Alyn Smith MP 🏴🇪🇺 @AlynSmith@respublicae.eu
Unofficial automated mirror. No copyright asserted. ∎ Scottish European. MP for Stirling, the heart of Scotland. @theSNP Europe and EU Accession Spokesperson. Constituents please email: Alyn.Smith.MP@parliament.uk
Joined Apr 2022
RT @euromovescot: No time like the present join us and we can fight to end this disaster https://euromovescotland.org.uk/join-us/
RT @euromovescot: The government will continue to struggle to find a Brexit opportunity because there aren’t any.
The only opportunity from Brexit is to rejoin the EU.
Significant moves in Wales, as well as significant election results in Northern Ireland and Scotland.
RT @Plaid_Cymru: 👥96 Senedd Members.
🗳️Proportional voting.
🟰 Gender quotas.
Plaid Cymru leader @Adamprice and @PrifWeinidog have today set out a way forward for reforming the Senedd by 2026.
We want to make it stronger, fairer and more equal to better deliver for the people of Wales. 🏴
RT @theSNP: 🇪🇺 Happy #EuropeDay from all of us at the SNP.
🏴 Scotland is a proudly European nation and we firmly reject the isolationist, right-wing Brexit imposed on us against our will.
👇🏼 Here's what senior EU figures said about Scotland re-joining the EU.
https://www.snp.org/europe-is-leaving-a-light-on-for-scotland/
/10 The EU aims to achieve a ‘level playing field’ by prioritising social rights for workers & people in general.
By joining a bloc that safeguards fundamental rights, an independent Scotland would ensure the wellbeing of workers both at home and across Europe.
/9 Scotland will take a different approach to the UK when it comes to helping the world’s poorest and most vulnerable.
Scotland would benefit from working with European partners in dealing with e.g. climate change, post-COVID recovery, and poverty.
/8 For centuries, Scotland has punched above its weight in producing world-class research and innovation.
As part of the EU - with funding programmes such as Horizon - Scotland can do even more to bolster European research and solve collective issues.
/7 Renewables are needed to tackle the global climate crisis as well as help Europe move from dependency on Russian oil and gas.
Scottish renewables can help Europe pivot away from Kremlin-controlled energy sources, and bolster the EU’s climate and geo-strategic security.
/6 Common EU standards allow individuals and businesses to shop freely in other EU Member States without bureaucracy, tariffs, or border checks (unlike the Tories’ Brexit trade barriers).
An independent Scotland would uphold these EU standards.
/5 The Free Trade Agreements proposed by the UK Government won’t come close to making up for the loss of EU trade post-Brexit.
By re-joining the Single Market and Customs Union, Scotland would re-open its economy and exporters to EU-states.
/4 Scottish voters rejected Brexit but the UK Government has pursued an economically damaging Brexit which will reduce the UK’s GDP by 4% - twice the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Only Scotland rejoining the EU can undo this harm.
/3 By re-joining the EU, Scots would be able to travel, live, work, and study in any other EU/EEA country, without visa red tape or bureaucracy, and Scots businesses could hire the overseas talent they need.
/2 Brexit has left the UK more isolated than ever.
An independent Scotland would be equal in the EU and seek to be a progressive voice and role model within the EU and internationally - promoting greater consensus, equality, and respect.
/1 The threats facing our societies are global, and the EU leads progressive global action to solve shared challenges.
An independent Scotland in the EU would be far stronger than a post-Brexit UK urgently scrambling for bilateral agreements.
🏴I’ve long argued Scotland belongs in our European family of nations.
🇪🇺 We were pulled out against our clear democratic will through Brexit, and I look forward to the day where we can remedy that historic mistake.
🧵 A thread, on #EuropeDay2022
Your fantastic Stirling SNP Council Group, with Cllr @ScottFarmerSNP and Cllr Susan McGill reelected as Group Leader and Deputy Group Leader respectively.
Excited to work jointly over the coming years to #DeliverForStirling
@chrisdeerin @TeamStirlingSNP Meeting papers are virtual to save paper 😉
Chairing the Stirling SNP Council Group AGM this morning - ready to work closely with our newly-elected and re-elected Councillors as part of @TeamStirlingSNP.
An incredible result for @theSNP nationwide but the big prize, the cause that drives us, independence in Europe, is still there to win. You can be part of it, c'mon join us: https://www.snp.org/join/member/
@gazbubbs Kind to say, thank you. We’ve some stuff going out on Europe Day on Monday to underline that continuing commitment 🏴 🇪🇺
Unofficial automated mirror. No copyright asserted. ∎ Scottish European. MP for Stirling, the heart of Scotland. @theSNP Europe and EU Accession Spokesperson. Constituents please email: Alyn.Smith.MP@parliament.uk
Joined Apr 2022
