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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scots pay: ✅ Less income tax ✅ Less Council tax ✅ Less Water Bills Than they would in England - in return for a higher level of public services. The UK parties want to bring Scotland in line regardless of the cost. We can’t let that happen.👇 www.snp.org/scottish-tax...

submitted 70 days ago • 10 comments

Child poverty has fallen in Scotland - whilst rising sharply in the UK. Absolute child poverty in Scotland fell from 23% to 17% - the lowest figure in 30 years. SNP Scottish Government policies are working to deliver on our top priority of eradicating child poverty.

submitted 74 days ago • 10 comments

There is an alternative to Government welfare cuts - a 2% tax on wealth. There is no shortage of money here, we just need a fairer approach to tax - take more from the few not the many.

submitted 95 days ago • 176 comments

Wtf is wrong with Donald J Trump?! Hinting about expelling Ukrainian refugees?! America has reached a new unforeseen low.

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 97 days ago • 4 comments

Rachel Maddow: youtu.be/iSW8ezOmYHs?...

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

Speaking for the vast majority 🤣🤣

submitted 100 days ago • 11 comments

Does anyone else think Trump/Vance vs Zelenskyy was a bit suss? Engineered? Did Trump's henchmen get no luck in Saudi, so they were looking for the fall guy? The 🍊💩 can turn round and say "it was all Zelenskyy's fault, I tried to stop the war, but he was a ****" (substitute bad word of your choice)

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

You can send donations yourself direct to ukraine here: war.ukraine.ua/donate/ #SlavaUkraïni

submitted 102 days ago • 29 comments

Unbelievable. Donald Trump has been invited to a state visit to the UK. We should not be rolling out the red carpet to celebrate this man. Agree? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

I just signed a petition: Investigate X and Elon Musk for election interference. Sign here: leadnow.ca/campaigns/el...

submitted 115 days ago • 0 comments

Things are dire for Labour when even BBC Scotland is attacking Sarwar and the Labour party for their inaction and lies regarding the closure of Grangemouth. For Labour in Scotland, that's like being savaged by your pet lamb.

submitted 121 days ago • 5 comments

Anas Sarwar, head of Labour's Scotland branch office, being asked by STV "So, did you lie during the election... you said you would save the jobs at Grangemouth". #LabourLies youtu.be/VLWMk6axo4Y

submitted 121 days ago • 9 comments

"New nuclear power stations should be built in Scotland to help solve the UK’s energy crisis and bring household bills down, Sir Keir Starmer has said. Scotland does not want them. Scotland does not need them.

submitted 122 days ago • 8 comments

Scotland produces more than enough green energy, but the UK government will spend £22 billion on carbon capture in England (generating jobs in England) to mitigate English gas generated electricity UK electricity bills will go up to pay for this English vanity project www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 124 days ago • 2 comments

As BBC Scotland 'reports' on this issue today, the news you won't hear - SNP legislation slashes second home ownership and empty properties in just one year talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/01/16/n...

submitted 128 days ago • 3 comments

How can anyone, even a Lab voter, think this logical let alone fair?

submitted 128 days ago • 3 comments

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submitted 128 days ago • 3 comments

"You've come live on the radio...when I ask what you think you've won, you say 'the right to have three-pin plugs' - that we already have?" Five years on from Brexit, @mrjamesob.bsky.social takes his listeners back to Robert, a 2018 caller who tried to explain why he voted to leave...

submitted 130 days ago • 14 comments

One reason we are the best educated our government invests in our kids. #AreYouYesYet #independence #Scotland #YES

submitted 136 days ago • 5 comments

The @thesnp.bsky.social Scottish government folks🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👇

submitted 137 days ago • 7 comments

#IndependenceIsNormal 💙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

submitted 144 days ago • 1 comment

Scotland has: ✅ The best paid NHS staff in the UK. ✅ The highest number of qualified nurses & midwives in the UK. ✅ The highest number of GPs in the UK. We’ll always stand up for Scotland’s NHS👇

submitted 145 days ago • 7 comments

here's today's post: "elderly golfer’s brain goes fuckity-bye in batshit press conference" — just what we need, a war with Europe. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —

submitted 153 days ago • 578 comments

‘Nothing to talk about’: Panama president dismisses Trump’s threats over canal

submitted 166 days ago • 27 comments

My piece for @scotnational.bsky.social today, although I think we all already know the answer. It's a rule of thumb that if a newspaper headline is a question, the answer is, "No". www.thenational.scot/politics/247...

submitted 179 days ago • 3 comments

Erdogan is saying just now that the future of Syria is in the hands of the Syrian people. Interesting. Surely he doesn't mean "Democracy"?!

submitted 185 days ago • 0 comments

Private healthcare is lobbying Wes Streeting to sign a new PFI deal with them. Time is running out to ask Wes Streeting to say NO. Please add your name to this petition now. #NoNewPFI weownit.org.uk/act-now/tell...

submitted 185 days ago • 0 comments

Worried about #ElonMusk buying his way into UK politics? Think we need to take money out of our democracy? Help #DemocracyForSale's people-powered plan to #SafeguardDemocracy by taking this short survey: democracyforsale.co.uk/safeguard Please share. Thanks!

submitted 188 days ago • 126 comments

Google DeepMind predicts weather more accurately than leading system

submitted 188 days ago • 5 comments