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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 19h

Ireland is set to increase its state pension by €10 a week, taking annual payments to the equivalent of £13,654.98 🇮🇪 The SNP say the move is a 'wake-up call' and shows what's possible when independent countries have full control over their own finances and welfare system 👇

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Ireland’s pension boost shows what independent Scotland could do, say SNP

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If Britain can rethink Brexit, why can't Scotland rethink independence? ✍️ First Minister of Scotland John Swinney says the logic is the same and should apply to Scotland deciding its constitutional future 👇

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John M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @drjohnm61.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Heating oil has gone up over 100% A lot of Scotland isn’t even on the gas network. It took over a year to get a three phase supply installed. Green energy is only a thing is you can get the electricity support needed.

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John M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @drjohnm61.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

There is no point in engaging with zopster. Clearly a unionist troll. Any company is closed by the company owner, yet apparently those that are rescued are excluded in zopsters thinking process. Selectively picks and chooses what is legitimate and what is not.

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John M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @drjohnm61.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We will see. Basically, if you believe that the union is safe, you wouldn’t be gripping so much. Why waste your time trying to protect the union if you are soooo convinced that it will last forever? Clearly you agree that the union is over otherwise you wouldn’t bother. Enjoy while you still can

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The BBC axing its coverage of the World Pipe Band Championships sends a 'clear message' that Scottish culture is unworthy of investment, Iona Fyfe writes✍️ 👉 www.thenational.scot/commen...

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John M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @drjohnm61.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is the cohort that needs convincing to shift the polling. Direct the campaign to where it’s needed. Ps, it’s an ambition. No need to justify how, just that developing a successful Scotland will be directed to having better pensions.

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John M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @drjohnm61.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The older cohort polls in favour of the Union. Set a stated ambition (repeated, repeated, repeated) the ambition for an independent Scotland will be to bring the 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿state pension up to European average of £13,580 with a stretch ambition of being in the top quartile (£20,000-£22,700) Continued…

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John M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @drjohnm61.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

To be fair, its what colonialists like to do. Undermine the entity they are controlling. And yes, I am concerned with the terminology, because it’s designed to be exactly what it is. The only entity that doesn’t have a “grant” is England 🤷 Enjoy the union while you can. It’s not going to last.

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John M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @drjohnm61.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Its noticeable that you can’t refute simple mathematics without demanding (very colonist attitude) that I have to prove the numbers. 1+1=2. It’s a mathematic calculation. I don’t need to provide a paper published in some scientific journal to state the answer. Prove the numbers are wrong.

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John M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @drjohnm61.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If you not concerned by the terminology, why do you call it a grant? Why did you say the English expenditure was just public money? Unconscious bias or just plain vanilla bias?

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John M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @drjohnm61.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You response is completely divide of anything other than your own heightened opinion. Why don’t you disprove the maths 1. Bond yield 20-year gilts 5.8% - Google it 2. Population - Google it 3. Allocation of National debt on a population % - Google it Or are you too dim to use a calculator?

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John M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @drjohnm61.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

And it’s not public money in Scotland? It’s apparently a “grant” What is the value of the grant that England gets? E Is it never referred to by the BBC?

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John M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @drjohnm61.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You says it dubious. Where is your evidence that the math is incorrect?

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John M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @drjohnm61.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

RUK picks up their % debt interest 800 x 0.058 x .92 = £42.7m But, turn that into a population proportioned debt £46.4m Scottish debt payment = £8.44 £42.7m RUK debt payment = £0.63 Per person Is that good enough for you?

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John M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @drjohnm61.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Word salad. If £10bn is spent in RUK, Scotland picks up a population % of the national debt interest 10,000 x .058 x .08 = £46.4 annual debt interest Scotland then gets allocated an additional population % spend (to compensate) £800m a this example Continued…

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John M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @drjohnm61.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

What would you like to call the money that it’s spent in England?

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John M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @drjohnm61.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Let’s do the math. £30bn of debt. 10 year Gilts at 5.8% =0.058bn (£58m). RUK picks up 92% = £53m. Population 62m. Cost per head £25.81 per person (in E&W) HS2 £100bn x 5.8% x 8% = £464m Scottish population 5.5m Cost per head for HS2 in Scotland £84.36 £25.81 v £84.36 And your point?

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John M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @drjohnm61.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Grant. Why is it stated as a grant? Like it’s being gifted? You other question answered and yes - massively short changed

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John M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @drjohnm61.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

So you can’t answer how much Scotland is charged for HS2 every year?

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John M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @drjohnm61.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

What is the size of the English “grant”? Why is the return of Scottish taxes considered a “gift”? Where is the English version of GERS where all of the inherent “subsidy” is outlined? Who creates all of the national debt?

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John M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @drjohnm61.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The UK spending pot. Who contributes to that? Tell me, how much is Scotland charged each year for HS2?

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John M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @drjohnm61.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Her words are nudge policy. It is designed to set a threshold where those not considered “pure” enough can be deported for offences or restricted on benefits. This will become a ” thing “, like the changes to settled status.

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John M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @drjohnm61.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The British (then a super power) - three Afghan wars. 1919 left for good 1989 Russia left Afghanistan for good 2021 the USA left Afghanistan for good Sending troops to Iran? 2.5x the size of Afghanistan. That will go well.

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John M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @drjohnm61.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

^^^^ this You cannot sanction a country into submission that you have already been sanctioning for years and years.

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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Every household in the country could be forced to pay a compulsory fee to fund the BBC, even if they do not own a television or watch its programs Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has been urged by MPs to consider replacing the existing £180 licence fee with a universal household tax.👇

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John M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @drjohnm61.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The ultimate 🤬 Being forced to pay for the propaganda. The Ludovico technique will be implemented next.

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Rose❤️🇨🇦Part owner of Canada.🇨🇦❤️ @scotfreeme.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

While Andy Burnham's government may think he can ignore the wishes of those who plan to gain independance since it was offer, only to have him walk it back. But too late now. The people of Ireland & Scotland for certain, will be pursuing it. Respective unity & freedom. Because... it's long overdue.

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Verminous Scot @etkwebster.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This "union" only ever makes Scotland poorer, our vast resources sold for the benefit of WM, Scots kept ignorant about the wealth of their country being exploited. Scots democratic choices ignored time & time again It's time we regained our independence & made our own decisions #ScottishIndependence

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John M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @drjohnm61.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

About 12% of the UKs diesel consumption was being produced by Grangemouth

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John M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @drjohnm61.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

One of the big things it does is to split the MSM attack lines. Not just one country to attack. Using the same attack lines looks dope and will come over as incredulous.

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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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John M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @drjohnm61.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A super majority would allow the nationalist supporting parties to change the voting system to (say) FPTP and call a new early election. This is what the FPTP results were for the last election. It becomes increasingly difficult to argue that Westminster has a mandate but Scotland doesn’t:

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John M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @drjohnm61.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The decisions about who is English will mirror those made at the 1942 Wannsee Conference (the Final Solution). The "nationality selection" aspect referring to the Nuremberg Laws - the [Nazi] legal definitions of citizenship. Braverman offers herself up to provide cover.

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John M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @drjohnm61.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sue-Ellen [Suella] Braverman on Question Time starting that she is not English and that (for example) your grand parents would have had to have lived in “England” for her to be considered English. This is a future policy being made on air. The ability to deport those not ethically clean enough. 1/2

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John M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @drjohnm61.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is what would have happened for each band % move of SNP lost votes to the SGP (based on actual results): Just an 8% swing would have knocked Labour and Reform out of the joint second place. 55% would have give a super majority (an official thing).

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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Burnham has destroyed two of the main arguments of the Westminster parties. He's pensioned off the claim that Scottish state pensions can only be protected in the UK and by opening the door to an EU referendum he's blown up the argument against indyref2. weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/10/02/b...

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Burnham pensions off two Better Together arguments

One of the ways in which the Better Together campaign won the referendum in 2014 was to successfully scaremonger Scotland’s pensioners into believing that their state pensions would not be sa…

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James FBSI 🐸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺 (Fanatic) @toplandscaper.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

Why should pensioners in Scotland have to pay for English pensioners to have care that Scots already have? Are we going to pay twice now? Is this the best the #AngloState can come up with?

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John M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @drjohnm61.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Grangemouth used to produce around 12% of the diesel needs of the UK. Other infrastructure has been rescued as its been deemed critical. Maybe considering the critical lack of diesel, the UK government could get the Grangemouth refinery back up and running.

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The SNP have demanded the UK Government urgently deliver £200 million of promised investment for Grangemouth after almost 400 more jobs were put at risk

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SNP demand promised £200m for Grangemouth as hundreds of jobs at risk

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John M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @drjohnm61.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Refined oil is worth a lot more than crude. Refining in Scotland and “exporting” refined products to England shows Scotland profitable. Exporting crude to England and then importing expensive English refined products makes Scotland look worse within GERS. Shut 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 refineries and save 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ones = -GERS

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Cassandra 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🌐 @troybairn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 SNP 32% Ref 21% Lab 18% LD 8% Con 7% Grn 6% Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 PC 30% Lab 24% Ref 22% Con 8% Grn 6% LD 3% (Find Out Now; 30 September; usual caveats apply to sub-samples)

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Bill Drees @billdrees.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Burnham is as bad as his useless predecessors, except that he does it with a lot more words! #ScottishIndependence

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John M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @drjohnm61.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Trump threatens export ban of diesel www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... In other news, Grangemouth Refinery produced 36,000 barrels per day (2.4 million tonnes per year) of diesel before it ceased crude oil processing in April 2025. 12% of UK consumption Not rescued

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US pressures Europe over diesel reserves as Trump threatens export ban

President Donald Trump has threatened to ban diesel exports in a bid to ease prices in the US ahead of the November elections.

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John M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @drjohnm61.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

IMHO, this is the way this should be communicated: Folks, Scottish pensioners will be impacted by £4bn a year. This money will go to England to fund their heath care system. We stand on an independent Scotland maintaining the triple lock or even better.

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