THE National’s indy myths series is back, with well-known faces from the Yes movement facing down some questionable tweets on Scottish independence.
This week journalist Lesley Riddoch, political economist Richard Murphy, drag queen Lady Rampant, SNP candidate Mairi McAllan, an columnist Pat Kane are presented with some dubious claims about Scotland.
Is Scotland subsidised by England? Will Scotland be blocked from rejoining the EU?
McAllan points out that the EU is “expansionist” in nature - it’s raison d’etre is to get more members to join. Why would it be so self-defeating as to deny Scotland the right?
What’s more, she asks, weren’t the people of Scotland told to vote No in 2014 to safeguard their place in the European bloc? Whatever happened to those promises?
Watch the full video below.
Clarification: To avoid any confusion, we would like to clarify that the ”daft tweets” that appeared in this video, such as those from “Hardhat Man”, “Concerned Stud”, “Very Patient Labour Girl” and “Unionist Journalist”, were not actually from real Twitter accounts or indeed real people. We made them up for the purposes of this video
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