Amanda Beaton

Scotland has 32 local authority areas, also known as council areas, for voting and result reporting purposes.

Every single one of these 32 areas recorded a majority vote to Remain in the EU.

Scotland overall voted 62% Remain to 38% Leave.

Westminster said NO

The UK Government’s recognition of Palestine is a welcome step, and one that is long overdue.

But words alone will not stop the genocide in Gaza.

Sanctions, an end to arms sales, a ban on goods from settlements, and the suspension of the UK–Israel trade deal must follow.

Labour pledged to reduce household energy bills.

Labour lied!

Scotland’s gaming industry is generating almost 800% more money than it was in 2010 - a roaring success story. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👾🎮

Here’s what we’re doing to support the industry. 👇

'Hike holiday homes council tax to tackle homelessness crisis' say Greens Figures last week showed a record number of households living in temporary housing including 10,180 children.

There are far more holiday and empty homes than homeless children in Scotland. This is a housing crisis we can solve.

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How about "Get tae fuck!"
Boycott Diageo drinks! #IsleOfSkye 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🥃

Sky News mixes up SNP MP with Holyrood veteran Does Sky News think all SNP politicians look the same?

www.thenational.scot/politics/254... News mixes up SNP MP with Holyrood veteran As O'Hara was speaking, his name appeared on the screen as "Former SNP Fergus Ewing MSP".
They cant even get the basics right.

Thousands of Scottish trees to be surveyed in bid to protect ancient woodlands

Thousands of trees across Scotland are set to be catalogued in a wide-ranging survey aimed at protecting the nation’s ancient and native woodlands 🌳

Britain will ‘never surrender flag’ to far-right protesters, Starmer says PM condemns attacks against police, racist intimidation of minorities and use of flag to instil fear

Britain will never surrender to the far right says the man who's spent the past year normalising the far right demonisation of migrants and trans people and legitimising far right flag shagging as he chases after Reform UK voters who hate him.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

‘Resolute 1850’: Reform UK Ltd’s MAGA plan to turn Britain into Little America Right-wing US interests are pushing a plan to bend the UK to their will, ‘DOGE’-style – in Farage’s Reform UK they have an eager little helper

"In December last year, Resolute 1850 Ltd was incorporated in the UK.

With a thinktank soon to be launched and funds from MAGA, American Big Tech and the US religious right already pledged, it seeks to use Reform as a vessel to bring Project 2025-style policies to the UK."

A first look at tomorrow's front page of The National 📰

Outrage over use of Saltire in anti-migrant campaign

Israeli unit tasked with smearing Gaza journalists as Hamas fighters – report Israeli-Palestinian magazine says IDF ‘legitimisation cell’ set up to blunt global outrage over killing of media staff

#EVILISRAEL
TO JUSTIFY MURDERING JOURNALISTS REPORTING ISRAELI WAR CRIMES

Israeli unit tasked with smearing Gaza journalists as Hamas fighters
Israeli-Palestinian magazine says IDF ‘legitimisation cell’ set up to blunt global outrage over killing of media staff
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

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UK to recognise Palestinian state The Prime Minister said that the recognition of a Palestinian state would depend on an assessment made before the UN General Assembly meeting in September

"Keir Starmer has announced today that the UK will recognise a Palestinian state in September, unless Israel commits to a sustainable peace, and allows the UN to restart its humanitarian support to Gaza."

Why is it either/or?

Is it true that Scotland’s water pollution levels are bad? - Bylines Scotland The Independent Water Commission confirms Scotland's water meets high standards, contradicting recent political claims of poor quality

"Scottish Water is still 100% owned by the state. This begs the obvious question whether profit seeking is a priority over water quality and the consumers are left with substandard supply."

#Water
#Scotland🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

www.thenational.scot/news/2533290...

Now what

#Unabhängigkeit

Compiling the truth and facts

🚨"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die", reports AFP.

"Along with a few others, they are now the only ones left to report what is happening in the Gaza Strip... We refuse to watch them die", it continues.

Why building CalMac ferries, quicker and cheaper in Turkey might not have been such a good idea after all From STV on 28th March 2024, as a media frenzy risked the future of commercial shipbuilding in the Clyde, just to attack the SNP Government, in support of the 2024 General Election Labour campaign:…

Why the Herald today gloating about ferries built faster in Turkey stinks:
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These people are dangerous. Source: web.archive.org/web/20250721...

Junior doctor strikes again – Why we want less Scottish news and more from England Above, BBC Scotland’s interests specially chosen for you. Below, the really big story everywhere else in the UK but not to be mentioned by BBC Scotland, even though to do so might reassure th…

Junior doctors in England vote to strike again - how BBC Scotland hid the facts from their viewers last year:
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How the SNP Government kept your health data out the hands of an NHS England contractor who openly boasts about killing people in Gaza for profit By Professor John Robertson OBA From the Skwawkbox, today, the above video (link below) and this: Alex Karp, the chief executive of software company Palantir – which supplies military sof…

Why John Swinney is keeping us out of England's digital NHS database where your data will be sold and where you'd be funding this genocidal maniac:
talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/02/06/h...

Tomorrow's front page 📰

England's Children's Commissioner calls for end of benefits cap amid 'Dickensian poverty and harrowing accounts of hardship'

Ed Miliband abandons plan to charge less for electricity in Scotland Energy minister decides against ‘zonal pricing’ backed by Octopus founder but opposed by many other energy firms

Advantage England. The coldest part of the U.K. which generates the most electricity is penalised to save rich southerners some money.

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Scotland says no to Disturbed band playing gigs while backing bombs. By July 10, 2024, the Lancet reported over 37,396 people to have been killed by Israel's assault and genocide on Gaza, with a high proportion of this number being children. As of July 3, 2025, this h...

Show racism and genocide the red card in music actionnetwork.org/letters/scot...

@exposeracism.bsky.social post :
The beeb needs to give their head a wobble and get a grip! 💯💭💔

Since announcing the formation of a new left party just three days ago, over 72,000 people have signed up to get involved.

Let’s make it 100,000: actionnetwork.org/forms/join-t... 🔥

P.S. The ticker at the bottom of the page is broken — we’re fixing it!

Westminster Vote Share by Geographic Coverage A Flourish data visualization by Yes in Pictures

Where do political parties get their support and focus their priorities? Unionist parties get around 90% or more from England: National parties get 100% from their own nations.

So if you're in Wales or Scotland, why would you choose a Unionist party?

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Not so much driven out of the classroom by bad behaviour as seeing a lucrative business opportunity seven years ago? stewartb June 18, 2025 at 3:59 pm Edit The BBC Scotland’s Education Correspondent today (June 18) has an article on the BBC News website headlined: ‘Will new school rules help cut violence in …

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