Andrew Sharpe 🏴|🇪🇺
@andrew.sharpe.scot
Scottish Indy supporter sharing the facts - unfiltered. Trying to inspire thought about what Scotland could be, back in the EU.
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Scotland and Europe: A Seven Year Tale
Scotland could expect to separate from the UK and become an EU member within seven years (or less) of its Declaration of Independence. How?
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Scotland could expect to separate from the UK and become an EU member within seven years (or less) of its Declaration of Independence.
Here's a description of how.
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If you like this sort of analysis please do subscribe and share my substack. It's free.
#RejoinEU
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Not before time…
November 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Not before time…
I'm confused. I already pay a large VED for my PHEV. Is Labour's new pay-per-mile tax in addition?
November 27, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I'm confused. I already pay a large VED for my PHEV. Is Labour's new pay-per-mile tax in addition?
"The overall tax burden is going up another £26bn, including via income tax and NI threshold freezes, on the very 'working people' Labour promised in its manifesto to protect. The freezes will also see people whose sole income is the state pension dragged into tax"
www.politico.eu/newsletter/l...
www.politico.eu/newsletter/l...
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November 26, 2025 at 9:21 PM
"The overall tax burden is going up another £26bn, including via income tax and NI threshold freezes, on the very 'working people' Labour promised in its manifesto to protect. The freezes will also see people whose sole income is the state pension dragged into tax"
www.politico.eu/newsletter/l...
www.politico.eu/newsletter/l...
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If you're in Glasgow this Friday afternoon, I'm giving a talk. It's free and all are welcome:
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A talk by George Monbiot: Capitalism, Power and Environmental Justice
George Monbiot will discuss some surprising histories of exploitation, and explore what a new radical politics might look like.
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November 26, 2025 at 1:32 PM
If you're in Glasgow this Friday afternoon, I'm giving a talk. It's free and all are welcome:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-talk-by-...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-talk-by-...
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One sentence.
That’s all the NHS got in Reeves’ Autumn Budget speech — with essentially no detail on the govt’s plan to use private partnerships to fund 250 neighbourhood health centres.
With the future of our health service at stake, the public deserves clarity, transparency, and real answers.
That’s all the NHS got in Reeves’ Autumn Budget speech — with essentially no detail on the govt’s plan to use private partnerships to fund 250 neighbourhood health centres.
With the future of our health service at stake, the public deserves clarity, transparency, and real answers.
November 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM
One sentence.
That’s all the NHS got in Reeves’ Autumn Budget speech — with essentially no detail on the govt’s plan to use private partnerships to fund 250 neighbourhood health centres.
With the future of our health service at stake, the public deserves clarity, transparency, and real answers.
That’s all the NHS got in Reeves’ Autumn Budget speech — with essentially no detail on the govt’s plan to use private partnerships to fund 250 neighbourhood health centres.
With the future of our health service at stake, the public deserves clarity, transparency, and real answers.
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A man who believes in nothing; morally unmoored. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
Labour’s plan to slash jury trials at odds with past Starmer calls to expand them
PM once advocated for all criminal cases to be heard before juries even those at magistrates court level, it has emerged
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:08 PM
A man who believes in nothing; morally unmoored. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
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Are you in a YES group or a proactive Independence supporter? I can probably help you with resources and campaign funding. Here's a short video to explain. Please share widely.
#YesScots
#CitizenJournalists
@weemokerr.bsky.social
Meidas Scotland Promotional Video
#YesScots
#CitizenJournalists
@weemokerr.bsky.social
Meidas Scotland Promotional Video
November 25, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Are you in a YES group or a proactive Independence supporter? I can probably help you with resources and campaign funding. Here's a short video to explain. Please share widely.
#YesScots
#CitizenJournalists
@weemokerr.bsky.social
Meidas Scotland Promotional Video
#YesScots
#CitizenJournalists
@weemokerr.bsky.social
Meidas Scotland Promotional Video
It's always worth fact-checking what the English parties post through your door... in this case the data doesn't even relate to the constituency.
There are lies, damn lies, and Lib Dem election leaflet bar charts and we got this yesterday to remind me of that.
Note the relative heights of Lib Dem and SNP but, far more hilariously, note that both Labour's 13% and the Ref/Con bar of 11.3% are over half the height of the SNP's 33%.
Note the relative heights of Lib Dem and SNP but, far more hilariously, note that both Labour's 13% and the Ref/Con bar of 11.3% are over half the height of the SNP's 33%.
November 26, 2025 at 8:25 AM
It's always worth fact-checking what the English parties post through your door... in this case the data doesn't even relate to the constituency.
Labour's last PFI schemes under Blair and Brown were a disaster we're still paying for. Now Starmer and Sarwar seriously suggest we'd be better off if they got their hands on Scotland's NHS?
Thankfully 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗡𝗣 has stopped them... so far.
Thankfully 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗡𝗣 has stopped them... so far.
Just a tiny snapshot of the countless articles exposing how disastrous PFI was…It was universally recognised as a failure. 🚫💸
So why — WHY — is a similar scheme being opened up again just 7 years later?!
We want answers from our politicians. Now.
➡️ bit.ly/NHSandBudget
So why — WHY — is a similar scheme being opened up again just 7 years later?!
We want answers from our politicians. Now.
➡️ bit.ly/NHSandBudget
November 26, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Labour's last PFI schemes under Blair and Brown were a disaster we're still paying for. Now Starmer and Sarwar seriously suggest we'd be better off if they got their hands on Scotland's NHS?
Thankfully 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗡𝗣 has stopped them... so far.
Thankfully 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗡𝗣 has stopped them... so far.
The Tories shut courts and cut funding enormously in England, creating a huge backlog. Instead of restoring funding, Labour chooses to cut rights to a jury trial.
Reform won't be complaining.
Reform won't be complaining.
Best understood, Labour's attack on juries, as a further lurch towards authoritarianism. Who, now, will stand in the way of a State that wants to imprison its opponents?
November 26, 2025 at 8:09 AM
The Tories shut courts and cut funding enormously in England, creating a huge backlog. Instead of restoring funding, Labour chooses to cut rights to a jury trial.
Reform won't be complaining.
Reform won't be complaining.
"Last year's promises broken" seems to have become the Labour party slogan these days. No doubt we'll see more of it later today.
Last year Rachel Reeves said that extending the freeze on income tax thresholds hurts working people & takes more money out of their payslips & she wouldn't be doing that because she was keeping her promises made in the manifesto.
So she won't be doing it today either, right?
So she won't be doing it today either, right?
November 26, 2025 at 7:59 AM
"Last year's promises broken" seems to have become the Labour party slogan these days. No doubt we'll see more of it later today.
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INDY LIVE RADIO - a new voice for a new Scotland
Today's schedule, Wed 26 Nov 2025
View the full schedule
How to listen
Get the iOS app
Get the Android app
or say 'ALEXA, play Independence Live Radio Scotland'
Today's schedule, Wed 26 Nov 2025
View the full schedule
How to listen
Get the iOS app
Get the Android app
or say 'ALEXA, play Independence Live Radio Scotland'
November 26, 2025 at 7:55 AM
INDY LIVE RADIO - a new voice for a new Scotland
Today's schedule, Wed 26 Nov 2025
View the full schedule
How to listen
Get the iOS app
Get the Android app
or say 'ALEXA, play Independence Live Radio Scotland'
Today's schedule, Wed 26 Nov 2025
View the full schedule
How to listen
Get the iOS app
Get the Android app
or say 'ALEXA, play Independence Live Radio Scotland'
Labour's Mahmoud has decided the Palestine Action ban case should be heard in secret.
"secret court hearings, particularly in civil cases, is a dangerous attack on human rights protections [often]
used to hide deliberate wrongdoing by the state"...
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
"secret court hearings, particularly in civil cases, is a dangerous attack on human rights protections [often]
used to hide deliberate wrongdoing by the state"...
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
‘Unavoidably unfair’: the secret courts system hearing part of Palestine Action case
The CMP system means Huda Ammori will not be allowed to know what allegations were made against her
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Labour's Mahmoud has decided the Palestine Action ban case should be heard in secret.
"secret court hearings, particularly in civil cases, is a dangerous attack on human rights protections [often]
used to hide deliberate wrongdoing by the state"...
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
"secret court hearings, particularly in civil cases, is a dangerous attack on human rights protections [often]
used to hide deliberate wrongdoing by the state"...
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
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We can’t let history repeat itself.
Thatcher’s policies wiped out our industrial communities - Labour’s windfall tax is doing the same to today’s North Sea workers.
Scrap it, save jobs and let Scotland build a fair transition into renewables.
Thatcher’s policies wiped out our industrial communities - Labour’s windfall tax is doing the same to today’s North Sea workers.
Scrap it, save jobs and let Scotland build a fair transition into renewables.
November 25, 2025 at 8:52 AM
We can’t let history repeat itself.
Thatcher’s policies wiped out our industrial communities - Labour’s windfall tax is doing the same to today’s North Sea workers.
Scrap it, save jobs and let Scotland build a fair transition into renewables.
Thatcher’s policies wiped out our industrial communities - Labour’s windfall tax is doing the same to today’s North Sea workers.
Scrap it, save jobs and let Scotland build a fair transition into renewables.
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Tour #Scotland short 4K late #Autumn travel video Blog clip of a Scotsman wearing a kilt and sporran and walking by icy, upland freshwater #Loch #Callater on #ancestry, #genealogy, #history visit and trip to the #Aberdeenshire, #Highlands tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/2025/11/scot...
Scotsman Walking Wearing Kilt By Loch Callater On Autumn History Visit To Aberdeenshire Scotland
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November 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Tour #Scotland short 4K late #Autumn travel video Blog clip of a Scotsman wearing a kilt and sporran and walking by icy, upland freshwater #Loch #Callater on #ancestry, #genealogy, #history visit and trip to the #Aberdeenshire, #Highlands tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/2025/11/scot...
Never mind peak pizza, hopefully we've passed peak US takeaway food. I find all these global US "brands" an unpleasant experience.
It's not the toppings, it's the base & the fact the whole thing is undercooked.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Peak pizza? Domino’s boss who launched shift towards chicken ousted
Firm says Andrew Rennie departs ‘by mutual agreement’ but it is thought he faced tensions with the board
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Never mind peak pizza, hopefully we've passed peak US takeaway food. I find all these global US "brands" an unpleasant experience.
Without Brexit, the UK could properly fund our NHS' and national care services. The knock on benefits of that for our health, our communities, and the economy, would be huge.
The UK is losing up to £250m a day in lost tax revenue due to the economic impact of Brexit, House of Commons Library analysis for the Lib Dems suggests.
Brexit has blown a "black hole of [up to] £90 billion a year in the public finances" the party says. Even under lower estimates the hit is ~£65bn
Brexit has blown a "black hole of [up to] £90 billion a year in the public finances" the party says. Even under lower estimates the hit is ~£65bn
November 25, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Without Brexit, the UK could properly fund our NHS' and national care services. The knock on benefits of that for our health, our communities, and the economy, would be huge.
Why 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 the British Government refuse to have any inquiry into Russia's interference in British elections and tremendous?
Feels awfully like there's stuff they really don't want made public.
Feels awfully like there's stuff they really don't want made public.
Carole Cadwalladr asks why the Labour gov are choosing not to
investigate Russian interference in British elections and referendums
investigate Russian interference in British elections and referendums
November 25, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Why 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 the British Government refuse to have any inquiry into Russia's interference in British elections and tremendous?
Feels awfully like there's stuff they really don't want made public.
Feels awfully like there's stuff they really don't want made public.
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In 2021 Good Law Project went for an Orwell Prize for uncovering the Covid PPE VIP lane - an issue which helped bring down the last Government. We didn't even get shortlisted - one of the judges was a Director General under the last Government working on... the Covid response. 😂
I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove Made Orwell Prize Judge Despite Record of Attacking Journalists and Dodging Scrutiny
Critics say "Orwell would have enjoyed the irony" of the former Conservative minister's appointment
bylinetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:10 PM
In 2021 Good Law Project went for an Orwell Prize for uncovering the Covid PPE VIP lane - an issue which helped bring down the last Government. We didn't even get shortlisted - one of the judges was a Director General under the last Government working on... the Covid response. 😂
Edinburgh looking particularly fine towards the Firth of Forth today.
November 25, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Edinburgh looking particularly fine towards the Firth of Forth today.
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Ahead of the budget, which the Scottish Government has had no clarity on, one thing I’m clear on is that Scotland’s budget and Scotland’s choices should not be damaged by the Labour Chancellor’s decisions. The budget that underpins your public services must be protected.
November 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Ahead of the budget, which the Scottish Government has had no clarity on, one thing I’m clear on is that Scotland’s budget and Scotland’s choices should not be damaged by the Labour Chancellor’s decisions. The budget that underpins your public services must be protected.
Unless it's purely transactional (equipment, medicines etc) profit and health care services shouldn't mix.
The government admits profiteering is rife in children’s care and social care, yet it still wants private finance back in the NHS. This is an ideology where a few will profit while everyone else pays.
#NHSNotForProfit #EconomicJustice
#NHSNotForProfit #EconomicJustice
November 25, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Unless it's purely transactional (equipment, medicines etc) profit and health care services shouldn't mix.
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The government admits profiteering is rife in children’s care and social care, yet it still wants private finance back in the NHS. This is an ideology where a few will profit while everyone else pays.
#NHSNotForProfit #EconomicJustice
#NHSNotForProfit #EconomicJustice
November 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The government admits profiteering is rife in children’s care and social care, yet it still wants private finance back in the NHS. This is an ideology where a few will profit while everyone else pays.
#NHSNotForProfit #EconomicJustice
#NHSNotForProfit #EconomicJustice
Ultra processed foods are bad for you. Very bad. And the UK buys more of them than anywhere else in Europe. Another public health failure in regulating producers, advertisers, and sellers.
November 25, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Ultra processed foods are bad for you. Very bad. And the UK buys more of them than anywhere else in Europe. Another public health failure in regulating producers, advertisers, and sellers.
Glasgow is a great city.
Glasgow's has been found to be the best city in the UK to raise children. Yes, it's a survey by an estate agency (so make of that what you will), but it's interesting to look at why the city came out top.
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#glasgow
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#glasgow
November 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Glasgow is a great city.