Shirley

@shirley.sharpe.scot

Scottish Independence supporter. Showing people the benefits of self rule. Try to be kind to someone every day - leave them smiling and feeling better about themselves and the world. No DMs pls

#BBC Radio 4 5pm News considers the radical move to pedestrianise parts of Oxford Street. A spokesperson refers to precedents in other parts of the world eg in South Korea. Here is what the 3 principal streets of Glasgow city centre: Argyle St, Sauchiehall St, Buchanan St have looked like for years.

Argyle Street, GlasgowSauchiehall Street, GlasgowBuchanan Street, Glasgow.

🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 So it turns out that Andy Burnham is just another uber-unionist fundamentalist PM, who believes that it is for him to determine Scotland’s constitutional future, and NOT the people of Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Burnham also states that the (English) “PUBLIC ARE THE BOSSES” to decide on rejoining the EU

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London does it, Manchester does it, Liverpool does it. Wales and the West Midlands are about to do it. So why is it only in Scotland that the media loses its mind over plans to bring buses into public control? Answer: because it’s an SNP policy and the Scottish media has lost all sense of balance

Hysteria over John Swinney’s bus plans has exposed something rotten about Scotland

The nonsense spouted over the SNP's bus policy provides a glimpse into how badly politicians communicate as well as the failings of the Scottish media, our Writer at Large Neil Mackay argues

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Without a hint of irony, today, the UK Chancellor declared if Scotland's oil money had been better invested there would be a trillion £+ sovereign wealth fund. - Unionists tell us Scotland would be ruined without UK support. Utter bastards. That's our kids futures they have helped themselves to!!

weegingerdug@weegingerdug.bsky.social · 6d ago

I'm against drilling for fossil fuels but isn't it odd* the BBC and Sky aren't mentioning in their reports about drilling in the Jackdaw gas field being approved that they told Scots loudly and repeatedly in 2014 that all the oil and gas would be gone within 5 years. *entirely predictable

Labour's Baroness Smith of Malvern opines from the House of Lords that Sally Rooney deserves to have her books banned in the UK because "Actions have consequences." Indeed, they do. The actions of the UK government have demonstrated to the world that it is sliding into fascism.

The UK Government has blocked the release of files on a shadowy Israeli firm caught meddling in Scottish elections! Downing Street cited an exemption that allows documents to be withheld if they would '𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑗𝑢𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠' with another state 𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑰𝑺𝑹𝑨𝑬𝑳 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝑩𝑬𝑭𝑶𝑹𝑬 𝑺𝒄𝒐𝒕𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝑾𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓!

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