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Scotland š“is better as an independent nation, just like the hundreds of other independent nations that will never join the UK.
There's seldom a solution if the problem is profitable.
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In order to drag sons and daughters into war, a government must either make it mandatory (like Likud/Zionism) or impoverish select regions into desperation, then roll out the army/navy jobs to the job centres to push upon naive school leavers, with incentives and targets, even those already in work.
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It's difficult for me to think about how nasty Labour have been toward ill and disabled people without instantly Godwin'ning, not just for this term, but the last time they were in government too.
The ill and disabled have been targeted by both Red and Blue Tories like it's the 20th century again...
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In summary.
In your own words, you are "pretty much without" meaning you are poor.
But you don't want a minimum income guarantee to help with those "pretty much without" dire straits, because it would mean others are taking "what is yours".
Bit confusing.
I'm not surprised you resorted to insults...
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I suspect your idea of "pretty much without" is a skewed perspective and you really haven't suffered what it's like to really be "pretty much without", i.e. no heating and using a foodbank, in which case you'd be all for a minimum income guarantee that would help you not be "pretty much without"...
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Manchester doesn't exactly have glowing racist hate crime stats.
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The poor steal because certain people refuse to ensure they have enough to live on with e.g. a minimum income guarantee.
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Billionaires exist outside your world.
We are their goats...
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What do you feel other ordinary people have stolen from you?
It's not the poor you should be focussed on...
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The UK gov has always been more interested in chasing pennies from benefit *cheats than chasing millions from billionaires.
This New Labour gov are no different from the last one in that regard.
*Many benefit "cheats" have fallen foul of complex rules or bad advice from the DWP/Job Centre/Coach...
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"Digital transactions would practically eliminate all tax evasion and fraud."
Don't think so.
It would create new avenues to avoid tax.
Don't confuse "digital transactions" with "deeper state surveillance", which won't be aimed at the rich gaining large sums, it'll be aimed at the relatively poor.
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Labour's biggest Change: changing all their staff for Tories...
#RedTories
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Ban the parties...
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Who are they?
And who am I?
Who are you?
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I presume you think it's all your money?
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In the grand scheme of things, over a lifetime, it's their own money, previous, present and future taxes.
At some point in your life, it could be you too, or someone close to you...
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The thing the sub headline describes isn't the universal basic income I at first thought it was, it's something else, something means tested, something the UK should already have that goes some way to explaining why millions need to turn to foodbanks...
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Not England.
If there's a minimum income guarantee, it's YOUR money, additional income to spend as you please.
You can invest it, buy shoes, or give it to charity if that's your bag, in any case it's boosting the economy in some way.
Why do you hate your own money?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApU3...
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Assisted dying...
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You may feel racist politics are on the rise in Scotland, but it's not really, with Reform having no MPs or MSPs.
England, on the other hand, have been polling Farage winning the next GE for the last 4 months.
And yes, I consider Reform a racist party, and so should every Englander with a brain...
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Wales could be independent, just like Malta is independent, or any of the scores of other nations that left the UK.
Using excuses of economy or size, whether population or geographic is not only disingenuous, but flies in the very face of the core ethos of the treaties surrounding people's rights...
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We still do not have basic powers over job/industry incentivisation, population growth and immigration. It's a severe debility for any nation.
I doubt WM will ever devolve such: for various reasons...
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Unionism is a mass form of bullying.
Those that side with the bully will parrot any old shite to remain on side, because truth does not matter to the bully, only the acquisition of your property/wealth: by force if necessary...
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I just skim read "Scotland's Parliament, Scotland's Right" and find it strewn with assumed reserved powers, yet also assumed devolution powers delivered that clash.
One of the biggest clashes is the assumption that Home Office/population powers will remain with WM.
Economically/socially crushing...
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It's jarring to think some people will hear the clunky unionist words about Scotland's excess resources being a burden for an independent nation, and just accept them without even thinking about it for longer than a few seconds.
Or repeat them knowing it's a lie, which is worse...
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It's actually insulting.
If Scotland leaves the UK, it leaves the rigged UK national grid, which means any energy England, Wales or NI consumes coming from Scotland's National Grid is PAID FOR by rUK Grid, bringing Scots bills down, just like it does for other indy countries UK consumes energy from.
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On a par with "Scottish oil is running out", or "If you leave the UK, who will consume your enormous amounts of excess energy?"...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvyo...
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Still a bit of British Churchillian wartime rapture in Orkney.
Should be easy for honest geniuses like Alistair Carmichael to persuade Orkney and Shetland to vote for their independence, then rejoin the UK to lose control of everything they just won.
They still vote Lib Dem, FFS...
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Starmer could try and bury Labour's Iraq history under the rubble in Iran, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Gaza et. al.
Probably that's what Zionist Israel will advise...
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Orkney is perfect for a naval base.
Too perfect.
England will try to steal it if Scots choose independence, which means relocating England's WMD.
They don't want it in England, so partitioning Scotland is the ideal solution.
UK need to keep the islanders in the dark, impoverished and subservient...
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The SNP doesn't have to have the money for a ref, it's not from party funds.
Despite the fact Ā£14M is absolute peanuts on the scale of annual revenue, a defacto ref doesn't cost any more than the election already taking place.
Got it yet?
Or are you going to continue posting nonsense over and over?
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Grandstand him on the BBC.
Shake his hand.
Beg for his help to interfere in the process, to stop a nation implementing its right to sovereignty and independence, like Ukraine.
Take Russian money in political donations.
All valid interactions, apparently...
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Israel attacking occupied Palestinian territory, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and Iran for "October 07, 2023" to make Israel safe, makes about as much sense as the West attacking Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Syria et. al. after 9/11.
It doesn't make us all safer.
It makes a few people a lot richer...
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If you can't fathom what it means, all I can offer is my pity, and the suggestion you go back and resit foundation arithmetic.
It's not what the electricity/fuel costs per KW/h (along with standing charges, which are high across Scotland), fuel poverty should barely exist in energy rich Scotland...
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Lower taxes for Indian whisky consumers doesn't help the Scottish people who also like their national drink.
All it shows, is that people in India who drink Scotch distilled in Scotland can buy it far cheaper than the same Whisky sold in Scotland due to extortionate UK taxes, as I already said...
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Why have you shifted to export taxation?
Those are collected in all the receiving markets and are doubtless lower than WM "rocket fuel" tax.
The Scots sometimes drink their national drink too.
Well.
Those Scots who can afford it after they've paid all their Rip Off Britain bills can drink it...
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The UK electricity grid and market is not integrated, it's rigged so that energy rich Scotland is left with the worst fuel poverty in Europe, whilst energy generation devoid London is in the best position.
A staggering realisation, but 100% true.
It won't shock you, because you love it...
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Your figure is out by shitwads of numbers you'd probably also fuck up if I wrote them down.
You may notice a change in my language.
Just trying to bring the debate down to your level of education, research ability and understanding.
Is there anything you actually know?
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Farage's party came in third in the most recent, thoroughly over-hyped by-election.
Farage also has zero MPs and zero MSPs in Scotland.
Not that much love, it seems.
So try again with your endlessly failing, nonsensical whataboutery onslaught...
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Aye.
England should hold one of those ASAP.
They'd vote a big FARAGIAN YES.
That's why the UK gov will NEVER allow the English people an independence vote.
They've stated as much.
Think about why that is for longer than one second.
It's not love...
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It is UK government spending that creates the vast majority of Scotland's alleged deficit, you know, the billions you imply England is spending on Scots to keep them in a better revenue position than England.
Not forgetting that there is definitely a UK membership fee that WM refuses to release...
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The UK gov / England does not provide those services to Scots.
They are spending choices made by the Scottish Parliament, paid for via the block grant monies, which are far less than Scotland's actual UK-wide revenue generation.
Scots have paid for it!
Hansard record.
www.youtube.com/watch?&v=ApU...
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Likewise, Scotland does not set the extortionate rates of taxation on its national drink, nor does it collect those taxes (VAT, Duty et. al.)
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England/NI/Wales don't buy our energy.
It's all under control of UK institutions (UK national grid).
If Scotland were independent, like say Canada (left the UK), it would have its own national grid/institutions and be *charging* the UK grid Ā£billions for its huge NET imports of Scotland's energy...
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Canada was a nice, ignorant choice.
Canada is an independent nation that left WM rule.
It *charges* the USA $billions for importing electricity annually.
Do you want to know more?
#ScottishIndependence
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Describe one.