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Sam Morrison 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺
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Scottish Borders

What can I say? Musician, acupuncturist, software developer. Decidedly Scottish so swearing isn't optional. Neither are politics, art, books and cooking. Falkirk FC, NUFC.

That's ma dug Doug
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In 1970 the UK and Norway were roughly equal, almost no debt, and owned all their Public Services.

Now the UK owns nothing and has £3tn of debt.

While Norway still owns everything and has the equivalent of £10tn.

That's how privatisation 'works'.
December 19, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Don't worry about digital ID, your data will be perfectly safe, ffs!

🤡🤡🤡

BBC News - Government data stolen in hack, minister confirms
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Government data stolen in hack, minister confirms
The trade minister says information was accessed and an investigation has been launched.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 19, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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This is just next level amazing! ❤️👇
#Rome has two new metro stations!

This week, Line C opened the Porta Metronia and Colosseo-Fori Imperiali stations, which double as museums of Imperial Rome. #Roma #transit

Here's an eye-opening plunge into Colosseo-Fori:
December 19, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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👇
December 19, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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Oh
Michelle Mone-linked PPE Medpro wound up after order to repay £148m for faulty goods.

Company has £600,000 assets. Govt is unsecured creditor, won't recover anything.

Hard to trace money in offshore bank accounts.

Govt could sue directors for fraud, will take years, what will it recover?
Michelle Mone-linked PPE Medpro wound up after being ordered to repay £148m
In a ruling, Insolvency and Companies Court Judge Sebastian Prentis placed the company into liquidation
www.independent.co.uk
December 19, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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Morning all. Allow me to show you the perfect burn 🔥
December 18, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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Eight Palestine Action activists are being left to die in prison – all without even facing trial.

We must force the government to act, before it’s too late ⬇️
https://goodlaw.social/3e3320
December 18, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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Matthew Goodwin objects to prosecuting this: ‘I think it’s time for the British to gang together, hit the streets and start the slaughter. Violence and murder is the only way now. Start off burning every migrant hotel then head off to MPs’ houses and Parliament, we need to take over by FORCE.’
December 18, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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This is just one of the many projects backed by the European Investment Bank (EIB). The UK doesn't have this kind of help anymore because of Brexit.
#RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺
In 2025, we invested nearly €1.38bn to expand and upgrade Poland’s road network.

This includes:
🔵a new €500m loan to BGK for the S17 expressway in south-eastern Poland
🔵projects to enhance civilian & military mobility,
🔵climate resilience👇
go.eib.org/Poland_Trans...
December 18, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Yesterday’s news……. But not bbc News
December 17, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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👇 This
December 18, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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January 6 was like a much dumber version of Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch and yet a plurality of American voters were like, Yeah, let’s give that guy the nuke codes again. An absolutely world historical debacle of societal ignorance. I’ll never understand it.
December 18, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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In today’s episode of “I am Mental” x
December 18, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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Nailed it!
meme via Angel Stroyan
December 18, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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You're laughing at this but you won't be when your shitty Tesla gets sunk by a U-Boat.
December 17, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Keir Starmer's Labour now also refusing to investigate Russian interference in Brexit

And also spinning the lie that there was no foreign interference, even though the Russia Report showed that the government didn't look for foreign interference

Labour just as disgusting as the Conservatives
December 16, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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I am not a Scot but married to a Scot. It makes me sick to see the way the success made by the Scottish government with a budget set by the English in Westminster is virtually never recognised especially in MSM. I not saying everything is perfect, but so much is a lot better than in England.
December 17, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Most people think that economics is about money, that government spending is constrained by tax, and that public services must always come second to “balancing the books”. All of that is wrong.

youtu.be/ZL8SMeV2VyY?...
Economics is not about money
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
youtu.be
December 17, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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Unemployment statistics NOT reported by BBC/ITV or SkyNews

Wales - 6.1%
England - 5.2%
Scotland - 3.8%
This is achieved despite many economic levers being reserved to Westminster & denied to Holyrood
Now do you understand why they don't want to see us as a success story within this despotic union?
December 17, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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FIFA gonna have to check VAR
Trump: "Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled ... It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the USA all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us."
December 17, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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Seems Russian pressure on Google has paid off, and they no longer identify Crimea as part of Ukraine.

What a huge disappointment Google has turned out to be, in so many ways.
December 17, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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NEW: This is worth your time.

@thenerve_news has the receipts.

A comprehensive timeline of Nathan Gill & Nigel Farage’s pro-Kremlin influencing activities & 2 other MEPs, David Cobourn & Jonathan Arnott.

Please read & share.
November 23, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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If true, the implication is that Scottish students will again be able to study elsewhere in Europe fee-free, as they do at home. And EU students would study fee-free here.

Rejoining Erasmus has been a call from our Government since being forced out of the EU.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
UK to rejoin EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme
Exclusive: British students will be able to participate in EU-wide scheme from January 2027, sources say
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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Ratcliffe is simply a corporation benefit scrounger. Taking Government money to bail him out either shows the plant is unprofitable or that Ratcliffe is making egregious profit from taxpayers. The plant should be taken into Public Ownership to save all jobs and any profit used for reinvestment.
Jim Ratcliffe’s company Ineos gets £120m govt subsidy to help save the UK’s last ethylene plant at Grangemouth.

Ratcliffe is worth $14.7bn (£11bn). Can he not invest? Will he be back for more?

Govt is not taking any equity stake. £120m is not repayable.
Government invests £120m to save UK’s last ethylene plant
Funding for billionaire Jim Ratcliffe’s Ineos plant in Scotland will help safeguard 500 jobs
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 8:14 AM