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In this week's strip, 'Pond Life', all the big stories that you'd really rather avoid, but I've tried to make them interesting for you by insulting everybody involved. WARNING: Includes the phrase 'rapacious, insider-trading hyenas'. gregmoodie.com/pond-life/

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

I think it’s hard to overstate the anger in parts of Wales that everything seems to be on the table with regards to saving steel making in Scunthorpe whereas this seemingly wasn’t the case for Port Talbot. Just 12 months till the Senedd election.

submitted 14 hours ago • 14 comments

If you ever thought this was a union of equals then think again. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #EndLondonRule #EndTheUnion #DemocracyForScotland #ScottishIndependence #WelshIndependence

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

They are trying…and making headway toward their goal every day…to squeeze every last breath out of the lungs of democracy. At that point, they plan to stomp on the lifeless corpse. You already know that, but sometimes it helps to see it in print. If we let it slip away…it’s gone forever.

submitted 1 day ago • 203 comments

Saving steel jobs in Scunthorpe is all very commendable but Scotland and Wales are asking what happened to we’re all in it together?

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

they're making cns of us all and rubbing our nose in it 👇

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

All the best to workers in Scunthorpe, but it's telling - with klaxons on - that core national Scottish economic interests like Grangemouth are happily sacrificed by the English government with not a jot of concern. Wake up Scotland. #Independence

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

This is a difficult time in financial markets but the real victims are the countless numbers of faceless small and mid-sized businesses who import from China and are getting vaporized overnight, and the White House would never take their calls.

submitted 1 day ago • 300 comments

Starmer said, I will always act in the national interest, to keep "British " jobs. What he really ment though was "English " jobs as he had no interest in Grangemouth. He told Scotland he couldn't intervene in a private company, well that's exactly what he's now doing.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Ah lovely. Another bag of rubbish gets tipped into the House of Lords. The place must absolutely reek of stale Tory failure, corruption and abuse of power. Honours handed out like sweeties to some of the most undeserving, underachieving, overpromoted clowns and liars to have ever held public office.

submitted 1 day ago • 133 comments

Ah, but, ah, but, there’s only one British Steel, isn’t there? So naturally it’s got to be protected. Grangemouth was the only refinery in Scotland. Ah, but that’s different, isn’t it. Because it was in Scotland.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

We will be more than OK as an independent country. #independence #Scotland #YES

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

Get back in your box Scotland, your unimportant, inconsequential & will never be recognised as equal to England by Westminster unionist party’s. 2026 #ScottishIndependence 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

You know, He was'nt wrong. But the ones that rip ma knittin are those aspiring politicians who come from working class backgrounds who should know better but completely lack restraint. They are the ones who tend to aspire to greatness, But get led astray with the opulence of office.

submitted 23 hours ago • 3 comments

Alister 'Union' Jack gets his peerage as a reward for being an obedient House Jock and selling out his own country. This is exactly the strategy of new Viceroy Ian Murray and all the rest of the Red Tory 'Scottish' MPs in WM. There is no difference beween them. None. #ScottishIndependenceASAP

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

I alluded to the fact that Starmer will pull out the stops to retain jobs in England as he is quite right to do so. But he also gave a green light for the INEOS boss Jim Ratcliffe to plough millions into building a new football stadium, Funnily enough in England rather than retain Scottish jobs.

submitted 23 hours ago • 2 comments

Slimy Gove, “we’ve had enough of experts Gove”, you will still be able to live and retire in the EU Gove, one of the architects of this disaster will be making our laws for the rest of his life…

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

The powers that be at BBC Politics should be looking at what is happening in US & doing some serious self reflection. The mess in UK like US is down to them platforming wreckers & characters like Farage & Johnson for clicks. Conflict became more important than facts & information. Shameful

submitted 21 hours ago • 4 comments

Gove for House of Lords??? What an absolute farce! This country has become a soap opera 😡

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

The Teeswork Freeport corruption in short. 2 businessmen paid £110 for a £100m site. We paid £462m to clean it up they paid nothing They made £100m selling scrap metal from clean up, we received nothing. Michael Gove covers it up.

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

Clearly the mistake Grangemouth oil refinery made was not having ‘British’ in its name.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

I published last week's cartoon, 'Narcissus', on Saturday but withdrew it hours later due to concerns. I'm republishing it now without alteration. You're very lucky to see it. gregmoodie.com/narcissus/

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

England has never subsidised Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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And not one of them have ever asked to come back.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Just one more reason why Scotland should be independent. #independence #Scotland #YES

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Oh... should we nationalise steel..?!! Didn't you just give the Mittal Brothers £50b not to shut down UK works? Errr...

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Sanctioned by Britain who had no authority to do so.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

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submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Just one more reason why Scotland should be independent. #independence #Scotland #YES

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Just one more reason why Scotland to be independent. #independence #Scotland #YES

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Why should we? anyone ?🤷‍♂️ #Scottishindependence would solve that and all the other problems that comes with 1 country controlling another,s laws and budgets

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

If we have a Free Trade Agreement with India, Scotch will quickly become HALF of all UK Food and Drink Exports.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

So the UK government will save steel production in Scunthorpe by direct state intervention. Funny how they were going to nothing to save Port Talbot,isn't it?

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

Most days I still can't believe Americans elected a fake real estate tycoon moron game show host POTUS once. And then after he incited an insurrection and was convicted of 34 felonies we elected him again and now even more sycophants suck his mushroom dick daily and pretend he's some kind of genius.

submitted 2 days ago • 805 comments

Just one more reason why Scotland should be independent. #independence #Scotland #YES

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Small Denmark is now very wealthy, with a strong economy. Historically, it was an agricultural country with a subsistence-level economy. Technological and institutional developments since the 19th century, led to a service-based economy, and a significantly improved standard of living.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

The vast majority of us prefer public ownership of vital national infrastructure & services. Unfortunately the vast majority of politicians in the Westminster cartel prefer privatisation profit, & all the junkets, freebies with lucrative executive jobs for their pals to keep the gravy train running.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Small Switzerland is now a wealthy nation. It went from a poor, rural economy with no natural resources to a world leader in finance. The "Swiss miracle," happened in the mid to early 20th century. Scotland is in a MUCH better position.

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submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Dear Scots Does anyone feel Labour is doing anything for us? I see Starmer & Reeves mincing around all over Manchester, Yorkshire, Scunthorpe & Wales, promising money and funding! Is it me, but is the UK turning on the financial taps to promote growth in England & Wales but not Scotland?

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Wake up Scotland.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I came in from the kitchen and there HE was in my feckin living room on Sky News🙄 Wtf does agent 🍊 get more airtime than oor own Politicians🤷‍♀️. He's still babbling about tarrifs which are going to hit Economies hard. They're still tariffs.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

'Political analysts have long warned that Trump's second term would pose a far more dire threat to the world than his first did. But it is also posing a direct threat to America itself.; @foreigncorr1.bsky.social, via The National archive.is/IHAyd

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