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If only the Scottish Parliament had the same powers & financial controls as Westminster instead of a FIXED BUDGET mostly decided by Westminster🤔 Constituency SNP & #ListVoteSSP #ScottishIndependence YouTube: youtube.com/@skyecho7?feature=shared

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The Courier UK @thecourier.co.uk · 09/10/2026
Police say they have found Rodel Nicoll.
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Woman, 47, missing from Stirling traced
Police say they have found Rodel Nicoll.
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Laura Webster @lauraewebster.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I made a little film about my time at the English Greens conference - exploring whether the party could be a useful ally to the Scottish independence cause, but also giving some on-the-ground insight into the Zionism is racism debate. youtu.be/ygK_0-qGTQ4?...
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What REALLY happened at the English Green Party Conference
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SkyEcho7🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🦉 @skyecho7.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
#MISSING👇🏻
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"Banks often have limited transparency into their clients’ broader activities and true risk profiles - Prime brokerage balances increased about 40% over the previous year alone" The #FinancialSector - a threat to the security if us all. Again www.ft.com/content/d313...
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How a trillion-dollar hedge fund borrowing spree became Wall Street’s cash cow
Banks’ trading businesses are booming, but post-crisis regulation means it is no longer them placing the bets
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Ross McKenzie @rosssmckenzie.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
@edinburghgreens.bsky.social members will be voting soon to select candidates for the 2027 council elections. I'm hoping to be selected to run in Sighthill/Gorgie. Please see the link below for more information about me and my approach to representation. cllrrossmckenzie.wordpress.com
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Neoliberalism is failing, but what is it? This is a new version of our infographic on neoliberalism. AI drew the image. I wrote the text.
An infographic on neoliberalism
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The Scottish Parliament @parliament.scot · 08/10/2026
Committees meeting today include: 🟣 Climate Action at 9:15am 🟣 Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments at 9:15am 🟣 Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice at 9:30am 🟣 Public Service Reform at 9:30am 🟣 Public Petitions at 10am Watch Live on SPTV ow.ly/BavK50ZVpTe
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The SNP @snp.org · 08/10/2026
🚨 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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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Two Holyrood committees are preparing to 'dig into the details' behind planned hyperscale data centres
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Holyrood launches probe into 20-plus AI data centres planned across Scotland
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Tories will face an uphill battle to win the public round to their plans to tear up Scotland’s devolution settlement, pollsters have predicted Read John Curtice's full verdict on the policy proposal here 👇
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John Curtice gives verdict on Tory plans to roll back devolution
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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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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Residents from some of Northern Ireland's most notorious parade flashpoints have issued a warning over the Drumcree dispute 🚨 One campaigner says the current stand-off is now 'bigger than the Garvaghy Road' Here's the latest 👇
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Fresh fears as Drumcree dispute spreads beyond Garvaghy Road
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Ireland is set to increase its state pension by €10 a week, taking annual payments to the equivalent of £13,654.98 🇮🇪 The SNP say the move is a 'wake-up call' and shows what's possible when independent countries have full control over their own finances and welfare system 👇
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Ireland’s pension boost shows what independent Scotland could do, say SNP
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Stuart McMillan MSP for Inverclyde @stu-mcmillan-snp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I'm supporting Challenge Poverty Week, which this year is focusing on the key role of advice & support services. Advice services are essential as they offer vital support to some of the most vulnerable people in society, helping them access their right to society security & maximise their income.
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Chas Booth (he/him) @chasbooth.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Delighted to announce I've submitted my nomination to be reselected as one of the Green councillors for #Leith. You can read my candidate statement here: chasbooth1.wordpress.com/2026/10/07/c...
Photo of Chas Booth with the text "I'm asking for the first preference vote of Edinburgh Green Party members in the 2027 selection process in Leith ward so I can continue to be one of the Green councillors for Leith."
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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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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If the UK can reconsider its relationship with the EU, it cannot keep insisting that Scotland’s relationship with the UK is settled for a 'generation', Paul Kavanagh writes ✍️ 👉 www.thenational.scot/politi...
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Thousands of active UK companies may have fraudulent directors. Anyone can form a company in the UK. Companies need one natural person as a director who can be non-UK resident. Too many small companies are fronts for crimes I have long called for companies to have one UK resident director.
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UK companies face scrutiny as identity checks expose possible fraudulent directors
New UK identity rules reveal possible fraudulent company directors as overdue filings surge, raising concerns about the accuracy of corporate records.
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Martyn Day @martyndaysnp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Yesterday afternoon I asked the Cabinet Secretary @stephenflynnsnp on the £200 million that the UK Government promised for Grangemouth almost two years ago and which, to date, has still not materialised. #Grangemouth #Jobs #ScottishParliament #MartynDayMSP
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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 07/10/2026
📣 Members of the Scottish Greens Tickets for our Autumn conference in Inverness are now on sale. Limited tickets are available so get yours today! 📍Inverness 📆24th & 25th October 🎟️ members.greens.scot/3135-tickets...
Conference tickets no on sale. Inverness 24 and 25th October
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
UK govt plans £1bn energy bills help for poorer households. How about cutting energy profit margins, 100% windfall tax on excess profits before turning to the public purse. UK energy sector is mostly foreign-owned. Dividends paid without any UK tax deduction. End this perk, raise billions.
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Chancellor plans major intervention to help poorer UK households with rising energy bills
Exclusive: Officials working on further radical changes that would change how much energy companies could charge customers
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The Scottish Parliament @parliament.scot · 07/10/2026
Committees meeting today include: 🟣 Rural Affairs at 8:15am 🟣 Transport at 9am 🟣 Criminal Justice at 9:15am 🟣 Finance and Public Audit at 9:30am 🟣 Health, Care and Sport at 9:30am Watch live on SPTV ow.ly/qA8Y50ZUuV9
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Scottish Socialist Party @thessp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
BURNHAM: WHAT TO EXPECT, AND WHAT NOT TO EXPECT 🔊 Richie Venton speaks to Ungagged about Burnham's conference speech, and why what he said - and didn't say - is so important. Don't put your faith in Burnham: join an actual socialist party, the SSP! #Burnham #Conference #Podcast #Socialist #Speech
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Richie Venton: Was Burnham's Speech ACTUALLY Socialist? - Ungagged!
Richie Venton, National Trade Union Organizer for the Scottish Socialist Party, analyzes Andy Burnham’s Labour government and incoming Chancellor John Healey’s fiscal plans. For quick access to new po...
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Gillian Mackay - Scottish Greens @gillianmackaygreen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Today I asked the Government for assurances for workers after Syngenta announced last week that 377 jobs in Grangemouth are at risk. This comes just a little over a year after the firm received more than £2 million in Scottish Enterprise funding.
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Absolutely yes, we're ready to be in government. The @greenparty.org.uk has a vision of a different kind of society, where resources are shared fairly and life is better for everyone.
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 06/10/2026
"The pattern is clear: Vote Green and watch Labour move" @zackpolanski.bsky.social explains why a Green vote is a powerful vote.
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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 06/10/2026
The 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.
Carbon Brief. Wind and solar save UK from gas imports worth £5.9bn during Hormuz crisis. Wind and solar have generated a record 41% share of the UK’s electricity needs in 2026 to date, compared with 25% from gas.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Drax’s planned datacentre to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood to produce its electricity, nearly double the CO2 emissions of all flights from London Gatwick airport. Drax, a highly profitable company gets subsidies to burn wood and produce electricity How many lives will it ruin?
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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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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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SkyEcho7🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🦉 @skyecho7.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🏆🎯🌟🎯🔊 Marathon analogy is perfect '...when two groups misunderstand each other, it matters enormously which one owns the means of being heard.' 💗96💗 💚72💚 'Nobody's envious of your house. It's got 14 bathrooms & you've only got one bum. That's not a home. THAT'S A SPHINCTER DISORDER WITH TILING.'😊
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Richard Brooks @rbrooks45.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The scandal that doesn’t go away. Another financial year will pass without Fujitsu putting its hand in its very deep pockets over the Post Office Horizon IT scandal. Full story in @privateeyenews.bsky.social - issue on sale for one more day.
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“Rebellious Scots” 😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @markrich68.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Every time unionists make the “once in a generation” BS statement about Indyref, they should immediately be hit with LINE 1 of the BS “VOW” signed by all the unionist leaders: “Power lies with the Scottish people and we believe it is for the Scottish people to decide how Scotland is governed” 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺😎
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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Scotland's No1 Comrade @scotlandscomrade.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Totally believable.
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The £20 for one year of The National offer ends midnight tonight! 🚨 Don't miss out 👉 www.thenational.scot/subscribe
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Today's front page of The National: Call for clarity on Grangemouth cash, Nicola Sturgeon slams 'contradictory' Labour positions on Brexit and independence, and Holocaust survivor hails Green vote defining Zionism as racism
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Molly Scott Cato @greenpartymolly.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Andrew Griffith explicitly says he is not interested in whether people pay tax or keep environmental law! 'Simplification in process' means freedom to flout laws in practice I might be very agitated about this if I thought there was any point in taking the Conservative Party seriously
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Overcrowding in UK A&E depts and treating patients in corridors linked to hundreds of deaths. Neoliberals urge cuts in public spending, silence on human consequences. Delayed care leads to premature deaths People sacrificed to gods of fiscal policies.
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Overcrowding in A&E linked to 'hundreds of deaths a week', study finds
A review of more than 19,000 adult patients found that for every 10% increase in emergency department occupancy, the chance of dying in the following 28 days increased by 1%.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Energy suppliers urge UK govt to help households struggling with energy bills. Silence on cutting profit margins, windfall taxes on excessive profits. Household energy debt heading to £7bn. 120,000 a year die in fuel poverty. We can't afford privatisation and resulting profiteering.
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Suppliers pile pressure on government over energy bills
Immediate action is needed to help households struggling with bills this winter, says trade body Energy UK.
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SkyEcho7🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🦉 @skyecho7.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🏆 1:15 Why Scotland NEEDS to be independent, have its OWN Central Bank & join EFTA EEA NOT the EU 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✊🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Tories to hand free childcare to those earning more than £100,000, would cost £700m to the public purse. Previously, they pledged cuts to universal credit, housing benefit, support for the long term unemployed. Continuation of the Tory war on less well-off.
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Tories would expand free childcare to high earners, Badenoch says
Kemi Badenoch says those earning more than £100,000 should not be discouraged from working more
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
UK chancellor to meet bank bosses for a pre-budget summit to discuss possible tax raid. Banks profiteering but resent windfall tax. Any chance of ending bank subsidies? Any chance of meeting pensioners, disabled, sick, poor to hear their concerns?
news.sky.com
Healey summons UK bank chiefs to pre-budget summit next week
The chancellor, John Healey, has called in the CEOs of lenders including Barclays, Lloyds and NatWest for talks ahead of his crucial budget statement.
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 04/10/2026
End the genocide. Drop the charges. De-proscribe Palestine Action.
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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The ‘Zionism is Racism’ motion has passed at Green Party conference. While there are many parts of the motion I can agree with, there are some that I could not, so I did not vote for it. Here is a joint statement from the Green Party leadership team and all of us Green MPs:
Joint statement: 

As Greens, we will always uphold universal human rights.
We will never tolerate any form of discrimination or harassment.
We will continue to stand in opposition to genocide, ethnic cleansing, apartheid and the illegal occupation.
We will continue to call out the heinous crimes of the Netanyahu government.
And we will continue to work to ensure that the Green Party is an anti-racist party in every way. 
We know there is no conflict between supporting the rights of Palestinians and the rights of Jewish people.

Zack Polanski
Rachel Milward
Mothin Ali
Siân Berry MP
Ellie Chowns MP
Carla Denyer MP
Adrian Ramsay MP
Hannah Spencer MP
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
How to change the world: what 24 years of campaigning taught us youtu.be/_z_szI9vEsk?...
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How to change the world: what 24 years of campaigning taught us
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AdyBee 🐝 @adybee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Everything is not fine …. until it is.
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