Colin Smith

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Colin Smith

@NoteTaker_X

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Colin Smith@NoteTaker_X·Jul 27

Admitting UN rules are "blindingly obvious" right after telling me to "off you pop" for pointing them out isn't quite the legal victory you think it is. Without a UNGA resolution sponsored by a member state, a petition to C-24 is just fan mail. Replied, then blocked me Sara🤭

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Colin Smith@NoteTaker_X·1h

@JoeScot77 @RealStephenKerr Wait until you find out who owns Scotland's wind farms, Ørsted (Danish state), Statkraft (Norwegian state), and Vattenfall (Swedish state)! 😂 Plus, net annual exports don't help when the wind stops blowing on a freezing January night and we need firm baseload

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JoeScot@JoeScot77·16h

@RealStephenKerr "reduces our reliance on imported power..." ? Scotland is a net exporter of power, to England & NI/RoI They need it, we don't. You do realise all nuclear ps's in UK are owned & operated by EDF, a French state-owned company. What makes you think it's cleaner & safer than before?

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Stephen Kerr MSP@RealStephenKerr·21h

The SNP’s opposition to new nuclear has never been based on science. It’s based on ideology. Modern nuclear power is cleaner, safer and more efficient than ever before. It provides reliable, low-carbon electricity 24 hours a day, strengthens our energy security, reduces our reliance on imported power and creates thousands of highly skilled, well-paid jobs. Yet the SNP remains trapped in an outdated, anti-science prejudice that Scotland simply cannot afford. If ministers are serious about delivering affordable energy, reducing emissions and growing our economy, they must finally abandon this ideological obsession and follow the evidence. It’s time for facts to triumph over dogma.

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Colin Smith@NoteTaker_X·20h

Over £225m has already been spent on enabling works at Wester Moffat, and now Lanarkshire patients are sent back to square one with a 'redesign' that won't even hit ministers' desks until 2027. You can't promise a £2.1bn flagship hospital in an election campaign when internal NHS reports already red-flagged it.

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Colin Smith@NoteTaker_X·23h

@JimmyMcd62 The BBC and STV have been broadcasting Josh Kerr’s gold medal win on repeat all weekend! Also, calling the Commonwealth Games the 'Empire Games' is about 75 years out of date.

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Jimmy Mcdonald@JimmyMcd62·1d

The BBC have announced any good news about Scotland will never be aired as long as the union is in peril I hear a Scots lad , Josh Kerr who is also world record holder at the mile won gold in empire games Scotland has been cancelled

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Colin Smith@NoteTaker_X·1d

@JohnSwinney Calling the Energy Profits Levy a 'supertax on jobs' now is quite a shift from 2022 when the SNP was actively calling on the UK Treasury to introduce a windfall tax in the first place!

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John Swinney@JohnSwinney·3d

3/ Westminster’s supertax on jobs is hurting Scotland, especially the North East. The UK Government must scrap the Energy Profits Levy and urgently act to protect jobs.

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John Swinney@JohnSwinney·3d

🧵 1/ BP’s decision to sell its North Sea business marks a time of real uncertainty for workers, their families and communities across the North East. The skills and experience of this workforce are vital to Scotland’s future prosperity and our energy security.

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Colin Smith@NoteTaker_X·1d

@h5wnft4xdr @LiberationScot Trying to get the UN to classify Scotland as a 'colonised non-self-governing territory' alongside Guam and Western Sahara is completely detached from political reality

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Ramblings from the Colony🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿@h5wnft4xdr·2d

IMHO A fantastic interview with Sara Salyers of Liberation Scotland @LiberationScot. A must watch for anyone with an interest in Scotland’s constitutional position. open.substack.com/pub/melsm25/p/…

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Colin Smith@NoteTaker_X·1d

@putey_pute I'm jealous, as i have a fracture on my mouth & can only have soup for around 6-8 weeks

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Putey Pute ⛄️@putey_pute·1d

Think I’ve earned that bacon roll

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Colin Smith@NoteTaker_X·1d

@CosmicO43151136 @jimac1111 Notice how The National-Scotland’s daily pro-independence newspaper-is completely erased from this list just to make the graphic work? 😭

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Cosmic Owl@CosmicO43151136·1d

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Colin Smith@NoteTaker_X·1d

@CosmicO43151136 @jimac1111 Almost every date in this screenshot is completely made up! HMNB Rosyth was closed in 1995 under the Tories (not under Labour after 1997), and both Royal Navy aircraft carriers were literally built at Rosyth🤭

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Colin Smith@NoteTaker_X·1d

@jimac1111 Calling The Daily Record and The Scotsman—newspapers printed in Glasgow and Edinburgh for generations-'English nationalist' media is embarrassing

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Colin Smith@NoteTaker_X·1d

Norway built a wealth fund because it had a population of 4 million and massive per-capita oil production. The UK used North Sea tax revenues to support a population of 55 million+ and fund public services during 1980s industrial restructuring. Entirely different economic realities.

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Ross Colquhoun@rosscolquhoun·2d

I wonder if Andrew knows how much the British Prosperity Fund currently holds? Norway’s is worth US$2.2 trillion.

Andrew Neil@afneil

The Norwegian wealth fund owns under 3% of BP. So hardly a ‘significant chunk’. But BP pays and collects over £3 billion in British tax. It pays almost no Norwegian tax. Is it now the default position of Scottish Nationalists to lie about everything?

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Colin Smith@NoteTaker_X·1d

@CraigMurrayOrg Gibraltar voted 98.9% to remain British. Overriding the unanimous democratic vote of local people to hand them over to a neighbouring state isn't 'ending colonialism', Craig-it IS colonialism.

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Craig Murray@CraigMurrayOrg·1d

The UK should leave Gibraltar. Spain should leave Ceuta. Morocco should leave Western Sahara. End colonialism.

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Colin Smith@NoteTaker_X·1d

@JsemOzymandias @micheal_olainn @bellacaledonia So if fascism is the opposite of what my avatar promotes, you're saying my avatar promotes freedom?

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Jsem Ozymandias@JsemOzymandias·3d

@NoteTaker_X @micheal_olainn @bellacaledonia The complete opposite of what your avatar promotes.

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BELLA CALEDONIA@bellacaledonia·3d

The ex-BNP ‘Christian patriot’ raising international funding for Scottish ‘vigilante’ night patrols theferret.scot/jim-dawson-fun…

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Mercurius@Mercurius_Scot·2d

Clear evidence that @StephenFlynnSNP @larabirdsnp and @JohnSwinney are lying. Here is @NicolaSturgeon and @theSNP openly opposing new oil and gas licences. They also criticised Westminster when they were issued and backed a supertax on energy companies. @theSNP are directly responsible for @bp_plc pulling out of Aberdeen.

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Colin Smith@NoteTaker_X·2d

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@larabirdsnp @theSNP First, the SNP demanded a windfall tax on energy giants, and now you’re campaigning to scrap it as a 'supertax'. You can't oppose new North Sea licences in your national energy policy while simultaneously demanding tax cuts to encourage oil majors to keep investing.

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@JoeScot77 @kevinoils_kevin @EnglishUDI @Guiseppim Invoking 'grid physics' while confusing annual energy volume with second-by-second frequency management is a self-own! Being a 'net exporter' doesn't keep 50 Hz frequency stable when the wind drops. Physics demands real-time balancing, which NESO directs across Great Britain

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JoeScot@JoeScot77·3d

@NoteTaker_X @kevinoils_kevin @EnglishUDI @Guiseppim "...owned & operated..." by SP & SSEN. You're liking people that deploy switchgear as solely operating Network Rail. Grid physics?🤭 Grid stats show Scotland doesn't need much backup, a net exporter. Whilst England has net imports from Scotland, France, Norway and others.

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Independent England.. Engdependence!@EnglishUDI·5d

Can anyone say what useful purpose the UK...the Union of our 4 nations serves? I can't think of anything. Surely 4 independent nations running their own affairs and catering for the various needs of their own people would be much better suited to the C21st?

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Colin Smith@NoteTaker_X·3d

Ah, the 'he's far too posh and titled to be arrested' defence! Having an impressive CV and advising the King doesn't grant legal immunity from statutory law. Expressing support for a proscribed group on camera carries the exact same legal outcome whether you're an Oxford fellow or an ordinary member of the public!

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Shoaib M Khan@ShoaibMKhan·4d

Sir Jonathon Porritt is a former advisor to King Charles. He is ex-Chancellor of Keele University, honorary fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford and recepient of numerous awards & honours. Shame on the government, our law, and everyone involved in the arrest of this "terrorist".

Defend Our Juries@DefendOurJuries

NEW: Sir Jonathon Porritt, arrested under Terrorism law outside Westminster Magistrates Court. As police escorted him away he said "I am a supporter of Palestine Action, trying to save lives is not terrorism, exposing this Governments complicity in genocide is not terrorism."

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Colin Smith@NoteTaker_X·3d

Dragging out 'Saturday morning kids TV' to shield someone intentionally breaching proscription laws is incredible! He wasn't arrested for 'speaking his mind'-he literally announced on camera outside a courthouse that he supports a proscribed group. Asking 'what end this serves' completely ignores that getting arrested on camera was the entire point of his stunt!

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Matthew O'Toole@MatthewOToole2·4d

This is completely insane and indefensible. Many of us will remember Jonathan Porritt from Saturday morning kids TV and now he is being arrested for speaking his mind about a genocide. What possible end does this serve?

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Lara Bird SNP@larabirdsnp·3d

🚨 BP’s decision to sell its North Sea business is a wake-up call for Westminster. 😶 Warm words won’t protect jobs in our community, bolster energy security or drive investment. ⚡️ The UK Government must end the supertax, back workers and deliver a just, managed transition for the North Sea.

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Colin Smith@NoteTaker_X·3d

Read my very first tweet again, Jollyman! I explicitly said Malta was an offshore tax hub from the start! And 'cutting your cloth' to match Malta's model means slashing corporate tax and shrinking public spending-the exact opposite of funding a high-spending Scottish welfare state!

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Jollyman56@jollyman56·3d

@NoteTaker_X So now it's offshore tax hubs? If Malta are happy with their tax arrangements it's really not for you to comment otherwise. That's the beauty of being independent. You can cut your cloth according to your needs. Currently Scotland's cloth is cut by WM, and it doesn't fit us.

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Jollyman56@jollyman56·5d

Easily....even little Malta: who were told they couldnt possibly become independent: pop 0.5m, has a GDP per capita rate of $53,560 (ppp $82,400) as opposed to Scotland, pop 5.5m, whos GDP per capita is £39,421 (ppp$50,000).