Sam
@mcclinton.bsky.social
Retired happily and enjoying life in Scotland - hoping for an independent Scotland in my lifetime
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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 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
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 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...
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The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
November 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
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Let’s play “spot the moment the UK left the EU”
UKIP/Brexit Party/Refuk really do capture the imbeciles.
UKIP/Brexit Party/Refuk really do capture the imbeciles.
November 27, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Let’s play “spot the moment the UK left the EU”
UKIP/Brexit Party/Refuk really do capture the imbeciles.
UKIP/Brexit Party/Refuk really do capture the imbeciles.
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BBC staff have now been banned from repeating the description of Donald Trump excised from Rutger’s Reith lecture. Makes his warning here all the more chilling.
youtu.be/9UlYdocG5Bs
youtu.be/9UlYdocG5Bs
'What are they afraid of?' Historian's lecture cut by BBC
YouTube video by LBC
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 3:43 PM
BBC staff have now been banned from repeating the description of Donald Trump excised from Rutger’s Reith lecture. Makes his warning here all the more chilling.
youtu.be/9UlYdocG5Bs
youtu.be/9UlYdocG5Bs
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www.businessforscotland.com/the_uk_budge...
#YouYesNow #IndyClan?
It's TIME for #ScottishIndependence 🏴
#YouYesNow #IndyClan?
It's TIME for #ScottishIndependence 🏴
November 27, 2025 at 4:53 PM
www.businessforscotland.com/the_uk_budge...
#YouYesNow #IndyClan?
It's TIME for #ScottishIndependence 🏴
#YouYesNow #IndyClan?
It's TIME for #ScottishIndependence 🏴
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Scotland’s future is up to people who live in Scotland, not Rachel Reeves, Keir Starmer or any other Westminster politician.
November 27, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Scotland’s future is up to people who live in Scotland, not Rachel Reeves, Keir Starmer or any other Westminster politician.
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Quick analysis of The Times today:
Wall to wall negative coverage of Labour’s budget. An editorial that tuts about lack of growth but takes no responsibility. And a double page ad to join Farage/Reform.
Absolutely no analysis on how rightwing ideology - including Brexit - has been utterly ruinous.
Wall to wall negative coverage of Labour’s budget. An editorial that tuts about lack of growth but takes no responsibility. And a double page ad to join Farage/Reform.
Absolutely no analysis on how rightwing ideology - including Brexit - has been utterly ruinous.
November 27, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Quick analysis of The Times today:
Wall to wall negative coverage of Labour’s budget. An editorial that tuts about lack of growth but takes no responsibility. And a double page ad to join Farage/Reform.
Absolutely no analysis on how rightwing ideology - including Brexit - has been utterly ruinous.
Wall to wall negative coverage of Labour’s budget. An editorial that tuts about lack of growth but takes no responsibility. And a double page ad to join Farage/Reform.
Absolutely no analysis on how rightwing ideology - including Brexit - has been utterly ruinous.
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The last minute replacement of the judge presiding over the Palestine Action judicial review with a panel with Zionist links is deeply, deeply troubling.
November 26, 2025 at 10:34 AM
The last minute replacement of the judge presiding over the Palestine Action judicial review with a panel with Zionist links is deeply, deeply troubling.
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English government bringing up the rear for the rest of the UK.
November 26, 2025 at 11:50 PM
English government bringing up the rear for the rest of the UK.
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You just cannot take the iPaper seriously when it wheels out Kwasi ‘mini budget’ Kwarteng to comment on the budget.
We don’t *ever* want to hear from this arrogant clown again.
“No prudence”
FML.
We don’t *ever* want to hear from this arrogant clown again.
“No prudence”
FML.
November 27, 2025 at 8:05 AM
You just cannot take the iPaper seriously when it wheels out Kwasi ‘mini budget’ Kwarteng to comment on the budget.
We don’t *ever* want to hear from this arrogant clown again.
“No prudence”
FML.
We don’t *ever* want to hear from this arrogant clown again.
“No prudence”
FML.
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🚨Two Scottish independence podcasters have been arrested under terrorism laws
👉 www.thenational.scot/news/2...
👉 www.thenational.scot/news/2...
November 26, 2025 at 5:36 PM
🚨Two Scottish independence podcasters have been arrested under terrorism laws
👉 www.thenational.scot/news/2...
👉 www.thenational.scot/news/2...
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It’s says so much about the british media in Scotland that there has been absolutely no mention of this meeting on the bbc, The Scotsman or The Herald
Their propaganda by omission is just an indication of their fear for their union
🇬🇧 The unionist media is in an information War on Scotland 🏴
Their propaganda by omission is just an indication of their fear for their union
🇬🇧 The unionist media is in an information War on Scotland 🏴
First Minister John Swinney has met with Irish president Catherine Connolly 🏴 🇮🇪
Swinney said it was 'a great privilege' to meet Connolly and 'discuss the deep connections and shared values of Ireland and Scotland'
Swinney said it was 'a great privilege' to meet Connolly and 'discuss the deep connections and shared values of Ireland and Scotland'
November 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
It’s says so much about the british media in Scotland that there has been absolutely no mention of this meeting on the bbc, The Scotsman or The Herald
Their propaganda by omission is just an indication of their fear for their union
🇬🇧 The unionist media is in an information War on Scotland 🏴
Their propaganda by omission is just an indication of their fear for their union
🇬🇧 The unionist media is in an information War on Scotland 🏴
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Labour came in promising to cut energy bills by £300. Now they’re almost £200 higher, and they trumpet a change that won’t even cover the increase since they took office.
Is this really it??
Scotland deserves better than this chaos. A fresh start with independence. 🏴
Is this really it??
Scotland deserves better than this chaos. A fresh start with independence. 🏴
November 26, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Labour came in promising to cut energy bills by £300. Now they’re almost £200 higher, and they trumpet a change that won’t even cover the increase since they took office.
Is this really it??
Scotland deserves better than this chaos. A fresh start with independence. 🏴
Is this really it??
Scotland deserves better than this chaos. A fresh start with independence. 🏴
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The very first thing the Prime Minister does is use the household budget metaphor.
A metaphor - this report into BBC coverage - said could be "easily misleading."
Why is the government trying to mislead the country?
A metaphor - this report into BBC coverage - said could be "easily misleading."
Why is the government trying to mislead the country?
November 26, 2025 at 12:05 PM
The very first thing the Prime Minister does is use the household budget metaphor.
A metaphor - this report into BBC coverage - said could be "easily misleading."
Why is the government trying to mislead the country?
A metaphor - this report into BBC coverage - said could be "easily misleading."
Why is the government trying to mislead the country?
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Introducing vehicle tax to electric cars while freezing fuel duty for polluting vehicles immediately after COP30? 🙁 #budget2025
November 26, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Introducing vehicle tax to electric cars while freezing fuel duty for polluting vehicles immediately after COP30? 🙁 #budget2025
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“The Motability scheme was set up to protect the most vulnerable. Not to subsidise the lease on a Mercedes Benz,” Reeves says.
Misleading and nasty in equal measure.
Misleading and nasty in equal measure.
November 26, 2025 at 1:15 PM
“The Motability scheme was set up to protect the most vulnerable. Not to subsidise the lease on a Mercedes Benz,” Reeves says.
Misleading and nasty in equal measure.
Misleading and nasty in equal measure.
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"Already, England has privatised much of the NHS. Indeed, my colleagues down south consider that NHS England is too far gone to bring it back under public ownership."
Dr. Daniel Goyal, Bylines Scotland
Dr. Daniel Goyal, Bylines Scotland
November 26, 2025 at 12:12 PM
"Already, England has privatised much of the NHS. Indeed, my colleagues down south consider that NHS England is too far gone to bring it back under public ownership."
Dr. Daniel Goyal, Bylines Scotland
Dr. Daniel Goyal, Bylines Scotland
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It was a great privilege to meet President Catherine Connolly this morning and to discuss the deep connections and shared values of Ireland and Scotland. 🏴🇮🇪
November 26, 2025 at 12:07 PM
It was a great privilege to meet President Catherine Connolly this morning and to discuss the deep connections and shared values of Ireland and Scotland. 🏴🇮🇪
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£90 billion in lost taxes each year due to Brexit and the UK govt is reduced to mugging the disabled.
November 26, 2025 at 7:42 AM
£90 billion in lost taxes each year due to Brexit and the UK govt is reduced to mugging the disabled.
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If only more UK unions
weren't beholden to
Starmer's Labour 'Party Of Business'
"Belgium grinds to a halt in three day general strike against austerity"
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/belg...
weren't beholden to
Starmer's Labour 'Party Of Business'
"Belgium grinds to a halt in three day general strike against austerity"
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/belg...
Belgium grinds to a halt in three day general strike against austerity
BELGIUM ground to a halt on Monday as workers began a three-day general strike against government austerity plans targeting pensions, welfare benefits and employment rights.It was the 13th national st...
morningstaronline.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 10:40 AM
If only more UK unions
weren't beholden to
Starmer's Labour 'Party Of Business'
"Belgium grinds to a halt in three day general strike against austerity"
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/belg...
weren't beholden to
Starmer's Labour 'Party Of Business'
"Belgium grinds to a halt in three day general strike against austerity"
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/belg...
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November 26, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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🏴 Scots have already had to pay MORE towards the uk Governments shambolic, useless Ajax Armoured Cars scandal, than we paid for 2 fully operational ferries, in the so-called “FERRIES SCANDAL”
🇬🇧 Absolute silence from the FERRIES obsessed “bbc North britain”
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
🇬🇧 Absolute silence from the FERRIES obsessed “bbc North britain”
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Army stops using Ajax armoured vehicles as soldiers were left vomiting
Vibration and hearing problems have also been reported after the £10million vehicles were put to the test on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire.
www.dailymail.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 7:39 AM
🏴 Scots have already had to pay MORE towards the uk Governments shambolic, useless Ajax Armoured Cars scandal, than we paid for 2 fully operational ferries, in the so-called “FERRIES SCANDAL”
🇬🇧 Absolute silence from the FERRIES obsessed “bbc North britain”
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
🇬🇧 Absolute silence from the FERRIES obsessed “bbc North britain”
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
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I don’t care where you fall politically, this is very very bad and should absolutely not go through.
EVERY politician needs to challenge this.
EVERY politician needs to challenge this.
November 25, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I don’t care where you fall politically, this is very very bad and should absolutely not go through.
EVERY politician needs to challenge this.
EVERY politician needs to challenge this.
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On Bregman, I was there in the audience and I can’t see what the BBC have gained by removing this line except more bad publicity. I will say that no such edits or censorship occurred when I gave the Reith Lectures and free-speech defenders might want think about whether this is the world they want.
November 25, 2025 at 12:11 PM
On Bregman, I was there in the audience and I can’t see what the BBC have gained by removing this line except more bad publicity. I will say that no such edits or censorship occurred when I gave the Reith Lectures and free-speech defenders might want think about whether this is the world they want.