats and buries independence under a load of other priorities. We're new. You're deflecting from a decade of failure
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For the 3rd election running we warned that “Both Votes SNP” would waste regional votes and hand seats to unionist parties. That warning became reality. Reform has entered Holyrood with 17 seats while pro-indy list representation collapsed again adding yet another unionist bloc into Scotland’s Parliament. People will blame smaller pro-indy parties rather than confront the bigger picture: new parties rarely break through without wealthy backers, media machines, or establishment support. Reform had all three. Grassroots indy parties did not. We had volunteers, belief, and ordinary people giving everything they could. Activists trying to sound the alarm before it was too late because we could see exactly where this was heading. This is heartbreaking because it was avoidable. And deep down, many within the SNP know it was avoidable too. Ask yourself this: why are pro-independence votes for anyone outside the SNP always dismissed and only SNP votes count towards Scottish sovereignty? A movement serious about independence should not sneer at other pro-indy votes as wasted, divided, or illegitimate. It should be trying to maximise all pro-independence representation not treating one party’s dominance as more important than the national cause itself. Unless something changes now, the next term could see pro-independence representation diluted even further, with the movement trapped in permanent decline under a strategy that no longer works. Scotland needs honesty. Scotland needs strategic change. And Scotland needs a movement willing to adapt before it is too late.
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Open Letter to John Swinney, First Minister of Scotland and Leader of the SNP From: Hazel Lyon, Leader of the Alliance to Liberate Scotland (ATLS) Subject: Scotland cannot afford another decade of failed strategy liberatescot.scot/open-lette…

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not an @theSNP majority, nor a majority of the popular vote:it’s tricky to determine the legal & political compulsitors requiring WM to consent & cooperate. That’s because they don’t exist. Only the ballot box & international cooperation persuade them. #IndependenceNothingLess
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Dates for your diary✨📣 We still have space in upcoming in person PACT training sessions! The PACT Programme delivers poverty-related professional learning sessions to empower teachers and schools in minimising the damage of poverty on scottish education and our learners. eis.org.uk/pact/pacttraining
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Vote Alliance To Liberate Scotland for independence nothing else nothing less #AllianceToLiberateScotland #IndependenceNothingLess @CraigMurrayOrg
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This is worth a watch if you want a more grassroots perspective. After all, 4 of the 6 parties the media focuses are based in London. Only 2 Scottish-based parties ever make the MSM debates. The @LiberateScot @IndyScotParty and @The_SSP_ are effectively boycotted.
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Eva Comrie. @mickbrick54 My political and personal testimonial. I have worked (unpaid), in the background, for many politicians over the last 60 years. Mostly SNP candidates, MPs, MSPs, and Cllrs over that period, since delivering my first SNP leaflets as a schoolboy in 1965. With many successes and more failures, especially early on. I was a member of the SNP for nearly 50 years since joining that party in 1974 up to and including 2015, and a few years after that, promoting the cause of independence as I always have and always will do. I eventually left in 2021 after the SNP had changed radically under Nicola Sturgeon, and I could do nothing to change that back to the original cause, though I tried. I first had contact with and quickly became a good personal friend of Eva, in 2013. I have lived through some of the trials and tribulations she has gone through, with health and family tragedies, since before she became an SNP candidate, and then lead candidate for that party in our region in 2021, when she left and became a founding member of Alba, as did I, on day one of the Alba launch. She was immediately appointed the lead candidate for Alba that same year. I lived through that period, left Alba before she did, for reasons I have given often before. I strongly supported her bid to become an independent MP in 2024. My politics mirror hers almost exactly. I have never known a better, more empathetic, and caring person than Eva. The most human of humans. If elected, she will be the best representative you could possibly have. A tireless champion of the underdog, in her political, professional, and personal life Her care and understanding in her professional field as a family lawyer is very understated. I know how much she gives of herself. Because both of us are very strong-minded, we have at times had disagreements, but on reflection, she was always right. Independence runs through her veins. She cares passionately about others before herself You will find, as I did, that she will never let you down. I think the best person I have ever been able to call a true friend in my life - a simply amazing woman. So, I beseech you to give your vote to her, both in Clackmannanshire & Dunblane #ClacksDunblane constituency and Mid Scotland & Fife Region #MSF. #LiberateScotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #CountryBeforeParty #Independence #VoteEva
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