Yes Hamilton

05/10/2024

28/09/2024

Results from today’s voter board.

25/09/2024

Question for Labour - how many pensioners will die this winter because they can’t heat their homes?

21/09/2024

A wee selection from 17 September 2014

19/09/2024

The National headline today: ‘All devolved Scottish benefits 'to be raised to mitigate austerity'

THE Scottish Government will make it a legal requirement for all devolved benefits to be annually raised in line with inflation, the Social Justice Secretary has announced.

Speaking at Holyrood on Thursday morning, Shirley-Anne Somerville said that rising benefits would help to mitigate Westminster austerity, adding: “This is the price Of the union.“

She went on: “Since 2022-23, we have allocated around £3 billion per year to policies which help tackle poverty and mitigate the impacts of the cost of living crisis on households. We will continue to do all we can to break generational cycles of poverty and give all children a decent start in life.
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£3 billion every year just to protect Scots from incompetent and cruel Westminster governments. Tory and Labour Scottish branch offices attack the Scottish Government for not spending enough on key service - even as those services are the best performing in the UK.

10/09/2024

Constant harping on about 'Great Britain' annoys me intensely.

Geographically, Britain is the British mainland and does not include any of the islands - that is the British Isles.

The French named it Grande Bretagne (Big Britain) to differentiate it from Brittany (Bretagne).

For clarity, Britain is bigger than Brittany but the French never considered it to be great.

So don’t be confused. Britain is NOT great, it’s just bigger than a wee bit of France. 😎

01/08/2024

This is not my country.

Fears asylum seeker accommodation may come under threat from ‘mindless thuggery’ of troublemakers

25/07/2024

Labour want to equalise the UK. They also want a ‘Council of Leaders‘ which they define as the 10 English Metro mayors plus the First Minsters. They put leaders of the three devolved parliaments on a par with the mayors of West Yorkshire and Tees Valley. Watch your back Holyrood, the baddies are coming And the knives are out.

Anas Sarwar has proposed introducing English-style “metro mayors” for Scotland as he aims to move power out of Holyrood.

23/07/2024

Cribbed from a reader‘s letter in The National:
…….. What most people in Scotland can now see – and I believe, have increasingly been made aware of for some time – is the very point that Tommy is now making, but which the SNP and Alba have been ignoring. The so-called strategy being followed by both these “independence-supporting” parties will never be successful even if we persuade 90% of Scots to vote for it, because any strategy which relies on negotiations with Westminster is bound to fail for the simple reason that England can’t afford to lose the Scottish economy.

In any event, we can’t get independence from negotiations with the UK because our independence is not in their hands, it is in our hands, it is in the hands of the sovereign Scottish people. So if we are serious about moving towards independence then we need to look to the Scottish people and give them respect.

The International Covenant on Civic and Public Rights which the UK Government signed in 1978 confirms that every country has the right to political and economic independence. In addition, our own Scottish constitutional law places sovereignty in the hand of the Scottish people. So we have a domestic legal right and an international legal right to independence.

If we had a policy which was used to bring these ideas across to the Scottish people we would not only have a legal way forward but we would encourage and motivate the people to take it.

Why do we not use the power we have in the Scottish Parliament, while we still have it, to move positively in that direction? Is this not a good place to start in developing a brand new strategy, by respecting Scottish sovereignty and with it the Scottish people?
Andy Anderson�Ardrossan

17/07/2024

https://www.believeinscotland.org/delivering_independence_via_a_new_style_citizens_convention?utm_campaign=citizens_convention_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=believeinscotland

Delivering independence via a new style Citizens’ Convention The National Campaign Steering Group of Believe in Scotland has proposed a new path to independence for Scotland, one that circumnavigates the unfair and completely undemocratic roadblocks set up by Westminster. A Citizens' Convention me...

14/07/2024

⚡️ Octopus CEO, Greg Jackson outlined the need for OFGEM's energy regulations to change and the benefits it would bring to Scotland.

🥀 Scotland has vast energy wealth and resources, yet decades of failed Westminster policies mean families are struggling to pay bills.

14/07/2024

https://www.thenational.scot/news/24205465.scotland-contributed-14bn-uk-coffers-last-decade/

SCOTLAND’S contribution to Treasury coffers has given England “over 14 billion reasons” to be grateful for its place in the Union, according…

28/06/2024

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=488120580331736&rdid=vedMUO7wKGaWxGJR

17/06/2024

This is good and should be shared on your personal page to get to non-Indy people.

05/06/2024

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8Kj_BE0uVS0

{First Paragraph}ABOUT RICHARD MURPHYRichard Murphy is Professor of Accounting Practice at Sheffield University Management School. He is director of Tax Rese...

03/06/2024

Labour is the party of change.

They've changed into Tories

19/05/2024

A great protest song, great guitar playing. At 3:32 you will hear ‘parting on the left is now the parting on the right’😀

Pete Townshend & John Williams - Won't Get Fooled Again @ The Secret Policeman's Ball, London, UK, 30 June 1979

16/05/2024

The arrogance of this man knows no bounds. He has given the go ahead to plan a new nuclear power station in Scotland - kept secret from the Scottish Government who oppose nuclear energy.

06/04/2024

The Scottish Government has published a series of papers setting out what independence would mean for us. Scan the QR code to go to their website.