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John

@jonmalta99.bsky.social
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retired upholsterer Glasgow Scottish born and bred 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #scottishIndependence

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 6h
Why can’t we be more like the French? In France, young people are punching up at those in power demanding better education not decline and more cuts In Britain, middle-aged masked men with criminal records for domestic abuse punch down an at anyone who isn’t white In @heraldscotland.bsky.social
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What French student protests reveal about Britain's broken political system
In France, even children can see that the political system needs to be rebuilt from the ground up. In Britain, we seem incapable of understanding that truth, Neil Mackay says.
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Prestwick Branch SNP @prestwickbranchsnp.bsky.social · 18h
The Tories have in Excess of £10bn to spend . The old favourites are queuing up , Boris may be back to supervise the project . 😁😂 #areyouyesyet #yes #snp #indy #indyref
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 16h
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Overall satisfaction with Scottish schools rises to 72% and for family, 80%
From Scottish Household Survey: Satisfaction with Schools 2025 statistics – Published 06 October 2026 The Scottish Household Survey: Satisfaction with Schools 2025 statistics, published today…
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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 7h
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William Duguid @williamduguid1.bsky.social · 6h
'I was furious that Burnham could stand on a Labour Party stage and declare himself a patriot, aping the performances of Nigel Farage and Rupert Lowe when he did so. This is gutter politics from the far right.' Richard Murphy, via The National archive.is/wLdnx
Prime Minister Andy Burnham delivers his keynote speech at the Labour Party conference. (Image: Agency)
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The SNP @snp.org · 6h
🚨 Polls are open in the Midstocket and Rosemount by-election - they’ll close at 10pm. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Get out and vote Jeff Diack SNP!
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 8h
Is France signalling the end of neoliberalism? As a matter of fact, people will only stand for abuse from a financial system designed to oppress them for so long. France and maybe Spain seem to be indicating they've had enough. youtu.be/CpRl1ajsj-k?...
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Is France signalling the end of neoliberalism?
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Billy @cromartie7.bsky.social · 14h
England wants to bypass holyrood to force new nuclear reactors in Scotland ARE YOU YES YET🤬
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 8h
Private equity owners of Boots sell it to another PE group from Canada for £6.74bn. Debt-laden PE has no long-term interest. Everything is a commodity. No UK tax levied on dividends paid to foreign owners, which sweetens cash extraction. PE dominates town centres, when it crashes ...
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Canada’s Weston family buys Boots for $8.9bn
Former Selfridges owners buy UK high street institution from long-term backer Stefano Pessina
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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 7h
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 16h
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Dear auld Glasgow toon sees plummeting violence but try telling that to this lot
BBC Scotland’s Debate Night indulged in slagging off Glasgow based on no figures whatsoever and one old dear remembering fondly the period from the 1930s to the 1960s when the city and its ra…
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/Never Again @montrose.bsky.social · 8h
I am sick and tired of being telt what Westminster's plans for Scotland We are not a nursery that can be shut So badenoch, stick yer ill-fated plans up yer arse Independence today 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Penguin Says Bye Bye and Leaves
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Billy @cromartie7.bsky.social · 14h
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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 15h
Wake up Scotland 👇
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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 7h
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“Rebellious Scots” 😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @markrich68.bsky.social · 8h
🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 The Tories have given a “VOW” to their base in England, that they’ll strip powers from The Scottish Parliament in order to build Nuclear power stations in Scotland, for the purposes of powering England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 NOTE: From renewable sources alone, Scotland already produces more electricity than it uses
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Gerry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🍀 @gerryr.bsky.social · 8h
How can any right thinking Scot read this and not get angry? How can any proud Scot read this and not be disturbed by the obvious disdain shown to us? How can any Scot with a modicum of ability for critical thinking not read this and be desperate to be free of the shackles of Westminster?
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John @jonmalta99.bsky.social · 16h
that's best brilliant 😂
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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 23h
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🌻Sheila 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺✌️ @sheilzz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
👏👏👏 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Prestwick Branch SNP @prestwickbranchsnp.bsky.social · 21h
Let’s give the #Scot’s Less except New Nuclear ☢️ power stations. Let’s ensure #Scotland remain a #colony . Never trust a Tory #snp #areyouyesyet #yes #indy #indyref #toriesout #endlondonrule
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
NEW: John Swinney has hit out at Tory plans to strip the Scottish Parliament of powers if they win the next General Election👇
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John Swinney warns Tory devolution plans pose ‘very direct threat’ to Holyrood
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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 23h
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Verminous Scot @etkwebster.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Dae it, dae it, dae it.
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Gordon Ramsay: Let's F*cking Go
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Lady J of Tay @ladyjoftay.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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Prestwick Branch SNP @prestwickbranchsnp.bsky.social · 23h
Let’s break free . #areyouyesyet #indy #indyref #yes #snp #independence #endlondonrule
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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
there you go folks this is what's in store for us if we don't get out. they are going to protect themselves at all cost to the dimise of 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 The Conservatives will review devolution and strip the Scottish parliament of powers if they win the next General Election www.thenational.scot/news/2661416...
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Tories draw up plans to cut Holyrood's powers if they win next General Election
THE Conservatives will review devolution and strip the Scottish parliament of powers if they win the next General Election ...
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Gerry Flynn @gerryflynn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Thoughts from a colonised land🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 London dictating to Scotland that we only get the democracy they permit us. They use their laws & courts to enchain us & stipulate we don't have the right to make our own choices! That is not equality. That is colonial control. No other argument is feasible.
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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
With the Tories' foolish announcement to revisit the Scotland Act and claw back powers from Holyrood, Badenoch has killed off the 'once in a generation' claim as well as the assertion that the issue of independence was settled in 2014. weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/10/07/b...
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Badenoch has killed off the once in a generation claim
The Tories have officially ripped up the Vow to which they were signatories in 2014. This was the panicked promise made by the Better Together parties – one of which was the Conservatives &#8…
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 22h
Susan Collins, one of the most vulnerable Republicans in the midterms, faced a humiliating reality check last night during her debate against Democratic challenger Troy Jackson. In the first of four televised debates, Collins struggled to defend her efforts to rein in Trump’s disastrous policies.
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“We Can’t Eat Road Salt”: Susan Collins Crashes and Burns in Debate
The incumbent Maine senator gave a dumpster-fire performance.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 22h
The United States Explained in Three Simple Words: "Follow the money."
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 22h
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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 22h
Trump hates California because he knows we hate him and love our state. Enjoy these images from my dad, Walter Coles, taken in Huntington Beach yesterday. 🌅 🏄🏽
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22h
This is the funniest shit of all time… wait for it…😂
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 22h
The person responsible for carrying out the totally independent investigation into Reform and clearing the party of all wrongdoing has been identified.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 21h
Vote Green in Holborn and St Pancras and watch Labour move. youtu.be/8uLaadrAliQ?...
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Did Andy Burnham End the Green Wave? | Zack Polanski and Russell Warfield interview
YouTube video by PoliticsJOE
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 21h
If you close the loophole that lets people like me avoid tax, I will make good on my threat to avoid tax by moving to Monaco, which I actually did 40 years ago, to avoid tax. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/oc...
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‘I reside in Monaco’: billionaire said to have quit UK over potential wealth tax had already left
TaxWatch contradicts claims about David Reuben’s departure and questions stories of super-rich exodus
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 21h
Do I really need to spell it out? English choral music is NOT part of British or UK cultural heritage. It's part of England's. Written by a member of the B̶r̶i̶t̶i̶s̶h̶ U̶K̶ English Parliament. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/o...
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Choral evensong has been on our airwaves for 100 years today. Long may this vibrant, thriving art form continue | Jonathan Davies
One hundred years since the BBC first broadcast choral evensong, MP and former chorister Jonathan Davies hymns a beautiful and empowering collective experience that we should praise – and protect
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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 21h
BREAKING A federal judge ordered the Kennedy Center's Trump-installed board to UNSEAL the 163-page report (with redactions) on the $250M+ renovation plan and two year closure. The Board also must unseal a related Powerpoint. Doc buff.ly/E6jyjGl
ORDERED that Plaintiff’s [74] Motion to Unseal is GRANTED IN PART. The Clerk of the Court shall unseal in full the [65-2] Delta PowerPoint. Defendants shall submit to Plaintiff and the Court any proposals for narrowly tailored redactions to the [65-1] JLL Plan, accompanied by particularized and substantial written justifications, no later than October 14, 2026. Plaintiff shall file any response to the proposed redactions no later than October 19, 2026. The Court will then review the proposals and rule by separate order.
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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 21h
I see BBC Scotland, and the anti-independence press, all of whom made a huge song and dance about Gordon Brown's Vow in 2014, aren't too bothered that the Tories - one of the signatories of the Vow - have just ripped it up and now want to strip powers from Holyrood.
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Greymane 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @greymane54.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Leonardo DiCaprio Clapping - Very Good
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Gerry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🍀 @gerryr.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Why do users on here follow people and then as soon as they get a follow back, immediately unfollow? Noticed a fair amount of the past few weeks. And before @pj-1965.bsky.social starts, it can’t just be my jokes.🤣
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“The only sensible solution at this point is a moratorium on datacentres until very basic questions about how many we need, what for, where, and how pollution will be avoided are answered satisfactorily by the government” - @olliehayes.bsky.social 👏
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Drax datacentre could create nearly twice the yearly emissions of all Gatwick flights
Exclusive: Campaign group’s analysis of North Yorkshire plans finds datacentre would have to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood a year
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Some pushback on this for being depressing and doom-laden, and it certainly is. But I don’t know how people can watch e.g. the treatment of protestors by government and media in the last few years and not conclude they view the left as an enemy to be defeated, and then crushed.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Failures of privatisation. Royal Mail to cut up to 2,500 jobs Foreign-owned RM doesn't meet letter delivery targets even after regulator lowered them. Postage: 1st class, £1.80, 2nd class 91p. When privatized in 2013: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p. Poor service at triple price. Customers fleeced.
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Royal Mail plans to cut 2,500 head office jobs
The postal service firm wants to cut the head office and other jobs by the end of 2027.
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Scotland's No1 Comrade @scotlandscomrade.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Being a chef of many years, Can someone explain to me what 'Cuisine Marriage' is? Does the bride or groom get barbecue'd? And are Reform calling for the end of Kebab shops? That won't go down to well with the Friday night Stella Artois crowd. #ReformAreAJoke #DangerousRacists
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Gerry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🍀 @gerryr.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Fecking clown of the highest order. Only people out there thicker than Tommy Ten Names are the odious cretins that support him.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“Whether policies, polls or performances, the gulf between the reality I think I inhabit and the world according to Kemi seems almost inconceivably enormous, and yet so complete is her belief in her own brilliance that I frequently find myself checking whether my own memory of events is accurate.”
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Lady J of Tay @ladyjoftay.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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The UK is on a path to DECLINE | Ian Blackford on his Scottish independence vision
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The alarmists have yet to be wrong 😕🇺🇸
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