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BP is abandoning green energy and is to massively increase oil production, increasing the threat to life on Earth as a result, all in the name of making short-term profits to keep hedge funds happy. This is madness that threatens us all. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/02...

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The SNP will always back Scotland’s frontline services, like the NHS. The Tories won’t.

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Please read and share. There is no paywall on this.

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What a great story the SNP Scottish Government has - delivering 100% of equivalent gross electricity consumption from renewable sources 👋 (This doesn't mean Scotland is fully dependent on renewables, but rather that they form the key part of a wider, balanced electricity mix.)

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51 years ago, the UK prime minister received a report on the astonishing wealth of Scotland's oil. It was hushed up for decades in a bid to suppress support for independence. Today, as energy prices soar under UKLabour despite our nation's renewable riches, The National publishes it in full.

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It takes some political incompetence to announce a defence spending plan that reduces our security, undermines our soft power, does not deliver for the UK economy, and puts the cost on the wrong people, but Starmer’s managed it. youtu.be/oMQ9sXCIJGM?...

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Watch The Mafia State by @ChrisLynnHedges 12 minutes to understand why oligarchy is the enemy of social democracy and what can be done to stop it. Everything mentioned here can be applied to the UK under the neoliberal duopoly. m.youtube.com/watch?v=4lnY...

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🔍 New figures show the Scottish economy outperformed the UK economy last year. 📈 Under John Swinney, the SNP Government is promoting growth, and investment in the industries of the future. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland could be more prosperous as an independent nation at the heart of Europe.

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www.thenational.scot/politics/241...

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talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/02/26/w...

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More of this sort of thing! 👍#ScottishIndependence

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Reform with 5 MP's gets more TV and Newspaper coverage than the Greens, SNP, Independents and Lib Dems combined. This is because Reform is owned by the billionaires who own the Media.

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UK must to do the same. If they don’t then we know who is the priority……

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Macron made Trump “the first president in history who had to be interrupted and corrected by an ally when the president of the United States was lying and lying about that ally” www.huffpost.com/entry/lawren...

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Energy price cap… electricity prices going up due to the cost of gas. Scotland uses almost exclusively renewables for electricity generation, so when your electricity prices increase, it’s not because the cost of the wind has increased. It’s Englands use of gas for electricity generation.

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UK energy is massively over-priced to guarantee that energy companies make profits and households remain impoverished. It's time the government changed the rules that are so heavily rigged against the interests of people in the UK. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/02...

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Kremlin-linked Russians will be barred from entering the UK, the government announces In other news - if a you're a senior Israeli military figure involved in war crimes in Palestine, you can enter Britain and be a given 'special immunity' to do so www.gov.uk/government/n...

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Private Sector to get the £200mn, Starmer is a rats bastard.

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This is how our government has been corrupted: 1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office. 2) Elected officials rewrite the rules in the donors' favor. 3) Donors make a huge profit. 4) Repeat. For the sake of democracy, we must get Big Money out of politics.

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'Independence is Scotland’s only chance of escaping the baleful influence of the far-right. The world has become a very dark and scary place, but Scotland could remain a beacon of hope and compassion.' @weegingerdug.bsky.social weegingerdug.wordpre...

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Starmer's visiting Trump this week. There's no sign that he has any comprehension of the new rules by which Trump is playing. Those rules may be vile, but Trump's dictating the terms right now. Starmer has only one way of winning, and that is by condemning him www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/02...

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The wages of the richest 1% have skyrocketed 182% since 1979. Meanwhile, the wages of the bottom 90% have seen just 44% growth. Trickle down economics was always a hoax.

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Well this would be a good idea Mr Starmer !!! The tax cheats and evaders outstrip benefits ‘cheats’ many many times over. If you want some credibility target the right people!

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"Trump’s administration will be incompetent and reckless but individuals will be targeted, institutions will cower, organisations will crumble. Fast." @carolecadwalla.bsky.social via @theguardian.com

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Labour’s 1.5m homes will be dominated by private equity firms charging huge rents. Profiteering, high debt, substandard service, tax dodges are private equity norm. Let councils, not-for-profit organizations build homes. Don't deregulate. Build homes, not slums.

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"America’s growing darkness: a timely warning to the UK Living amidst chaos in the US, I fear a creeping regime reminiscent of 1930s Germany. Project 2025 echoes a history threatening democracy"

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America’s growing darkness: a timely warning to the UK “Living amidst chaos in the US, I fear a creeping regime reminiscent of 1930s Germany. Project 2025 echoes a history threatening democracy” eastangliabylines.co.uk/democracy/am...

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Britain must choose between an unstable alliance with Trump or aligning with a resilient, unified Europe eastangliabylines.co.uk/foreign-poli...

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Crypto facilitates crime. That's the signal to hold on to. Everything else is noise.

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Finland gave every homeless person a house and within 6 months 85% had a job and were financially independent. Less crime, less hospital visits, less suffering and even including the cost of the house, LESS COST than the UK/USA method of abandoning them on the streets.

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Most of UK’s big build-to-rent developers owned by foreign private equity firms. They don't build for families or the poor. Profiteering, debt, tax dodges are the game. They expect govt contracts and land to boost business. Councils can build cheaper, eliminate profiteering.

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Absolute fact.

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Keir Starmer is on course to facilitate the far-right winning not only the next election but he is actively executing far-right policies from the neoliberal playbook. Thread www.theguardian.com/global/comme...

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Paul Hutcheon @ The Daily Record, take a bow, Malcolm X predicted you and yours. May shame, one day, lead to the destruction of the duplicity contained in your unionist rag.

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Here’s reality folks

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If you want to know why progressive values are under attack look to the spending of the billionaires and our weak or malignant press. Those they are using their wealth to target, those who never had power and now have even less, are not the people to blame.

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vm.tiktok.com/ZNd136u8c/ all crimes that are carried out by the occupier should be in The Hague, yet @labouruk.bsky.social continue to justify this. Why is the West Bank and Gaza fair game to you? How much as labour ministers received from Israel to turn Blind eye? The world sees what you’re doing

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The government is looking at another benefit crackdown when it should, instead, be looking at corporate fraud and its own failure to pay all the benefits owing to people. Why has it got its focus so wrong? Does it just hate people on benefits? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/02...

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#YouYesYet 💙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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The planned closure of Grangemouth refinery (financially encouraged by the UK Government) is a direct betrayal not just to the Grangemouth workers but it is also a betrayal to Scotland’s energy security. 👇🏻

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Scrap austerity – tax the super-rich instead Britain can’t rebuild with more cuts – a wealth tax on the richest is the fair alternative to funding public services and growth yorkshirebylines.co.uk/business/eco...

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talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/02/19/n...

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1. A few years ago, people like me were widely attacked in the media for “declinism”. How could we fail to see that we were heading into a capitalist utopia, in which everything would keep getting better? This is a thread about what we could see that our critics could not. 🧵

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Scotland needs to ridicule this Nazi. As well as being a racist, he's now going all 'aryan'. His Manifesto is the same as the 1970s National Front, so there's no surprise. Some people still haven't woken up as to how dangerous this English Nationalist is. No need to educate unenlightened Scots.

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'My core values, mainly Scottish independence and wellbeing economics, stand in stark contrast to the proto-fascist wave that is consuming America and is swiftly infecting the western world.' Gordon Macintyre-Kemp, via @scotnational.bsky.social www.thenational.scot...

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Westminster sees Scotland as a cash cow & has done for decades...

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The Real BBC ‘Impartiality Crisis’ Is Its Constant Platforming of Hard Right Tufton Street Think Tanks – Byline Times

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Scrap austerity – tax the super-rich instead. Britain can’t rebuild with more cuts – a wealth tax on the richest is the fair alternative to funding public services and growth.

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