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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 11h

Sadly many Scots are ignorant of this fact and that that many of the other powers that normal independent countries enjoy are also controlled by Westminster and used in a way that mostly benefits voters in England.

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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 04/10/2026

And thereby admits publicly that he is not a Democrat.

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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 04/10/2026

And even if the cost is arguable, surely the UK democratic deficit must convince fair-minded opponents of independence that a vote is right and a mandate for it exists.

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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 04/10/2026

It's not the cost. Indyref1 cost £18m (Theresa May's pointless mid-term GE cost nearly 10x). One estimate by neutral body suggested c£500m in 2014 to set up addition orgs. If not cost, why is this idea opposed by unionists?

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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 04/10/2026

And as to Burnham, even assuming he's interested in some kind of UK federalism (big pinch of salt required) the Labour Party as a whole has little interest in it at all. As I say, isn't a referendum the simplest most humane solution? What's the downside?

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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 04/10/2026

Who's this 'you'? I'm not an DNP member. It's very odd that opponents of the SNP assume they will automatically govern after independence, suggesting little confidence in other parties.. Also, it's a great error, or disingenuous, to imply that only SNP voters support independence.

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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 03/10/2026

And, genuinely, would this not be the simpler solution?

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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 03/10/2026

It's a simple question: on balance, are Scotland and Wales better and happier places as part of the Union, or would they benefit more from having complete control over their own finances and resources? For me the latter, and I also believe it would benefit England.

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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 03/10/2026

Had genuine federalism been delivered, as promised, in 2014 the UK would not now be in its fragmenting and economically depressed state. It wasn't, and there is zero sign that any party is proposing such a thing or even answering the questions such a plan would require answered.

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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 02/10/2026

Labour is positioning itself to argue that the Brexit vote was not final, and that the promises made to win the vote for Leave 10 years ago have not been met. Sound familiar, Scotland?

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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 02/10/2026

It's that time of year again. Sunset and Ref Falstaff Apples. Apple crumble. Apple tarts. Apple cobbler. Apple sauce. #WhatDoYouThinkOfThemApples #Apples #Allotment

Photograph of freshly picked and washed apples from my allotment. Sunset and Red Falstaff varieties. Fiesta and Eggremont Russets still to be picked.

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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 29/09/2026

Dear unionists, the only way to measure a 'consensus' is to hold a an actual vote on the issue. What's the problem?

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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 29/09/2026

And why that's hypocritical and plain daft too, in a union which purports to be a democracy.

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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 25/09/2026

Yes, but we've had this before. Then people take their eye off the Indy ball to focus on this distraction and, wheeeeee, we've knocked back Indy for another 5 years. Don't chase will-o-the-wisps.

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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 22/09/2026

And therein lies the problem. If the UK was a genuine democracy and a "union of equals" as we are told, Scotland wouldn't have to ask Westminster's permission to vote on its own destiny.

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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 19/09/2026

That post was 100% accurate, by the way. As you'd know if you had direct experience and actual knowledge of the situation.

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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 18/09/2026

That's certainly the sort of 'de-industrialisation' that we *do* want.

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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 16/09/2026

there's a far bigger pro-Indy majority in Holyrood than Cameron had for a Brexit referendum, and more than triggered the first indyref.

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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 15/09/2026

Tsk. Tsk. You're missing the very obvious positives.

If Scotland was already independent and Westminster came along inviting us to join the Union as long as we handed over all our £Billions of oil, gas and whisky revenue as well as our cheap renewable energy, would you vote for that?

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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 14/09/2026

Good. If we don't have the 'right' to vote on our own destiny, then the UK is not a Union. It's a prison.

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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 11/09/2026

Message for Burnham: support for Scottish independence now is *already* greater than that which triggered the 2014 indyref.

Did you know that the Scottish pro-independence mandate since 2014 has exceeded the electoral strength of the mandate that delivered the
2014 Independence Referendum?
tinyurl.com/bigger-mandate
SCOTLAND'S RIGHT TO CHOOSE

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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 10/09/2026

It's simple. Whether you support or oppose Scottish independence if you are a democrat you must support people's right to vote on it. If you don't, then you are not a democrat.

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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 10/09/2026

In the weeks and months ahead, it is worth remembering that most UK polling (intentionally?) skews Scottish independence polling by using 2014 'weighting' that is now 12 years out of date.

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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 09/09/2026

Um. Um. Is there a better way of measuring that than *voting* on it as we did in May?

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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 09/09/2026

Seems to me that Westminster saying that 'permission' to hold an indyref should be left to their Governor General in Scotland is just a different way of them saying 'No'.

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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 05/09/2026

I once did a spoof sumerian table based on the cover of 'Between Two Rivers'. ;0)

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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 04/09/2026

Hmmm. What are the chances of that sort of conduct, I wonder?

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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 29/08/2026

Um. Brown's statements should be taken with a very large pinch of salt.

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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 28/08/2026

And the arrogance of a British PM, whose party had its worst ever result in Scotland and in the face of the largest ever pro-Indy majority, telling Scottish people in Scotland that a vote on their own future is 'off the table'.

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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 28/08/2026

So, no Indy vote nor an Irish unification vote allowed, according to Burnham. If you've ever believed the UK was a democracy, think again. It's a prison.

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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 15/08/2026

Been putting up some new Indy banners in Cromarty. My last hurrah, I think (after doing this stuff for nearly 15 years), if the politicians we elected to take Indy forward don't get their fingers out in the next few months. #Scotland

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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 15/08/2026

This is out of date. I wonder how many more generous bri . . sorry, *donations* he's received since then?

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