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The rolling average Scottish @yougov.co.uk samples now show @thesnp.bsky.social on 37%. This is the highest share since December 2023. The 18pt lead over UK Labour is the biggest since Nicola Sturgeon resigned. UK Labour tussling with Reform for 2nd place. Tories and LibDems are scrapping for 4th.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

The energy price cap has risen by £281 since Labour took office promising to reduce bills by £300. Even if they reduced bills by £300 immediately, that's only a reduction of £19 annually compared to July 2024. If you're a pensioner who lost the winter fuel payment, you'd still be £181 worse off.

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

By contrast, working class immigrants and their working class families are clearly not worthy of this respect. Hence this gaslighting that the wide-ranging hostility they have faced for decades from many sectors of British society is no more than the "concerns" of primarily working class people.

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

A former BBC journalist told Declassified that at the BBC -- “The use of the word genocide is effectively banned, and any contributor who uses this word is immediately shut down.” www.declassifieduk.org/battle-for-t...

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

Shameful indeed, but how much of this is really new? The US has consistently treated the sovereignty, rights and lives of various peoples in the South as irrelevant and disposable. The Europeans colluded in most of that. Now they're shocked to find themselves subjected to the same treatment.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

No Government has got off to a worse start than this Labour Government. incomprehensible policy choices, betrayals and economic stagnation. It is thoroughly miserable just now for their always compliant Scottish MPs. Here's how it has all gone wrong. petewishart.com/how-soul-cru...

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

My latest blog post, the nastification of British politics weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2025/02/14/t...

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

My latest blog piece, Labour's Grangemouth betrayal. weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2025/02/10/n...

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

Watching Xitter and Meta throttle this video is objectively hilarious. People of BlueSky - please do your bit to share it!

submitted 18 days ago • 6 comments

🛑 LATEST: What Is Ethnic Cleansing? 👇🏻 Let #BrokenNews explain all in their latest report. Please like and share this message. youtu.be/XFG4IE6XsYQ?...

submitted 20 days ago • 18 comments

Two cheeks. Same Westminster arse.

submitted 23 days ago • 4 comments

This is a brilliant and rather terrifying analysis of Starmer and the Labour right by the great @owenjones.bsky.social www.owenjones.news/p/keir-starm...

submitted 24 days ago • 165 comments

"‘Scots’ newspaper tries to suggest Scots nationalised railway provider is to blame for pay-outs for service disruption caused by UK Government-owned Network Rail" tinyurl.com/network-rail...

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Scotrail is the new Calmac for the miserablist anti-independence Scottish media, determined to 'prove' we couldn't possibly cope as an independent nation. Never mind that Scotrail performs better than any other rail company in the UK. talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/01/13/b...

submitted 32 days ago • 10 comments

Never forget the heroic sacrifices made by Fleet St lobby journalists at the Battle of Agincourt, to keep France English.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

My latest blog piece - Scotland has no future in Farage’s English nationalist UK weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2025/01/26/s...

submitted 33 days ago • 9 comments

The catastrophe of Starmerism is paving the way for Nigel Farage. New post 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/the-starme...

submitted 34 days ago • 48 comments

In his haste to be vile to trans people, the scientifically illiterate Trump seems to have declared all Americans are female. That means he's the first woman president. Does that make him a DEI hire? futurism.com/neoscope/tru...

submitted 36 days ago • 2 comments

Scottish News you won’t hear: “A Scottish Labour-run council underspent its housing budget by £9m despite blaming a lack of SNP Government funding for an ‛emergency’” tinyurl.com/underspent-h...

submitted 36 days ago • 2 comments

Show me someone pretending that Prince Harry hasn't kicked Rupert Murdoch's arse from here to eternity & I'll show you a Murdoch lackey/Trump apologist/bare-faced liar. Some people may even fit all three categories!

submitted 37 days ago • 150 comments

This is highly incriminating testimony, and not only for Netanyahu.

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

BREAKING: Ceasefire between Israel and Hamas agreed. A ceasefire that could have been agreed many months ago, saving tens of thousands of lives, but the Democrats and Genocide Joe chose not to apply any pressure on Israel.

submitted 43 days ago • 8 comments

The nuclear weapons Scots and Scotland never wanted. Foisted on us by Westminster abs the USAs agreements. How absurd to have so little control of our nation. #YouYesNow #IndyClan? It's TIME for #ScottishIndependence 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

submitted 44 days ago • 10 comments

A couple of years ago I posted this graphic based on a talk by Tim Rideout. 'These Islands' was so incensed they got The Ferret to rebut it, insisting that the Scottish NI contribution fell £700m short of the sum necessary to pay pensions after independence. Where was that extra to come from? 1/3

submitted 48 days ago • 12 comments

To shut down or unjustifiably curtail efforts to raise the alarm about a genocide is effectively to collude with that genocide (morally if not legally speaking). This is particularly true in states like the US, UK and Germany: key external facilitators of the genocide.

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Yemen is a desperately poor, war-ravaged and import-dependent country. The vast majority of essential imports enter via Hudayda. The humanitarian consequences for choking off these imports are clearly predictable, so those consequences must be a deliberate goal of the Israeli military.

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

War is peace. Black is white. Up is down

submitted 51 days ago • 128 comments

Greenland (pop 57,000) is to hold a referendum on independence from Denmark, and Iceland (pop 394,000) is to hold a referendum on joining the EU. When is Westminster going to tell them that ‛now is not the time’? #Indyclan #IndependenceIsNormal

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

BBC Scotland's Journalist Impersonator & Political Editor plunged to new depths of linguistic & mental contortions to turn Anas Sarwars Scottish Labour (Optional Identity Title of a Regional Accounting Unit of the UK Labour Party) budget abstention into a positive. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

This is at least as inflammatory as "Rivers of Blood". And as detached from reality as anything you'll find in the grimmest corners of the far right. The riots of last summer hasn't given these politicians so much as the slightest pause.

submitted 54 days ago • 25 comments

When Israel imposed its total siege on Gaza in Oct2023, Thornberry appeared on BBC as Shadow Attorney General and refused to acknowledge the plain fact that this was a war crime. In doing so, she gave political cover to that crime You'd think the Guardian would at least raise that in this interview

submitted 60 days ago • 1 comment

As Brian says, don’t 🤣

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

After the fall of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, Israel has been encroaching on its neighbour’s territory. But why is Israel now attacking Syria? 🔗: aje.io/pmw5nk

submitted 79 days ago • 34 comments

Having welcomed the fall of the "barbaric regime" in Syria, Keir Starmer is now visiting Saudi Arabia and the UAE to deepen UK ties with regimes whose violent, repressive nature resembles that of the Al-Assad dictatorship. 🧵 www.reuters.com/world/uk/uks...

submitted 81 days ago • 5 comments

Former NATO Soldier's EMERGENCY WARNING @joejglenton.bsky.social

submitted 86 days ago • 3 comments

In July, I FOI'd the Home Office for the full breakdown of spending on the Rwanda scheme I was refused because the government planned to publish the data in future, and today is the day. These numbers are in millions www.gov.uk/government/p...