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The astonishing year-round value for money of Scotland’s island ferry travel constantly being hidden from us By stewartb The ticket price differences are crazy. The single adult passenger fare for the 2 hour 45 minute journey from Penzance Harbour, Cornwall to St Mary’s Harbour, Isles of Scilly by the fer…

And: talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/03/17/t...

Charities are a failure of governments.
Poverty is a failure of governments.
Unemployment is a failure of governments.
War is a failure of governments.
Governments never put its vulnerable first, only its funders!
The rich will always be rich on the back of the poor.

THE LASTEST SCOTTISH POLL SAYS-Labour’s Collapsing, the Tories Are Cracking, So Now Let’s Vote for Scotland. Please take the time to read my thoughts on this on my Idle.blog account on the link below

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The privatisation of services such as Water, steelworks, refineries, and public services over the decades has been driven by Westminster's get-rich-quick schemes, benefitting only a wealthy few while hard-pressed taxpayers are left to foot the bill for the profits of the millionaires.

90% right wing media
300 odd years of Westminster austerity
Labour trying to out right the tories
Farage now a possible PM
Scotlands oil reserves wasted
Scotlands renewable flowing south for free
Always money for war
Genocide denying PM
Israel funded MP’s
the united kingdom 🤮

DOUGLAS HENSHALL 'I never thought I'd see the day when the Labour Party in Scotland would be indistinguishable from the Tory Party...
As one of a significant number who moved away from Labour during the #IndyRef, I've got news for you. I'm not coming back!'

We took over the giant screen at Farage’s big rally in Birmingham

Wes Streeting takes £53k from private healthcare recruiter before NHS job cuts WES Streeting accepted over £50,000 from a firm involved in private healthcare recruitment just weeks before axing thousands of NHS jobs ...

This should be illegal.

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Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.

You think the arbitrary arrest of political dissenters cannot happen in the UK? It already does. www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

Is Rachel Reeves constrained by the City? Is the City really stopping Rachel Reeves from doing what Labour wants, or is she just using it as a convenient excuse for her neoliberal austerity? This is the audio version: This is the transc...

Whatever Labour claims, spending on public services *isn't* constrained by the City.

The *only* thing stopping Labour is its ideological choice to keep underfunding. Just like the Tories. Here's a neat explainer of how unnecessary #LabourAusterity is.

www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/03...

The rich people don't pay tax because the Government lets them avoid it.

"And it ends up being paid by you."

#bbcqt

UK Government ordered PPE firms to 'prioritise' England over Scotland, inquiry told

The UK Government ordered suppliers of life-saving kit to 'prioritise' the NHS in England over Scotland during the pandemic, the Covid-19 inquiry has been told

Tory and Labour governments have spent decades making promises, breaking them, and expecting us to accept the consequences.

Nothing will be given to us.

If we want a better future, we have to fight for it.

Independence isn’t just about today - it’s about those who come after us.

Government loses legal battle over Covid ‘VIP Lane’ Exclusive: Judge slams “most unsatisfactory” Cabinet Office and orders release of names of 'VIP' firms to Democracy for Sale reporter - after *four year* wait.

The Cabinet Office is *still* trying to shut down transparency about the PPE deals that happened under Michael Gove. open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

Might Labour be losing Scotland? As is readily apparent, everywhere, Labour is in turmoil and chronic electoral decline. Its general election win last July might, I suspect, prove to be its final swansong before the party moves towar...

It looks like the SNP is running way ahead of Labour in Scotland again.

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Superb video setting out Labour's promises, every one of which they have enthusiastically reneged upon after they got elected on the hollow 'Change' mantra 👇

Why lie about what motivates these cuts? They are Labour's choice as to who should bear the costs of its fiscal rule. Why add insult to injury to claimants, why gaslight the rest of us, and pretend they are to help those with disabilities?

The Scottish Government has two tasks once independence is decided: seperating from the UK, and joining the EU. They would happen in parallel.

#ScottishIndependence | #RejoinEU

The Guardian view on Labour’s welfare plans: betraying the vulnerable | Editorial Editorial: Sir Keir Starmer’s suggested benefit cuts are deeply unfair to poor, sick and disabled people – and ignore expert warnings that these measures won’t boost employment

The Labour Party plans to cut disability benefits by £6bn.

Labour hate the disabled.
Labour hate the poor.
Labour hate the elderly.
Labour hate WASPI women.
Labour out Torying the Tories.
Have you woken up to Labour being a party of the right wing?

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A brilliant Banksy.

In 1994, Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons in exchange for security guarantees from Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. This agreement was formalized in the Budapest Memorandum, signed in Budapest, Hungary on December 5, 1994.

He didn't wear a suit, but he received a pardon and was treated better than Zelenskyy was.

Labour set to U-turn on giving workers 'right to switch off' LABOUR are set to U-turn on a proposal to give workers the "right to switch off" outside of working hours for fear it will place too much…

Surprised surprise and another libour u-turn

Facts 👇👇👇

World stage hypocrisy at its finest more like. What Russia is doing in Ukraine is appalling. Where is Starmers leadership on the genocide in Gaza? A stark contrast indeed!

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Are you yes yet.

John Swinney democratically elected First Minister says invite should be scrapped. He wasn't even consulted before Keir Starmer invited him to visit the country that he is elected to lead. Devolution is just window dressing when Labour are not in charge of it.

Alt-Right Twitter account Malcontent News Tweeting It's time to leave NATO and the UN. Elon Musk quote tweets I agree

The transatlantic alliance and NATO are over. Scotland's future is with 500 million other Europeans. Scotland has nothing to gain & everything to lose by shackling itself to a delusional UK that robs us of our natural wealth & refuses to accept the new geopolitical reality.

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How Keir Starmer demeaned Scotland as the world watched

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