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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Are We Better Together Yet?

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Are We Better Together Yet? @bottertogether.bsky.social · 5h

Thanks to 14 years of Tory rule, proud Scots can now benefit from panel shows (and the tenfold increase in food banks). Swinney is threatening this progress. It’s terrifying.

The Harry Enfield & Paul Whitehouse sketch 'Panel Show'. On the panel are 'Uncomfortable Journalist', Paul Merton & David Mitchell.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Are We Better Together Yet? @bottertogether.bsky.social · 8h

It's one thing to say you don't like Sir Keir Starmer as Prime Minister. Frankly neither do we! But it's easy to forget that before Starmer, everything was just brilliant.

No Thanks.

Sir Keir Starmer looks fed up with Boris Johnson's answer during a lockdown edition of PMQs and closes his eyes in despair, looking half-asleep.

The map of the UK in the EU referendum, showing a majority of English and Welsh regions voting Leave (literally right up to the border) but every single Scottish region voting Remain.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Are We Better Together Yet? @bottertogether.bsky.social · 14h

As one proud United Kingdom, we have achieved great things together. Now Swinney wants to throw our centuries of shared history in the bin? Ludicrous. Now is not the time.

Backbench Tory MP Sir Charles Walker holds a bottle of milk and screams during a surreal Channel 4 interview. This was possibly something to do with Boris Johnson breaking his own lockdown laws to hold weekly illegal parties, or maybe something to do with Brexit. It all melded into one giant mess really.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Are We Better Together Yet? @bottertogether.bsky.social · 20h

Think Brexit is bad? Suella Braverman has confirmed that #ScottishIndependence will lead to the dualling of the A9, but as cycle lanes. No to #Indyref2.

The A9 being upgraded to dual carriageway near Perth, with a nice sunset in the background.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Are We Better Together Yet? @bottertogether.bsky.social · 23h

The evidence is clear: Swinney has no mandate to force yet another divisive referendum on us. The issue has been decisively settled for at least 30 years, if not 50 or 60.

Now is not the time.

Daily Record article from 03/07/16: 'Second independence referendum should not be blocked by Westminster, says Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson'.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Are We Better Together Yet? @bottertogether.bsky.social · 1d

Only the Labour Party can lead us through the #CostOfLivingCrisis. Under Swinney's ludicrous plans, we can't even guarantee we would be able to keep our beloved air.

Pool and share.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Are We Better Together Yet? @bottertogether.bsky.social · 1d

Instead of blaming Willie Rennie for the world’s media laughing at us all, you should actually be blaming Stephen Flynn. It’s that simple. Yet more proof that we're Better Together.

Willie Rennie stands in the background behind some kind of bird of prey and stares intently.

A cartoon of a guy in a bowler hat (which is over their eyes) trying to paddle one way, as someone else sits on top of Scotland and paddles the other way.

Stephen Flynn sits in a dressing room in front of some Spanish football strips, mocking holding midfielder Rodri for moaning after Spain's 2-0 loss to Scotland at Hampden by pretending to cry.

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Are We Better Together Yet? @bottertogether.bsky.social · 1d

In the UK, we are guaranteed bigger railcards. But in a separate Scotland, we would potentially lose access to chocolate. The pointlessness of nationalism is plain for all to see.

Pool and share.

A train ticket from Lochwinnoch to Glasgow, with a a number of other tickets underneath.

CW: FOOD. A number of different chocolate bars, including a Snickers, Twix, Kinder Bueno and KitKat.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Are We Better Together Yet? @bottertogether.bsky.social · 1d

We can only imagine the disasters that will befall us if Swinney gets his way. But in the UK we have safety, security and a solid track record. Why risk it all?

We simply can't risk this.

A selection of 25 headlines detailing Tory politicians being caught up in obscene scandals, such as extreme racism, anti-working class diatribes, sectarianism, death threats, sexism, anti-traveller propaganda, homophobia and Islamophobia. Interestingly, a number of Tory candidates seem to switch seamlessly to and from UKIP and the BNP.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Are We Better Together Yet? @bottertogether.bsky.social · 1d

As one proud United Kingdom, we have achieved great things together. Now Swinney wants to throw our centuries of shared history in the bin? Ludicrous. Now is not the time.

Motherwell manager Mark McGhee swears at an Aberdeen fan after getting sent to the stands at Pittodrie. A policeman shouts in the background as McGhee attempts to grab the fan's phone and begins to let out a swear word.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Are We Better Together Yet? @bottertogether.bsky.social · 2d

If there's one thing Unionists are renowned for, it's our astute analysis. That's why everyone knows that #ScottishIndependence will be an historic catastrophe.

Broad shoulders.

The English Daily Express front page on 22/04/14 says, 'PENSION SHOCK FOR MILLIONS'. The Scottish Daily Express on the very same day claims, 'PENSIONS SAFER WITHIN THE UK'. One of them ended up being proved right. Guess which one?

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Are We Better Together Yet? @bottertogether.bsky.social · 2d

In 2014 Scotland voted overwhelmingly to stay in the UK, in an historic landslide that vanquished nationalism forever.

And (if you can just overlook the devaluing of the Pound), it's been one big party ever since.

A TV reporter stands in front of a screen showing the value of Pound Sterling falling off a cliff after Sunderland declares a strong 'Leave' vote in the EU Referendum in 2016.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Are We Better Together Yet? @bottertogether.bsky.social · 2d

Swinney and the Greens want to nationalise panel shows. Vile. Only a vote for Rachel Reeves will stop this.

$Chancellor Rachel Reeves, above a headline that reads, 'Rachel Reeves eyes billions in welfare cuts amid economic pressures'. Reeves has had a long-term obsession with pushing the poorest people in Britain even further into poverty, even though this would raise a fraction of the money that taxing billionaires properly would gather.$

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Are We Better Together Yet? @bottertogether.bsky.social · 2d

Ross Greer can't even tell us how many shopping days are left until Christmas. Laughable. We simply can't risk this.

Santa Claus attempting to order something on a laptop & checking his card details, with a Christmas tree in the background.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Are We Better Together Yet? @bottertogether.bsky.social · 2d

Swinney and the Nats are destroying Scotland. Imagine what they could do with more powers.

We simply can't risk this.

Professor Simon Wren-Lewis, Professor of economic policy at the Blavatnik School of government at Oxford University, outlines how Brexit had destroyed any faint case for Scotland to stay under Westminster rule.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Are We Better Together Yet? @bottertogether.bsky.social · 2d

As one proud United Kingdom, we have achieved great things together. Now Swinney wants to throw our centuries of shared history in the bin? Ludicrous. Pool and share.

Evening Standard tweet: 'New UKIP leader Henry Bolton says he 'could kill a badger with his bare hands'.'

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Are We Better Together Yet? @bottertogether.bsky.social · 2d

CONFIRMED: An independent Scotland will have no panel shows. Only Anas Sarwar as First Minister can stop this.

Anas Sarwar pondering something in the Scottish Parliament.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Are We Better Together Yet? @bottertogether.bsky.social · 2d

Don’t forget to catch today’s Daily Mail later, where Alex Cole-Hamilton and the Prime Minister will discuss the Nat plans to deny us all chocolate. Unmissable.

Scottish Lib Dem leader Alex Cole-Hamilton snarling aggressively & swearing at an SNP MSP during a lockdown video call, while not realising his camera was on.

Times article from 24/09/20: 'SNP win will be a mandate for referendum, says Starmer'. Unfortunately, like every other thing Sir Keir Starmer said in his leadership campaign and his first year in charge of the party, it turned out to be a lie. Starmer has since followed the policy of the every Tory PM since 2014, and insisted that the people of Scotland have no right to hold another vote until the heat-death of the Universe, no matter how many times they vote for a pro-referendum majority in their own parliament.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Are We Better Together Yet? @bottertogether.bsky.social · 3d

Dominic Cummings has promised Scotland bigger railcards, but separation would risk this. No to divisive nationalism. Brexit means Brexit.

Dominic Cummings sitting at a wee desk in the Downing Street garden, trying to defend his inexplicable breaches of his own government's lockdown laws when he drove to Durham then Barnard Castle to 'test his eyesight'.

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Are We Better Together Yet? @bottertogether.bsky.social · 3d

Don’t forget to catch Call Kaye later, where Piers Morgan and Frank McAveety will discuss the Nat plans to deny us all Liberal Democrat spring conference. Unmissable.

Piers Morgan storms off the set of Good Morning Britain & resigns from the show, after a colleague questions his incredibly unsettling & infinite abuse of Meghan Markle.

Glasgow Labour stalwart Frank McAveety (perhaps most famous for making creepy comments about a 15-yr-old girl during a public meeting) poses for the camera.

A sign on a tree in a wood saying, 'Liberal Democrats Winning Here'.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Are We Better Together Yet? @bottertogether.bsky.social · 3d

Instead of blaming Hartley-Brewer for the UK running out of gas, you should actually be blaming Pat Kane. It’s that simple. No to divisive nationalism. Brexit means Brexit.

Pat Kane looking shocked & open-mouthed at something.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Are We Better Together Yet? @bottertogether.bsky.social · 3d

Swinney and the Nats are destroying Scotland. Imagine what they could do with more powers.

No to divisive nationalism. Brexit means Brexit.

A Herald article in 2022 reveals that Scotland remains the best-educated country in Europe: 'The percentage of Scots holding post-secondary qualifications continues to be the highest in Europe.'

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Are We Better Together Yet? @bottertogether.bsky.social · 3d

Swinney and the Greens want to nationalise ITV4+1. Vile. Only a vote for Archie MacPherson will stop this.

A black screen saying, 'ITV4 +1 - Programmes return at 4am.'

The Only An Excuse team parody former Scottish football commentator Archie Macpherson, with a stylish ginger coiffure.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Are We Better Together Yet? @bottertogether.bsky.social · 3d

When you think about titans of the political scene, you think about the likes of Fabricant or Baroness Davidson. So when they warn us about the dangers of separation, we must heed their advice.

There is simply no alternative.

Tory Michael Fabricant with a painting of Westminster in the background.

Former Scottish Conservatives branch manager Ruth Davidson, driving a massive tank with a Union Jack and pulling an odd face.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Are We Better Together Yet? @bottertogether.bsky.social · 3d

The evidence is clear: Swinney has no mandate to force yet another divisive referendum on us. The issue has been decisively settled for at least 30 years, if not 50 or 60.

UK OK.