michellemallin.bsky.social
@michellemallin.bsky.social
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An ordinary someone with opinions on politics and Scotland…..amongst other things
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Greene: "I will praise Nancy Pelosi. She had an incredible career for her party. I served under her speakership in my first term in Congress and I'm very impressed at her ability to get things done. I wish we could get things done for our party like Nancy Pelosi was able to deliver for her party."
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Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment
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Far from cutting energy bills as they promised, the Labour government is hiking the bills of Scots to pay for nuclear plants in England.

In Scotland, we have vast renewable resources - and with the powers of independence, we can use them to lower bills.
The council converting the food and garden waste into compost provides them with an outlet to generate more funds for the Local Authority by selling the compost at a commercially competitive rate….if LA’s are allowed to do this…or use the compost for hanging baskets, garden beds in town centres. 🤷‍♀️
The fee to uplift garden waste means there’s not so much recycling as before this charge was introduced. Garden waste used to go with food waste free of charge. Paying for a permit allows both waste types to go in the same bin again. So folk now put GW into the household general bin to avoid fee.
A lesson from my late grandfather - Earl Haig sent thousands of young men to their deaths or to be permanently maimed, so why pay into his “charity”? Sacrifices made by those young men and women and wars since are honoured by being members of the ECHR. Much prefer a white poppy for peace.
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Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy says at #PMQs that the SNP are "a national security threat.' Repeating words said by Defence Sec John Healey & Scottish Sec Douglas Alexander. Desperate stuff from a govt which cannot categorically say China is a threat to the UK.
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I’m sure it was only last week that I ready that Michele Mone was purchasing a £10 million house.

Yet here it says her and Barrowman’s PPE Medpro owe £39 million in taxes… not to mention repaying the £multi millions for duff PPE
Invite the Greens, the Libdems, and the SNP on. We’re fed up with the Far Right party always hogging media space.
I’d tell him where to stick it 🤷‍♀️
2023: Keir Starmer, "If you don't like the changes we've made the door is open and you can leave"

2025: Labour, "Please come back"
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The collapse of Labour support in the year and a half from the calling of the 2024 election to now is unprecedented in the party's entire history: from 45% to 19% in 18 months. HT @leftiestats.bsky.social
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More than 47 million Americans — including one in five children — don’t have reliable, affordable access to nutritious food. And as the cost of living skyrockets, more families are depending on SNAP benefits, or food stamps, to put food on the table.
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Recorded crime in Scotland is at one of the lowest levels since 1974.

Police numbers are higher than when the SNP came into office.

And all that Anas Sarwar offers is empty rhetoric, hypocrisy and no solutions.
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The UK political class of MPs have lots of multiple property landlords: on some estimates at least 15% of the Commons including a significant number of Labour MPs. Rachel Reeves is a leading figure in a political class without ethics, a moral compass & political antenna: a symptom of a broken system
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You’ve probably heard but I have been federally indicted by Trump’s DOJ.

We now have to cover the costs of a campaign *and* a legal battle to preserve our First Amendment rights.

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🫢 😳 😧 🤢 🤮 😡

I have an even worse feeling about THIS:
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If Your Party allows itself to be swamped by Alba Party eejits it will be dead in Scotland before it starts - and deservedly so. Nobody with any integrity or sense wants to be even tangentially associated with that mob of cranks
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Zack Polanski on renationalising water companies,

"Shareholders can't say stock not worth anything then expect payment to renationalise"
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Zia Yusuf complaining about councils being underfunded

While sitting next to Danny Kruger who since 2019 was part of the government that underfunded the councils Yusuf is complaining about
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Since 2015, Wes Streeting has accepted £372,000 from private health care links!

This should be a illegal for a health secretary in charge of the NHS.

There’s a clear conflict of interest & raises concerns re: probity & integrity

Who is the health secretary really working for?
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Overshooting 1.5°C wasn't 'inevitable.'

We've been pushed by fossil fuel giants & governments that pander to them.

Every delay, every oil field, every broken promise made this crisis worse.

Keir Starmer, will you promise to leave Rosebank undeveloped?

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30
www.theguardian.com