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Today's schedule on Radio Jammor
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Today's schedule on Radio Jammor
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Today's schedule on Radio Jammor
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CW: Burnham U-Turn on Indyref Trigger
Burnham: The criteria for a Scottish independence referendum should be exactly the same as for Northern Ireland.
Labour Advisor: Um, Prime Minister, that criteria would seem to have been met.
Burnham: There is no consensus as there was in 2014, so a referendum is off the table.
The only time for a referendum as far as Unionist parties are concerned, is when they are highly likely to win it.
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CW: Burnham U-Turn on Indyref Trigger
Burnham: The criteria for a Scottish independence referendum should be exactly the same as for Northern Ireland.
Labour Advisor: Um, Prime Minister, that criteria would seem to have been met.
Burnham: There is no consensus as there was in 2014, so a referendum is off the table.
The only time for a referendum as far as Unionist parties are concerned, is when they are highly likely to win it.
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The London parliament has blocked assisted dying legislation
In practice this means that is will not get through in Scotland where the Scotland Act gives the Supreme Court the right to hobble much legislation.
Expect those with money and mobility to be travelling to Switzerland more regularly, often earlier than they would chose and more suicides - of attempted suicides.
#AssistedDying #Westminster #UKPol #GodBotherers #MyLife #MyDeath #MyChoice #ScottishIndependence
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The London parliament has blocked assisted dying legislation
In practice this means that is will not get through in Scotland where the Scotland Act gives the Supreme Court the right to hobble much legislation.
Expect those with money and mobility to be travelling to Switzerland more regularly, often earlier than they would chose and more suicides - of attempted suicides.
#AssistedDying #Westminster #UKPol #GodBotherers #MyLife #MyDeath #MyChoice #ScottishIndependence
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The London parliament has blocked assisted dying legislation
In practice this means that is will not get through in Scotland where the Scotland Act gives the Supreme Court the right to hobble much legislation.
Expect those with money and mobility to be travelling to Switzerland more regularly, often earlier than they would chose and more suicides - of attempted suicides.
#AssistedDying #Westminster #UKPol #GodBotherers #MyLife #MyDeath #MyChoice #ScottishIndependence
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The London parliament has blocked assisted dying legislation
In practice this means that is will not get through in Scotland where the Scotland Act gives the Supreme Court the right to hobble much legislation.
Expect those with money and mobility to be travelling to Switzerland more regularly, often earlier than they would chose and more suicides - of attempted suicides.
#AssistedDying #Westminster #UKPol #GodBotherers #MyLife #MyDeath #MyChoice #ScottishIndependence
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The London parliament has blocked assisted dying legislation
In practice this means that is will not get through in Scotland where the Scotland Act gives the Supreme Court the right to hobble much legislation.
Expect those with money and mobility to be travelling to Switzerland more regularly, often earlier than they would chose and more suicides - of attempted suicides.
#AssistedDying #Westminster #UKPol #GodBotherers #MyLife #MyDeath #MyChoice #ScottishIndependence
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Today's schedule on Radio Jammor
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Broadcasting from #Scotland
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Today's schedule on Radio Jammor
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https://www.europesays.com/people/223215/ Burnham dismisses Swinney’s referendum hopes – Daily Business #AndyBurnham #ScottishIndependence
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https://www.europesays.com/people/222794/ Andy Burnham tells John Swinney again that indyref2 is ‘off limits’ – The Irish News #AndyBurnham #independence #IndyRef2 #JOHNSwinney #NorthernIreland #Politics #Scotland #ScottishGovernment #ScottishIndependence #UK #UKGovernment
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https://www.europesays.com/people/222721/ Andy Burnham responds to John Swinney’s call for ‘legal indyref2 mechanism’ #AndyBurnham #IrishReunification #JOHNSwinney #LegalMechanism #ReferendumInScotland #ScottishIndependence
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I've written a wee blog post about the parlous state of #LocalDemocracy in #Scotland. I've also written to the Dear Leader, John #Swinney, in a slightly more diplomatic tone.
#ScotPol
#ScottishIndependencehttps://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-output/2026-09-09-Of-size-and-governance-revisited/
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Daily Record & Sunday Mail - Scottish News, Sport, Politics and Celeb news [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Andy Burnham rules out independence referendum until its 'clear' most Scots want one
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That would not seem unreasonable, but I suspect the evidence’ required will be one of those waffly, changes every minute things. Just remember ‘The Vow’. I can not see a unionist PM adhering to it when push comes to shove (as it surely will). But maybe a little hope. We do need to work harder to establish a greater consensus though. 52% in favour (last poll I saw is not good enough) - and they will rely on that.
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Malta has 68 local government regions;
Luxembourg has 102;
Iceland has 61;Scotland has 32 (and the #SNP wants even fewer).
What the hell *is* wrong with us?
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If it's the #SNP's view that Scotland would be better served with fewer 'local' government entities, isn't the corollary of that be that Britain would be better served by fewer 'national' government entities?
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RE: https://mastodon.scot/@JackTheCat/117229432104325452
"By failing Grangemouth and attacking ScotWind, Westminster is turning what should be a high-value industrial revolution into an extracted commodity. Proving once again that the current unionist framework cannot deliver a Just Transition."
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The #ContinuityPM is no friend of Scotland.
#CelticAlliance
#ScottishIndependence
#TheTreatyOfUnionIsALieThe National now understands that Burnham does not intend to make any further trips during his visit to Scotland in his capacity as Prime Minister.
Further, the media will not be given any opportunity to question Burnham during his time north of the Border.
Andy Burnham snubs Scottish voters in Highland break with royals | The National
https://www.thenational.scot/news/26526294.andy-burnham-snubs-scottish-voters-royal-weekend-break/
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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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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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Former UK minister advises 'positive' tone in Alberta referendum campaign
#Alberta #AlbertaReferendum #Canada #Politics #AlbertaPolitics #Referendum #Brexit #MarkCarney #ScottishIndependence #DanielleSmith #Confederation #WesternCanada #Democracy
https://the-14.com/former-uk-minister-advises-positive-tone-in-alberta-referendum-campaign/ -
https://www.europesays.com/uk/781662/ Inside Scotland’s ‘ghost golf course’: stunning drone footage shows gWest in all its glory – but mystery surrounds project #Business #Gleneagles #Golf #Perthshire #ScottishIndependence #Sports #TheOpenChampionship #TheRyderCup #UK #UnitedKingdom
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I've filmed an episode of Jockonary about Ronnie Browne's book That Guy Fae the Corries. It goes live on YouTube at 12.45 today:
It's got some stories about Flower of Scotland, the theft of the combolins, and so on.
The Corries put out some great music and I think they did an admirable job keeping a part of Scottish culture alive.
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Public Order Bill: Labour REFUSE to back SNP bid to repeal law
LABOUR have refused to support the SNP’s efforts to repeal anti-protest legislation – calling their attempt “a stunt”.
The SNP brought forward a motion to repeal the Public Order Act – which gives police in England sweeping powers to crack down on peaceful protest – but Labour said they would not back it.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/23527102.public-order-bill-labour-refuse-back-snp-bid-repeal-law/
#PublicOrderAct #SNP #Labour #LabourRightWingCoup #fascism #politics #freedom #ScottishIndependence