#scotref

[oh-glasgow]

What an embarrassingly pathetic thing to celebrate. I'd expect no less from this pitiful little island.

It's time for Scotland to leave the UK.

[unknownpoliticalobject]

Scottish independence voting intention: Yes: 55% (+3) No: 45% (-3) via @PanelbaseMD, 12 - 18 Aug Chgs. w/ 05 Jun

— Britain Elects (@britainelects) August 19, 2020

[elicatkin]

[xpecx]

[ayeforscotland]

Odd One Out

ENGLAND: voted Leave, getting what it wanted

WALES: voted Leave, getting what it wanted

NORTHERN IRELAND: voted Remain, getting special treatment

GIBRALTAR: voted Remain, getting special treatment

SCOTLAND: voted Remain, getting nothing

[actionforindependence]

AFI welcome SNP admission that a supermajority is required. https://afi.scot/afi-welcome-snp-admission-that-a-supermajority-is-required/

[jeggits-scotland]

Next Time We Vote...

Independence has become Scotland’s Ultimate Zero Sum Game 

When we go to the polls in the next independence referendum the choice we will have will be infinitely starker than the choice we had in September 2014. Everything has changed.

If we vote NO again as we did under duress in 2014 we will not have voted for the same union we were forced to accept then. We will have voted for a union that is a union only in name. London’s failure to deliver on the promises it made and the imposition of England’s Brexit decision have made it abundantly clear where the nation of Scotland stands in the scheme of British power - under the boot of Westminster.

If we decide again that we are Better Together then we will be ratifying in Scotland a new type of Britishness; an aggressively xenophobic and isolationist Brexit Britain that we have already resoundingly rejected. We will be opting for a new centralisation of power in London that will mercilessly plunder our resources and our nation’s wealth to ensure its own survival. We will be signing the death warrant of our devolved parliament.

Rejecting independence again will bind us to a far less stable Britain and a chaotic and whimsical foreign policy that will repeatedly and relentlessly drive us into murderous war; the inevitable vanity projects of a swaggering new Britain eager to please its transatlantic protector. Voting NO in the next independence referendum will be a vote to euthanise Scotland - which, considering the realities we will be made to face, will only be a kindness.

But if we have the courage to vote YES - if we can overcome all the bitterness and darkness that will be thrown at us and vote YES - we will be voting for independence. We will be choosing Scotland as it is, as we have made it, and the future we plan for it. It will not be a utopia, but neither will it be destruction.

It will be a start...

...and not an ending.

Next time we vote, we must vote Yes!

[alanaisalive]

Since I was a kid I would look at the government and think, “This is so broken and we just need to re-write the whole constitution and start over from scratch.” Like, there are bits that are good, but they’re wrapped in so much garbage that is only there because of some ridiculous sense of tradition.

I think that’s why I have supported an independent Scotland from the very beginning, when I first moved here. It’s a chance to do exactly that. We can build a new country, suited to the 21st century. I was so disappointed in 2014 when so many people couldn’t see or understand the potential they threw away.

[oh-glasgow]

Do you think England would really be keeping hold of Scotland if it was actually having to subsidise it? Fuck no, they'd cut ties as soon as they could.

Dissolve the union.

Do you ever think about how western countries find ways to invade other countries for their oil and then think about your country and just how much oil it has and how you're being told by the English Government that you're never gonna get your independence and think 'oh'.

Oh.

[jeggit]

MADE IT TO THE COVER OF A MAGAZINE

iScot is probably the best print media we have in the independence movement. Of course I’d say that. I write for it, but I am being serious. I wanted to contribute to it because I thought it the best. What makes it the best isn’t necessarily the quality - although that it good. It’s that it is owned and published in Scotland by people who have the interests of the movement at heart. They take Scottish independence seriously. There are no strings to English or American owners or multinational news media corporations. This one is ours.

Making it to the cover wasn’t a conscious ambition, but now that it has happened... well, I feel like it should have been one. “Chuffed.” That’s the word. I’m proper chuffed with myself. I’m begging to feel that bit more confident about #ScotRef now. We are - despite a few knots here and there - just about ready, media-wise, to take on the giant again.

I’m begging to feel that bit more confident about #ScotRef now.

We can’t leap at this either. But between now and the starting gun we can focus on improving the media we have started to build. There’s a bit of a way to go, but I am persuaded that that is now not as far from us as when we first started thinking about a second crack.

[oh-glasgow]

A worrying diagnosis for Boris Johnson earlier today;

[elicatkin]

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[ayeforscotland]

If any of you were desperate for any indication that voting Yes was the right thing to do, here you go.

[irnbraw]

Priorities  

On a crumbling wall, in a ruined office, a Failed First Minister clings the the words that remind her every day - just what is important, what are her main priorities...

Its not Schools, Health, the Economy, Policing, Welfare, Roads, or anything else like that - its Foreign Policy..!  And Especially, the proud struggling people of Catalonia.

A truly transcendent place!  Si?