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I grow stuff, like doing a bit of photography and dabble in politics. Of course, Scotland should have its independence.
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TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

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Starmer’s welfare cuts will push hundreds of thousands into poverty and Sarwar’s MSPs are 🤐🤐🤐 So what is the point of Scottish Labour..?

submitted 15 days ago • 9 comments

Never forget…

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

Last year we showed how more than 60% of the donations accepted by Streeting were from companies and individuals with links to private health. He has since bagged a further £58,000 from private health care interests. goodlawproject.org/health-secre...

submitted 32 days ago • 66 comments

Peston: ‘Can you answer that question today?’ Darren Jones: ‘No’ The Chief Secretary to the Treasury explains why the government failed to measure how many people will get back into work from its welfare reforms #Peston

submitted 43 days ago • 18 comments

Tufton Street think tanks after Labour's Spring Statement:

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Just a thought: Some of the UK's billionaires have a net worth equivalent to the average annual earnings of an entire city. Yet Rachel Reeves, a so-called Labour politician, prefers to cut the income of the most vulnerable in society.

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✍️ Right-wing push to dismantle the EU: Heritage Foundation’s private workshop After seizing control of the US government, the Heritage Foundation turns its attention to the EU By Ann Moody @annaubert.bsky.social

submitted 44 days ago • 8 comments

The SNP has just won two council seats from Labour in Glasgow. This week, Labour cut support for the most vulnerable - and boasted they were "doing things the Tories only ever talked about". The people of Glasgow have had their say.

submitted 49 days ago • 7 comments

"This is a military strategy aiming to ethnically cleanse what remains of Palestine." UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese speaks to @krishgm.bsky.social after Israel's latest attacks on the Gaza Strip. Read and watch here:

submitted 51 days ago • 5 comments

Labour right now:

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Austerity with a red rosette is not the “change” people voted for.

submitted 52 days ago • 55 comments

Just a reminder there's no shortage of money in the UK, just a shocking shortage of political will to go out and tax it. While more people risk being locked into hardship/deeper poverty, the ballooning bank balances of the UK’s richest millionaires and billionaires get off virtually scot-free.

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

It would surely be easier to hike the tax rate for multimillionaires - the ones with the money, than squeeze the life out of those with only pennies to spare. The UK has one of the lowest high-rate tax bands in Europe. You have to wonder if Labour have been bought by the ultra(right) wealthy.

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

Since Labour took power, I've been expecting, on a daily basis, an announcement about how Labour will increase the tax on the enormously wealthy. With such wealth, it would not affect their living standards in any way... yet, it never comes.

submitted 57 days ago • 4 comments

I cannot wait for Trump to set foot in Scotland. I’ll happily get arrested protesting the vile bastard

submitted 70 days ago • 14 comments