Charlie Abel
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Charlie Abel
@VoteCharlieAbel
Alba party founding member, lifelong independence supporter, Scottish traditional musician,🎶film-maker, & doric speaker fae Aberdeen.🪗
Aberdeen Scotland Katılım Nisan 2010
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They fuckin… stole fae us.
Nae other waye tae say it.
Unforgivable.
A position of power where influence and the push for independence would be expected,
Instead it was
Personal aggrandisement, vehicles
and Amazon luxury goods.
How weak, how completely incompetent and useless are the leaders of the then independence movement?
This is not acceptable.
We deserve better.
I want independence not
Self aggrandising for selfish
Imposters.
The problem we face seems to be the Scottish people are asleep and don’t pay attention.
If they did….
“ I smell shite ” 💩
Stop
Asking for what is ours.
Let’s take it.
🏴
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The Scottish independence movement did not build itself on corporate donations, billionaire backers or establishment privilege, it was built by ordinary people, pensioners putting coins in collection buckets, working families buying raffle tickets and attending fundraisers, activists standing in the rain shaking tins on street corners, young people skipping nights out to donate a few pounds to a cause they believed was bigger than themselves.
Hundreds of thousands of Scots placed their trust, their hope and their money into a movement that promised honesty, transparency and a nation built on democratic accountability.
That is why the guilty plea by Peter Murrell to embezzling £400,310 from the SNP is not just another political scandal, for many in the independence movement, it feels like a betrayal of faith itself.
This is not simply about one individual standing in court, it is about a movement demanding answers that should have been given long ago. The central question that still burns in the minds of independence supporters across Scotland is simple, was this money ordinary SNP party funding or was it the ring-fenced referendum fund that people across the wider independence movement donated to in good faith for the sole purpose of securing Scotland’s independence?
If it was referendum money, then this becomes something far deeper than internal party wrongdoing, it becomes the theft of hope from an entire national movement. For years, ordinary independence supporters were told that the referendum fund existed, that it was protected, that it was there for the day Scotland would once again be called upon to decide its future.
People donated believing they were investing in the freedom of their country, they were told their money was ring-fenced and safeguarded, now Scotland is faced with a guilty plea involving £400,310, and yet the original £600,000 referendum fund remains surrounded by unanswered questions, contradictions and silence. If the embezzled amount was part of that fund, then where is the remaining £199,690?
If it was not referendum money, then what exactly happened to the £600,000 that the wider independence movement entrusted to the SNP? These are not fringe questions, they are questions every independence supporter has the right to ask, the independence movement cannot move forward by pretending this does not matter.
Trust is the foundation of every political movement, especially one asking a nation to believe in a better future, once trust is broken, it cannot simply be rebuilt with slogans and staged speeches, it requires the truth to be brought out, it requires transparency and accountability without fear or favour.
The movement cannot spend years demanding honesty from Westminster while refusing to confront hard questions within its own ranks. Scotland deserves better than that and the independence movement deserves better than that.
There are many independence supporters today who feel angry, humiliated and used, not because they oppose independence but because they devoted years of their lives to a cause they believed belonged to the people of Scotland, not to political elites or party machines.
Some travelled the length of the country campaigning, some damaged friendships and family relationships defending the movement, some gave money they could barely afford because they genuinely believed they were helping secure Scotland’s future, those people deserve answers, they deserve respect, above all else, they deserve the truth.
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Outside John Swinney’s press conference a rather emotional Joanna Cherry tells how she and others had tried to raise concerns about party finances
@GinaDavidson@ginadavidsonlbc
Nicola Sturgeon has posted this statement on her Instagram 👇🏻
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The lack of understanding or recognition of our native languages in this country is telling. It’s shameful. Language is oors, fit the deil is wrang wi ye.
Atts foo wi spik, fit waye wid ye pit a tattie in yer moo aan replace yer tongue wi anither in subservient shame?
If ye dinna Ken yer vyce yi dinna ken yer fowk or yer country.
Nae muckle winner we pechel tae staun up fir oor ain.
Weel deen for spickin richt quines.
Ah kent fine fit ye said. 👍
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Charlie Abel retweetledi
Let's see how your assertions,and wild exaggerations, stand up to the actual evidence, (spoiler, they don't):
Glasgow in December 1745 was a city of around 20,000–25,000 people. Its Whig commercial elite had built their wealth almost entirely on one thing: Atlantic slave-economy trade - tobacco, sugar, cotton - flowing through Greenock and Port Glasgow to the Americas.
That trade was legally contingent on remaining inside the British imperial framework.
A Jacobite victory would have dissolved the Union and ended access to the colonial trade infrastructure those merchants depended on.
The freedom of the city wasn't popular gratitude. It was a slave-trading commercial class thanking the man who preserved their revenue model.
So yes, the slavers of Glasgow supported the "pretended Union", and fully supported Cumberland's slaughter of Scots to continue their despicable and murderous trade - that's some boast.
As for the claim that the Jacobites "threatened to slaughter the people of Glasgow" - this is a distortion of the documented record.
What actually happened: Charles threatened to sack the city. Cameron of Lochiel intervened and prevented it. Citizens weren't threatened with massacre; the city was requisitioned for supplies under duress.
"Sack" doesn't equal "slaughter the people." That distortion has no primary source support.
Glasgow was simultaneously funding government troops to resist the Jacobites while paying the Jacobite levy under compulsion.
Charles himself noted Glasgow as a town "where I have no friends and who are not at pains to hide it."
That's an exaggeration on Charles' part given there were non-elite recruits to Jacobite ranks, but accurately describes the town institutionally.
The Aberdeen and St Andrews honours?
Aberdeen's universities were by 1746 operating under direct London-managed Whig patronage - imposed after the 1715 suppression when the Lord Marischal's interest was confiscated and new men installed by Squadrone politicians.
Those institutions honouring Cumberland were themselves products of the same suppression apparatus.
And Aberdeen's general population?
The British occupation commander wrote from Aberdeen in June 1746 that not a single person would provide intelligence, even those who "pretend to be well affected," and that he was persuaded there was hardly one who would not rather conceal a rebel than inform. He proposed starvation as the policy instrument.
That's the occupier's own private assessment of Aberdeen's population - two months after Culloden, while the Anglo-Whig elite of the university were preparing honours.
"Most Scots were grateful."
The post-Culloden prisoner list held at The National Archives includes a Glasgow journeyman barber among the Jacobite fighters. The transportation list includes Aberdeen goldsmiths, Banff seamstresses, Perth surgical apprentices, an Edinburgh watchmaker, a twelve-year-old boy from Arisaig.
These were not Highland Catholics dragged unwillingly into a dynastic quarrel. They were the Scottish mainstream - urban, Lowland, Protestant, as well as some from the Highlands, across every region of Scotland.
601 documented military cantonment locations across Scotland from the Borders to the Outer Hebrides, sustained for over a decade after Culloden.
You don't garrison a grateful population at 25% of your standing army's total strength.
You garrison a hostile and occupied one.
The east coast had been economically devastated by the Union while Glasgow's west-facing merchants profited from empire trade. The honours at Whig-managed universities and the freedom from a slave-merchant council were gestures by the narrow class layer that had gained from annexation - not a verdict from Scotland's people.
The historical record doesn't show a grateful nation. It shows a coerced one.
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This country has had enough of Labour.
My country has had enough of Westminster.
Labour would happily allow the Chagos have independence.
Scotland has a voice and it is high time it used it, started shouting back and standing up for itself.
Every problem we Scots face has a common thread, not being independent - is not in Scotlands national interests.
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Unsurprisingly Streeting's statement causing outrage in pro-independence circles.
Scottish Green former leader Patrick Harvie said: “Labour is showing complete contempt for Scotland and our democracy... [it] isn’t up to Streeting or Starmer, it is up to the people who live here"
LBC@LBC
"The country has had enough of chaos!" Wes Streeting rules out Scottish independence, telling @Lewis_Goodall that there will be no fresh referendum even if the SNP get a majority.
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Charlie Abel retweetledi
Artist Ethel Moorhead (1869-1955), the first Scottish suffragette to be forcefed, said, “You Scotsmen used to be proud of Burns; now you have taken to torturing women."
How long must we wait until the Scottish government accepts the Supreme Court ruling that the legal definition of “woman” does not include “anyone who says he is”?
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Charlie Abel retweetledi
Alba Aberdeen members held their regular monthly meeting last night and passed a unanimous vote of confidence in Kenny and the leadership team as they seek the best way forward for Alba- and in doing so, always prioritising what is best for Scotland and the cause of independence.
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@ScotBorderOG @JNHanvey There’s no woe is me.
I’m standing up, I’ve stood up.
I’m still standing.
Regardless
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@VoteCharlieAbel @JNHanvey It’s not the time for “woe is me”.
It’s time for people in Alba to stand up and be counted.
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I did not join alba to be a politician. I joined because I believe in independence, I was inspired by Alex, Kenny and Neale and others in the party at local and National level.
This is an accurate description of events I have personally witnessed.
I agree with Neale’s sentiment.
Neale Hanvey🏴@JNHanvey
In August 2024 during a meeting of the NEC I raised the serious concerns of members regarding the Party’s recently published accounts for 2023. This discussion led the NEC under Alex’s leadership to two decisions. Firstly a detailed internal audit of expenditure was to be carried out and secondly, a review of the party’s organisational structure was initiated. The organisational review was completed and agreed before Alex’s untimely death. The party reconvened in November 2024 and the NEC asked me to proceed with the internal audit. During this process financial irregularities were identified which led to a report to Police Scotland. In the months since reconvening, the party has met a series of historical yet significant financial challenges. However, the assiduous judgement of our Director of Operations, Corri Wilson enabled the party to operate with the full intention of contesting the Holyrood elections in May 2026. Navigating these challenges has not been easy, and until very recently I believed we still had a good chance of mounting a campaign. However, in recent weeks a series of calculated actions from within the party have compounded the fall out of the financial irregularities uncovered in previous years driving the party into a position of ever greater political difficulty, much of which appears to have been motivated by a malign agenda to damage the party and Alex’s memory. We are required to be honest and transparent with the Electoral Commission and that is what we’ve been. It is now for those who’ve engineered recent events to make themselves known and make whatever case they may have. I will forever support support independence, but just as I did not care for the ego driven politics of the SNP, I care even less for it now. I was inspired to party politics by Alex Salmond and invited to join ALBA by Kenny MacAskill. I remain true to Alex’s dream of securing Scottish independence, but I am required to be honest with members, voters and the Electoral Commission about the consequences of past and more recent events. For Alex and the cause of independence, the dream will never die.
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Charlie Abel retweetledi
@embradon Not yet Ian, but in time and as the law allows I assure you I will set everything out in full detail.
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I did not join alba to be a politician. I joined because I believe in independence, I was inspired by Alex, Kenny and Neale and others in the party at local and National level.
This is an accurate description of events I have personally witnessed.
I agree with Neale’s sentiment.
Neale Hanvey🏴@JNHanvey
In August 2024 during a meeting of the NEC I raised the serious concerns of members regarding the Party’s recently published accounts for 2023. This discussion led the NEC under Alex’s leadership to two decisions. Firstly a detailed internal audit of expenditure was to be carried out and secondly, a review of the party’s organisational structure was initiated. The organisational review was completed and agreed before Alex’s untimely death. The party reconvened in November 2024 and the NEC asked me to proceed with the internal audit. During this process financial irregularities were identified which led to a report to Police Scotland. In the months since reconvening, the party has met a series of historical yet significant financial challenges. However, the assiduous judgement of our Director of Operations, Corri Wilson enabled the party to operate with the full intention of contesting the Holyrood elections in May 2026. Navigating these challenges has not been easy, and until very recently I believed we still had a good chance of mounting a campaign. However, in recent weeks a series of calculated actions from within the party have compounded the fall out of the financial irregularities uncovered in previous years driving the party into a position of ever greater political difficulty, much of which appears to have been motivated by a malign agenda to damage the party and Alex’s memory. We are required to be honest and transparent with the Electoral Commission and that is what we’ve been. It is now for those who’ve engineered recent events to make themselves known and make whatever case they may have. I will forever support support independence, but just as I did not care for the ego driven politics of the SNP, I care even less for it now. I was inspired to party politics by Alex Salmond and invited to join ALBA by Kenny MacAskill. I remain true to Alex’s dream of securing Scottish independence, but I am required to be honest with members, voters and the Electoral Commission about the consequences of past and more recent events. For Alex and the cause of independence, the dream will never die.
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Charlie Abel retweetledi
And remember, Murrell has LEGAL AID WHICH WE HAVE TO PAY FOR.
@AlexSalmond paid all his own legal fees......
AND WE PAID FOR THE SCOTTISH GOV AGAINST HIM!
JOIN THE BLOODY DOTS!
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Charlie Abel retweetledi
⚡️ Scotland should have the cheapest energy bills in Europe, yet we have some of the highest
🏴 It’s time to end the rip-off. It’s time for independence
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Many thanks to @KennyMacAskill for chairing @DundeeAlba AGM earlier this evening. It’s always fascinating listening to Kenny and tonight was no exception. No other party has a leader more dedicated to our independence than him.
To return a strong pro Indy majority in May, vote @AlbaParty on the list!
🗳️ #listvoteAlba | #MaxtheYES 🏴
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Every single person in Scotland will have an ALBA candidate to vote for at the election in May 🗳️
And every single vote will advance the cause of independence 🏴
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If you want to guarantee a pro-independence majority and keep Nigel Farage's Reform at bay then back ALBA on the Regional List this May 🗳️🏴
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An SNP list vote only helps Reform and the other unionist parties.
Make it #ListVoteALBA and return independence supporting MSPs to Holyrood and cut the unionist seats in half
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If Scots don't see any benefit, why should they carry the burden of pylons and higher energy pricing?
No zonal pricing? Then no pylons.
It doesn't have to be this way. 🏴 💡
#ListVoteALBA
#AlbaforIndependence
#AlbaStandsforIndependence
ALBA Party@AlbaParty
@KennyMacAskill “if no zonal pricing, then there should be no pylons scarring our land” youtu.be/stTU3cwz8vU #ListVoteALBA
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