Where Independent minds collide

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Robertson ran the most economically inefficient campaign of the three, spending £3.25 per vote received 👇
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I last experienced exactly this in Cuba
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If SNP leader, John Swinney, ever quoted John Paul Jones every Scot would respond with “Don’t we know it!”.
"I have not yet begun to fight!" - John Paul Jones
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Starmer has the political antenna of a teletubby
A government quango has ordered the mass slaughter of beloved Dartmoor ponies in the name of ‘biodiversity’. We cannot let this happen.
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Two politically bald 👨‍🦲men fighting over a blunt comb 🪮
“If there is a contest, I intend to be in it and to fight it.” Sir Keir Starmer tells Times Radio’s Anna Mikhailova that he will fight any leadership contenders, as it’s widely expected that Andy Burnham will contest the Labour leadership should he win in Makerfield.
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Calum Miller retweeted
The same Greens pushing low density electricity generation on Scotland at the expense our natural environment: time to grow up.
Plans to build a hyperscale AI Data Centre in Fife need to be stopped. The proposals could use up to 20% of Scotland’s energy and seriously local nature. 📣Tell Fife Council to block the proposals: greens.scot/stopfifeaidatace…
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Furiously shaking a synthetic banner, made from oil: pathetic green grifters. #stoprosebank
Scottish ministers are being told they must not “shirk responsibility” for the “enormous damage” the planned Rosebank oil and gas field would cause 👇
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SNP leadership working hard to rid Scotland of any sense of exceptionalism
ANOTHER missing £400K connected to the SNP??
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That would be the same credit scoring agencies who sold their soul to the highest CDO bidder in 2005-8?
“If they wanted to go independent, then I don’t think we want to own it.”
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Calum Miller retweeted
Offshore wind farms along the storm-swept coasts of the UK are the premature graveyards of corroding steel and plastic skeletons—bowing to the inevitable. These are the volatile, often freezing seascapes of the windy North Sea, the Baltic Sea and Irish Sea, maritime zones that should provide ideal conditions for large-scale turbine farms - but don't. The wind industry and governments have long based their financial models on a projected 20- to 25-year turbine lifespan. But independent economic analysis reveals a more sobering reality. The soaring power of the elements is starkly shown in a landmark study by energy and environmental economist Professor Gordon Hughes (University of Edinburgh), first published in 2012 by the Renewable Energy Foundation: 'The Performance of Wind Farms in the United Kingdom and Denmark'. Hughes’ data reveals the performance of offshore turbines dropped sharply after just 10 to 15 years due to harsh marine wear and tear. As a consequence, their load factors - the volume of electricity generated as a percentage of capacity - decline much faster than the official narratives admit. Many of these massive marine structures - primarily owned by UK and Danish interests - are hitting the wall after just a decade of buffeting from exposure to relentless Atlantic weather. Soaring maintenance costs make them highly unprofitable. Specifically, the study showed that an offshore wind farm's ability to meet electricity demand plummeted by at least a third after 10 years. This led to the conclusion that many become fully uneconomic by year 12. Rather than keeping these assets spinning for the promised quarter-century, many operators are now forced to 'repower' - replacing old turbines with entirely new hardware long before the 25-year target. Turning the hardware over early is presented as an upgrade to maximise output, but it's really an admission that the original infrastructure simply cannot go the distance. More importantly, it exposes a large PR gap between marketing and engineering reality. Link to the study: epaw.org/documents.php?lang=…
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Sickening the environmental damage being done to Scotland by the climate cult.
Residents of Iona are opposing a 91-turbine offshore windfarm proposed for the sea near Staffa and Iona, saying that the site is “top-tier sensitivity” and a “national strategic test case”, which will impact how West Coast seascapes are developed. heraldscotland.com/news/2618…
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Lucky
What NAME would you give to this planet?
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“How shameful that some people are so desperate to defend migration into this country, that they will literally mock children who are victims of their crimes. “ 👏
Last year, a video went viral of a scared, 12 year old girl in Dundee. She was waving weapons, shouting at a migrant to leave her alone. Almost immediately, many on the left were calling this girl a liar (and worse). They were saying the “far-right” were whipping up ‘anti-migrant hate’. People like @HumzaYousaf & many more called it ‘bullsh*t’. Many, including people like @jdpoc while calling her a liar & talking about her ‘hatred’, showed pictures of the little girl. Just to make sure everyone knew who the ‘liar’ they were talking about, was. A fundraiser for the girl was mocked, suggesting she’d use the money to buy “machetes and IronBru” She was a child. Their posts were seen by hundreds of thousands of people. She wasn’t ‘hate-filled’, she was scared. Yesterday, her version of events was proven to be true. She was sexually harassed by a migrant and another child physically assaulted too. The man and his sister were prosecuted. How shameful that children need to arm themselves for protection. How shameful that adults will deny their reality. How shameful that some people are so desperate to defend migration into this country, that they will literally mock children who are victims of their crimes. Shame on you all. I’ll be fascinated to see how many of you publicly apologise to the girl, in the same public way that you called her a liar. I won’t hold my breath… I hope this girl is ok. belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/…
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Ha Ha 😝 Ha Ha 🤣 Ha Ha 😂
✅Only the SNP will to protect the world class oil and gas sector we have today, while building another world class renewables industry right by its side 👇 pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/pol…
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An independent Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 won’t need anyone standing up for us in Westminster.
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Only the Scottish National Party will stand up for Scotland in Westminster! 🫵 If 𝘆𝗼𝘂 live in the Arbroath and Broughty Ferry constituency, remember to vote for @larabirdsnp in next week's by-election! 🗳️ For a better, brighter future #VoteSNP.
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Replying to @KennyFarq
If Swinney survives this, Scottish politics is dead.
A handy crib sheet for any journalist asking John Swinney about the indyref fundraiser money. wingsoverscotland.com/the-ev…
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