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Brian L028 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @brianl028.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I can't imagine him ever looking to Scotland, to be honest. However, I see the "great communicator" is set to consider a second EU referendum. No mention of "once in a generation". An agenda to suit England. Time to get out of the UK.

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Brian L028 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @brianl028.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Labour. The party who think that pensioners should pay for everyone else whilst the very wealthy avoid any tax hikes. But, hey, of course Scottish pensioners should pay for English social care. The broad shoulders of the union? What next? Compulsory euthanasia for everyone at retirement age? 🤔

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Brian L028 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @brianl028.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

His comment is inherently stupid! An independent country in the EU is still independent but is a member of a strong union with benefits and corresponding responsibilities. Scotland, in the UK, is not independent. Once we leave we'll go our own way but have a relationship with the UK without abuse.

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Brian L028 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @brianl028.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Chinese Whispers for the modern age... AI agents search online for material to use for their "reports". That source material is becoming ever more AI too. Where will this take us, I wonder? I would guess that it will be nowhere good!

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The BBC's 'AI presenter' suggestion is a slap in the face to journalists

The BBC's move towards AI – including the possibility of using the technology to both make and present programmes – is a 'slap in the…

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Brian L028 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @brianl028.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Absolutely vile. More poisonous bile from a sham news channel.

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Brian L028 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @brianl028.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

At least when Burnham says, "I do not think", he is telling the truth...

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Brian L028 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @brianl028.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'll say one thing for Burnham: he knows how to deliver a shambles! He "would say" that Scotland's future has been decided for a generation - despite that never being included in the Edinburgh agreement. So, wishful thinking then. And he failed with the question: how long is a generation? Gibberish!

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Brian L028 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @brianl028.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Technically they did promise hundreds of jobs. Ten hundred...

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Independent Voices @indyvoices.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

2 stats from the previous Norstat #indyref2 poll in May that should make unionist teeth chatter: Unweighted figures: ➡️ Yes 60%, No 40% Those who did not vote in 2014: ➡️ Yes 70%, No 30% That’s why weighting is so important.

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Brian L028 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @brianl028.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It has always been clear that conflating the outcome of a parliamentary election - many issues and multiple voting choices - with the outcome of an independence referendum - single issue and a binary voting choice - was just plain wrong. This poll gives fresh evidence of just how badly wrong it is.

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Brian L028 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @brianl028.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

New Labour branch office leader - same old lies. "Scotland doesn't want independence now", despite the opinion polls - even some weighted ones - saying that we do. Oh, and the SNP are not the whole Indy movement. Biggest ever Indy supporting majority at HR. The truth gets in the way, again!

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Brian L028 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @brianl028.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I am so shocked! I had such high hopes… checks notes… oops, no, this is exactly as expected. Just like all the money ‘spent’ on Grangemouth…

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Brian L028 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @brianl028.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Burnham says there is no consensus for a second independence referendum - this is not true. He 'clarified' things by saying that there was a consensus when the first referendum was granted - this is not true either. Support for indy was around 27% at that time. Labour cannot stop telling lies.

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Brian L028 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @brianl028.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Andy Burnham releases the genie of indy ref 2 and then thinks he can put it back in the lamp! It's the kind of thing that will happen when a politician is made PM without having the ability to do the job.

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Brian L028 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @brianl028.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

He is missing a trick, here. Just grant Scotland an indy referendum and we will leave. Then he no longer needs to worry about the existence of the true north of the UK! Additionally, a unified Ireland and an independent Wales would leave Burnham as the PM of England - matching how he sees himself.

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Brian L028 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @brianl028.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Doubtless he will tell his puppet masters that he did visit Scotland but he didn't inhale...

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Brian L028 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @brianl028.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

So that would leave just one independence referendum that they would need to interfere with to ensure that ... erm... "democracy" survives. Personally, I would pass on their kind offer!

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Brian L028 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @brianl028.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Ah, London! Ignorance and arrogance. Oh... this stereotyping thing must be catching!

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Brian L028 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @brianl028.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Apart from concern over pollution, where does the energy and water to support these centres come from? They wouldn't need 'quite a lot'; they would require ludicrous amounts.

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Brian L028 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @brianl028.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

What is wrong with these people? No wonder women are getting angrier by the day.

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Brian L028 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @brianl028.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

He may say this but I am certain that Irish unity and Scottish independence will still be front and centre of politics long after Burnham is 'off the table'. With the man's devastating combination of arrogance and stupidity, that day may not be as far away as we think!

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Brian L028 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @brianl028.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

As always, when new infrastructure is environmentally damaging, Scotland is promoted as the place to put them. Not only are we being asset stripped but we are having all kinds of pollution foisted upon us as well. An independent Scotland will be a rude awakening for WM.

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UK encouraging data centre developers to Scotland | NEWS4SCOTLAND

YouTube video by The Scotland Channel

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Brian L028 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @brianl028.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"This is your right - unless I prefer you as a colony." The man has made so many missteps since being deified by his party. It seems that PM of the UK is a job reserved for those incapable of doing it, sadly.

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Brian L028 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @brianl028.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

In The National I see ScotlandIS say they lobbied HR over "barriers to investment, including planning permissions and processes, and how these could be made faster and easier". Deregulation! What about protection? We have a hospital built near sewage works. Now they want an AIDC next to another one!

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Brian L028 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @brianl028.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

SNP bad - and we're going to shout it from the rooftops. Westminster worse - and we're going to stay silent so that no-one knows. Ah, our MSM. Never let the truth get in the way of a good anti-Scotland story.

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Brian L028 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @brianl028.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Finally! A believable reason for WM cancelling the £1.5 billion wind turbine project. The security risk claim was nonsense. WM allowed billions of pounds of Chinese investments elsewhere in the UK. So what was the real reason for closing Grangemouth? I think we know. WM is abusing Scotland! #indynow

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Labour blocked £1.5bn Scots factory to 'avoid aligning with SNP', ex-UK minister says

A FORMER UK business secretary has questioned the UK Government’s block on a Chinese firm’s £1.5 billion factory in the Highlands –…

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Brian L028 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @brianl028.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Good to see a journalist speak honestly, with no agenda. No surprise that they aren't from the BBC. I, deliberately, did not watch the 'Scotland bad' Disclosure documentary. The anti-Scottish propaganda coming from BBC Scotland is an epidemic of misinformation and distortion. Shameful.

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Brian L028 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @brianl028.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Appropriately enough, the GERS figures always provide a total eclipse of the truth!

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Brian L028 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @brianl028.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

If you do happen to see a pair lying around waiting for their owner then don insulating rubber gloves and turn said pair inside out.

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Brian L028 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @brianl028.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

It's good to see that lying, smearing and breaking promises is costing Labour in Scotland. Hard to understand why Sarwar, who led them to this, was promoted to a junior minister post by means of the Lords. Do Labour promote failure? Well, Andy Burnham is PM... 🤷🏼‍♂️

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Brian L028 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @brianl028.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

We need to take great care here. This will lead to the indy ref denial reason changing from the generic "now is not the time" to "you are forbidden by the constitution". Burnham thinks he can just usurp Scottish sovereignty.

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Brian L028 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @brianl028.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I feel I must be missing something. Burnham wants a new constitution for the UK. This seems to me to be an attempt to annexe Scotland completely. It is on record that WM recognises the sovereignty of the Scottish people and so I cannot see a legal route for Scotland to be colonised in this way.

thenational.scot

UK constitution 'fundamentally flawed' without exit route from Union, Labour warned

Any UK constitution which does not establish a route out of the Union will be 'fundamentally flawed', Andy Burnham has been warned

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Brian L028 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @brianl028.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Let's give all of our water to the place where they don't provide needed support to tackle Scottish wildfires. Very much a one way flow when it comes to resources. Of course, they chose not to build reservoirs and to privatise their water. Two terrible decisions that Scotland should pay to fix? 👀

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Brian L028 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @brianl028.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The arrogance of the BBC! The head of the BBC says that it is "held back by that straitjacket of the current licence fee". He wants to have this funding model replaced with a levy on energy bills - even if we never watch TV! Would he pay a £180 tourist tax to Scotland even if he never visited?

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TV licence fee 'could be added on to people's energy bills', BBC boss suggests

THE BBC licence fee should be scrapped – and could be replaced with a compulsory levy on people’s energy bills, the broadcaster’s new…

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Brian L028 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @brianl028.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The King of the North won't interfere with devolution. Good. Repeal the Internal Market Act.

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Brian L028 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @brianl028.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I am really struggling to get my around the notion that Sarwar has charisma. He has charisma like I have youth. (In my defence, at least I did have youth in the past.)

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Brian L028 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @brianl028.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I wonder why politicians conflate ‘change’ with ‘improvement’. They are not the same! Thatcher thought the same back in the day. Replaced the disliked rates with the poll tax. People didn’t like it and she argued that rates were unfair and change was needed. Change for the BETTER… She made it worse!

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Brian L028 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @brianl028.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Dear BBC: There will be no by-election to replace Anas Sarwar because he wasn't elected. Just say it!

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Brian L028 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @brianl028.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

This aged well, then! Don't tell me that Mr Sarwar lied? Surely not ... again!

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Brian L028 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @brianl028.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Another example of Burnham's self-belief being shown to be nothing other than arrogance (or stupidity - time will tell). He will end "rough sleeping", he says. In the same way as he did in Manchester? A 600% increase! If he thinks Manchester is in the north then maybe he thinks an increase is good?

thenational.scot

Can Andy Burnham 'end rough sleeping'? Here's what his record tells us

ANDY Burnham has pledged to end rough sleeping in his “first instruction” to officials on becoming Prime Minister.

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Brian L028 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @brianl028.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

What Burnham says is not quite true. He does have a focus on constitutional change. It's just that he is completely desperate to avoid it! Another short term "solution" in Downing Street. There will not be better until we leave the UK.

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Brian L028 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @brianl028.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

From the BBC website story on Burnham's speech: "Andy Burnham says he will set out a 10-year plan for the country later this year in his first speech as UK prime minister" We have had 7 PMs in 10 years. This seems extremely optimistic! 😂😂

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