Ewan McGregor changes mind to back Scottish independence!
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- Star Scottish actor Ewan McGregor, who opposed independence in 2014, says he’s changed his mind! “After the Brexit vote I’ve changed my tune…enough is enough.”
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It’s time. Enough is enough. I’m an English woman, born and raised in the south West England and moved up to Scotland last year, I am desperate for Scotland to be an independent country. We are big enough, rich enough and more than capable.
You moved up last year? and now you say "we". You are more than welcome here Harriet and I hope you stay, but maybe don't be vocal about such huge decisions in Scotland until you really have a stake in it.
@@jamesfletcher5906 Excuse me. As long as I live here I have a “stake” in it. My Scottish pals say “Wheesht.” 🏴
@@AGirlinGlasgow2 I recently moved to the Netherlands, if they have a huge vote soon, I won't be telling dutch people how to vote.
@@jamesfletcher5906 I’ve not told anyone how to vote Thankyou. I’ve simply stated my opinion on what Scotland needs, that I’m allowed to do.
Goodluck in the Netherlands
@@AGirlinGlasgow2 tbf you kinda out classed me with that reply.
We have a choice. Are we going to be trapped in Brexit Britain with the Tories running the show for the next 40 years or are we going to be part of the world.
This is such a pointless oversimplified comment. I voted Yes, but people like you don't deserve the vote imo
Genuine tories or pink tories.
Ah yes, the negotiator
The easiest way to achieve Scottish independence is to let the English have the vote .
Yet it’s the English who is desperate to keep them 😂
What…
Check the _Acts of Union 1707._
Article 19 will inform you that Scotland was, is and will always be independent.
What we need is for the union to be revoked, the contract nullified.
It's a simple matter, but the snp don't want that to happen, which is why *Salvo* served them _and_ Jack with copies of the _Stirling Directive,_ last week.
If the snp won't revoke it, then it's up to us, the Sovereigns.
Anyway, both their cards have been marked.
@MrGers72
England, along with the rest of the world, have been misled by Wastemonster for over 300 years.
Most English folk believe Scotland are scroungers, cso, given the option, the majority might decide to go for the divorce. 😂😂😂
so the great one makes a documentry about the ROYAL AIR FORCE singing the praises of the uk with his brother an RAF pilot gets the cash and then becomes a luvvie again arsehole
@Michael McCullagh you are obviously conversant with that action I personally am not ,but as you you so pleasantly made the suggestion my i suggest that you do the same ,being an arse and purporting to be a fan of the said luvvie you have my deepest sympathy (and best of luck with the Robertsons Jam look out for the golly )
60% of Scotland’s GDP is earned selling goods to the rest of the UK they’ve no central bank so no currency of there own no chance of getting into the EU because they can’t meet the criteria there deficit is to high let them do they understand what there voting for WAKE UP
@@kj607781 every NON SNP person in Scotland knows this but the cultist just keep on with the same nonsense over and over an nauseum
@kj607781
Just give us our 22% cut of the _Shared Assets,_ which worked out at just shy of *£14,000 billion,* a decade ago, so our split is around *£3.08,000 billion!*
Naturally, we'll expect the return of the *700 tons* of gold Brown 'borrowed' from Scotland, while Chancellor of the Exchequer, but forgot to repay.
_Plus_ the accrued interest, too.
We'll make a 1.8% savings in our GDP, as we'll no longer be paying it automatically into the United _Kingdoms'_ (plural, not singular, but you weren't to know that) Defence Budget.
Further savings will be us no longer paying into what is laughingly called _UKs' Dept._
5.5 million folk, in Scotland, comprising 8.5 of the UKs' population, yet paying a disproportionate 22% of it!
Let's call a spade a spade, shall we?
It's _England's debt!_
England borrows, but Scotland has never seen one single penny of the loans.
Same for N.I and Wales, paying their own disproportionate 15% and 11%, but getting nothing in return.
We'll make even bigger savings by not sending our taxes to England and being ripped off by *40%* and having only 60% of our _own_ money returned, under the fancy title of the _Barnett Formula/Block Grant!_
Doubtless you, like so many others, have fallen for the guff that it comes out of _your_ taxes.
How naive are you? 😂😂😂
Any extra we're given comes out of the *stolen* 40%.
Finally, *our* oil, gas and renewables.
Having gone over the _Acts of Union 1707,_ _Hansard_ noted, on record, about four months ago, that nothing in the bilateral treaty entitled England to any territory, (including waters) resources or revenues that belong to Scotland.
Until the last decade, under threat of being dragged through the International Courts, Wastemonster agreed to allot 22% (they do love that magical, mystical 22% in the Palace of Wastemonster, don't they?) of all future revenues from the North Sea to Scotland.
As I've stated, _Hansard_ has now rectified the misconception that England ever had rights to any of it.
Here's a perfect example...
_SHELL,_ alone, posted profits, earlier this year, of *£32.2 billion.*
Wastemonster taxed them at 75%, so _SHELL_ walked off with *£8.05 billion.*
Of the remaining *£24.15 billion* Scotland was given the aforementioned 22%, which came to *£5.313 billion,* while England pocketed the remaining *£18.837 billion.*
Now, obviously, the oil hasn't been selling at the current prices all the way back to when the theft first began, but, over the decades, that's still oodles of cash that has to be repaid, plus, again, interest.
Gas, well, not so much, but it all adds up.
Renewables, hmmm, that's a tough one.
We produce 80% of Scotland's energy needs, but never see any of it or receive a penny for it, as it goes straight to the National Grid to power the South East (or West, I forget which) of England.
Throwing salt into the wounds, Scotland pays more for energy than our neighbours, in England and, per capita, we use more, due to our mostly crap weather.
Bottom line, once we revoke the union we can ramp up production of renewables, nationalised, obviously, so our bills will be dramatically reduced.
We can leave the oil and gas where they are, in the ground, reducing our carbon print, but, more importantly, we can raise _Gilts_ on them to underpin a Scottish Central bank.
We can go back to using the _Pund,_ as our currency.
We used it from the 1200s, until the Kingdoms united.
Same format as the Sterling, it was...twelve pennies to the shilling, etc.
It would be easy to decimalise it, drop the _'o'_ and start churning out the notes and coins from the two mints we have in Scotland.
The issue of the EU, as it relates to Scotland, is linked into our Scottish Constitution and not as simple as the snp deciding we're joining.
Once the union is revoked we go back to Scottish Constitutional Law, which will involve holding an election and reigning in our politicians.
They won't like having their cards marked, but it's that or we summarily dismiss them.
Refusal to go carries a charge of treason against we, the Sovereigns.
Unlike England, where Parliament is Sovereign, in Scotland it is the people.
Both govt and monarchy take office at our invite, are contracted to us on zero hours.
Another reason Wastemonster doesn't want the split occurring, in case the good folk of England decide they want some of that, too.
The Scots in Nova Scotia are here because we rebelled against the Crown. I’ll tell all yous still in Scotland that we would LOVE to see the motherland break away from the oppressive neighbour. Alba gu bràth 🏴
I think a lot of folk would love to come back home, around the world, but won't, until we rid ourselves of the parasitic Wastemonster.
@@billyandrew Wastemonster - that’s a great one!
Thanks. 👍
Been using it for about five or six years now.
It seemed apt.
McGregor divides his time living between Los Angeles, California, and St John's Wood, London.
Choose life, choose independence, choose Scotland!
Gon yersel, son! 👏👏👏👍🏴
Why would his opinion matter anyway?
Because he's a national treasure. Why would your opinion matter?
@@Fredbob187 My opinion isn't being broadcasted online lmao, so I never said it did matter. If he's a national treasure then I feel pity for you lot lol
@@silverhost9782 'Broadcasted online' is an oxymoron, but essentially yes it is - your opinion is publicly available online in the form of a comment under this video, it's just that nobody cares what you think, so it isn't receiving attention, whereas people do care what Ewan McGregor thinks, so his opinion is going viral. Don't hate the player, hate the game.
As for him being a national treasure - I take it you've never seen Trainspotting - better film than pretty much anything that's ever come out of England. (The only English film that beat it on Channel 4's last 'best films of all time' poll was Kes, which is a fair cop).
You tell us, you're the one who clicked on this video.
@@Kaizoku-o_PirateKing I don't know. Hence why I asked? Seems pretty straightforward...
Have you seen the state of Scotland under the SNP Ewan McGregor? Do you not think it strange that Sturgeon goes on about independence but wants to be ruled by an undemocratic entity called the EU where she would have no influence at all. Do you think it makes you look clever to talk down the UK and Boris. More people in Scotland voted to leave the EU than voted for the SNP. Come back to Scotland and pay your taxes here where they are higher than in England. I suspect you have a romantic view of your homeland. Why not visit Sturgeon’s constituency and see the state of it?
He lives outside UK so why would he know....
For the record, I despise the snp, let's get that out in the open!
They answer to both the WEF and Wastemonster and Wastemonster answer to them, as well.
They signed the UKs up to a _Working Partnership,_ within the organisation.
That having been said, the snp have a better track record of running Scotland than any of the parties in Wastemonster have of running England.
You only have to ask and I'll produce oodles of facts to back my statement.
It kills me to state it, but credit where it's due.
Considering I see them as just another yoonie party, without the guts to stand up and admit it, it sticks in my craw to admit they have good points.
I must admit! His courage!
Claiming to be SCOTTISH!
living in California?
Admirable! If a bit "blah blah "
Y'know?
My daughter and family live in California. They are huge supporters of Scottish Independence. Her husband is German and has always supported Indy too. Scots live all over the world. We are internationalists not flag waving British Brexiteers!
@@KizzieWiz glad to hear your family has taken precautions against the abject poverty that will envelop the nation if the lunatics actually get the keys to the asylum
@@KizzieWiz thats a wee shame !! patriots at a distance 4964 miles away dont need to worry about food banks eh !nice I also have family in california and they would be horrified if Nicola Sturgeon got her way
@@BrianRooney-zh6hl well said 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
@@glennlilley8608 Scotland and Norway are similar size countries. Both hit oil at roughly the same time. Both have similar amounts of oil. Norway has over 1 trillion in the bank, and Scotland has food banks?
Makes me laugh ...all the people who choose to live in other countries in the world but still demand a say in what goes on in there birth country.. they should not have a say or vote on anything
He doesn't get a say (or a vote) - he's simply a celebrity using his platform the express his opinion, which he is entirely entitled to. Or are you opposed to free speech?
@@Fredbob187 I think he got a very big FEE for deriding the UK,especially on the weekend of his Royal Air Force documentry with his brother an R.A.F pilot !!sad
@@BrianRooney-zh6hl you think he was paid to support independence? what an interesting theory - please tell me more! (I'm assuming you have lots to back up such an outlandish claim, and aren't just another post-truth conspiracy moron?)
@@Fredbob187 no i assume thet you can read and understand the written word I said he got a very big fee(as they mostly do) for deriding the UK deriding the UK does not mean supporting independance please let me know where you got this from !!
@@BrianRooney-zh6hl I can read to a graduate level, it's just your point was incoherent gibberish - a big fee from who? what are you basing this on? he's an actor, he gets millions of pounds to appear in hollywood films, why would he be seeking wee handouts from news firms/political organisations? are you simply referring to the fee he would've got for being on the news, because spoiler alert: it isn't big
another patriot at a distance pay much tax here Ewan ? part time Brigadoon scot short bread "the broons every sunday wee hoose 'mang the heather ,crying at hogmany,arsehole
Actors don't need to have any intellectual capacity!!!!!!@!!!!!!!
How’s that ya dafty?
That wis a dull yin, right in the fudd! Lmao. 😂😂😂
The same arguments for Scottish independence are exactly the same as the Brexit ones. With all the same promises.
More Scots voting for the SNP cuts Labours MP count. So they are helping the Tories.
Good luck to Scotland, but hope they don’t leave.
but surely if Scotland leave then they can elect to stay in the EU separately from the rest of the UK
FINNSTER D3mP There will still be a divorce agreement needed between Scotland,and Rest of the UK.
There will still be things the SNP promise that can’t be achieved.
They will still be joining another union where they won’t have true independence.
The € will mean they have no control over their currency.
I just see similarities between the Brexit and Scottish Independence arguments.
This analysis is just flat out wrong - the SNP have always been explicit that they would go into coalition with Labour, but this scenario has never actually been possible since they've never had the (combined) numbers. Even if every SNP seat had been won by Labour (which would be unlikely, given they've also pinched seats from the Lib Dems and Tories), Labour wouldn't have had enough seats to form a government - this has been true of every election in the last decade. The notion that the SNP are somehow helping the Tories is obviously ridiculous.
A big factor in the Independence Referendum failing was that the Scottish people did not want to lose EU membership for the sake of independence...when Brexit happened a lot of people lost their reason for wanting to stay in the United Kingdom as Scotland is now out of the EU anyway!
Scotland already *is* independent and always was!
Check article 19 of the _Acts of Union 1707._
That's why our laws, both Scotland and England, are utterly incompatible, as govt is Sovereign, along with the monarch, in England, whereas it is the people who are Sovereign, in Scotland, both our supposed 'govt' and the English monarch in station at our invite and will, both of whom can be summarily dismissed, should such be our wish.
I suppose, come to think of it, both are on zero hour contracts to we Sovereigns.
Both United Kingdoms, *plural,* not singular, as Wastemonster would have the world believe, signed to a bilateral fiscal and economic contract that was supposed to be mutually beneficial, however, before the ink and seals had dried, Wastemonster set their Colonial apparatus in motion, the propaganda began and the *Smoke and Mirrors Show* has continued, unabated, since.
What is required is not something we already possess.
We seek to revoke the union, according to article 18 of the _Acts of Union 1707, which clearly states said contract is not being signed _in perpetuity,_ ergo either or both parties can dissolve it without needing to seek agreement, never mind permission from the other.
England co-signed both copies on this understanding.
It was this insistence about independence, on the part of the snp, that first gave rise to my suspicion they had no genuine will to end the union.
Subsequent research put it beyond any doubt.
The party is, thankfully, hemorrhaging support, that going to other parties set on revoking the union and not to unionist parties themselves.
The union will be broken, but not by any political party, rather by a civic movement, such as SLM.
How Holyrood and Wastemonster explain their failure to maintain the former _status quo_ to their WEF masters should be quite something.
Once the split has occurred the question of us trying to lunge into the EU is debatable.
There are more advantages to us signing up to EFTA and continuing trade with the hundred and thirty-eight countries outside of that particular bloc.
To do otherwise, to mind mind, is like the choice between frying pan and fire, so would prefer weet things settle for a few years, get our bearings, network and enjoy our freedom for a spell.
Bit like Sean Connery, don't ever live in Scotland or any part of the UK for years, decades, don't pay no taxes over here (leave the country so they don't have to pay into our economy), yet say that they want independence because they don't like a particular elected party. No wonder why his films are so bad nowadays, poor judgement in everything! Loves California, as he's got his far left woke politicians in charge over there, hope it's sunny over there, as it's not in Scotland at the moment!
Yes it's a bit all them owners of them TV stations and right wing news papers you know the ones that are all or brexit yet the don't live or pay tax in the U.K. I never heard a lot of people complaining when Ewan voted to keep Scotland tied to he U.K. the guy has changed his mind people sometimes do that.
@@johnmcphee6098 all the newspapers I know of are left wing, they own the media, what planet you on? Even the so called right wing papers were against Brexit. Go and learn how to speak true Scottish and stop speaking English! If we in Scotland want independence, stop groveling and crying to the rest of the EU to support us and stand on our own two feet! Jokers like you want the best of both worlds, we want English money, no borders, etc etc handouts from the EU, and hate English because some of us up here are still living in the 13th century, complete and utter racists, when in fact there's plenty of English, Irish, Welch in Scotland and vice versa. I've added a link here, so maybe you can go and learn how to speak proper Scottish. www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/languages/celtic/gaelic-scottish?gclid=Cj0KCQjwqfz6BRD8ARIsAIXQCf22boKhlKYcs0SjzbdAs9dbtj49S88w1qZnbzGkOoalbwXtWl7gQ2AaAvLQEALw_wcB
Awww did he hurt your feelings my little English friend? The days of your empire are long gone. When Scotland leaves, Wales will too and Ireland will finally be united. Heck you' ll even lose Cornwall (not to mention Isle of Man, Guernsey and Jersey), if you keep believing that you're still relevant. Remember nowadays you're nothing more than American lapdog.
Goodbye, Ewan. Northern Ireland, Wales, England, Channel Islands, Isle of Man, Isle of Wight, SHETLAND ISLANDS, ORKNEY ISLANDS and possibly the WESTERN ISLES will go our own way. Good luck creating your own central bank and paying a fortune to borrow money and failing and failing entry into EU. Forget about huge oil revenues as the Shetlands have already declared they are not Scottish and want to be a Crown Dependency. Good luck with all that. Goodbye Barnett formula hello poverty.
Goodbye cash cow Scotland who will you rob now
@@nickycleere8310 yeah but what about Scotland's trade deficit... oh wait it's England that has a trade deficit.
Economics escape you, obviously.
Scotland produces 80% of it's energy needs, via renewables, so it would be all too easy to ramp that up to well over 100% and sell the excess off.
As it stands, that 80% is unlawfully used to fuel Southeast England and we receive not one penny in payment!
In fact, Scotland pays more for energy than England does and, due to our weather, we use more.
Fuel poverty should not be an issue in Scotland and we should pay no more for fuel than a nominal fee for wages, maintenance and upkeep.
Changing to renewables gives us the option of leaving the oil and gas in the ground, in order to raise _Gilts_ to finance a central bank, as well as opening up a new opportunity to retrain those in the fuel industries currently unemployed and those who will transfer to the new industry.
I hope you were able to understand these simple solutions.
Naturally, we'll require repayment of our stolen revenues from all three energy fields, _plus_ interest.
As _Hansard_ noted, four months ago, the Acts of Union 1707 did not entitle England to any Scottish territories, waters, resources or revenues!
Do you even have an inkling of what the Barnett Formula/Block Grant is about?
Of course you don't.
You heard or read someone else throwing it out and decided it might make you look a lot smarter than you actually are.
Let me explain...
Scotland sends 100% of it's taxes to England; income, import, etc.
Wastemonster creams off *40%* and sends just 60% of our _own_ money back to us.
You think we shod be grateful for being ripped off?
Occasionally, we require more, which comes out of the *stolen* 40%!
If you had an IQ that was larger than double digits you would understand you were being played by Wastemonster and merely spout their propaganda and lies.
England gives Scotland _nothing_ that isn't already Scotland's!
In fact, it's the complete opposite.
Without Scotland's wealth Wastemonster wouldn't have a pot to piss in, which is why they're clinging to Scotland for grim life or they'd be bankrupt without us.
Let me know if you require other facts and figures, which I'll gladly provide and you can research them, if you know the process, I mean.
Smh and lmao.
So if Scotland became independent are we still going to keep having referendums every few years?
The situation has changed massively since 2014. One of the main arguments to staying in the union was because of the EU but with Brexit now happing that argument holds no water.
We where also promised more devolved powers and are instead having them stripped away by the internal market bill.
Things are changing for worse in the UK it is clear westminster is going more towards the right and with labour in a continues civil war there is no hope for even a left of center government.
Independence is the only hope for Scotland to keep what she holds dear.
@@Marcus_McCormick11 The Scottish people don’t want another referendum
@@BC_26fhj latest polls disagree my man. Support has been growing by the day even with little to no campaigning by even volunteer yes campaigners.
@@Marcus_McCormick11 No I’m talking about the polls that ask people if they think there there should be another referendum they show most people are against another referendum.
No because most of the people who support No are old. Sorry to be brutal but it's true.