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@samcoatessky.bsky.social hi Sam, this morning you stated “…the main opposition parties, the Cons and Reform UK…” Unless I missed 67 Parliamentary by-elections since July, the Lib Dems are very much the main opposition party with the Cons, not Reform. Do we have to keep doing this?
It beggars belief.
I wouldn’t have thought many Labour MPs came into politics to strip the rights of torture survivors to be reunited with the spouses & children. They need to take a long hard look in the mirror & ask whether Starmer, Cooper & Reeves are really the leadership their careers should be remembered with.
Matthew Wright just said 'Scotland saw no benefit from their oil' in relation to energy prices in a general discussion about energy costs @matthew-wright.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk Making Matthew an honorary Scot and he should get a free cuppa from us next time he's up.
New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them. States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.
This
“Tabloids tell us Connolly is lovely, ordinary, caring, a great Mum. But she wasn’t punished for any of that. She was punished for telling a mob it's okay to set fire to hotels full of people she sees as lesser. That she did it between a cuppa and walking the dog, makes it more chilling, not less.”
This is absolute truth. Add in I've read the Book of Mormon & done a little bit of Jehovah Witness readings. I'm not being arrogant when I tell Bible thumpers that I probably know their book BETTER than them..I'm WARNING THEM to not TEST ME🤷♀️
When are we going to get some real politicians and some useful, serious reporting of actual politics not this playground posturing.
Rights protected by the ECHR in an independent Scotland. 1: Obligation to respect Human Rights. 2: Right to life 3: Prohibition of torture 4: Prohibition of slavery and forced labour For the full list go to www.echr.coe.int/documents/d/... Reform plan on leaving the ECHR
Definitely irrelevant but they aren't violent because they protect women. They're violent because they are weaker than women.
Where’s Anas Sarwar hiding ???…..and why isn’t the “bbc in Scotland’s” Glenn Campbell at Sarwar’s front door ??
Independent Scotland European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), as well as the core international human rights. UK under Reform Ltd. Say goodbye to any rights.
We’re bears, Margaret, not drunks news.sky.com/video/colora...
Human rights are rights whether you care to apply them or not. They don't change because of inconvenience. Your "standing" isn't maintained by finding loopholes or removing international agreements from your responsibilities. Careful Labour your Tory is showing.
Moron. He even sounds like a toxin.
Why on earth do the Tories want to keep people locked into high energy bills? And, come to that, why is the BBC citing Reform but saying nothing about climate science or renewable alternatives? Complete madness - except for the fossil fuel industry of course
Is yvette cooper declaring these protest groups as terrorist? This is the definition of a terrorist act.
It's a complete abuse of the word.
Ffs when you thank someone, make sure you dont insult them at the same time I (unfortunately) live in Britain but I am Scottish, from Scotland one of the FOUR countries that make up the UK one of the THREE that are NOT England 9and who also definitely think 47 is the worst thing out of the US.
Stoater!
Getting caught in sudden summer rain shower.
...and I fear this authoritarian government will try to remove charity status from any organisation which dares to criticise their support for mass murderers of children "You’ve got to know you’re on the wrong side of history when Save The Children is criticising you" via @dailypolitik.bsky.social
Fecking Yes 😍 Proud of you lassies 🏴🏉 Well done Scottish Women's Rugby 🏉 👏 🏴🏴SCO 29-15 FIJ: Scotland survive thriller to seal knockout spot share.google/ovCFzUNS0CZl...
Democracy is all about bums on seats. Any way you cut it, if you believe the devolved nations are Nation States they can only be underepresented in Westminster. If you are the dominant country of colonial leftovers you don't see that. You condescend a few seats at the table. Performative democracy.
Proportional representation in Westminster would only benefit England. Here's why. open.substack.com/pub/yesinpic...
So Trump has sent warships and thousands of troops to Venezuela ‘to counter the drug trade’, and has put a $50m bounty on the head of its elected President. WTF? Presumably he’s given up his hope of winning a Nobel Peace Prize. RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!
Important that we recognize the work of translators. They do so much to bring books into other languages, including pitching books and advocating for writers' work. Without wishing to nag, I hope people agree that it's important to #namethetranslator when posting here about translated work.
So is 47 starting a war so he can stop having elections? I mean that's what HE got from the meeting with Zelenski...
What is more woke than Trump? An OAP, multi bankrupt, on the worlds most expensive offenders rehabilitation programme?
The ONLY solution to the small boats is legal routes and swift, competent processing of asylum claims. Everything else is just performative crap for dog whistle politics. Shame on Labour for not calling it out louder and for tiptoing around instead of bulldozing the fix in.
I say Edinburgh.
3yo, playing with the food on his plate at lunch, and (rightfully) demanding our attention: "Okay, everyone, look, look! I turned my pizza into PEAS-za!" This kid is going places.
This is the enduring lesson of Weimar: extremism never triumphs on its own. It succeeds because others enable it—because of their ambition, because of their fear, or because they misjudge the dangers of small concessions www.foreignaffairs.com/germany/hitl...
Anybody know when the Guardian became a Tabloid?
Until you realise vance has been sworn in.
This whole summer only one story has dominated our entire politics & it comes down to literally 30,000 people in hotels. Ridiculous. The government needs to get a GRIP it’s pathetic.
"We've become racist, anti-immigration, fascists by mistake!"
What has the ECHR ever done for us?
Repeat after me: 40% of the men arrested for rioting against asylum seekers in Southport had previously been reported to the police for domestic violence. Why would anyone want to associate themselves with that lot? www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Went to an Afghan pop up restaurant last night- the food was all cooked by Afghan refugees who had settled in my town Amazing food, lovely people, a great night. Thank you Oh, and fuck you Fartage
Time to post the counter policies not appeasement. This is not the way to resolve immigration issues, getting rid of the ECHR will set your employment, your family, your children's, your health and your welfare rights back to pre war. That is to zero. Greens want to grow your rights. Vote Green.
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🏴INDEPENDENCE, OR FASCISM🇬🇧 What we need to do is show soft NO voters this, and ask them to choose which of these Rights they look forward to losing if they don’t vote for an independence party at Holyrood 2026? We should also tell them to look at what’s happening in the US, because that’ll be us
Are we really going to drown in six inches of water? The central far right claim - that our problems are caused not by those with power and wealth but by utterly powerless people (asylum seekers etc) - is obviously and pathetically wrong. Yet millions, once more, are floundering in that puddle.
The new ICE song by Jesse Welles nails it. ICE isn’t recruiting heroes, it’s recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures. Losers with power become the most dangerous kind. (c/o Caroline Codsi)
Um, and some 70m people in the UK would no longer have access to the strongest system of international human rights protection in the world, which the UK has been instrumental in creating and helping to develop over the last 75 years... www.thetimes.com/uk/law/artic... #ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms
So Starmer wants "reform" of the ECHR and a potential referendum on membership. Increasingly looking like Scotland will be forced out against our will. Brexit all over again. 🏴|🇪🇺 #IndyNow www.politico.eu/article/left...
Something we need to grasp is that Establishment power meant imperialism. Imperialism is a system of thought that sees upper class white men as the pinnacle of humanity, with a sacred duty to control the lives of others. What we now call the far right is an extension and revival of imperialism.
It shouldn't be up to American children to save each other from getting shot. It's the job of American adults to stop shootings from happening in the first place. Ban assault weapons again now.
70 years ago, on this date, Emmett Till was kidnapped and brutally murdered by white men. His family, including his cousin who was with him at the time, is repeating the train ride he took from Chicago to Mississippi in 1955 to mark the anniversary
And obvs closer to the highland wind turbines, off shore wind farms than anywhere in Scotland.... Or maybe it goes by bus?
America is hurtling into authoritarianism. The UK is tiptoing along behind. The US isn't creeping, it's in free fall. Westminster is just spreading the butter before filling the appease the right sandwich. Ignoring it's advantage by learning from US mistakes and trotting down the same corrupt path.
I keep wondering about all these "Trump/Reform,The Right Exposed!" headlines which are the shock and awe publicity that each want. Congrats to the media for providing it, endlessly by repeating, reinforcing, their messaging word for word. Imagine being out manouvered by these man babies.
Seems like independence might fix that.....
How come? "Customers in Scotland,[] pay more for distribution and standing charges because of the greater distances and rugged terrain involved in delivering electricity to remote areas. " and "Scotland remains a net exporter of electricity to other UK nations". Do we give it away?
Also true.
Or he just doesn't care, to the point that he doesn't even care enough to keep his stories straight. I mean. He has the best cognitive test results EVER.
Shit, lazy journos
And it's fascinating to see responses over on Xewer along these lines. Not only are my views as a foreigner unwelcome, but even Mary's are invalidated by virtue of her half-Scottishness. Once this in-group/out-group thing gets going, it does not stop.
I'm calling it: our mainstream media is totally broken. Can we also rename 'mass deportations' to 'ethnic cleansing'. 'Remigration', my arse.
was just told by a doctor that I need to "limit and reduce stress" in my life but then he refused to put me in a medically induced coma -- pick a side, man
Gus Speth: "I used to think that top environmental problems were biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and climate change. I thought that 30 years of good science could address these problems. I was wrong. The top environmental problems are selfishness, greed and apathy...”
Actively resent the fact we’re expected to listen to a press conference on “mass deportations” as if this is a perfectly normal, mainstream thing and not the unhinged rantings of a racist who is somehow on my television.
As Farage parades around the studios and airwaves today can reporters please ask him why there were no Channel crossings prior to the Brexit which he claimed would "take back control of our borders". Thanks
I go. I try. And I will keep trying, even though it feels like a losing battle. Because I remember the whole point of the far-right astroturfing of social media is to make it feel like a losing battle, to make us give up. Anyway, a few snippets on small boat crossings and immigration.
talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/08/22/s...
Lazy politics and lazy journalism. Extremely irresponsible
Not to mention competition and profiteering in pharma companies and so on. The greater good serves everyone. Profit serves no-one. Not even the billionaires under the knife.
Of course they do. The NHS has been defunded for so long folk under thirty can't remember it functioning properly. " average cost for common major surgeries in the US according to Statista." zocdoc Heart valve replacement $170,000 Bypass: $123,000 Knee joint replacement $35,000 Hysterectomy: $15,400
The Labour Party "is not one I recognise"🙄
So now the tail wags the dog in English politics. Good luck with that. And on the sidelines the media are stoking fires to see which burns brightest. Excellent adulting all around. It's time to staff the home office and build homes and tax the rich to make it happen. Stop feeding the poor each other
And to those more offended by a band's name than the genocide they oppose... Wise up!! belfastmedia.com/new-mural-un...
A *white British* grooming gang. Let’s be consistent. www.bbc.com/news/article...
#VoteForScotland 🎯Why Kieran is correct regarding 'Both Votes SNP' 👇🏻 youtu.be/JHS0GtIMEGc?...
Learn by the mistakes of the US, how to make them?
Let me hear you say it... Give me an R Give me an A Give me another A Give me a C What have you got? PPP!!!!
Instead of being them? But then they'd have to generate, realise and generally have to make their own policies and manifesto AND have to be able to explain it to people.....
Idiots
I keep the receipts.
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Traditional stance of the far right. "Britain is lawless.... How do I know... I just sent out a pack of followers to go and break it. Look I'm breaking it right now, see, no one respects the law anymore, I don't.... "
"Certainly Donald. I shall keep these hidden for you. I will never threaten to expose you except whenever I feel like it." "That's great Vlad, your such a good pal"
The European Commission is trying to limit the amount of money any single farmer can receive in subsidies, putting it at odds with some member countries and large-scale agricultural producers.
This is a terrible idea by a government continuing to throw human rights on the pyre.
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GOOD TWEET. GOOD MOOD. FIGHT.
How can we still be pretending we didnt know the answer to this a decade ago?
Europe's first-ever Palestine Museum is opening up in Edinburgh tomorrow, Saturday 17th May! The museum will feature beautiful art, documents, film, oral histories, literature, and live performances. Time: 11am to 6pm Location: Palestine Museum Scotland, 13A Dundas Street, Edinburgh, EH3 6QG
You haven’t done nuthin’! #AMomentofJoy Airplane Jazz Edition
Don't think he was dragged...
Successful at gaining power and spreading corruption..... Not successful at governing or at creating stable societies and definitely not the best at protecting the environment for future habitation so define "political success" one more time.
How 'bout Labour do the job of Labour not the not so centre right?
64/10 Bruce x
