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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
The current media fury, painting the SNP as the guilty party instead of the truth that it's the victim of a crime is about 3 things 1. They never got charges laid against Sturgeon 2. They didn't succeed in detroying the SNP & getting Sarwar as FM. 3. They didn't prevent an indy majority in Holyrood
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Unionism is done in Scotland. It has nothing to offer the people and no story to tell Today, the Scottish Parliament will vote in support of independence. Why? Because unionism has failed. It has run out of road. It has no imagination. It offers no hope. My column in @heraldscotland.bsky.social
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'That independence vote in parliament? It’s the unionists' fault'
As the Scottish Parliament votes on independence, our Writer at Large, Neil Mackay., says that political momentum is now with the Yes movement and…
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Ballot Box Scotland @ballotbox.scot · 08/05/2026
I believe the Real Greens have just been IGV'd out of a second seat in Mid Scotland and Fife. Huge questions for Electoral Commission to answer after two elections of this.
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Ross Greer (he/him) @ross-greer.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Reform are accusing me & the @scottishgreens.org of being a 'danger to national security'. That's the same Reform whose former Welsh leader is doing 10yrs in prison for taking Russian bribes to parrot their propaganda. I'm proud to have been sanctioned for the Kremlin while others shilled for it.
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Two news stories today which tell the tale of what Britain has become: first, the collapse of health and life expectancy in the UK; and second, government MPs going on the attack for being called out for voting on legislation whilst they’re drunk They down champagne, while the poor die young
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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Anas Sarwar, the Billy No Mates of Scottish politics www.thenational.scot/news/2605414...
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Anas Sarwar forced to 'quote own election agent' in 'sad and desperate' leaflet
Anas Sarwar has been mocked over a 'sad and desperate' election leaflet which features a glowing endorsement from the person legally responsible for…
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tryingnottotroll.bsky.social @tryingnottotroll.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
It cant help but feel personal to be honest, when my wife for example is sent a leaflet to her from Reform begging for her vote so they can deport her 😑
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tryingnottotroll.bsky.social @tryingnottotroll.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
He may as well be offering everyone a free unicorn. A competent Sarwar is a far more mythical beast.
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Anas Sarwar has been mocked over a 'sad and desperate' election leaflet which features a glowing endorsement from the person legally responsible for his campaign
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Anas Sarwar forced to 'quote own election agent' in 'sad and desperate' leaflet
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
‘A biased, London-centric branch office’: Scotland’s top media academic on BBC Scotland Professor Catherine Happer leads Glasgow University’s acclaimed Media Group. I talk to her about government interference in reporting and why the BBC is haemorrhaging public trust In @heraldscotland.bsky.social
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Glasgow professor warns BBC Scotland crisis could lead to broadcaster disappearing
Professor Catherine Happer leads Glasgow University’s acclaimed Media Group. She talks to our Writer at Large about why the national broadcaster…
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
A poll has found a 'miserable' level of support for nuclear power in Scotland while more than half believe the main focus should be on renewables
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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Let's be very clear to Scotland in Union & These Islands. If you support Brexit, wrap yourself in a Union flag & promote policies that make life harder for immigrants, you are a nasty & reactionary British nationalist. You don't get a free pass on nationalism by opposing Scottish independence.
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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Malcolm Offord has claimed Anas Sarwar “bounced up to him” in Paisley Town Hall at the start of the election campaign and said “we need to work together, Reform and Labour, to remove the SNP”. Sarwar hasn't denied the claim. Labour is so right wing it's willing to cooperate with the far right.
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tryingnottotroll.bsky.social @tryingnottotroll.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Feel like theres a piece to be written on lessons for the yes movement on Orbans defeat. How to overcome media control etc
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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
My latest blog piece, Labour's Scottish manifesto launch was not the eye-catching game changer Sarwar needed. This isn't a manifesto for government, it's a damage limitation exercise which sneaks in backdoor privatisation in NHS Scotland. weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/04/13/l...
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Labour’s Scottish manifesto launch, not a campaign, a damage limitation exercise
On Monday, Anas Sarwar launches Labour’s manifesto for the Holyrood election and attempts to reboot his party’s faltering campaign, a campaign which was holed below the waterline yester…
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tryingnottotroll.bsky.social @tryingnottotroll.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Democracy is so 20th century
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“Rebellious Scots” 😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @markrich68.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Currently having a ding-dong with the bbc, who are repeatedly knocking back my FOI’s to ascertain how many FOI requests they are hitting the Scottish Gov with, as opposed to the uk Gov I suspect this comparison of bbc & STV FOI requests to Scottish Gov will shed some light on the bbc targeting 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺😎
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John Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Scotland is an energy superpower, yet we pay the highest fuel prices in the UK. This is a scandal of Westminster’s making - and while other countries act to support people, the UK government does nothing. It’s time to take control of our energy with independence.
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Independent Voices @indyvoices.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Parents! Make sure your young ones get registered and get out to vote. Don’t let the old folks decide their future.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Please read this, understand what the govt is doing & take action. Labour's immigration proposals swap integration for segregation, introduce a Dubai-style Kafala system of coercive employer control & drive low-income families into poverty. They're an abomination. open.substack.com/pub/wewanted...
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tryingnottotroll.bsky.social @tryingnottotroll.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Your giving him little credit. Sarwar is more than capable of tanking his own approval ratings
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Independent Voices @indyvoices.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Net favourability has declined over the past 6 months for all party leaders, but Sweet Jesus! look at those Starmer figures! He's overtaken Farage in unpopularity. He's also dragged poor Branch official Sarwar down with him. Sarwar is now more unpopular than the (not exactly stellar) Kemi Badenoch.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Utterly the wrong call. Step by step, this embroils us in an immoral, illegal, illogical war.
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Will Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
BREAKING - Big Story A memo from Keir Starmer to all members of the UK Gov Cabinet has been leaked. 1/5
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Independent Voices @indyvoices.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Starmer’s last throw of the dice is undermining devolution. Ignoring devolved administrations and slapping a union flag on everything! At least it’s no longer a secret how much UK Labour despises us! What does Sarwar think? 😂
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Indy lass @pixie11.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
This is the direct danger were all facing 😡 Starmer has been accused of a "direct assault" on devolution a leaked memo revealed him suggesting the UK Government should be prepared to go against the wishes of devolved nations when making decisions about them. www.thenational.scot
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Keir Starmer accused of 'direct assault' on devolution in leaked memo
KEIR Starmer has been accused of a "direct assault" on devolution after a leaked memo revealed him suggesting the UK Government should be…
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Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Some questions needing answered: Does Anas Sarwar support the undermining of Devolution? Which areas of devolved power is the Prime Minister aiming to bypass, and under what constitutional authority?https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/03/10/labour-is-eating-itself/
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
NEW: Scottish Labour have been urged to come clean on 'creeping' and 'secret' plans to privatise Scotland's NHS following an intervention from a think tank founded by Tony Blair 🔗 www.thenational.scot/news/2...
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tryingnottotroll.bsky.social @tryingnottotroll.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
What a fraction of our own money back? 🤣😂🤣🤡
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tryingnottotroll.bsky.social @tryingnottotroll.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
😂🤣😂 20 years ago grandpa
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tryingnottotroll.bsky.social @tryingnottotroll.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
A labour first minister is never going to happen
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tryingnottotroll.bsky.social @tryingnottotroll.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
On Spiked Guns and Foxes Shot bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/02/24/s...
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tryingnottotroll.bsky.social @tryingnottotroll.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
And yet no one knew a thing
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tryingnottotroll.bsky.social @tryingnottotroll.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
0.3 of a percentage maybe 😆
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Evergreen since 1980
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Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
We live in a country with a one-dimensional media class that all says the same thing and all agrees about everything | Sarwar's Nothingburger open.substack.com/pub/fiftysix...
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Sarwar's Nothingburger
Much debate has raged about Anas Sarwar’s tactic of demanding the resignation of his colleague and leader, Keir Starmer, a week ago.
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
BBC Scotland is utterly abysmal. So bad it’s almost comic. It needs dismantled and rebuilt from the ground up
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James Walker @jameslwalker.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
EXCLUSIVE: A bunker at a Highland nuclear site quietly leaked radioactive water for over a year before the alarm was raised – and officials have now ordered a hunt for similar hidden structures that may be leaking too, the Sunday National can reveal 👇 www.thenational.scot/news/2585447...
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Major leak at Highland nuclear site triggers hunt for mystery underground bunkers
A 1960s bunker at Scotland’s Dounreay nuclear site quietly leaked radioactive water for at least a year before the alarm was raised – and…
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Andrew Mackenzie @ahmackenzie.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Less than six hours between these posts. Excellent journalism, Paul. Thank you.
Posts from the Daily Record's Paul Hutcheon on X:

#1: 'That's the Scottish Labour "branch office" line dead and buried.'

#2: 'From the silence/public statements of Scottish Labour MPs, it's clear they see Keir Starmer, not Anas Sarwar, as their leader.'
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Independent Voices @indyvoices.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
ANAS SARWAR (2024) ‘Vote UK Labour for change delivered by Keir Starmer’ ANAS SARWAR (2026) ‘Vote UK Labour for change not delivered by Keir Starmer but by an unidentified beige leader who has ideologically identical policies to Starmer’
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Indy lass @pixie11.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
This fucker needs locking up. He is intent on destroying this country. The NHS is at serious peril with this piece of shit in the frame. And who's going to fill the roles that our emigrants leave behind Are the flagpole climbers intelligent enough to go for training? www.bbc.co.uk
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Reform plans to scrap indefinite leave to remain for migrants
The party says scrapping the scheme and restricting migrant access to benefits will save hundreds of billions of pounds.
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tryingnottotroll.bsky.social @tryingnottotroll.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
It's also in contrast to the labour party.
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Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
It's not possible to take Gordon Browns re-writing of history seriously | Project Fear, Buyer’s Remorse bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/02/01/p...
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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
My latest blog piece. BBC Scotland is in full-on Labour propaganda mode with its Labour inspired framing of the QEUH scandal & a pro-Labour piece on nuclear energy in Scotland on the BBC Scotland Politics Show last Wednesday. weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/01/31/b...
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BBC Scotland’s look at nuclear through Labour Rose tinted glasses
The bias of the BBC, particularly BBC Scotland, against the SNP Scottish Government in particular and the wider Scottish independence movement in general is well documented by pro-independence camp…
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tryingnottotroll.bsky.social @tryingnottotroll.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Fucking wank stain so he is
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
“With student loans the UK government has become a loanshark. Trapping poorly paid graduates in decades of “debt” that they can realistically never repay. If it were a commercial deal the government would be trying to regulate the company out of business.” Lewis Goodall
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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
BBC Politics Scotland is currently broadcasting a look at nuclear energy which is a blatant puff piece for Labour's pro-nuclear policy, talking about the 'brain drain' from Scotland due to the Scottish Government's opposition to nuclear energy.
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tryingnottotroll.bsky.social @tryingnottotroll.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
How will they get into the lords without Westminster patronage?
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