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My latest blog piece. Starmer's failure is Scotland's opportunity for independence weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2025/04/22/s...

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Link to The Great Trump Uncertainty - my latest on Substack open.substack.com/pub/gavinesl...

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Here are a few of the grievances listed in the Declaration of Independence. These were the justification for the revolution and the break with Britain.

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The government has published no evidence to suggest that cutting disability benefits will get people back to work. The evidence it has published found that these cuts would plunge hundreds of thousands of people into poverty. I’m joining @trusselluk.bsky.social in calling on the gov’t to rethink

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The scale of horror that Israel is inflicting must finally serve as a wake-up call to the UK government who continue to support the genoicde in Gaza. Palestine needs peace. 🇵🇸

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The U.S. will not take control of Greenland, island's new prime minister said in response to Trump's latest assertion that he wants to annex the territory. "Let me be clear: The United States will not get it. We do not belong to anyone else. We decide our own future” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/u...

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“At the moment, this will be the first Labour Government likely to oversee a significant rise in the number of children in poverty” Save the children UK This must be stopped

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The Chancellor made her Spring Statement today Winners ✅: airports, arms dealers and the rich Losers ❌: the climate, the world’s poorest and disabled people The @scottishgreens.org think that we should tax the rich, not take money from disabled people

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Ministers have pledged to “tear down” barriers to trade with the European Union after new figures showed Brexit has cost UK business a staggering £37bn a year www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

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Another timely & important analysis from @99organisation.bsky.social “the answer is not to increase taxes on the bottom 99% -- but to focus on the extremely wealthy, who pay a lower percentage rate of tax than almost all of the rest of us”

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The switch to 20mph roads in Wales meant: 🟢 100 fewer dead or seriously injured 🟢 26% fewer injured 🟢 The lowest 3 month casualty figure since records began 46 years ago That's in just the first year. Real lives saved, real families spared a lifetime of pain and hardship.

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This country is awash with money. The very rich are rich beyond imagination. So when Starmer wants to stay within his arbitrary fiscal rules, who does he decide to take money from? The very rich? No, from people with disabilities who depend on benefits for the bare minimum of a decent life.

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We’re out and about across the UK today to tell MPs and constituents that our country is missing out on £460m a week without a wealth tax. Rachel Reeves doesn’t need to make cuts, instead she can tax the richest people like us to build a better Britain. #TaxOurWealth

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“After just a few weeks in the White House, the self-appointed peace-giver has stoked war, accelerated the nuclear arms race and alienated US allies” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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View from the Wallace Monument today. Glorious.

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Michael Sheen backs calls for Fair Banking Act 👏 nation.cymru/news/michael...

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Sanewashing Donald and the Technate of America bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/03/08/s...

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Trump never had a peace plan for Ukraine. He had a plan for Ukraine's surrender, with a colonial resource grab. As Zelenskyy rightly refused it, or to cooperate in Trump's TV spectacular, the US has now cut Ukraine off. That's what blackmail looks like. That's what the world is up against.

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This petition had 35,000 signatories less than 24 hours ago. Now over 100,000. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...

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One of my tree friends, The Birnam Sycamore, Perthshire 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. Just two of the millions of living beings in #Scotland who do not welcome the prospect of the orange one visiting our left-leaning country. Scots stand for all that is decent and humane. The Ents say they will #resist and so shall I.

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The disgraceful behaviour in the White House is not about Trump or Vance. It is about the complicity of the entire political class of the United States and the American media. It is about the very soul of America. They either stand up for democracy or they stand for tyranny. The world is watching.

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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen 👏

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Petteri Orpo Prime minister of Finland 👏

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Kemi Badenoch says the UK will probably have to leave the European Convention on Human Rights. If your policies conflict with decades old international standards on human rights law, it's your party and its policies which need to change, not human rights law.

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"A Canada-Scotland partnership would not be about nostalgia – it would be about redefining the Commonwealth as a modern force in world affairs." #Canada🇨🇦 #Scotland🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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A former Soviet intelligence officer has claimed Donald Trump was recruited by the KGB in 1987 and given the codename "Krasnov" Who would have guessed www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news...

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Donald Trump again mimics Putin and calls for an election in Ukraine - falsely claiming Zelensky’s approval rating was “at 4%” Recent polling in fact shows that Zelensky’s approval rating is better than Trumps Lets make sure everyone knows the truth youtu.be/QDagM0WWEP4?...

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