#Scotland

Interesting chart & I think relevant for the Scottish independence debate. Many on SNP side cite Irish example of being able to diversify away from trade with UK as path
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This piece by Andrew Wilson is littered with falsehoods. That they continue to be repeated - while legitimate criticism is ignored - is starting to have a seriously corrosive effect
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Sky, Virgin, and the BBC share about 2.5 billion pounds of Scots money p.a.Its not added to Scots GDP.They are preventing Scotlands media output being at least like that of
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The SNP are not a pro-EU party.They were fully prepared to take us out of the EU with a yes vote in 2014. The SNP are not a pro-EU party.
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5th of Feb 1705 (thread)The Alien Act declared that Scottish nationals in England were to be treated as aliens and any estates held by Scots would be treated as alien
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Scotland gaining independence would be stupid and dangerous economically speaking and nationalist, so Scotland has to stay in a Union that Brexited, a move that was stupid and dangerous economically
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Going to be provocative here and say “losing Scotland” with 8.2% of Britain’s population and less than 7% of U.K. GDP would have less of an impact on Britain’s weight
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Our briefing ahead of tomorrow's Stage 1 debate on the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Bill focuses on two areas: the exclusion of sex from the hate crime protected
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About half of all Scots don’t want Indyref2 or an independent Scotland. I am one of them. No one has been representing us effectively. We deserve a voice. Now I
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It's good that debate has moved on from whether Scotland is currently doing better on COVID (hard to deny) to why.And it's true that this is a complex issue -
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Tired of hearing how poor Scotland is? Sick of lectures from online bores from English regions that are economic basket cases? Had enough of Britnat glee at our debt &
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You're still missing the point. The biggest decision of Brexit was to ignore Scotland and Northern Ireland.That was a political choice, but who made it? Can you remember? The law
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The state of our fan base for judging Gerrard’s decision to manage Rangers. I trust Gerrard judgement over all of yours. History tells us that. Best of luck to him.
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We Keep asking supporters of an Indy Scotland what currency they’d use and is yet to get an economically sensible reply so let’s look at the options. The SNP would
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A comment on my blog sums it up: Last night I was in ASDA, it was very quite so I had a very quick chat to a young nurse after
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SNP thread1. Scotland's independence rested on the UK staying in the single market - that is why we saw repeated Brexit related litigation in the Scottish courts. 2. If an
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