Reposted by DougChapman SCODougChapman SCO @dougchapman.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Rejected Tom Greatrex lost his seat to Margaret Ferrier in 2015. The message then was no to nuclear. It’s the same today especially as we’re capable of producing more renewable energy than we can use. The issue is how do we collect revenue and / or make energy cheaper from Scotland’s vast bounty. 063
DougChapman SCO @dougchapman.bsky.social · 08/11/2025Over 50% of land in Scotland is in the hands of just 421 landowners. Delighted that here in Perth at the Revive conference an audience of much more than 421 committed to taking land reform to the next level by giving more control back to the people of Scotland & their communities 010
Reposted by DougChapman SCOKeep Scotland the Brand @keepscotlandbrand.eurosky.social · 12/03/2025Rora Dairy is an excellent example of how to make the most of a great brand story. The yoghurt range is very high quality, with organic options too, using local ingredients where possible, all clearly highlighted with clear provenance. Simple, honest, delicious, nutritious. #keepScotlandtheBrand 032
Reposted by DougChapman SCOThriveScotland @thrivescot.bsky.social · 31/03/2025If we stopped giving our resources away for free, we could close every foodbank in Scotland tomorrow #EliminatePoverty #Independence 02113
DougChapman SCO @dougchapman.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Rejected Tom Greatrex lost his seat to Margaret Ferrier in 2015. The message then was no to nuclear. It’s the same today especially as we’re capable of producing more renewable energy than we can use. The issue is how do we collect revenue and / or make energy cheaper from Scotland’s vast bounty. 063
Reposted by DougChapman SCOThe National @scotnational.bsky.social · 19/01/2025NEW: A deal to allow Iceland to join the EU swiftly could pave the way for a relatively quick agreement for an independent Scotland, an expert has said 🗣️ 'If a country more than 10 times smaller than Scotland by population sees political benefits from being in the club, why wouldn’t Scotland?' 5229103
DougChapman SCO @dougchapman.bsky.social · 08/01/2025@thrivescot.bsky.social may be interested to know that the oil tanker Maran Antares is now unloading Scotland’s oil in China (Ningbo) having travelled almost half way around the globe. Surely an economic case to have it refined at Grangemouth just 15 miles up the Forth? #ScotlandsOil #Independence 041
Reposted by DougChapman SCOScaryHighlander @unixnerd.bsky.social · 07/01/2025The Union is on borrowed time: Yes camp must prepare for #ScottishIndependence www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...heraldscotland.comThe Union is on borrowed time: Yes camp must prepare for indyStarmer was a last roll of the dice for many voters. Once Starmer was deemed to fail – and fail so quickly – hope left the room. 16425
Reposted by DougChapman SCOThriveScotland @thrivescot.bsky.social · 01/01/2025Happy New Year to all our friends and followers 2325
Reposted by DougChapman SCOIndependent Voices @indyvoices.bsky.social · 13/12/2024England: voted for Brexit. Got Brexit. Wales: voted for Brexit. Got Brexit. N Ireland: voted against Brexit: Got a special treaty. Scotland: voted against Brexit. Got what England voted for. #YouYesYet 14234147
Reposted by DougChapman SCOEuropean Investment Bank @eib.org · 22/12/2024Imagine a world where electric boats glide silently across our waters, heralding a new era of innovation in Europe. 🌊 This is how our Blue Champions initiative can support blue economy projects and a sustainable future for our oceans 👇 bit.ly/BlueEconomyInnovation 1153
DougChapman SCO @dougchapman.bsky.social · 21/12/2024The “Envoy” has been appointed to the House of Lords. The Labour thinking is she can do more damage to Scotland from there. #It’sTime 12816
Reposted by DougChapman SCOThriveScotland @thrivescot.bsky.social · 20/12/2024We don’t need no greedy monarchy, we don’t need no London control, dark colonialism blocking our prosperity, hey Unionists, leave our kids alone. @andrewsharpe.bsky.social 0104
Reposted by DougChapman SCOThe National @scotnational.bsky.social · 17/12/2024BREAKING: The Labour Government will not pay Waspi women any compensation. Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall said the proposed payments weren't 'fair or value for taxpayer money' 193836
Reposted by DougChapman SCOThriveScotland @thrivescot.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Zonal pricing for electricity is unlikely to happen as it would hugely advantage Scottish families and businesses. Currently we pay high energy prices to keep England’s lights on. @indyposterboy.scot 46852
Reposted by DougChapman SCOAndy Wightman @andywightman.scot · 16/12/2024If you want to catch up with an 11 min talk about where we are with land reform in Scotland, you can watch my presentation to the revive.scot conference on 11 November (starts 4:01:07 www.youtube.com/live/b4v0co7...youtube.comYouTubeShare your videos with friends, family, and the world 03916
Reposted by DougChapman SCOThriveScotland @thrivescot.bsky.social · 16/12/2024It’s time for Scotland to thrive. Other great examples of successful, prosperous, happy, independent European nations are available! @indyposterboy.scot ⬇️ 05218
Reposted by DougChapman SCOColin Dunn 🏴 @indyposterboy.scot · 15/12/2024So much of the opposition to Scottish independence seems to come from those who really feel that Scotland is incapable of doing what dozens of other countries do successfully. Why the inferiority complex? Something to do with being told that Scots are second-class Brits for 300 years? 1414878
Reposted by DougChapman SCOLorna MacGillivray @elemjay.bsky.social · 14/12/2024Are you in the #IndyClan? Then I need your profiles to continue to grow the #ScottishIndependence community. I currently have four Starter Packs of hand-vetted Indy folks. Comment or DM me if you're not included yet. go.bsky.app/5MQiivy go.bsky.app/MFr3aEK go.bsky.app/VePvynu go.bsky.app/MdPX54N 89228118
Reposted by DougChapman SCOIndependence Forum Scotland (IFS) @indyforumscot.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Hello from Independence Forum Scotland to Bluesky! We've been on X for a while, but we thought we'd also set up with the growing pro-independence community here. You can read all about us at independenceforum.scot, but we'll follow up this post with a brief introduction anyway.independenceforum.scotHome - Independence Forum ScotlandThe Independence Forum wishes to unite the independence movement by providing an opportunity to inform, motivate and encourage cooperation. 78249
DougChapman SCO @dougchapman.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Great piece by @dickwinchester.bsky.social in today’s @scotnational.bsky.social Read & learn… 111
DougChapman SCO @dougchapman.bsky.social · 11/12/2024What every school student in Scotland should know and why they should be asking their 2014 NO voting parents, granny and grandad why they think this Union works in Scotland’s interests ⬇️ 2138
Reposted by DougChapman SCOBylines Scotland @bylines.scot · 11/12/2024Eleventh day of our Advent Articles Calendar. And today is about why Scottish pay for more energy when Scotland is an energy-rich nation! 34925
Reposted by DougChapman SCODr Duncan Robertson @duncanrobertson.bsky.social · 08/12/2024"Heart attack patients advised to get themselves to A&E... Six of England’s ten ambulance trusts at risk of service failure" 35134
Reposted by DougChapman SCOThriveScotland @thrivescot.bsky.social · 08/12/2024More and more Scots seeing the light. Stay in the UK and you will become poorer. Support energy and resource rich Scotland and you have a great chance of becoming more prosperous. #ItsTime 511856
Reposted by DougChapman SCOWilliam Duguid @williamduguid1.bsky.social · 07/12/2024'The problem that this Budget cannot address, and which no budget could ever address in the current Scottish political settlement, is the fact that the Scottish Government has been set up to fail by Westminster.' @richardjmurphy.bsky.social, via @scotnational.bsky.social. www.thenational.scot...thenational.scotThe biggest issue with the Budget? It's that Scotland isn't independent yetSHONA Robison has delivered her Scottish Budget for the coming year. Whether it will now pass is not known. That is for smaller parties within the… 12923
Reposted by DougChapman SCOTalking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Barn-storming performance from SNP's Ivan McKee on Politics Live today, countering lies with those facts I often post and which we all want to see from Scot Gov ministers, taking no snash, having his say - Brilliant! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...bbc.co.ukBBC Two - Politics Live, 05/12/2024Keir Starmer sets out what he calls his ‘plan for change’. Can his government deliver? 1013073
Reposted by DougChapman SCOScotch Whisky Truths 🏴 @specialscot.bsky.social · 04/12/2024The UK Pension Is LOWER than the UK Minimum Wage. Just how is that a thing? It's 2024. When will Scotland be Independent? 0126
DougChapman SCO @dougchapman.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Is it not time Scotland rejoined as an independent nation? Meanwhile the Brits (ironically in the pro-Brexit Express) want their cake and eat it. “Leave” means you’ve left! @ec.europa.eu 062
Reposted by DougChapman SCOPerth & Kinross Yes Hub @yeshubpk.bsky.social · 03/12/2024One of the joys of moving across to Bluesky has been the re-appearance of a few 'classic' articles, from years gone by, setting out the case for Scottish independence. Here's one that's getting a fair bit of exposure right now - well worth a read. pontifex.substack.com/p/scott-and-...pontifex.substack.comScott and Chapman's censored article on Scottish IndependenceThe full article, republished 711164
DougChapman SCO @dougchapman.bsky.social · 02/12/2024A memory from Saturday. This time put to music which makes it even more thought provoking and poignant. Jim Reid singing “The Wild Geese”. youtube.com/watch?v=WT3G...youtube.com 122
Reposted by DougChapman SCOpictland @pictland.bsky.social · 01/12/2024“ᴄᴜɪᴍʜɴɪᴄʜɪʙʜ ᴀɪʀ ɴᴀ ᴅᴀᴏɪɴᴇ ʙʜᴏ'ɴ ᴅ'ᴛʜᴀɪɴɪɢ ꜱɪʙʜ” - Remember the people whom you come from. This is an ancient Scottish Gaelic proverb, reminding us never to forget our Scottish heritage and never to abandon it greedily for the Union like the Scots elite did in 1707. #ScottishIndependence #Gaelic 07228
DougChapman SCO @dougchapman.bsky.social · 30/11/2024A fitting tribute to our best ever First Minister Alex Salmond today. Fabulous music from Dougie McLean, Alasdair Fraser (fiddle), Natalie Haas (cello) The Proclaimers, Sheena Wellington and Hamish Moore (pipes). Truly emotional but positively stirring a nation to independence. 132
DougChapman SCO @dougchapman.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Today is St.Andrews Day. Celebrate Scotland and may her people prosper. #ItsTime 030
Reposted by DougChapman SCODick Winchester.. @dickwinchester.bsky.social · 29/11/2024We've been saying this for a long time and still there's no hydrogen technology manufacturing of note in Scotland.. No electrolysers, no compressors and no storage tanks. www.energyvoice.com/renewables-e...energyvoice.comHydrogen one of Scotland's 'greatest industrial opportunities' since oil and gas, minister saysThe emerging European hydrogen sector is one of Scotland's "greatest industrial opportunities since oil and gas", according to the Scottish energy 710756
Reposted by DougChapman SCOScotch Whisky Truths 🏴 @specialscot.bsky.social · 27/11/2024This is Ben Cruachan, the 'Hollow Mountain' on the way to Oban. In Scotland, we've been keeping the lights on in Croydon, for several decades. Oil, Coal, Wind and since the 1950s, this, Hydro. Independent Scotland had oodles of Water and will be very RICH! 1014772
Reposted by DougChapman SCONew Scots for Independence @newscots4indy.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Would now be a good time for the First Ministers of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, to meet, and discuss forcing the end of the #Disunitedkingdom ? 1211026
DougChapman SCO @dougchapman.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Scotland wants the same powers as the likes of Norway and/or Denmark. @plaidcymru.bsky.social both Scotland and Wales need to cut out the middleman. #Independence 042
Reposted by DougChapman SCOThriveScotland @thrivescot.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Imagine if our renewables in the North Sea provided cheap,reliable energy to Scottish business. How many new businesses could be started here? How many jobs would that create? By being more prosperous, how many food banks could we close? It’s time to re-imagine the Scottish economy! #Independence. 11231123
Reposted by DougChapman SCOKenny @kennyaberdeen.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Borrowed from Willie White on X : It's currently 7c in London. It's currently -2c in Pitlochry. A person in Pitlochry pays more to use electricity that's generated in their town than someone in London, which generates little/nothing. This is just one of many examples of Scotland's exploitation. 35030
Reposted by DougChapman SCOColin Dunn 🏴 @indyposterboy.scot · 20/11/2024Yup. It's a puzzle why Scotland puts up with this. I don't think anyone else would. 300 years of being told we're second-best will have that effect, perhaps. 02019
Reposted by DougChapman SCOScotland's Coefficient @www.scottishfootball.info · 20/11/2024🚨 BREAKING: Scotland will DEFINITELY be drawn in a 4 team WCQ group - with restricted potential opponents. ✅ Scotland will have to be drawn in a 4 team group & the opponents we can draw from Pot 2 are heavily restricted ❌ We cannot draw, amongst others, Sweden, Wales and Norway. Options ⤵️ 167714
Reposted by DougChapman SCOCarnegie UK @carnegieuk.bsky.social · 20/11/2024⚫️ Develop legislation including a duty on public bodies to play their part in delivering the wellbeing missions. ⚫️ Embrace the benefits of a whole-of-government approach. ⚫️ Include “Peace” as a mission with clear delivery plans. 001
Reposted by DougChapman SCOCarnegie UK @carnegieuk.bsky.social · 20/11/2024NEW REPORT 🧵| Our research with Ipsos Scotland shows that living standards in Northern Ireland did not improve between 2023 & 2024. #LifeInTheUK found people on lower incomes, disabled people & people aged 16-34 experience the lowest levels of wellbeing. carnegieuktrust.org.uk/publications...carnegieuktrust.org.ukLife in the UK 2024 Northern Ireland - Carnegie UK TrustThe Life in the UK index is designed to measure the collective wellbeing of the people of the UK, looking at social,... 154
Reposted by DougChapman SCOAndrew Sharpe 🏴|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 16/11/2024If you want Scotland to regain its independence and want to find some extra followers who share your views.... Re-post and reply to this post, then follow each other. You might also find the "Independence/Scotland" Feed interesting. 204674484
Reposted by DougChapman SCOSarah Davidson @sarahdavidson.bsky.social · 20/11/2024En route to Belfast this morning for the launch of @carnegieuk.bsky.social #LifeInTheUK Index findings. The data highlights the scale of the policy challenge facing the Executive, but we’re encouraged by the overall approach in the draft PfG and its underpinning wellbeing framework. 054
Reposted by DougChapman SCOThe National @scotnational.bsky.social · 19/11/2024NEW: Chancellor Rachel Reeves's cut to the Winter Fuel Payment will push as many as 100,000 pensioners into relative poverty, the UK Government's own analysis has found 54837
Reposted by DougChapman SCOThriveScotland @thrivescot.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Scotland’s Oil - this load will be refined in China (not Grangemouth). They will add value & sell on. Pic 1 is the tanker Maran Antares arriving (empty) in the Forth early in the week. Pic 2 is the same ship leaving today with a full load. No direct economic or tax revenue to Scotland. Wise Up! 14936