Happy Birthday to
@AlexSalmond
. Without him the SNP would not be the force that it is today, and Scotland would not be standing on the cusp of independence. His place as a Great Scot in future history books is already secure. 🏴🏴🏴
It took the Scottish National Party 81 years of lifetimes of hard work to achieve a majority of Scotland's seats in the English Parliament. Under the impetus of Alex Salmond's leadership & IndyRef14 Scots gave the SNP 56 of 59 seats.
It took Nicola Sturgeon 9 years to wreck it.
Happy Birthday to
@AlexSalmond
, the Hammer of the Union, whose love for Scotland is manifest in all that he says and does - how appropriate that he was born on this most Scottish of days, Hogmanay. Have a great day, Alex. 🏴
Sturgeon to Colin Mackay on STV just now: "The burden is on Alex Salmond to prove what he's saying." No it fucking isn't - the inquiry he's giving evidence as a *witness* to is into the actions of YOU, Sturgeon. The burden is on YOU to prove you've not lied to ScotParl.
The Scottish Red Ensign being flown at sea. Prior to the Treaty of Union of 1707 this is the flag flown by the Scots Navy. Many Scottish merchant and leisure ships are unofficially flying the flag today. Time we were independent and flying it officially again.
#DissolveTheUnion
Jim Clark, one of Scotland's greatest sporting heroes & twice F1 World Champion, was killed at Hockenheim circuit in Germany 52 years ago today. At the time of his death he had won more Grand Prix races (25) & achieved more Grand Prix pole positions (33) than any other driver. 🏴
We're seeing a society being created whereby a scientist stating a scientific fact has to acknowledge it's getting increasingly difficult to do so in public, & anyone doing so is liable to receive hate mail. The power of militant lobby groups & compliant niche-agenda politicians.
In 2015 Scotland elected 56 professedly pro-independence SNP MPs out of Scotland's token quota of 59 MPs in England's Parliament. We needn't have bothered. What a dismal waste of space they turned out to be through years of unprecedented opportunity for independence.
#VoteAlba
🏴
Cancelling your own plans because you want to privately mourn is perfectly reasonable behaviour.
Cancelling everyone else's plans without their consent because you want to force them into an appearance of joining you in mourning is the action of an authoritarian regime.
What an absolute cunt Stephen Bradshaw reveals himself to be. There's no other word strong enough - and if that offends you more than what he was a key part of, tough.
See when Napoleon said 'never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake'? He didn't mean you kept sitting on your arse while the enemy made major mistake after major mistake for the best part of a decade without striking to exploit at least one of them for victory.
The National has taken an 'editorial decision' to ban Alex Salmond - the voice the 'Union' fears most - from any interviews with their 'newspaper'; alongside dropping Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh as their only ALBA columnist. ALBA has called for no boycott on The National. But we are.
Jim Clark, one of Scotland's greatest sporting heroes & twice F1 World Champion, was killed at Hockenheim circuit in Germany 51 years ago today. At the time of his death he had won more Grand Prix races (25) & achieved more Grand Prix pole positions (33) than any other driver🏴🏴
@AlexSalmond
: "I am damned if I'm going to see independence talked into oblivion with inaction & all the efforts of me & others just distilled into nothing. Not even put to the touch, not even people given the opportunity to claim their right. I will not have it."
#GetIndyDone
🏴
"I truly believe that had Alex Salmond not stood down on the 19th, September, 2014 we would by now be an independent state. It cannot be stressed enough the damage Sturgeon has done to the SNP and to the cause."
See
@AlexSalmond
's trending tonight. Here's our contribution: "I've supported Scottish independence for all of my life. I'm damned if I'm going to see it talked into oblivion with inaction. I'm damned if I'm going to see all the efforts of me & others just distilled into nothing"
In an era of political pygmies like Humza Yousaf preaching that exercise of OUR sovereignty is subject to English say-so, here's a portrait of a genuine Scottish patriot as a young man. Most cheering of all he's still THE threat to the Union for those serious about INDEPENDENCE🏴
Wark sitting looking disgusted as a voice over reads Woman 'H's evidence. Words Wark then calls 'devastating'. Hang on though - this is being broadcast as if it were credible evidence months after is was thrown out by a jury. Absolutely fucking outrageous - Wark doing a retrial.
When a woefully unprepared simian-featured
#VichyScot
like Douglas Ross decides to try his luck against a statesman like Alex Salmond who is renowned for being on top of facts and dates, it's always going to end badly for the Tory monkey.
With Murrell arrested surely the whole demonstrably corrupted SNP leadership ‘contest’ run under his aegis, which effectively selected Scotland’s current FM, must now be wide open to serious question.
A powerful & much needed statement from
@AlbaParty
MP
@KennyMacAskill
on the one-sided persecution of members of the pro-Indy new media in Scotland, while similar behaviour by the Unionist MSM is disregarded. The complicit silence of the SNP ScotGov leadership is also called out.
Sturgeon nailed her legacy to the mast over imposing self ID legislation on Scotland. She failed. As she failed on everything else of note, not least on delivering the independence which put her where she was. Even the baby box isn't her legacy - it was initiated under Salmond.
It would be no more than justice to now see Alex Salmond's excellent legal team sue the toxic
@heraldscotland
into well-deserved bankruptcy for its now infamous murderers and rapists gallery article which attempted to undermine a fair trial before it had even begun.
"If the infection rates in England are rising again and the current infection rates are already over six times higher than Scotland then the border, through whatever means, should be closed. Anything else is murder."
Pete Wishart today warned that Scotland could end up "in limbo like Catalonia" if we don't play by WM's S30 rules. How the hell can SNP claim people of Scotland are sovereign, & have a clown like Wishart equating us with completely different Catalan constitutional circumstances.
First Alex Salmond. Then Craig Murray. Now Mark Hirst. Something very fucking sinister is going on at the heart of the Scottish establishment. We'll not achieve independence until it's rooted out.
The UK Parliament has 650 seats.
82% of these represent England.
18% represent Scotland, Wales, & NI COMBINED.
It's an English Parliament in all but name & is a democracy only for England.
GET SCOTLAND OUT.
#DissolveTheUnion
Sturgeon's had FIVE YEARS to set up her publicly-owned not for profit energy company promised by 2021 at 2017 SNP Conference. She had SEVEN YEARS since GE15 to have the groundwork in place ready to go for a Made In Scotland exercise of OUR sovereignty. She's got nothing. NOTHING.
To clarify: We're not backing
@AlexSalmond
&
@AlbaParty
in creating a pro-Indy supermajority ScotParl in order to pressure England's Govt to 'grant' us anything. We're backing a pro-Indy ScotParl to exercise OUR sovereignty on our behalf without subjecting it to English approval
Ian Blackford at PMQ once again demonstrating the total ineffectiveness of 48 Scottish independence MPs sitting in an English Parliament of 533 braying English MPs. Get your arses back up to Edinburgh, &
#GetIndyDone
, FFS.
Not before time. There is a row of dominoes long overdue for a fall, leading directly to Nicola Sturgeon, Peter Murrell, and the then top echelons of the 'British' civil service operating in Scotland. Let's hope this is the start of accountability and justice being done.
Alex Salmond is launching fresh legal action against the Scottish Government over its botched investigation into allegations of sexual harassment against him
Sturgeon: "It is now incumbent upon others to accept the findings of the Hamilton report."
Sturgeon: "Alex Salmond's acquittal by a jury doesn't mean the things complained of didn't happen."
Do as I say, not as I do.
These tweets from accounts attacking
@joannaccherry
tonight, including by salaried New SNP apparatchiks & MP/MSPs. Take a look at their back catalogue & be struck by the paucity of mentions of Scotland's independence, let alone any expression of passion or urgent priority for it.
Note the missing Bute House Saltires. By sticking the Saltires ben the hoose & having no flags oot, Nicola's team deftly avoided having to put up a Butcher's Apron in Bute House & allow Johnson to give the impression we were Scotland *and* part of the UK. Well played ScotGov! 🏴
The way Sturgeon & her handler Lloyd are being platformed by MSM over the past few months it's like the Brits are trolling with "Look Scotland, these are our creatures & helped us preserve the 'Union', & we'll ensure they get immunity for any crimes they may have been party to."
The Treaty was between Scotland & England, there was no 'UK' signatory. Unless, of course, it was never a 'Union', but an expansionist English political annexation of Scotland predicated on military threat, economic warfare & bribery of an unrepresentative clique of
#VichyScots
.
Yes he was vindicated despite the most appalling perjury being organised against him by elements in the highest reaches of ScotGov, but our hashtag remains until those who attempted to perpetrate this egregious injustice are themselves held to account in a court of law.
@alexsalmond
INNOCENT of ALL charges. As our title hashtag has indicates, this page has stood by the former First Minister & Scottish patriot from the very start of this attempted stitch up. Now those responsible for cobbling it together need to be rooted out & held to account.
Eva's a highly intelligent, articulate, passionate, & no-nonsense voice for Scotland's independence, & a profile instrumental in the ALBA party gaining traction with serious Independentistas. If she's no longer in ALBA that ought to be a matter of DEEP concern for its leadership.
@yvonneridley
@AlbaParty
now that I am no longer a member I can say that it was never my job to keep you right; you erred referring to 'former man' and 'assigned at birth'; your biggest giveaway was using 'cis.' You're a fraud.
'Broadcasting titan'? She's the epitome of the kind of rabid
#VichyScot
in the English state media who'll go above and beyond the call of loyalism to an English political hegemony over Scotland.
What Kate Forbes actually says here is no more than a demonstrable biological fact. Yet Sturrell Scotland is a place where stating a biological fact gets you branded as "illiberal". Which is about as illiberal & far from the Scottish Enlightenment tradition as you could get.
A clearly nervous Cosy Feet Pete: "What would your advice be to a new government?"
Alex Salmond: "Don't rely on old chums....Your enemies sometimes sit alongside you as opposed to opposite you..."
Ooft!
Bute House Saltires taken down as per instructions from this grinning, cringing, oleaginous devolutionist slaphead's instructions from his imperial masters whenever they visit their colonial administration from London. Stomach-turning.
Meet the Hepburns - NuSNP's latest grifter couple in a party which is cornering the market on nepotism & cronyism within the circled wagons of the cabal which has spent 8 baleful years hijacking what was Scotland's party of independence.
Two of three candidates in NuSNP's appallingly corrupted leadership contest offer up craven praise for Murrell on his departure from overseeing that process. Only
@AshReganSNP
honestly states that Murrell should never have been in office over the past 8 years 👇
#voteAshRegan
"..Disgraceful attempt to destroy
@AlexSalmond
...Evidence of perjury by those holding high office...I have personally met with a witness told by the then political editor of the Daily Record that the story was in fact leaked to them by Liz Lloyd..."
Sturgeonite apparatchik
@MairiMcAllan
is clearly seething inwardly - as well she might as
@AlexSalmond
, who made SNP electable to government & as First Minister ran the most competent Scottish Government ScotParl has seen, tells a few home truths about what's gone wrong since.
See Sturgeon has found time to sign a petition for a retrospective pardon to women tried as witches in Scotland. She'll need more than a pardon when the truth comes out about the coven she presided over in the stitch up of Alex Salmond via targeted retrospective legislation.
A reporter asks the young man what he was protesting against by calling 'prince' Andrew a nonce, he answers "That powerful men shouldn't be allowed to commit sexual assault and get away with it." Release him without charge & find & charge the two thugs who assaulted him.
Together in Arbroath earlier tonight, two towering figures of the Scottish political landscape, both of whom merit the title of elder statesman & both of whom proved this evening that they have much to contribute to formulating taking the Independence Movement forward. 🏴
Given how many people in Scotland now know what you did, you might want to wind your neck in & keep a low profile - though even that won’t stop justice inevitably, & eventually catching up with you & the cabal you were right at the heart of.
A legend. It was a privilege to have met Madame Ecosse. To see her portraits in Bute House and Parliament every day was a constant reminder of where we come from as women in politics and as supporters of independence
The Sturrells were behind attacks on Alex Salmond & others, hijacked the mechanisms of SNP internal democracy, & ran down membership & finances. But their biggest crime was subverting independence over 8yrs of golden opportunity. THAT was a crime against Scotland & its people.
@Grouse_Beater
You probably don't feel like a brave man, Gareth. But you are. A brave & dignified Scottish man, & we salute you as one of those who have helped set this nation of Scots on its path to an inevitable independence which, given different leadership, you would have seen for yourself
Charles Windsor announced to be out of self-isolation already. After allegedly testing positive for covid19 a week ago following his travelling to Scotland AFTER displaying symptoms. He travelled against rules, Q-jumped the test, & now is out & about after 7 days not 14. WTAF?
We need to see justice served in similar manner in Scotland in respect of the demonstrable perjurer 'Woman H', who scandalously continues to hide, uncharged with any crime, behind & protected by an abuse of the anonymity which should only be accorded to real victims.
Nicola Sturgeon - vitriolically REJECTED the possibility of working with Alex Salmond & ALBA to create a supermajority ScotParl to expedite independence, but WILL endorse & work with Janey Godley. Says it all about her judgement & priorities, really.
Something to cheer you up as you look at Labour gains in Scotland.
Q: If Scotland had returned all 57 WM seats as NuSNP how much closer to independence would that make us than we are now?
A: Not one fucking iota closer.
Ipso facto: We've lost nothing of value.
The Queen's body to be taken from Balmoral to Holyrood Palace to lie in state for the Scottish people to 'pay respects' before heading south for the state funeral. Exactly why she was brought up here to die. The cynical propaganda of the Greater England Project's Establishment.
This son of a bitch has been a long-term fifth columnist, who has never made any secret of influencing the SNP in the direction of devolution rather than independence The rot in the SNP long preceded Sturgeon & Murrell - the likes of Swinney, Russell, & Robertson paved the way.
Just for the record, we're not "Celebrating and commemorating transwomen and their achievements on International Women's Day." We're celebrating & commemorating biological adult female women & their achievements & struggle for WOMEN'S sex-based rights.
#InternationalWomensDay
"A profound realisation is sinking in. Yes, this is about Ukraine. But it is about all of us. It is about territorial integrity. It's about SOVEREIGNTY. It's about people being allowed to determine their own future."
- BBC Correspondent Lyse Doucet. Heard with irony in Scotland.
If in Scotland there was such a thing as a 'newspaper that supports an independent Scotland' there would be a robust front page & editorial tomorrow, condemning the actions of Aberdeen University this evening. But there isn't & there won't be.
That no NuSNP MP - and they all KNEW - stood up as David Davis has, and used Parliamentary Privilege to break the suppression of justice taking its course in Scotland, makes clear that pro-Indy Scotland returned 9 too many of them to the English Parliament earlier this month.
If after all the Sturgeons' New SNP has done to Alex Salmond he can still stand up & say he's voting SNP in his constituency for the sake of Scotland's Cause, then there's no excuse for any other Independentista to say they can't bring themselves to do likewise.
#SNP1
#ALBA2
A classic BBCQT in Scotland BritNat audience troll supposedly commenting from the audience and trashing the entire Scottish education system - while reading from a script!
@AlexSalmond
didn't just pitch up at Glasgow Green today to give a rousing & incisive speech from the stage - he was out and about amongst the crowd LISTENING to what the SCOTTISH PEOPLE who ARE the INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT had to say. Thread of a few random pics we grabbed 👇🏴
@joannaccherry
If anything needed leaked it was that meeting. It's not the leak that's the problem, but the content of what was leaked. It confirms the corrupt malaise at the heart of Sturgeon's NuSNP, an interregnum which has rendered Indy moribund & OUR sovereignty subjected to English say-so
We’d like to apologise to all those we called dafties who didn’t know what they were talking about. We thought you were saying “Nicola’s got a secret plan” - when you were actually saying “Nicola’s got a secret VAN”.
Barry Humphries, 17 February 1934 - 22 April 2023.
He held gender affirmation surgery to be "self-mutilation" and transgender identity as a whole as a "fashion—how many different kinds of lavatory can you have?"
BREAKING
Spectator wins its legal challenge over Salmond trial court orders: Lady Dorrian to vary an order which now allows Salmond and Geoff Aberdein evidence to be published.
Jenny Gilruth on STV for the SNP just now: "We've made it very clear we will only seek to hold another IndyRef when it's safe to do so."
Left unsaid is that it is, however, perfectly safe to hold a GE to elect me & my pals back into our lucratively jobs for another half decade.
"I'm willing to listen if anyone has any other ideas why someone with a proven track record of bullying and harassment on social media can then be elevated to the office of Complains officer. I'll wait."
Memo to
@NicolaSturgeon
: The failed conspiracy to jail Alex Salmond by means of demonstrable perjury & ScotGov procedures ruled illegal by a judge isn't an online conspiracy theory but a matter of fact. We see what you tried to opportunistically do there. But it's not going away.
Here's an idea,
@NicolaSturgeon
. Why not remember what SNP was founded for. Collapse ScotParl & set a date for a GENUINE plebiscite election for 19 October 2023. Once Scotland is independent, you & Harvie can stand on a joint manifesto of re-legislating self-ID & see how you do.
"I'm an independence supporter. But I'm not an SNP supporter - I was for FORTY years, and I couldn't possibly vote for you now. You've had at least FIVE mandates to get Scotland independence and you haven't used it."
#VoteAlbaForIndependence
Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country:
@mickbrick54
: "I have resolved to stand as an Independent candidate for the constituency of Alloa and Grangemouth at the forthcoming General
Election." 🏴
Sturgeon & Murrell have effectively destroyed the SNP. The rot permeates every level outweighing any good, & its financial standing is ruined. The quickest & surest route to remedying that is simply to vote ALBA at every electoral opportunity henceforth.
#AlbaForIndependence
🏴
So, Judith McKinnon is allowed to give audio-only evidence to the Salmond Inquiry, unseen by those questioning her. Chair Linda Fabiani asks McKinnon if she's alone. She replies 'yes', but adds she may pause 'to take advice'. Who from - the invisible fucking man? What a farce.