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For goodness sake, Mike.
Scotland's not selling their health data and Water is a public utility
Equating England as UK exhibits a symptom of English Exceptionalism* (see attached) with the auto reflex England=GB=UK.
You don't half make an arse of yourself when you do it..
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Except if Labour - or more likely some mutated Labour/Tory/Reform coalition - manage to get control of Holyrood next year, that's precisely what they *will* do.

Think Streeting is left wing? 40 things you should know about Wes.. Streeting is pro-privatisation, pro-Israel and his donors include hedge fund managers, big banks, private health investors and arms firms.

Think Streeting is left wing? 40 things you should know about Wes... 👇
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October, War, Boy, Unforgettable Fire, Under A Blood Red Sky. Joshua Tree was where I stopped listening. And I was right to do so.

A picture of an average english family completely reliant on state benefits and housing for generations.

(They have also been involved in international Jewelry, art theft, murder and child molestation)

SSE to invest £33bn in upgrading Scotland's electricity grid The company plans to spend two-thirds of that to upgrade wiring and increase high-voltage grid capacity to get power from the north to customers in the south.

Westminster's dream: abundant renewable power, dangerous and polluting new nuclear power stations, and ugly infrastructure located in Scotland, conveniently far away from the important voters in the south east of England.
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JUST FANCY THAT! 3 Oct 2025: Nigel Farage updates his register of financial interests. Since becoming MP for Clacton in July last year he has earned £1.2m from his second jobs, more than any other MP. 30 Oct 2025: The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government's index of multiple deprivation reveals that Jaywick, in Farage's Clacton constituency, is the most deprived area in England. Farage says it is "obviously sad that things aren't improving more quickly" but that having him as their MP has "definitely helped".

Farage earns more than any other MP for NOT being an MP. He says it’s “obviously sad” that part of his constituency is the most deprived area in England.
But everything he’s ever done, said and wanted has made sure of it.
This is the whole country if he gets into power.
(Private Eye)

Big Big Train Announce 16th Studio Album ‘Woodcut’ Out February 6 via InsideOutMusic - That Eric Alper Progressive rock collective Big Big Train will release their 16th studio album ‘Woodcut’ on February 6, 2026, via InsideOutMusic. The landmark record marks the band’s first-ever full-length concept album, weaving a continuous narrative about creativity, sacrifice, and the fine line between inspiration and madness. The seven-member lineup, spanning six countries, delivers a sprawling 66-minute opus […]

Big Big Train announce their first-ever concept album ‘Woodcut,’ out February 6 via InsideOutMusic — a 16-track prog odyssey exploring creativity, sacrifice, and madness. zurl.co/jcYYE

In the last decade, the BBC has legitimised climate change denialism, paved the way for Brexit, defended the coup that was prorogation, over-platformed Farage's Far Right projects, and is neutral on our abandonment of human rights norms.

What is this 'good' it supposedly does?

Not so long ago the SNP had 56 MPs. That's 51 more than Reform have, and ACTUAL seats. Did they get as much coverage on the BBC?
No. Not on Newsnight, Question Time, Any Questions... nowhere on the BBC. Not even in Scotland.
It's past time for the BBC's r/w editorial teams to be replaced.

I think that's probably the least-weird bass that Jens Ritter's ever made!

Once the weight & bulk of batteries can be reduced so EVs can be much smaller & lighter - thus reducing toxic particulate pollution from their oversized tyres & brake pads, as well as minimising road surface damage & risk posed to vulnerable road users - then we'll be getting somewhere.

This is exactly how he will be remembered

In under 30 seconds, these two say everything we need to know about unity and being English/British. Courtesy of @tuc.org.uk

“Don’t let hate divide us.”

#unity #togetherwethrive #hopenothate #strongertogether

The Frankenstein creations of UK Mainstream Media: Johnson', Rees-Mogg & Farage

The 4 Westminster owned 'Scottish' parties would rather defend their leaders’ failures at Westminster than acknowledge the success of Scottish social policies.

They’ll defend Westminster’s failures and attack Scotland’s progress.

That tells you everything about where their loyalties lie.

The rich won't leave if you tax them.

Norway put a 78% tax on Fossil Fuel, Shell still begged them to drill.

The rich will remain even if they can only make a penny.

They would never let someone else get it.

Electricity bills increased 163 per cent since 2008 as energy price cap rises - research - Insider Media New analysis of UK energy costs showed that the average annual household electricity bill increased by 163 per cent between 2008 and 2024, reflecting a steep rise in household energy costs…

UK electricity bills up 163% since 2008. Wages haven't.

6.1m households in fuel poverty, £4.43bn debt

Profiteering: Energy sector average profit margin 23%, grid sector 38%, gas extraction 58%.

Profit last year £30bn. 128,000 a year die in fuel poverty.

No govt checks profiteering.

I again observe: the average punter in 21st century Britain watched their government get scads of squaddies killed for no reason in Iraq and Afghanistan, crash the economy into the sun, deliberately lay waste to the public realm, fuck trade with Europe and turn politics into just nightmare racism

The tried & tested NOTHING CAN EVER BE BETTER approach, then.

Who needs optimism when there's Labour?

Starmer will go down in history as the man who destroyed a 100 year old Labour movement by selling it out to the rich for the sake of his own career and advancement. The Tories are dead, Labour is dead, time for a new left based on the Greens, the Celtic indy parties & the old Labour left.

Just a predictable early salvo in the Kick The Nats Out Of Holyrood 2026 campaign.

And with Swinney's SNP 1&2 Suicide Strategy in place, they'll likely not have to try too hard. 🙁

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The cast being a bunch of 30-somethings pretending to be teenagers has required an increasingly challenging suspension of disbelief over the last few seasons.

Will still watch it anyway. What a life. 🙄

Jealous! I do love a bike build. 😎

Two things. Starmer's repeatedly stated there will be no S30 under *any* circumstances.

The principle of UK parliamentary sovereignty which states no incoming government can be bound by the decisions of a previous govenrment.

The notion there's a 'legal precedent' is absolute, undiluted bullshit.

I have genuinely never understood why some people take pleasure from behaving like cunts just for the sake of behaving like cunts.

I can only assume that your life contains a gaping chasm of howling, abyssal void, for which you are attempting to compensate.

I fervently hope that's true. You cunt.

Labour’s doomed attempt to paint the SNP as a threat to national security The oil is running out, all the banks will leave, you won’t have a pension, you can’t use the pound, the EU won’t let you back in, and now we have – the SNP are a threat to …

My latest blog piece, about the recent attempts by the Labour party to paint the SNP and the Scottish Government as a threat to national security due to their opposition to nukes on the Clyde.
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