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Felix Sylvestris @felixsylvestris.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Good Morning Scotland - Margaret Thatcher's made her own version of Frankenstein and the monster continues to devour society. Her acolytes luxuriate in their hot tubs overflowing with greed and selfishness. Fed on our nation's resources. Fat and poison ugly. Is it too late to SOS?
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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Let’s get off this ridiculous merry go round and forge our own destiny.
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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Mad_as_hell (Maddie) @maddie-says.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Billionaires and corporations spend millions for influence, access, and aligned policies. When they put serious money into elections, voters have every right to follow the money, examine the relationships, and ask who benefits from the policies that follow. #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks
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Alan Ferrier @alanferrier.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
An oil-producing nation with no refinery. An exporting nation with no shipping routes. An electricity producer forced to pay to upload to the “national” grid. Welcome to our blessed "union of equals".
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PACrosthwaite 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺🇵🇸 @baggytrousers1.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The RNLI volunteers coming under fire and being threatened are heroes. They put their own lives in jeopardy to save lives irrespective of race, colour or creed. I am proud to have supported them for over 50 years and will continue to do so. Arrest the masked thugs. Repost your Support for the RNLI
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Jim Russell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. @jazzyrussell.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Did you know. The National Insurance collected in Scotland exceeds the pension and statutory benefits paid out in Scotland. One of the few useful facts in GERS.
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“Rebellious Scots” 😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @markrich68.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
An essential unionist tool in the denial and prevention of Scottish independence, is to damage Scotland in ways that ensures its perceived dependency on the union Had the Grangemouth refinery been in England, it would have been saved as critical national infrastructure 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺😎
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 13/08/2026
Prof Richard Murphy: A serious economic plan asks what the state is for, not what arbitrary share of GDP it should spend. If we want universal healthcare, education, social care and climate action, a larger state is a consequence – not a mistake. Restore’s plans ignore what we want from the state.
eastangliabylines.co.uk
Back to the 1930s: Restore’s vision of the future
Restore Britain's new economic policy paper is lacking in analysis yet long on assertion. What do they want to achieve?
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Gerry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🍀 @gerryr.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
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Lady J of Tay @ladyjoftay.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
youtu.be/6oDJrEOuaZE?...
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Why GERS tells us NOTHING about an independent Scotland
YouTube video by The National
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James Aithie 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jamesaithie.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Hang on, if the hostile state of Israel interferes in an election in Scotland, then the details cannot be made public, for fear of souring the relationship between the UK Gov and the hostile state of Israel?
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Grumpy-ish Brian🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇮🇪 @brian770.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Seriously, boycott Starbucks!
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
BREAKING: Scottish Government revenue is growing faster than spending, new 'GERS' figures show Revenues raised in Scotland totalled £98.3 billion in 2025-26, up 7% on last year
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Dragonrider "Is he dead yet?" 🐠🐟 Try/Me 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @topsyscatmum.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Urgh. He needs a reminder...
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Paul Russell @pwrussell.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
To the Express this is a ‘jaw dropping list’ of items given for free to asylum seekers. To any normal person, with an ounce of human feeling, it’s a heart wrenching list of some basic necessities, provided to people who have come here, out of desperation, with nothing but the clothes on their back
Label listing the following items 

SINGLE AASC COMBINED
SET WITH PANS
WH CODE: PANCOMBS
Contents Details:
1 X Duvet (S)
2 X Pillow
2 X Face cloth
2 X Hand towel
2 X Bath towel
2 X Duvet cover (S)
2 X Pillowcase
2 X Fitted sheet (S)
1 X 1pc 10.5" dinner plate
1 X Ipe 7.5" side plate
1 X 1pc 5.25" cereal bowls
1 X 1pc 9 oz mug
1 X 1pc 8 oz glass tumbler
1 * Ipc stainless steel Dinner Knife
1 X Ipe stainles steel Dinner Fork
1 X Ipe stainles) steel Dessert Spoon
1 X 1pe stainless steel Tea Spoon
1 X 20cm Noa-Stick Frying Pan
1 X 16cm Non-Stick Saucepan
1 X Tea Towel
1 X Toilet Roll
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
BP quarterly profits up from $2.5bn to $5.73bn as Iran war sends oil prices soaring. Shell doubled its net profit to almost $10bn. High bills fuelling poverty and misery for households and businesses. Boon for execs and shareholders. Must levy 100% windfall tax on oil, gas, energy companies.
theguardian.com
BP profits more than double as Iran war sends oil prices soaring
Energy company’s $5.73bn quarterly profits come after Shell posted second highest quarterly earnings on record
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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Oh, so the British Steel plant in Scunthorpe is being brought into public ownership at a cost to the taxpayer of £1.5 billion. Didn't see any spend like that to save Grangemouth or Mossmorran recently, or any of the steel plants in Scotland in the 1980s, or Bathgate, or Linwood, etc, etc.👇
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Andrew Neil lives in a mansion in France that he moved to using EU rules where he doesn't pay any tax in the UK. And he spends his time moaning about the EU he chooses to live in and the poor state of the UK, which is due to tax dodgers like him.
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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
last year Mark Menzies got caught stealing party money to pay for hookers, it got quietly dropped when he agreed to repay the money.👇 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Inquiries dropped into ex-MP accused of misusing donors' money
There were claims former MP Mark Menzies used the money to pay what he called "bad people".
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
This is Lord Rothermere the owner of the Daily Mail. He lives in a massive mansion in the English countryside, but he pays no tax here because he identifies as French. While the Daily Mail is registered in Bermuda and pays no tax anywhere. That is his ‘Patriotism’.
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Meidas Scotland 🏴EU @sovereign.scot · 23/06/2026
Almost 5,000 people have joined the call for a halt to new hyperscale data centres in Scotland. The 24 applications in so far would require 1.5 times as much energy as all of Scotland uses at peak demand. We can't let this free-for-all continue. Please sign and share widely greens.scot/datacentres
greens.scot
Stop hyper-scale data centres in Scotland
Stop hyper-scale data centres in Scotland -
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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 23/06/2026
10 years ago today, Scotland was taken out of the EU despite an overwhelming majority voting to remain. The case for an independent Scotland in Europe was strong in 2016, and it's even stronger now.
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Alan Ferrier @alanferrier.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Ten years ago today, England voted to remove Scotland from the EU. 96% of Scotland's MPs had requested that all UK nations should agree before #Brexit was carried. The Tories, with 1 Scottish MP, overruled this request. Brexit was a UK vote because England decided it would be.
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Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.eurosky.social · 15/06/2026
We don't need to regulate which social media youngsters can access, We need to regulate the social media companies which all of us access.
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 15/06/2026
Let's not tackle RW incitement or inequality. Let's distract by restricting freedom of those who don't even vote. "Keir Starmer has chosen to abdicate responsibility for tackling harmful algorithms and his legacy will be setting back children’s safety by years" www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...
theguardian.com
Social media to be banned in UK for under-16s, Starmer announces
UK prime minister says move will bring ‘real change for our children’ amid growing concerns over harmful online content
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Jacqui @jacquinotmybag.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
To ALL my English followers the Scottish Parliament have agreed a motion to hold an independent enquiry into funding for ALL political parties. The SNP and Greens who proposed it voted for it. The Branch offices of the London based parties voted against it! Just so you know the true story
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/Never Again @montrose.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Listen up 👂
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/Never Again @montrose.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Well spoken
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Prestwick Branch SNP @prestwickbranchsnp.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Following the gathering of far-right thugs across Scotland and Ayr. We want to remind people that violence, hate and racism have no place in Scotland and our communities. Stop Creating division, fear and weaponising tragedies as an excuse to bring violence to Scotlands streets #SNP #independence
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Crazy that we hear about Train Drivers who get £60,000 a year for driving a train. But we never hear about the boss of Tesco who gets £30,000 a day and doesn't even pay tax in the UK. Or the £250m a day that the likes of Amazon, Vodafone, BP and Shell don't pay in tax.
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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
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John Erskine @erskine.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Since Russell Findlay is so concerned about the SNP's finances, perhaps we should remind him of this. Something which barely attracted any political or media attention: news.stv.tv/west-central...
news.stv.tv
Ex-Tory branch treasurer in £1m VAT fraud and money laundering scheme
Malcolm Macaskill filed bogus forms to HMRC, which grossly overstated the sales from his sandwich businesses.
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Stravaiger @stravaiger1.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
OooOops 😜 Once spoken, never disappears
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Queen B @beansiemcbeans.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Let's get this trending. Srarmer said this on STV in 2020. We need to hold him to it. #IndependenceNow
A photo and quote from Keir Starmer saying on STV in 2020, if Scotland return an SNP government then it would be a mandate for a second referendum. It's not up to the likes of me who live in England. This is a decision for the people of Scotland to make.
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Blairer @haggisblarer.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
……"Westminster does not work for Scotland and we desperately need a fresh start with independence". Independence offers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 the opportunity to re-join the EU, to put 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 energy in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 hands and build a wealthier Scotland anew”……
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Brian L028 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @brianl028.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
As if the investigation into the SNP hadn't been stringent enough... Years of police enquiry didn't deliver what the unionists wanted and so they use smear and innuendo to further their agenda. Sad, really. Just wondering when there will be an inquiry into WM support for wars in Gaza and Iran?
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John Swinney rejects Labour calls for parliamentary probe into Murrell embezzlement
JOHN Swinney has rejected Labour calls for an independent investigation into SNP finances in the wake of Peter Murrell pleading guilty to…
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Mabel Logan @mabellogan.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Independence is not about the SNP, it's not about Nicola Sturgeon, it's not about Peter Murrell. It's about the right to self determination. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Agree?
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alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social @alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Flanders' has launched an ambitious program to deploy #solarpanels along highway infrastructure. Sound barriers along the E40 and E17 motorways near Ghent and Antwerp have been fitted with integrated solar panels — their south-facing surfaces generating electricity fed into adjacent grid connections
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Radio Jammor @radiojammor.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
The fact that you call it "silliness" is in itself a demonstration of why it isn't silly at all. The ongoing contempt of Scotland and of democracy for Scotland, will be exhibits in the story of how the UK unravelled.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
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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JR Tomlin (she/her) @jrtomlin.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Murrell was not ‘the chief’ of the SNP Funny but the rest of us thought that was first Alex Salmond and then Nicola Sturgeon, but @theguardian.com can never resist a good SNP smear. talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/05/26/m...
talkingupscotlandtwo.com
Murrell was not ‘the chief’ of the SNP but only the chief accountant
The Guardian regardless of its claims of ‘quality’ joins in the campaign to smear the whole of the SNP with one man’s crimes against it. Murrell was not a politician, not a thinke…
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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
its Amazing they can trace the Money down to the penny Peter Murrels Embezelled but can't find a penny of the 232 Million Michelle Mone made disappear or the 34 Bilion that Boris and the Gang made disappear for track n trace And not any of them in jail Hipocrisy Time too get away from Westminster 👇
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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
meanwhile none of this affects how i will vote and my absolute belief that Scotland should be an Independent county See me, i'm SNP.👇
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Lady J of Tay @ladyjoftay.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
All the best @NicolaSturgeon no one should be held responsible for partners, family or relationships where someone else commits the crime.
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SueD @0drat.eurosky.social · 25/05/2026
Personally I wld like to see the public reimbursed by Mone & Gove www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023...
theguardian.com
How the Michelle Mone scandal unfolded: £200m of PPE contracts, denials and a government lawsuit
Conservative peer made multiple denials of any association between her and PPE Medpro
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Jim Graham. @trapdoorcat.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
The SNP and its party members are the victims of this. The suggestion that anyone should have been familiar with Murrell’s finances is ridiculous. He had earned £100,000 plus for many years and was capable of using his own money, if he had chosen to. Branchform is dead. Independence is our future.
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Joy @joybe.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I'm not posting these stories to distract from Murrell. His betrayal of the SNP & its members is awful. All these other instances were against the UK taxpayers & there's not much evidence of anyone being held responsible in a splash it all over the tabloids type of way yet.
news.sky.com
£4.5bn lost to fraud in three COVID schemes as Rishi Sunak's Eat Out to Help Out scheme recorded 9.5% rate of fraud, HMRC says
The revelation emerges during a hearing of the Treasury Committee, which hears the HMRC seized a non-fungible token cryptocurrency asset and is "ahead of the game" compared to "most other tax authorit...
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