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@botrange694

Indy above all! EU fan, recycling, green solutions, still Learning Gàidhlig, Prog & EM fan: King Crimson, Yes, Peter Hammill, David Sylvian, ELP, Joy Division, Peter Hook

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He literally said Scotland should never exist. Then blames Scots for anti-English bias against him..
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10.03.2026 14:56 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

This memo was just 10 days after my newsletter exclusively broke the story that more than a third of Welsh Labour MSs had accused the Prime Minister of undermining devolution.

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10.03.2026 14:02 👍 30 🔁 13 💬 2 📌 1

He then adds:

“We should be confident in our ability to deliver directly in those nations, including through direct spending, even when devolved governments may oppose this.”

3/5

10.03.2026 14:02 👍 25 🔁 14 💬 4 📌 6
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BREAKING - Big Story

A memo from Keir Starmer to all members of the UK Gov Cabinet has been leaked.

1/5

10.03.2026 14:02 👍 62 🔁 53 💬 5 📌 21
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🇬🇧 Standard stuff from bbc Shortbread 🇬🇧

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺😎

10.03.2026 09:21 👍 52 🔁 31 💬 10 📌 2

As a reminder,🇬🇧 cannot decide that they "are going to rejoin". It is not in 🇬🇧's gift,not to mention that there's no "rejoin",it's not defined in EU Treaties.All 🇬🇧 can do is to apply to join 🇪🇺(again) via Art. 49,and then wait patiently for an answer (which I'd wager will be "No" for quite some time).

09.03.2026 18:52 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

I don't think you thought this through: ban petrol stations .... ban oil & gas deliveries for heating.... ban food selling as you may end up with food poisoning....

09.03.2026 16:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Just awaiting for the BBC and the other main shite media to blame Nicola Sturgeon for the fire in Glasgow.

09.03.2026 09:00 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Interesting result: Brexit increased immigration in the UK.

Few points:
- Non-EU immigration was increased by the Tories out of necessity. otherwise the economic shock was too high. This was not an oversight.

- The undercurrent here was a deep hostility towards EU and all Europeans...

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09.03.2026 08:56 👍 30 🔁 15 💬 2 📌 1
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Funny that 🤔

09.03.2026 08:06 👍 80 🔁 35 💬 2 📌 4

Nuclear is just ideology... nothing to do with common sense.

09.03.2026 09:36 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Sizewell C is predicted to cost £38 billion.

For the same amount of money, you could install solar panels, heat pumps and batteries in 3 million homes.

That would generate energy locally, rather than put massive strains on an already overloaded grid.

Makes you think.

09.03.2026 09:01 👍 117 🔁 38 💬 15 📌 0
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Brent Crude hits $114 a Barrel.

Shame then that it ran out 7 years ago.

09.03.2026 09:04 👍 51 🔁 27 💬 4 📌 2
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England’s Pisa scores are based only on a tiny selective sample of higher achieving schools making Paul O’Kane’s sad desperate attempt to claim they are better than Scotland just another under-educate... Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above.Or direct bank transfer at Sort Code 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Name – JOHN ROBERTSON Paul O’Kane Labour MSP and former head b…

talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/03/09/e...

09.03.2026 09:03 👍 18 🔁 24 💬 0 📌 0
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Two months until Scotland decides.

Stay stuck in broken Brexit Britain, or choose the fresh start of independence.

That wealthier, fairer future for Scotland is possible. On May 7, vote SNP to make it a reality.

07.03.2026 09:40 👍 238 🔁 131 💬 18 📌 6

"The door is open and you can leave*"

*doesn't apply to Scotland, apparently...

07.03.2026 13:44 👍 29 🔁 17 💬 3 📌 0

Alistair Carmichael MP (Orkney/Shetland LD) on LBC re the number of Bailiffs being used by English Water Companies. He didn’t even mention Scottish Water as a publicly owned comparison. Unionists daren’t talk up Scotland, as it exposes their hypocrisy. Labour’s shame is Sarwar’s problem. Vote SNP🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

07.03.2026 08:50 👍 77 🔁 42 💬 4 📌 0
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Stick your Palantir app
Where the sun doesn't shine"
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06.03.2026 14:35 👍 75 🔁 36 💬 10 📌 2

Wes Streeting states the SNP are refusing to use the Palintir App in the Scottish NHS for 'Nationalist reasons'
Here are the reasons the UK Government health Minister refers to as 'Nationalist' and it's a revelation of his thinking.
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06.03.2026 15:50 👍 139 🔁 96 💬 9 📌 18

The idea that Polanski and Farage are in any way similar is staggeringly stupid. The Economists masquerades as a magazine giving serious political analysis, nothing more.

06.03.2026 14:55 👍 189 🔁 26 💬 14 📌 1

I propose a new law:

Anyone who expresses support for an offensive war shall immediately be drafted to fight in it. No exceptions and no exemptions for any reason, including disability or service as a government official in any office. Presidents and congressmen shall fight in any war they start.

06.03.2026 00:58 👍 5944 🔁 1486 💬 33 📌 5
Many of us have been there: in the driver’s seat on a tricky hill start, when the engine cuts out and the car judders to a halt. Since the EU-UK summit last May – the event that was supposed to map a new and dynamic way forward – stalling is fast becoming a real risk for Keir Starmer’s most crucial long-term policy area: improving Britain’s relationship with the EU.

Today’s report by MPs on parliament’s foreign affairs committee rightly warns that despite the hugely welcome – and essential – progress in relations with our closest allies and neighbours, Starmer’s project is “suffering from a lack of direction, definition and drive”. If Labour is to deliver a growing economy, improve living standards for every UK resident and tackle the very real threat of Reform UK, getting the EU reset back into gear is a matter of urgency.

Many of us have been there: in the driver’s seat on a tricky hill start, when the engine cuts out and the car judders to a halt. Since the EU-UK summit last May – the event that was supposed to map a new and dynamic way forward – stalling is fast becoming a real risk for Keir Starmer’s most crucial long-term policy area: improving Britain’s relationship with the EU. Today’s report by MPs on parliament’s foreign affairs committee rightly warns that despite the hugely welcome – and essential – progress in relations with our closest allies and neighbours, Starmer’s project is “suffering from a lack of direction, definition and drive”. If Labour is to deliver a growing economy, improve living standards for every UK resident and tackle the very real threat of Reform UK, getting the EU reset back into gear is a matter of urgency.

Naomi Smith in the Guardian. She has diagnosed the problem very well: Starmer's reset is losing blood fast and looks to be in trouble.

However, I don't agree with the prescription.

A 🧵

h/t @markpurch.bsky.social

06.03.2026 08:04 👍 21 🔁 13 💬 12 📌 1

Joani Reid, MP for East Kilbride and Strathaven, reported to have given up the Labour whip. That means Scottish Labour are now on 36 MPs.

05.03.2026 19:49 👍 45 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 0
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The UK’s Fish Fund - Another Slap in the Face to Scottish Industry

The UK’s Fish Fund - Another Slap in the Face to Scottish Industry 👇
www.businessforscotland.com/the_uks_fish...

05.03.2026 18:23 👍 31 🔁 27 💬 1 📌 0

Sunderland deserves a FAFO prize 🤡

61% of the town voted for Brexit 😳

05.03.2026 10:59 👍 15 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0

When I see her name, I have to keep checking who and what she is.

She sounds like just another in that long string of Conservative peer-hating, ladder-pulling people of immigrant origin, trying desperately to be more British than anyone else.

05.03.2026 09:57 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
Opinion

Restoring order at the border speaks to Labour values. Without that, we won't be able to do anything else at all

Shabana Mahmood

Our approach, unlike that of the Greens and Reform, is in step with the British people. They don't want extremes - they want a system that is managed and fair

Shabana Mahmood is the UK home secretary

Opinion Restoring order at the border speaks to Labour values. Without that, we won't be able to do anything else at all Shabana Mahmood Our approach, unlike that of the Greens and Reform, is in step with the British people. They don't want extremes - they want a system that is managed and fair Shabana Mahmood is the UK home secretary

This is a hot mess of outright lies and misinformation from the Home Secretary, designed to try and persuade people that a government which is implementing some of the most hostile anti-immigration/asylum policies, in practice, for decades is progressive. 1/

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

05.03.2026 08:54 👍 356 🔁 163 💬 27 📌 26
Image shows Churchill Square in Brighton on a sunny day. A police live Facial Recognition van is parked and multiple police officers can be seen stood in front of it.

Image shows Churchill Square in Brighton on a sunny day. A police live Facial Recognition van is parked and multiple police officers can be seen stood in front of it.

If you are visiting glorious Brighton on this sunny day (as you definitely should), please be aware that at Churchill Square this van is live scanning everyone’s faces and making the city look more like a police state than the gorgeous day out it is!

05.03.2026 13:44 👍 81 🔁 34 💬 9 📌 6
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Wealthy Dubai residents race back to UAE to avoid tax bills Some risk spending too few days in the emirate and too many in the UK

Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

05.03.2026 11:55 👍 4015 🔁 1256 💬 206 📌 329
Huffpost headline:

Rachel Reeves Launches Her Strongest Attack On Brexit Amid Gloomy Economic Numbers
The chancellor vowed to "break down trade barriers" between the UK and EU.

By 
Kevin Schofield

Huffpost headline: Rachel Reeves Launches Her Strongest Attack On Brexit Amid Gloomy Economic Numbers The chancellor vowed to "break down trade barriers" between the UK and EU. By Kevin Schofield

In the light of recent UKG prnouncements on getting close to Europe, useful to remind ourselves of what the *real* UK redlines are:

a) Maintain "nostalgic" trade deals with Oz & NZ
b) Keep the City of London outside of European law
c) No free movement of people (at least nothing called FoM)

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05.03.2026 08:02 👍 51 🔁 20 💬 6 📌 2