Notices by Colin Dunn (indyposterboy@mastodon.scot)

@CloudyMrs @EvenRouault @LillyHerself Indeed 2.

@CloudyMrs @LillyHerself With some it’s simple carelessness, with others it’s arrogance. For some it’s a strategy to try to continue to erase the individuality of Wales, NI and Scotland. It’s tiresome in all cases.

@CloudyMrs @LillyHerself Indeed.

@CloudyMrs It’s a crude, but a handy guide mnemonic about the cedar branch structure: Atlas ascending, Lebanon lateral, Deodar descending.

@CloudyMrs Atlas Cedar?

@Remittancegirl @adrinux @CloudyMrs maybe for the rest of the world, but sadly I’ve found the Guardian’s Scottish correspondent Severin Carell’s reporting on Scotland very biased. Never uses a neutral expression when a negative one is available.

@Remittancegirl @adrinux @CloudyMrs I saw *many* examples back in 2013/14. Many. I’m sure if you do a search on Google for practically any article he wrote on Scotland or independence at that time you will find ample evidence. Me? I’ve better uses of my time on a sunny afternoon.

That's actually pretty startling. The UK has a Labour government which won only 34% of the votes cast, whilst 40% didn't vote. A government elected on just over 20% of the electorate.

In 'who'd have thunk it' news, popular AI Chatbots are spreading propaganda and fake news. AI is simply not ready for prime-time. All it's achieving is to make the information on the net less trustworthy.
https://www.axios.com/2024/06/18/ai-chatbots-russian-propaganda

And there we have it in black and white. Vote Labour, get Brexit.
"With Labour, Britain will stay outside of the EU. There will be no return to the single market, the customs union, or freedom of movement."
Labour Party Manifesto GE2024

Whilst everyone else bewails the global warming and ‘hottest spring/summer on record’, the programme for Scotland appears to be January, February, Wet, Wet, May, Sh*te, Sh*te, Sh*te, Indian Summer, Autumn, Winter.

@MadeyeTheCarnaptious @CloudyMrs @chattan @Roadwarrior29 I’ve been reading that too, though (until recently) his assessment seemed a bit over pessimistic.

@Roadwarrior29 The chances are slim, but if the Tories are really wiped out and the SNP does better than the doomsayers are predicting, then nothing could be more disruptive to the Westminster status quo, nor as quickly lead to the dissolution of the Union, than the SNP being the official opposition. #ge2024 #IndependenceIsNormal

@chattan @Roadwarrior29 Always had a bit of a gut feeling that the SNP are not going to do as badly as some would like you to believe, and I say that as a non-member.

I reckon the doom of the Tory Party began on 19th September 2014, the day after the Scottish independence vote, when Cameron immediately started the English nationalist push to try to placate the Tory right wing. And they’ve been moving ever rightward since. As ye sow, so shall ye reap. Looking forward to the collapse of the Tory Party, though it’s just making way for a new red-branded one to take its place.

Goodness. The Tory candidate in my constituency has hopped around like some great migrating bird looking for a place to land. Not here, I think.

If Labour knock on your door, or you meet rep at hustings, meetings, whatever, the key question to ask is “Why are you too scared to put the Union Jack on your Scottish placards?” Then post their reply on mastodon.

If you want just one good reason why not to vote either Tory, Labour or LibDem in Scotland, this is it - they all oppose rejoining the EU whilst more than 69% of Scots recognise the astonishing economic and cultural damage that Brexit has done and want to rejoin. #ge2024 #Scotland #IndependenceIsNormal

Independent Portugal generated the equivalent of 91% of its electricity needs through renewables by March 2024.
It has Europe's lowest power prices.
Non independent Scotland generated the equivalent of 113% of its overall electricity needs through renewables in 2022.
It has the UK's highest power prices.
#IndependenceIsNormal #Scotland

Just a wee reminder that Sunak’s ‘extremist’ Scottish nationalists voted democratically for a second independence referendum. A bigger mandate than Thatcher, Blair, Cameron and Johnson ever had.