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Julie McNeil 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Scottish, for independence, book lover, dabble with gluten free baking, retired SNHS employee, Granny ❌No DM unless we follow each other ❌No crypto ❌No unsolicited Crowdfunding appeals

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Disillusioned With Conservatives @neverevertory.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Stamp duty generates approximately £11B-13B per year & Inheritance around £7B-£8B so doing this would mean an estimated £15B-£20B annual hole in public finances while having to make deep spending cuts to public services, raise other taxes or borrow yet more money to be able to do it (2/2)
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Rambling Idiot @ramblingidiot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If you fancy treating yourself to some beautiful art and helping with the nerves, here’s our website. Linocut prints inspired by nature, folklore and some countryside magic. www.cutfromtheland.co.uk/products
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 06/10/2026
78 to 25 in support of the motion that the best future for 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland lies within the 🇪🇺 European Union (EU) and that EU membership should be sought as swiftly as possible 👏
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 05/10/2026
The 🇪🇺 EU has a plan for industry. The 🇬🇧 UK doesn't. The interests of 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scottish industry are best served by an independent Scotland in the EU.
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Kuntie Plopkins @kuntieplopkins.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Paging the UK....
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gilcky.bsky.social @gilcky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
BBC Shortbread won’t tell you that while child poverty runs at 20% in Scotland it’s almost 50% higher in England at 29%… the toxic 🇬🇧 media manipulation and propaganda machine at its best… Wake up Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 www.actionforchildren.org.uk/blog/where-i...
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Where is child poverty increasing in the UK?
In 2024/25, 4 million children were living in poverty across the UK. Explore the latest official figures from the DWP’s annual poverty statistics.
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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BBC Scotland News team revealed as ignorantly using a statistically invalid child poverty comparison
From BBC Scotland today: In 2017, MSPs passed a law requiring ministers to hit four targets, external, including pushing the share of children in relative poverty below 10% by 2030. But the JRF&#82…
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"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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Adam Sanderson @adamsanderson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
9 out of the 10 poorest regions in Europe are in the UK, 7 of those in England. (None in Scotland). Yet the richest area in Europe is London. Better Together? Source - Eurostat.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Why is the Government going after pensioners? It's time to tax the rich
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Peter Thiel is a cancer on the world. Our govts are buying into his far-right ideological bullshit, and the software his company Palantir makes to commit genocide, destroy critical infrastructure, and spy on every aspect of our lives We are truly in the upside down m.youtube.com/watch?v=BCFX...
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Billionaire Pervert Accidentally Tells The Truth | The Kyle Kulinski Show
YouTube video by Secular Talk
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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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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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Mark Butcher is Reform UK's candidate in Claremont, Blackpool, standing tomorrow. He's seen here with a group intimidating a council worker taking flags down. A worker, just doing his job. That's him climbing the ladder. Just think how a he would treat council staff if he was a councillor.
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Believe in Scotland @believeinscotland.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🟥 Westminster creates the mess. Then the Prime Minister uses that mess as an excuse to keep Scotland trapped in the system that caused it. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland deserves the powers to tackle our own problems and the freedom to choose a better path. 1/2
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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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AlbaDross @albadross.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wealthy people pay slightly more tax in Scotland. The lower paid pay less than rUk.Personal care is free in Scotland. A political choice NEVER referred to by journalists & unionist politicians. How strange - except it isn’t.It’s normal unionist gaslighting. Independence is also normal. #YouYesYet?
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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Most of Burnham's promises were for policies to be introduced after the next GE, the national care service, reform of the voting system, closer ties with the EU, all put off until after the next GE - political code for ‘never’. It was a very traditional Labour speech, the jam is always tomorrow.
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DoonHameBuddie @distantbuddie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Why is Burnham’s proposal being called a “national care system”? It is an English care system being subsidised by pensioners in Scotland, Wales and Ireland. #FuckWestminster #ScottishIndependence
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's not pensions you can't afford. It's not immigrants. It's not Disabled People. Or University educations. Or Healthcare. Or Housing. It's billionaires you can't afford, they are stealing all of this and much more.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Its the wrong place to get money from.. there are other places.. the richest 50 families are worth £500bn. Why are we talking about pensioners £12,500 & not talking about a wealth tax. Why is that?" @unitesharon.bsky.social says scrapping the triple lock would be the wrong thing to do
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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Scotland's No1 Comrade @scotlandscomrade.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
HAD ENOUGH OF WASTEMONSTER AND THEIR INCOMPETENCE, OR THEFT AS WESHOULD BE CALLING IT? Look, This cost of living crisis will NOT be fixed by Labour or Tories & it will be infinitely worse under Reform. The UK government is not working for us, Which is why we need to be Independent & in Europe.
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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Sharon O'Dea @sharonodea.com · 22/09/2026
A landlord making £100,000 a month says young people have “no excuse to be poor”. Excellent. I love financial advice. Gather round, children, let's examine how he himself stopped being poor. metro.co.uk/2026/09/20/i...
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I’m a landlord making £100,000 a month — young people have no excuse to be poor
Samuel bought his first home aged 17 with a 100% mortgage.
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Oor Steve @oorsteve.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
www.nrscotland.gov.uk/publications... Around 1,000 deaths per year, reducing due to new treatment of drug abusers. In England 5,500 per year, but also counted very differently. The statistics are easily manipulated but are climbing quite high.
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Drug-related deaths in Scotland, 2024
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ℝ𝕖𝕓𝕖𝕝𝕓𝕝𝕦𝕖 @rebelb1ue.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I still think about the guy who pointed out that "the underlying purpose ol AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth." Rarely have I seen AI  described so succinctly
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Rupert Lowe-Life is spitting teeth.. ohh he’s mad.. incandescent with rage about the state marking “its own homework” on Covid.. Fun fact — During Covid Lowe’s company took £100,000 in taxpayer funded furlough despite making a massive £7.9 million profit. He wasn’t so angry about that eh❗️
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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 17/09/2026
Join the campaign to stop hyper-scale data centres in Scotland. Write to the First Minister today! greens.scot/datacentres
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Stop hyper-scale data centres in Scotland
Stop hyper-scale data centres in Scotland -
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PeatWorrier @peatworrier.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Slightly mysteriously, the Scottish crowdfunder to support a Court of Session judicial review of the proscription of Palestine Action has now evaporated from the CrowdJustice website. Last I checked it was sitting at £155k. www.crowdjustice.com/case/scottis...
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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Disillusioned With Conservatives @neverevertory.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Don’t you dare bring Autism into this! You know exactly what you are doing with your £36M Ben, so pull the other one will you because Farage is the biggest liar in UK politics right now.
Telegraph article where Ben Delo, one of the £36M Reform donors uses autism to claim he can’t cope with lying politicians
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James FBSI 🐸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺 (Fanatic) @toplandscaper.eurosky.social · 14/09/2026
Small boat crossings are down 40% on last year Small boat crossings accounts for around 3% of all immigration Fauxrage as usual it's doing exactly what Trump did in 2016 to pave a path to power How much did Reform Ltd pay for that front page? Restrict political donations
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Peter Kay @theonlypeterkay.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The smoking gun isn’t what Reform proposed. It’s what they bothered to write: Not a press release. Not a slogan. Not a wish list. A fully drafted Crypto Bill.1/9🧵
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Gary Andrews @garyscribbler.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Please learn to recognise the signs. There have been huge leaps in sepsis awareness but it never hurts to be alert. Almost 9 years since it changed our lives forever - don’t let it change yours. #doosleaday #sepsisawareness #worldsepsisday
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Felix Sylvestris @felixsylvestris.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Good morning Scotland. Not only will we watch England suck our energy from us , they will make us pay extra on our bills to facilitate their theft of our energy. Better Together never looked so sick. #ScottishIndependence must be our priority. Or we pay big time www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...
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Mapped: the £150bn megaproject that aims to protect Britain from energy shocks
Thousands of miles of new power lines are needed to deliver climate targets and energy security, but bills will rise in the short term and opponents are mobilising
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Phil Brickell MP @philbrickellmp.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Ben Delo isn't just a "billionaire expat" with a soft spot for Farage. In 2022 he was found guilty of serious criminal charges in the United States. American prosecutors said he deliberately built a dodgy crypto platform designed to help people hide dirty money. He admitted as much in court.
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OorPatts @oorpatts.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I forgot to tell you that I have even more #Christmas #cards from the printers to the stars. Here are a few. Some still need to be added to OorPatts.com
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 04/09/2026
So, if I understand Nigel Farage's argument correctly it is: "Everyone I trusted and elevated into a position of responsibility is constantly doing crimes that benefit me but of which I somehow have no knowledge. I am a man with the character, judgement, and intelligence to run the country." Ok.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Yo! Sushi founder Simon Woodroffe tells LBC he'd vote for Reform, and argues that Christian Nationalist Danny Kruger should take over the party.
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“Rebellious Scots” 😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @markrich68.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
🇬🇧 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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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
🚨🚨An #artificialintelligence researcher who worked at #Anthropic — and previously #OpenAI — has resigned, saying both tech giants are "gambling with our lives." 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/anth...
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‘Gambling with our lives’: AI researcher quits Anthropic with dire warning about safety
“The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade,” staffer says in resignation post after leaving the tech giant.
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Muir @meeyooer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
We need to start acting as if the referendum is happening Get the 2013 and 2014 atmosphere going Get the debate up and running again Get people angry/excited/curious etc Whatever it takes
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Robbie Duff (Jack O'Byte) @robbieduff.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Get this signed people & share far & widely as possible, tell everybody you know to sign it & share it too www.believeinscotland.org/indyref_peti...
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Don't Let Burnham Block Our Indyref Mandate
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/Never Again @montrose.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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Eight in 10 Scots want to buy more Scottish food and drink, survey finds
New data shows 84 of Scots want to buy more Scottish food and drink as a September campaign highlights local produce
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Renewable energy utility ScottishPower recently revealed that 99.9 % of the materials from Scotland’s first commercial wind farm have been successfully recycled and reused following decommissioning. reneweconomy.com.au/a-great-resu...
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"A great result:" 26 turbines from first commercial wind farm almost completely recycled and reused
99.9 per cent of the materials from Scotland’s first commercial wind farm have been successfully recycled and reused following decommissioning.
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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
For those who are interested, I've just added greetings cards featuring photographs of these rather wonderful art nouveau tiles from Glasgow tenements to my online shop at www.thisismyglasgow.com/product-cate.... Cont./ #glasgow #greetingscard #tiles #tenements #architecture
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Here's another young woman being attacked and beaten by old Reform men consumed by hate. #RefUKkers
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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
News broke last week that Grangemouth is to get nothing from a £200 million sustainable aviation fuel funding rollout called Project Willow.👇 www.businessforscotland.com/nothing_for_...
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Nothing for Grangemouth from the UK Gov - and a kick in the teeth for ScotWind
Where is the £200 million the UK Labour government promised to invest in Grangemouth to bring new green jobs? It has not materialised and nor has the considered market framework needed to create a sus...
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Farage was - once again - lying when he said counter terrorism police had delayed his speech because of threats. West Midlands police confirm they gave no such advice.
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rain-singer.bsky.social @rain-singer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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