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This is a masterclass in statistical lying to manufacture a constitutional grievance. You claim the Prime Minister is taking “up to £4bn from Scotland's pensioners to pay for social care in England”, but your own Deputy First Minister’s letter admits that £4bn figure is an unadjusted cash-terms extrapolation for 2049–50, nearly a quarter of a century away. Terrifying pensioners today with compounding spreadsheet projections for 24 years in the future is cynical politics. More importantly, the claim that Scottish money is going south to fund English care is completely fabricated. Social care is fully devolved. If the UK Government invests money into an English National Care Service, the Barnett formula automatically triggers massive, proportional block grant windfalls straight into Holyrood's bank account. Scotland doesn't pay for English care; Holyrood gets a cash payout because of it. The ultimate irony is that Scotland’s population is ageing faster than the rest of the UK. Scottish pensions are currently underwritten by a 68-million-strong UK tax base and an annual £25.3bn UK Treasury fiscal transfer. If Scotland were independent, facing a 10% structural deficit without a central bank, you couldn't maintain existing state pensions on Day 1, let alone in 2050. Honest John?😂
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The National is so desperate for content that they have placed a “SPECIAL REPORT” banner on an article desperately trying to connect a US Senate election to domestic Scottish politics.
And who do they interview to uncover what this American moment means for “Muslims in Scotland”? They roll out Humza Yousaf to make it about his own political career, and then they extensively quote Mothin Ali, who the article identifies as the “co-deputy leader of the Green Party of England and Wales”.
How on earth is an English Green Party politician the voice of the Scottish experience?
Naturally, they abandon the Scottish angle entirely halfway through just to use the US election as a convoluted excuse to complain about Keir Starmer's UK Labour government😂
Thick as mince yet again from the National.
SPECIAL REPORT: What does Abdul El-Sayed’s historic victory in the US midterms mean for Muslims in Scotland? Our reporter Adonis Storr found out 👇 thenational.scot/news/26708040.…
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Colin Smith retweeted
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Ruth Wishart has officially reached National columnist derangement syndrome😂
The headline promises a serious geopolitical analysis of Donald Trump's midterm defeat and the future of MAGA, but she spends the first ten paragraphs rambling about Poundland workers, the Kraft takeover of Cadbury chocolate, the Tate & Lyle sugar company in Greenock, and complaining that American Hershey bars taste bad😂
What on earth does any of this have to do with Donald Trump?
You have to wade through an entirely unhinged stream-of-consciousness tangent about US corporate buyouts of British sweet companies before she suddenly remembers her word count and furiously goes back to warning us about Trump's finger on the nuclear trigger and his “gilt and glitter” Oval Office.
It reads like a Facebook rant from someone who had too much sherry before noon.
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Colin Smith retweeted
Replying to @ScotNational
Oh, the absolute hypocrisy is off the charts😂
The National is furiously crying about “secret taxpayer-funded” polling and running to former SNP MP Tommy Sheppard so he can claim it’s “corruption” for the UK Government not to release FOI details.
Do you genuinely have zero self-awareness?
Just hours ago, it was revealed that the SNP's own Scottish Government blocked an FOI request regarding their own secret, taxpayer-funded NDAs over the Alex Salmond trial, using “mental health” as an excuse to hide the payouts.
But when Westminster runs a basic policy poll and doesn't immediately publish it, suddenly it’s a massive democratic crisis.
The SNP demanding transparency from anyone else while running the most secretive, cover-up-prone administration in Holyrood history is complete comedy😂
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Oh, look, another “civic and joyous” scandal for the @theSNP
Just hours after the Sunday Mail exposed a massive bullying cover-up involving the Holyrood Presiding Officer, Peter Cherbi drops a FOI showing the Scottish Government is actively hiding whether they used taxpayer money to fund secret NDAs regarding the Alex Salmond trial.
The Scottish Government refused the FOI request, claiming that even confirming the existence of these secret pay-offs would “endanger the mental health” of the people involved.
You cannot make this up!
They are running a parliament where the chief is accused of bullying, and the government is using mental health exemptions to block the public from knowing if they used secret hush money during a criminal trial.
The absolute rot at the heart of this “progressive” party is staggering.
FOI re alleged. NDAs re accusers & flow of funds to SG Staff who worked to convict Alex Salmond at trial
witnesses not disclose secret agreements to court & Parl probe? seems likely
ex judge & legal name-checked in leaked papers bundle
this is the way Scotland works under SNP 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Oh, “Liz S”, the absolute state of this!
You are so furious about completely unsubstantiated “rumours” of a Reform MSP defecting to the Lib Dems, rumours the Lib Dems literally called “nonsense” that you decided the only logical response was to generate an AI image of Alex Cole-Hamilton approving a membership application for Adolf Hitler.
You are equating the possibility of a centre-right politician crossing the floor at Holyrood with the architect of the Holocaust🤭
This isn't “political commentary”, it is the unhinged visual diary of a fundamentalist echo chamber completely losing its grip on reality.
If you have to generate pictures of Hitler just to cope with Holyrood gossip, it might be time to log off.
The Scottish Lib Dems are gathering disaffected right-wingers talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/11/07/the…
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“frauds kent spider web”?
The nationalist civil war is producing the most outrageous sovereign-citizen gibberish I have seen.
You have Peter Bell cheering for an immediate, illegal UDI, and @SSalyers2 jumping in to tell him no, you can't do a UDI yet because the UK is a “lawful state” with an international right to “preserve territorial integrity”.
She outright admits that a unilateral declaration would be completely blocked by international law, but her grand solution is waiting for the UN to cast a magic decolonisation spell to reclassify Scotland as a “dependency of England” to free them from a “fictional prison”.
Watching two different factions tear each other apart over whose legally illiterate fantasy is the correct one is absolute comedy gold😂
From Robin’s perspective, independence is something that is given to us by Westminster. From Alf’s perspective, independence is something that is given to us by the UN. From my perspective, independence is something that is taken by the people of Scotland.
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“enjoy your life as a serf”?
Oh, the dramatic flounce is absolutely spectacular.
You have completely run out of arguments, so you resort to calling a unanimous ruling by the UK Supreme Court “garbage” and sprinting for the exit.
Imagine genuinely believing that the highest court in the land is legally incorrect, but a fringe group called “Salvo” holds the true secret to constitutional law.
You are packing up your sovereign-citizen toys and stomping off with a melodramatic “cheerio” because you cannot handle the fact that your magic UN decolonisation words don't work in the real world.
Run along now, the cognitive dissonance must be exhausting😂😂
There is no point in talking to someone as dim as you
The "SC, need permission" garbage is precisely what Salvo and Liberation Scotland are trying to educate people about
You've bent your knee to suppression
So cheerio and enjoy your life as a serf
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“We do not need their permission”?
The UK Supreme Court ruled unanimously that you absolutely DO need Westminster's permission.
You can cry “we are a colony” at the clouds all day, but it doesn't override constitutional law.
And the absolute best part is you throwing a massive tantrum and plugging your ears because Robin McAlpine dared to shatter your fake victimhood complex.
He rightly pointed out Scotland’s active, enthusiastic role in imperialism and the uncomfortable Scottish cultural roots of the word “Klan,” and your response is to furiously type that his “opion... means nothing to me now”.
You are having a spectacular historical and legal meltdown just to protect a sovereign-citizen fantasy😂
No you're the dim one here
Alf talks of the recognition that we are a colony
This gives us a route to explain that WM cannot overrule the people.
We do not need their permission
RMA opion on anything means nothing to me now with his lying slur that the Scots created the KKK
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“courage of our Armed Forces today”?
Oh, John, the cognitive dissonance here is absolutely blinding.
You are standing in Holyrood solemnly praising the exact same British military that your fundamentalist supporters actively despise, while leading a political movement entirely dedicated to breaking apart the state that funds and commands them.
You cannot spend your entire career trying to dismantle the United Kingdom and then try to wrap yourself in the dignified glory of the British Armed Forces for a photo op.
And preaching to the public about “sacrifices”?
The only sacrifices being made in the SNP these days are the members who sacrificed their £400,000 in campaign donations just so Peter Murrell could buy a luxury motorhome! The absolute brass neck is off the charts.
As we approach Remembrance Sunday, we remember with the utmost gratitude and respect not just the sacrifices of the past, but the courage of our Armed Forces today.
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“contribution to make to Scotland's story”?
Oh, John, you have absolutely outdone yourself here.
Some people contribute by working hard, and others, like Peter Murrell, contribute by embezzling £400,000 of party funds to buy luxury motorhomes.
Is Nicola Sturgeon's “contribution” going on the BBC to pretend she didn't notice half a million pounds vanishing from the accounts?
The absolute brass neck to stand at a podium preaching about everyone making a “contribution” while your party's former leadership is engulfed in a massive police investigation for raiding the piggy bank😂
The only “story” the SNP is writing right now belongs in the true crime section.
No matter where you were born, who you worship or who you love, all of us have a contribution to make to Scotland's story. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Hangover this morning, so its beer o'clock.
Apologies in advance.
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Colin Smith retweeted
Forced a national newspaper to hit the delete button in shame!
The absolute state of The National😂😂

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“recognizing”?
Mate, if you are going to use ChatGPT to write your replies for you, at least remember to change the American spelling to British English before you hit send. And maybe ask the AI to fix your primary-school “Your” typo while you're at it.
You are so completely out of your depth trying to equate a 3-7 year indentured contract with permanent, hereditary chattel slavery that you are literally outsourcing your Scottish victimhood complex to an American chatbot.
Getting completely fact-checked on your fake grievance and then immediately replying with a typo-ridden, AI-generated Americanism is embarrassing 😂
So what was the mortality rate for indentured in the mid 1700s ?

Your the one focused on one race rather than recognizing it affected many more.
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“Thousands of Indians made out rich”?
Are you seriously comparing the colonised subjects of the British Raj to the Scottish merchants, generals, and viceroys who were literally running the East India Company and ruling over them?
This is a historically illiterate false equivalence.
And comparing Scotland's role in the British Empire to the Greeks in the Roman Empire? 😂
The Romans conquered Greece!
Scotland voluntarily entered the Union of 1707 specifically to get a piece of the imperial pie after bankrupting themselves in Panama.
You are anxiously trying to rebrand the willing, architects of the British Empire as oppressed victims who were just “transported to other places”.
You're another thick as mince Nationalist😂
The British Empire had elements that were Scottish, be it educated employed, or the poor driven off the land and transported to other places.

To claim the British Empire as Scottish, one might as well say the Roman Empire was Greek. Or resort to insults over argument.
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Colin Smith retweeted
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“arrest warrant to be issued for Donald Trump”?
Oh, this is absolutely spectacular performative grandstanding from The National!
Do these “leading human rights lawyers” want to check a basic Wikipedia page before they pay for their flights to The Hague?
The United States is not a signatory to the Rome Statute😂
The ICC has zero jurisdiction over Donald Trump or any US president.
The US even has a federal law nicknamed The Hague Invasion Act, authorising military force to extract any American held by the court.
But sure, a delegation of lawyers is going to march into the Netherlands and put handcuffs on the President.
Pure, unadulterated, legally illiterate grievance-farming printed on a front page just to squeeze a few more pennies out of their readers😂😂
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Colin Smith retweeted
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“awash with gossip”?
Oh, this is absolutely spectacular desperation from the SNP.
They are furiously demanding Alex Cole-Hamilton “spill the truth” about “shadowy talks” with Reform's Graham Simpson, based on absolutely nothing but unverified Holyrood rumour-mongering😂
The absolute best part is that The National's own article points out Cole-Hamilton ruled out any pact with Reform months ago, and the official LibDem response to this entire manufactured scandal is literally just three words: “This is nonsense”.
When your governing party is reduced to writing furious press releases about water-cooler gossip to manufacture outrage against opposition parties, you know their political operation has completely flat lined.
What a National embarrassment The National actually is in Scotland😂
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The Scottish Government is crying to Westminster about budget black holes, claiming there isn't a single penny left for public services, but they somehow found £150,000 to investigate whether algebra is structurally oppressive!
They are demanding that kids “reflect on positionality, privilege and power” instead of just teaching them how to do long division!
Maths is the universal language of objective truth, but Holyrood has decided what we really need is an “Anti-Racist Maths Framework” to figure out if trigonometry has colonial baggage😂
No wonder our education system slides down the PISA rankings.
£150,000.
That's what it cost the SG to stop maths being racist.
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“grating to frame it as a 'national' struggle”?
Well, this is a unique plot twist.
Reading just your first tweet made it seem like you were defending the nationalist “colony” myth, but your full thread is actually a point-by-point demolition of the SNP grievance machine.
You highlight the “obvious internal class aspects” driven by “Scottish landlords”, correctly point out how poorly an “independent Scottish state also treated the Highlands”, and then drop the absolute nuke: admitting that the UK Government actually delivered “impactful... land reform legislation not yet seen under devolution”. The cybernats who thought you were defending them are going to be absolutely furious when they read to the end and realise you used a thread about the Highland Clearances to praise Westminster's historical track record and dunk on Holyrood's failures.
The clearances had some relatively well evidenced ethnic underpinnings which have led to some good academic work in its context of internal colonialism and the British imperial state.
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Colin Smith retweeted
Replying to @LauraEWebsterr
The Scottish political establishment spends every single waking hour crying about Westminster austerity, claiming there isn't a penny left for public services, and hiking taxes on hardworking Scots just to plug their massive budget black holes.
But miraculously, when it comes to handing themselves a massive 20% pay rise just for showing up and chairing a committee, they magically find the cash to bump their salaries to over £93,000.
It is genuinely hilarious watching Holyrood demand that the public accept “stagnant wages against increasing inflation” to save the nation, while MSPs happily pocket a 20% “salary booster” because the Corporate Body observed how “committed” they are to sitting in a comfortable chair in Edinburgh.
You couldn't invent this level of audacity.
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“empathy for an iScotland”?
Mate, the international community is not the judging panel on Britain's Got Talent😂
You genuinely believe that the United Nations and foreign governments are going to bypass constitutional law and grant international recognition to “iScotland” just because they feel sorry for you having a “duplicitous” devolved government?
That is the most stupid misunderstanding of global diplomacy I have ever seen.
Sovereign states recognise new nations based on binding legal referendums and bilateral treaties, not out of sheer pity because your own political party is “treacherous to Scotland”.
And to top off this absolute sovereign citizen delusion, you are declaring the SNP “completely irrelevant” to independence, while desperately tagging the leader of the SNP, John Swinney, at the end of every single tweet.
Your constitutional chatbot is officially running on fumes now Stephen😂
Seeing SNP as is (duplicitous & treacherous to Scotland) don't you believe that those characteristics are recognised from afar & such betrayal garners further empathy for an iScotland by those in a position to welcome iScotland within the international community?

@JohnSwinney
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