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Grantass 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @grantybot.bsky.social · 7h

They claimed they wanted to enter discussions! Holy shit, when I was working in social care and on UC , HMRC reduced my payment within 3 days of earning "too much". There's thousands like me. Why does it not apply to £122 million? Eat the rich 🤑

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 8h

PPE Medpro, the company linked to Michelle Mone, has not met the deadline to pay back almost £122 million to the UK Government 👇

Firm linked to Michelle Mone fails to pay back £122m by deadline

www.thenational.scot

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Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 12h

These are some of the leaked messages Young Republicans were sending in group chats.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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MC Squared @mcsquared.bsky.social · 9h

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Blairer @haggisblarer.bsky.social · 16h

I don’t believe the ‘U.K.’ has. England? Yes.
The over use of the conflation of
'England' with the rest of the ‘U.K.’
is down right insulting to Scotland, Wales & Northern Ireland.
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 approach to its disabled is a world apart from 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿.

Professor Boot @hamishboot.bsky.social · Jun 20

A society that cares for its disabled citizens *and* offers assisted dying is close to the enlightenment.

A society that does *not* care for its disabled citizens and offers assisted dying is fully fascist.

If you are unaware of how the UK has treated us, look it up.

Fascism loves complacency.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 23h

Yes your taxes should support disabled people.

They should support homeless people.

They should support those living in poverty, children and the elderly.

This is literally the purpose of taxes, and I would far rather support those who need it than continue to enrich the elite.

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Scotch Whisky Truths 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @specialscot.bsky.social · 13h

I've NEVER been a Member of a Political Party, until today.

I saw the incredible Polls, suggesting that Nigel Farage will landslide a Westminster General Election. Farage as PM.

SNP is the ONLY solution to Scottish Independence.

Only a fool in Scotland now doesn't want this.

I've Joined the SNP.

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Tom Clark @tom-clark.bsky.social · 11h

In one crisp para — & the 2 charts he highlights — @chrisgiles.ft.com bursts a huge number of “welfare” myths www.ft.com/content/ee67...

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 15h

It's been 22 days since Adelita Grijalva was elected by the people of Arizona's seventh congressional district to represent them in Congress.

Mike Johnson still refuses to swear her in. At what point will political reporters start calling this a constitutional crisis?

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Derek May @derekmay.bsky.social · 1d

Neil deGrasse Tyson
@neildegrassetyson.com

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

As if they keep writing all these headlines - and our membership numbers and polling just keeps shooting up. 🚀

Now at 110,000. Over 55% increase in just one month!

Lower bills. Fund NHS. Tax the super rich.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Polanski is talking nonsense about wealth taxes.

Greens who want to save the world by destroying britain

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

POLITICO: “Leaders of Young Republican groups worried if their Telegram chat got leaked, but kept typing… referred to Black people as monkeys, mused about putting political opponents in gas chambers... lauded Republicans they believed support slavery…” www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Karen @elsa-meowse.bsky.social · 3d

Human beings are not illegal

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Vambo Marble Eye @vambomarbleeye.bsky.social · 1d

Heart, lung and dermatology issues. I’d be buggered too

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ianjazz.bsky.social @ianjazz.bsky.social · 1d

Calling private healthcare parasitic is a bang-on accurate description. Moreover, it’s a cancer that sucks the life out of an otherwise healthy public healthcare system.

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Francis Sedgemore @hesgen.com · 1d

Neil Mackay addresses the English problem. And what a problem it is too.

"Sharing a house with someone having a full-blown identity crisis isn’t wise."

My solution is Scottish and Welsh statehood, and the dissolution of England into Heptarchy 2.0.

Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 1d

The English problem renders the Union toxic for the other home nations. Sharing a house with someone having a full-blown identity crisis isn’t wise. The best medicine for what ails England - and the rest of us - may indeed be an English departure from the Union
www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...

How Empire and the Union ruined England, by Neil Mackay

A case could be made that the best medicine for what ails England would be an English departure from the Union, argues Writer at Large Neil Mackay

www.heraldscotland.com

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 1d

The English problem renders the Union toxic for the other home nations. Sharing a house with someone having a full-blown identity crisis isn’t wise. The best medicine for what ails England - and the rest of us - may indeed be an English departure from the Union
www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...

How Empire and the Union ruined England, by Neil Mackay

A case could be made that the best medicine for what ails England would be an English departure from the Union, argues Writer at Large Neil Mackay

www.heraldscotland.com

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Vambo Marble Eye @vambomarbleeye.bsky.social · 1d

Why is there no levy on private health care for the training costs of their staff, borne by the govt and the NHS?

Why is there no levy for the time taken from the NHS of registrars and consultants to go work part time for private health?

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Juditty @juditty.bsky.social · 1d

We like to pat ourselves on our backs for being a democracy. But we get a vote once every 5 years whilst big business, billionaires and media barons have daily access and influence.
And once in power, all govts cement the anti-democratic power grabs they lambasted when in opposition.

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

To be effective, protest must be noisy, obstructive, annoying. No longer is this allowed. Now the last attribute of effective dissent – persistence – is also to be banned. But the moment protest ceases to be effective is the moment democracy dies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Here’s what you need to know about Starmer’s illiberal protest curbs: they would have killed the Labour party at birth | George Monbiot

The rights we enjoy in the UK, and the movement the PM purports to lead, were built on protest. Those rights are in dire peril, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

To be effective, protest must be noisy, obstructive, annoying. No longer is this allowed. Now the last attribute of effective dissent – persistence – is also to be banned. But the moment protest ceases to be effective is the moment democracy dies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Here’s what you need to know about Starmer’s illiberal protest curbs: they would have killed the Labour party at birth | George Monbiot

The rights we enjoy in the UK, and the movement the PM purports to lead, were built on protest. Those rights are in dire peril, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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Radio Jammor @radiojammor.bsky.social · 1d

More list votes for SGP also means less Unionist MSPs.
SNP1&2 actually risks the overall majority by denying SGP list votes which they will need to make-up the shortfall that the SNP numbers are polling at.
This is not 2011 and the SNP are kidding themselves they can repeat it.

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Robert F @chippyman.bsky.social · 1d

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paddyticketyboo.bsky.social @paddyticketyboo.bsky.social · 1d

I think this could potentially become the undoing of Farage and Reform if enough people support it.

Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 1d

Nathan Gill will be sentenced on 21st November for 8 charges of taking Russian Bribes.

It’s essential that the European Parliament carries out an investigation in to UKIP, Brexit Party and Reform UK and their connection to Russia.

Investigation now!

#InvestigateReformUK #ReformRussianBribes

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Scotch Whisky Truths 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @specialscot.bsky.social · 1d

Green aren't the loony left.

They just echo normal, modern thinking.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Many on the right will try and belittle and undermine what’s happening.

But here’s the truth. Tens of thousands are joining Greens. Polls are at record highs. People are just starting to feel hope again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

The truth about the green party's booming membership

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Tori Foote @toriatheisttori.bsky.social · 2d

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Vambo Marble Eye @vambomarbleeye.bsky.social · 1d

They’re just itching to start it all over again. Got the taste for murder and now have an itch to scratch.