Roger Anderson

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Pissed off to see history repeat itself in Scotland - see the decades Ireland spent supporting useless careerist gravy train troughers before finally seeing through them in 1918!
Roger AndersonDec 31, 2019
"...There is only one trajectory now, & that’s the one that leads to independence...This will be the year when Scotland makes a new declaration of faith & belief in itself as a modern, progressive, outward-looking European nation..."
https://weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2019/12/31/2020-visions/
2020 visions

Wee Ginger Dug
Roger AndersonDec 27, 2019

Just did my first block on Mastadon, the notorious Steve Sayers who is quite likely involved in the campaign of targetted harassment & shutting down of Indy accounts over on Twitter.

Although his antics will probably get short shrift here my advice is to block & not engage.

Roger AndersonDec 23, 2019
"Our determined anger is what will see us through. Boris Johnson should beware our fury, because it will be calculated, cold, and tightly focussed. Beware the fury of a patient nation."
https://weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2019/12/22/the-fury-of-a-patient-nation/
The fury of a patient nation

Wee Ginger Dug
Roger AndersonDec 21, 2019

That's much better, now using Tusky for Mastadon (on Android). #tusky

Much better interface than a browser.

Now I'll need to work out what's best on my PC.

Show threadRoger AndersonDec 20, 2019

> By 1964 questions were being asked by the Church of Scotland about exactly where tax revenue was going. Altho official annual returns were no longer published, figs had been given in a Paper published in 1952-53. This was before oil revenue started flowing into the UK exchequer.

Thread originally posted on Twitter.

Show threadRoger AndersonDec 20, 2019
> By the late 19th & into the 20th Century Scotland had become an industrial powerhouse, not that this benefitted most of it's population, & a massive net contributor to the British Imperial exchequer. >
Show threadRoger AndersonDec 20, 2019
> Once the deed was done & the Union enacted Scotland suffered more than half a century of stagnation & poverty. It was the efforts of Scots that eventually allowed an escape & even then the cost was paid in emigration & loss of population. >
Roger AndersonDec 20, 2019

The Union of 1707: "A historical iniquity with no right but might behind it", the real story of how the Union was imposed on Scotland.

Forget 'Unionist' fantasies & nonsense about glorious centuries of equal partnership, the Union was not & never has been equal. >