This analysis from Ian McConnell
well worth a read:

'For Scottish economy doomsayers, this may stick in the craw.'

'Scotland outperformed the UK as a whole in terms of growth in business activity in the private sector last month.'

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BiS responds to Alba's statement on Believe in Scotland's March and Rally.
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❗️Westminster promised 200+ of the 9300 Civil Service Energy jobs in London would transfer to Aberdeen.

📉They now admit it will be just 35.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Scotland will never get a fair deal from this broken 'Union'.

💷 Scotland has the highest wages in the UK.

📈 Fair wages are essential to protect workers and families, especially during a Westminster-made cost-of-living crisis.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 While Westminster is wrecking the economy, the SNP Scottish Government is delivering for working people.

And he's spot on. The only thing the Greens and the unelectable Alba Party can achieve is to take enough votes of the SNP to let a unionist MP in. They have absolutely no chance of winning any Westminster seat in Scotland. scotsman.com/news/politics/…

Hard to argue with this assessment of media coverage.

Graphic by MSM Monitor

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Scotland's future is as an independent country in Europe. We voted to stay in and we should never have been forced out. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺

Can it really be Scottish Tory policy that harassing the disabled, assaulting ethnic minorities & daubing anti-Semitic abuse on synagogues should not be treated in Scots law as aggravated by prejudice? Because that's a big part of what repealing the Hate Crime Act would achieve.

“Supporters of the Union will need to find a “positive argument” to keep Scotland in the UK, Gordon Brown has said. 

Good luck with that.

Voters remember the cynical promises Gordon Brown made in 2014 - promises he knew he was powerless to keep.

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My adoption night on the 17th of May. Each election it gets bigger and better. This year Stuart Nesbitt (the Proclaimers, Justin Currie and the Bacharach evening in the concert hall) is putting together a band of top Perth musicians. Will be sold out soon.

Independence is ours for the taking .Even Mr Better Together now admits there is no positive reasoning to remain in the #DisUnitedKingdom

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I thought we were only ever going to be going forward in Scotland with Scotland ‘leading’ the UK in some sort of ‘near federalism’ utopia with his Better Together coalition….

How can it be ethical both to accept private health lobbyists' money whilst advocating the opening up of the NHS to private health companies as Labour's Shadow Health Secretary does?

The more voters in Scotland learn about the Labour leadership the less they like their vales.

Apparently I’m going to be opposed by an Alba and an ‘unofficial’ Alba candidate at the General Election and maybe even a Green too. Does anybody know how this advances independence and helps keep the Tories out?

The problem with whipping up the baying mob is that one day the baying mob comes for you.

Dame Jackie thinks politicians if under police investigation must be suspended. Presumably that now means Angela Rayner - if Keir Starmer 'is strong enough to do so.'

Jackie?

It’s a peculiar feature of national life in the UK that those aspiring to the highest office have to promise that they’d behave like irrational psychopaths under certain circumstances.

Another random Thatcher fact for all her new Labour Party leadership fans. She was the only European Union leader to oppose a ban on the ivory trade. Oddly cruel even for her. Presumably she calculated that if the elephants were privately owned they were, therefore, fair game.

Of course he would. Of course he would….

The chutzpah….His Labour bosses in London are literally boasting about how they’re going to throw open the NHS to the private sector. And, as always, he will be powerless to stop them.

Meanwhile in The SNP Scotland we have free prescription & the fastest A & E in the UK.