Tim Rideout

The Scottish Currency Group Q&A. All the answers you need. The Quick Guide to the new Scottish Currency. taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2021/09/1…

A very important thread. Devolution gave Scotland power over taxes. It raised them. It has since, seen its economic strength and productivity grow the faster than England, Wales, or Northern Ireland and attract high earners with that strong economy. x.com/L__Macfarlane/…

@Frances_Coppola Thank you for setting that out. I was wondering what they were getting so hyperbolic about.

OK, I am bored with this lie now. Here are the facts. - Abortion remains illegal after 24 weeks gestation except in certain rare and exceptional circumstances - Supplying pills to terminate a pregnancy remains illegal after 10 weeks gestation - Abortion still requires two doctors' signatures to be performed legally - Women seeking terminations must still meet one of the criteria set out in the 1967 Abortion Act - Forced abortion remains a crime - Anyone, including medical professionals, who helps a woman obtain an abortion outside the law is liable for prosecution. In short, "abortion up to birth" HAS NOT been legalised. What the new law does is prevent women from being criminalised for ending their own pregnancies without medical help - a hugely risky practice that women only do if they are desperate. Parliament recognises that these women need care and support, not draconian punishment. Importantly, the new law also protects women who have suffered late miscarriages or stillbirths from being prosecuted for their loss and potentially spending years in jail for what is a tragedy, not a crime. bills.parliament.uk/publications/5…

@ClydesdaleDH They are fools. Refusing to listen to advisers does not make you wise and all powerful. Surrounding yourself with 'Yes' lackeys is generally always something that ends badly.

@RideoutTim This is true. But a different issue. A number of senior officers, including the most senior, Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff have been dismissed for warning about the limits of what could be achieved, shortage of ordnance/resources, and likely now real adverse outcomes.

I suppose setting fire to the laundry on the Good Ship Gerald Ford was clearly the final stage of despair to deal with all the soiled underwear after the toilet system breakdown. I guess first ever aircraft carrier put out of service by a pants failure. @ClydesdaleDH

@flyinglawyer73 @lewis_goodall For now.

@RideoutTim @lewis_goodall Scotland is part of the UK 🤡

Cyprus PM on future of British bases: “When this unfortunate situation in the Middle East is over, we need to have an open and frank conversation about the status and future of the British bases in Cyprus,”

@ClydesdaleDH The military are not usually keen on dieing in silly wars, nor subscribers to religious nonsense about Armagedon and Rapture.

@RideoutTim USN used to have serious discipline issues on these big carriers, with no go areas, and acts of petty sabotage from disaffected ratings related to overextended deployments. They have crews of over 5000. May still be an issue.

@jonsac @gracebrod1e @NJ_Timothy Out of curiosity what are 'Crusaders', 'Conquistadores' and 'Missionaries'? In fact what are the Mormons in the High Street?

An important conversation has been started by @NJ_Timothy. Let's not shy away from it. Behind this debate lies the idea that Islam is a religion of dominance, which seeks to confer the rest of us into adherents. It’s a proselytising religion. The Islamic concept of Dawah, coupled with the regular manifestations of violent Jihad the UK and the West have had to become accustomed to over recent decades, is one reason why many people feel a genuine and legitimate sense of unease when they hear the same words terrorists shout as they slaughter us, echoing across our nation’s primary public square. It is unsettling. My article in the @spectator spectator.com/article/feelin…

@ClydesdaleDH It has been a funny saga. There is some suggestion the fire was not an accident, as with the vacuum toilets. The ship has been kept at sea for 11 months with constant extensions.

@RideoutTim Haven’t followed closely, but they seemed to be having problems with multiple heads. I think, I may be wrong, it’s because it was rushed out of refit/defect rectification before all areas complete. Sometimes there is only so much you can do by way of running repairs.

@flyinglawyer73 @lewis_goodall So was Simonstown, the Malta dockyard, Singapore, Victoria Island (HK), Diego Garcia, etc. When Cyprus says go, as they will one day, the UK will go. As will happen with Faslane when Scotland says go.

@RideoutTim @lewis_goodall That is nonsense, the bases are British sovereign territory. Do understand what you are talking about before posting codswallop.

@flyinglawyer73 @lewis_goodall Only so long as Cyprus agrees to allow them.

@lewis_goodall There are no British bases “in” Cyprus, they are British sovereign territory. As such, the UK need not have any “conversation” frank or otherwise.

@fionahtweet @scotlandinunion It is complete tosh. They use a non-standard question (leave or remain) that inflates the No result.

@scotlandinunion Polling where - with who and what were the questions. Independence matters most of all imo.

New polling published last week shows 60% of Scots support remaining in the United Kingdom. Independence isn’t the priority. Voters want focus on the issues that actually matter. See more here 👇🏻 scotlandinunion.co.uk/post/new-poll-…

@Scots_Woe_Hey @cuillin_glen @albions012 @BBCr4today Ask a biased question and you get a biased result. So off you go an delude yourself ...

@RideoutTim @cuillin_glen @albions012 @BBCr4today Ironically, I just found this in my TL.

Dear @BBCr4today, Scotland is part of the UK. It is not 'a nation of the UK'. Ours is a unitary state, it is not a federation. This is pretty basic stuff, please advise your editors accordingly.

And another picture of the Holy Mary underground station on the Tehran Metro. By شایان محرابی Shayan Mehrabi - tehranpicture.ir/fa/album/11936, CC BY 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?cu…

@CraigMurrayOrg Because they moved the terminal. The UK also does not do joined up thinking. Aberdeen, Glasgow and Edinburgh airports are all next to a railway. None has a station.

Why, when the train passes literally through the airport's landing lights, did they not build a train station at the airport instead of spending hundreds of millions extending the tram out there?

@Frances_Coppola Collective punishment.

What is the point of this?

@PhDStudent63 @Frances_Coppola It is still a war crime as it is targetting civilian infrastructure.

@Frances_Coppola I hope was building was emptied before hand, or else it's a war crime since it's a residential building

@Scots_Woe_Hey @cuillin_glen @albions012 @BBCr4today

@RideoutTim @cuillin_glen @albions012 @BBCr4today Mate, the start of this discussion was your assertion that secession was supported by at least 50% of voters, which has never been true. I have no idea why you have swerved into contorted explanations of central bank operations?

This is also the newest Tehran metro station, opened in Nov 2025. That is a drawing of the Orthodox Christian Cathedral on the wall! By شایان محرابی Shayan Mehrabi - tehranpicture.ir/fa/album/11936, CC BY 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?cu… @gracebrod1e

@Askwhyisit Where do you get two million from? A few tens of thousand at most, but probably less than that.

Extremely unlikely there was a Moses. There is no reason to believe that the Exodus story in the Bible is true. Two million people couldn’t have left Egypt and wandered in the Sinai desert for 40 years without leaving a single piece of archaeological evidence.

@cuillin_glen @albions012 @Scots_Woe_Hey @BBCr4today They are in the Scottish public sector. They will be paid in Scottish Pounds. They don't get a choice. The shops will accept those Pounds as the official currency of the state. That is how currencies work.

@RideoutTim @albions012 @Scots_Woe_Hey @BBCr4today Just debit the account’ only works if your currency is trusted. Scotland’s wouldn’t be. No tax credibility = inflation, weaker currency, costly imports. You don’t pay nurses with theory—you pay them with trust.