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Today's schedule on Radio Jammor
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The Treaty of Union was never ratified. 🏴
Insiders told the newspaper that members from around 40 branches are set to meet over the weekend to create an amendment to the draft conference agenda to allow a debate to go ahead.
SNP members in bid to force debate on independence strategy conference | The National
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#ScottishIndependence 🏴
#NeverEVERTrustAUnionist 🇬🇧LABOUR have been branded a “complete disgrace” after it emerged that none of the millions of pounds promised for Grangemouth has been spent.
In response to a freedom of information request, the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) said that “no funding from the National Wealth Fund has been committed or spent on projects at Grangemouth”.
UK Government hasn't spent any of £200m promised to Grangemouth
https://www.thenational.scot/news/26523524.uk-government-hasnt-spent-200m-promised-grangemouth/
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Today's schedule on Radio Jammor
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THERE is something almost perfectly British about Scotland being told to solve a problem it is not allowed to control.
How is Scotland expected to fix a problem Westminster controls?
https://www.thenational.scot/politics/26520045.scotland-expected-fix-problem-westminster-controls/
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Today's schedule on Radio Jammor
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Today's schedule on Radio Jammor
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Oh good. Even more centralisation. Just what the most overcentralised wee country (that's actually a medium sized country but thinks it looks cuter if it pretends to be small) urgently needs.
Not #ClimateAction; not #ScottishIndependence; not #LandReform; not #WealthTax; not #LocalDemocracy. Nope, none of that. Just mash all the health boards into just two, and everything will be sorted.
Remind me, why did we vote for these clowns?
h/t @TheNational
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Oh good. Even more centralisation. Just what the most overcentralised wee country (that's actually a medium sized country but thinks it looks cuter if it pretends to be small) urgently needs.
Not #ClimateAction; not #ScottishIndependence; not #LandReform; not #WealthTax; not #LocalDemocracy. Nope, none of that. Just mash all the health boards into just two, and everything will be sorted.
Remind me, why did we vote for these clowns?
h/t @TheNational
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Oh good. Even more centralisation. Just what the most overcentralised wee country (that's actually a medium sized country but thinks it looks cuter if it pretends to be small) urgently needs.
Not #ClimateAction; not #ScottishIndependence; not #LandReform; not #WealthTax; not #LocalDemocracy. Nope, none of that. Just mash all the health boards into just two, and everything will be sorted.
Remind me, why did we vote for these clowns?
h/t @TheNational
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Oh good. Even more centralisation. Just what the most overcentralised wee country (that's actually a medium sized country but thinks it looks cuter if it pretends to be small) urgently needs.
Not #ClimateAction; not #ScottishIndependence; not #LandReform; not #WealthTax; not #LocalDemocracy. Nope, none of that. Just mash all the health boards into just two, and everything will be sorted.
Remind me, why did we vote for these clowns?
h/t @TheNational
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Oh good. Even more centralisation. Just what the most overcentralised wee country (that's actually a medium sized country but thinks it looks cuter if it pretends to be small) urgently needs.
Not #ClimateAction; not #ScottishIndependence; not #LandReform; not #WealthTax; not #LocalDemocracy. Nope, none of that. Just mash all the health boards into just two, and everything will be sorted.
Remind me, why did we vote for these clowns?
h/t @TheNational
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The Icelandic referendum has rejected joining the EU.
So what's that got to do with the UK?
Directly, nothing, but those of us hoping for future referendums could do worse than look at how the vote was conducted and the allegations of interference from outside of the country.
There's a clear urban / rural split in Iceland that may not easily transfer to the UK, but other factors •may• bear studyThis could have relevance to popular votes on rejoining the EU or for Scottish independence, or greater Welsh devolution, or Irish unification.
#Brexit #UKPolitics #ScottishIndependence #IrishUnification #Referendum #Iceland
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Who the f**k is he to slap us down? Who the f**k have ANY of these Westminster f**ks ever been to slap us down?
The infamous Treaty of Union was never ratified. Check your history. Know your rights!
#ScottishIndependence 🏴
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Burnham ‘King of the North’ (of England) is showing his true colours. After all he really really does not want Irish unity or ScottishIndependence or even (it might take a wee bit longer) Welsh Independence.
England’s rules, England rules.
edit: most people won’t have a sub to the original link.
#UkPol #IrishUnity #ScottishIndependence #WelshIndependence #Burnham #LittleEngland
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“Scots agree with Murray’s no-referendum independence proposal”
by Skwawkbox with The Canary
“Author – and former UK ambassador – Craig Murray put forward a plan in late July 2026 to make Scotland independent of its blighted southern neighbour. Without the Scottish independence referendum that London’s controlling government continues to refuse it. And it seems many Scots like the plan – and so, it seems, does much of the international community”
https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/08/25/scottish-independence-no-referendum/
#Press #SocialMedia #Journalism #UK #Scotland #Murray #Independence #Referendum #Westminster #ScottishIndependence #SNP #ScottishGovernment #UN #UNCharter #SelfDetermination #Labour #Burnham
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I did love this report on Burnham’s tour. I would like to think that it might represent London deciding to abandon claims on Scottish resources but I fear that is a long time coming. A bit too far North? But you never know, he might have a tea break. Realistically, Scotland is lost to Labour so why bother.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/26494980.andy-burnham-ignores-scotland-uk-listening-tour/
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Scottish Cultural Revival
The concert venue at ‘Bakken’ hosting ‘Highland Saga’A teacher wrote to me recently and asked if the magazine I edit could publish something about the Tartan Army. As an auld yin, the history of the Tartan Army is part of my own lifetime. Far from being mere football fans, these sporting sons and daughters of Auld Caledonia represent a revival and affirmation of Scottish culture.
I hadn’t actually begun composing the piece before I was invited to ‘Highland Saga’ at ‘Bakken’, north of Copenhagen. It’s the world’s oldest amusement park, founded in 1583, according to its bio. So what better place for a saga about one of the world’s oldest nations than on the concert scene at the planet’s oldest amusement venue.
Scottish culture, even its most romanticised ‘Brigadoon’ expressions, is actually loved by people everywhere. The local citizenry in attendance burst into spontaneous rhythmic applause as the snare drummer led the small band of pipers on stage.
Seeing another people’s enthusiasm for our culture reminded me of the many discussions I’ve recorded and edited for Salvo Scotland. The words of Prof. Alf Baird in particular ring so very true.
In an interview with Norrie Hunter a few years ago, Alf stated:
“National consciousness in post-colonial theory is built on two dimensions, national culture and language. I mean, the national languages and the Scots language, mainly.
“You see that the national movement is basically the people that have Scottish culture, a Scottish language, and that’s what gives us our identity. We’re fighting against, if you like, the imposition of another identity, which in colonial terms is called a cultural illusion — that’s the British identity.“
Having watched ‘Highland Saga’, I guess some might dismiss it as ‘shortbread-box Caledonia’ or an Edinburgh Tattoo in microcosm. That thought did strike me. On the other hand, the renditions of ‘Loch Lomond’, ‘Ye Jacobites by Name’, and even ‘Mull of Kintyre’ were magnificent. Together with the visual effects screen they conveyed our culture to a European audience. And of course, there was the tartan.
Which brings us back to ‘Bagpipes in Boston’. Some of the video clips posted online during the World Cup were so heart-warming. Americans were swept up in their long-forgotten Scottishness, and those with no Scots heritage embraced it. Listening to ‘Flower of Scotland’ as a pre-match ode to the nation is always inspiring. With its references to our historic struggle for national independence it is ever associated with its composers, The Corries. I still have an original cassette tape of theirs.
I was too young to realise at the time, but Ronnie and Roy were at the forefront of a Scottish cultural revival. In my last year a secondary school we actually performed ‘Ye Jacobites by Name’, ‘Hey Johnny Cope’, and ‘The Braes o’ Killekrankie’ (among other songs) in a production by my art teacher, George Parsonage, simply called ‘The Jacobites’. Since I went to a Scottish school I knew nothing about Scottish history. Yet those songs made an impression — no doubt my part in production rehearsals as one of the guitarists had something to do with this.
Continuing Alf Baird’s thoughts…
“What Scotland has been subject to is a form of imperialism. We have another culture pushed onto us, if you like, which is Anglophone…
“As soon as we go into the schools, we’re taught how we speak proper and all the rest. And we’re telt to put oor ain culture and oor ain language aside, to forget it, to forget who we are…
“This was exactly the same in India, in Kenya, in Ireland and in Scotland. So English studies is first thing. French studies in French colonies was the same thing. American colonies were the same. It’s to impose, first of all, the language and the culture…”
We owe a debt of gratitude to teachers like George Parsonage.
I must confess when the Highland Saga pipers arrived on stage, the skirl of the pipes awakened some kind of genetic memory. I suppose it was like the old biblical story about the exile, moved to tears when hearing a stranger speaking his mither tongue in a foreign land.
The Saga is returning to Bakken in December. Apparently, they could have sold more tickets for this one-off show. So, haste ye back.
In other news from our independent neighbour: as monster overhead pylons are planned for areas of scenic beauty across Scotland, Denmark is burying 3,300 kilometres of overhead cables underground, part of a long-term project. I regularly cycle past one of the areas affected. To be honest, I’d no idea what was going on until a large information board came up.
The final paragraph on this info poster explains that the project will increase ‘supply security’ and ‘beautify the environment’. Aye, protecting scenic beauty as government policy. There’s a thought for Holyrood’s erstwhile Scottish Greens and faux nationalists.
Very few overhead cables scar the Danish landscape, yet independent Denmark manages to power its own network
and export its surplus for profit #denmark #history #politics #salvoScot #scotland #scottishIndependence #ScottishIndependence -
I've been dusting off my #ScottishIndependence canvassing app, to see how hard it would be to get it working if a new #IndyRef did actually happen.
It's suffered much less bit rot than I thought. It's mostly ready to go, there are still some issues to fix.
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In truth I left the #SNP (which I had then been a member of for 30 years) in 2008, before it first became the Scottish Government, because I disagreed with the leadership about the Monarchy. But, although I now feel closer to the @ScottishGreens, I do still vote for the SNP. Because, although I think they're useless, #ScottishIndependence is still a very important issue.
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Consequently, as we see from the candidates left in #UKLabour's #Scottish leadership election, Labour isn't trying to challenge either #SNP or @ScottishGreens for the #LeftWing vote -- because they know the left strongly favours #ScottishIndependence -- so instead they're moving yet further right to try to poach votes off the #Conservatives and #LibDems.
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The fact that the salient issue in #Scottish politics is #ScottishIndependence is what allows the #SNP to maintain a commanding lead in the polls despite no one at all believing either their that administration is particularly competent or that their policies are much good. Because they don't have to be any use in order to win means they are not very motivated to improve.
The @ScottishGreens may gradually win more votes off them, but that will take time, which we don't really have.
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I mean the fact that the #SNP is useless isn't illustrated by this graph. But the SNP's raison d'être is #ScottishIndependence, which it has absolutely no plan to achieve; and meanwhile it has too broad a coalition to have any clear policies on anything else, and has had, for the past decade, too controlling a leadership to have had any serious internal political debate, or allow younger talent to develop.
But this thread is not about the SNP's uselessness.
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time for more coffee... ☕ ☕ :flag_scotlandparrot: ☮️ :yes_scotland:
I believe that #Scotland and the people of Scotland can be better served as an #independent Nation...
#ScottishIndependence... is the best way of having a progressive country and not have a corrupt #westminster pulling any of our levers of power...
"the UK is a #VoluntaryUnion" #myar*e
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It is intriguing that an MSP needs multiple MPs from #Labour Central to be able to stand for leadership, but fossiking around in what is publicly available, MSPs or MS (Wales) are not required the other way around.
Come on MSPs - read the writing on the wall, you (and we) are toast if London gets its chance. Change things unless you want to be London lackeys all your political life (and don't aspire to a place in the HOL)
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CW: My feedback to gov.uk about that alarm just now
RE: https://scicomm.xyz/@unchartedworlds/117095449603547769
Fortunately, the #UK government's alarm was not broadcast in Scotland, demonstrating that we have already achieved #ScottishIndependence.
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@RaffKarva @spytfyre Legally, #Holyrood cannot declare #UDI at all. No Unilateral Declaration of Independence in history has ever been legal. It is not a legal action.
That does not mean it cannot be done.
But it will succeed only if it is backed by sufficient popular support that the country would be ungovernable by the colonial power.
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@RaffKarva This won't happen, because the #SNP are useless and frit.
We need a pro independence party which actually believes in #ScottishIndependence .
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RE: https://mastodon.ie/@2legged/117096356371225041
#UDI may be a 'drastic move'. But unless the UK government seriously believes we might take it, we have no route at all to #IndyRef2.
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time for coffee... ☕ ☕ :flag_scotlandparrot: ☮️ :yes_scotland:
beyond time for #Scottishindependence...
dump #westminster
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GERS numbers out today. Pooling and sharing within the UK means £2720 extra per head Gov Spending in Scotland thanks to the Barnett Formula.
That's an amount that would be lost on day1 if we are silly enough to leave the UK.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c99852n780ro
For Edinburgh the total extra spend is £1.5bn/year.
For Glasgow it's £1.8bn.
Well done UK.
#politics #ukpolitics #scotland #gers #independence #scottishindependence #uk
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@JackTheCat This is very clear to anyone who listens to Marlene and Fiona's Scottish Independence Podcast — and everyone interested in #ScottishIndependence should listen to the Scottish Independence Podcast.
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Excellent from @BellaCaledonia
This is the energy we need in the Independence movement, not the SNP's lacklustre Holyrood & Westminster offerings: -
@maxleibman
Let's hear it for .Scot at 95% - Not just pretty - football following (& failing🫤) kilt wearing, charity giving, alcohol indulging - faces😁
Maybe not a scientifically rigorous, statistically representative sample, but I'm having this as proof positive of our socially conscious, left leaning, Nordic, European outlook on life. #ScottishIndependence
#YouYesYet
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It does not surprise. The ‘inclusive’ Burnham is a not going to take any questions from the A
Scottish Press (although most of them are not owned in Scotland I suppose). On a possible positive move, Manchester is Northern Britain, so possibly he is getting ready for England to leave the UK?#Burnham #ScotPol #UKPol #ScottishIndependence #Labour #Contempt #Frit
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Why does Burnham hate Scotland
A hyperbolic title from ‘Prospect’, never itself a publication that informs itself of things north of ‘the border’.
I doubt whether he hates Scotland (some in Labour clearly do). He is just ignorant, not even understanding what is in public ownership or devolved here in a recent article.
Don’t put down to malice what simple ignorance can explain.
#Scotland #Hatred #Ignorance #Labour #Prospect #ScottishIndependence
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GB Energy want to build more nuclear plants in Scotland - but not for Scots. #NoNuclear #ScottishIndependence #YouYesYet
https://www.believeinscotland.org/westminster_wants_to_force_nuclear_sites_on_scotland_to_supply_englands_energy?utm_campaign=newsletter_63k_water_and_bfs&utm_medium=email&utm_source=believeinscotland -
GB Energy want to build more nuclear plants in Scotland - but not for Scots. #NoNuclear #ScottishIndependence #YouYesYet
https://www.believeinscotland.org/westminster_wants_to_force_nuclear_sites_on_scotland_to_supply_englands_energy?utm_campaign=newsletter_63k_water_and_bfs&utm_medium=email&utm_source=believeinscotland -
GB Energy want to build more nuclear plants in Scotland - but not for Scots. #NoNuclear #ScottishIndependence #YouYesYet
https://www.believeinscotland.org/westminster_wants_to_force_nuclear_sites_on_scotland_to_supply_englands_energy?utm_campaign=newsletter_63k_water_and_bfs&utm_medium=email&utm_source=believeinscotland -
GB Energy want to build more nuclear plants in Scotland - but not for Scots. #NoNuclear #ScottishIndependence #YouYesYet
https://www.believeinscotland.org/westminster_wants_to_force_nuclear_sites_on_scotland_to_supply_englands_energy?utm_campaign=newsletter_63k_water_and_bfs&utm_medium=email&utm_source=believeinscotland -
The grotesquely belated UK royal defenestration of #exPrince Andrew is too little too late. Even the soggy Starmerite #NewStatesman is now calling for an end to the monarchy.
But not yet. The NS is passive, and wants #PrinceWilliam to voluntarily quit when his father dies. #GoodLuckWithThat 🙄
Mike Small says it's time for the #ScottishIndependence movement to put a #ScottishRepublic at the centre of the campaign for an independent #Scotland👍 #NoKings
https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/10/30/the-crisis-of-the-british-monarchy/
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time for coffee... ☕ ☕ 🏴 ☮️ :flag_scotlandparrot:
The biggest #danger for #ScottishIndependence is the UK media in it's entirety...
You saw it in #2014...
You saw it again during #Brexit...
#ScotGov need to #challenge the #lies...
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The UK Supreme Court debacle today is yet another reason we should've gone fucking indy. Arseholes.
Thanks to the government (Scottish) for trying to make things fairer though. Please continue to fight for trans rights.
... And maybe ratchet up the indy talk again, eh?
#TransRights #scotland #ScottishIndependence #BelieveInScotland #ArtistsForIndy #ScotGov -
@Wen It's kind of late for this. Our #SNP #ScotGov sold out a huge slice of Scotland's renewable resources in the #ScotWind scandal.
Yes, we need #ScottishIndependence -- but we need a pro-independence party that isn't utter shit, and the SNP isn't it. I'm hoping @ScottishGreens may be, but they're untested as yet.
h/t @thecommongreen
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London refuses to give the people of Scotland an #IndependenceReferendum.
The question of #ScottishIndependence will be answered at the ballot box in a general election.
With uncanny timing, the police investigation means @theSNP indyref funds are locked.
Don't let them stop us.
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CW: #ScottishIndepence
Scotland astrology to 2030. I got this from an astrologer friend in the States. It makes for interesting reading, especially the optimal windows for independence:
February 23rd 2024 to April 11th 2024
May 25th 2024 to July 17th 2024
December 30th 2024 to January 30th 2025
August 21st 2025 to December 5th 2025.#Astrology #ScottishIndependence #Scotland #InTheStars
https://www.jessicaadams.com/2023/01/17/blog/scotland-astrology-to-2030/ -
I remind anyone who thinks Joanna Cherry is asking a good question about Northern Ireland, what Cherry's declared views on the uprising and the civil wars of Ireland are:
(It's not pretty. And no supporter of Scottish independence should endorse it.)
https://www.thenational.scot/news/18995586.joanna-cherry-history-shows-referendum-not-route-independence/ #PMQs #ScottishIndependence #IndependenceReferendum
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A short 🧵 triggered by the recent publication of two contradictory #opinionpolls measuring support for #ScottishIndependence.
They reminded me of my reaction to the response of, I think, Alister Jack, to the Supreme Court decision on the holding of an #independencereferendum. In essence, he said no referendum till at least 6 months’ worth of polls showed over 60% support for independence 1/
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Scottish Independence SC Ruling - the ruling today of the SC that an independence referendum cannot be held without Westminster consent is not surprising.
The role of the court is to interpret the law, and the law on this was fairly clear.
Does that mean it's over? No. Why not? (A thread)