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Scotland Was Free: The Forgotten Months of Jacobite Sovereignty 🧵👇1/

SPEAKING TRUTH UNTO THE PEOPLE

News from civil servants preparing Liz Kendall's pensions review. Kendall wants to look at "phasing in" the pension starting with 25% of a pension at age 68 and getting 100% of the pension at age 72. This will be represented as not affecting the triple lock. It's already the…

Worst pension globally I'd say...

🧵 Why the 1714 Coronation of George I Led Scotland to Rise Against the Union in 1715 1/

They’re not unionists, unionist is a sanitised name for a Colonialists, sane as expat is a sanitised name for a migrant. ⬇️a reminder of what they are & how the bigotry was imposed on Ireland.

Scotland’s contribution to the UK economy—estimated at £150– 200 billion annually from oil, gas, renewable energy, and whisky exports is significantly undervalued in official fiscal reporting mechanisms such as the Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland (GERS) figures.

‘‘They exploit Scotland like they did to India, it’s the same they have done to every other colony.’’

“Oh, I never knew that!” Even though it’s very obvious, when the three century old theft of Scotland’s wealth is formally designated an international crime (C24), brit jocks will suddenly and permanently profess ignorance about colluding with that robbery. #DecoloniseScotland…

No words needed.

Maybe the whole point of these displays was never about art & culture. Perhaps it was about displaying the right of an empire to take whatever it wished, whatever interested it, whatever it valued from whomever it wanted whenever it wanted. A display of power & entitlement.

HS2. Originally costed at £20 billion. Completed by 2025. Now estimated to cost £77 billion maybe finished by 2033. This to cut 1/2 an hour of a journey of 60 miles. £128 million a mile. An example of our London Masters at their incompetent best. And they go on about ferries.

Another Scot which inspired the creation of the United Nations: President Woodrow Wilson: As the founder of the League of Nations, the forerunner of the United Nations, Woodrow Wilson would have supported Scotland’s decolonisation from the very start. A staunch believer in…

Brilliantly put article on the internationally unlawful detention of sovereign Scotland in the Fake Union. #DecoloniseScotland #ScottishConstitutionNow

English airport trying to stop the economic development of Wales. Devolution is clearly not enough if an English airport can seriously challenge the way that a Welsh government spends its money in Wales. Only through full independence can Wales thrive. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

The Colonial Manufacture of the Overmasculinised & Animalised Warrior: How Scots Were Used as a Template to Subjugate Indians, West Africans, & Other Colonised Peoples by the English Coloniser Colonial power conquers land but also reorganises the meanings of humanity. Among the…

Since that article was published, another £42 million has been wasted (adding to your bills) 👇 Meanwhile, today the government announced they wouldn't do zonal pricing - a concrete plan to cut waste in the energy system. Track the cost of wasted wind: octopus.energy

SCOTTISH LAND Thousands of acres of new native woodland are to be created on a vast Highlands estate to 'boost nature and support the community'. The Assynt Foundation has partnered with Woodland Trust Scotland to deliver nature regeneration across its Glencanisp and Drumrunie…

TIME FOR (OLD SCHOOL) HUMOUR

Britain pays wind farms to turn off when it’s windy and overpays gas plants to switch on instead. It'll cost bill payers up to £8b/yr by 2030. Zonal energy pricing would slash this. We’ve started tracking this (avoidable) waste live on our site: octopus.energy