David Tam McDonald

Third biggest majority of all time. They have the numbers to do whatever they like: how come they look so weak?

Meta AI here under a video of Manics covering Blondie. Nearly 100% incorrect.

The movement needs to present this as a moral issue rather than a technical one. Legally the UK Gov can veto referendums. Morally, that's hard to justify. Both sides agree Scotland has the right to independence, the law needs to change to reflect that.

What Labour should be doing: recognising Palestine, ending military aid, opposing genocide.

What Labour are actually doing: arresting grannies for saying this.

my new ai device will sit in a beer garden that backs onto a small river and drink three to five pints on a sunny late summer afternoon for you, leaving you free for more meetings and business calls

Cool.

Coward.

Look, if you think that a democratic society cannot tolerate any protest during a war, it means that you dont really want a democratic society.

Check your Grannies and Grandas are safe at home everyone. Wouldn't want your grandparents lifted by the Starmtroopers.

I say this often but the greatest way to experience a miracle is to put on the dishwasher and washing machine at the same time then make a cup of tea using your electric kettle and drink it while reflecting on the fact that in any other era of human history this would be a day of hard, hard work

Did Labour just decide to host their own Pride for just themselves because they got banned from every real Pride event across the country but they still wanted to be in some good photos?

Trump's grammar is fascinating. Title case in the middle of sentences; adjectives presented as proper nouns; so, many, commas.

Also, reads like he's trying to sell the PM of Japan a time share apartment.

SOURCE: https://labourrightwatch.wordpress.com/2025/06/11/the-lesser-reported-details-about-sitting-labour-mps/ Nandy has received £19,000 in donations from Israel lobbyist and private health investors’ advisor Trevor Chinn and £5k from Stuart Roden. Lisa Nandy does not support BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions as a peaceful means to end Israeli occupation and apartheid). Nandy co-chaired pharma lobbyist Owen Smith’s leadership challenge to Jeremy Corbyn in 2016. Under the leadership of Lisa Nandy, Labour Friends of Palestine “was allowed to wither and die”, according to inside sources. Nandy said in a 2020 interview with Andrew Neil that to ‘condemn Israeli military atrocities on the West Bank’ is antisemitic. Video: In the leadership election (2020), Nandy said “we can’t go round promising to nationalise everything, to slash tuition fees”. She backed the BBC pulling the ‘How to Survive a War Zone’ Gaza documentary. Nandy resigned on day two of the 2016 chicken coup’ plot to oust Corbyn. She abstained on the CHIS (Covert Human Intelligence Sources) Criminal Conduct bill (2020) even though it gave undercover police impunity to rape, murder and torture without prosecution. Nandy did not vote in favour of a ceasefire in Gaza on November 15th 2023 – despite the death toll having reached almost 15,000 and over 100 UN relief workers having been killed by Israeli forces; the motion failed; there were 56 Labour MPs who did defy the whip and voted in favour. On June 30th 2025, Lisa Nandy claimed in a TV interview that “Chanting ‘Death to the IDF’ is equivalent to calling for the death of every single Israeli Jew.” In June 2025, Nandy was one of the Labour MPs that pushed the falsehood that PiP claimants are penalised for starting a job, in order to justify Labour’s disability benefit reforms. She said “Lots of my constituents worry about coming off PIP & into work because its so hard.. to get back onto it” on a BBC interview; this is dishonest and inaccurate, as many P…

I've updated my mini-profile on Lisa Nandy.
I don't know if many people realise how alarmingly authoritarian she is 😬👇
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Bear in mind that if you held up a sign saying "I support genocide", you would not be arrested under the Terrorism Act.

How much does the UK spend on welfare?

🇪🇺 Relatively little compared to Europe: just 10.8% of GDP in 2023 (including sickness & disability benefits, pensions, etc.).

Meanwhile, 🇫🇮Finland spends 25.7% of GDP & 🇫🇷France 23.8%.

#ChartOfTheDay #Welfare

This is me btw. Drop me a line if you're in BLU.

Maybe @bbciplayer.bsky.social aren't the most appropriate broadcast partner for Glasto?

Giving people ideas.

Big game i Londain innui. Fingers crossed for a good result. Beat them £20k -0 last time out. #kneecap

£10 million on a door.

Austerity is a choice, not a requirement. Very obviously.

*spoiler* it wouldn't.

People will always move. Giving up our rights in the pursuit of making that reality disappear is... a bad idea.

Celebrating Scotland’s second-greatest poet Robert Tannahill THIS week sees the 250th anniversary of the birth of one of Scotland’s greatest but most tragic poets, Robert Tannahill.

Robert Tannahill (1774–1810), “the weaver poet”, was born #OTD, 3 June – “second only to Robert Burns as a poet writing chiefly in the language of the working class of Scotland”
#18thC #C19th
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Some sound heads in London made this graphic.

They'll be at court on June 18th, 9am

Bring your flags, instruments, banners, and your mates.

Show solidarity with Liam Óg. Stand against political policing and attempts to silence and restrict Kneecap.

We will fight them in their court

We will win

Since becoming health secretary Streeting has overseen the single largest sale of NHS services. The contract for community services in the south west was given to HCRG (owned by private equity) & is worth over a billion pounds. I know who's a threat to the NHS, & its not doctors

It is weird that of all the possible slogans, Irish bigots chose "Ireland is full" when, very notably, Ireland is basically the only country in the world with fewer people than it had 200 years ago

While Labour try to make up their minds on what to do about Winter Fuel Payments (which they abolished) and the two-child limit (which they have kept), the SNP is restoring Winter Fuel Payments and is abolishing the two-child limit.

That’s the difference your SNP Government makes. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Wonderful!

Greenlink - 4 subsea cables taking Scotland’s renewable energy south to power 2 million English homes, while Scotland receives no benefit, pays more for our energy than much of England. Pays more to submit OUR energy to the UK grid, and pays the highest price for energy in Europe

🎨 #indyposterboy

Mo Chara of Kneecap with a Hezbollah flag from a gig in 2024.

12th July bonfire featuring an Irish tricolour to be burned, the “KAT” initialism meaning “Kill All Taigs” (slur for Irish Catholics).

Only one of these situations is considered an act of terrorism according to the British government. The hypocritical and performative outrage is infuriating.