Yep! Basically he's saying that England should decide for Scotland. They tried that in the last century, with Nigeria, Kenya, Irland, Malaysia, etc. Force doesn't work.

🇬🇧 Some brits simply can’t get over their sense of supremacism, and right to occupy & rule

Hopefully you’ll find this informative

You do not gotta hand it to the IRA but you do have to concede they were doing actual murderous terrorism, so it seems somewhat unusual that we are treating anti-genocide activists and members of the public protesting like they are literally terrorists seeking to destroy the state.

Since David Frost has NEVER been right about anything at any point when it comes to Brexit, this feels like a strong endorsement for our participation in Erasmus.

For all of Farage’s bombast and bravado, Reform is basically just a retirement home for disgraced Tories - and the media should be reporting it as such

The White House has been caught. The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims. In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.

This video is completely correct. £3bn a year has been taken from the NHS to give to US billionaires because Donald Trump demanded it, in return we get nothing. And MPs don't even get a vote on it.

The 6 richest men in the world are all Trump allies. They control your algorithms and data on X, TikTok, Twitch, Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads, and YouTube. Just in case you’re wondering why more isn’t done to stop right-wing bots and misinformation on social media.

Happy EPSTEIN Files Release Day Eve for all those who celebrate!!! 👍

Refuk's Jenkyns now backs private healthcare, calling it “choice”. In reality, it’s the first step towards an Americanised system of invoices and inequality - the Farage dream, laid bare. #ukpolitics

This. This was the formative event of my generation & our entire politics in 🇺🇸. The structural break after which we were no longer a full democracy, when 5 Wizards In Robes decided they were a super-legislature & counting all the actual votes didn’t matter. The rest has been 25 years of commentary.

I remember being astonished when a million people turned up to protest in London - 10 million worldwide - and thinking they cannot possibly ignore this. And when they did was the moment most of us realised that our govts no longer account to their citizens, but to other interests elsewhere.

Many of us warned - repeatedly - before it occurred that the Iraq war would be a huge and fatal shift. We were ignored or shouted down. But I don't think any of us realised just how many monsters would come through the breach. 3/3 www.monbiot.com/category/war...

And George isn’t wrong here, but it took the ludicrous appointment and later defenestration of the bent clown Johnson to truly drive home what was always true: Britain does not have to be *competently* managed, to be a managed democracy.

Anyway, the upshot of this is much the same as last time: there’s nothing left to steal and the public are getting restless, so it’s time to go full authoritarian and impose our glorious, perfect will upon everyone. Which will definitely work, for we are the best and smartest.

Maria Shriver, niece of JFK: He was a man interested in the arts, culture, education, language, history... It is beyond comprehension that the president has sought to rename this great memorial. C’mon my fellow Americans! Wake up! This is not dignified. This is not funny... It’s downright weird.

You have two types of Political Party in the UK. "Lets tax the rich and make things better for everyone." Or "Lets blame Immigrants, Disabled People and Pensioners so we can get in a party who will make the billionaires even richer and things worse for everyone else."

BBC Scotland again bigging up Reform UK's council by-election win in West Lothian. It's the second time BBC Scotland has publicised it. No mention of the winning candidate's questionable past or the scandals besetting the party. BBC Scotland NEVER gives this much publicity to SNP or the Greens.

MPs laughed when Jake Richards dismissed Jeremy Corbyn’s request for a meeting on the Palestine Action hunger strikers. Laughed. This is who we’re governed by, people entrusted to represent a nation, yet so insulated by power they respond to human suffering with indifference and mockery.

Starmer said: "The United Kingdom and United States have a very special relationship...". "Had", Sir Keir. Not "have". When will you get it into your head that, under #Trump, the USA is no friend of Britain? He regards us with the same contempt as other democracies. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Is this Starmer's version of Trump's private police force.

There is much to applaud in Labour's new inquiry into foreign interference in British politics But it needs to go much further if it's to tackle how foreign influence really works - and properly protect British democracy New by me on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/labours-fo...

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Nigel Farage posted on X on 21st June 2024. “Delighted to have the support of Winston Churchill’s great nephew, the Duke of Marlborough”. 🇬🇧 The ‘Duke of Marlborough’ has just been charged with three counts of intentional strangulation. Farage loves scum and scum loves him.

MPs warn that UK agreements with Donald Trump are ‘built on sand’. UK bullied to pay billions more for NHS drugs produced by US companies, importing US beef, accept steel tariffs and more, without any reciprocity. Can't trust Trump. US wants dominance, not partnership. Rejoin the EU.

This is what 'Proud to be Zionists' Rachel Reeves & Keir Starmer keep sending arms & intelligence to Israel to perpetrate ... "Israeli prison rapists claim they raped ‘in self-defence’" www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...

Not getting less suspicious that a huge part of the problem here is a big increase in the purity of cocaine sold in London over the 2010s

The argument that Zionism as a political project should be above critique because it is the basis for the state of Israel is deeply problematic. Did this logic apply to the USSR? Does it apply to those parties who would like to see an end to the UK? Not to mention the erasure of Palestinians...

This is good, but we shouldn't take 'eating them' off the table

The UK isn't just a mess, it's broken beyond all possible hope of repair, & all that whoever is in Downing St. can hope for is to slow the rate of decline until the next election. It's a great lumbering beast, dying before our eyes, yet too stupid to recognise what's happening to it.

Mustafa Barghouti last year: "Any country that is under occupation has the right to resist occupation with all forms of struggle, including military struggle"

Also making the point in today's Guardian piece that the sight of global companies working overtly with the US government to coerce a UK government desperate for positive headlines about investment is a hugely worrying precedent which we need to be discussing.

"UK political culture seems to be fixated on maintenance of the ‘special relationship’ just as much as it is on treating relations with the nearby European Union with scepticism" - as I wrote in April. That is very deeply wired into the UK state. ecipe.org/blog/trumps-...

❗️"We must not stand aside and watch as the world is being reshaped," — German Chancellor Merz. We are not puppets of great powers. "Russia is already attacking us every day — with drone flights, assassinations, sabotage, espionage, cyberattacks, and targeted disinformation."

I blame the rise of antisemitism and all terror attacks on the jewish community on war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu.

Zionists have gone into overdrive, insisting everyone who has ever said “globalise the intifada” is somehow to blame. There is a push to ban people from making such statements so expect a wave of censorship, with advocacy for Palestine being labelled as “support for terrorism”.

Police in London have arrested people for using the term 'intifada'. For the British state, the issue isn't the words we use to show our support for the struggle of the Palestinian people against occupation, its us supporting the Palestinian people at all.

50p Dougie get his whole interview platformed on BBC Shortbread so they can platform 🇬🇧 🐂 💩 propaganda whereas as the🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 FM gets virtually zero positive coverage!!! Wake up Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 they are gaslighting a nation! 🤬

Unemployment statistics NOT reported by BBC/ITV or SkyNews Wales - 6.1% England - 5.2% Scotland - 3.8% This is achieved despite many economic levers being reserved to Westminster & denied to Holyrood Now do you understand why they don't want to see us as a success story within this despotic union?

Right?

This enquiry is welcome but far too late and its scope too narrow I was calling for this after the EU referendum back in 2016 Why is the government afraid to seek evidence of Putin's involvement then? The nexus of UKIP/Brexit/Reform and Putin is not a coincidence share.google/NsScp2W5OYHD...

thinking of the introverted woman who said she's never felt FOMO. she's only felt ROMO (Relief Of Missing Out)

Callum Parr from the BMA explains that the NHS needs more doctors & it needs NHS doctors to stay & thats why the issues of jobs & pay need sorting out Its a real mystery why a health secretary who's taken large amounts of cash from the private healthcare sector isn't sorting it out, right?

SNP Justice Secretary survives vote of no confidence. Our thoughts are with all those with the Scottish Press and Broadcasters at this difficult time. Despite a coordinated effort by their luminaries to break the SNP aided and abetted by the UK Unionist Establishment, they all collectively failed.

Worth watching to see what all the smart Sensible people who spent all those years calling us childish idiots for saying it’s just imperial plunder and rule by force have to say about the US president saying openly it is imperial plunder and rule by force. If only for a laugh, of course.

Yup 😳😳😳😳

The consequence of the inaction was that Farage continued to provide rhetorical support for Putin

Case in point. Farage is not just racist. He also reeks of corruption and betrayal. An active threat to our democracy and country. (Times)