British nationalists love to pretend Scottish nationalist are ethnic nationalist, but they’ll then turn around wish for a Polish Jewish person’s home country to be invaded because he works for the SNP in Scotland.
Olaf has had a shitload of abuse for the past few days because British nationalism is inherently xenophobic.
Don’t want to post the guy’s face but massive respect for the guy - literally an hour after Margaret Thatcher’s statue was unveiled - who was pelting a full carton of eggs at it.
I’m all for a hard-border with England in the event of independence.
It’s highly likely the Home Office specifically chose today while MSPs were being sworn in to the Scottish Parliament so they couldn’t divert their attention to it.
Sign above immigration ban that reads:
“If this is Team UK, we reject it”
Protestor in front of police holding up a sign that reads:
“Migrants and refugees welcome here”
A police push against protestors has failed.
If Police Scotland really wanted to disperse the crowd, they’d let the two detained men in the van out and go home.
The fact that the UK Home Office chose to do this on 1) Eid, and 2) while MSPs were being sworn in across the country in Holyrood shows the level of calculated cruelty that they are capable of. Police Scotland are being used as apparatus of the state, but they can be and should be told to stand down, release the people from the van, and get away from the area.
However, the heartening thing is that people of Glasgow are coming together to defend their friends, their neighbours, their community… or people they don’t even know… because they know what is going on is immoral and not the values that they hold.
I’m all for a hard-border with England in the event of independence.
It’s highly likely the Home Office specifically chose today while MSPs were being sworn in to the Scottish Parliament so they couldn’t divert their attention to it.
Sign above immigration ban that reads:
“If this is Team UK, we reject it”
Protestor in front of police holding up a sign that reads:
I find it fascinating that back in 2014, the same people that voted No because they hated Alex Salmond, and said that the SNP are a cult-like party… are the same ones that are applauding that Alex Salmond has started up the Alba Party… which is pretty much a one-man show.
I don’t care for Alex Salmond. I didn’t vote Yes in 2014 for him, I voted Yes because I wanted Scotland to be in control of its own destiny.
I don’t care for the Alba Party. I find that so many of their candidates and supporters are the very worst kind of independence voters, bigots, and terfs. And they can all get tae fuck.
The wildest part is seeing the media give Salmond all these column inches, when his party is polling at < 3%; [source]
Why, you’d have to wonder why the English-based, pro-Brexit (mostly), billionaire-owned media outlets would be getting Salmond stories and anti-SNP hit pieces out every single day. Nicola Sturgeon is by-far the most popular politician in Scotland / UK [source] whereas Alex Salmond is, well, not;
Could it be that they don’t want the SNP to get a majority like they did in 2011? Which resulted in them getting a mandate for an independence referendum in 2014?
The goal for me will always be Scottish independence. And the party that I feel that can best deliver that is going to be the SNP. We can certainly say that they need to do better… but which government would do a better job than them based on the amount we’re “”allowed”” to spend by Westminster?
The argument is going to be when can we have another referendum to decide this. But the biggest obstacle is that the SNP/Greens don’t get a majority in the elections. Because you know that the media would go with the “no appetite for independence!” line which is what they’ve been saying for the best part of a decade.
Anyway, fuck Alex Salmond, fuck the Tories, fuck Labour, fuck the Lib Dems, and fuck British loyalist George Galloway.
Give both your votes to the SNP.
I swear to fucking christ that if anyone following this blog votes Alba ahead of the SNP tomorrow that I will come to their house and say that while I respect their participation in democracy I will also batter them.
Labour are fucking traitors. After weeks of ‘no deals with anyone’ rhetoric, they’ve just sided with the Tories to take over Edinburgh council instead of the SNP/Green coalition that was going to bring in rent controls and a tourist tax.
Honestly, if you support Labour you’re no better than a fucking Tory.
Imaginestillvoting Labour in order to stop the Tories and then being shocked that they’d go into a coalition with them.
Irvine Welsh’s to Scottish Tories using the Trainspotting poster to attack the SNP.
Some of the things they’ve included are so baffling. ‘Choose Humza’? Aye, I will.
Also someone needs to make one of these right back at them because the fucking literal crimes that the Scottish tories have committed against the nation and her people are a hell of a lot more damning than ‘choose the hate crime bill’.
Good on Irvine Welsh for nae letting them use his association for their own gain.
Never forget that Scotland voted specifically against this, and still got dragged into it anyway.
The last one gets me. They wanted the hardest Brexit possible and the EU having control over its own borders is framed as “red tape”. Always looking for someone to blame, what a sad and pathetic little island.
Everything started going rapidly downhill after this. I maintain that the “no” vote in 2014 is the event that got us stuck in the Bad Timeline and we will not recover until we correct this by having another referendum and choosing the correct result this time.
