so it's a no to Indyref2

[HeraldicBlazoning]

And I'm quite glad. My mental health was shot to pieces by the first one.

It's a relief

I have noticed this for years too.

TartanGirl1, Notplayingball it's odd but I find it exactly the opposite. Again, this is tearing Scotland apart

You all got the result you wanted today. Well done 👍

So just being snarky. I don’t see the point tbh, or how pro SNP don’t think they up the unpleasantness re the debate on mn.

@beachcitygirl being dyslexic doesn't give you a free pass to insult people. Calling people who disagree with you stupid or knucklescraping fascists is also pretty vile. I'd point out I simply corrected the spelling I didn't insult you personally.

Don’t forget that the ruling also means that England could never separate from the union either, it’s not just Scotland. Although it would probably never happen, we are all tied in. Sadly NS is not just dividing ppl in Scotland but across the country, it’s straight out of the brexit playbook.

@readsalotgirl63 yes - yes you did. Smugly correcting the spelling of someone you know to be dyslexic is a personal insult, and horribly ableist too.

You posted that you were dyslexic AFTER I'd corrected your spelling so I didn't know.

*@beachcitygirl

Anyone outraged at the GRA is ignorant of what feminism is.

how would you feel about a parliament made up of 50% men and 50% transwomen? Is that equality for women? Do you feel that the 51% of the population who have the body type that gestates and gives birth to the children of our species would have their needs adequately represented in such a situation?*

@beachcitygirl

Just in case you missed it, I'd like an answer to this from your "feminist" point of view please.

Much as I don't agree with Nicola, I can't dispute she's a good politician.
But there's a reason she's a control freak. Take her out of the equation and what is left of the SNP? I don't see any strength in depth.
Basically if they don't get this through while she is leader then I don't see it happening any time soon.
If SNP supporters voted labour or lib dem in general elections the UK wouldn't have a Tory government.
Scotland is playing a big role in keeping them in power

I can only assume that the posters who keep referring to Nicola's obsession are simply looking for someone to blame. The reality is that it is independence voters who vote for her and her policies so she has to carry out that mandate. It's independence supporters who drive this.

Great result and lovely to hear Ruth Davidson speak about it.

I blame the ghastly Tony Blair for devolution. The fact is that they have the most devolved powers in Scotland and the SNP and Nicola are bringing the country to its knees. It’s disgraceful. They are hate-mongers.

It is now a moot point as scotland is no longer a member of the EU thanks to English racists.

Don't forget the majority of the Welsh 'racists' who voted for Brexit too.

And the 38% of the Scottish - also clearly 'racists'.

At least it's good to know that the majority of Londoners - where the English and UK laws are made - are NOT 'racists'.

Whatever your opinion on Brexit, this is such pathetic childish point-scoring - and a clear simple inability to understand the simple logic that, just because most actual racists likely voted for Brexit, that in no way whatsoever makes all Brexit voters racist. You might as well say that, because virtually all racists eat bread, that makes all bread-eaters racist.

If people wanting to leave a bigger political and law-making union - for whatever reason - makes them automatically racist then that must mean that all Scottish indy supporters are racist too, no? Critical thinking skills, people, please.

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll clearly a lot of racists voted for Brexit. We know this.

But you're right. A couple of my Scottish relatives voted for Brexit and they're not racists. And you've hit the nail on the head - part of the reason SNP has a split (a consequence of which is the Alba party) is because many SNP voters don't want the EU ruling them anymore than they want Westminster. It's a point of contention.

Whereareyourshoes · Today 11:47
The SNP’s nasty, divisive game playing continues.
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How many years have they been in power in Scotland? What have they achieved? Toxic debates, drug deaths, housing crisis, falling educational standards, ferry scandal.
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More of this? No thank you.

Please show at least basic respect for the democratically-elected SNP Government in Scotland. The SNP have won 8 back-to-back elections, unknown to other parties in the U.K. To demonise Nicola Sturgeon, and display high levels of vitriol towards the Scottish Government, is insulting to Scots.

What has the SNP achieved? Try this:

What have the SNP done for us?
1.Free Tuition. While students in England face tuition fees up to £27,750, Scottish students receive university tuition for free, and always will under the SNP.

2.Record high health funding. We’ve invested over £16 billion in our health and care portfolio, with resource funding up by over 60% under the SNP.

1. Care For All. We extended free personal and nursing care to everyone who needs it, regardless of age – and we’re now taking steps towards a transformative National Care Service.

1. The Baby Box. We’re giving every baby born in Scotland the best start in life by providing the Baby Box for free, filled with essential items needed in the first six months of a child’s life. Other countries, like Ireland, have since followed Scotland’s footsteps.

5.1,140 hours of free, high-quality childcare. All eligible children now benefit from at least 1,140 hours of funded early learning and childcare, saving families around £4,500 per child per year – and we’re working to expand it even further.

1. New social security system with 11 new benefits. After the limited devolution of welfare powers, we have built Social Security Scotland – the new social security system based on dignity and respect, treating social security as an investment in Scotland’s people.

1. The Scottish Child Payment. One of the new benefits, the only one of its kind in the UK, has been called “game-changing” by charities and will help lift tens of thousands of children out of poverty. In 2022, we are doubling it to £20 a week per child – four times what campaigners originally called for.

1. Free prescriptions. We have abolished NHS prescription charges in Scotland, which are now £9.35 per item south of the border.

1. Free period products. Scotland was the first in the world to make sanitary products available to all those who need them, free of charge.

1. NHS staffing at a record high. Since the SNP took office, there is 25,000 more doctors, nurses and other staff working in Scotland’s NHS, an increase of over 20%.

10. Free bus travel. Over one million Scots already enjoy free bus travel across the country, including over-60s and disabled people – and we’ve now expanded it further to all young people under 22.

11. Lowest student loan debt in the UK. On top of free tuition, students are entitled to up to a minimum income guarantee of £7,750, benefit from low interest rates for student loan repayments, leaving their studies with the lowest average student loan debt in the UK. Learners with care experience are entitled to a non-repayable bursary of £8,100.

12. Free school meals for all children in P1-P3. We’re ensuring that no child goes hungry and helping family finances – saving families around £400 per child per year. And we’re going further – expanding to P4 and P5.

13. Highest per-person number of GPs in the UK.

14. 1,000 schools built or upgraded. In every part of the country, we’re ensuring that pupils and staff learn and work in well-designed, accessible and inclusive environments.

15. Best performing core A&E services in the UK. In 2020/21, 90.2% patients in Scottish core A&Es waited 4 hours and under – compared to 74.3% in Wales and 71.3% in England.

16. Free NHS dental care for under-26s. Scotland is the only part of the UK without dental fees for young people – and we’re scrapping fees for everyone by the end of this Parliament.

17. Record high investment in education and skills. In the 2021/22 Budget alone, we’re investing £2.7 billion, including £125 million to help close the attainment gap.

18. The Queensferry Crossing. We’ve delivered the £1.35 billion marvel on the Forth, under budget.

19. Bridge tolls scrapped. Under the SNP, the Forth and Tay crossings are free from tolls – saving individual commuters around £3,000 to date.

20. First government in the world to declare a climate emergency. Scotland has since been followed by 23 national governments and hundreds of councils in the UK.

21.Planting over 22 million trees a year. Scotland is punching well above its weight when it comes to creating new woodland. Around 80% of all of the UK’s trees are planted in Scotland – and we’re increasing our targets further still.

22. Scottish National Investment Bank. Established under the SNP, it’s the first mission-oriented investment bank in the UK, and invests in cutting-edge innovation for the common good. The Bank’s aims and objectives are aligned with Scotland’s Economic Strategy.

23. Delivered over 100,000 affordable homes. Since 2007, we’ve delivered homes in every corner of Scotland – with around 70% for social rent.

24. Small Business Bonus. Businesses which have a rateable value of £35,000 or less get relief on property tax. This means many small businesses in Scotland pay no rates on their premises.

25. Modern apprenticeships. We have expanded modern apprenticeships, delivering hundreds of thousands of spots – helping young people work towards a recognised qualification while learning on the job and getting paid.

26. Educational Maintenance Allowances (EMAs). We’ve expanded EMAs to support more young people to stay on in learning, and made support available to part-time college students for the first time.

27. Just Transition Fund. We’ve allocated the first £20 million of the fund to support a Just Transition from fossil fuels in the North East and Moray, with impacted workers playing a key role in deciding how the funds are spent.

28. World-leading climate targets. Scotland has some of the strictest and most ambitious emissions reduction targets in the world, aiming to reach net zero by 2045 and receiving praise from the UN.

29. Removed parking charges at all NHS hospitals.

30. The Borders Railway. We’ve connected Tweedbank, Galashiels and Midlothian to Edinburgh and beyond – the longest new domestic railway that was built anywhere in Britain in over 100 years.

31. Invested over £9 billion in Scotland’s rail infrastructure.

32. Over 96% of Scotland’s gross electricity consumption comes from renewables. Scotland is a renewable energy powerhouse, and the new major investment in offshore wind through the ScotWind scheme will contribute billions in supply chain investment.

33. No fracking or other onshore unconventional oil and gas activity can take place in Scotland.

34. Expanded access to IVF. We’ve increased the number of available IVF cycles on the NHS from two to three, and expanded access to more couples – making IVF provision in Scotland the fairest and most generous in the UK.

35. More police officers under the SNP – and we’re protecting the police resource budget in real terms in every year of this Parliament.

36. Increased bursary for nursing and midwifery students. We’ve increased the bursary to £10,000 per year, making it the highest value nursing bursary anywhere in the UK.

37. Number of student paramedics, nurses and midwives is increasing – by 5.8% in 2021/22, for the ninth successive year in a row.

38. School Clothing Grant. We’ve introduced and increased the national minimum grant of £120 per primary pupil, and £150 per secondary pupil, to help more families afford school uniform costs.

39. Eradicating fuel poverty. Over the last 8 years, we have spent £1 billion on supporting people in fuel poverty and making their homes more energy efficient – and we have published the Fuel Poverty Strategy to eradicate fuel poverty by 2040.

40. Young Person’s Guarantee. During 2021/22 alone, the Young Person’s Guarantee is providing up to 20,000 training opportunities for young people in Scotland – in sectors affected by Covid, Brexit and future skills transitions.

41.Investing in cutting-edge research. Scotland has a flourishing life sciences sector and to support vital innovation, we have published the Life Sciences Strategy to increase the industry’s contribution to the Scottish economy to £8bn by 2025.

42. Widening access to higher education. We’re working hard to ensure that every young person, no matter their background, can enter and succeed at university. We have met our target of 16% of entrants coming from the 20% most deprived areas of Scotland, ahead of time in 2021.

43. Free eye tests. All eye examinations are free in Scotland – compared to £21.31 in England and Wales.

44. World-leading minimum alcohol unit pricing. Scotland was the first country in the world to implement minimum unit pricing, earning praise from experts and helping to reduce alcohol-related deaths.

45. School buildings in the best condition since records began. Across Scotland, the SNP has built or upgraded 1,000 schools – and buildings are in a better condition than ever, with 89.9% reported as good or satisfactory. That’s up 29% since April 2007.

46. Record high enrolment in Scottish universities. Scotland has some of the world’s best universities, and a record 260,490 students enrolled in 2019/2020 – benefitting from free tuition and generous student support.

47. Record support for college students. We’re providing our further education students with record levels of support – £141 million in 2021/22, up 54% in real terms since 2006/07.

48. New, progressive income tax system. Introduced under the SNP, it ensures that the majority (54%) of Scottish taxpayers pay less than elsewhere in the UK in 2021-22 – supporting stronger public services while safeguarding those on lower incomes.

49. Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route. We’ve built the new Aberdeen bypass, helping to bring in an additional £6 billion to the North East economy and create around 14,000 jobs over the next 30 years.

50. Promoting the real Living Wage. In 2015, we became the first government in the UK to become an accredited real Living Wage employer, and to support more employers to pay the real Living Wage, we have launched the accreditation scheme in 2021.

51. Driving forward Fair Work. We published an action plan to make fair work the norm in workplaces across Scotland, and expanded the Fair Work First criteria for public contracts to support flexible working and oppose ‘fire and rehire’ tactics.

52. Reduced youth unemployment – four years ahead of target. We met our target to reduce youth unemployment in Scotland by 40% by 2021, four years early, in 2017.

53. £1 billion for warmer, more efficient homes. Since 2009, we have allocated over £1 billion through our energy efficiency programmes to make homes more energy efficient and cheaper to heat.

54. Over 16,400 new council homes. We’re building new council homes at a significantly higher rate than in England, and delivered more council homes than the previous Labour government in Scotland.

55. Ended ‘Right to Buy’. We’ve ended Right to Buy to prevent the sale of 15,000 council homes over a 10-year period, and protect the existing stock of social rented homes in Scotland.

56. Tackling child poverty enshrined in law. We’ve set ambitious targets to eradicate child poverty into law, published our first delivery plan to put them into action, and backed it up with a £50 million fund. In 2015, the UK Tory government scrapped its child poverty targets.

57. Carer’s Allowance Supplement. Our investment in Carer’s Allowance and the Carer’s Allowance Supplement was around £358 million in 2020/21. Together with our additional Coronavirus Carer’s Allowance Supplement, eligible carers received an extra £690.30 last year compared to carers south of the border.

58. First benefit for young carers in the UK. Our Young Carer Grant, started in October 2019, supports eligible young carers with a payment of £308.15 – delivering for over 3,680 young carers in Scotland.

59. Levels of crime are down. Recorded crime, including violent crime, remains at one of the lowest levels in nearly 50 years, according to the 2020/21 statistics.

60. World-leading violence reduction programmes. Scotland has adopted a public health approach to tackling violence, as advocated by the WHO – and invested more than £23m since 2008 in violence reduction programmes. The Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) is internationally recognised and has inspired cities like London.

61.Cashback for Communities programme. Since 2008, over £110 million from the proceeds of crime has been committed to community projects for young people across Scotland – funding over 2.5 million activities and opportunities to expand young people’s horizons and support them into positive destinations.

62. The world-leading Domestic Abuse Act. We’ve introduced the world leading legislation that makes psychological domestic abuse and controlling behaviour a crime.

63. Massive investment in active travel. In the 2021-22 Budget alone, we’ve committed a record £115.5 million to support and expand active travel in Scotland – helping to improve infrastructure such as bike lanes, ‘active freeways’ and paths, and transforming the way we move around.

64. Dualling the A9. The first two sections of our £3bn project to dual the A9 from Perth to Inverness have been completed and fully opened to traffic – and procurement for the third section is underway.

65. Investing in regeneration of our towns and neighbourhoods. We have committed £325 million over the next five years to accelerate community-led regeneration and improve Scotland’s town centres. Since 2014, our fund has supported over 200 locally developed projects.

66. Best Start Grant. Since launching it in December 2018, we have authorised over 200,000 applications and put £70.5 million in the pockets of low income families to help with expenses during a child’s early years.

67. Mitigating the Tory bedroom tax. We have invested over £60 million to fully mitigate the callous ‘bedroom tax’, protecting over 70,000 Scottish households from the charge.

68. Record funding to support anti-sectarian education. Since 2012, we have invested a record £15 million to tackle sectarianism in schools, prisons, workplaces and communities.

69. Free period products enshrined into law. Scotland was the first country in the world to provide free period products for all who need them, and the first country to enshrine the right to free period products into law.

70. Cheaper air fares for residents of areas of Highlands & Islands. We’re funding the Air Discount Scheme, giving a 50% discount on core air fares for residents of Caithness and parts of Sutherland, Colonsay, Islay, Jura, Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles on eligible routes.

71. Expanded voting franchise. 16 and 17 year olds, as well as all foreign nationals with leave to remain, including all those granted refugee status, now have the right to vote in Scottish Parliament and local government elections.

72. Improving access to politics. We’ve launched the £200,000 Access to Politics Fund to help disabled people across Scotland stand for the 2017 local government elections and the 2021 Holyrood elections.

73. Driving forward Land Reform. The radical and ambitious Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2016 has transformed how we own, manage and access land in Scotland.

74. Helping communities purchase land. The Scottish Land Fund has helped over 230 communities across Scotland to purchase land – and we’re doubling the fund to £20 million by the end of this Parliament.

75. Over 50% fall in emissions since 1990. Scotland has decarbonised faster than any G20 nation since 2008, and continues to outperform the UK in delivering long-term emissions reductions.

76. Commitment to a Just Transition enshrined in law. Scotland is world renowned for having underpinned our net zero targets with a legislative commitment to a Just Transition – ensuring no workers and communities are left behind.

77. World-leading Climate Justice Fund. The Scottish Government has been praised around the world for our actions on climate justice, providing £24 million to support projects in Malawi, Zambia and Rwanda, and £2 million for loss and damage.

78. Community Empowerment Act. Local communities have been given a voice in the planning and delivery of local services, backed up by an annual £18 million of funding through our Empowering Communities Programme.

79. Scotland’s first ever National Islands Plan. We have introduced and are implementing our plan to improve the quality of life for Scotland’s island communities, including better access, infrastructure and tackling depopulation.

80. £30 million for better infrastructure on island communities.

81.National Marine Plan. We have launched Scotland’s first National Marine Plan, which aims to achieve the sustainable development of our seas.

82. Strengthening rural tourism. We have committed a total of £9 million to the Rural Tourism Infrastructure Fund to support jobs and make the tourism sector in our rural communities more resilient.

83. Supporting crofters and farmers. We’ve consistently supported over 65,000 people directly employed in Scotland’s farming, crofting and growing industries – and introduced a £337 million loan scheme to help agriculture recover from the impacts of Brexit and Covid.

84. Free entry to national museums and galleries. We’re continuing to maintain free entry to our national museums and galleries – which, before the pandemic, welcomed over five million visitors every year.

85. Making Scotland the perfect stage for major global events. We’ve consolidated Scotland’s position as a very attractive place to host major events, such as the Commonwealth Games, the Ryder Cup, the Solheim Cup, UEFA European Championships, and COP26.

86. Expanded provision of PE. We’ve expanded provision of two hours of PE a week in primary and secondary schools across Scotland – from 10% in 2005, to around 99% now.

87. Improved sporting facilities across Scotland. We have invested over £192 million since 2007 to help sports clubs, community groups, local authorities, sport’s governing bodies and other organisations to deliver new and upgraded facilities across the country.

88. Abolished fees for music education. We have removed fees for children learning a musical instrument at schools in all of Scotland.

89. Enhancing businesses’ digital capacity. We launched a £25 million fund to help businesses enhance their digital capacity and adapt to the digital world.

90. Outperforming the UK on productivity. Since 2007, productivity in Scotland has grown 10.3%, compared to growth of 2.9% in the UK.

91. First gender-balanced Cabinet in the UK. We introduced the first gender-balanced Cabinet in the UK, one of only a handful of gender parity cabinets around the world.

92. Scottish Water in public hands. Customers pay less for a better service in Scotland – saving £46 on average compared to the privatised services south of the border.

93. Best Start Foods. We’re helping families towards the costs of pregnancy or looking after a child, by introducing a prepaid card that can be used in shops or online to buy healthy foods like milk or fruit.

94. Supporting Scotland’s broadcast industry. We have launched the £3 million-a-year Broadcast Content Fund, helping the sustainable growth of Scotland’s broadcast production sector and encouraging the development of new projects.

95. The new V&A Museum in Dundee. We invested £38 million in the construction of the world-class V&A Museum of Design in Dundee, which opened in 2018 – and we’ve continued our support of V&A Dundee with funding of additional £2m a year.

96. Tackling violence against women and girls. We established the Equally Safe Strategy, backed up by the Delivering Equally Safe Fund, to achieve greater gender equality, maximise the safety and wellbeing of women and girls and tackle violence at its roots.

97. Decarbonising Scotland’s railway by 2035. We have published an ambitious plan to make Scotland’s railways net zero by 2035, through a rolling programme of rail electrification and investing in low-carbon, efficient rolling stock.

98. Over 25,000 hectares of Scotland’s peatlands restored. We have already funded the restoration of over 25,000 hectares of degraded peatland – and we committed £250 million over the next ten years to restore 250,000 hectares by 2030.

99. Pilot projects offering free bicycles. We’ve announced the first six pilot projects to offer free bicycles for school-age children who cannot afford one.

100. Regulating short-term lets. We have introduced legislation allowing councils to establish short-term let control areas and manage numbers of short-term lets. We’re now empowering local authorities to establish short-term lets licences – ensuring the properties are safe and the people providing them are suitable.

I personally benefit from several of these, and this is typical for most Scots.

No political party is perfect. The SNP is substantially better than the alternative which is why it keeps winning.

Ok say SNP win the next GE.
Given they have never won of 50% of the vote, where does NS de facto Indy vote go from there.

As we are all aware current rUK say no. Labour win next election have they committed to veto? Yes/No.

Its all smoke and mirrors. What a waste off public money this court case was, but as NS was a lawyer who was inches away from debarred, she spent our money on an unwindable case she couldn’t see for Indy blindness or stupidity. I think the later.

So if she intends to run on Indy alone, as was her stance after the defeated court case, what about SNP manifesto for including, health education care and public services don’t they matter. It’s all about independence for her, the rest can go to hell in a hand basket!!!

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Have we learned NOTHING from the Brexit shambles? We cannot have such enormous constitutional change without a massive swell of support from the population (75%+ in favour). Bickering over another referendum because support for Indy might now be 51% instead of 45% is shameful given the other issues those in power should be focused on addressing. £millions set aside for Indyref2. Disgusting disrespect for democracy.

Yes - to echo @Honeysuckle16 I lived abroad for years and since returning to Scotland have felt the personal benefit of many of these points. They have enhanced my life and made me happier in outlook.

That doesn't mean I don't see flaws or things that need to improve. I'm still aware of them and believe in holding governments to account at the ballot box.

janeseymour78, of course the Scottish Government must be held to account. I’m glad you’ve benefitted from some of what’s been done already.

Venetiaparties
So you have considered what will happen once you stop paying your small contribution to defence? You will no longer have an army.
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Do you suppose that pulling together a world class army and defence system is going to happen overnight on a shoe string budget?
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Scotland would be left in defence terms extremely exposed for decades. If not longer. It has taken the UK centuries to build up what we have now. Intelligence services, defence, nuclear capability and most of all membership to Nato and other alliances like five eyes.
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It really worries me you have clearly not considered your own security.

Venetiaparties, the SNP Government before the 2014 referendum, published a substantial book called Scotland’s Future. In it, every element of independence was considered and answered.

It worries me that you express an opinion on this issue without checking the most basic details.

Defence in Scotland after independence was considered and answered, even stating exactly how many of each type of naval vessel would be needed. This, along with much else, would be up for negotiation including of course the removal of the Faslane nuclear submarine site.

Scots civil servants and MPs have been part of the defence system we have now, so we wouldn’t be starting from scratch. In the interim period, the U.K. would continue to defend Scotland, as is in the uk’s interests.

Scotland currently pays its contribution to defence - not a “small” contribution but a proportionate one.
Scotland’s Future is being updated with a number of papers already published under the excellent Angus Robertson.This work will continue.

So no need to worry - Nicola and the Yes movement have got this.

beachcitygirl · Yesterday 12:40
For the prime minister & leader of the union who just two weeks earlier stated in scotland in the run up to the independence vote
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"Lead us, don't leave us"
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And begged Scotland to stay in the voluntary family of nations.
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To go on to the podium the next morning when the vote was extremely raw for almost half the scottish voters and immediately crow with pleasure and diktat that scottish MP's will have no way in English laws
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Was by anyone's standards a dick move and showed his behaviours in the preceding weeks as lies.
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Without even starting on the fact that he and the "better together" campaign stated that voting NO was the only way to stay in the EU and almost in the next breath ordered the brexit ref and his party cosied with farage.

Exactly. 👍❤️👍

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Steve8686 · Yesterday 13:11
I'm English and I think Scottish independence is inevitable, not because we are very different people..
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The divergence in realities on the ground has made our political views different.
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We voted for Brexit primarily because of open door immigration that has caused real issues and grievances in communities up and down England.
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Scotland has never had that.. You don't have equivalents to places like Crewe, Peterborough, Boston.. which are basically Eastern European ghettos.
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Scotland gets more money per head to spend on "free sht" which the average voting pleb attributes to the SNP*

Steve8686, You seem to be saying that Scotland and England are different. The independence and the wider Yes movement wholeheartedly agrees with you.

Scotland’s population is ageing and we need a higher birth rate and incoming individuals and families to balance this. We want to attract population growth while England says it is “full up”.

Cant agree about your last point though. Scotland was allocated a certain allowance through the Barnett Formula. It is higher to reflect the additional cost of providing services over sometimes large, remote areas including to the Orkneys, Shetlands and western isles.

The ‘free sh*t’ you refer to (and I find your language offensive) is provided through good governance. Scots very much appreciate it and are grateful to the SNP. That’s why they get voted in!

The SNP/Greens are a disgrace, they have ruined education in Scotland, can’t deliver ferries on time, and on budget, can’t sort out the housing problems, drug deaths and are saying “ fuck off “ to women.
Sturgeon, Harvie, Slater, Adam, Chapman , Fitzpatrick & their ilk are a stain on Scotland, as are Cole Hamilton & his shower. They are untrustworthy, devious, nasty, liars & misogynistic bullies who pander to sex pests & weirdos ( and their parties are full of them)

Donald Dewar & Margo McDonald will be spinning in their graves at what Scotland & Holyrood has become.