lindaler.bsky.social
I want Scotland to be a modern, independent democracy in the EU.
proportional representation and a written constitution are essential
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A different voting system changes everything. There will be many more parties who will have to cooperate to make coalitions to deliver policies that please the voters. Note that Gert Wilders is not the PM of the NL. He is not even in the cabinet. Biggest party does not equal a majority.
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The UK Social Attitudes Survey shows that most people still believe in the sorts of things things we all benefited from during the post war consensus. The problem is that our undemocratic FPTP electoral system means politicians don't have to take a blind bit of notice.
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We need marine drones to catch them at it.
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If you click on the grey lines at the top of your screen next to the word notifications and go to Feeds you can click on Following and you get the people you follow as a dedicated Feed. There are a couple of Feeds for Scottish Independence and you can search for others.
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Click on the name and then follow.
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Not your fault. The way threads are constructed here did not make it clear I was responding to the second post.
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A profile she did not correct until she had to. A profile which misrepresented her career and expertise and aided her selection and election as an elected representative. She earns many times the average salary and takes freebies from donors. Why? Tacky behaviour by an avaricious individual.
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I was actually referring to his story about the journalists. However, what is regarded as "within the rules" at Westminster would be gross corruption in many properly democratic countries. Who makes the rules? A bunch of greedy, grabby, grubby individuals who have no ethics. Wrong and distasteful.
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Making light of minor corruption encourages and normalises greater corruption. "Everybody does it." You end up with the rapacious businesses and the greedy, grasping elected officials and some of the other cynical, self interested public servants we have now.
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No, you spelled lenition right. Yes, the rules can seem complicated. This website may help
learngaelic.scot/grammar_hack...
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Followed.
I wonder if you could give this new YouTube Channel a boost. It's great for learners like me and might stop a few more of us getting into bad habits we have to correct later.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iulh...
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The Scottish people will decide the content of the constitution. A second house does not mean replicating the HOL. Many democracies have useful and functioning second houses. There are good arguments for a bicameral parliament.
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She has 1.4k followers and no posts.
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She has an account with a message like "lurking for now". Before I left Twitter she was talking about holding on to the bitter end. I wish she would move over, or at least post in both places.
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Note. You don't have to give your email to vote and view. I think your vote is recorded. Does anyone know for sure.
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You joke of course, but yes - Latin, Norse, Scots and English too. Seomar, the word for room, comes from the French "chambre".
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Hey, tedious, information poor, reply guy. Scotland will be a successful small democratic nation in the same way as other nations of similar size are. Sorry, a successful medium sized nation. Scotland's status will be enhanced, rUK's diminished. The UK is a failing state with a defective democracy.
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Weak tea.
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Sweeping. Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland. All have small PR parliaments and all prioritise needs of the majority. With PR you have to. With FPTP you don't. Absurd number of seats with a small proportion of the vote = bad govt and elites coddled. You can keep the rancid results.
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I'm sure you can't grasp quite how much the major argument for independence is a desire for a better democracy reflecting the needs and desires of the electorate. If the UK didn't have the squalid dysfunctional system it has, would you choose to install it? Really, would you? Its a failing state.
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Look, those of us who pay attention know that the idea that Scotland's economy, with its bigger manufacturing sector and the most inward investment outside the SE, would do anything but thrive as an independent country with all the financial levers of a modern economy is just nonsense. Go away.
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Scotland would want to maintain the CTA.
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The UK used to be overwhelmingly Ireland's biggest trading partner. Not now. Do you understand that rUK and Scotland will pragmatically want to continue trading, but an independent Scotland will be a profoundly different entity. The relationship will inevitably change.
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Bluntly, the UK is a shabby, failing and undemocratic state. There seems no prospect of English political choices becoming more rational. Scotland would thrive as a small independent nation within the EU. rUK would have to look to its own resources and face its own weaknesses.
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If this case was about the donors, some kind of investigative scoping exercise would have been carried out to find more complainants. We would have heard about it from those who were approached but content.
Despite all the publicity, no large group of people who feel wronged has emerged.
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Yes, let's cosset the greedy, grasping, gouging, grifting, selfish, sociopaths who do not contribute to the society where they extract their business and personal excess profits. Labour are supine cowards and/or wannabes. Not ethical, principled democrats by any stretch
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@bsky should start promoting stats for factual, positive, interesting and evidenced reporting, commentary, science... Also new communities for interests and hobbies. Attract new interesting, active doers and makers to this kind of SM. Those who have been put off by experience or just reputation.
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The same algorithms that decide what is spent in England, decide what is allocated to Scotland. We have more areas of super sparse population. That accounts for most of the the per head disparity. Scotgov have better priorities and give more to ordinary people with the same order of funding.
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There are many, many more sailings than there were in the 80s - at road equivalent rates.
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Why is anyone still on Twitter.
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Anecdote is not evidence. This is little more than a bucket of chum thrown in the sea to attract the sharks (unethical, shoddy journalists).
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Today is the day to forget.