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Scottish and European #scotsabroad, Luxy. Proud of both my homeland and adopted country. Scottish independence supporter. Tiresome typos blamed on ebullient enthusiasm and paltry proofreading.
Nothing could be more damaging to our climate and the future of the North East than offering up even more of our North Sea to oil and gas giants. To create well-paid, long-term jobs in the North East and tackle the climate emergency, we must invest in renewables.
This is pure extraction of wealth from one group of people to another We urgently need: Windfall tax on oil giants Windfall tax on banks Both are creaming money off us during a cost of living crisis Even Thatcher had the balls to tax the banks Will you @andyburnham?
Major oil firms make $93bn profits in just 3 months amid war and climate crisis. They shift profits, dodge taxes, fuel poverty and inflation. They don't bear the social cost of their business. Forever holding people/govts to ransom. Polluters must pay. Need windfall tax now.
Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis
Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage
theguardian.com
"Another two bite the dust… It’s been another chaotic day for Reform. We’re hearing reports this evening that Reform councillor Christine Duffy has resigned from Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council. If confirmed, it would trigger ..." www.facebook.com/permalink.ph... via Reform Are Not Your Friends
My feeling is that the UK is fissuring. We have experienced crises in different ways in our different nations and even within. The State is not fit for purposeand imposes dysfunction from the centre. Pressure is building. It wont hold for ever. Eventually a crisis will arrive that proves too much.
On top of operating costs private healthcare companies pay huge salaries to CEOs & directors siphoning off massive profits to shareholders But Farage & Lowe want us believe having £billions less money to play with enables private healthcare providers to give a better more caring service Idiocy!
There's 1. glass half full people 2. glass half empty people and 3. OMG that glass is about to shatter into 1000 pieces slashing my carotid artery and it's the SNP's fault, people. The anti-independence media in Scotland is exclusively staffed by type 3.
Fantastic news out of Harris this morning, where a huge swathe of the isle (as well as numerous others and hundreds of crofts) are set to come under community ownership Story: Locals win £1m to buy 27,000-acre Scottish island estate after 14-year campaign
Locals win £1m to buy 27,000-acre Scottish island estate after 14-year campaign
A HUGE Scottish estate with its own private island is set to be purchased by the local community after a £1 million grant was secured ...
thenational.scot
Isn't it ironic that Nigel Farage hates the BBC & plans to Privatise it when BBC news are one of Reform's biggest supporters. BBC news sets the nation against the boat people trying to claim asylum by continually targeting them which is what drives votes up for Reform. Only GBNews are more devout.
101 mlynedd o Blaid Cymru! 🥳 From our founding in 1925 to leading the Welsh Government in 2026, a lot has changed. But one thing hasn't: our determination to build a better future for our nation 💪 Diolch o galon i bawb sydd wedi bod yn rhan o’r daith 🏴💚
#VoteBinface www.theguardian.com/food/2026/au...
‘A 99 with a Flake? That will be £7, please’: what’s behind the surge in ice-cream van prices?
From the cost of milk and chocolate to diesel and electricity, every part of producing the summer treat has been hit by the climate crisis and other shocks
theguardian.com
So Badenoch would recruit a neo-Nazi but *not* someone who didn’t want to leave the ECHR or someone who supported our NetZero commitments. Second chances for this guy but not Dominic Grieve. The Tory party is truly wretched. It’s screwed the country, betrayed its own and lost its tiny mind.
![Badenoch defends former neo-Nazi pick as council candidate
By Will Meakin-Durrant
Kemi Badenoch has said her party
"believes in second chances".
, after
the Conservatives selected a former neo-Nazi once jailed for harassing a Jewish former MP as a local election candidate.
Joshua Bonehill-Paine
posted on social media that he was "tremendously proud" that he has been chosen to stand for election to Somerset Coun-cil, in the Crewkerne South ward.
Bonehill-Paine (inset) was jailed in 2016 after he was convicted of racially aggravated harassment.
He wrote several blog posts about the former Labour MP for Liverpool Wavertree, Baroness Luciana Berger, labelling her "an evil money-grabber" with a "deep-rooted hatred of men".
He was previously jailed for producing an ad illustrated with a picture of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz, which promised "an absolute gas" at a rally in Golders Green, north London.
Badenoch said: "I want to be very clear - and I think people can look at me and know that I'm not a person who would be recruiting neo-Nazis.
"Josh is someone who actually has been certified by the Home Office to train police officers on antisemitism and on countering extremism.
"Yes, he [has] previously convicted but he has shown contrition for his crimes, has been rehabilitated and is spending every day working to solve the very problem which he knew that he had caused previously.
"And the Conservative Party believes in second chances."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:c4xtyto7nrklhfkroyrsce2w/bafkreicb7ehutwjwq4iundbhvecrngv57va75dd54vru2qurb7gq2ve3xa)
My blood just pumps and my heart rate increases, EVERY TIME I hear this song... Scotland the Brave. There is no other sound as majestic to my ear, anywhere on this planet... More than the sound of the bagpipes. 1000 of them playing all at once, could easily own my soul for eternity. 🏴Scotland.💙
An integrated system allowing Scots to use a single ticket across different modes of public transport will be in place before the next Holyrood election, Transport Secretary Stephen Flynn has pledged 👉 www.thenational.scot/news/2...
We could build a "Council of the Isels" to establish cooperation on infrastructure etc. Some EU States already cooperate in a similar way e.g. Benelux, Nordic Union etc
Baddenock reaches a new low as she defends someone with a jail conviction for Nazi activism as a suitable Conservative candidate. Is there any limit to this woman's shoddy behaviour? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Tories offer Jewish groups meeting with ex neo-Nazi activist candidate
Joshua Bonehill-Paine was jailed over neo-Nazi activism, but has been selected to stand in a new Somerset Council seat in 2027.
bbc.co.uk
I'm delighted to hear that BP doubled their profits, making £4.2bn in just 3 months. Not that I have any vested interest in it, other than the £50,000 given to us by the wife of former senior BP executive James Hay.
The Righteous Rupert Lowe-Life preached about leaches sucking the financial blood out of Britain. This is the same Whoopert Lowe-Life whose company took £100k in furlough cash despite making £7.9 million profit He really didn’t need it but it was free, it was available so he took it like a leach
Palantir paid just £2m corporation tax in UK in 2024 despite £247m revenue, £25.3m profit. Doesn't pay much anywhere, effective global tax rate is 1.4% Shifts profits through intragroup transactions, enjoys tax breaks. UK Govt rewarding it with public contracts, enriching execs & shareholders.
Palantir paid just £2m corporation tax in UK in 2024 despite lucrative public sector contracts
Software group benefits from global systems and accounting practices ‘that enable tax to be shirked’, says union boss
theguardian.com
Tell your MSP: Scotland’s renewables should benefit Scotland. Send your MSP a postcard and tell them they should support a fairer energy system for Scotland. ourpower.justpost.cards
Tell your MSP: Scotland’s renewables should benefit Scotland.
Our energy system in Scotland isn’t working for regular people. It’s making shareholders and landlords wealthy, while our communities get crumbs. Write a postcard to your MSP and tell them we all need...
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A Scottish Labour MP has blasted his own party's policy on nuclear energy 👀
Scottish Labour MP blasts party's nuclear energy policy as 'madness'
thenational.scot
