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Maq Ecosse - F4VRX 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇫🇷 @maqecosse.bsky.social · 17h

The Buckleys isn’t upbeat but is funny at times.

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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 22h

talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/10/15/a...

As energy bills are set to rise again a reminder of the English financier who said ‘Scotland subsidises London energy bills’ and it’s ‘better for Scots to pay over the odds than those living in the En...

Professor John Robertson OBA From inkl in October 2024: Households in Scotland are paying higher energy bills than they ought to keep prices down south of the Border, according to experts…

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Maq Ecosse - F4VRX 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇫🇷 @maqecosse.bsky.social · 1d

From a French colleague 🤣

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

Go on then Nigel Farage, keep telling us you know nothing about Russian influence…

The Farage staffer, the Russian embassy and a smear campaign against a Kremlin critic

www.theguardian.com/politics/201...

The Farage staffer, the Russian embassy and a smear campaign against a Kremlin critic

Worker for Farage’s group in EU parliament was ‘frequent visitor to embassy’ and accused of role in propaganda stunt

www.theguardian.com

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Gerry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🍀 @gerryr.bsky.social · 1d

Reform is no political party. It’s just a cash-grab. Farage and his rich backers are not patriots. They are conmen with their hands buried in foreign money.

Don’t vote for the ones keeping you poor.

youtu.be/e4CrfRpjvCY?...

The Farage Con Explained: Send This To A Flagsh*gger. They’ll Hate It

YouTube video by Supertanskiii

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themunros 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Ӿ @themunros.bsky.social · 2d

Requiring an SNP majority for indy push is lunacy, putting party B4 country and risking another 'once in a generation' gift to the unionists. Indy is bigger than the SNP and all that should be required is a majority of pro indy msp's. The threat of the far right precludes fannying about!

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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 2d

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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 4d

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Maq Ecosse - F4VRX 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇫🇷 @maqecosse.bsky.social · 6d

Agree and if it’s the first tip toe steps into making independence the topic and not party politics per se, then I’m behind it 100%

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Iain 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @zofovest42.bsky.social · Aug 11

With only 38 weeks until Scotland votes for her very future, I feel that our First Minister is being side tracked by events in Israel, just as Nicola Sturgeon was side tracked by the Gender Reform Bill.
Independence first !

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Maq Ecosse - F4VRX 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇫🇷 @maqecosse.bsky.social · 6d

And friends ask in bewilderment why I’ve worked in Luxembourg for the last 12 years……..

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Maq Ecosse - F4VRX 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇫🇷 @maqecosse.bsky.social · 6d

Absolutely right @johnswinney.bsky.social and we agree with you, but PLEASE get it done - what’s the plan, the timeline, the process to demand a 2nd referendum, the legal options, (high court, EU or UN courts etc)? The electorate, your AND other Indy supporters need/demand/deserve to know !

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Scotland's No1 Comrade @scotlandscomrade.bsky.social · 7d

Personally, I'm not bothered about an extra £10k @johnswinney.bsky.social I would rather that my country was free & Independent first & foremost. We can enjoy the other obvious benefits properly once we untangle ourselves from this unequal & unholy alliance that is the UK. To me that is worth more.

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Maq Ecosse - F4VRX 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇫🇷 @maqecosse.bsky.social · 8d

Well please tell John Swinney to get it done - what’s the plan, the timeline, the process to demand a 2nd referendum, the legal options, (high court, EU or UN courts etc)? The electorate, your AND other Indy supporters need/demand/deserve to know !

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Sandra. @sandratofriends.bsky.social · 8d

Jenrick,

Let's take our country back.

What country?, back from whom? This is the language of division and hate.

I think he may be right though, its time for Scotland & England's independence, from each other.

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Maq Ecosse - F4VRX 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇫🇷 @maqecosse.bsky.social · 8d

#NuffSaid

a group of people are dancing in a village with the words ding dong the witch is dead

ALT: a group of people are dancing in a village with the words ding dong the witch is dead

media.tenor.com

Maq Ecosse - F4VRX 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇫🇷 @maqecosse.bsky.social · 9d

Get it done - what’s the plan, the timeline, the process to demand a 2nd referendum, the legal options, (high court, EU or UN courts etc)? The electorate, your AND other Indy supporters need/demand/deserve to know !

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Maq Ecosse - F4VRX 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇫🇷 @maqecosse.bsky.social · 9d

I don’t get the opposition to it - it’s YOUR id on YOUR phone protected by YOUR security (face/pin/finger etc) that YOU share/show when YOU want.
If you’ve nothing to hide why the objection ?

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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 12d

Westminster wants Scotland to accept nuclear power stations for the same reason they site their Trident WMDs here: because they are safely far away from their core voters in the SE of England.

Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 12d

Ed Miliband has confirmed that a vote for Anas Sarwar to be first minister is a vote for nuclear power stations in Scotland

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland already more than meets its own annual demand through renewable energy - we don’t need dangerous and dirty nuclear energy.

(Lee Robb)

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James FBSI 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺 (Extremist) @toplandscaper.bsky.social · 13d

Imagine what Scotland could achieve as a normal independent country free from the constraints of our thieving colonisers, the #AngloState?

John Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social · 13d

What are we doing to help with the cost of living?

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scrapped peak rail fares
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Free prescriptions and eye tests
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Lower water bills and council tax than rest of the UK

While Westminster governments deliver cuts and chaos, the SNP is delivering for Scotland.

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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 13d

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Maq Ecosse - F4VRX 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇫🇷 @maqecosse.bsky.social · 13d

Save money: don’t buy a dishwasher. Instead put the plates etc on the floor and let the dog/cat lick them. The put them away. It’s the same distance and effort in the bending down and up as if you had a dishwasher - job done!

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Grumpy Brian🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇪🇺 @brian770.bsky.social · 14d

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Chipper60🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @chipper60.bsky.social · 14d

Stephen,ffs,CALL the UDI,build the hard border, declaration NOW!! SEVER the pipelines keeping them relevant and wealthy,BUILD OUR OWN GRID,we CANNOT be held back by an owned puppet,a govt complicit in genocide,a corrupt govt one after the other,telling US,WE ARE NOT A COUNTRY,BUT A COLONY,INDY NOW🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

“Rebellious Scots” 😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @markrich68.bsky.social · 14d

“If Keir Starmer actually had any respect for Scotland, our saltire and our democracy, he would stop denying our people the right to choose a future beyond the doom loop of broken, brexit britain."

Stephen Flynn MSP 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💪

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“Rebellious Scots” 😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @markrich68.bsky.social · 14d

“If Keir Starmer actually had any respect for Scotland, our saltire and our democracy, he would stop denying our people the right to choose a future beyond the doom loop of broken, brexit britain."

Stephen Flynn MSP 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💪

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