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Autoimmunity Within the Independence Movement

The obstacles to our independence are not all about media-led rabid unionism, or floating voters. We have a problem within the movement, something really toxic. It resembles a kind of auto-immune disease, a drive to eat away at the host and make barren the soil it depends on; the movement itself.  The dreaded anniversary of […]

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I support the SNP, but it’s time for them to step up – Sam Hamad

Part of me hates this phoney populist bollocks, (see this https://www.thenational.scot/news/23727982.snp-members-urged-shape-strategy-pre-conference-meeting/)  not least because a significant section of the membership base of almost all political parties are moonhowlers. Go to a meeting if you don’t believe me. However, I think it’s a really simple issue. The starting point should be the truth. The SNP should […]

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Indybag: Fuck the Corporations and Neil Oliver

Donald Rumsfeld has been trying to kill me for years, what with ensuring that after the Irish stopped bombing Britain, he and his Whitehouse gang introduced a new set of disgruntled bombers, and of course his lacing Diet Coke, vitamin tablets, toothpaste, cereal and chewing gum with his aspartame. Having said that, of course Rishi […]

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Holyrude Ungagged Season 5 Episode 10 – Tory Spectre Haunts UK

David McClemont @DavoMc82 hosts with regular Brian Finlay @WeeSociologist and the return of  Holyrude O.G. Debra Torrance @HeathPeaPict This week’s topics; – Daily Telegraph’s Calculator of Hate – Failure to eradicate poverty is costing Scotland £2.4bn a year – Sunak Under Pressure – Tories Want to Abolish Inheritance Tax