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Nell McFurtado retweeted
People were amazed that Adolf Hitler was allowed to continue committing Genocide.
Now the man committing Genocide is allowed to fly around Europe and send his minions to tell all their leaders what to do.
We are far more evil now than at the height of WW2.
Nell McFurtado retweeted
Burnahm - during the pandemic he said it was anti English to consider a ban on English motorhomes entering Scotland.
That's all you need to know about an English Mayor, turned English MP, turned English PM in what is an English party even if it pretends to be Scottish here.
Nell McFurtado retweeted
Colin Mackay: "What would you consider a generation?"
Andy Burnham: "Well, it's.. it's.. it's about.. uh.. where.. where people are, isn't it?"
Where people are? Falkirk, Airdrie, Fochabers? No it isn't. What is Burnham talking about? Or is he just insulting Scots by spouting off-the-cuff nonsense?
Burnham repeatedly deflects from the constitutional issue by saying its all about the cost of living. You might imagine he thinks that's due for a rocket boosting (apologies) by starting a war against a Russian Federation which has never had and does not have now any aggressive intent towards Burnham's country.
Coming back to the words of Professor Ciaran Martin, the architect of the 2014 independence 'referendum', who wrote in 2021 in a paper called Resist, Reform or Re-run, the following:
"Should Westminster ignore a duly elected majority in the Scottish Parliament, either in 2021 or subsequently, it will have sent Scotland three clear, related messages.
First, insofar as Scotland has a right to national self-determination at all, it is for Westminster - not Scotland - to decide when and if that right is exercised.
Second, Westminster has chosen to disallow that right for an indefinite period, despite an explicit vote in favour of it. This position will hold until London decides what it thinks Scottish nationalist politicians meant by "once in a generation" seven years ago.
Third, until Westminster chooses otherwise, there are no lawful, constitutional, and democratic means by which to pursue Scottish independence*.
The conclusion Scotland, and the world, is entitled to draw is that the UK is no longer a voluntary union of nations. Its second-largest member has expressed its wish to exercise national self-determination and been told "No." It is as stark as that. The ghost of Bonar Law will be back to haunt the British state**.
Even the UK state's former constitutional architect holds – with an irony he doesn't grasp, given the fictive origins of the Union – a deep-seated doubt that there is any substance to the 'voluntary partnership' narrative.
John Swinney's party must tell Burnham that Scotland is no longer willing to suspend disbelief in England's UK pantomime, the one where parliamentary sovereignty trumps Scottish sovereignty. Swinney must tell Burnham that his British parliament only lawfully exists by England's acceptance in 1707 that Scottish sovereignty would prevail in all time coming. Failing to do so makes him no more than a servant of Westminster, and the Pied Piper of Scotland.
* This is only true in relation to the retrofit foundational law of the UK state; it is emphatically false in terms of treaty and other international law.
** Bonar Law pledged in 1912 to prevent Irish home rule by any means necessary, including armed force. The meaning of this pledge can be stated thus: if you use legal majorities to force a union against a nation's will, the result is the death of stable union and an ensuing constitutional crisis.
Nell McFurtado retweeted
Burnham Scottish independence
‘I’m a unionist’
‘It wouldn’t be good for northern England’
This is not democracy being shown here it’s a bias toward persevering the flow south of abundant & highly valuable Scottish natural resources to fund the Britnat establishment
Nell McFurtado retweeted
What the fuck has Scotland got to do with an unelected Manc mayor in another country??? Make this make sense, and spare me ‘Ye Olde Englandshire’ history shite!!!!! I’m not fucking interested!!!!!! Scotland doesn’t belong to England and never will. A undeniable fact, so gtf!!!!
Nell McFurtado retweeted
You are entering one of the friendliest country’s on the planet.
Rich in culture talent and a very proud nation.
When you see that message you know you are home.🏴
Nell McFurtado retweeted
🧵 As front-page headlines go, this has to be one of the most misleading I've seen in a long time
It's an out-and-out lie
But notice the trick they use to get away with it...👀
*They're* not lying - they're just quoting someone else who is👍🏻
In this case, the leader of the opposition🙄
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ALT Daily Express headline: "More Freedoms Handed to New Arrivals than British Citizens" Above an image of Kemi Badenoch All with a Monk Debunked stamp on top
Nell McFurtado retweeted
If you're a little ocean critter, it really sucks ass when a human rolls up and picks you up out of the water.
Take the humble sea star, for example. No gills, no lungs. It breathes through tiny bumps on its skin that pull oxygen straight out of the water. Lift it into the air for a photo and those bumps collapse. The critter suffocates.
And the grab itself does damage too. Sea stars, limpets, and mussels hang onto the rock with everything they've got, because letting go means getting eaten or washed away. Pry one off and you can tear it or kill it. Flip a rock and whatever lives underneath gets baked by the sun.
In a lot of marine protected areas, picking up an animal even for a second can get you fined.
Crouch down, get close, take the picture in the water. If you have to touch, wet your hand in seawater, make sure it's sunscreen-free, and use two fingers. Then leave it where it is.
Nell McFurtado retweeted
"They dismantled the Scottish state..."
The final question at the Le Club suisse de la presse event was for @SSalyers2 of the Liberation Scotland Committee:
"Just one last question, someone asking why I could explain why the treaty of 1706 was ultra vires [an action taken without the legal authority or power to do so], and that the reason that I say that Scotland was annexed and that we can prove this, is very simple. Scotland was forced into a treaty by its neighbour, England.
"Both of these were fully developed sovereign and independent European states. England, however, had been trying... you've all seen the movie Braveheart, you know something about the fact that England had been trying to take Scotland over from, actually from about the 7th - 8th century.
"In 1706, it finally forced an agreement. A treaty was signed. But the basis of that treaty, that the thing which the United Kingdom claims to be, is that there was to be a single kingdom.
"So there was no longer to be a Kingdom of England and a Kingdom of Scotland, there was to be a kingdom of, you know, a united single Kingdom of Great Britain.
"A kingdom is the territorial jurisdiction of a crown. Both Scotland and England had a crown. In England, the crown was the monarch. In Scotland, the crown, the monarch wore the crown, but the crown was a 'Community of the Realm', the people.
"So they weren't really, you couldn't really merge them into one. But that wasn't England's intention anyway; they got the treaty signed and then they put Scotland under the English Crown, the English parliament, English state.
"They dismantled the Scottish state. No new state was created.
"As Professor Robert Black, KC, who is well known for his work on Lockerbie, has said: "For England, nothing changed."
"An ancient state, with European allies whose people are still welcomed across Europe, because of those friendships, those... those alliances, rather than wars and attempts to claim territory, that state [Scotland] was extinguished.
"And the treaty, the whole point of the treaty, that was for a single kingdom, did not go into operation, never went into effect.
"The British state claims that it did, pretends that it's in place. But there are two crowns, there are two kingdoms. One is subordinated to the other and that is the definition of a dependency.
"Thank you."
@ScotSalvo @LiberationScot @SalvoHighlands @broonpot @PAlanMcMahon @Scotpol1314 @thomsonchris @CraigMurrayOrg @SSRG2021 @MarkMmcnaught1 @DavidDhenry
Sara's Presentation on YouTube:
youtube.com/live/NYP1-KHImCs…
Dr. Christophe Dorigné-Thomson Presentation on YouTube:
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Nell McFurtado retweeted
Andrew Neil on #bbcqt: "The big problem we face is 6.7 million adults of working age who aren't working and are living on out-of-work benefits. 6.7 million. No country can prosper with that number of people able to work who are not working."
The first half is broadly right. DWP figures show 6.7 million people in Great Britain claimed some combination of out-of-work benefits in March 2026. However, the second half is misinformation because it misdescribes that statistic.
DWP's out-of-work benefits category deliberately includes people the state has assessed as unable to work, or does not currently expect to work.
DWP's own breakdown shows that 4.6 million of the 6.7 million, around 68%, have no work requirements at all.
DWP explains that this is generally because they are too sick to work or are the main carer for a very young child. That group includes 2.8 million Universal Credit claimants on the health route and 390,000 on Employment and Support Allowance and older incapacity benefits.
Only 2.2 million, about a third, are expected to take any steps towards work, and 590,000 of those are themselves on the health route.
Treating the whole 6.7 million as available labour turns a count of claimants into a count of idle workers, which the data simply does not support.
The official labour market figures tell a very different story. The ONS puts unemployment, meaning people actively looking for and available for work, at 1.78 million for May to July 2026. The Learning and Work Institute estimates that 3.9 million people are out of work but say they want a job, and that there are 5.5 of them for every vacancy.
There is a serious debate to be had about rising sickness claims and appropriate support. It is not helped by presenting people the state itself has judged unable to work, or not required to, as if they were simply choosing not to.
Nobody challenged Neil. Nobody corrected the misinformation. Neil got a round of applause. Someone could have told Fiona Bruce the facts in less than a minute. This is just one example which helps explain why many people understandably treat @bbcquestiontime as a joke.
Sources: DWP Benefit Combinations, March 2026; ONS/House of Commons Library, September 2026; Learning and Work Institute, September 2026.
Nell McFurtado retweeted
🚨 Empty supermarket shelves are inevitable and that’s why govt has told people to stockpile. And Brexit is to blame.
Britain’s food and drink trade deficit has soared beyond £21 BILLION 🔥 the largest since 2000.
Food and drink export volumes fell 11.7% in the first half of this year, while imports remained close to record levels.
And this year British farmers have endured flooding, drought, falling yields and soaring fertiliser, fuel and other input costs. We are competing against growing volumes of imported food while fighting one another for a finite SFI budget that’s hotter than Glastonbury tickets.
This is how you hollow out domestic productive capacity.
You don’t wake up one morning and discover Britain has lost its ability to feed itself. It happens gradually: farms become unviable, processors close, imports rise and domestic production falls.
And for years the answer has been: don’t worry, we can import it.
Import what? From whom? At what price?
In a world of war, climate shocks and increasingly protectionist trade, deliberately becoming more dependent on other countries for food isn’t resilience.
Government says food security is national security @andyburnham @angelaeagle
Then start treating the businesses producing our food as part of Britain’s critical national infrastructure!
Nell McFurtado retweeted
The UN has released the latest list of companies supporting and profiting from the Israeli regime’s crimes in occupied Palestine. Among the complicit companies are AirBnB, Booking. Com, Expedia, Motorola, TripAdvisor, and 209 others identified by name. #Boycott #BDS
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Nell McFurtado retweeted
Helen Whately is a millionaire, she talks about unaffordable benefit payments.
She was the MP claiming the highest amount for Rent in the entire Parliament, £39,000 a year.
And that was JUST what she was claiming for rent.
It's always the worst offenders trying to blame someone else.
Nell McFurtado retweeted
If neither the BBC nor STV challenge Michael Shanks, Michael Marra or Anas Sarwar over the GB Energy 53,000 jobs lie then it'll send a message to Labour that the party can lie to Scots during election campaigns with impunity. BBC Scotland and STV promoted the GB Energy con. They are obliged to call these charlatans out.
Nell McFurtado retweeted
Instead of cancelling the Triple Lock we should cancel the Tax Breaks for billionaires.
The Tax Breaks for just 150 people cost more than 10x as much as the Triple Lock.
Did you hear that?
15 Billionaires are costing as much as the Triple Lock, but you don't hear the Billionaire Media ranting about that...
Nell McFurtado retweeted
🚨 THIS GRAPH IS TERRIFYING.
Brexit, Trump’s tariffs, climate shocks and soaring production costs are colliding with Britain’s increasing dependence on imported food.
For a decade I’ve warned about the danger of allowing our domestic food-production capacity to decline. Now the numbers are becoming frightening.
Britain’s food and drink trade deficit has reached £21.1 BILLION in just six months, up from £3.9bn in 2000 and £9.8bn a decade ago.
Export volumes have fallen 11.7% this year, while imports remain close to record levels.
Meanwhile British farmers and food producers are battling drought, soaring fertiliser and energy costs, Brexit trade friction and increasing competition from cheaper imports.
This is how a country loses productive capacity. Not overnight. Bit by bit. Farm by farm. Processor by processor.
In a world of war, climate shocks and increasingly protectionist trade, the answer cannot simply be: we’ll import it.
Import what? From whom? At what price?
Government says food security is national security so why aren’t we treating it like national security???
🚨 BREXIT and TRUMP
The @FinancialTimes rightly names the culprits behind our looming food crises.
Britain’s food and drink trade deficit has hit £21.1 BILLION in just six months, with export volumes down 11.7%.
The FT: “Brexit and Donald Trump’s tariffs push UK’s food and drink trade deficit to £21bn.”
This is exactly what I warned about.
Make it harder for British food to reach our closest and largest market while opening our own market to increasing global competition, and eventually the consequences appear in the numbers.
Food security starts with protecting our ability to produce and sell food.
