Scotland flying the EU flag outside Holyrood after Friday, an proud to be Scottish.

[ssd]

Bloody good on us.

Wish Scotland would gain independence...so I can claim my Scottish citizenship (dad was Scottish).

I’m Scottish and don’t want the union to break up. I wouldn’t trust the SNP to organise a piss up in a brewery.

*"the cabinet secretary for culture, tourism and external affairs, Fiona Hyslop, insisted that continuing to fly the flag was “an opportunity for the Scottish parliament to stand firm in solidarity with the 230,000 EU citizens who live in Scotland”.
it would also give “a practical demonstration” of the sense of loss felt by many Scots at leaving the EU: “At times of uncertainty and disruption, symbols matter.”

I wouldn’t trust the SNP to organise a piss up in a brewery

yet we've been asked to trust Boris Johnson, Rees Mogg (has he been liquidised?) and their like to run the country and organise a Pimms Party for us all 😂😂

@ssd. I agree, it was undemocratic in some regards. Almost as undemocratic as a nation of 5.5 million being given the sole voice on the future of a nation of 65 million. No way that would happen though.

Well done Scotland 👌

"You can be well educated and professional and still thick as shit."

Ain't that the truth.

"Leave a light on for Scotland". Various events tonight if anyone is interested

thehub.scot/blog/2020/01/29/leave-a-light-on-brexit-events-in-scotland/?fbclid=IwAR3-KkEgs6LvmUeWAUNCPUYZN3cp9SdOziAx50vwSlZG2wwfpa9Xg1LyYdk

"Leave a light on for Scotland" Yuck.

This guy is keeping me company today...

Hey confused a real keyboard warrior you have there 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺!

Anyway, I won't keep you any longer. I don't want you missing flute band practice
Isn't that a sectarian comment?

I'm going to Holyrood this evening, and am glad the flag will still be flying.

100% agree with you on this as a fellow scot, as do practically all of my friends. I am devastated that once again we are not getting what we voted for. I am not a fervent nationalist but I would dearly love my vote to HAVE SOME ACTUAL BLOODY EFFECT

agree with pp ssd

Immigrant Scottish (from England) and glad that's it's still there.

Fuck you, Westminster.

Ahem

Just a reminder, personal attacks really aren't on.
Can we have a bit of peace and love?

It looks a bit sad-a bit kissing arse of a club that won't have them-even if they do get independence-because they can't afford the fees! NS sees herself as a type of Braveheart figure-silly sod.

I recall the image of Nicola Sturgeon running over to the EU, after The People's Vote- thrusting herself on them while one of the leaders patted her on the back and then went off for their dinner to which she wasn't invited! She flapped about looking like a complete twit.

I sincerely hope Scotland does get independence with all the financial implications of that.

More hate directed at Scotland from @paulinespeaksmanylanguages

What’s new?

Oh thank god for my fellow countrymen. It's 20 odd years since I left Scotland but the day after the referendum the local paper here in Germany phoned me up for an opinion and I was like, nothing to do with us mate, I'm Scottish, we voted to stay. It's made it easier, for me, for my neighbours, they say, well of course your country didn't vote for it. The town up the road from us is twinned with a town in England that voted leave. They talked about it in the paper, how some of the people in the twin town committee in England had voted Leave, and how they're not planning any more visits... just a wee bunch of nice, bourgeois retired German people who thought they had friends in England and it turned out they didn't. Of course it's not everyone, and there's anti EU sentiment here too. But just, everyone just wants to get along. It makes it easier when your home country/town/whatever didn't give you an absolute showing up by voting Leave.

Fuck all.

I need to stay off mn tonight. And keep away from the telly. Am actually really fucking angry.

I’m just going to watch nineteen eighty four with DS (he loves Orwell), have pizza and apple pie (DH is out so this is our routine when it’s just the 2 of us) and I have a bottle of port left over from Christmas for when he goes to bed (I know! ‘Left over port’ . In my defence it was put behind the sofa and forgotten until I was hoovering there the other day).

Im not Scottish, but I’m sure the EU would be very happy to facilitate an independent Scotland so long as specific conditions are met.

Why wouldn’t it?

Naturally there’d be lots of shit to sort out (most notably border and currency) but they're hardly insurmountable problems. The EU has accepted 16 countries since 1995, many of them with far more problems than Scotland presents. Scotland is already compliant with EU regs.

Plus there’d be an element of two fingers up to the English, which I’m sure would spur things on from both sides.