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Roy Bennett

@roybennett.bsky.social

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Market gardener and grower amongst many other things, self builder, healer, pragmatist, dreamer and doer, Scottish independence supporter. Activist and now soon to be writer. Not interested in crypto or trading/finance⛔. No business promotion⛔.

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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 19h

Reporting Scotland is covering sexual offences on trains this morning and concealed the fact that it is a UK wide report which shows Scotland at 98 cases has the lowest recorded rate in the UK.

Here's their Scottish report (see 🧵 for more) /-

(video: MSM Monitor)

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Roy Bennett @roybennett.bsky.social · 22h

I should have said a certain level of voters not all of them, just the 30 -45% that keep securing an undemocratic majority, decade after decade and are happy to keep worsening the lives of everyone else.

Roy Bennett @roybennett.bsky.social · 22h

Agreed, but voters keep voting to sell off everything they owned like turkeys voting for Christmas for 45 years, I have no words for that level of stupidity.

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Roy Bennett @roybennett.bsky.social · 22h

It's not a public service anymore it's a profit extraction mechanism, nothing else.

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Roy Bennett @roybennett.bsky.social · 22h

Agreed, clay is a far superior material to work with, in so many ways, we plastered our whole house in clay where we could. It's such a shame eco materials are so expensive for self builders here in the UK.

Roy Bennett @roybennett.bsky.social · 1d

That's not reflected in the UK retail price, the rate here was 1 2.4 x 1.2 gypsum board is £6 the equivalent clay boards 3-4 times the price at between £15 - £25, when that conundrum is addressed adoption will change.

Roy Bennett @roybennett.bsky.social · 1d

Its just a shame clay board is 3 - 5 times the equivalent cost of gypsum board, for many builders its prohibitively expensive, I know we were faced with that straight choice, the same for clay plaster where the multiple was 5 times and other eco products which effectively put them out of our reach.

Roy Bennett @roybennett.bsky.social · 2d

For now, anybody who thinks Israel will behave is deluded.

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The SNP @snp.org · 2d

No one will care more for this country or its people than the SNP.

Scotland works best when everyone who lives here is included, valued and supported. #SNP25

Graphic with John Swinney MSP speaking at a podium. Text reads: “No-one else will do a better job of caring for this beautiful country and the people who live here — and I mean all the people who live here.” Background is bright pink with SNP and Scottish flag logos at the bottom.

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Roy Bennett @roybennett.bsky.social · 2d

its not "lost" anything, its advertising spend on behalf of its owner, who spent £100 million to spread hate and lies, that how one needs to look at it.

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David Bol @davidbol.bsky.social · 2d

John Swinney has used his SNP conference speech to announce a network of community walk-in GP clinics will open across Scotland to end the 8am rush for appointments. They will open seven days a week from 12pm to 8pm.
www.scotsman.com/news/politic...

Walk-in GP centres open until 8pm daily to be rolled out across Scotland under SNP promise

John Swinney has made a commitment to seven-day-a-week walk-in GP centres

www.scotsman.com

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Roy Bennett @roybennett.bsky.social · 2d

No it isn`t, when the UK Govt passed the Internal Market Act they gave themselves the power to sell off anything Scotland has against the will of the Scottish Govt, then they scrapped the Sewell convention, they have been undermining the Scotland Act ever since 2014, nothing is safe.

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Roy Bennett @roybennett.bsky.social · 2d

Neither have we, but we are closer to riots and unrest than you are due to being crowded together more, even if it appears not to be the case.

Roy Bennett @roybennett.bsky.social · 2d

Agreed, same for the UK, far to many civilians in white colonialist nations have no clue what karma they have left themselves open to, chickens coming home to roost and all that.

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Roy Bennett @roybennett.bsky.social · 2d

As the US collapses internally, it will be too busy stomping out fires at home to be making much difference abroad, walking backwards to home may be the only US footprints anyone sees, and many in the world would be keen to hasten that journey.

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Roy Bennett @roybennett.bsky.social · 3d

whistles ? against fully armed gestapo like individuals operating in squads ? really ?

Roy Bennett @roybennett.bsky.social · 3d

Meanwhile in other news, thousands of Americans are being kidnapped in broad daylight, detained and deported without due process, Republicans are breaking the law, but what are Americans doing while thier country falls ? Watching football 🤣🤣🙄and they wonder how Trump won.

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Dotair Raibeart 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @raibeart.bsky.social · 3d

Let’s be clear: she was smeared. They attempted to destroy, probably the most honest & competent politician in these islands. They tried to silence her vision. Nicola Sturgeon didn’t just lead the SNP, she ignited a movement that will prevail. Scotland’s future remains Yes. #ScottishIndependence

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Roy Bennett @roybennett.bsky.social · 3d

looking from across the pond that seems a minor detail in Republicans ongoing systematic imposition of one party rule.

Roy Bennett @roybennett.bsky.social · 3d

Already bought and sold

Roy Bennett @roybennett.bsky.social · 3d

The SNP doing what no other UK Political party has the courage to do, this is why I am so proud of Scotland, showing the UK what moral leadership looks like in difficult times. The BBC will not show this, this is why Starmer loathes the SNP.

Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 3d

Dr Husam Zomlot, Head of Palestinian Mission to the UK, spoke movingly at the SNP Conference today. Well worth listening to his whole speech 👇

Very rarely is a Palestinian voice heard without bias and interruption on British media.

(Video courtesy @broadcastscot.bsky.social )
youtu.be/dx-3t7yD36M

Dr. Husam Zomlot, Head of Palestinian Mission to the UK, speaks at the 2025 SNP Conference

YouTube video by Andrew Sharpe

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Roy Bennett @roybennett.bsky.social · 3d

and the converse of that is if people don`t stop them Republicans will just do as they like, safe in the knowledge no one will physically fight back, so put simply unless the militias stand up, people are done, its all over already, many outside the US can see it as plain as day.

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Roy Bennett @roybennett.bsky.social · 3d

Don`t insult Fox news, the BBC is way worse..

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Roy Bennett @roybennett.bsky.social · 3d

Where are the militias to defend the people and the constitution against thier govt ? Were they just a myth ?

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 3d

Labour may be investing hard in nuclear energy due to the fear of Scottish independence, Stephen Flynn has suggested

Labour investing hard in nuclear due to fear of Scottish independence, Flynn suggests

www.thenational.scot

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