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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Stuart Campbell is a Disgrace that has Soiled Our Movement bellacaledonia.org.uk/2021/02/18/s...
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Stuart Campbell is a Disgrace that has Soiled Our Movement
Whilst it’s good to see lots of people now separating themselves from Stuart Campbell’s disgraceful hate blog yesterday after his latest publications, it’s also so overdue as to b…
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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Burnham has destroyed two of the main arguments of the Westminster parties. He's pensioned off the claim that Scottish state pensions can only be protected in the UK and by opening the door to an EU referendum he's blown up the argument against indyref2. weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/10/02/b...
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Burnham pensions off two Better Together arguments
One of the ways in which the Better Together campaign won the referendum in 2014 was to successfully scaremonger Scotland’s pensioners into believing that their state pensions would not be sa…
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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 29/09/2026
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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“Rebellious Scots” 😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @markrich68.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
🇬🇧 For purely political reasons , the new british Overlord of Scotland refuses to ‘allow’ a Scottish Government strategy which would save so many lives in Scotland 🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Are you YES yet ? 🇪🇺
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Burnham rejects drugs decriminalisation after Swinney backs it
Scotland's first minister had called for the move as part of measures to tackle the drugs deaths crisis, but the prime minister said he did not support it.
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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My latest blog piece. Marra and Burnham now insist there needs to be a 'consensus' on independence before there can be an indyref. There was previously a cross-party consensus on a trigger for an indyref. What happened to it? weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/09/25/w...
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What happened to the old consensus on an indyref trigger?
I was supposed to have been going to Lochgilphead today to do an event for Aye Fyne, but here I am at home nursing a very painful ankle and hirpling gingerly about the house – but only when I…
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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 10/09/2026
It's simple. Whether you support or oppose Scottish independence if you are a democrat you must support people's right to vote on it. If you don't, then you are not a democrat.
It's simple. Whether you support or oppose Scottish independence if you are a democrat you must support people's right to vote on it. If you don't, then you are not a democrat.
SCOTLAND'S RIGHT TO CHOOSE
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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
My latest blog piece, Burnham's admission that the trigger for a Scottish indyref should be the same as the trigger for a reunification referendum in Northern Ireland as set out in the Good Friday Agreement is the first crack in the constitutional dam. weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/09/09/b...
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Burnham’s crack in the constitutional dam
In PMQs on Wednesday, Andy Burnham was asked by SNP MP Chris Law about the Good Friday Agreement (GFA) and the trigger for an Irish unification referendum, and after Burnham stated that he was awar…
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Believe in Scotland @believeinscotland.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
🚨 Andy Burnham has stated that majority public support in Scotland for a second independence referendum will be the indyref2 trigger. ✍️ Sign the petition now: www.believeinscotland.org/indyref_peti...
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“Rebellious Scots” 😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @markrich68.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
🇬🇧 The uk Gov is to open up new (Scottish) North Sea oil fields in order to relieve the energy crisis That’s the same Scottish North Sea oil that the unionists (including the bbc) claimed was just about to ‘run dry’ in 2014 at Indyref1 Once again Scots are being taken for absolute mugs 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺😎
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j2king.bsky.social @j2king.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The Good Friday agreement says otherwise, he can’t refuse a vote then Scotland and Wales can follow
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j2king.bsky.social @j2king.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
So Andy Burnham was visiting the U.K. but is too feart to come to Scotland 🙈🤣🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 not a mistake feart is a great Scottish word for his problem
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 18/08/2026
“Reform should try telling nurses fainting on shifts, farmers losing their crops and people running from burning homes to enjoy the hot weather and see what reaction they’ll get.” www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/a…
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Reform’s Tice accused of misinformation after urging people to enjoy heatwaves
Backlash from nurses, medical experts and green campaigners in response to deputy leader dismissing efforts to reach net zero
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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
While Burnham's announcement that disabled people's bus passes in England will be valid 24 hours a day from April next year is to be welcomed, it would have been nice for the UK media to acknowledge that 60+ and disabled bus passes in Scotland have been valid 24 hours a day for years now.
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Lady J of Tay @ladyjoftay.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
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Nicola Sturgeon shares scathing view of Andy Burnham and his Number 10 North
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Court upholds CMA findings that Auden Mckenzie and Actavis UK charged excessive/unfair prices for NHS-funded drugs Prices for hydrocortisone tablets rose from less than £1 to £70+ per pack, did not reflect any increase in costs or investment. They bought off competition. No execs penalised
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Court upholds CMA findings that firms charged excessive and unfair prices for lifesaving NHS-funded medicine
The Court of Appeal has confirmed that firms broke the law by charging excessive and unfair prices for hydrocortisone tablets over a decade.
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j2king.bsky.social @j2king.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Does anyone else think we are being taken for mugs with this No 10 in the North? Look at any map of UK and it’s not even at the halfway mark
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j2king.bsky.social @j2king.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
It’s hardly the north when you look at a map of the U.K. 🤣
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j2king.bsky.social @j2king.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
He can’t refuse NI under the Good Friday agreement and that will pave way for others
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“Rebellious Scots” 😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @markrich68.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
🇬🇧 The message from London is being heard loud and clear: “SHUT UP SCOTLAND, IT DOES’NT MATTER WHAT YOU VOTE FOR, NOW GET BACK IN YOUR BOX” 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Are you YES yet ? 🇪🇺 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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New PM Andy Burnham tells John Swinney 'agree to disagree' on Scottish independence
Scotland's first minister raised the issue of Scottish independence during a phone call with Andy Burnham on Tuesday morning, in the hopes of advancing the debate.
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
"My message to the people of the UK is that I'll train the new guy but you're going to have to stick with one of them eventually."
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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
📢 Your SNP government has spent £1.3 billion over the last 15 years fixing Westminster failures like the Bedroom Tax. ❌ Broken Brexit Britain is holding Scotland back - with the full powers of independence we can change Scotland’s future forever and for good.👇
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j2king.bsky.social @j2king.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Let’s start with independence for England
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 20/07/2026
Just a reminder: the SNP on its own won more seats than all the London parties combined. Now tell me why it has no mandate to call an independence referendum.
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j2king.bsky.social @j2king.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Great Britain is not a country it’s a group of countries that form it. The U.K. is formed of a voluntary union of countries. It’s not Democracy if Scotland is refused another vote. NI will be having a vote in a few years so they will need to let Scotland or it’s not democratic
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j2king.bsky.social @j2king.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Why not? Why is it history? We were promised in 2014 only way to stay in Europe was to be part of UK that aged well🤣. NI voted to stay as did Gibraltar they both got staying why did Scotland not get that? We were promised more powers after 2014 then told no we should have read small print.
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j2king.bsky.social @j2king.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
So Andy Burnham says he is taking the politics to the people of Scotland so that will be a referendum then Andy🤣🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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j2king.bsky.social @j2king.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
It just confirms what we already know England see UK as England and we are just part of it 😡🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The UK plans to get rid of the Coastguard Service and turn it into volunteers only, to 'save money'. This will cost lives, and we have afforded it for 204 years. But now it is 'unaffordable'. No it is billionaires who are unaffordable, tax them until there aren't any.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
UK income tax personal allowance frozen at £12,570 since 2021. If increased in line with inflation, it would be £16,048 for 2026/27. As a result, in 2026/27 someone earning £17,000 will pay additional £696 in income tax and £278 in national insurance. All because govts appease the rich.
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We need to abolish state-sanctioned poverty
No one is ever born poor. They are condemned to poverty by societal policies which prevent millions from realising their full physical, mental, and intellectual capacities potentialities.
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Pascal Jacquemain @jacquep.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Switzerland bolted 5,000 solar panels onto a dam wall 8,000 feet up in the freezing Alps where everyone said solar made no sense, and the plant now makes three times more winter power than any farm down in the valleys share.google/nw0ojKKXnID1...
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Switzerland bolted 5,000 solar panels onto a dam wall 8,000 feet up in the freezing Alps where everyone said solar made no sense, and the plant now makes three times more winter power than any farm do...
High in the Swiss Alps, on a concrete dam wall more than 8,000 feet above the sea, someone bolted thousands of solar panels to a place almost no one thought
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j2king.bsky.social @j2king.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
So the Government again is against disabled people.
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Aggy @aggykins.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
‘One of the greatest achievements of British democracy, our NHS, set up to save lives, had been used to save face with Trump. The most rapacious president in American history now had his hands on [England’s] healthcare system’ #ScottishIndependence #sNHS www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Starmer’s goodbye gift to Britain: a US pharma deal that could be more lethal than Covid | Aditya Chakrabortty
The deal on medicine imports will cost the NHS billions and take funding away from doctors, nurses, cancer scans and the rest, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
BREAKING: Scotland's First Minister John Swinney has responded to Andy Burnham's claim he wants to extend devolution in Scotland He warned 'Scotland is a nation and not a region' and urged Burnham to give Scotland the right to a second independence referendum
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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
For most SNP and indy supporters, our issue with the media in Scotland is not that the SNP is subject to scrutiny. Scrutiny of political parties is vital in a democracy. Our issue is that media scrutiny of the SNP is obsessive but anti-indy parties are never subject to the same degree of scrutiny.
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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I had no positive expectations of Starmer when he became PM and he still managed to disappoint. He spent the weekend vowing to fight a leadership contest only to step down today. It was very on brand for him that he even did a U-turn in his resignation speech.
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
"I have accepted Keir Starmer's resignation as my chief servant and have invited Andy Burnham to lay out details for how many meals a day he'll give me"
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 16/06/2026
Whilst Labour's McNeil bigged up her jolly to China with endless PRs from Westminster, the organisers Glasgow Chamber of Commerce didn't even think her presence was worthy of note. Under Labour the Scotland Office costs much more than it ever has. www.glasgowchamberofcommerce.com/news/news/20...
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Scottish firms with global ambition head to Shanghai
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
The 50 richest families own more wealth than 34 million people. A handful have everything. Millions are struggling. End Rip Off Britain. Wealth tax. Now.
The case for Labour to introduce a wealth tax has never been stronger.
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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
The basic lesson that the anti-independence parties and press will not and cannot learn is that slinging mud at the SNP will not make the electorate look upon a Labour party which lied and cheated its way into power and a UK driving headlong into fascism and go - Yes, I'll support that instead.
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John Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
The Scottish Parliament has just affirmed, by a clear majority, the right of people in Scotland to decide their constitutional future. This is democracy and it must be respected. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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William Duguid @williamduguid1.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
'We have a system of government that only works in one direction: everything but everything it does must increase the wealth of the wealthy, and if it tries to do something against the interests of the wealthy, the system strikes back.' Robin McAlpine, via Common Weal
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Government must get its hands dirty — Common Weal
Common Weal could offer the incoming Scottish Government all the policy it needs, but its problem isn’t policy. Its problem is that it doesn’t have a theory of how government works so it doesn’t understand why it isn’t working just now.
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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Both Streeting and Burnham are playing the old right wing Labour trick of making left wing sounding promises when they want support and votes. Labour will not learn from defeat. A Scottish Labour MP is still hailing Sarwar as the next FM although he ran a presidential campaign & got humped.
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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
In 2014 during the indyref, Labour's Golden boy Andy Burnham said he opposed Scottish independence as he "didn't want to drive up the M6 and get my passport out or have to drive on the right when I want to drive on the left". If this is the guy who's going to save Labour, it's game over already.
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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I can't help but wonder if right wing Labour MP and former director of Labour Together Josh Simons - he of send migrant boats to Scotland infamy - is giving up a seat which he expects Andy Burnham to lose.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
If you seriously think the Greens are like Reform, and Polanski like Farage, you’re either certifiable or know nothing about politics at all. Or you’re simply lying.
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 12/05/2026
The clock's now ticking on independence.
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j2king.bsky.social @j2king.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Not really Labour have become tories. Keir Starmer was more right wing than the tories under Ted Heath. That’s the problem their policies are the same and don’t work
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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 11/05/2026
It's noticeable that those unionists who are most scathing of Scotland's ability to afford independence due to our (ungrateful) need for subsidies from England, are also those most aggressively and belligerently against 'allowing' us to have a referendum. Odd that. #Scotland
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 11/05/2026
We were told our data would stay under NHS control. But an internal document just revealed the truth: Palantir staff are being granted “unlimited access”. Join us demanding this spy-tech firm gets out of our NHS 👇 goodlaw.social/658abc
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
I will point out that none of the other major Political Party Leaders have ever had to live on a house boat. Because they are all multimillionaires and each has received hundreds of thousands or millions of pounds in 'donations'.
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