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for sure, in certain circumstances, eg if reform were polling high in one region, then I would vote pragmatically if it would stop them.

But, I know that in order to counter reform in 29 we need a party with a plan. And whether I fully believe it or not, there seems to be only one on offer.

True, we might not get another chance. If reform win in 2029 there may be no more SP. So it is imperative that we have a plan to act between 2026 and 29.

SNP seem to have a plan, but you don't trust it.

I don't know anyone else who is likely to be in charge who has a different one though.

Do you?

Pro-Palestine activist couple have UK bank account closed without explanation John Nicholson and Norma Turner’s joint retirement savings account was shut by Yorkshire Building Society

No doubt this de-banking will also be splashed across the front pages of every single newspaper in the country and lead BBC bulletins for weeks on end too? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

From what I've seen, the Scottish parliament is a controlled environment where we call them out and show them for what they are. If they weren't in the SP, we'd have to argue with them in the chaos of social media.

They obviously don't have the right leadership. Otherwise we wouldn't have people second guessing them and coming up with their own solutions. But it does seem to be the only leadership going at the moment.

and your last sentence is just childish.

right, because the Scottish Parliament is the main source of unionist misinformation.

Yes, I think it's better to have a majority SNP government with a majority of 1, than a coalition of minority parties each with their own agendas.

Well there does need to be an agenda. Someone needs to be in charge. If we just have groups of people making up their own fantasy solutions we're not going to get anywhere.

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents ‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

Finally.

FINALLY.

They are starting to admit the truth.

But you know, they have other options to solve this apart from tax rises.

Get back into the EU as fast as possible.

Save the economy.

'It's Not A Peace Deal': BBC Expert Delivers Brutal Reality Check To Donald Trump Over Gaza Jeremy Bowen said the accord signed by the president was "almost devoid of content".

Just when you thought it was impossible for American corporate media to fail any harder than it already has for a decade now, it went and called a peace deal worthy of celebration something that was neither a peace deal nor even actually a deal nor really anything that meant anything lasting at all

YouTube video by cassetteboy Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer

Great work from @cassetteboy.bsky.social . Hilarious parody executed with perfection. "It's just Keir Starmer!"

👏
youtu.be/C8uOPrU4B9s?...

"The Chat-GPM" 👏

That £900k house in Frinton. Has anyone mentioned how it was paid for yet? Any laws broken, or all above board?

Anyone investigating? Media grown a conscience? Any journalist working for the British people? Anyone?

Half way through another week of silence then.

I assume that every single journalist reading this understands that the *first question* to ask the State Department tomorrow morning is how quickly it will provide a list of foreign nationals banned from the United States for statements made about Democrats or Americans perceived to be left-leaning

No notes

Labour's Rachel Reeves thinks we're all stupid

After admitting that Brexit is costing us 4% of GDP

She suggested the UK-EU reset is mitigating that

It's not

0.13% GDP gain from UK–India deal
0.05% GDP gain from UK–US deal
0.3% GDP gain from UK–EU reset

Labour are about to upend a bucket of petrol onto the Reform immigration binfire.

The assertion that we've "lost control of Britain's borders" is an absolute godsend for Reform, because that's what they have been bleating about all along.

Grim, grim, grim.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Pupils fear AI is eroding their ability to study, research finds One in four students say AI ‘makes it too easy’ for them to find answers

Pupils fear that using artificial intelligence is eroding their ability to study, with many complaining it makes schoolwork “too easy” and others saying it limits their creativity and stops them learning new skills, according to new research

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Palestine Action 'not close' to being terror group, files show Scottish board found A SCOTTISH counter-terrorism board found that Palestine Action’s activities fell below the threshold to be considered terrorism before the group…

Palestine Action 'not close' to being a terror group, Scottish board found

www.thenational.scot/news/2554306...

Israel knew before the ‘ceasefire’ that some hostage remains would be difficult or impossible to retrieve because Israel bombed their locations.

But any excuse to keep killing, now they have the living hostages. They’ll soon be busy rounding up the Palestinians they released.
It was all theatre.

I laughed way too hard at this 🤣🤣🤣

🔥 COUNTRY SINGER @bryanandrewsmusic.bsky.social : "You don't get to call yourself a Christian and laugh when families are torn apart — and think it's okay that the highest court in the land just gave a green light to ICE agents to target people because they’re brown or speaking Spanish.”

If we assume that indy supporters are only voting for indy parties, we need to be seeing consistent support >50% in both votes before we trigger a ref where losing would set us back a decade.

We're not seeing that yet. Particularly when you take green non-indy voters into consideration.

If we have the most seats we get to decide what goes on.
One more than half is enough.

A bigger 'most' doesn't mean more power (unless you have plans to make controversial changes to the electoral system?)

If we don't have most seats, we rely on other parties who have their own agenda.

It matters because none of the parties are advocating this approach. So when you deliver your 'minority government in an oversize coalition', you have nobody who will do anything with it. Except your mythical 'international observers' who will be impressed by your efforts and make us independent.

A movement requires a leader. Until we have one, we're rudderless (as is evident in these posts). In the absence of an official 'indy movement leader' some of us decided that it ought to be the SNP leadership, out of necessity more than political allegiance. The rest - I'm not sure.

BREAKING: “There is no doubting that the impact of Brexit is severe and long lasting” says Chancellor Rachel Reeves

It’s about time!

Heard about this earlier, and my jaw didn’t drop. You know who else isn’t surprised? Pretty much every Republican.

As someone who’s been a frequent target, none of this shocks me. I don’t expect real consequences from the right because I doubt today is the first day they heard about it.