Dial M for Madeye 🏴 🇮🇪 🏴 🇪🇺
@carnaptiousmadeye.bsky.social
Carnaptious Glaswegian Scot.
"The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters." (Gramsci)
#IndependenceIsNormal
#ScottishIndependence
"The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters." (Gramsci)
#IndependenceIsNormal
#ScottishIndependence
Pinned
Labour’s “Britain” a green energy superpower?
Thanks to Scotland’s abundant renewable energy and exploiting Scottish consumers who’re paying probably the highest energy prices in Europe while fuel poverty in Scotland is c30% and consumers in England pay less for energy generated in Scotland.
Thanks to Scotland’s abundant renewable energy and exploiting Scottish consumers who’re paying probably the highest energy prices in Europe while fuel poverty in Scotland is c30% and consumers in England pay less for energy generated in Scotland.
“… surely no one will vote for a Labour party next year that has Sarwar… whose only task in his fake role, as the Labour branch office manager, is to always grant any Labour UK government complete carte blanche to do whatever they want to do to Scotland in Scotland.”
Why “Motormouth” is a very apt description of Anas Sarwar
By Liz S “Sarwar refuses to comment on UK tax hike speculation“ Really ? Yet he, Sarwar, is not slow in commentating upon and also speculating upon so many o…
talkingupscotlandtwo.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:20 PM
“… surely no one will vote for a Labour party next year that has Sarwar… whose only task in his fake role, as the Labour branch office manager, is to always grant any Labour UK government complete carte blanche to do whatever they want to do to Scotland in Scotland.”
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Welcome to #Scotland where Category A nuclear accidents are being reported at Faslane and folk in Rosyth may be prescribed anti-radiation iodine pills.
Imagine if this story was about Plymouth, Portsmouth or London.
The shit would be hitting the fan.
#BairnsNotBombs
Imagine if this story was about Plymouth, Portsmouth or London.
The shit would be hitting the fan.
#BairnsNotBombs
November 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Only some are willing to say it out loud.
November 11, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Only some are willing to say it out loud.
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They are all lying ........
November 11, 2025 at 6:37 PM
They are all lying ........
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#BBCLies
The BBC has been conducting an unashamed propaganda campaign against the SNP for years. To suggest that they need to survive for the purpose of upholding truth is absurd, and an affront to those of us here, who have been subjected to their relentless propaganda during this time.
The BBC has been conducting an unashamed propaganda campaign against the SNP for years. To suggest that they need to survive for the purpose of upholding truth is absurd, and an affront to those of us here, who have been subjected to their relentless propaganda during this time.
#BBCLies.
In 2014 Nick Robinson of the BBC edited a clip of Alex Salmond, claiming that he "Didn't answer a question." Salmond had actually given a long and detailed answer. They edited the clip to make it appear that he hadn't. Any suggestion that BBC journalists are impartial is ridiculous. 1/
In 2014 Nick Robinson of the BBC edited a clip of Alex Salmond, claiming that he "Didn't answer a question." Salmond had actually given a long and detailed answer. They edited the clip to make it appear that he hadn't. Any suggestion that BBC journalists are impartial is ridiculous. 1/
November 11, 2025 at 3:05 PM
#BBCLies
The BBC has been conducting an unashamed propaganda campaign against the SNP for years. To suggest that they need to survive for the purpose of upholding truth is absurd, and an affront to those of us here, who have been subjected to their relentless propaganda during this time.
The BBC has been conducting an unashamed propaganda campaign against the SNP for years. To suggest that they need to survive for the purpose of upholding truth is absurd, and an affront to those of us here, who have been subjected to their relentless propaganda during this time.
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That this is happening to a PM with a 3 figure majority just over a year after the GE tells you just how badly Starmer is governing. Labour has lost its way to such an extent that Wes Streeting - David Cameron in larval form - is his main challenger.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Starmer allies say ousting PM would be ‘reckless’ as fears grow over leadership challenge
Exclusive: No 10 said to be in ‘full bunker mode’ over fears of challenge after this month’s budget or May local elections
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:51 PM
That this is happening to a PM with a 3 figure majority just over a year after the GE tells you just how badly Starmer is governing. Labour has lost its way to such an extent that Wes Streeting - David Cameron in larval form - is his main challenger.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Another Westminster politician presumes to speak on our behalf. Davey is borderline delusional about the BBC.
Ed Davey says BBC 'belongs to all of us' – but does it?
LIBDEM leader Ed Davey has chipped into the BBC debate by claiming in a column that the organisation "belongs to all of us” ... but is it…
www.thenational.scot
November 11, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Another Westminster politician presumes to speak on our behalf. Davey is borderline delusional about the BBC.
Welcome to #Scotland where Category A nuclear accidents are being reported at Faslane and folk in Rosyth may be prescribed anti-radiation iodine pills.
Imagine if this story was about Plymouth, Portsmouth or London.
The shit would be hitting the fan.
#BairnsNotBombs
Imagine if this story was about Plymouth, Portsmouth or London.
The shit would be hitting the fan.
#BairnsNotBombs
November 11, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Welcome to #Scotland where Category A nuclear accidents are being reported at Faslane and folk in Rosyth may be prescribed anti-radiation iodine pills.
Imagine if this story was about Plymouth, Portsmouth or London.
The shit would be hitting the fan.
#BairnsNotBombs
Imagine if this story was about Plymouth, Portsmouth or London.
The shit would be hitting the fan.
#BairnsNotBombs
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Happy 111th birthday to Miss Lessie Benningfield 'Mother" Randle, one of the two last living witnesses to the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. She and Viola Ford Fletcher, also 111 have been relentless in their pursuit of justice, accountability and reparations. 👏
November 11, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Happy 111th birthday to Miss Lessie Benningfield 'Mother" Randle, one of the two last living witnesses to the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. She and Viola Ford Fletcher, also 111 have been relentless in their pursuit of justice, accountability and reparations. 👏
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It’s where Scotland’s fate was sealed in 1706. We visit the last independent parliament of Scotland to discover its history and how and why Scottish parliamentarians gave up Scotland’s independence. Watch from midnight tonight exclusively on The Scotland Channel.
November 5, 2025 at 8:34 AM
It’s where Scotland’s fate was sealed in 1706. We visit the last independent parliament of Scotland to discover its history and how and why Scottish parliamentarians gave up Scotland’s independence. Watch from midnight tonight exclusively on The Scotland Channel.
The BBC is no longer trusted in Scotland and hasn’t been for at least a decade.
Anybody in this country (🏴) who still bleats about the BBC being a paragon of public service broadcasting is either delusional or must have been unconscious for the last ten years.
Anybody in this country (🏴) who still bleats about the BBC being a paragon of public service broadcasting is either delusional or must have been unconscious for the last ten years.
November 11, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The BBC is no longer trusted in Scotland and hasn’t been for at least a decade.
Anybody in this country (🏴) who still bleats about the BBC being a paragon of public service broadcasting is either delusional or must have been unconscious for the last ten years.
Anybody in this country (🏴) who still bleats about the BBC being a paragon of public service broadcasting is either delusional or must have been unconscious for the last ten years.
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No te llamó nadie, pero nos ha quedado claro que habrías seguido comiendo y bebiendo aunque lo hubieran hecho, putísimo infraser.
November 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
No te llamó nadie, pero nos ha quedado claro que habrías seguido comiendo y bebiendo aunque lo hubieran hecho, putísimo infraser.
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My latest blog piece @believeinscotland.bsky.social have the route map to independence that we need
weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2025/11/10/b...
weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2025/11/10/b...
Believe in Scotland’s path to independence, the routemap we need
I have previously blogged about my view that the UK is entering a terminal phase crisis which it is unlikely to survive in its current form. The pro-independence campaign group Believe in Scotland …
weegingerdug.wordpress.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:27 PM
My latest blog piece @believeinscotland.bsky.social have the route map to independence that we need
weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2025/11/10/b...
weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2025/11/10/b...
That the UK “Labour” party is desperately accusing the Green Party of England & Wales of making “unaffordable promises” is absolutely hilarious.
Time after time, false pledge after false pledge, Starmer has demonstrated he’s a liar and a charlatan.
#Liebour
#StarmerChameleon
Time after time, false pledge after false pledge, Starmer has demonstrated he’s a liar and a charlatan.
#Liebour
#StarmerChameleon
Labour's Backstabbing Tendency will find it much harder purging the Green Party than it was to purge the Labour Party.
November 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
That the UK “Labour” party is desperately accusing the Green Party of England & Wales of making “unaffordable promises” is absolutely hilarious.
Time after time, false pledge after false pledge, Starmer has demonstrated he’s a liar and a charlatan.
#Liebour
#StarmerChameleon
Time after time, false pledge after false pledge, Starmer has demonstrated he’s a liar and a charlatan.
#Liebour
#StarmerChameleon
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The Real Living Wage has delivered a pay boost to 72,000 Scottish workers.
I visited Capital City Partnership to mark a record 4,000 Real Living Wage employers in Scotland - proportionately that’s around 5 times more than the rest of the UK.
I visited Capital City Partnership to mark a record 4,000 Real Living Wage employers in Scotland - proportionately that’s around 5 times more than the rest of the UK.
November 10, 2025 at 1:51 PM
The Real Living Wage has delivered a pay boost to 72,000 Scottish workers.
I visited Capital City Partnership to mark a record 4,000 Real Living Wage employers in Scotland - proportionately that’s around 5 times more than the rest of the UK.
I visited Capital City Partnership to mark a record 4,000 Real Living Wage employers in Scotland - proportionately that’s around 5 times more than the rest of the UK.
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We in Scotland have put up with BBC bias for years and no one bothered about that!😡
The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship
November 10, 2025 at 5:18 PM
We in Scotland have put up with BBC bias for years and no one bothered about that!😡
“… my relationship with Keir is we have a mutual respect,” [Sarwar] added.
“We have a mutual friendship. We have a shared political route to power and we have a shared desire to not just change the Labour Party but also change our country [sic].”
(The National, 16/2/24)
“We have a mutual friendship. We have a shared political route to power and we have a shared desire to not just change the Labour Party but also change our country [sic].”
(The National, 16/2/24)
Anas Sarwar has defended his UK Labour colleagues after several ministers suggested the SNP Scottish Government is a national security threat
Anas Sarwar defends Douglas Alexander on SNP 'national security threat' claim
www.thenational.scot
November 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
“… my relationship with Keir is we have a mutual respect,” [Sarwar] added.
“We have a mutual friendship. We have a shared political route to power and we have a shared desire to not just change the Labour Party but also change our country [sic].”
(The National, 16/2/24)
“We have a mutual friendship. We have a shared political route to power and we have a shared desire to not just change the Labour Party but also change our country [sic].”
(The National, 16/2/24)
Who cares?
Who still thinks Gibbs’ BBC is worth defending?
Who still thinks Gibbs’ BBC is worth defending?
If you care about the BBC, stand up and defend it: this could be the beginning of the end | Polly Toynbee
If you care about the BBC, stand up and defend it: this could be the beginning of the end | Polly Toynbee
Replacing the TV licence with a means-tested alternative may help disarm the right of one of its most effective weapons, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Who cares?
Who still thinks Gibbs’ BBC is worth defending?
Who still thinks Gibbs’ BBC is worth defending?
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Those of us in Scotland have had to put up with hugely biased output from BBC & Radio Scotland for years. Their anti SNP reporting is obvious (see some examples below), but apparently, it takes bias to someone in a foreign country for anyone to care. #bbc
November 10, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Those of us in Scotland have had to put up with hugely biased output from BBC & Radio Scotland for years. Their anti SNP reporting is obvious (see some examples below), but apparently, it takes bias to someone in a foreign country for anyone to care. #bbc
“How #BBC #Scotland sought to suppress and to justify that suppression of the only academic research revealing their deep bias in 2014.”
talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/08/18/h...
(See also www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemoc...)
talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/08/18/h...
(See also www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemoc...)
How BBC Scotland sought to suppress and to justify that suppression of the only academic research revealing their deep bias in 2014
Professor John Robertson OBA Looking for the first time in years at the above fascinating and comprehensive analysis of broadcast TV bias in the run-up to the Scottish Independence refere…
talkingupscotlandtwo.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:07 AM
“How #BBC #Scotland sought to suppress and to justify that suppression of the only academic research revealing their deep bias in 2014.”
talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/08/18/h...
(See also www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemoc...)
talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/08/18/h...
(See also www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemoc...)
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Another day, another Labour attack on disabled people. The scheme is devolved in Scotland, the tax exemptions which Reeves is proposing to axe are not, but Scot Gov has not been consulted. Anything to avoid raising taxes on the wealthiest, eh?
www.thenational.scot/news/2560765...
www.thenational.scot/news/2560765...
Chancellor warned Motability cut will cause 'significant' costs for disabled Scots
SCOTLAND’S Social Justice Secretary has urged the Chancellor not to slash the Motability car scheme, warning of the significant costs for disabled…
www.thenational.scot
November 9, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Another day, another Labour attack on disabled people. The scheme is devolved in Scotland, the tax exemptions which Reeves is proposing to axe are not, but Scot Gov has not been consulted. Anything to avoid raising taxes on the wealthiest, eh?
www.thenational.scot/news/2560765...
www.thenational.scot/news/2560765...
A reminder “Scottish” Labour MP Joani Reid recently appeared on GB News punting yet more Faragesque bile.
Is she going to jump ship?
Is she going to jump ship?
Incredible that Robbie Gibb - most influential person on BBC board by many accounts and from journalists I speak in BBC - was involved in setting up GB News.
GB News of course has breached Ofcom rules on *multiple* occasions - no sign of resignations though
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
GB News of course has breached Ofcom rules on *multiple* occasions - no sign of resignations though
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Enforced veganism’: Ofcom lets GB News flout accuracy rules, say climate campaigners
Exclusive: Regulator has received 1,221 complaints about UK broadcasters since 2020 but found no breaches of its code
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:39 AM
A reminder “Scottish” Labour MP Joani Reid recently appeared on GB News punting yet more Faragesque bile.
Is she going to jump ship?
Is she going to jump ship?
“The drug deaths trend in Scotland has been downward for these last five years, from 1,339 in 2020 to 1,017. A 24.2% fall, by a quarter in only 5 years after more than 20 years of increasing, is very significant and suggests a successful strategy by government.”
FIVE years of success in turning Scotland’s drug deaths trend around, the reasons for that and the reasons it’s not even better than that talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/10/f...
FIVE years of success in turning Scotland’s drug deaths trend around, the reasons for that and the reasons it’s not even better than that
Professor John Robertson OBA This is simply untrue. The drug deaths trend in Scotland has been downward for these last five years, from 1 339 in 2020 to 1 017. A 24.2% fall, by a quarter in only 5 …
talkingupscotlandtwo.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:30 AM
“The drug deaths trend in Scotland has been downward for these last five years, from 1,339 in 2020 to 1,017. A 24.2% fall, by a quarter in only 5 years after more than 20 years of increasing, is very significant and suggests a successful strategy by government.”