Vivienjay
@vivienjay.bsky.social
Live in Edinburgh as an active English supporter of independence and EU membership for Scotland. Love birds and nature generally. Play viola badly and piano too seldom.
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Reform UK are selling Black Shirts on their website — for £349. We think this is illegal.
TL;DR — they are breaking Small Society Lottery, Gambling Commission and GDPR regulations.
TL;DR — they are breaking Small Society Lottery, Gambling Commission and GDPR regulations.
November 29, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Reform UK are selling Black Shirts on their website — for £349. We think this is illegal.
TL;DR — they are breaking Small Society Lottery, Gambling Commission and GDPR regulations.
TL;DR — they are breaking Small Society Lottery, Gambling Commission and GDPR regulations.
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Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.
November 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.
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John Swinney has announced plans to give more powers to Glasgow city region
John Swinney announces plan for more devolved powers for Glasgow
www.thenational.scot
November 28, 2025 at 10:32 PM
John Swinney has announced plans to give more powers to Glasgow city region
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Reeves tells Scotland that it does not have the right to exist as a separate state if its people so desire. Imagine someone said this about Israel Canada or Ukraine there would rightly be outrage & condemnation. Nothing from Sarwar or Scottish Labour. Do they agree with Reeves?
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Bill Cruickshank on X: "No Labour politician can now claim that Scotland is in an equal, fair & democratic union: https://t.co/jS8g9wT6F9 @RachelReeves has blown Scottish democracy to smithereens. No unionist politician has ever gone this far, not even Thatcher. Scary times Scotland!" / X
No Labour politician can now claim that Scotland is in an equal, fair & democratic union: https://t.co/jS8g9wT6F9 @RachelReeves has blown Scottish democracy to smithereens. No unionist politician has ever gone this far, not even Thatcher. Scary times Scotland!
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November 28, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Reeves tells Scotland that it does not have the right to exist as a separate state if its people so desire. Imagine someone said this about Israel Canada or Ukraine there would rightly be outrage & condemnation. Nothing from Sarwar or Scottish Labour. Do they agree with Reeves?
x.com/bjcruickshan...
x.com/bjcruickshan...
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🚨Now on 86,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 90,000 tonight!
If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 28, 2025 at 5:51 PM
🚨Now on 86,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 90,000 tonight!
If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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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...
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
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...
talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/28/n...
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Yes! Do check it out. I often go into Garvald when I’m up in Morningside.
Check out Garvald Edinburgh at the bottom of Morningside Road.
www.garvaldedinburgh.org.uk/shop
www.garvaldedinburgh.org.uk/shop
Garvald Edinburgh — Garvald Makers Shop
Shop for original, handcrafted, fine quality art and crafts made by Garvald Makers.
www.garvaldedinburgh.org.uk
November 28, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Yes! Do check it out. I often go into Garvald when I’m up in Morningside.
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15,300+ more signatures to go, let's do it! 🇬🇧🇺🇦 #standwithUkraine
November 28, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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James there is a petition currently at 86,000 asking for a judicial inquiry to Russian interference in UK politics. Can you endorse it and circulate please. We need to get rid of the Kremlins cancerous tentacles in our system.
November 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
James there is a petition currently at 86,000 asking for a judicial inquiry to Russian interference in UK politics. Can you endorse it and circulate please. We need to get rid of the Kremlins cancerous tentacles in our system.
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The same definitely not a racist UKIP/Brexit MEP Coburn who, in 2015, compared Scottish government minister Humza Yousaf to the convicted terrorist Abu Hamza?
November 28, 2025 at 4:32 PM
The same definitely not a racist UKIP/Brexit MEP Coburn who, in 2015, compared Scottish government minister Humza Yousaf to the convicted terrorist Abu Hamza?
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Seen his speeches?
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Here's UKIP's former Scottish leader David Coburn, who has denied taking Russian bribes after being named in Whatsapp messages between Nathan Gill and a pawn of the Putin administration, being applauded by Gill for arguing against Ukraine's entry to the EU
November 28, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Seen his speeches?
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He clearly saw it as his patriotic duty to speak up for pro-Russian TV stations, or maybe something else motivated him. Nothing murky about these UKIP/Brexit Party/Reform (hard to keep up) chancers at all
November 28, 2025 at 4:54 PM
He clearly saw it as his patriotic duty to speak up for pro-Russian TV stations, or maybe something else motivated him. Nothing murky about these UKIP/Brexit Party/Reform (hard to keep up) chancers at all
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As good a time as any to be reminded of this www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
Arron Banks ‘met Russian officials multiple times before Brexit vote’
Documents seen by Observer suggest multiple meetings between 2015 and 2017
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
As good a time as any to be reminded of this www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
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No smoke and all that….
November 28, 2025 at 8:36 PM
No smoke and all that….
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Do Reform groupies hear about Brexity millionaires living it up in Europe and think, “fair play”? And not….
“Christ lads, I think they’ve been taking the piss out of us all this time.”
“Christ lads, I think they’ve been taking the piss out of us all this time.”
November 28, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Do Reform groupies hear about Brexity millionaires living it up in Europe and think, “fair play”? And not….
“Christ lads, I think they’ve been taking the piss out of us all this time.”
“Christ lads, I think they’ve been taking the piss out of us all this time.”
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🏴 🇮🇪 First Minister Swinney and President Connolly have annoyed the Scotland denying britNats 🇬🇧
November 28, 2025 at 7:21 PM
🏴 🇮🇪 First Minister Swinney and President Connolly have annoyed the Scotland denying britNats 🇬🇧
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Totally inept and stunningly arrogant.
Let’s show the Osborne clone, Liebour and the rest of them the door next May.
#IndependenceIsNormal
#EndLondonRule
Let’s show the Osborne clone, Liebour and the rest of them the door next May.
#IndependenceIsNormal
#EndLondonRule
'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 28, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Totally inept and stunningly arrogant.
Let’s show the Osborne clone, Liebour and the rest of them the door next May.
#IndependenceIsNormal
#EndLondonRule
Let’s show the Osborne clone, Liebour and the rest of them the door next May.
#IndependenceIsNormal
#EndLondonRule
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“She is doing things that I think are letting this country down".
Labour peer Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK on the Kindertransport, tells @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social that he is deeply disappointed in Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer's betrayal of child refugees
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/28/a...
Labour peer Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK on the Kindertransport, tells @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social that he is deeply disappointed in Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer's betrayal of child refugees
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/28/a...
Alf Dubs Accuses Shabana Mahmood of 'Letting the Country Down' With Plans to Outdo Reform on Asylum
The veteran Labour peer and lifelong campaigner for child refugees, Alf Dubs, tells Byline Times that the Home Secretary's plans are "bitterly disappointing coming from a Labour Government"
bylinetimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:05 AM
“She is doing things that I think are letting this country down".
Labour peer Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK on the Kindertransport, tells @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social that he is deeply disappointed in Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer's betrayal of child refugees
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/28/a...
Labour peer Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK on the Kindertransport, tells @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social that he is deeply disappointed in Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer's betrayal of child refugees
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/28/a...
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There was no state. Who does she think crucified him, an anarchist collective?
November 28, 2025 at 11:22 AM
There was no state. Who does she think crucified him, an anarchist collective?
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Gosh, Laura Bates' 'The New Age of Sexism' is extraordinary.
This is a book every policy maker, certainly every male policy maker, needs to read.
This is a book every policy maker, certainly every male policy maker, needs to read.
November 28, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Gosh, Laura Bates' 'The New Age of Sexism' is extraordinary.
This is a book every policy maker, certainly every male policy maker, needs to read.
This is a book every policy maker, certainly every male policy maker, needs to read.
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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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Today's National is out now 📰
Rachel Reeves blasted for 'arrogance' after she says: No indyref 🥀
Rachel Reeves blasted for 'arrogance' after she says: No indyref 🥀
November 28, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Today's National is out now 📰
Rachel Reeves blasted for 'arrogance' after she says: No indyref 🥀
Rachel Reeves blasted for 'arrogance' after she says: No indyref 🥀
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Brexit really hurt UK seafood sector
‘The customers are still there’: Welsh mussel farmers hope post-Brexit reset can revive business
Since Brexit, mussel production in has collapsed from about 10,000 tonnes annually to just five tonnes in 2022, representing just 0.05% of the previous total
‘The customers are still there’: Welsh mussel farmers hope post-Brexit reset can revive business
Since Brexit, mussel production in has collapsed from about 10,000 tonnes annually to just five tonnes in 2022, representing just 0.05% of the previous total
‘The customers are still there’: Welsh mussel farmers hope post-Brexit reset can revive business
Shellfish exports to the EU from the Menai Strait have all but collapsed, but fishers are looking to the future
uk.finance.yahoo.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:52 AM