Dave Devine

@K4rmaRules But they are making a valid point: we need a border with England and our own immigration policy.

That's why Reform will lose. They don't have a clue about Scotland or Wales. None at all, or how much we hate them.

@dailybritainonx No, Scotland should.

France has EDF. Norway has Equinor. Both are largely state-owned and use the profits for the public good. Britain sold its energy assets off and now pays billions to private shareholders while households struggle with bills. Was privatisation a historic mistake?

@DrHWazir This is the London government destroying the English NHS. In Scotland there was a negotiated a settlement with the NHS and are funding more training. I wish commentators in England would make this distinction because it's assuming false narrative for people in Scotland and Wales.

Most people assume that if the NHS needs more specialist doctors, the Government would train more of them. But that’s not actually what’s happening. The Government can decide how many specialist training jobs exist each year. They can increase them, reduce them, or remove them entirely. These numbers are a political decision. So when the Government removes 1,000 future NHS specialist training jobs, that is an active choice to have 1,000 fewer future NHS specialists. That means fewer potential radiologists reading scans. Fewer potential surgeons doing operations. Fewer potential anaesthetists running theatres. Fewer potential psychiatrists and GPs seeing patients. At a time when waiting lists are in the millions and patients are waiting months or years to see specialists, the Government has actively chosen to reduce the number of future specialists. That doesn’t just punish doctors. It punishes patients and the NHS as a whole, because it means fewer potential specialists and longer waits in the future. And the most concerning part is why this happened. These training jobs were discussed in the context of negotiations with doctors. That means specialist training jobs, and therefore future NHS specialists, were being treated as something that could be added or removed depending on whether doctors accepted Government terms. That is not workforce planning. That is using future NHS specialists as leverage. The Government can create more NHS specialists if it wants to. It can reduce waiting lists faster if it wants to. It can train more doctors if it wants to. Yet they’ve chosen not to. This was a political choice that this Labour Government have made. tribunemag.co.uk/2026/04/the-go…

@Becky46832359 Would your country be in a better place if Scotland had been allowed to win in 2014?

Yes

@LittlePersonDoc @wesstreeting Where are they off to, Scotland? Please make it clear the problem is solely in England, not the UK.

Tonight I had dinner with 2 friends. Both surgeons. Both leaving the UK for consultant posts where “Our skills are actually valued.” Continue treating Drs as replaceable commodities and soon there will be very few Drs. @wesstreeting We need their skills here.

@luluphooey @STVNews As I always say, never overestimate the intelligence of reform voters.

@STVNews You’d need to be thick, to vote reform in Scotland.

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@dailybritainonx It's definitely time Scotland and Wales had a say🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

It's been nearly ten years since Britain voted 52-48 to leave the EU. The same margin now wants to go back. The Iran war is pushing us towards Europe. Trump is pushing us away from America. Isn't it time the people had another say?

@thomsonchris @EdinburghUni @UoELawSchool @UoELawResearch I find this essay absolutely fascinating! Well done! But I fear it emphasises the difficulty in persuading people of a way forward. The points are so finessed that it could be difficult to convince those charged with the decision.

Dr Elisenda Casanas Adam and the Colonial Management of Good Practice 7/ This reframing is the most sophisticated move in Dr Casanas Adam's submission. She identifies the problem accurately and then immediately contains it within a framework that forecloses the most radical & legally accurate response. Having correctly identified that Scotland is vulnerable, structurally asymmetric, and systematically ignored, she recommends a clarity agreement and a code of good practice rather than the activation of international decolonisation mechanisms. Having correctly identified that the democratic will of the Scottish Parliament is not being acknowledged, she recommends negotiation with the state that is not acknowledging it rather than internationalisation of the claim through the UN system. The diagnosis is decolonial. The prescription is colonial. The gap between them is the gap between what international law requires and what the comparative constitutional tradition in which Dr Casanas Adam operates can accommodate. The Most Elegant Constitutional Method of Containing National Freedom Dr Casanas Adam's submission is the most cosmopolitan intervention in the entire series, and that cosmopolitanism is its most deceptive quality. It brings comparative constitutional expertise, Catalan political experience, European conflict resolution methodology, and international scholarly networks to bear on Scotland's constitutional question. It arrives, with remarkable consistency, at exactly the same destination as every other submission in this inquiry: Scotland must negotiate with Westminster, within Westminster's framework, using processes Westminster finds legitimate, toward outcomes Westminster finds acceptable. The colonised must "negotiate" with the coloniser. The sophistication of the packaging does not change the substance of the content. Her formulation says, with great comparative elegance, precisely what every other witness has said with varying degrees of crudeness: Scotland is a sub-state unit whose freedom depends on the goodwill of the state that colonises it. The voluntary union is supervised conditionality. The 2014 paradigm is administrative tidiness mistaken for emancipation. The clarity agreement is a report waiting to be shelved. The code of good practice is a framework for managing a sovereignty dispute without ever resolving whether the sovereignty claimed belongs to the people asserting it. The dialogue is a technology of containment. Report A/HRC/61/NGO/210 is in the United Nations system. It does not propose a clarity agreement with Westminster or recommend a code of good practice for managing the territorial conflict between Scotland and the UK state. It identifies Scotland as a territory under colonial sovereignty and calls for the activation of UN decolonisation mechanisms that do not require Westminster's consent, cooperation, or good faith participation. That is not the approach Dr Casanas Adam recommends. It is the approach that international law, honestly applied to Scotland's condition, requires. Dr Casanas Adam softens colonial domination with the vocabulary of dialogue and democratic negotiation, but the constitutional hierarchy remains intact throughout her submission. Scotland is still framed as a sub-state unit. Westminster still remains the validating authority. Self-determination is converted from a right into a managed process requiring agreement from the very state whose authority is in question. That is not a decolonial solution. It is the most elegant constitutional method of containing national freedom that this inquiry has produced. And it is, for precisely that reason, the most dangerous submission of the series. Colonialism at its worst.

Dr Elisenda Casanas Adam and the Colonial Management of Good Practice @EdinburghUni @UoELawSchool @UoELawResearch We know that for Scotland, held under English colonial rule, the moment has sharpened into a direct legal collision: international law & the United Nations decolonisation order versus English colonial law and the machinery of the colonial state imposed on Scotland. The submission to the UN Secretary-General & the UN Human Rights Council of United Nations General Assembly document A/HRC/61/NGO/210, identifying Scotland as an English colony (x.com/i/status/20339…), is a decisive rupture. The academics summoned before the Scottish Parliament to declare that Scots cannot be free now stand revealed for what they are: agents, enablers, colonisers or colonial collaborators, and intellectual cover for English colonial rule in Scotland: @NikosSkoutaris @AileenMcHarg @alanjrenwick Lea Raible, Elisenda Casanas, @ProfTomkins Stephen Tierney @McEwen_Nicola Idem for @scotparl MSPs behind this colonial report: @ClareAdamsonSNP @jhalcrojohnston @GeorgeAdam @NeilBibby @KeithBrownSNP @PatrickHarvie @RealStephenKerr The Pattern Extends to Its Most Cosmopolitan Form This analysis follows the examination of seven previous interventions submitted to the Scottish Parliament's Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee for its report Options for a Legal Mechanism for Triggering Any Independence Referendum, published on 27 February 2026: Professor Nikos Skoutaris of the University of East Anglia, Professor Aileen McHarg of Durham University, Professor Alan Renwick of University College London, Dr Lea Raible of the University of Glasgow, Professor Stephen Tierney of the University of Edinburgh, Professor Adam Tomkins of the University of Glasgow, and Professor Nicola McEwen of the University of Edinburgh. Each reproduced, the constitutional grammar of the English colonial state while presenting that reproduction as neutral scholarly analysis. The international law of decolonisation was absent from every submission. The pattern has been so consistent across seven witnesses, from multiple countries and disciplinary backgrounds, that it can no longer be attributed to coincidence or individual limitation. It is the structural output of an inquiry whose entire framework was designed to consult the constitutional tradition of the administering power about the limits of the colonised people's rights. Dr Elisenda Casanas Adam introduces a superficial variation on that pattern. She is a scholar of constitutional and comparative law at the University of Edinburgh; yet another witness from that same colonised Scottish institution, operating within the same British i.e. English colonial academic funding ecosystem, producing scholarship within the same constitutional tradition of the administering power. She brings to her submission a Catalan & Spanish comparative expertise, having participated as an external expert in the drafting of the Territorial Sovereignty Conflicts Code of Good Practice and as one of the experts appointed by the Catalan Government to the Academic Council for the Clarity Agreement. This comparative dimension gives her submission an appearance of cosmopolitan breadth that distinguishes it superficially from the narrower British constitutional tradition inhabited by her colleagues. @UofGCILS @UofGlasgow @UofGLaw @UofGPolicy @ucl @ConUnit_UCL @un @UNGeneva @UNHumanRights @UN_HRC @antonioguterres @UN_SPExperts @ISHRglobal @NotreDame @NDLaw @RoyalSocEd @CCC_Research @HLConstitution

@dailybritainonx Yes

Calls for sanctions are growing - is it time for Britain to take a stronger stance?

@dailybritainonx Yes

Do you think they should?

@SJG99 @Keir_Starmer Not "us", just those in England.

Labour are actually going to cancel specialist doctors training posts. Depriving us all of the senior doctors we need, just to spite the underpaid junior doctors . Shame on you @Keir_Starmer and @wesstreetin. #wato #r4today

@andymuirhd All the more reason for a border with England!

Now ask him who is sending the migrants to Scotland and Glasgow. It's not the SNP, it's not GCC. It is the Yoons beloved Home Office.

@dailybritainonx As usual, the English media omits to say this applies to England and Wales. Not Scotland, where the government has been successful in avoiding strikes. If only someone in England could show their government how they did it.

The BMA rejected a deal that would have given doctors a 35% pay rise over four years. Starmer called it "reckless." The BMA says the government moved the goalposts at the last minute. Who do you believe?

@seicilop It's not *the UK". It's England and y.

The 48 hours are up. Keir Starmer and Wes Streeting have cut a 1000 training spots for junior doctors to specialise out of spite not because the UK doesn't need such doctors. Starmer and Streeting are further damaging the NHS.

@DrHWazir @PeterStefanovi2 @Keir_Starmer @wesstreeting The UK is not one country. Please stop lazy assumptions that the English NHS applies to the UK. There will be no doctors strike or conflict in Scotland because once again the SG have had grown-up resolutions.

The Labour Prime Minister @Keir_Starmer and Health Secretary @wesstreeting are now talking about cutting the number of offered NHS doctor speciality training jobs, and this should concern the public, not just doctors. Doctors don’t become Consultants, GPs or Surgeons straight after medical school. After graduating, they have to enter speciality training, to train to become these specialists. If you reduce the number of training posts, you reduce the number of specialist doctors available to treat patients. The UK is already an under-doctored country compared to many European nations, and we already have long waiting lists across the NHS. At the same time, thousands of qualified doctors are being turned away from speciality training every year because there simply are not enough training posts. There were 40,000 doctors applying for 10,000 speciality training jobs in 2025 alone. Cutting training posts will not reduce waiting lists or improve patient care. It will do the opposite, because fewer training posts means fewer specialists available to see patients, perform operations, and run services. So when people are waiting months to see a specialist or years for surgery, it is important to understand that a major reason of this is because the number of training posts is capped, and those caps are a political decision as the number of available jobs is set by the Government. Instead, we have a Labour Government directly threatening to cut the number of offered doctors jobs. When you have to wait years for your surgery or months to see a specialist, ask yourself why.

@DrHWazir @MaureenFairgri1 @Keir_Starmer @wesstreeting In England...!

Tonight, @Keir_Starmer and @wesstreeting have decided to cut the number of offered specialist training jobs for doctors. Doctors need these jobs to train to become the specialist Consultants and GPs of the future that the NHS so desperately needs. Instead, this Government has decided to make it harder for you to see a specialist and is effectively holding doctors’ jobs hostage. We are already an under-doctored country compared to other OECD countries. In 2025, around 40,000 doctors applied for just 10,000 speciality training jobs. That means tens of thousands of qualified doctors ready to train, ready to work, and ready to treat patients are being turned away every year. The Government can train more specialist doctors when they want to. They are simply choosing not to. Remember this the next time you can’t get an appointment or your surgery is delayed.

@triffic_stuff_ Proud Zionist

Rachel Reeves on BBC Breakfast: "No need to do anything about energy bills anytime soon, it doesn't get cold until the Autumn anyway!" According to her, pensioners don’t use the heating for 6 months of the year so no biggie! Absolute genius. Oil prices surging from the Iran chaos, bills about to smash records, but don’t worry we’ll help when you’re on the verge of freezing to death in winter. 🥶 Must be an April Fools wind-up. 🙃

@FurkanGozukara Independence NOW!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

The absolute hypocrisy of the British government. Keir Starmer desperately tries to blame Iran and Russia for the UK's skyrocketing energy bills, completely ignoring that the Trump administration unilaterally started the disastrous war that shut down the global oil supply.

@indyscot12 Typo. Not £600, actually £ 600,000,000.

Well I could say I'm surprised, but I'm not. Would Grangemouth still be here if we were independent? Who knows but as part of this union the UK government gave the owner £600 to close it and fukoff to Belgium. Another union bonus.

@paddyb53 Either that or Starmer doesn't give a flying fuck for anyone in Scotland

In any walk in life if you called on your boss to resign you would be instantly sacked, it either shows how weak Starmer is or the dearth of talent that is at the top of 'Scottish' Labour...if the useless liar Sarwar went, who would replace him.... Bunter Baillie....?