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Electronics, retro computing, art, crafts, cooking, living, breathing. Scotland 🏴is better as an independent nation, just like the hundreds of other independent nations that will never join the UK. There's seldom a solution if the problem is profitable.

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Why does the claim even exist that it was the "great famine" that wiped out Ireland's population, a famine that lasted but 7 years tops, when the population chart above clearly shows a rapidly declining population spanning an entire century?
Something doesn't add up.
Perhaps that's why they left...

23.11.2025 18:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#EnglishUltranationalism

23.11.2025 18:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜Workers at Mossmoran deserve better’. So do Grangemouth workers, WASPi Women & Cold Pensioners, all of whom Labour have abandoned ! With independence we could help all of the above. You couldn’t redden this guys neck wi a blow torch ! 😑😑😑

23.11.2025 17:34 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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23.11.2025 18:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Why won't Labour:?

Increase minimum wage beyond the real living wage.
Make it track the RLW + a few %.
Pass alongside related protections for workers.

This will reduce poverty, reduce the benefits bill and tax billionaires indirectly...

22.11.2025 14:17 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That is exactly why headlines and the picture often do not match with the article's conclusions at all.
It's a form of divisive brainwashing: those who expend a tiny amount of effort, research and thought know it's shite, those who glance and superficially absorb get filled with shite...

22.11.2025 14:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There's an easy way to tax billionaires, without directly taxing billionaires, that also reduces poverty, particularly people in work but also claiming benefits:

Raise the minimum wage to above the living wage.

22.11.2025 14:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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After COVID, the scale of raw sewage dumping in England's rivers and lakes was revealed.

"Let the Jobbies Pile High!"

22.11.2025 01:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Around 20,000 tonnes of waste on Birmingham's streets.
Meanwhile, Anas Sarwar continues to highlight Scotland's shame...

22.11.2025 00:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They already did, and even the Labour 'far left' <cough> don't want to overturn it...

21.11.2025 14:02 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Boris Johnson's oligarch hideaway up for sale - Italy Property Guides Russian oligarch and friend of Boris Johnson, Evgeny Lebedev's Umbrian castle is for sale. See this and other luxury homes for sale in Italy

Would never vote Reform, but there are certainly other 'anomalies' that also need deeper scrutiny...
www.propertyguides.com/italy/news/b...

21.11.2025 14:00 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Been voting this way for decades.
It works (in my constituency)
YMMV.

20.11.2025 17:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Scotland’s AI data centres to get cheaper electricity under UK plans - ScotlandIS A new wave of AI data centres across Scotland could receive electricity discounts under measures announced yesterday by the UK Government.

The UK gov can only promise to make electricity cheaper (reserved) for private Scottish data centre companies, but not for Scottish domestic customers, apparently.
I stress they *could* receive cheaper electricity.
Who knows with this current Labour party...
www.scotlandis.com/blog/scotlan...

20.11.2025 13:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Is the "Cost of Living Crisis" a temporary glitch in economies spanning the globe, or an inherent and inevitable flaw in a monetary system reliant on finite energy and resources and here to stay until a monumental change occurs?

Not the kind of small change Labour/Tories renege on.
A mindset one...

19.11.2025 18:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Disgraceful behaviour, but I'm sure I remember a past PM saying something similar.

18.11.2025 21:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The last meeting was very educational.

18.11.2025 21:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

rANGERs.

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The boats are coming ashore 500 miles away in another country.
Westminster completely controls what happens to the people who land in said boats.
Vote for Scottish Independence and it's England's problem, not ours.
We can choose who we want, not some spiteful, malintent and incompetent English MPs.

18.11.2025 14:41 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

But they aren't allowed to work...

18.11.2025 13:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Although a useful short and long term financial instrument, this usefulness would increase greatly with independence and a sovereign currency.
And before the Alistair Darling lovers jump out of the woodwork, there are over 180 sovereign currencies recognized by the United Nations.
#ButNot4UScotland

18.11.2025 13:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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There are over 180 currencies recognized by the United Nations, each a sovereign currency for one or more states.
That's almost as many currencies as there are independent nations.
But not possible for you, Scotland!
#AyeOK

18.11.2025 13:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I honestly think Labour's plan is to become exactly the same as Reform, but allowing Reform to win to expose they are as shite as every sensible person knows they will be, then to be automatically the next best thing offering the same, but different policies: change.
Yes.
I know this makes no senseπŸ˜‚

18.11.2025 10:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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It seems as soon as left policy (I'd say moral) is announced by the SNP that would overturn a UK gov area (mitigation), social media erupts with the usual "shouldn't have them if you can't afford them" and "my taxes are feeding your kids" dubious accounts all reading from the same anti-hymn sheet...

18.11.2025 10:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Labour: like voting for a turd wearing a dunce cap...

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Yeehaw...

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This isn't a new rejection.
Scotland's FMs ask for budget inclusion all the time, as the simple act of planning depends upon foreknowledge.
Even when the cost of living crisis struck and emergency cash was needed, the buck was passed by Johnson, couldn't be arsed.
We all know Liz Truss's politics...

18.11.2025 09:00 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Labour will raise the offer to two guns...

17.11.2025 22:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Also Labour: WE WILL KEEP YOUR PRECIOUS HEiRLOOMS SAFE!

17.11.2025 19:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wales doesn't 'get' the Β£2.5Bn.
That's how much it (initially estimated) costs the UK gov. to roll out the power station, which could mushroom into a mountain as often happens.
Wales does get a slice of the debt repayments, just as Scotland would...

17.11.2025 15:58 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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