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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 11h

Note this Scotland: even whilst completing the accession process to join the EU, the benefits start arriving.

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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 11h

No need to wait for accession to invest in Montenegro.

The opportunities are right here, right now.

Montenegro is a great place to do business.

Today we're launching 14 🇪🇺🇲🇪 projects that show just this.

→ link.europa.eu/b4V8Tv

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WillieMillersMoustache @williemillersm1.bsky.social · 2h

📢"DO NOT COME HERE, WE ARE ARSEHOLES"📢

The Independent @the-independent.com · 7h

Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK

www.independent.co.uk

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 5h

This is absolutely nuts. As well as racist, xenophobic, deeply offensive and entirely ineffective.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 7h

Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK

www.independent.co.uk

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John Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social · 3h

Free tuition.
Free prescriptions.
Scottish Child Payment.
Lowest council tax bills in the UK.
Peak rail fares gone for good.
Child poverty falling.

That is our SNP record and proof that self-government works.

Imagine how much more we could do with the powers of independence.

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WillieMillersMoustache @williemillersm1.bsky.social · 10h

Let them eat "amplification."

Huzzah huzzah. Pointing fingers is absolutely brilliant. My cup it runneth over.

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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 13h

The Labour Position is weird. "we absolutely won‘t do something about that thing we think is really bad for the Country, and for which we blame the Tories."
Sounds like being invited late to a party you always wanted to attend, except now you are declining out of pique.

Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 14h

If it’s self damaging for the Conservatives to continue to profess their support for a Brexit no one likes, it’s incoherent - and self damaging - for Labour to both dislike Brexit but at the same time to (largely) support it in its current form.

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WillieMillersMoustache @williemillersm1.bsky.social · 13h

But we will use it as an excuse for the awful things we're doing. Vote winner.

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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 1d

"C‘est normal", shrugs the worldly and contrarian diplomat/ columnist, demonstrating his superior mind by never, ever being surprised or shocked.

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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 1d

He is far from alone.
Do you know how many people I know, journalists, thinktankers, civil servants, politicians, who always excel at explaining to you why what is currently happening was always bound to happen, from which they conclude that it should happen?

Feelingantsy 🇬🇧🇩🇪. Maker of Puns @feelingantsy.bsky.social · 1d

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 13h

Concerned about what the peace means for Palestinians? Concerned whether there will be peace at all? Concerned about accountability for the Israeli genocide? Shabana Mahmood has this to say to you.

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WillieMillersMoustache @williemillersm1.bsky.social · 13h

You have the right to protest.
But not like that.
Not about this.
Not then.
Not there.
Not now.

Democratastic

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JR Tomlin (she/her) @jrtomlin.bsky.social · 1d

Scottish Government to sponsor care worker visas in defiance of Labour ban

www.thenational.scot/news/2553922...

Scottish Government to sponsor care worker visas in defiance of Labour ban

THE Scottish Government will sponsor UK visas for care workers to get around Labour's ban, John Swinney has announced.

www.thenational.scot

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John Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you, Aberdeen. 💛

Let’s win our independence. This is our moment.

Join us: snp.org/join

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

James Baldwin wisdom

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 3d

That horrible New Labour documentary did feature one helpful scene, where John Major says he met Rupert in 1997 and refused to change his non-specific Europe policy. Smash-cut to footage of Tony bounding up the gangplank of Murdoch’s yacht, willing to say yes to whatever.

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The SNP @snp.org · 1d

The Westminster parties are limiting Scotland’s ambitions, with a parochial focus on the broken UK economy.

Only the SNP offers a better future, with the fresh start of independence. #SNP25

Quote from Kate Forbes MSP at SNP Annual National Conference 2025 emphasizing a choice between Labour's empty promises and SNP's proud record.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 1d

All of the Sensible Moderates can see the train coming down the tracks and they’re in charge of whether we decide to move or not. And their decision, right up to the last minute, is going to be: absolutely not.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone fully understands this government is a catastrophe and that it’s setting us up for much worse. There will be an attempt to roll it in glitter next year, after they get annihilated in several elections, but the horrible politics are mandatory and non-negotiable, and they will not change.

Kathy O'Donnell @kathyodonnell.... • 22m
That energy and those skills are mostly coming from what Labour might consider its hinterland - and they won't be coming back.
Polanski has been in place a month.
In Scotland, Labour has collapsed.
At council level, Reform are a disaster.
Four years ahead, the McSweeney folly will be clear.
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Kathy O'Donnell @kathyodonnell.bs... • 4m
Then there's the eleven trade unions affiliated to the Labour Party. There's widespread dissatisfaction and criticism from union grassroots and leadership over the rightwards lurch of the Parliamentary party.
What if they decide Starmer's Labour does not represent their interests and ethics?

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 1d

This bit in particular: what, our leaders just decided that the UN aid agency were terrorists, then replaced them with mercenaries firing machine guns at starving civilians? Everyone involved needs to be tried for war crimes then sent to prison for decades.

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 1d

Listening to the Today programme, you'd think Donald Trump was about to be released as a hostage

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John Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social · 1d

The Westminster race to the right has left families struggling while the rich get richer.

We can build a fairer future. A fresh start with independence.

Join me at 3pm as I set out that hopeful vision for Scotland.

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WillieMillersMoustache @williemillersm1.bsky.social · 1d

And yet you seem to believe the right to self determination is a Russian plot.

WillieMillersMoustache @williemillersm1.bsky.social · 1d

So not all bad then.

If your main issue with Reform is that countries be allowed to govern themselves then it's you that's the problem.

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WillieMillersMoustache @williemillersm1.bsky.social · 1d

And yet successive governments have allowed him to determine their foreign policy and direct their persecution of migrants.

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 1d

'Nigel Farage could never be trusted to run Britain after getting Brexit so wrong'

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

'Farage could never be trusted to run Britain after getting Brexit so wrong'

No Brexit champion, particularly Nigel Farage, is worthy of high office after proving so conclusively wrong on such a seismic issue, says Mirror Associate Editor Kevin Maguire

www.mirror.co.uk

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Michel Lacombe @michellacombe.bsky.social · 2d

Julius Caesar conquered Gaul in 51 BC and died in 44 BC, therefore all of Asterix's adventures took place over the course of less than seven years, probably much less since Asterix's chieftain was at the battle of Alesia, were it is probable Asterix and Obelix's fathers died. In this essay, I will

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