#scottishindependence — Public Fediverse posts

@Layan2002 @BellaCaledonia

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.

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.

#ScotPol

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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.

#ScotPol

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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

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)

https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/08/18/soul-mining/

#Democracy #Holyrood #ScottishIndependence

LeBron James calls Scotland "God's country". BBC instantly try to negatively highlight the number of Americans renting property.

Try concentrating on rich white englandshire settlers first.

#ScottishIndependence 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@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.

#ScottishIndependence

@RaffKarva This won't happen, because the #SNP are useless and frit.

We need a pro independence party which actually believes in #ScottishIndependence .

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.

#ScottishIndependence

time for coffee... ☕ ☕ :flag_scotlandparrot: ☮️ :yes_scotland:

beyond time for #Scottishindependence...

dump #westminster

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

@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.

https://scottishindypod.scot/

Excellent from @BellaCaledonia
This is the energy we need in the Independence movement, not the SNP's lacklustre Holyrood & Westminster offerings:

https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/07/26/power-to-the-people-why-scotland-needs-energy-expropriation-not-social-democratic-band-aids/

#YouYesYet #ScottishIndependence #IndependenceIsNormal

@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
#IndependenceIsNormal

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?

https://www.thenational.scot/news/26404346.andy-burnham-avoiding-media-first-official-scotland-visit/

#Burnham #ScotPol #UKPol #ScottishIndependence #Labour #Contempt #Frit

@a @BelieveinScotland according to Google, the fastest you can get from the Mull of Galloway (the most southerly point in Scotland, to Unst, our most northerly island, is 19 hours and fifty minutes. To Hermaness on Unst, more than twenty hours. I'd be surprised if you could do it that quickly.

The geographic mid-point of the United Kingdom is near Peebles, in the Scottish Borders.

We may be too stupid, but we're neither too wee nor too poor for #ScottishIndependence .

@BelieveinScotland
writes:

“Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s refusal to accept Scotland's demands for a second referendum isn't just a betrayal of his own claimed key principle; it is as much a denial of reality as it is of democracy.

Just like all his recent failed predecessors as PM, he doesn't give a damn about Scotland, its people, and their needs.

Treating Scotland as a region of England rather than a sovereign nation and proving that there is no voluntary element to the Union is not going to make the issue of Scotland's independence go away.

We are not asking for a referendum; we are demanding one. We are demanding the right of Scotland's people to choose Scotland's future. The "Celtic Exit" is underway; all three of the UK's Celtic nations are led by Governments that wish to end the UK. More and more of the people of those nations are now refusing to accept that they can be continually outvoted, ignored, and economically harmed by an overwhelmingly anglocentric Westminster Government.

His own team encourages the media to call him the King of the North, which is about as egotistical as politics gets. What they haven’t considered is that it can take more than 3 hours to drive from South Scotland to Manchester and the real North of Scotland is 4 hours in the other direction.

There were people in Scotland who thought Corbyn was the answer - he wasn’t. Then they thought getting rid of the Tories was the answer - it wasn’t. To be brutally honest, Burnham just isn't the answer; he's just the new face of the ongoing problem that no UK PM of any party gives a damn about Scotland.

Scotland’s wellbeing will only be realised when all of Scotland’s problems and opportunities are fully in Scotland’s hands. Only independence offers the solutions Scotland needs.”

https://www.believeinscotland.org/indyref_petition

#ScottishIndependence #BelieveInScotland

@Wen I did have. I had projecthope.scot for years from 2015, but I've let it lapse as it's obvious no one is still serious about #ScottishIndependence

Andy Burnham says he wants to give back hope to the country...and is going to announce plans to extract more oil and gas from the north sea. That certainly doesn't fill me with hope

Political power is too centralised, he says, and needs to be devolved away from Westminster (No, not you, Scotland).

So, more of the same, then

Scotland really needs to get out of this mess

#ScottishIndependence
#UKPolitics

England. expects

https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/england-expects-scotland-to-put-out-20071023483

#Scotland #England #ScottishIndependence #Satire

#uk_politics #scottishindependence #labour
The Guardian got this right
 "In recent weeks, Sir Keir has repeatedly cited the alleviation of child poverty as one of his government’s proudest achievements. But he could only do so because mutinous Labour MPs forced his administration to think again and finally lift a child benefit cap."
The Guardian 16/7/26

Let's hope Andy Burnham is much better even though early signs are not encouraging.

#scottishindependence #uk_politics

Here in Scotland we saw criminal investigations for fraud for missing funds at SNP with former CEO imprisoned. Rightly so, but here we are talking about £10 billion given to Tory cronies with only a wrist slapping. No criminal charges and no one sent to prison. One rule for the rich !

Johnson government wasted £10bn on PPE, Covid inquiry finds | Covid inquiry | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jul/14/boris-johnson-government-wasted-vast-sums-on-ppe-covid-inquiry-finds

Stirring stuff from Bobby Motherwell in the #National

'A declaration for an independent Scotland'

#ScottishIndependence
#YouYesYet
*full text in alt text

My take home from this World Cup is that that we didn’t really believe

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://theorkneynews.scot/2026/07/06/my-take-home-from-this-world-cup-is-that-that-we-didnt-really-believe/

@YSF

https://photos.app.goo.gl/qxnCUkR43xe2DsP66

#YesScotland
#ScottishIndependence
#ScotPol