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Vivienjay

@vivienjay.bsky.social
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Live in Edinburgh as an active English supporter of independence and EU membership for Scotland. Love birds and nature generally. Play viola badly and piano too seldom.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 38m
Please watch this crucial discussion about the scale of Earth's energy imbalance. The numbers are shocking. Thanks. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tCR...
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12 Hiroshima Bombs Every Second
YouTube video by Facing Future
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28m
@davetuller1.bsky.social, a great champion of patients, interviewed me about the massive, ongoing scandal of the neglect, abuse and mistreatment of people with ME/CFS www.youtube.com/watch?v=Maae...
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Interview with George Monbiot about Guardian column on ME/CFS
YouTube video by David M Tuller
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 2h
What if fiscal headroom doesn't exist? youtu.be/Xp-pnyJU_n4?... In the run-up to the Budget, there is going to be a lot of talk about fiscal headroom, but the reality is that this is just a figment of a Chancellor's imagination, just as fiscal rules are.
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What if fiscal headroom doesn't exist?
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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Left Of Center Orange Hater @leftocorangehater.bsky.social · 4h
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Kevin Schofield @kevinschofied.bsky.social · 1h
If fixing social care, changing the voting system and getting closer to the EU is so urgent, why is Andy Burnham content to wait until 2029 for a general election? Something doesn't add up. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/andy-b...
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Why Andy Burnham's Labour Conference Pledges Mean Those Election Rumours Won’t Go Away
This week’s Commons People examines how likely it is that the PM will go to the country early.
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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 2h
Simon Clarke MP was born on 28 September 1984. That's all you need to know. #r4today
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 14h
No wonder Tom voted for Brexit, he thinks Britain is 3,500 miles west of Europe.
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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 2h
He has basically copied his new policies from Scotland and made them look like his own the mans just another fraud, instead of being honest and saying these are good policies in use in Scotland and we should adopt them in England, they can’t have Scotland looking more progressive than England.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 13h
"I should just point out that we don't have any Lib Dems on the panel as they only have 71 MPs, but Suella Braverman is here because Reform have 8 MPs"
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 20h
🌊 The concerning thing isn’t just that global SST is at a record-breaking +0.75°C above the 1991–2020 baseline. It’s the trajectory 🤯
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
President Macron, "Welcome back" "If, indeed, the British want to return, and if the Prime Minister is moving in that direction, I think that is very good news both for his country and for Europeans."
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The SNP @snp.org · 14h
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 We’ve got the best cost of living support package in the UK in Scotland.
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 21h
Pathetic and Insanity 😡 I've been there.
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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 19h
Farage says Brexit was a disaster because of Boris Johnson’s deal? Please MEDIA point out that at the time Farage supported his Brexit deal.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 16h
apnews.com/article/rene... Good For Them !......
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Renee Good's family sues US government and immigration officials over her killing in Minneapolis
Renee Good’s family has sued the U.S. government and several immigration officials, alleging wrongful death, conspiracy and other violations in the 37-year-old woman’s killing by an immigration office...
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 15h
Rich privately educated prick who wasn’t even born until 1984 recasts era of rioting, poverty and mass unemployment as Britain’s golden age. Thatcher was the worst thing that ever happened to Britain
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Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I bet she didn’t do maths A level
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Eric Clive @ericclive.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Good to see pressure building for a UK shift towards the EU. Important for Scotland to be strongly represented in any talks. Any reset agreement should e.g. provide in principle for the new arrangements to continue re Scotland in the period after leaving UK but before joining EU.
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Eric Clive @ericclive.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
AB did mention Scotland once, but not by name, when he observed that there already was free personal care elsewhere in the UK.
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Eric Clive @ericclive.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I wonder if "the different options ... for Britain’s long-term relationship with our European partners” will include the different parts of Britain being independent members in their own right if they so choose. Much to be said for that. No mention of N Ireland. Its options might also be included.
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Eric Clive @ericclive.bsky.social · 18h
I didn't want to comment on Andy Burnham's speech until I had read it in full. I now have. It is 90% about England - housing, water, social care, education. On the GB union he says it gave us trade unions, the cooperative movement, the NHS and a country that stood up to fascism. The union? Really?
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Eric Clive @ericclive.bsky.social · 14h
Another thing about Andy Burnham's speech seen from Scotland. He said re Brexit that Britain "has changed dramatically since 2016". Dead right. And it has changed even more dramatically since 2014. So no more of this "once in a generation" nonsense please.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 14h
Only Reform will take £5 million bribes, accept illegal foreign donations, let convicted fraudsters bankroll them, buy houses in their girlfriend's name to avoid tax, help crypto billionaires get richer and do fuck all for ordinary people. 😊
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Dutchy Patrick @dutchiepatrick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
No cheaters? No rapists? No alcoholics? No traitors? No sexual predators? No liars?
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Lysander @lysander1945.bsky.social · 23h
Allister Heath is a fascist psychopath, just like his former brother in law Matthew Elliott who is one of the two real criminals behind Brexit
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Peter Cook: Brexorcist in Chief: Reboot Britain @brexitrage.bsky.social · 22h
Just Rejoin starting NOW www.amazon.co.uk/Reboot-Brita...
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Reboot Britain : Brexit RIP: A better Britain in a better Europe for a better World
Reboot Britain : Brexit RIP: A better Britain in a better Europe for a better World eBook : Cook, Peter, Clutterbuck, Charlie, Hindley, Michael, Knott, Terence, Ward, Julie, Nowak, Wendy, Forrester, Ian , Cawthorne, Paul, Ekins-Daukes, Adrian, Sampson, Mark: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I'm also puzzled how Heath - who was raised in an international family, benefited from international life, love, & schooling, & currently resides in France - arrived at & still churns out these nationalist, isolationist beliefs. How does that go together?
Wikipedia: Early life and education

The son of Alexander and Sylviane Heath, Allister Heath was born in Mulhouse in Alsace, France, to a part-British family.

Heath was initially educated at the College Émile Zola, Kingersheim, followed by the Lycée Lambert, in Mulhouse.

He lived there until the age of 17, when he moved to the United Kingdom to study economics at the London School of Economics (1995-1998), followed by a post-graduate MPhil in the subject at Hertford College, Oxford.
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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I'm ever so puzzled how - according to Allister Heath - leaving the EU was neither extreme nor mad, but rejoining it is. #Brexit
Screensjot from today's opinion piece in The Telegraph:

ALLISTER HEATH

Burnham's real plan for Britain is mad, nasty, and shockingly extreme
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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 30/09/2026
When operated at full capacity this data centre would use the energy equivalent to over two million homes. Its emissions would exceed the legal limit in Dumfries and Galloway by almost double. This application must be rejected.
STV News. Plans submitted for 'world's largest' data centre at former nuclear power station. The Scottish Greens have warned that the proposal would put a massive straight on Scotland's energy grid.
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What measles did to one family
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 01/10/2026
Darlington Council votes down call for NAO probe into TVCA and STDC Darlington councillors have rejected a Green Party motion calling on the government to enable a National Audit Office investigation into public spending at TVCA, Teesside Freeport and STDC northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politic...
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Darlington Council votes down call for NAO probe into TVCA and STDC
Darlington councillors have rejected a Green Party motion calling on the government to enable a National Audit Office investigation into public spending connected to TVCA, Teesside Freeport and STDC
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
South West Water pleaded guilty to sewage dumping, fined £8m, a decade after the events. Yet govt introduced more deregulation. England's water industry controlled by organisations with criminal convictions. None has licence revoked. No exec prosecuted. Customers fleeced.
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South West Water fined almost £8m for sewage spills
South West Water previously entered guilty pleas to pollution offences spanning six years.
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The SNP @snp.org · 23h
🚨 Polls are open in the Wick and East Caithness by-election - they’ll close at 10pm. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿If you want an SNP voice that’ll stand up for your area, you have to vote for it. 🗳️ Get out and vote John Glen SNP !
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 23h
This is great news. Sunny California is legalising plug-in solar (like GB has). There were some fears Gov Gavin Newsom would veto the bipartisan law. The state has 39m+ residents and is one of the largest economies in the world. Another loss for Trump and his fossil fuel pals.
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California Officially Legalizes Balcony Solar, Opening the Market to the New Technology | KQED
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation to make it simpler for Californians to install plug-in solar panels. Models that meet state standards are expected to be on sale in mid-2027.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We're repeatedly told that asylum seekers pose a threat to the good people of our country... Reading about the threatening and violent treatment of elderly and open minded locals in Crowborough I get the impression that the real threat comes from closer to home. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
On Facebook and other platforms, people
who are known to support the asylum
seekers have been threatened with acid
attacks, petrol bombs and rape. The dossier.
which has been seen by the Guardian, also
claims that several local businesses have
been threatened by far-right agitators, along
with a church where some asylum seekers
worship. One man was punched in the throat
after he held up a "Love Thy Neighbour"
sign, while an elderly couple were falsely
accused of supporting sex offenders. In yet
another case, a 92-year-old church volunteer
was reportedly woken at 3am for two nights
in a row by a man standing outside her
home, shining a torch through her window
and shouting abuse
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23h
Far from taking pride in it, the men who killed this magnificent animal should be deeply ashamed. That swift, sleek, wonderful monster, flashing with holographic colours, reduced to a dead black lump. www.devonlive.com/news/devon-n...
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Monster 282kg tuna landed in Brixham is 'heaviest ever' catch
Giant £4,000 Bluefin tuna caught off Devon coast could be heading to Michelin-starred restaurants
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Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.eurosky.social · 23h
The tyranny of Trump.
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
She's a 94 year old Jewish human rights lawyer. She's been arrested under terrorism legislation for opposing genocide. The least we can do is to listen.
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Sue @hulatt47.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Burnham may appear to have more emotional intelligence than Starmer but if he can’t lift the ridiculous proscription of Palestine Action then he’s obviously compromised and shouldn’t be PM
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Twelve years after the independence referendum it's extraordinary there's still just one newspaper supporting and exploring the political future half of Scotland wants to see, writes Lesley Riddoch ✍️
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Lesley Riddoch on why you should subscribe to The National for £20 a year
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Super-rich UK energy/food magnates’ wealth skyrockets amid global crises Working-class face soaring prices, worsening climate impacts. Billionaires owning food/energy companies profit from hardship The same class funds political parties, uses tax havens, preaches low wages to workers.
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Super-rich UK energy and food magnates’ wealth skyrockets amid global crises
Analysis has shown the costs of daily essentials soaring in recent years, thanks in part to climate shocks, wars and geopolitical tensions
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Swiss glaciers suffer 'disastrous' year of ice loss, threatening water supplies "…in its simplest form, what we see right now is that we took an ice cube out of the fridge and it's just melting in front of our eyes." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
What is the triple lock, how does it affect Scotland, and why is Andy Burnham using it to fund an English care service? Hannah Emma Shedden explains 👇
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How could Scottish pensioners could be affected by Burnham's triple lock shake-up?
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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Deutsche Umwelthilfe @umwelthilfe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#Deutschlandticket-Preis 2027 steigt auf rund 67 Euro: Mit nur einem Teil der Kosten für #Tankrabatt hätte sich das verhindern lassen. Wir fordern Ende der fehlgeleiteten Verkehrspolitik: 29-Euro-Ticket als Entlastung für ein Jahr, danach max. 49 Euro! www.duh.de/presse/press...
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DUH kritisiert: Teureres Deutschlandticket, aber Milliarden-Tankrabatt
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Richest 1% of Britons owns more wealth than the bottom 70% of the population combined. 50 richest families hold more wealth than the poorest half of the population combined. The concentration of wealth in fewer hands has not provided the necessary economic stimulus. Need redistribution.
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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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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 30/09/2026
🚨Britain must rejoin the EU. 👏 It is the only option on the table that makes sense, and the most popular option amongst the public. 📈 If Burnham wants growth in every postcode - there is only one way to do it.
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Move to rejoin EU among options for UK, says Andy Burnham
The prime minister tells the BBC the current Brexit settlement has caused "more harm than good".
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Does Andy Burnham have no idea what to do? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/09... Why is Andy Burnham only offering action after the next election, which he knows he will lose? Is it because he does not actually know what to do?
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Has Andy Burnham no idea what to do?
Andy Burnham indisputably proved that he has mastered the art of making a party conference speech yesterday. It has taken him a very long time to do so, but he’s got there. That was the good news of t...
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