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Sam

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Retired happily and enjoying life in Scotland - hoping for an independent Scotland in my lifetime

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2h
The richest man owns X. The second richest man owns The Washington Post. The third and fifth richest men control Google. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And the eighth richest man now owns both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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Paramount takes over Warner Bros in $110bn Hollywood merger
The merger of two of Hollywood's biggest movie studios comes after months of legal disputes and concern over competition
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Prestwick Branch SNP @prestwickbranchsnp.bsky.social · 6h
Oh Dear , Oh so sad , Oh never mind , oh who cares? On line is still too much for BBC Scotland - undermining #Scotland for generations. #areyouyesyet #yes #snp #indy #indyref
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 10h
via CND
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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Scotland is too small.Too poor. Too dependent. Apparently we couldn't possibly survive without the Union. Aye Munro decided to investigate. He found 5.5 million people, oil, gas, whisky, food, fisheries, universities, renewables and rather a lot of water.👇 thehighlandtimes.com/pride-in-the...
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Pride (In The Name of The Union) - The Highland Times
Aye Munro investigates why some Scots are convinced Scotland could never survive alone and somehow ends up crossing the Irish Sea with his bus pass.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 13h
Voters loathed the Tory party when they booted them out in 2024.They really needed to shake off their disgrace with humility and better ideas. They haven’t. They’ve doubled down. More Brexit, more austerity, more anti-immigration ugliness, more tedious arrogance… and no good reason to vote for them.
Party seems to have learnt nothing from 2024 defeat
John Oxley

The Conservative Party is keen to show it is now ready to return to government, two and a half years after a
historic defeat.Their self-soothing explanation posits that defeat came from not being able to do what they wanted 

No such pivot is happening at the current conference. The Tories have come to Birmingham calling for a return to orthodoxy, with similar lines about cutting benefits and regulation. Even so, they seem trapped by the same contradictions
- pledging to cut benefits, but not the winter fuel payments and triple lock on pensions that go to their voters.
There is no "hug-a-hoodie" moment in Birmingham. The Conservative Party is not indicating that it has changed or seeking to broaden its appeal. It is doing the opposite: it is a party returning to its core, restating all the old ideas voters have rejected but louder.
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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
How cruel to admit this and still not give them safe routes when you have the power to do so. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Nearly all women arriving on small boats have been raped, says Shabana Mahmood
Home secretary warns people traffickers will exploit asylum seekers because they decide who comes to the UK
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The head of Ness District Salmon Fishery Board has warned of damage 'beyond comprehension' should a hydro scheme on Loch Ness be granted planning permission Plans for the scheme, which would use water from Loch Ness, are a cause of great concern for the board 👉 www.thenational.scot/news/2...
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Felix Sylvestris @felixsylvestris.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Good Morning Scotland. The best way to eradicate child poverty in Scotland is to create an independent Scottish state. Allowing Westminster to take our resources will leave Scotland continually broke.
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 05/10/2026
Reasons not to vote Tory no.64
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Shameful: Britain is no longer worthy of helping the American government commit the most serious war crimes. How can we prove to (checks notes) uh, Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth that we can be trusted to (squints at notes) assist in the commission of crimes against humanity
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"By pulling its bombers from RAF Fairford, our most powerful ally has shown it doesn't trust our intelligence services to deter Iran."
David Blair examines what Britain needs to do to rebuild America's trust in its intelligence services following the US withdrawal
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John Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The UK's state pension is not generous compared to others in Europe. Older people relying on the state pension have to get by on barely over £1000 a month. Andy Burnham’s plans to end the triple lock are unacceptable, morally wrong and the SNP will stand against them.
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Scotland's No1 Comrade @scotlandscomrade.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Diesel in the UK reached record levels this week. Now, It begs the question, how much would Scotland’s last refinery be making just now? Note- Price is from March 2024 following an increase in the price of fuels in 2023. And yet Westminster continuously denies us the right make our own choices!!!
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The SNP have demanded the UK Government urgently deliver £200 million of promised investment for Grangemouth after almost 400 more jobs were put at risk
thenational.scot
SNP demand promised £200m for Grangemouth as hundreds of jobs at risk
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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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The SNP @snp.org · 02/10/2026
Andy Burnham's latest plan? Bring in Free Personal Care in England, and make all UK pensioners pay for it - even though Scots already have Free Personal Care. www.snp.org/the-great-sc...
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The Great Scottish Pensions Robbery — Scottish National Party
The Westminster Prime Minister’s latest grand scheme is to bring in Free Personal Care south of the border, funded entirely by scrapping the state pension triple lock – which covers the whole UK.
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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Shortbreadfairy©️ @shortbreadfairy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Feck off and keep fecking off until you get in the sea🙄 This is a land grab by a Company. We're being bought up like a patchwork quilt so you don't notice.
Screenshot from The National
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John M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @drjohnm61.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Trump threatens export ban of diesel www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... In other news, Grangemouth Refinery produced 36,000 barrels per day (2.4 million tonnes per year) of diesel before it ceased crude oil processing in April 2025. 12% of UK consumption Not rescued
bbc.co.uk
US pressures Europe over diesel reserves as Trump threatens export ban
President Donald Trump has threatened to ban diesel exports in a bid to ease prices in the US ahead of the November elections.
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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We already have free social care in Scotland.
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Verminous Scot @etkwebster.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
SNP need to do something about these monstrosities now not in 6mths or a year, right now.🤬
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Prestwick Branch SNP @prestwickbranchsnp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What is being delivered for Scotland ? Just listened to AB’s speech and don’t see any big changes for Scotland. A commitment to prove JS wrong , a commitment to ignore a call for independence. Promises made for changes in England on water , education and health . #yes #snp #indy #areyouyesyet
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Jim Russell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. @jazzyrussell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Scottish Labour MPs cheering a PM who says he's going to weaken Scottish pensions to help fund social care in England is just bizarre. This will hang around Scottish Labour necks until the next general election. Meanwhile Scottish energy bills are going to skyrocket." MSM_MONITOR
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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Nigel Farage has deleted this post But not before it's been shared widely showing him to be either a serial liar or delusional and either way, unfit for public office
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“Rebellious Scots” 😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @markrich68.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Scottish pensioners to be penalised, in order to fund the English National Care Service 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Are you YES yet ? 🇪🇺
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Andy Burnham announces end of triple-lock on the state pension from 2030. It will be replaced by double-lock, slower growth in state pension. Full state pension is already less than 50%of the minimum wage. Poverty awaits future retirees. £500bn of taxes not collected by HMRC since 2010.
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John Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In Scotland, we provide free personal care for older people without punishing pensioners. Andy Burnham removing the triple lock would simply repeat the mistakes of Keir Starmer. The blame for the UK’s financial mess lies with successive Westminster governments, not pensioners.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Liar. Small boat crossings peaked under Johnson in 2022 reaching 46,000 in 2022. In current year they are 18,565 and falling. Also prior to Boris Johnson's Brexit there were none.
It's a disaster, and it can all be traced to
Labour ideology. Burnham has no mandate
from the people. He has no real ideas, and
no plan,

Johnson on X
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Lawyer Adam Houda @lawyeradamhouda.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
His terrorist regime has spent 3 years committing genocide but ....... #IsraeliNazis #GenocideinPalestine #FreePalestine #IsraelTerroristState #auspol
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Dav Raye @davraye.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
That's how this big government bureaucracy is going to keep millions of eligible voters from voting, nearly all because they have foreign or black sounding names. By the time they can prove they are citizens the election will be over. This is all very well planned, no accidents in US politics.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
In 2021, income tax personal allowance was frozen at £12,570. If aligned with inflation, it would now be £16,070. A minimum wage earner in England will pay extra £980 in income tax & NIC in 2026-27. Govt can easily increase personal allowance by £3,000, worth £600 to basic rate taxpayer.
leftfootforward.org
This is how the Chancellor can increase the personal allowance and lift millions out of hardship
Sustained economic growth can’t be achieved without a major boost to the purchasing power of the bottom 50% of the population
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🧵 As front-page headlines go, this has to be one of the most misleading I've seen in a long time It's an out-and-out lie But notice the trick they use to get away with it...👀 *They're* not lying - they're just quoting someone else who is👍🏻 In this case, the leader of the opposition🙄 1/33
Daily Express headline:

"More Freedoms Handed to New Arrivals than British Citizens"

Above an image of Kemi Badenoch

All with a Monk Debunked stamp on top
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Takeourblueback @takeourblueback.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Just saying: Grangemouth Refinery spent decades keeping Scotland moving. Diesel was 24% of its output, supplying 65% of Scottish fuel. Then April 2025 hit. The UK Labour Government sat on its hands and let Scotland’s only crude refinery die. A catastrophic failure of energy security.
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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Are you not sick to the back teeth of these freeloading hypocritical parasites.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Brexit and Trump have combined to be an absolute disaster for UK food and drink exports. Deficit worst in a quarter of a century and sales have plummeted ever since we left the single market
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Brexit and Donald Trump’s tariffs push UK’s food and drink trade deficit to £21bn
In the first half of 2026, the sector’s export volumes fell 11.7% to hit their third-lowest level on record
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
No, BBC, he has not been arrested over the video of dinghy slashing. He’s been arrested over the dinghy slashing. Words matter.
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Gàidheal Gèidh @grumps2772.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social The UK’s energy market is broken, and #Scotland is paying the price. Despite producing massive amounts of cheap renewable energy, households are being financially penalised by an outdated national grid system. #EnergyCrisis #Ofgem #GreenEnergy @andyburnham.bsky.social
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Claire #FBPE ☘️ 🍉 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🐝 🦮🇮🇪🇧🇪 💙💚 @fbpech.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... No. Everyone doesn’t know this, because it isn’t true.
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Britain needs cash and everyone knows we should break the pensions triple lock. Where is the courage? | Gaby Hinsliff
The issue cannot be avoided any longer. Andy Burnham and his chancellor must face the fear of a pensioner backlash, and find a fair solution, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 23/09/2026
The Lib Dems and Tories unite in objecting to 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland's right to decide its own future. Farage's Reform MSPs exclude themselves from even voting. www.thenational.scot/news/2657325...
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See how MSPs voted on motion affirming Scotland’s 'right to decide future'
AN OVERWHELMING number of MSPs have backed a motion affirming that Scotland has a right to decide its constitutional future ...
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Jim Russell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. @jazzyrussell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Scotland has a right to decide its constitutional future, but these MSP's think you shouldn't. Remember their names!
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I suspect in a month or so time, @privateeyenews.bsky.social will reveal £millions worth of Sunderland Council contracts ending up with firms owned by BFF of Reform UK Councillors "Reform UK in Sunderland: concerns about a change in planning decision making" northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politic...
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Reform UK in Sunderland: concerns about a change in planning decision making
A number of decisions may now be decided behind closed doors and by unelected bureaucrats instead of in public at a planning committee
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 23/09/2026
I feel obliged to post this every year until the BBC and the rest of the British media accurately report on this matter... - drug related deaths are recorded quite differently in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland, with many not being recorded as such in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England. - drugs policy is a 🇬🇧 Westminster power.
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🇨🇦Tadhg Dalaigh @tadhgdalaigh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Israel was repeatedly called out at the UN for the genocide in Gaza. They’ve lost the narrative that protected them for so long. Netanyahu is now openly called a pathological liar and war criminal. Americans are also recognizing their pedophile compromised President is destroying the U.S.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We're in "Stop! Or I'll say 'Stop!' again!" territory
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Michael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
they should study him in a lab. I don’t think I could write this badly on purpose. still, glad this has higher billing than coverage of last night’s far right escalation
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TommyBoy @tampatom69.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Glad to see the news media standing in unison against Trump and for the First Amendment. But they have a lot more work to do…
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patthepublican2 @patthepublican2.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Israel has been found guilty today in Geneva of war crimes including extermination, forcible transfer, starvation, torture and false imprisonment, sexual violence including rape... and many more If it was any other country than Israel all of Europe would boycott them. Instead there will be silence
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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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WillieMillersMoustache @williemillersm1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Operation: Still Telling People We're Not Involved Are We?
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