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Maureen Pickering

@maureenpickering.bsky.social
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Retired Depute HT, Scottish granny. Wants Scottish Independence for a fairer, more equal society where Scotland’s vast resources are used for the benefit of the people of 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿, not Westminster. I am a Sovereign Scot and will bow to no monarch. No DMs

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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 12h
This is a storm in a tea cup. Scottish Greens co-leader Gillian Mackay is part of a panel on independence at SNP conference. The bigger issue to get animated on is the absence of any serious work by the SNP on independence post-2014 & the leadership pretending otherwise.
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flossyflook.bsky.social @flossyflook.bsky.social · 20h
If Britain can rethink Brexit, why can't Scotland rethink independence? ✍️ First Minister of Scotland John Swinney says the logic is the same and should apply to Scotland deciding its constitutional future 👇
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Scotch Whisky Truths 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @specialscot.bsky.social · 7h
It's 2026. Why on EARTH doesn't Scotland have a Scotch Whisky Tourism Strategy and Budget? Irrespective of your views on Scottish Independence, any (and every) Government should be pushed, to supply this!
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AlbaDross @albadross.bsky.social · 7h
Badenoch has delivered liberation! Bring on #IndyRef2 Yet another excellent piece from that best @weegingerdug.bsky.social #YouYesYet? #IndependenceIsNormal
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Patrick_Woodside🏳️‍🌈 @pjwoodside.bsky.social · 5h
Multi-Millionaire Malcolm Offord of Reform UK won’t say anything about his time as a Scotland Office Minister & unelected Lord when boasting about how much the UK Treasury gets in tax from Scotch whisky Too wee too poor #IndependenceisNormal #FreeScotland www.facebook.com/share/v/1FNz...
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Patrick_Woodside🏳️‍🌈 @pjwoodside.bsky.social · 5h
Too wee too poor #IndependenceisNormal #FreeScotland www.facebook.com/share/v/19KJ...
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John Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Scottish Parliament has just overwhelmingly voted to support Scotland's future in the EU. Scotland is a proud European nation, and we want to be back. 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 16h
12 years ago the Conservatives promised Scotland ‘devo-max’. Now they show contempt for democracy and plan a powergrab of devolved powers. When we reject them at the ballot box, their answer isn't to improve their policies, it's to threaten the Parliament Scotland elected.
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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 10h
England-as-UK is broke. So much for the glib ‘Better Together’ lies on the UK’s economic strength and security. Waiting as a servant at WM’s table is no longer an option, will the SNP govt stand up and urgently deliver Scotland’s right to self determination and democracy? 👇
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 15h
Watch as MSPs applaud John Swinney after he tells Reform UK's leader in Scotland Malcolm Offord he is 'in no position' to lecture him on standing with communities The First Minister's remarks came as he hit out at Reform UK's Holyrood debate on full-face coverings 👇
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 16h
'Should we not be increasing the tax on the richest people like Malcolm Offord' A Debate Night audience member tore into Reform UK's Thomas Kerr over his party's call for tax cuts
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Verminous Scot @etkwebster.bsky.social · 10h
Never trust any unionists...ever, they're modus operandi is keeping the "union" as it is so they can continue raping and pillaging our country & dumping all their dangerous 💩 here. #ScottishIndependenceNow
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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 14h
Investigative journalists found that the Scottish Government was lobbied by industry to use the phrase ‘green data centre’. The government must ensure the views of communities are listened to, not just lobbyists. #FMQs
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 9h
A young audience member challenged Reform UK Scotland depute leader Thomas Kerr over wealth inequality during a heated exchange on Debate Night 👇
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'Can I finish my question?': Audience member clashes with Reform MSP in live debate
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 15h
Natalie Bennett, Green member of the House of Lords, pledges to use her position to keep speaking up for Scotland's right to self-determination
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Scottish Independence Podcasts @scottishindypod.bsky.social · 6h
A good message for Shouty Russell Findlay and the rest of the "Scottish" Tories currently on a mission to demonise and denigrate Scottish benefit claimants...
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 8h
EXCLUSIVE: An SNP councillor is looking to ban a new far right group dubbed 'Scotland’s version' of the Patriot Platform from holding military-style training sessions on Glasgow Green 🗣️ 'This is a rather pathetic uniformed attempt to transmit some kind of power'
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SNP councillor seeks ban on far right group's 'military-style' Glasgow Green training
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 8h
John Swinney drew applause from Labour MSPs after accusing the Scottish Reform leadership of seeking to divide communities with calls for a burqa ban The latest from FMQs 👇
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John Swinney draws cross-chamber applause after hitting back at burqa ban calls
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 19h
Some of 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 𝗦𝗰𝗼𝘁𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱'𝘀 current issue bank notes: featuring red squirrels, ospreys, otters and mackerel. www.natwestgroup.com/heritage/sub...
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Current issue banknotes | NatWest Group Heritage Hub
Details about the banknotes of the Royal Bank of Scotland in current circulation.
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 6h
Right wingers can't take criticism of their beliefs. Particularly when it's entirely justified and presented as rationally as this. Just watch Farage's Kerr squirm.
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Dick Winchester.. @dickwinchester.bsky.social · 11h
When exactly did governments hand over control of our economies to the bond market and when are they going to take it back? @richardjmurphy.bsky.social
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 12h
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Scotland’s extra-funded national winter health plan package is likely to be more co-ordinated and more effective
From New winter health plan to ease hospital pressures published today: Expanded Hospital at Home services, a public awareness campaign and targeted investment to reduce waiting lists are all part …
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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 12h
BBC audience member clashes with Thomas Kerr in live debate 👇 www.thenational.scot/news/2661917...
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'Can I finish my question?': Audience member clashes with Reform MSP in live debate
A YOUNG audience member challenged Reform UK Scotland depute leader Thomas Kerr over wealth inequality during a heated exchange on Debate Night
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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 11h
But not Scotland.
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 12h
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Scotland’s training support for parents is designed to prevent drop-out and to meet a child poverty target which England cares not to even have
From Training support for up to 2,400 parents published today: Up to 2,400 parents will be able to access training at colleges across Scotland to enter or progress in work. As part of the Scottish …
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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 12h
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 15h
For 14yrs, the Tories cratered our economy, added thousands to our cost of living, melted down public services and brexited us into decades of eye-watering expense and lost opportunity. That’s still their plan. With tax breaks for the super rich paid for by welfare cuts. So what TF is this headline?
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Thursday October 8 2026 | thetimes.com | No 75158

Tories will make you better off
Badenoch vows to scrap inheritance tax on family homes and abolish Labour's levy on properties worth more than £2m
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Laura Webster @lauraewebster.bsky.social · 12h
So there's this Tel Aviv Scrabble club which appears to be co-ordinating a flood of spurious complaints about The National's coverage of Gaza, resulting in literally hundreds of Ipso processes for us to go through. Let me explain ...
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 11h
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Scotland produces far more food per head than England
I know the AI images are childish but hey, let’s have a laugh as we go? From June Agricultural Census 2026 published today: Results from the June Agricultural Census 2026 were published today…
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Believe in Scotland @believeinscotland.bsky.social · 13h
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 It's Scotland's right to choose. ❌ Reject Labour's double standard - sign the petition: www.believeinscotland.org/indyref_peti...
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 15h
I have attended theatre ­programmes from Lisbon to Chicago, but Òran Mór's A play, A Pie and A Pint ranks among the very best play series I have found, Mark Brown writes ✍️ 👉 www.thenational.scot/cultur...
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Lorna MacGillivray @elemjay.bsky.social · 14h
Still YES then, YES now, AYE 'til I die. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 It's TIME for #ScottishIndependence.
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DrToastieTootsies @toastietootsies.bsky.social · 15h
The amount of dumping on Glasgow just now is wild. Lots of auld folk going “wisnae like that when I was young” 🙄total rose tinted halcyon days of youth rubbish. All they had to do was actually present real crime data. So fed up of the politically motivated Scotland 💩 narrative #ScottishIndependence
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James FBSI 🐸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺 (Fanatic) @toplandscaper.eurosky.social · 15h
Why are some SNP politicians and Indy supporters getting their Y-fronts in a twist over Humza Yousaf's comments on approaching the UN They have a Decolonisation Committee and are best placed to Backlash as Humza Yousaf suggests UN could 'break indyref2 impasse' www.thenational.scot/news/2661642...
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Backlash as Humza Yousaf suggests UN could 'break indyref2 impasse'
HUMZA Yousaf has sparked backlash from figures in the independence movement after suggesting the UN could help to broker a deal to break the “impasse” between Holyrood and Westminster.
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James FBSI 🐸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺 (Fanatic) @toplandscaper.eurosky.social · 16h
English banknotes are issued by the Bank of England Scottish banknotes are issued by Bank of Scotland, Royal Bank of Scotland and the Clydesdale Bank Try spending them south of the border though and you'll likely starve to death before finding a shop to spend them in
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George Futers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @wee-jordi.bsky.social · 18h
Oh no! I'm shocked!😱 A UK=GB=England newspaper can't tell the difference between each🤔🙄🤐
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ascottsview.bsky.social @ascottsview.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Looks like they’ve been collaborating with Lord Foulkes, doesn’t it? Tories, red and blue, what are they like?
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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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 👇 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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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Irish premier is facing further calls to help bring an end to the 'dangerous and lingering limbo' of the Drumcree dispute, as Sinn Féin’s leader called for direct intervention to the issue
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Pressure mounts on UK and Irish governments as Drumcree standoff enters day 11
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Police Scotland clear-up rate for ‘revenge porn’ is TEN times that in England & Wales
In the Guardian today, the above and: Police forces are routinely failing to investigate complaints about the circulation of image-based abuse, previously known as “revenge pornography”, according …
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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 07/10/2026
"Most benefits are being paid to people who work. The fact is that our employers don't pay wages that allow people to live a good quality of life any more." - @electlauramoodie.bsky.social
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Scotch Whisky Truths 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @specialscot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We need Scottish Independence now more than ever. Tell Sid.
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William Duguid @williamduguid1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
'Making capitalists poorer is never, ever allowed. Making workers poorer is the default policy. In fact, it is literally the only policy.' Robin McAlpine, via Common Weal
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Resist Inflation Madness! — Common Weal
You have been trained to believe that inflation must be controlled with rises in interest rates. Now take two seconds to stop and ask why and you’ll start seeing just how nuts a lot of economics is.
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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Things just get worse for Scotland under Westminster subjugation. Now the pension triple lock is being broken on what is already Europe’s lowest state pension.👇
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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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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mactakeshi.bsky.social @mactakeshi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
So Swinney was right! The Clarification: In a later Holyrood session, Swinney rephrased his attack, clarifying that the "loss" he referred to was a real-terms reduction compared to what pensioners would have received had the current triple lock policy been maintained.
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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Wake up Scotland 👇
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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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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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The 48 metre tall 1920s Barclay Curle Titan crane in the Whiteinch area of Glasgow against the sunset. #glasgow #sunset #crane #whiteinch #glasgowatnight #nightphotography
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Piers Morgan “Mohammed, do you condemn the Hamas attacks on October the 7th?” Mohammed Hijab “Yes, I do. Do you condemn Israel killing over 1000 kids?” Piers Morgan “I believe Israel has a right to defend themselves” That answer should be on the tombstone of his career.
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