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Alistair

@alistair1403.bsky.social
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Independentista. A passionate, thrawn, sometimes grumpy, old-fashioned, lefty atheist who wants an independent Scotland. NOW! Independence. Better Forever!

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Alistair @alistair1403.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
You seriously need to turn an investigative spotlight onto the Treaty Of Union 1707. You'll find the UK is a made up thing. A voluntary union brought together by economic sanction, bribery, threat of invasion, and illegal dissolution of Scots Parliament to suppress the Convention Of The Estates.
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Alistair @alistair1403.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Such a bunch of w⚓️⚓️⚓️s
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Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
What did and didn’t happen about AI datacentres at Holyrood bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/09/20/w...
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What did and didn’t happen about AI datacentres at Holyrood
The Vote That Wasn’t a Moratorium: How Every Holyrood Party Actually Voted on Scotland’s Data Centres for Bella Caledonia. Prepared 19 September by Lustra Skye September 2026 as information for com…
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Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Future Focused Future Focused – 10 crowdsourced ideas to change the indy movement bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/09/20/f...
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Future Focused
The idea of a September reset is all in vogue, and to be honest, September seems like a better time of year than January for a rethink and a fresh start. The idea that the independence movement nee…
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Alistair @alistair1403.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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Alistair @alistair1403.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Very thought provoking, Mike. Have to say I hadn't considered that perspective on the guga hunt. Changed my mind completely.
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Alistair @alistair1403.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
A perfect summation.
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Marlene Halliday @weegiefifer.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Watch Bill Ramsay’s compelling presentation on how the road to peak equality in Britain turned into a downhill slope to inequality with the start of the Thatcher era. From the birth of neoliberalism to the stark wealth gaps we see today. youtu.be/qs7WrmVaRek?...
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The Road to Peak Equality with Bill Ramsay
YouTube video by Scottish Independence Podcasts: IndyPod Extra
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Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Happy birthday Hugh MacDiarmid (Christopher Murray Grieve) – born #OnThisDay, 11 August, 1892. bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/08/11/c...
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Celebrating Hugh MacDiarmid
Happy birthday Hugh MacDiarmid (Christopher Murray Grieve) – born #OnThisDay, 11 August, 1892. Here’s a small collection of films and essays about the great writer. This is a documentary made…
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NJ @nojusticemtg.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
NEW VID: Zionists are now saying ethnonationlaism is bad - but only in Britain WATCH HERE: youtu.be/t9M2hGM4rCI
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NJ @nojusticemtg.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Lmao like clockwork
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Alistair @alistair1403.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Concentration Camps. A British invention.
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Alistair @alistair1403.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Aye, followed her on ticktock for a while.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
NYC SMALL BIZ OWNERS ON ZOHRAN: “These people really care about small businesses… They get shit done… I like that he stands for making sure nobody seems to feel marginalized, we all win together… If that’s what socialism is I’m all for it!” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Alistair @alistair1403.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Yep. I'd be happy to jnvedt in a new Scotland through some tax increases.
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Alistair @alistair1403.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
And, don't forget, at the same time she opened the door to the public for private credit, which was virtually unknown to the working classes before then and has wrought so much damage in the generations since.
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Alistair @alistair1403.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Im Scots. For me, its same gruel different spoon.
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Alistair @alistair1403.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Not a great fan of Auntie. Guess you'll have to have me tag along on Monday.
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Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
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Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
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Alistair @alistair1403.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Lack of photographic evidence much appreciated. Enjoy the sun.
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Alistair @alistair1403.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
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Leonardo DiCaprio Clapping Meme
ALT: Leonardo DiCaprio Clapping Meme
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Alistair @alistair1403.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Yep. Generations of members and hopes betrayed.
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Alistair @alistair1403.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
He's gonna cut and run claiming vendetta. He was always an agitator, lobbing grenades in from the periphery. He doesn't do responsibility, throwing a fit over a few questions. Imagine him when Brexit isn't any better under his watch, having to be there every day. He doesn't want any of that.
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Alistair @alistair1403.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Once he's out of office I hope you lock him up. This level of corruption and disregard for Office needs to be corrected. Write some new law to allow him to be kept under lock and key while awaiting trial otherwise he'll use his ill gotten gains to avoid jail and tie legal processes in knots forever.
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Alistair @alistair1403.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
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Alistair @alistair1403.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I think he threw a bag of chips over the victim.
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Alistair @alistair1403.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Who talked about UDI? Do you need a lie down?
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Alistair @alistair1403.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Article 25 of union states that all laws and statutes incompatible with the treaty of union are void. That should be Westminster sovreignty out of the window. Ok it might not work, but that's a fight to have in front of the public and the media. Fight this 'volutary' union bollocks. Its annexation
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Alistair @alistair1403.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Make it a real fucking constitutional debate about ignoring Scottish sovreignty via 1689 COR which is still a UK statute. Fight concept of Westminster sovreignty - not in 1707 treaty and denial of UN Resolution 2625 article 5 right to self determination and failure to transmit poss NSGT status to UN
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Alistair @alistair1403.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Refusing planning of massive data centres population is against. Working with Highlands communities to resolve real problems with windfarms, pushing land reform aggressively to get public opinion back onside to the argument of good governance for Scotland's benefit to lever energy reform with UK.
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Alistair @alistair1403.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
It's also half of the welfare bill they keep quoting as justification for cutting benefits. If you add the pension costs and in work benefits together ( which is just corporate welfare) true "welfare" shouldn't be unaffordable
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Alistair @alistair1403.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
What is the fucking point of all this pantomime politics. Have ye nothin better tae dae?
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Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
How Late it Was, How Late | on Starmer's capitulation and what it means for Scotland (nothing) bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/06/22/h...
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How Late it Was, How Late
Sir Keir Starmer is on his way out as Andy Burnham arrives by train and fanfare from Manchester. It looks likely there will be no real election but a coronation. This, ultimately, weakens political…
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Alistair @alistair1403.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Stands and applauds.
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Alistair @alistair1403.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.
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Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
“What happened in Edinburgh was not simply the expression of hostility towards a religion; it was the enactment of a racial imagination shaped by empire, nationalism and exclusion…” Raman Mundair/Deviji RM Jaan bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/06/22/w...
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Who Benefits from Calling Edinburgh’s Attacks Simply Islamophobia?
“What happened in Edinburgh was not simply the expression of hostility towards a religion; it was the enactment of a racial imagination shaped by empire, nationalism and exclusion…&#822…
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Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
While the French government had asked Israel for explanations on BlackCore's actions, the British Government has done nothing. Why will they do nothing? Well, it's Scotland and so, who cares? BlackCore and Israel’s War On Reality ... bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/06/17/b...
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BlackCore and Israel’s War On Reality
Last month, a Haaretz-Libération investigation uncovered systems for building an army of avatars, developed by Israeli company BlackCore, including a smear campaign of a left-wing French candidate …
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Alistair @alistair1403.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Feels like a couple of minutes of Farage saying stuff, then denying it or being unable to remember saying it across this week, James.
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Alistair @alistair1403.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Half six that night, I think.
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Alistair @alistair1403.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
You have a life?
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Alistair @alistair1403.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Without England at the helm, they'd be forced to change and politics here in Scotland would be all the better for that.
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Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
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Alistair @alistair1403.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
That's quite the definition of "equalities" right there.
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Alistair @alistair1403.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
I'm not so sure. He's made a smart pre-emptive strike on Burnham, raising rejoining the EU talking point in a heavily pro-brexit constituency leaving Burnham to do the heavy lifting if he wants to win the seat, which he's unlikely to do. I saw polling (Owen Jones?) putting it 80% likely reform win.
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Alistair @alistair1403.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Hope its nothing serious and you're back hale an hearty soon. Awra best.
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Alistair @alistair1403.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Lovely comp and the processing stopped before it went too far. Very atmospheric.
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Alistair @alistair1403.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
He's Austin's wee cousin.
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