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busygranof6.bsky.social
@busygranof6.bsky.social
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Retired Head Teacher. Trying hard to learn Gaelic. So want independence for Scotland especially for my grandchildren.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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duncan2024.bsky.social
talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/28/a...
Ajax armoured vehicles, 12 years late, way over budget at £10 million each, twice the cost of the US equivalent, 30 sick soldiers – Yes but what about the ferries? No, what about swarms of £20k drones
Professor John Robertson OBA Thanks to rtpscott for alerting me to this. Andrew, above is hanging on to his title just in case his Ajax armoured vehicle soon becomes less useful than a horse. I pre…
talkingupscotlandtwo.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:26 PM
busygranof6.bsky.social
My daughter just sent me this. What a disgrace to Scotland. People like this make me sick. Child protection group my ****! More like a bunch of racist thugs terrorising children thinking it makes them look big. Don’t know where the school is but I would expect the police to be there to move them on.
November 28, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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scotlassie.bsky.social
Let's choose to be the captain of our own ship, because in this sham union, we are being dragged under, by a series of incompetent captains, from the bloody Westminster Titanic!
#IndependenceNOW
#BetterToGetOut
November 28, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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scotlandscomrade.bsky.social
There may be a vacancy in the newsroom of BBC Scotland for reporting this success story. 😂

It's actually worth pointing out that it is NOT the @snp.org that get this money, It's the Scottish government who gets it & it is revenue generated for the people of Scotland.
#AreYouYesYet #WhyNotScotland
November 28, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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neilmackay.bsky.social
What’s Scotland supposed to do? Consult Nostradamus to find out how we have another referendum?

Rachel Reeves says that even if the SNP wins a majority on its own at Holyrood the UK government will still not permit another vote.

It’s a democratic outrage

My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column
Must Scotland consult Nostradamus to find out how we hold another referendum?
The UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves says there won’t be another vote even if the SNP wins a majority at Holyrood in May – that’s a democratic…
www.heraldscotland.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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scotlandscomrade.bsky.social
Arrogance on stilts.
No longer can this be called 'A voluntary union' if English politicians keep denying to recognise a legitimate mandate.
If Westminster cannot say what the mechanism is that we can use to leave, Then it is tantamount to a hostage situation.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
No independence referendum if SNP wins majority, Reeves says
The chancellor has refused to support a second vote if the SNP wins a majority of seats in May.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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At its ‘finest’
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esherukweku.bsky.social Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 13h
Child benefit for the average person:

First child: £1354 per year
Each additional £ 897

What MPs can claim:

£5,500 per child per year max £16,500 per year
November 28, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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esherukweku.bsky.social
Child benefit for the average person:

First child: £1354 per year
Each additional £ 897

What MPs can claim:

£5,500 per child per year max £16,500 per year
November 28, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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weegingerdug.bsky.social
The stench of sleaze grows ever stronger around Farage and his associates. Piling on the hypocrisy, former Brexit MEP David Coburn lives in France.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Former Brexit Party MEP denies taking payment from pro-Russian campaign
A prominent former MEP for Nigel Farage's old party denies taking bribes in a pro-Russian campaign.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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maureenpickering.bsky.social
How can future of GP services in Scotland be ‘hanging in the balance’ when on average a GP in England has 560 more patients on his books and the BMA in England says UK Government should ‘simply follow the example of the government in Scotland?’ talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/28/h...
How can future of GP services in Scotland be ‘hanging in the balance’ when on average a GP in England has 560 more patients on his books and the BMA in England says UK Government should ‘simply follow...
Professor John Robertson OBA The BMA Scotland really needs to think about their relationship with the Scottish Government before they start making claims like the above. Specifically on GP supply a…
talkingupscotlandtwo.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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shortbreadfairy.bsky.social
What's sickening is Coburn bought a Chateau in Northern France whilst campaigning to get us oot. It feels typical of wealthy Brexit people. Money to buy back in but removed oor freedom of movement 🙄🤷‍♀️
I can't forgive those who did this to us. I love a grudge mind
November 28, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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shortbreadfairy.bsky.social
Good morning

Listening to Radio Wales and their tracking of David Coburn to France

Coburn was a former Brexit/UKIP (Farage) Party MEP
BBC News - Former Brexit Party MEP denies taking payment from pro-Russian campaign - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Former Brexit Party MEP denies taking payment from pro-Russian campaign
A prominent former MEP for Nigel Farage's old party denies taking bribes in a pro-Russian campaign.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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icoll.bsky.social
Fighting like rats in a sack. That’s what Reform are good at.

www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/news/politic...
Reform UK leader resigns after being defeated in council chamber by his own party
Reform UK Councillor Guy Aston has stepped down as group leader on the City of Doncaster Council, claiming he has received “vitriolic texts that border on abuse” from members of his own party.
www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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bylinetimes.bsky.social
🔴Cherie Blair Is Working for a Russian Oligarch Who Is Now Suing British and Luxemburg Governments in Corporate Court

EXCLUSIVE: Putin ally Mikhail Fridman is using a controversial corporate court mechanism to challenge UK and Luxemburg sanctions

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/28/c...
Cherie Blair Is Working for a Russian Oligarch Who Is Now Suing British and Luxemburg Governments in Corporate Court
EXCLUSIVE: Putin ally Mikhail Fridman is using a controversial corporate court mechanism to challenge UK and Luxemburg sanctions
bylinetimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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talking-upscotland.bsky.social
News you won’t hear – Scottish Government’s ‘world-leading’ legislation on NHS staffing levels is already working as staffing ratios in Scotland are already significantly better
talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/28/n...
News you won’t hear – Scottish Government’s ‘world-leading’ legislation on NHS staffing levels is already working as staffing ratios in Scotland are already significantly better
Professor John Robertson OBA From the Scottish Government yesterday: The Health and Care (Staffing) (Scotland) Act 2019 (“the Act”) is the UK’s first multidisciplinary staffing legislation and Scot…
talkingupscotlandtwo.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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scottishym.bsky.social
Like those levers he pulled for Grangemouth? Aye right lad, tha thinks we’re all zipped up the back.
November 28, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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gjdop.bsky.social
#ReformUK are scum, devoid of honour and accountability for their political and treasonous scams.
paddyopatrick.bsky.social Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 4d
You can tell someone’s Reform from weapons grade hypocrisy they use so freely.. take Nathan Gill’s profile on X for example👇🏼👇🏼

“Love my God, my family and my country. Not afraid or ashamed to be patriotic.”

10 years in prison for taking bribes from our enemy Russia is as unpatriotic as it gets❗️😡🤷🏼‍♂️
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Image is Nathan Gill profile on X, with the BS that I put in my post that he has plastered on it, along with some waffle I can’t be bothered to add talking about being an MEP blah blah
November 28, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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mikeiona.bsky.social
So Labour has stopped the Green Levy funding wind and solar power.
Instead we now have a nuclear levy to fund poison that lasts millennia.
November 27, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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weegingerdug.bsky.social
My latest blog piece, hope of a better Scotland can defeat the far right

weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/h...
Hope of a better Scotland can defeat the far right
Racists complain that migrants don’t want to learn English and integrate, but when migrants do want to learn English and integrate, racists mount a protest outside the school where English la…
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November 25, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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pixie11.bsky.social
The Act of the Union is a treaty and not constitutional, therefore Scotland doesn't need permission It's a decision for the Scottish people, not Westminster. 😡
sick of these lot 🤬🤬

Rachel Reeves rejects referendum if SNP win Holyrood majority

www.thenational.scot/news/2654038...
'Astonishing arrogance': Rachel Reeves panned after dismissing second referendum
Rachel Reeves has been accused of showing an "astonishing level of arrogance" after she dismissed a second independence referendum if the…
www.thenational.scot
November 27, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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freedomunicorn.bsky.social
Of course it does 🙄

MPs are voted in to be YOUR voice, to raise issues affecting YOU & ultimately making YOUR life better. Is it?

#StillYes 💙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
November 27, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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yermaw.bsky.social
How delusional is Ian Murray!
November 27, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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chipper60.bsky.social
That's Adolf fuhrages propoganda conduit,as for labour,as a Scot,they're almost worse than the Tories,who were the most corrupt govt in history,now this shit mob Tel Aviv labour ,their chancellor telling SCOTS & SCOTLAND SHE wouldn't allow another referendum,fk off
steveemm.bsky.social Steve Emm @steveemm.bsky.social · 1d
The attacks on Labour from BBC News are now so relentless, day after day, minute after minute, putting headline negativity on absolutely anything they say, or do.

Are they now the official opposition?
November 27, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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radiojammor.bsky.social
Former Tory MSP & Prof of Public Law, Adam Tomkins, recently stated this to a Holyrood Committee (and was agreed with by the other experts present) that "It is political rhetoric and not a constitutional convention."
Professor Tomkins It is political rhetoric and not a constitutional convention. I do not mean to demean that—indeed, I have engaged in plenty of political rhetoric myself in the past—but that is what it is. It is certainly not a rule of constitutional law—subject to one exception, which I will come to in a minute. It is not even a constitutional convention. The statements that were offered in the 2014 campaign about the referendum happening once in a generation, if not once in a lifetime, were political statements, and they should be taken as such, in my view. 09:45 It is self-evidently not the case in the United Kingdom that, once you have had a referendum on an issue, you cannot have another referendum on the same issue some time later. There have been two referendums on the UK’s membership of the European Union, in 1975 and 2016. I am not very good at maths, but I think that that means that they were 41 years apart. There have also been two referendums on Scottish devolution, and they were 18 years apart. The only statutory reference to anything pertaining to this—and it is not a reference that uses the term “generation”—is in section 1 and schedule 1 of the Northern Ireland Act 1998, which provides that there cannot be what that legislation refers to as a border poll within seven years of the previous one. There is no legal answer to the question, “How long is a generation?”, because it is not a question of law. However, there are precedents with a small p, if you will, that we can point to and which suggest a period of somewhere between 7, 18 and 41 years. That might give you some sense of an answer to how long a generation might be. Professor McHarg I completely agree. Under the Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973, the minimum period between border polls was 10 years. Therefore, if we are talking about statutory ideas of what generations are, they are actually quite short. I think that it was just an opportunistic interpretation of campaign rhetoric that, to me, seemed to be about encouraging people to vote because they might not get another chance, rather than any sort of intention to promise not to seek another referendum for a generation, whatever that might be. Of course, the once-in-a-generation argument loses force the further we get from 2014, and we might expect other types of argument to be made. Indeed, other reasons have been used for rejecting a second independence referendum. For Theresa May, it was simply that “Now is not the time.” For others, it has been that public support was not high enough or that there are higher priorities, such as dealing with the pandemic, climate change or whatever. This highlights one of the features of our lack of legal regulation. There are no trigger conditions and no limiting conditions. It is simply a question of when the time is right. Professor Tierney The thing about constitutional conventions is that they are important. Because our system is so fluid, and because the UK Parliament is able to do what it wants, conventions take on a particular significance. They are rules—they are not just political claims—and they are rules that the people who are subject to them feel bound by, not just politically but constitutionally. They think, “I must behave in this way to act in conformity with the constitution.” That is really important, and it means that we cannot find new conventions easily, because they have to emerge over time through precedent and through clear evidence that the people who are subject to them feel bound by them. That is quite a high hurdle and, like Adam Tomkins and Aileen McHarg, I see no evidence to suggest that a political claim of this nature could in any way be considered to be a constitutional convention. Even if it was so, we now know that constitutional conventions would not be enforced by the courts. However, that is not to say that they are not important. I would say that, were there such a convention, it would be very important, but I cannot see the structure of a convention in that political claim. Keith Brown (questioner) Thank you.
November 27, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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amfearuaine.bsky.social
From scapegoating migrants to ploughing ahead with Brexit, there is nothing between Britnat #Labour Party and Tories/Reform. For voters in Scotland, the message effectively is, it doesn't matter who you vote for as England expects to get exactly what it wants.

www.thenational.scot/news/2565403...
'Astonishing arrogance': Rachel Reeves panned after dismissing second referendum
Rachel Reeves has been accused of showing an "astonishing level of arrogance" after she dismissed a second independence referendum if the…
www.thenational.scot
November 27, 2025 at 6:37 PM