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Gavin Steven

@gavinsteven.bsky.social
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Scot, old and retired, but still breathing Passionate about Environment 💚, Scottish Independence 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 and European integration 🇪🇺. Tha Gàidhlig beagan agam

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Scotland's No1 Comrade @scotlandscomrade.bsky.social · 1h
Diesel in the UK reached record levels this week. Now, It begs the question, how much would Scotland’s last refinery be making just now? Note- Price is from March 2024 following an increase in the price of fuels in 2023. And yet Westminster continuously denies us the right make our own choices!!!
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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 8h
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Gerry Flynn @gerryflynn.bsky.social · 3h
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Thoughts from a colonised land🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Labour vowed to “Save Grangemouth” during the 2024GE, then promised to “Save the jobs” at Grangemouth. After Grangemouth closed, and all jobs were lost, Labour vowed a £200M investment in the town. Grangemouth is still waiting for that cash. Cont.
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Jim Russell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. @jazzyrussell.bsky.social · 7h
Useful reminder as to why Brexit happened. It also explains why we will never be allowed to rejoin, unless you vote Green in England, SNP in Scotland or Plaid Cymru in Wales.
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Tàmhas 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸🇪🇺 @scozia.bsky.social · 2h
‘Strong indications Iran was involved’ No details, just more empty rhetoric to implicate Iran. Is the scene being set like Iraq and the WMD that didn’t exist? There’s ’strong indications’ that maybe Israel and USA want to drag UK into their mess. UK stop supporting criminals Trump and Netanyahu
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British PM alleges there are 'strong indications' Iran was involved in Fairford airbase incident
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham on Wednesday insisted that there were "strong indications" that Tehran was involved in a security incident on Sunday near an airbase in England that the US military uses...
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“Rebellious Scots” 😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @markrich68.bsky.social · 6h
🇬🇧 There are people like George Robertson, born is Scotland who are hostile to very idea of Scotland even existing as a country Here Robertson explains that Scotland is not a country, because it has no language or culture 🇬🇧 Robertson is proudly a Scotland denying brit 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺😎 youtu.be/RSFqaEoYLNg?...
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George Robertson says Scotland has no culture or language
YouTube video by Newsnet Scotland
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Hoody McExtremist @hoodyindy.bsky.social · 5h
Half the UK, Scotland and Northern Ireland, never wanted to leave the EU in the first place. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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Half of UK wants to rejoin EU and backing it could drive up Labour vote, megapoll finds
Exclusive: Findings will bolster those in No 10 who want to negotiate on re-entry but some senior figures remain wary
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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 5h
It's a simple question: on balance, are Scotland and Wales better and happier places as part of the Union, or would they benefit more from having complete control over their own finances and resources? For me the latter, and I also believe it would benefit England.
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Gerry Flynn @gerryflynn.bsky.social · 2h
This!....
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 4h
"Dear Diary, There were six by-elections in England and Scotland this week and Reform lost all of them. Two of them were seats we previously held. The problem with running councils is that people can see how useless we are."
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 6h
A man builds an IED. He sets it off in a busy public street. Shrapnel flies about hitting cars, homes and a child's bedroom. It's a miracle nobody is injured. And Reform MP Sarah Pochin calls his imprisonment "disproportionate" and "two tier justice."
It does raise this point of two-tiered
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Reform's Sarah Pochin believes the
sentence handed to the 64-year-old who
blew up a ULEZ camera was
disproportionate'.
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Lady J of Tay @ladyjoftay.bsky.social · 7h
SNP demand £200m Grangemouth funding as 377 jobs put at risk www.thenational.scot/news/2660294...
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SNP demand promised £200m for Grangemouth as hundreds of jobs at risk
THE SNP have demanded the UK Government urgently deliver £200 million of promised investment for Grangemouth after almost 400 more jobs were put at risk.
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/Never Again @montrose.bsky.social · 7h
Good morning
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Scotland's No1 Comrade @scotlandscomrade.bsky.social · 8h
From Scotland to Northumberland, Blackpool to Leicestershire, Reform contested six by-elections yesterday. They lost all six. Six contests. Six defeats. Reform are not inevitable. Their bubble has burst😉 Have a great weekend comrades! #NoFascists #RightWingLosers #FailingFarage
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 6h
I'm with Carl Sagan on this:
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Millions of UK workers withdrawing from pension schemes to make ends meet Consequence of low wages and high cost of living forcing people into hardship choices - living now v income in retirement. They will have lower private pension in later life and state pension isn't enough even now.
bbc.co.uk
Why Gen Z are opting out of workplace pensions
A growing number of people are opting out of these schemes due to cost-of-living pressures.
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“Rebellious Scots” 😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @markrich68.bsky.social · 6h
🇬🇧 LABOUR promised to “Save Grangemouth” at GE2024 🇬🇧 LABOUR then promised to “Save the jobs” at Grangemouth 🇬🇧 LABOUR saved NONE of the Grangemouth jobs, but promised £200M investment in the town 🇬🇧 LABOUR then spent f*** all in Grangemouth 🇬🇧 LABOUR take Scots for absolute mugs 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Are you YES yet?🇪🇺
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Scotch Whisky Truths 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @specialscot.bsky.social · 6h
They changed their Name, as it was the same as the Bomber their cousin was using, to bomb London. More than 100 years later, are servile people STILL this gullible?
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 6h
I'm furious about the two Iranians who came across as part of the surge in small boats created by my Brexit and under a Home Office run by my MPs Suella Braverman and Robert Jenrick.
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Laura @laurajerramp.bsky.social · 7h
People are dying homeless because we have a vastly unequal society , with billlionares and corporations hoarding our assets ( including housing) whilst welfare and public services are being hollowed out. That is nothing to do with immigration which by the way has been going down.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 21h
We are just Germany in the 1930s instead of blaming Jews we are blaming migrants. But they aren't responsible for Austerity, Brexit or the profiteering crisis. #bbcqt
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Jenni Minto MSP @jennimintomsp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Restrictive immigration policies are causing Argyll and Bute to lose valuable members of our communities and are seriously impacting our economy. If the UK Government won’t act to resolve this, they should devolve the powers to the Scottish Parliament.
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Bill Drees @billdrees.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Burnham is as bad as his useless predecessors, except that he does it with a lot more words! #ScottishIndependence
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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 21h
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Shortbreadfairy©️ @shortbreadfairy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Feck off and keep fecking off until you get in the sea🙄 This is a land grab by a Company. We're being bought up like a patchwork quilt so you don't notice.
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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Burnham's crude emotional manipulation in linking the death of his father to John Swinney's claim he will be the last UK PM inadvertently revealed the poverty of Westminster's arguments against Scottish independence. weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/09/30/b...
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Burnham’s crude emotional manipulation reveals the poverty of Westminster’s case
The only living politician mentioned by Andy Burnham during his jam tomorrow speech to the Labour party conference was John Swinney, and that was only in order to take a nasty, underhanded and emot…
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Paul Sandars🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @paulsandars.bsky.social · 23h
BBC News - First minister demands 'new deal' from Andy Burnham to make Wales equal with Scotland - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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First minister demands 'new deal' from Andy Burnham to make Wales equal with Scotland
Rhun ap Iorwerth demands the UK government devolve policing, justice and welfare powers to Cardiff Bay.
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Billy @cromartie7.bsky.social · 11h
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mactakeshi.bsky.social @mactakeshi.bsky.social · 22h
This along with the oil refinery closure proves Westminster hates Scotland #CelticAlliance #CelticWave #CelticUnion www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Grangemouth firm took £1m of public money months before closure announcement
Syngenta says it will pay back the Scottish Enterprise funding in full if operations cease at its Grangemouth site.
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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 19h
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Tony Carroll @papa67tony.bsky.social · 18h
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Sign the Petition
Stop the closure of Glasgow day centres
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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hey Andy Burnham.
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 18h
The "spiralling welfare bill" myth needs to be challenged by the BBC, not promoted.
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John M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @drjohnm61.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
But the triple lock changes to fund this will be UK wide, so: England/Wales -triple lock but +social care Scotland -triple lock +nothing
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Melissa Eco Zealot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @melissamary2012.bsky.social · 18h
“Moreover, the Birmingham situation is still unresolved after twenty months. The ‘fire and rehire” was never a national news story on the BBC. No Labour minister was ever challenged despite Birmingham being run by Labour.” Are #YouYesYet?
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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 19h
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Melissa Eco Zealot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @melissamary2012.bsky.social · 18h
Sweden will spend the money to use old underground mines. UKG gives foreign corporations money to build new data centres, discounts on energy, complete disregard for environmental impact, and generally ignoring public opinion. Are #YouYesYet 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 18h
Scotland needs it's own public broadcastor.
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Melissa Eco Zealot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @melissamary2012.bsky.social · 18h
Imagine a independent Scottish Broadcaster deciding to cancel culture? Wouldn’t happen. Are #YouYesYet? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Lady J of Tay @ladyjoftay.bsky.social · 18h
BBC cuts World Pipe Band Championship coverage after 20 years www.thenational.scot/news/2660421...
thenational.scot
BBC Scotland axes World Pipe Band Championship coverage after 20 years
THE BBC is set to scrap its coverage of the World Pipe Band Championships after more than 20 years of broadcasting the highly coveted event ...
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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 20h
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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
How's this for an imposing entrance? It's the doorway to Balfour and Stewart's mid-1920s former Bank of Scotland Chambers on St Vincent Street in Glasgow. #glasgow #architecture #doorway #architecturephotography #stvincentstreet
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Prestwick Branch SNP @prestwickbranchsnp.bsky.social · 23h
Is the bubble burst .. #areyouyesyet #Scots being shortchanged again. #yes #inde #indy #snp #independence
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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 02/10/2026
Labour is positioning itself to argue that the Brexit vote was not final, and that the promises made to win the vote for Leave 10 years ago have not been met. Sound familiar, Scotland?
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The first minister of Wales has written to Andy Burnham to demand for a new devolution deal and put his country on an 'equal footing' with Scotland
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Takeourblueback @takeourblueback.bsky.social · 21h
While we're talking about diesel, just a friendly reminder 👇👇👇
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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 20h
wake up Scotland 👇
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Eddie Cooper @diamondforyes.bsky.social · 23h
The obvious problem here is that the Scottish government can 'demand' whatever they want, and the UK government can just say no every single time. If the people of Scotland want to decide their own future, and how their country's resources and revenues are used, then independence is the only way
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 23h
This photograph at the Paralympics changed Liban Aljomai's life forever The Yemeni athletics coach says has shared how he became a target of the Houthi regime, fled across Europe, crossed the Channel in a small boat and eventually found safety in Scotland Here is his remarkable story 👇
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How photo led Yemeni man to his new life in Scotland
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chiller @chiller.eurosky.social · 21h
This lot put it at 39% Labour, 32% Green. I can't tell you how much I want the #Greens to win this. London, you deserve better than you've had, so vote for it. 💚💚💚💚💚
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Labour projected to hold on to Holborn and St Pancras, projection shows
The Labour Party is predicted to hold on to Holborn and St Pancras after a by-election was triggered by the resignation of Keir Starmer. The projection, forecast by Stats for Lefties and based on l...
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