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Linda
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SunnyFife in Bonnie Scotland

NHS NP 💙

Wife, mum, dog/cat mum but especially nana 💕

Loves walking, gardening, cross stitch, knitting (badly), current affairs/politics, cricket & laughing at comments to 🦋 posts.....

Supporter of Scottish Independence 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Often unseen. Always vital. 💛

Nursing support workers are an integral part of the workforce, supporting registered nurses to provide outstanding care across all settings.

On #NursingSupportWorkersDay, share this film to show your thanks and to celebrate their contribution. ➡️ https://bit.ly/4h51HbE
November 23, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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🚨Watch as police confiscate van showing Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump in Windsor amid the US president's state visit
September 17, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Via 'Everyone Hates Elon' campaign today: An advertising van displaying a photo of Donald Trump with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein has been "confiscated by police after travelling around Windsor as the President stays with the King at Windsor Castle." (Latter pics are video stills - vid was too big)
September 17, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Here’s a poem called ‘English Roundabouts’.
September 15, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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The owner of one of the biggest platforms calling for violence on the streets of the UK is absolutely the limit of what is acceptable, that platform should be removed from the UK until certain conditions are met as legislated by our government. The sooner the better for all of us.
September 14, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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This happened in full view of Sky News cameras and a bunch of police just standing there. Why is THIS not on the news all day? Why don't we show people what these thugs are turning the country into? I could only find it on the far right TikTok page that proudly boasted about the incident. SHARE!
September 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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If you think this is about individual members of the judiciary as opposed to a graphic representation of the use of the law by politicians to batter protest then you are being far too literal.
September 8, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Guys, this needs a lot more traction. Please repost.
I've a feeling Mr Farage might very much be regretting his trip... round about ...

Now 👇
Rep. Jamie Raskin tears into Nigel Farage as a "far-right pro-Putin politician" and a "Donald Trump sycophant and wannabe".
September 3, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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I wouldn’t have thought many Labour MPs came into politics to strip the rights of torture survivors to be reunited with the spouses & children.

They need to take a long hard look in the mirror & ask whether Starmer, Cooper & Reeves are really the leadership their careers should be remembered with.
September 1, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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Independence from this lot please.
Douglas Carswell has skirted the line and now he's crossed it.

This is disgusting racism from a former MP who now demonstrates who and what he is.
August 31, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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August 26, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Some more fun. Based on UK ONS data, this is what Scotland "lost" by not becoming independent in 2014 - purely from not receiving ALL the benefit of two of its key sectors.

By the end of 2023 (latest data) it stood at around £100bn. And its still rising.

public.flourish.studio/visualisatio...
Public Finances: Revenue lost by not being independent
A Flourish data visualization by Yes in Pictures
public.flourish.studio
August 24, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Let me put it plainly. I don't care about what Israelis think, any more than the Serbs who supported Milosevic. Netanyahu is an evil kleptocrat turned mass murderer
August 10, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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The threat to our society is not from asylum seekers in small boats. It’s from politicians and media cynically whipping up fear and prejudice, labelling them all as criminals, inciting hatred against people for where and what they’ve fled from.
It must stop. For all our sakes. It’s deeply sinister.
August 10, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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August 4, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Professor Nick Maynard, "Food needs to be allowed in"

"Our government needs to do more than give our strong words which is all they are doing at the moment, the need to take action"

"They need to recognise the war crimes and the genocide being carried out"
July 25, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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This article…

… is, by a long way, the clearest account of the UK government’s complicity in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza that I have ever read.

Please read and share.
In all but name: is Gaza Britain’s undeclared war?
Britain isn’t just watching Gaza burn – it’s helping fuel the fire, with weapons, intelligence, and silence
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
July 25, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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Whenever I see people ranting about immigrants, or trans people, or Muslims, the image that comes to my mind is of a medieval villager staring agog at a conjurer's trick while behind him the conjurer's mate picks his pocket.
July 23, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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What in God's name is the point spending billions on defence when foreign players literally OWN our nuclear power plants, the vast majority of UK ports,our water,gas & electricity distribution,...
But yes, let's keep waving that Union Jack guys & remember: it's the brown people who are the bad guys!
July 17, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Great to see this, at last we might see an end to international double standards and some concrete action against the horrors being committed in Palestine by Israel. And just maybe a Two state solution.

buff.ly/bMYYH43
July 15, 2025 at 10:47 AM
In 2025...🙄
"I dont really know what this mysterious club that has been mysteriously white-washed from history, that im the leader of, does"

If you believe that, I got some beachfront property in Milton Keynes to sell ya
share.google/QmlINCJUX952...
Jim Shannon explains more on the mysterious Houses of Parliament Orange Lodge
Jim Shannon MP has been re-elected as the head of the Houses of Parliament Loyal Orange Lodge but many still don't know what the Lodge does
share.google
July 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Why are politicians denying the existential threat from flooding? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/07... Sea water levels around the UK have risen by 13.4 centimetres since the 1990s, and the rate of increase is rising, yet no politician is taking the threat seriously. Why is that?
Why are politicians denying the existential threat from flooding?
As the FT has noted this morning: The UK’s sea level is rising faster than the global average and at an accelerating rate, scientists have warned in a study that also shows how climate change is makin...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
July 14, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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Your regular reminder that Scotland and England have gone in different directions and we are not currently facing doctors strikes in Scotland.

The BBC and newspapers may forget to mention this.

#MedSky

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
NHS bosses fear fresh resident doctors’ strikes could embolden other staff
The Royal College of Nursing and Unison are undertaking indicative ballots to assess members’ willingness to strike
www.theguardian.com
July 9, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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"People are prepared to die for a bagful of rice and a bit of pasta"

That is the assessment of a British surgeon who was among the few international witnesses to the aftermath of the first shooting near a Gaza food distribution point. Read my interview with her here:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/w...
A Surgeon on the Desperation in Gaza: ‘They’re Prepared to Die for a Bagful of Rice’
www.nytimes.com
July 9, 2025 at 7:03 PM