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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 1d

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Scotch Whisky Truths 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @specialscot.bsky.social · 10h

Violent Crime in Scotland is at an all-time low. It's been falling for decades.

Lurid reports, in the trashy UK tabloids, will try to suggest, it's out of control. Britain's a war zone.

In Scotland, it's at its lowest, since Records began.

Read facts, not alarmist, London Newspaper trash.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 10h

Nigel Farage, whose own adviser was convicted of fraud after admitting to advertising money laundering services on the dark web, is now complaining about banks having to implement "money laundering directives"

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Gerry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🍀 @gerryr.bsky.social · 6h

This just tells you everything you need to know about his personal integrity and that of the SLAB as a whole

Indy lass @pixie11.bsky.social · 6h

Labour leader Anas Sarwar said he would work with Reform UK as he tries to oust the SNP and become first minister at next year’s Holyrood election.Sarwar has stated that he would not "turn his back on a good idea" alliance with Nigel Farage's Reform party to oust the SNP
treacherous Weasel 😡

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 7h

This FT account of pure thuggishness of Trump representatives posing as diplomats has not appeared in US media anywhere, but is being widely circulated and reported in media in Europe, the UK and the Asia Pacific area. Be sure to read it all.

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James Aithie 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jamesaithie.bsky.social · 8h

Farage reply at press briefing "We're not the ones that crashed the economy."

That is a flat out blatant lie. Farage and anyone who proposed Brexit, are the ones responsible for the current cost of living crisis.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 10h

Nigel Farage, whose party recently put a teenager with zero work experience of any kind, in charge of running an entire county, is currently giving a speech railing against "unqualified" politicians being put in charge of Government departments

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 9h

🔴Nigel Farage Says Minimum Wage Should Be Cut for Young People

The Reform leader said cutting the minimum wage for young people would boost business, as he attacked plans to raise taxes on the wealthy

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...

Nigel Farage Says Minimum Wage Should Be Cut for Young People

The Reform leader said cutting the minimum wage for young people would boost business, as he attacked plans to raise taxes on the wealthy

bylinetimes.com

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

You know what - it would be really life affirming if just for once - THIS 👇 was the story

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

Next time someone tells you that train drivers "just push buttons" show them this from the BBC

The driver "managed to contact the control
centre at Network Rail and get the train
diverted onto the slow line", Calder says.

"That was absolutely crucial because this
train was scheduled to be travelling through
Huntingdon station on the tracks with no
platform at 125mph."

"It didn't stop in the middle of nowhere,
which would have been very difficult."

Calder thinks this was handled in the "safest
possible way" thanks to the "incredible
professionalism from the driver and the
police". Train drivers are trained on how to
take appropriate action, he adds,

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Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social · 1d

"it is striking how many of the key players we have looked into — the people who have gone out of their way to put up hundreds of flags — seem anything but ordinary."

manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...

The men who raised the flags

Nigel Farage says this summer’s movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found

manchestermill.co.uk

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 2d

’Tis now the very witching time of night,
When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world.

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Gerry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🍀 @gerryr.bsky.social · 3d

That’s absolutely outrageous.🤬

Had no idea about that.

When you think you can’t despise the whole rotten bunch of parasites more, they manage to surprise you.

JessiCat @jellis87.bsky.social · 3d

I've never been a Royal Family fan but in Nobody's Girl, when Virginia said she agreed to keep the details of her settlement under wraps for a year so as not to overshadow the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations made them dislike them even more.

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Alan Ferrier @alanferrier.bsky.social · 3d

When you hear, "new information has emerged in recent times..." from a former royal press officer you know it actually means, "what the royals have known in full for years and which was so damaging they paid £12m to suppress it, is now coming into the public domain."

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Ian @afc42.bsky.social · 3d

In Scotland it was always big. We called it "Guising". Definitely no "trick or treat". Bonfire night was more a celebration of sectarian oppression, given that the "guy" on the Bonfire was originally an effigy of a Catholic...and originally a real person!

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 4d

Another week, another panel without a single person representing the Green Party, Your Party, SNP, Cymru and Lib Dems.

That's only about 60% of voters that never have any representation.

Balanced?

BS more like.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 4d

“In its first formal review of UK trade policy since Brexit, the WTO found that UK trade performance had weakened since the 2008 financial crisis, with Brexit named among the chief causes of a marked slump in goods trade since 2018”

God, failure is tedious…

www.ft.com/content/8f4d...

Trade’s contribution to UK GDP ‘stagnated’ since Brexit, warns WTO

Export of goods are languishing at 17% below pre-Covid levels

www.ft.com

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Ian @afc42.bsky.social · 5d

Defence was good. Lobban showed he should be getting more minutes.

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Ian @afc42.bsky.social · 5d

I think Thelin was making a point by not playing any of the players that were signed in time for pre-season. Only players from last season, a debut and the deadline day signings.

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 5d

Wow - those are quite phenomenal headlines given the details of the story.

Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done.

You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story!

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LeftPeggers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇵🇸 @leftpeggers.bsky.social · 5d

Time to repost this…

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James FBSI 🐸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺 (Extremist) @toplandscaper.bsky.social · 5d

Anything to make the Scot Gov look bad. It doesn't matter to them if it's in Scotland's interests or not. They did it out of spite. I hope the court case finds for the Scot Gov. Biffa have a case but it was WM that caused it to collapse not HR.

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 6d

A UK Government minister blocked a Scottish deposit return scheme (DRS) in order to give the SNP a 'black eye', a court has been told

Former Scottish Secretary blocked return scheme to give SNP 'black eye', court hears

www.thenational.scot

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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 5d

That’s a fantastic comparison, because the reason they added lead to gasoline was just to increase convenience a tiny bit, and they’ve poisoned the world in the process.

The good news is: Impossible as it may seem, we banned it worldwide and its bad effects are now mostly gone.

Makes you think.