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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 8h

On a side note, recently resurrected my old dust covered 360 and man does that console hold up

RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 12h

Like this *will* pay dividends on election day because of the low base and the majority of their target seats are urban Labour seats with a left/liberal slant. It's just a question of how many seats and what comes after.

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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 12h

I think it's fine in this case. For all the Corbyn comparisons, I feel like we miss that he is doing this not as Leader of His Majesty's Most Loyal Opposition but as the non-MP leader of four folk from wildly different areas

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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 1d

A tour of every Scottish post box, which carries the Crown of Scotland as its logo instead of the Monarch's cypher in response to the Pillar Box war

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillar_...

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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 1d

Also, once habitual core voters cross the rubicon of switching their vote or not turning out for their usual party in any election, it can be hard to fully reverse that!

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Mark McGeoghegan @markmcgeoghegan.bsky.social · 1d

Analysis in @thetimes.com by @leaskyd.bsky.social & Anna Dowell of the sharp decline in British identity uncovered by the Scottish Social Attitudes survey.

With comment from Sir John Curtice on the polarising of Scottish politics and from myself on the decoupling of Scottish and British identities:

Why Scots are losing their British identity

With only a quarter of respondents to the Scottish Social Attitudes survey identifying with Britishness, Scotland faces a generational political split

www.thetimes.com

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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like this is a very median leftist opinion

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The Alternate Historian @althistorian.bsky.social · 3d

Can't believe this might become the symbol of Amermaidan.

Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 3d

Frogtifa

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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 3d

Won't someone please think of bearsden

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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 3d

Ash Regan, leader of the Caledonia party, coming up

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING: Ash Regan has quit the Alba Party

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Oldfirmfacts @oldfirmfacts.bsky.social · 4d

A handy guide

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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 4d

At this rate it will be "did you know that England, Scotland, Wales and part of Ireland used to be one country"

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 4d

pretty worried that people in 2200 are going to be expressing similar sentiments about the UK tbh. 'Did you know that the UK was once considered one of the richest European nations?'

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 4d

at the start of the twentieth century Argentina was one of the richest nations on earth per capita, and not even in, like, the way that Nauru was in 1968.

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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 4d

Steve Clarke has earned his place in the history books as the most vindicated practitioner of terrorball, no one is doing it like him

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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 4d

Laughably stupid and a quintessential Scottish victory

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Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.bsky.social · 4d

Steve Clarke (not Karl Marx) paired with the quote "We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall make no excuses for the terrorball."

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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 4d

I think it's bad that we allow financiers operating out of the gulf states to run massive private propaganda operations designed to undermine British democracy and stir up racial hatred

Ben Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 4d

If a news organisation is making -200% margin after five years, it is not a commercial operation and should be assumed to have a different purpose.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 5d

The channel lost £33 million to communicate its content to a large audience
www.business-live.co.uk/enterprise/g...

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 4d

pubs: Traditional Working Class-coded, masculine, everyone kind of subconsciously pretends they're a miner in a union hall when they're at the pub, Can Be Trust

Nandos: childlike, innocent, foolish, Must Be Paternalised

Techpriest @techpriest.bsky.social · 4d

NGL though, extending pub opening hours whilst simultaneously making it illegal for Nandos to do free drink refills feels very on brand for Starmerism

Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 4d

Well, no, I don't agree with that. I do think people still like pubs and selling them pubs open late will be a popular policy.

But as others have observed, it's insane to combine this with the continued War on Sugar.

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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 4d

The SNP began planning for the LD-Green-SNP-PC coalition government early I see

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Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.bsky.social · 4d

I made a Refugees Welcome saltire flag shop

www.contrado.co.uk/stores/refug...

Refugees Welcome Saltire Flag

Show refugees that they are welcome in Scotland.Single-sided mesh fabric flag.

www.contrado.co.uk

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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 4d

Hollow laughter

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 5d

Palestinians will feel understandable relief. The West should feel nothing but shame. Gaza has been obliterated. The territory rendered uninhabitable. Tens of thousands murdered in cold blood. The entire population subjected to starvation tactics. And now, colonial subjugation under Trump and Blair

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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 5d

Get in lads, America is doing imperial military interventions in Latin America again (probably)

LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 5d

A bunch of defense accounts on twitter said that they got leaked something classified lol

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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 5d

Honestly, I can't imagine them introducing half of Roy Jenkin's reforms

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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 6d

You can go the boring route of saying the Edwardian era but a more interesting case would be the Napoleonic Wars and the extension of the repressive state under Pitt, Liverpool etc

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