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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺

@andrew.sharpe.scot
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Scottish Indy supporter sharing the facts - unfiltered. Trying to inspire thought about what Scotland could be, back in the EU. #ScottishIndependence 🌐 yesinpictures.substack.com - interesting FREE analysis you won't see in the UK mainstream media

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 9h
EXCLUSIVE: ScotRail's minimum fare scheme has led to a major fall in ticketless travel and a significant uptick in revenue, The National can reveal
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How much money has ScotRail made from its minimum fare scheme?
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James FBSI 🐸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺 (Fanatic) @toplandscaper.eurosky.social · 8h
This is a short video from Mehdi Hassan on the Oct 7 attack Hamas offered to return all hostages on Oct 10 if Israel committed not to attack Gaza but the offer was turned down Netanyahu didn't even care about the hostages because he wanted to use it to justify attacks substack.com/@politicsusa...
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The Israeli lies just go from bad to worse. At what point is someone going to admit Netanyahu played the U.S. over October 7? Tens of thousands of innocent people have died in a war which didn’t need...
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 9h
Love the Suisse woman with a traffic cone on her head. Such great cultural sensitivity 👏 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇭 #SCOSUI
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 9h
This is so true. And it demonstrates 𝙮𝙚𝙩 𝙖𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣 how little the "British" government cares about 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland. We need all the powers. And that means independence.
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John Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social · 12h
In Scotland, we provide free personal care for older people without punishing pensioners. Andy Burnham removing the triple lock would simply repeat the mistakes of Keir Starmer. The blame for the UK’s financial mess lies with successive Westminster governments, not pensioners.
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 10h
Awful professional fowl from Hendry. Red card AND goal in return. Great start. Not. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇭
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 20h
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Top research bodies reveal Scotland’s care system is years ahead of any plans Andy Burnham has
With only 1 day left, support Talking-up Scotland’s work to counter the lies and get you the facts, daily, at:Crowdfunder at:  by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON…
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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 14h
The leader of a UK government elected on 32% is telling a Scottish government elected on 36% that a 56% pro-Indy Scottish parliament can't hold a referendum that 68% of Scots want. UK democracy, ladies and gentlemen.
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 14h
The rules for MSPs are not complex, and there aren't many. They're explained when they get elected. This is an arrogant "rules don't apply to us" attitude. Our Parliament isn't, and shouldn't become, a political campaign centre for Farage's Reform party. www.thenational.scot/news/2659121...
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Holyrood intervenes after Reform UK breach rules during Nigel Farage visit
REFORM UK have been forced to remove social media content after breaching Scottish Parliament rules during Nigel Farage’s visit to Holyrood ...
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 15h
The VAT rate on domestic electricty bills was 5% (20% for businesses). So with this "cut" they're still higher than Starmer promised. Why has it taken until now for this 1993 Tory policy to be reversed by Labour? Why not small businesses as well? Why is it not cut in Northern Ireland?
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 15h
Walker's Shortbread HQ is in Aberlour-on-Spey 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland. I think they got this one a little wrong. www.trbusiness.com/product-news...
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Walker’s Shortbread rolls out Union Jack branded products exclusively with Avolta
Walker’s Shortbread has expanded its global travel retail offering with three Union Jack-branded products, available exclusively in Avolta’s World Duty Free stores.
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 20h
Says the leader of Labour's biggest union donor. Remind me what Labour stands for these days?
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 20h
What's repugnant is this 🥀 Labour Lord denying genocide by Israel on 🇵🇸 Palestinians. You'll not be surprised to hear that he's a former Chair of Labour Friends of 🇮🇱 Israel.
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 20h
Will they call for Asda's to be banned next as a "fire risk" for selling vapes? A whiff of elitism in this story.
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 20h
Stealing red diesel is a terrorist offence?
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 20h
These incidents are rare in Scotland - not surprising given the equipment needed to execute them and high likelihood of capture. Last one seemed to be in West Lothian in 2025. Still a shock to our town. www.thenational.scot/news/2658943...
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Cash machines ripped from wall in Scottish town in overnight bank raid
THE main road in and out of Peebles was closed this morning after cash machines were ripped from a bank wall through the night ...
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Mama twins @hi-its-alaa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🇺🇳 United Nations: The rubble in Gaza has reached 61 million tons, which is equivalent to 20 times the amount of rubble generated by all the wars in the world over the past 18 years.
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 21h
A reminder to all those EV fanboys: EVs have suspension too, just like any other car. But theirs get a lot more pounding with all that extra battery weight. This could be you soon 👇
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 21h
How come protestors sit in jail for holding up signs, whilst members of the British government freely provide support for genocide in Gaza?
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ed Miliband: "I want to say, to the millions of people in this country.. who have been moved & outraged by the plight of the Palestinian people, we hear you" So why are you still arresting them?
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Steve Cornforth @stevecornforth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is a huge shadow over Burnham's effort to make #Labour look reasonable. Mass arrests for wearing T Shirts and carrying placards... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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More than 50 Palestine Action support rally protesters arrested
More than 250 protesters sat outside Labour's party conference in Liverpool to support the banned group.
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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Another rather beautifully crafted musical instrament-themed decorative glass window from Bertie Crewe's 1902 Pavilion Theatre in Glasgow. #glasgow #architecture #window #theatre #architecturephotography
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 28/09/2026
So the British Government's "GB Grid" will compete with the private companies that previous British Governments sold our publicly-owned national grids and distribution infrastructure to? Why not just re-nationalise our public assets? And it'll share GB Energy's funding 🤔
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 28/09/2026
Watching the latest season of "Invasion". It must be so difficult for non-native English speakers to understand without subtitles. Eg "studis" translates as "so let's do this". For some actors, everything possible is spoken in contracted slang.
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 28/09/2026
Surely this is Evri tracking?
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 28/09/2026
Wee guy at the back... "Me me me!"
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Peter May @authorpetermay.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
My new - and final - book comes out on January 14th, 2027
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John Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
More jobs and investment are coming to the North East. Subsea Micropiles is investing in a new manufacturing facility in Montrose, creating over 80 jobs - and SSE is planning to base its offshore wind operations at the Port, creating around 100 more. Great news for Scotland’s industrial future. 🏗️
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 28/09/2026
Labour's "new age of industrialisation" only applies to 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Grangemouth oil refinery to close by end of June, putting 500 jobs at risk
Owners confirm site will become fuel import terminal and distribution hub, in blow to Scotland’s industrial base
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 28/09/2026
Israel is guilty of genocide. But even if you decided you could ignore that, it's not part of Europe and doesn't belong in UEFA.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Ireland beat Israel 3-0. Not that either of them should have been playing. Ban Israel
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The SNP @snp.org · 28/09/2026
Scotland has the energy - but Westminster sets the price. As diesel hits £2 a litre across the country, we look under the hood of Labour's fuel tax hike. www.snp.org/westminster-...
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Westminster fuel tax hike makes case for independence — Scottish National Party
Scotland is an energy powerhouse – rich in oil, gas, wind, and tidal generation – yet our communities are left suffering from fuel poverty.
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 28/09/2026
How can they take the hatchet to Horrible Histories!
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 28/09/2026
Leaves just starting to turn as Autumn rushes upon us. Down by the Tweed in Peebles, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland this morning. The spire of the Old Parish Church just peeking out above the trees.
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John Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Tackling the climate emergency is at the heart of my plans for Scotland. We can cut emissions while strengthening our economy - by harnessing Scotland’s massive renewable energy potential, creating good jobs and making sure communities benefit from the transition.
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ascottsview.bsky.social @ascottsview.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ocht no. Peter May has passed, I loved his stories of the Hebrides. I travelled to Ness on Lewis specifically to see these names carved on the harbour wall as described in his trilogy. I fell in love with the place. RIP
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 28/09/2026
Tell me why: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland is one of Europe's most energy rich countries, yet under a 🥀 Labour 🇬🇧 British government our energy bills only go up.
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 28/09/2026
And so...
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 28/09/2026
BBC World Service is dismissing Iran as the source of the RAF Fairford attempted attack, instead suggesting Russia or "Jihadists" (no mention of Israel, however). Meanwhile its domestic news editors lead with speculation that it was driven from Iran. Spot the political bias.
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 28/09/2026
In 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland who'd want more Labour, when we've got the SNP effecting actual change, despite their limited powers in government?
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's not just that we had two wasted years under Keir Starmer - years in which, with a vast majority and quite a lot of goodwill - he could have turned this country around. On crucial issues, we had two years of spiralling backwards, towards a very dark place. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Ed Miliband to acknowledge Labour’s former stance on Palestine fell short
Foreign secretary will tell party’s conference ‘we are not here to accept the status quo but to change it’
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 28/09/2026
I'd love to get an 🚤 RNLI umbrella, but in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland rain usually comes with strong winds. 🤔 But I could get them as presents for friends and relations down in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England... I have a couple in Reform country who'd love them 👍 shop.rnli.org/products/rs2...
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Yellow Welly Umbrella
Shelter from the rain with this umbrella, featuring a fun RNLI yellow welly design. RNLI crews wear yellow wellies to keep their feet warm and dry.
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Dijana (Didi) 🇭🇷 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 @didi-dee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
My little bit of support for RNLI - purchased in their Weymouth shop, whilst I was on holiday. I’ll be very happy to show off my new umbrella, so let it rain ☔️
RNLI merchandise: umbrella and a lunch box
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 28/09/2026
And the solution isn't to keep on unchanged, and force us to pay via e.g. a broadband tax. Public service broadcasting needs fundamental change. It needs democracy inclusion and governance by and for each nation.
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 26/09/2026
The BBC is part of the problem...
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 28/09/2026
It's a start. Increasingly I see people questioning what billionaires and their private equity organisations, give society - other than ever rising numbers of in-work poor surviving on state benefits. Culture change in the UK and USA is finally happening.
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 28/09/2026
The big issue with AI slop content creation isn't the style (but that's awful, I agree), but the quality of information it is used to convey. Rather than spending more time on that, as they might have in the past, the creators get taken in by the "look what I can do" hype. It helps no one.
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 28/09/2026
Zuckerberg's big weakness was always lack of empathy. Another sociopath billionaire that mixes up accumulation of money with self esteem. He wants that camera out there and doesn't understand the fundamental issue.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Rachel Shabi rightly points out that by allowing the US to use RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire to bomb Iran, the UK has been dragged into their illegal war
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B heard media 💚🇵🇸 @bheardmedia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This week in Burnham’s Britain.. Burnham said: "We stand with Israel in the face of the ongoing threats." Burnham sent a military plane to Israel. Three @declassifieduk.org journalists, who have highlighted Labour’s complicity in genocide, were banned from Labour's conference. #bbclaurak
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