Reposted by LesleyScottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 09/10/2026Devolution has allowed us to make choices like free university tuition, free bus travel for young people, and support for families through the Scottish Child Payment. We deserve a Parliament whose powers are respected, not treated as something for UK politicians to play with. 48428
Reposted by LesleyBrian L028 🏴 🇪🇺 @brianl028.bsky.social · 09/10/2026So Badenoch vows to fight the SNP "for our union". What does she mean by "our"? Well, the Tories haven't been voted in by Scotland for over 70 years and the people do not have a majority wanting to remove powers from Holyrood. So "our" union means "England's" union. It's a colonialist point of view. 312458
Reposted by LesleyScottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 06/10/2026The typical household gas bill has gone up by 33% since April. Clean renewable energy generation is Scotland's best path to energy security and lower bills. 210745
Reposted by Lesleyweegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 06/10/2026My latest blog piece, emboldened by a lack of media accountability. The Tories like Reform and Restore, have crossed the Rubicon, destroying a key Better Together promise, and are openly calling for powers to be stripped from the Scottish Parliament. weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/10/06/t...weegingerdug.wordpress.comThe British right has Holyrood in its sightsThe Tories have crossed the Rubicon. Since the independence referendum of 2014, which Better Together won on the basis of false promises, not the least of which was the promise that the powers of t… 38267
Reposted by Lesleyweegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 05/10/2026BBC Scotland reporting on the Glasgow Council workers' pay dispute and still not acknowledging that this is a mess which was created by the Labour party. 47330
Reposted by LesleyPeter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026🔴 BREAKING: BP, Uber, Amazon and more paying Tony Blair's think tank $25,000 for “networking” opportunities with politicians and policy makers at party conferences Experts say "looks and smells like cash for access" Full story on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-t...democracyforsale.substack.comBREAKING: Tony Blair Institute’s $25,000 corporate network “smells like cash for access”Exclusive documents show Tony Blair's think tank offers corporate members such as BP and Uber "networking" at party conferences and "a stronger voice" in policy debates. 77895436
Reposted by Lesleyweegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Malcolm Offord today in Holyroodstatic.klipy.comOrange Angry OrangeAlt: Orange Angry Orange 47927
Reposted by LesleyScottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 10/09/2026The climate crisis is here. New fossil fuel drilling won't cut household bills, it won't make our country more energy secure, and it will only worsen the climate emergency. Scotland needs to invest in clean, green renewables to secure our future. 18140
Reposted by Lesleyweegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 10/09/2026My latest blog piece, Burnham's expected reverse ferret. Burnham is taking a leaf from Starmer's playbook and gaslighting us into believing that he did not say what we all heard him say and moreover has invented a pre-2014 consensus that never existed. weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/09/10/b...weegingerdug.wordpress.comBurnham’s expected reverse ferretAndy Burnham has replied to John Swinney after the latter wrote to him asking for a meeting to put the process for triggering a Scottish independence referendum on a legal basis after Burnham repli… 87357
Lesley @lasslesley1.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I can't believe this London-based landowner is putting the iconic Glenelg to Skye ferry at risk. Support the local community - not millionaire financiers - and save the world famous Glenelg to Skye ferry by joining me and signing the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...you.38degrees.org.ukSave the Glenelg - Skye ferry!This ten minute crossing is famous around the world - and is believed to be the last turntable style ferry anywhere. It's an iconic part of Skye's history, but it's under threat thanks to a wealthy la... 096
Reposted by LesleyScottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 28/08/2026Decisions about Scotland should be made by the people who live here. Scotland can build a fairer, greener future as a normal independent country. It's an anti-democratic outrage that the Tories and Labour have joined forces to cast a veto against our parliament.bbc.co.ukFM calls for referendum powers as draft independence bill publishedThe draft bill would be introduced into Parliament if the Scottish government secured the necessary powers from the UK government. 314452
Reposted by LesleyScottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 20/08/2026The behaviour of the super-rich is making the climate crisis worse for all of us, costing nature, homes and lives. We shouldn’t have to pay the price for billionaires hopping between their shooting estates and yachts. 16325
Reposted by LesleyThe National @scotnational.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Tomorrow's front page 📰 BBC under fire over Glasgow documentary's 'glaring flaws' 23814
Reposted by LesleyJohn Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social · 18/08/2026I am proud that in Scotland, people with disabilities already benefit from free bus travel at all times. We also made bus travel free for under-22s, and we are rolling out the £2 bus fare cap for everyone across the country. That’s the SNP delivering for Scotland. 🏴 418894
Reposted by Lesleyweegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 18/08/2026While 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. 19236132
Reposted by LesleyThe National @scotnational.bsky.social · 16/08/2026So entrenched and extensive have the Taliban’s restrictions on women been that UN experts, scholars and human rights professionals have characterised it as 'gender apartheid', David Pratt writes in a special report ✍️ Read more: www.thenational.scot/politi... 0219
Reposted by LesleyThe National @scotnational.bsky.social · 16/08/2026A former BBC News director has criticised the broadcaster's coverage of Reform UK's latest welfare plans branding it 'bizarre' 👇 Read more: www.thenational.scot/news/2... 25122
Reposted by LesleyThe National @scotnational.bsky.social · 16/08/2026It will not have escaped your notice that Scotland is now an increasingly impatient place, with many voters not much content, like your good self, to let Whitehall call all the shots which matter, writes Ruth Wishart in a letter to the new PM ✍️ Read more: www.thenational.scot/politi... 25730
Reposted by LesleyThe National @scotnational.bsky.social · 14/08/2026EXCLUSIVE: Andy Burnham has been urged to 'sever all ties' with Israel and demand an immediate end to the occupation amid ongoing settler violence in the West Bank 🗣️ 'Empty words and calls for legality will not suffice in the face of these horrors'thenational.scotAndy Burnham must 'sever all ties' with Israel amid West Bank settler violence 25525
Reposted by LesleyThe National @scotnational.bsky.social · 11/08/2026EXCLUSIVE: The UK Government has blocked the release of files on a shadowy Israeli firm caught meddling in the Scottish parliament elections 🚨 Downing Street cited an exemption that allows documents to be withheld if they would 'prejudice relations' with another state 3297105
Reposted by Lesleyweegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 11/08/2026My latest blog piece, Wednesday is GERSmas day when anti-indy parties celebrate figures purporting to show one of the most resource rich nations in northern Europe is an economic basket case & say this is why Westminster mismanagement should continue. weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/08/11/g...weegingerdug.wordpress.comGERSmas Day 2026It’s always welcome to have some good news for independence, but that’s especially true on GERSmas eve as the British media in Scotland and anti-independence campaigners gear themselves… 47356
Reposted by LesleyThe National @scotnational.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Zack Polanski has called out the BBC’s coverage of Reform UK press conferences, but will it change the mainstream media's approach? 🤔 It's one of the topics reporters Steph Brawn and Lucy Jackson get their teeth into on this week's Media Watch podcast 👇m.youtube.comZack Polanski calls out BBC for IGNORING Greens while airing Reform & GB news face 15000 complaints!Steph Brawn is joined by Lucy Jackson on the latest episode of medi... 214447
Reposted by LesleyThe National @scotnational.bsky.social · 09/08/2026EXCLUSIVE: A Scottish council has been accused of acting as a 'receptionist' for a company developing an AI data centre that would displace plans for more than 1000 homes if built www.thenational.scot/news/2... 26034
Reposted by LesleyColin Dunn 🏴 @indyposterboy.scot · 07/08/2026Unionist media and its cronies ridiculed SNP Scotgov's plans for call-in GPs and price caps on essential foods as amateur and pie in the sky nonsense in run-up to Scottish election. Labour UK now plan to copy these things. Media response? Tumbleweed. 27141
Reposted by LesleyThe National @scotnational.bsky.social · 02/08/2026EXCLUSIVE: Corporation tax figures for the UK and Ireland provide a 'mere glimpse into the wealth of an independent Scotland', the SNP have claimedthenational.scotIreland's €33bn tax take 'a glimpse of wealth of independent Scotland', SNP say 14528
Reposted by LesleyRobert F @chippyman.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Come on SNP and Scottish Greens. You both asked for our votes on manifestos that promised a second independence referendum. Together, you hold the biggest pro-independence majority in Holyrood's history. It's time to turn that mandate into action. It's time to deliver. 610854
Reposted by LesleyDavid 🏴🇺🇦🇪🇺🇯🇴🇨🇦🏴🌍 @metta2u.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Our Scottish Government tried to implement a recycling scheme but was blocked by the Union of which we are a part. In the EU sovereign Governments just got in with it. #ruyesyet #scottishrepublic #greenyes 13919
Reposted by LesleyWilliam Duguid @williamduguid1.bsky.social · 25/07/2026'The future direction of Scottish politics has to see the SNP attempt a reset and renewal: a tough ask after two decades in office. It will require a post-Swinney leadership to explicitly break with the Sturgeon era.' @gerryhassan.bsky.social via Bella Caledonia bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/07/24/t...bellacaledonia.org.ukThe Summer of Scotland after Sarwar, Sturgeon and SwinneyThe Andy Burnham administration has taken office. It faces huge challenges – economic, political, geopolitical – along with no direct popular mandate and the rising storm of radicalised… 0123
Reposted by LesleyScottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 25/07/2026Scotland's facing a wave of hyper-scale data centre applications. If built they'd consume more than 1.5 times our peak electricity use, with no requirement to assess their environmental impact. We need to ensure our economy works for everyone, not just tech billionaires. ➡️ greens.scot/datacentres 21287165
Reposted by LesleyThe National @scotnational.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Scottish middle-distance runner Josh Kerr has broken a 27-year-old world record for the men's mile in London this afternoon 👏 35213
Lesley @lasslesley1.bsky.social · 18/07/2026As my granny would say "they're bumping their gums" too little and too late.... 062
Reposted by LesleyScottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 17/07/2026The growing international rejection of hyper-scale data centres underscores how important it is for Scotland to act before the damage is done. Add your voice 👇 www.greens.scot/datacentres 06936
Reposted by LesleyThe National @scotnational.bsky.social · 17/07/2026We have faced a UK Government intent on pursuing a 'muscular Unionism' that has shut down any co-operation. Andy Burnham has an opportunity to do things differently, @benlake.bsky.social writes ✍️ www.thenational.scot/politi... 0175
Reposted by LesleyScottish Independence Podcasts @scottishindypod.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Vote Binface!! 0155
Reposted by LesleyScottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 15/07/2026There are 24 hyperscale data centre applications in Scotland. If they're all built they'll consume over 1.5 times the peak energy demand of the entire country. We urgently need a pause to develop a national approach that works for people and planet, not just tech billionaires.theguardian.comNew York becomes first state to impose one-year pause on new AI datacentersGovernor Kathy Hochul issues executive order enacting a moratorium on the large, resource-intensive AI facilities 115280
Reposted by LesleyScottish Independence Podcasts @scottishindypod.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Something Andy Burnham might want to reflect on as he contemplates his latest U-turn over a wealth tax... 04723
Reposted by LesleyThe National @scotnational.bsky.social · 16/07/2026A new film looking at how the UK has treated Palestine activists as terrorists is set for its Scottish premiere 👇thenational.scotScottish premiere for film examining how UK treated Palestine activists as terrorists 03823
Reposted by LesleyLorna MacGillivray @elemjay.bsky.social · 14/07/2026#YouYesNow #IndyClan? It's TIME for #ScottishIndependence 🏴 24225
Reposted by LesleyHoody McExtremist @hoodyindy.bsky.social · 14/07/2026If Murrell got five years jail for embezzling £400 grand from SNP members, how long will all the Tories involved in this epic plundering of the public purse get? /s www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...theguardian.comJohnson government wasted £10bn on PPE, Covid inquiry findsChair criticises use of ‘VIP lane’ to prioritise PPE contracts for companies with Tory connections in damning report 106047
Reposted by Lesleyweegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 14/07/2026My latest blog post, Reform UK's latest front in the right wing culture wars catches Scotland's languages, Cornish, and Irish in the Anglocentric crossfire, Reform is a party of clowns which doesn't care about the consequences of its own policies. weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/07/14/r...weegingerdug.wordpress.comReform UK’s attack on Scottish languagesIt’s the greatest attempted Westminster assault on Scottish culture since the Jacobite wars. Reform UK has proposed an amendment to the UK Government’s elections bill which would crimin… 26747
Reposted by LesleyScottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 14/07/2026Not only would this criminalise the use of Gaelic in Scottish elections, it would threaten to jail anyone who uses British Sign Language in a campaign video. At their first whiff of power Reform's priority is to make our democracy less accessible and threaten their political opponents. 30239114
Reposted by LesleyThe National @scotnational.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Tomorrow's front page: Reform's bid to criminalise all election materials not in English or Welsh - including Gaelic and Scots - is pure ignorance ... in any language. 88946
Reposted by LesleyThe National @scotnational.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Reform UK have sparked outrage after putting forward plans which would criminalise election campaign materials in Gaelic and Scots 🔗 www.thenational.scot/news/2... 53222
Reposted by LesleyThe National @scotnational.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Activists have unfurled a banner inside Buckingham Palace demanding that 'unanswered questions' about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein are investigated Latest from Alasdair Ferguson 👇thenational.scotActivists pull stunt over Andrew and Epstein relationship at Buckingham Palace 33515
Reposted by LesleyThe National @scotnational.bsky.social · 10/07/2026The warning signs are no longer just signs, writes Xander Elliards. Fascists are organising openly, targeting minorities and those who disagree with them, and mobilising mobs on the back of lies. www.thenational.scot/news/2... 25945
Reposted by Lesleyweegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 10/07/2026I despised Ann Widdicombe but no one deserves what happened to her. Yet it says so much about the hate and division far right politicians like her have created I was relieved to hear the suspect police are looking for is a white man and the "protecting women and girls" crowd won't be out rioting. 1516233
Reposted by LesleyThe National @scotnational.bsky.social · 09/07/2026EXCLUSIVE: Incoming prime minister Andy Burnham has learned nothing from Labour’s 'moral cowardice in the face of a genocide', the SNP have said after he laid out his first major foreign policy pitch but failed to mention Israel, Palestine, or international aid 44122
Reposted by Lesleyweegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 09/07/2026My latest blog piece. Alister Jack's recent colonialist intervention in the Lords may have been rebuffed, but it tells us that devolution has no future in the UK. weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/07/09/a...weegingerdug.wordpress.comAlister Jack’s colonialism remains a threat to ScotlandThe former colonial governor of the northern province, Alister Jack, who was given a peerage by Rishi Sunak as part of a back room deal. Jack rejected an earlier nomination by Boris Johnson in 2023… 69773