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DottieB 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dottieb.bsky.social · 8h
Hoose o' lairds troughers just have to start troughing wherever they get paid.
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DottieB 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dottieb.bsky.social · 8h
Accurate, thoughtful @lesleyriddoch.bsky.social podcast looking at the Burnham Great England conference speech. Copying everything for Scotland and lots of sleight of hand as befits Westminster governments. lesleyriddoch.com/podcast
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Lesley Riddoch is an award-winning broadcaster, journalist, author, cyclist, land reform campaigner & lover of all things Nordic.
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DottieB 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dottieb.bsky.social · 9h
Not the way to go UK. Cheaper energy prices for consumers first.. The broad shoulders of private equity/ multinational vampires can pay extra for all their tax dogging
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DottieB 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dottieb.bsky.social · 10h
Beautiful, heartfelt and resonating. Thanks for sharing.
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist @bankwell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The pension payment in UK is amongst the lowest in Europe and this seems to be simply dismissed or ignored. But hey, who in politics gives a flying f..k given protecting the already wealthy is their primary goal - why else would almost permanent austerity since 2008 be a long term policy.
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Wullie @wullieforindy.bsky.social · 19h
Good morning 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/09/29/t...
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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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DottieB 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dottieb.bsky.social · 15h
The recent increase in NI was supposed to be what would find the care service in England. Where has that gone?
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duncan2024.bsky.social @duncan2024.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.believeinscotland.org/burnham_is_w...
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Burnham is wrong - Scotland needs independence to tackle the cost of living
Westminster creates the mess. Then the Prime Minister uses that mess as an excuse to keep Scotland trapped in the system that caused it. That’s hypocrisy. Scotland deserves the powers to tackle our ...
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DottieB 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dottieb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Err. Currently social care in Scotland is better than in England with the triple lock to support pensioners esp those on minimal pensions. Remove higher rate pension tax relief on all types of taxes will provide £10s of billions.
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DottieB 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dottieb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
All Burnham's talk and actions are England, England England. Well off youse pop. Scotland, Wales and the north of Ireland will go their own way. ENGLAND FREE AT LAST. Bye🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇮🇪
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DottieB 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dottieb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Burnham. We will fund England's care service We will fund England's water We will fund England. Standing ovation by Labour in uk/England Why are Scotland, northern Ireland and Wales paying to FUND England? Time for an Independent Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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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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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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DottieB 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dottieb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
£6billion could help a lot o' bairns nae bombs.
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DottieB 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dottieb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And a criminal too.
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DottieB 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dottieb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Even worse, GB grid will provide finance to private businesses to build their own grid links. All looks n smells like syphoning even more public money to private businesses. Government money laundering to private profits.
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DottieB 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dottieb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Completely abolishing higher-rate tax relief on private pension contributions would yield a significantly large £10 billion to £15 billion per year for the Treasury. Then there's linking MP wage and expenses, largesse to the monarchy to increase the same rate as Pensions increase. That seems fair
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GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
something extraordinary is happening on Garvaghy Road Northern Ireland. Decent minded protestants & unionists have started to come out to support the Garvaghy residents, against the Orange Order parade madness. This is truly extraordinary. quick 🧵
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Scotch Whisky Truths 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @specialscot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I was out, wandering about in Glasgow, on Saturday all day. Walking, all over the shop. On the Clockwork Orange, in the City Centre, the Station. No go zones? What a load of absolute baloney! It's just not true. Wake-up to these fraudsters, Scotland!
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DottieB 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dottieb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Rise and be nations again.
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DottieB 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dottieb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Completely abolishing higher-rate tax relief on private pension contributions would yield a significantly large £10 billion to £15 billion per year for the Treasury. Then there's linking MP wage and expenses, largesse to the monarchy to increase the same rate as Pensions increase. That seems fair
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Trevor Stables 🇫🇷🔶🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @trevor0257.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Abolishing the #triplelock to index state pensions purely to CPI would save the UK government an estimated £2 billion/ year but completely abolishing higher-rate tax relief on private pension contributions would yield a significantly larger £10 billion to £15 billion per year for the Treasury.
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DottieB 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dottieb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
But pensioner existing on the new state pension only now pay income tax.
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DottieB 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dottieb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Absolutely.
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Derek Petrie 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @drpetrie48.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It strikes me as odd that so many commentators spout the idea of reducing our low state pensions for poor pensioners to fund inheritance relief for wealthy ones. Ideas in the media are often the product of funded marketing campaigns, we should ask who is paying for this one.
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Mike @mycams.me.uk · 29/09/2026
The benefits and pensions systems are like a waterbed. Push down in one area and costs go up in another.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Govt minister Josh MacAlister claims unemployed young people are paid with PIP to be out of work. Except PIP isn't an out of work benefit, plenty of people who receive PIP are in work & PIP enables them to do that. Josh knows this. What hes doing is whipping up anger towards disabled people.
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DottieB 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dottieb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Worthy of support fof such an achievement to date.
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Andy Wightman @andywightman.scot · 28/09/2026
Explore the website here whoownsscotland.org.uk
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Land Ownership Map | Who Owns Scotland
Who Owns Scotland map for visual overview of land ownership. For Academics, Property Professionals, Natural Resources, Windfarms, Film Location Scouts, Journalists
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
An award-winning journalist has said he feels 'sorry' for people who believe in so-called 'no-go zones,' as he challenged the ideas as fearmongering pushed by the far-right
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Gerry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🍀 @gerryr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
How quickly this white supremacist and religious bigot scum organisation that is the Orange Order forget.🤬
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DottieB 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dottieb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Reason #101 for an Independent Scotland.
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Greymane 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @greymane54.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
At a rough calculation, 87,5% of Scotland had positive growth, whereas about 50% of England had positive growth. Now you can see why they dont want to allow Scotland to leave the union!
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DottieB 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dottieb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Words are all. Genocide is terrible but Palestinian action is even worse Appalling dereliction of democratic government by the UK.
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There’s something very weird about this RAF terror case. I’ve reported on terrorism for 35 years and I’m struggling to recall a single case of a terror suspect being released on bail
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DottieB 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dottieb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
UK Labour partycand conference actively supporting the vampire tech Palantir as part of UK Govt projects. WTF Listening Scotland! Time for Independence.
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DottieB 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dottieb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mea culpa. But yes indeed, Westminster focused media always demonstrate their ignorance.
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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🍊PJ🍊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @pj-1965.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
👏🥰🧡🖤
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James FBSI 🐸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺 (Fanatic) @toplandscaper.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
We need more forward planning like this in order to give enough confidence to don't knows to vote yes Why aren't the SNP opening the door to these guys? 2014 was lost mainly down to this reason My open invite to readers as we host annual currency conference www.thenational.scot/politics/265...
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My open invite to readers as we host annual currency conference
AS chair of the Scottish Currency Group I appreciate the opportunity, provided by the National, to invite all readers to our forthcoming annual…
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“Rebellious Scots” 😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @markrich68.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🇬🇧 His Laboury Highness, Lordy John Walney, a repugnant and reprehensible excuse for a human being 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🍀🇮🇪🇵🇸🍉
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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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DottieB 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dottieb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
UK Westminster govt leading us back to slavery. Shocking
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DottieB 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dottieb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Indeed. TV news last night - main labour uk conference interview about social care was with Secretary of state for Scotland who has heehaw to do with social care in England never mind Scotland. Appalling blatant britnat propoganda.
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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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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 27/09/2026
Swiss voters overwhelmingly reject far-right plan to toughen neutrality
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Swiss voters overwhelmingly reject far-right plan to toughen neutrality
Final results from the Swiss government showed over 70% of voters, and a majority in all 26 of the country's regions, rejected the plan championed by a right-wing populist party.
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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 27/09/2026
And they have just voted *against* one of the issues that matters most (68% support) to voters in Scotland - the right to vote in our own destiny.
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 27/09/2026
The Lib Dems are the smallest party in the Scottish Parliament - after the SNP, Labour, Farage's Reform, the Scottish Greens, and the Tories. So no, not "the most influential group in the Scottish Parliament", whatever they might tell their donors.
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DottieB 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dottieb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Bolloks Article is all about social care in England n Wales. Ch4 interviewing the Scottish Secretary. Why? Can ye nae find the Health Secretary for England n Wales to answer?
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DottieB 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dottieb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Welfare benefits but only for yhd select. Rest can x#& off.
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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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