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Alba Party grieves the loss of our founder and Leader. Our thoughts are with Moira, and his family, and those across Scotland mourning the loss of former First Minister Alex Salmond.
The dream he cherished so closely, and came so close to delivering, will never die.
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A Scottish Patriot, ALBA Party Leader & Former First Minister 🏴
Alex Salmond begins his journey home from North Macedonia.
Messages of condolence can be left here 👇
albaparty.org/alexander_elli…
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We know of at least one man who can handle Nigel Farage...
@AngusBMacNeil 👏👏
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🗣️"[They are] capturing a generation of young people who are also appalled at a Genocide that is taking place... this is about the closing down of arguments about the actions of Israel"
@KennyMacAskill, setting out why he is against banning @KNEECAPCEOL from TRNSMT
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Since our inception ALBA Party have defended the rights and protections of women like Sandie Peggie.
While others have turned their back on women, it was ALBA who stepped in to ensure she got the support needed to take on NHS Fife.
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Big Media didn’t want you to see this campaign that highlights Westminster seizing Scotland's vast energy resources that are worth £16,000 to every man, woman & child in the country.
Beat the censors and share the message. It’s Scotland’s Oil.
Join ALBA: albaparty.org/join
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"We're @The_Proclaimers; we're backing @AlbaParty for the Scots Parliamentary elections in May. We want to build as big a majority as possible"
For the independence #Supermajority
Make it #BothVotesYES
#voteSNP in your Constituency
#voteALBA on your Region List
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📰 ALBA Party leader Kenny MacAskill has warned that the Sandie Peggie trans 'debacle' must serve as a 'wake-up call' for Scotland’s 'brainwashed' public sector.
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We do not intend to sit at Westminster and play their game.
We will use all the time and resources available to us to help Scotland regain its independence as an immediate priority.
Join ALBA here ➡️ albaparty.org/join
#ScottishIndependence2023 | #Indyref2023
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📺 SNP members walk out the House of Commons as ALBA Depute Leader Kenny MacAskill raises the scandal of Scotland’s massive energy bounty being cabled south to power the equivalent of 2.8 million homes with Scotland getting nothing in return.
#ALBAStandsForScotland 🏴
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‼️ Scotland should have “the cheapest energy in Europe” - Greg Jackson CEO Octopus Energy.
📈 Yet with Scotland remaining shackled to Westminster, energy bills are set to rise again this year.
#YouYesYet? 🏴
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Alex Salmond, the First Minister who brought Scotland to the brink of independence, has returned home. 🏴
Messages of condolence can be left here 👇
albaparty.org/alexander_elli…
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📣 Loch Lomond belongs to #Scotland and to the world. It should not, and must not, be sold or leased to any private company which would then reduce access for the people.
#SaveLochLomond | #AlbaStandsForScotland 🏴
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🗣️ @AlexSalmond: “Humza Yousaf has managed to make Ash Regan, the Alba MSP, the most powerful MSP in the Scottish Parliament... I'm sure that Ash Regan will use that power very wisely indeed”
#ALBAforIndependence
Times Radio
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💬 "What a historical insult to the country... it was only ever underneath the coronation chair in Westminster Abbey... to symbolise English overlordship over Scotland"
ALBA Leader, @AlexSalmond, speaking after the Stone of Scone was taken from Scotland
#ALBAforIndependence
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🏴 ALBA Party Holyrood Leader, @AshReganALBA, signing the book of condolences for former First Minister of Scotland and ALBA founder, Alex Salmond, at the Scottish Parliament today.
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Must Watch clip from Alex Salmond’s speech today at the All Under One Banner March and Rally for Independence 🏴
#ScotlandUnited | @AUOBNOW
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Alex Salmond Statement pscp.tv/w/cyyLmTFXZ0tnYmFOel…
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⚡️ Scotland is being robbed of its natural resources
🏴 Nothing, absolutely nothing, makes the case for Independence more than the Great Energy Swindle 👇📽️
#ALBAforIndependence
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🏴 Manchester United 1
🏴 Grangemouth 0
Both Manchester United and Grangemouth Refinery are owned by Sir Jim Ratcliffe, yet the Labour Government are only going to help fund one of them.
🥀 With Labour, Scotland always loses.
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We are all thinking of @AlexSalmond on what would have been his 70th birthday.
Watch Rev. Alex Salmond deliver his sermon at the ALBA Party Burns supper earlier this year, in tribute to Rikki Fulton’s Rev. I.M. Jolly 👇
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🚫👑 A new poll shows that a majority of Scots back the ALBA Party's position that Scotland should become a republic 🏴
#ListVoteALBA
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🔥"We've got land, we've got water, we've got oil, we've got gas and we've got renewable energy coming out of our ears!"
But what benefit do we see...?
#ALBAforIndependence
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🔊 "This is about a denial of Scottish democracy" ALBA Depute Leader @eastlothianmp & Westminster Group Leader @JNHanvey on being kicked out of the UK Parliament earlier today.
#AlbaStandsForScotland 🏴
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🗣️ @AshReganALBA: "What is the point of the First Minister dramatically chucking the Greens out of the front door, only for the next one to sneak them in round the back?"
It looks like the Green tail will continue to wag the SNP dog.
#ALBAforIndependence
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We are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Winnie Ewing. Our thoughts are with her family at this time. Words cannot describe the importance of Winnie to the national movement of Scotland so for now we express our sadness and our love for her. Rest in Peace Madame Écosse
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Farage's march to Downing Street has begun.
The only way out for Scotland is Independence.
#ALBAforIndependence
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Loch Lomond belongs to Scotland and to the world. It must not be sold to a private company which would reduce access for the people of Scotland.
We stand with those campaigning to Save Loch Lomond and we will do everything that it takes to ensure it stays in public hands.
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"Your Dream Shall Be Delivered" - ALBA Acting Leader and friend of Alex Salmond leads tributes to the former First Minister 🏴
Read Kenny's full speech here 👇
albaparty.org/your_dream_sha…
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🗣 @AlexSalmond: "50 countries have become independent from London since the Second World War.. and not one of them has said 'we're going to come back under Westminster rule'."
#ALBAforIndependence 🏴
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💬 "We built a bridge over the Forth, we built a road round Aberdeen, we froze the council tax, we scrapped tuition fees AND prescriptions; there were lots good things my SNP Govt did." – Alex Salmond 🏴
#ALBAforIndependence | 🗣️ @AlexSalmond
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📣 Alex Cole-Hamilton claimed Scotland isn’t a Nation and should never be so again...
Watch Alex Salmond put him back in his box 👇
#ALBAforIndependence | @AlexSalmond
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EXCLUSIVE: We have uncovered the criteria checklist for Nationalisation used by the UK Government.
Unlike British Steel in Scunthorpe, Scotland's only oil refinery at Grangemouth doesn't tick all the right boxes...
#ALBAforIndependence
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📊 'YES' posts huge 12-point lead in new Scottish independence poll
Yes supporters are mobilising, and momentum for independence is growing.
👉 thenational.scot/news/250894…
#ALBAforIndependence
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It has been confirmed that all refining at Grangemouth has now ceased.
Scotland's only oil refinery has been allowed to close, without so much as a whimper.
Compare this with the action taken by the UK Government to save British Steel in Scunthorpe a few weeks ago.
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BREAKING: New Poll shows Independence support riding high at 52.5 per cent
Read more ➡️ albaparty.org/new_poll_shows…
#ALBAforIndependence
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A year ago today, Scotland lost one of its greatest sons, Alex Salmond.
A lot of changed in a year yet so much of what he said still rings true to this day.
He will always be remembered 🏴
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⚡️ Scotland is being robbed of its natural resources
🏴 Nothing, absolutely nothing, makes the case for Independence more than the Great Energy Swindle 👇📽️
#ALBAforIndependence
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🗣️ "We are being asked to swear allegiance to King Charles III. Well, we are the people, we are sovereign and we say no."
- @TasminaSheikh, ALBA Party Chair
#ALBAforIndependence | #NotOurKing
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Labour are giving Petroineos £600 MILLION to fund a new plant in Antwerp, Belgium.
Yet they won't give a single penny to help secure hundreds of highly skilled jobs at Grangemouth.
With Labour, Scotland always loses.
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🔥🗣️@AlexSalmond: "I would sack the Ofgem board and take some immediate action and help working families in this time of crisis."
#ALBAforIndependence
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The closure of Grangemouth is both economic madness and environmental madness.
🏴 Scotland's oil must be refined in Scotland.
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💬 Ash Regan “I sacrificed the claimed comforts of Ministerial Office on a matter of principle over the Gender Recognition Bill- like you I cannot and will not compromise on womans’ rights or safety.”
👉 albaparty.org/join
#ALBAforIndependence
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Watch the Election Broadcast that STV didn’t want you to see 👇
🗳️ Alba Party: Yes to Scottish Independence
#VoteALBA #ALBAforIndependence 🏴 nitter.app/AlbaParty/status/18009…
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🗣️ @AlexSalmond: "Whatever else an Independent Scotland would've been, you wouldn't in this land of energy plenty be inflicting fuel poverty on the pensioners of this country"
#ALBAforIndependence
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💬 @AlexSalmond: "We are self-sufficient in renewables. So why is our electricity in Scotland based on the international price of gas?"
#AlbaStandsForScotland | #ScottishIndependence2023
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⚡️ Scotland could have the “cheapest electricity in Europe”.
🏴 Instead energy rich Scotland has tens of thousands of fuel poor Scots.
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Despite support for the SNP falling, support for independence is now 53%.
This is why the next election must be fought with a single pro-independence candidate in each constituency 🏴
Join our campaign for Independence ➡️ albaparty.org/join
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🧵 18th of November 2024 marks the 10 year anniversary of Alex Salmond's official resignation as First Minister of Scotland.
Let's take a look at just some of his many achievements in Government.
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📺 WATCH: @AshReganALBA renews her calls for the Scottish Government to apologise to women's rights campaigners 👇
The minister, @S_A_Somerville, again refused to do so
#ALBAforIndependence
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In 2014, Better Together claimed that independence could lead to an increase in household bills by £189 a year.
Today as part of the UK, Scots face rises of £1,300+ a year.
📢 End the scandal of fuel-poor Scots in energy-rich Scotland.
#ScottishIndependence2023 | #Indyref2
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🏠 There are 2.5 million households in Scotland.
⚡️ Berwick Bank alone could provide enough electricity for all of those households and more.
Scots living in fuel poverty is an absurdity and has to end.
#ALBAforIndependence 🏴
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💬 Ash Regan: "I’m joining ALBA on principle also: that Independence cannot be a carrot deployed only to attract voters, during election times. Independence is a material commitment that I was voted in to Parliament to progress and achieve."
👉 albaparty.org/join
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‼️ Scotland should have “the cheapest energy in Europe” - Greg Jackson CEO Octopus Energy.
📈 Yet with Scotland remaining shackled to Westminster, energy bills are set to rise again this year.
#YouYesYet? 🏴
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🔥 "We've got land, we've got water, we've got oil, we've got gas and we've got renewable energy coming out of our ears!"
– Alba Party Leader, @AlexSalmond on the scandal of fuel-poor Scots living in energy-rich Scotland 👇
#ALBAforIndependence
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🏴 The Proclaimers back @KennyMacAskill in his bid to save Grangemouth oil refinery and become the MP for Alloa & Grangemouth
🗳️ On July 4th, make your cross count
#voteALBA
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"A day for high hopes and brave hearts" – @AlexSalmond, at Strichen polling station 🏴
🗳 Make it #BothVotesYES for the independence #Supermajority. #AlbaRising
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There won't be a second referendum, that is why we must use the next election as the opportunity for Scotland to make it's Declaration of Independence 🏴
#ALBAforIndependence
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🔊 "Independence should be treated with urgency. It's something the Scottish people need here and now, not in the hereafter."
– @AlbaParty Leader @AlexSalmond, at Strichen polling station earlier today 🏴
🗳 Make it #BothVotesYES 🏴 for independence. #ListVoteALBA #AlbaRising
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⚡️ Every year Scotland's natural resources generate billions. Do our people see the benefits...? 👇
📈 Profits are soaring while our bills are set to increase yet again.
Exploitation is what it is. It’s time for Scottish Independence 🏴
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Welcome @AshReganALBA 🏴👏
#TeamIndependence | #ALBA23
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🔥 "We've got land, we've got water, we've got oil, we've got gas and we've got renewable energy coming out of our ears!"
– Alba Party Leader, @AlexSalmond on the scandal of fuel-poor Scots living in energy-rich Scotland 👇
#ALBAforIndependence
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Welcome to the ALBA Party, @AngusBMacNeil!
🗣️ "I've joined ALBA because it is the best way of advancing Scottish independence"
🏴 Be like Angus, join ALBA today 👉 albaparty.org/join
#AlbaRising
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🔥 "We've got land, we've got water, we've got oil, we've got gas and we've got renewable energy coming out of our ears!"
– Alba Party Leader, @AlexSalmond on the scandal of fuel-poor Scots living in energy-rich Scotland 👇
#ALBAforIndependence
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🗣️ "I've got news. It's raining. The water's getting in. Families are suffering and it's time to do something about it."
– Alba Party Leader, @AlexSalmond 🏴
#ALBAforIndependence
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This morning ALBA Party Leader, @AlexSalmond, sent a letter to the First Minister @HumzaYousaf 👇🏴
#ScotlandUnited
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💬 "A nation without self-esteem, without self-confidence, without a sense of its history is no Nation at all... That is why it is important"
@AlexSalmond also explains what he would have done if he was still First Minister 👇
#ALBAforIndependence
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⚡️ Scotland is being robbed of its natural resources
🏴 Nothing, absolutely nothing, makes the case for Independence more than the Great Energy Swindle 👇📽️
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📝 @AlexSalmond pledges to put differences aside to work with Nicola Sturgeon on #ScottishIndependence referendum
#ALBAStandsForScotland 🏴
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⚡️ "In Scotland, we generate 100% and more of our electricity from renewable resources."
ALBA Party Leader, @AlexSalmond on the scandal of fuel-poor Scots living in energy-rich Scotland 👇
#ALBAforIndependence | #bbcqt
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📺This is the ALBA Broadcast that @STVNews don’t want you to see tonight, and that Twitter (@X) have tried to delete.
🗳️Make your cross count for Independence.
#VoteALBA #ALBAforIndependence
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📜 King @RobertTheBruce endorses the @AlbaParty.
As in 1314, it will be the 'Sma Folk' who will win the day for #Scotland in 2021.
For the independence #Supermajority, make your #ListVoteALBA
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Never forget that Labour allowed Scotland’s only oil refinery at Grangemouth to close, yet moved heaven and earth to save a plant in Scunthorpe.
With Labour, Scotland always loses.
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🗣️ "This judgement will reverberate around the world"
ALBA Depute Leader, Neale Hanvey, commenting after the Supreme Court's judgement this morning 👇
👏 @ForWomenScot | @JNHanvey
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🛢️ Scotland produces 90% of the UK's Oil and Gas yet our ONLY refinery is to close
🗣️ @AshReganALBA: "Can the minister say they would be so relaxed about this if the boot was on the other foot and it was England that was left with no refinery capacity"
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"If we start now, then in four and a half years time #Scotland could be independent. But one thing is for certain, if you don't start you won't finish." – @AlexSalmond 🏴
🗳 On May 6, make your #ListVoteALBA for independence.
#BBCTheCampaign #BBCLeadersDebate
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📺 Watch @AshReganALBA question Dr Hilary Cass on some of her findings into Gender Identity services 👇
🗣️ Dr Cass: "You've summarised it exactly"
#ALBAforIndependence
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ALBA Party Leader @KennyMacAskill has written to the First Minister @JohnSwinney urging him to commit to taking part in a meeting of all Independence Party leaders.
#ALBAforIndependence
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A massive thank you to all of our amazing candidates, members, supporters and of course our voters!
We have achieved a lot in 5 weeks. Imagine what we can do in the next five years! 🏴
#AlbaRising #Supermajority
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📢 Alex Salmond to address Glasgow independence rally on Saturday during King’s Coronation
@AlexSalmond: "Any self-respecting nationalist should be with the masses in Glasgow not the classes in London.”
Read more below👇
albaparty.org/alex_salmond_t…
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🔥@AshReganALBA questioning the First Minister earlier this afternoon.
🗣️"How has it come to this, that a nationalist government looks away helpless as key national infrastructure is lost forever?"
#ALBAforIndependence
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The ALBA Party is not contesting the Hamilton by-election, as we are only standing on the Regional List next year.
Our message to pro-independence voters is clear: don’t stay at home; don’t vote for a Unionist party; maximise the ‘Yes’ vote.
#MaxTheYes
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The closure of Grangemouth is both economic madness and environmental madness.
🏴 Scotland's oil must be refined in Scotland.
✍️ Agree? Sign our petition: albaparty.org/save_grangemou…
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📣 New poll shows that Alba Party could be set for over 20 seats at the next Scottish Parliament election with 48% of Yes voters saying they would vote for Alba on the list to get more pro-Indy MSPs elected ⤵️
𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙙 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚: albaparty.org/breakthrough_p…
#ALBAforIndependence 🏴
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🗣️ "It's the haves who are ripping off the have-nots and that's why a stand is being made."
📣 ALBA Party Depute Leader, @KennyMacAskill at the @RMT_Scotland picket line in Edinburgh this morning⤵️
#EnoughIsEnough | #AlbaStandsForScotland
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Labour are giving Petroineos £600 MILLION to fund a new plant in Antwerp, Belgium.
Yet they won't give a single penny to help secure hundreds of highly skilled jobs at Grangemouth.
With Labour, Scotland always loses.
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'Better Together' was a lie.
✅ Tories remained in power for a decade.
✅ England dragged us out of the EU.
✅ Boris Johnson did become Prime Minister.
✅ We're currently witnessing the rise of the far-right.
It all happened, #YouYesYet?
Women Won't Wheesht 👩🦰
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📊 New polling shows 59% of Scots back ALBA’s proposal for an Independent Scottish Republic.
👉 thenational.scot/news/248079…
#ALBAforIndependence
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🗣️ @AshReganALBA - “It's beginning to look a lot like the First Minister has accepted defeat on Scotland ever becoming an independent country."
"Under his watch, Scotland will become the only top 25 oil producing nation with no refinery capacity, how has it come to this?”
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In 2014, we were told that North Sea Oil and Gas was about to run out.
Fast forward 9 years and it's being used by a Tory Prime Minister to finance a broken Britain
It's time for change, it's time for Independence
#ALBAforIndependence
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The ALBA Party has reported tweets apparently suggesting physical threats against our female candidates to @PoliceScotland. Reported tweets included some from a @ScottishGreens candidate.
#Scotland deserves better than online bullies threatening people.
albaparty.org/alba_draws_a_l…
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🗣️ "This is a victory for women across Scotland... However, it should never have come to this"
ALBA Holyrood Leader, @AshReganMSP, commenting on the Supreme Court's judgement this morning 👇
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🗣 @JNHanvey: "Why should we respect the rules of the Commons when Westminster will not respect Scottish democracy?"
🗣 @KennyMacAskill: "Scotland's voice will be heard & the people of Scotland will prevail. It’s time for independence."
Read more ➡️ albaparty.org/alba_mps_throw…
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