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vivienjay.bsky.social
Live in Edinburgh as an active English supporter of independence and EU membership for Scotland. Love birds and nature generally. Play viola badly and piano too seldom.
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I wonder if Anas Sarwar is a sleekit snake or just totally out if the loop of his overlords. #LabourLies #ScottishIndependence

Its a crazy world where some folk care more about a 1% Trans folk using what loos than if we go to war, get bankrupt or lose NHS to private care or kids starving. ffs get real folks!! #ScottishIndependenceASAP

BREAKING: Green MSP Maggie Chapman has survived a Tory bid to oust her from a key Holyrood committee SNP members supported Chapman after she attacked the Supreme Court over its gender ruling

I wrote about the Supreme Court decision, and how the anti-trans movement represents a microcosm of how the UK is run by a media-political elite via captured institutions and constant undemocratic stitch-ups novaramedia.com/2025/04/29/h...

It has been confirmed that all refining at Grangemouth has now ceased. Scotland's only oil refinery has been allowed to close, without so much as a whimper. Compare this with the action taken by the UK Government to save British Steel in Scunthorpe a few weeks ago

Lee Anderson implies @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social is part of a grooming gangs "cover up". Phillips: "I wonder how many victims of grooming gangs he has sat and held hands with in court, how many he's gone round to their house in the morning to get them out of bed and get them to a courtroom." ~AA

Former Reform candidate avoids jail for £27k charity fraud Daniel Turner diverted Covid grants meant for a youth centre to his own bank account Who does that? A close associate of Andrea Jenkyns & Sean Matthews her campaign manager, that’s who. www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/lincoln...

🙌 Join the Yes movement as we celebrate Scotland’s culture with an afternoon of comedy, song, poetry, interviews and creative thinking on how to deliver Scotland’s independence. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Cultural independence leads to constitutional independence: bit.ly/41TV3z

In Scotland, the Scottish National Party (SNP) is a left of centre social democratic political party which campaigns for Scottish independence. The SNP has controlled Scotland's devolved legislature since the 2007 Quoted from Wikipedia in plain Scottish Hope you can now understand NO RIGHT WING

#YouYesNow #IndyClan? It's TIME for #ScottishIndependence 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

A Horrible Truth That Shouldn’t Be….

'It’s crystal clear. Without control over renewable resources through independence, Scotland will continue to be the poor relation, losing population, arguing amongst ourselves and robbing Peter to pay Paul for decent public services. ' Lesley Riddoch, via The National archive.is/H82oF

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🌍Today is the European Union’s Overshoot day, 4 days earlier than last year. 😱 This means that we have already used up 1 year's worth of resources, and the rest of the year will be tapping into future resources. 💪 We need climate action now.

Hey @theguardian.com England is not Britain. Britain is not England. Scotland and NI voted Remain. This is - as so often - careless journalism from the Grauniad.

“Far from simply being a beneficiary of short-term frustrations, Reform is capitalising on years of deep-rooted anger… about what millions of people see as the long slide of national decline” Decline that Farage helped cause. Anger that’s made him a fortune. liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/366...

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NEW: Households in Scotland will be paying much more for electricity over the coming year than those living in London, new analysis has shown

Heading for the second shift of the day for Katy Loudon, SNP candidate for the Hamilton, Larkhall & Stonehouse by-election. #VoteSNP 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

👷🏻‍♂️ The UK Government must support Scottish workers on the same basis as their peers in the rest of the UK, @johnswinney.bsky.social told the @scottishtuc.bsky.social today👇

“Nigel Farage ranked 748th of 751 MEPs for attendance, went to 1 of 42 fishery committee meetings & was fined £35K for fiddling his expenses. As an MP he has held no surgeries, skipped 80% of votes and had ten jobs on the side” - More people should know this!

Labour’s Wales means low wages and limited opportunities 🥀 This isn't as good as it gets. Plaid Cymru’s vision is ambitious – where skills are valued, jobs are fulfilling, and wages reflect hard work! It’s time to build a stronger, fairer Wales - partyof.wales/economy 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Reform UK have casually spent at least £2 million on their local elections campaign, and probably much more. But for some reason they don't want to say where all that cash has come from. Why might that be? 🤔

PAT McFADDEN, GIVING PEOPLE A VERY GOOD REASON NOT TO VOTE LABOUR.. “No rejoining the Single Market and the Customs Union and no return to free movement” HOW WE HATE BREXIT LABOUR!

What my various inboxes are full of. 👇🏻 Screw the so-called Labour Party; screw the so-called EHRC; and screw the so-called Supreme Court: you've not made even one woman safer but you're causing great cruelty to tens of thousands of people leading blameless lives.

Burnham telling us to give U.K. Labour time. Like so many other U.K. Labour politicians. Like the Blue Tories before them. Seems reasonable. Change takes time. Strange then, that they all demand an independent Scotland has fixes for everything on Day 1. www.channel4.com/news/andy-bu...

"Arron Banks has yet to attend any hustings events, and has yet to reply to an invitation to a hustings event in Lawrence Hill, organised by the local community" www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...

What’s that I see Oh right Free perscriptions for ALL well done SNP 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👏🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

You won’t see this on the BBC

When Labour cut the Winter Fuel Payment, we re-introduced it. While Labour push children into poverty with the two-child cap, we’re scrapping it. The SNP is offering hope in this election. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 It’s time to send Labour a message, says @shonarobison.bsky.social👇 www.snp.org/snp-offering...

#Scotland

A new report reveals poor access is driving away disabled shoppers, costing West Midlands businesses tens of millions yearly.

Brexit has become a by-word for failure. It continues to act as a drag on our economy & much time is now rightly spent trying to undo some of the damage. As with Brexit, Reform’s populist promises will solve no one’s problems & create far more. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

In May 2023, the residents of Mid Suffolk voted for change when they elected the first majority Green council in the UK. So what have they been doing since then? Is it a new model? Definitely worth a read. 👇