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#Scotland 🏴 is a colony of England 🏴 in the 🇬🇧 UK. . 😎☕️🏴🇪🇺❌️👑🌏🌎🌍🐋🐘🐅 #ScottishIndependence
The captain of one of the UK's nuclear submarines has quit his role over his relationship with a Scottish Labour MP whose husband has been arrested on suspicion of spying for China #Echobox=1775045690-1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thenational.scot/news/25986287.…
👉 NEW — ‘I had heard rumours about MOD waste. What I saw was jarring’ By former defence contractor The failed Watchkeeper drone programme isn’t an abnormality, but typical of the incompetence I saw for years as a defence contractor declassifieduk.org/i-had-heard-ru…
BREAKING: Britain has fewer than 50 Storm Shadow cruise missiles left. The stockpile that once exceeded 200 was drained over two years of transfers to Ukraine to help Kyiv strike Russian targets deep behind the front line. The missiles worked. They hit command posts and ammunition depots and naval headquarters across occupied Ukraine and Crimea. They helped Ukraine survive. And now Britain has almost none left for itself, during a war being launched from its own airfields against a country that just hit a British oil facility with drones. Brimstone anti-armour missiles sit at 25 to 35 percent of pre-war stocks. Paveway IV precision-guided bombs, the same weapon the RAF used over Libya and Syria, are at 30 to 40 percent. The National Audit Office estimates that Britain can sustain high-intensity combat operations for three to six weeks before requiring American resupply. Three to six weeks. The Iran war is already in its fifth week. If Britain were fighting it rather than hosting it, the cupboard would already be empty. The Army is 10,000 soldiers below target. Type 45 destroyers suffer chronic propulsion failures requiring six to twelve months of repair. The F-35 and Typhoon fleet operates at 60 to 70 percent availability. The industrial base that would replenish stocks runs on rare-earth magnets manufactured in China, the same China that controls 90 percent of the permanent magnets in every guided missile Britain would need to fire and is currently being asked to broker the peace. Any direct involvement beyond basing would require 8 to 15 billion pounds in emergency supplemental spending. National debt exceeds 100 percent of GDP. There is no majority in Parliament for funding a war the Prime Minister says is not Britain’s, fought with weapons Britain does not have, replenished by supply chains controlled by a country Britain needs to broker the ceasefire. This is why Starmer says “not our war.” Not because of principle. Not because of legality, although his own advisors have told him the strikes are legally questionable. Not because of Iraq, although the ghost of Blair hangs over every press conference. Because of arithmetic. Britain gave its missiles to Ukraine. It gave its bases to America. It gave its diplomatic capital to a 35-nation meeting about reopening Hormuz “after the fighting stops.” And it has nothing left to give except words, which cost nothing and accomplish less. Trump knows this. He mocked the Royal Navy in the Telegraph interview. He dismissed Starmer’s windmills. He called NATO a “paper tiger” because the paper is literal: Britain’s defence capability exists on paper. On the tarmac and in the magazines and in the recruitment offices, the numbers tell a different story. The story says that one of the six largest economies on earth, the country that once ruled a quarter of the planet, cannot sustain a shooting war for longer than six weeks without calling Washington for resupply. The bases are full. The aircraft are American. The missiles are gone. The debt is real. And the Prime Minister stands at the podium and says this is not our war while the war takes off from our runways carrying weapons we could not replace if we tried. Britain is not refusing to fight. Britain cannot fight. The doctrine is not a choice. It is an inventory report. And the inventory says zero. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…
1) the SNP cannot “win independence” 2) there will be no referendum. The best chance we have is a strong pro-Yes Supermajority, as defined in the Edinburgh Agreement. How do we achieve that? By using the voting system that exists & NOT making the “BothvotesSNP” mistake again!
Let us be absolutely clear. An independent Scotland will reject the term "New Caledonia". This name was imposed by the English coloniser James Cook in 1774, not as a neutral label, but as a colonial inscription. By invoking “Caledonia”, Cook projected the reach of an English imperial imagination and reality, underlining that Scotland was already colonised by the English colonial state, at least since 1707, subsumed, already spoken for and absorbed into its expanding colonial order. To accept “New Caledonia” is to accept the legitimacy of England's colonisation, territorial alienation and annexation of Scotland, an English colony until today. Kanaky will be called Kanaky. Scotland will speak in its own name. Colonial echoes will not be legitimised. @francediplo @francediplo_EN
Here is the list of the MPs who were officers and supporters of Labour Friends of Israel before it suddenly removed this page from its website.
