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KVincent

@kvincentabdnshire.bsky.social

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Evil immigrant? Yes. Yank? No. This is the place where I put Half-Baked ideas. Personal account. All posts promoted by Kathryn Vincent Scottish Green Party, 19b Graham Street, Edinburgh EH6 5QN

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KVincent @kvincentabdnshire.bsky.social · 24d

I've lived in Scotland for 19 years. Married to a British citizen, British citizen child, native English speaker, PhD from an ancient Uni, employed, mortgaged, community councillor...no longer the "good migrant"...because good migrants don't exist under fascism.

Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 24d

Reform wants to scrap indefinite leave to remain and replace it with 5 year renewable visas which can't be accessed if you ever access benefits.

Basically turning every immigrant in the UK into people vulnerable to exploitation by employers they rely upon to stay in their homes.

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KVincent @kvincentabdnshire.bsky.social · 10h

Communities like mine are hosting this infrastructure and getting nothing in return. Our future is bleak, with Scot Gov cuts to NHS and Aberdeenshire Council actively destroying the social cohesion of our small villages. It's time to take our resources away from the wealth vampires like Sir Ian.

The Ferret @theferret.scot · 11h

🔴 NEW: Community groups claim they have been “shut out” of the Scottish Government’s flagship just transition fund due to “corporate capture” with the vast majority of money from the £500m pot going to the private sector.

Read more: theferret.scot/anger...

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KVincent @kvincentabdnshire.bsky.social · 1d

He did an interview just this week explicitly supporting an independent Welsh Green Party, abolishwestminster.substack.com?utm_campaign...

Abolish Westminster | Adam Ramsay | Substack

Discussing the UK's unfolding constitutional omnicrisis -written by Adam Ramsay. Click to read Abolish Westminster, by Adam Ramsay, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

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KVincent @kvincentabdnshire.bsky.social · 2d

If Reform take the North East of Scotland at the next election, it will be directly at the hands of the @libdems.org.uk for joining the Tory party in attacking the elderly in farming and fishing villages. They think older people are worthless, but don't realise how much trust they broke.

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 3d

They were told they will be fighting Antifa. Nothing prepared them for Cookie Monster doing pelvic thrust. It was an unfair fight.

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KVincent @kvincentabdnshire.bsky.social · 5d

Actually, just acting on advice I recieved from @electlauramoodie.bsky.social at a conference a decade ago, then adding my sociology flare.

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Suzanne Teefa 🇵🇸 she/her @rummlie.bsky.social · 6d

This is my dance about how much transphobes suck.

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KVincent @kvincentabdnshire.bsky.social · 6d

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KVincent @kvincentabdnshire.bsky.social · 7d

Turns out I was so strident in my expressing our family's need for the toddler's schooling to be secular, the nursery teacher thought we were JWs....I think we've cleared up that celebrations and knowledge are good, forced prayer bad.

KVincent @kvincentabdnshire.bsky.social · 7d

It's not you, it's bad polling. Too many people think the art of polling is getting a lot if answers...its actually creating a question that everyone interprets the same way.

KVincent @kvincentabdnshire.bsky.social · 7d

Smaller farms go bankrupt, corporate farms swoop in to buy at discount.

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KVincent @kvincentabdnshire.bsky.social · 7d

I use my sociology degrees to explain to former Tory voters concepts like "manufactured consent" and the importance of a strong social safety net to support commerce...and am slowly building my rural Green army.

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KVincent @kvincentabdnshire.bsky.social · 8d

*For viewers in Scotland*

If you want the OG radical, progressive, active @scottishgreens.org : members.greens.scot/join/standar...

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 11d

This is grim & dangerous over reach.

This is a government that have lost the moral argument & are still selling arms to Israel. Now further cracking down on dissent.

Absolutely the opposite of what they should be doing - so of course this is what the Labour Government choose.

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 11d

NEW: Home Office announces planned new anti-protest powers, mainly aimed at pro-Gaza protests like those for Palestine Action. Police will be able to consider the "cumulative impact" of repeated protests and potentially order that they be relocated.

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KVincent @kvincentabdnshire.bsky.social · 12d

Yep. It's one of the biggest issues we (communities hosting these projects) are having...international corporations are getting waved through planning permission, no benefit to the community, all profits going elsewhere and council have no powers to enforce good behaviour.

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KVincent @kvincentabdnshire.bsky.social · 13d

Instead, there's the "gifted and talented" programme. Where socially awkward children were separated from their classmates, given extra resources and left to "create". We were told we could change the world, but are mostly undiagnosed autistics who burnt out in our early 20s. 2/2

KVincent @kvincentabdnshire.bsky.social · 13d

Yes. You see, wealthy families know their children are genetically superior, because thats why they are wealthy. But, occasionally, a not-wealthy family will have a mutant child that could join them in the upper echelons. Paying to improve public schooling is expensive when you only want a few 1/2

KVincent @kvincentabdnshire.bsky.social · 15d

Now, lets talk about making council housing secure...despite the drive to privatise by Thachers children...

www.heraldscotland.com/news/2549454...

Meet the pensioners left behind by Aberdeenshire Council

The campaign group asked the council to delay the closure by five years and offered to cover some of the upkeep costs and help with necessary…

www.heraldscotland.com

KVincent @kvincentabdnshire.bsky.social · 18d

It's frustrating beyond belief to tell your elected reps that a public service that could provide so much help to our village is being neglected, and have them wave you off...as if your village and its people have no value.

Exhausted at so many communities being neglected like this.

Josh Pizzuto-Pomaco @joshpizpom.bsky.social · 18d

The residents of Cumrye want to stay in their homes, but @abshirecouncil.bsky.social is set to turf them out.

They allege the plan has been in the works for years.

@heraldscotland.bsky.social

www.heraldscotland.com/news/2549454...

Meet the pensioners left behind by Aberdeenshire Council

The campaign group asked the council to delay the closure by five years and offered to cover some of the upkeep costs and help with necessary…

www.heraldscotland.com

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Josh Pizzuto-Pomaco @joshpizpom.bsky.social · 18d

Meet the pensioners left behind by Aberdeenshire Council

The campaign group asked the council to delay the closure by five years and offered to cover some of the upkeep costs and help with necessary…

www.heraldscotland.com

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pickwick @pickwick.bsky.social · 20d

They are not bringing in ID cards to control immigration, they're bringing in ID cards because they've been lobbied by Blair and Thiel, and they're saying that it's about immigration because that's what people (apparently) care most about just now.

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Malena 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇦🇷 @malenagla.bsky.social · 20d

🧵You know what I would love love loveeeeee. Mainstream media platforming migrants. I’ve written plenty about it and yet all the articles going around are written by British folk? Part of the problem with the discourse is lack of representation on mainstream media? Who would have thought lol

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 20d

Ok. They’ve pissed me off.

I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards:

1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

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KVincent @kvincentabdnshire.bsky.social · 21d

Immigrants already have these digital ID cards instead of visas...and yes, it took me 2 months to get mine to work because I downloaded the app from the website instead of the app store and put my details in the laptop site.

KVincent @kvincentabdnshire.bsky.social · 22d

Advent is the formal name for the "Nativity" season-the 5 Sundays prior to Christmas when we are awaiting the birth.

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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 24d

A multi-millionaire attacking working-class families isn't patriotism. It's cowardice.
www.thenational.scot/news/2548477...

Nigel Farage blasted over 'grotesque' plan to axe indefinite leave to remain

NIGEL Farage’s plan to axe indefinite leave to remain (ILR) has been slammed as “grotesque” ...

www.thenational.scot

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