From BetterTogether "save our NHS by voting No" in 2014, to Labour “The NHS must be privatised." What a difference 10 years make. #IndependenceIsNormal#Scotland
Read the news you're not getting: In England, the only country in the world to have fully privatised water & sewerage systems, raw sewage was discharged into rivers and seas for more than 3.6m hours in 2023. More than double 2022. Meanwhile Scottish Water, publicly owned, has invested nearly 35 per cent more per household in infrastructure since 2002 than the privatised English firms, charging 14 per cent less and not paying out dividends. #IndependenceIsNormal#Scotland#TheNewsYoureNotGetting
Some of the aircraft on show at the superb Dumfries & Galloway Aviation Museum. The museum occupies the control tower and surrounding area of what was once RAF Dumfries, two miles north-east of the centre of Dumfries. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/dumfries/aviationmuseum/index.html
Independent Portugal generated the equivalent of 91% of its electricity needs through renewables by March 2024.
It has Europe's lowest power prices.
Non independent Scotland generated the equivalent of 113% of its overall electricity needs through renewables in 2022.
It has the UK's highest power prices. #IndependenceIsNormal#Scotland
The remains of Tigh nan Saighdearan, or the "Soldiers' House", the tiny Jacobite-era barracks in a seriously remote but strategically important location west of Loch Arkaig, controlling a significant route across the western Highlands. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/speanbridge/barracks/index.html
They cite the government’s own seabed surveys and expert evidence about the damage from trawlers such as scallop dredgers fishing inside marine protection areas (MPAs) that Scotland designated in 2014.
Another for #StandingStoneSunday: while I was there a skylark flew down and lit on a stone at Scotland's Tomnaverie stone circle. I was thrilled because Shelley's To a Skylark was one of my favorite poems when I was young but we don't have them in the States. I got to see and hear them plenty during my visit. #Scotland#bird#birds#skylark#tomnaverie