PJ
@septemberrising.bsky.social
Scottish joined Bsky 2023, Post Grad Dementia studies, MBA. I support Scotland’s right to be an Independent nation SNP member. 🌈 🏴 🇬🇷 🇮🇹 🇨🇮🏳️⚧️
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Yes. I read a money article in a newspaper which raised the issue, so pursued it and discovered that I had been contracted out and needed to accept a huge drop in the State Pension I had expected or pay a large sum to fill the £ gap. I had no paperwork anywhere about being contracted out.
January 29, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Yes. I read a money article in a newspaper which raised the issue, so pursued it and discovered that I had been contracted out and needed to accept a huge drop in the State Pension I had expected or pay a large sum to fill the £ gap. I had no paperwork anywhere about being contracted out.
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❗️Scotland having the lowest child poverty rate isn’t luck - it’s SNP action.
👶 Scottish Child Payment. Baby Box. Free breakfast clubs. Real help, real impact. If implemented UK-wide? 1.1m kids lifted out of poverty!
🗳️ I’ll fight to protect this. Vote SNP in Aberdeenshire West, 7 May.
👶 Scottish Child Payment. Baby Box. Free breakfast clubs. Real help, real impact. If implemented UK-wide? 1.1m kids lifted out of poverty!
🗳️ I’ll fight to protect this. Vote SNP in Aberdeenshire West, 7 May.
January 29, 2026 at 5:06 PM
❗️Scotland having the lowest child poverty rate isn’t luck - it’s SNP action.
👶 Scottish Child Payment. Baby Box. Free breakfast clubs. Real help, real impact. If implemented UK-wide? 1.1m kids lifted out of poverty!
🗳️ I’ll fight to protect this. Vote SNP in Aberdeenshire West, 7 May.
👶 Scottish Child Payment. Baby Box. Free breakfast clubs. Real help, real impact. If implemented UK-wide? 1.1m kids lifted out of poverty!
🗳️ I’ll fight to protect this. Vote SNP in Aberdeenshire West, 7 May.
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174 cosponsors to impeach Kristi Noem. I know the saying about counting chickens, but this is an impressive number.
Secretary Noem needs to be removed. 174 cosponsors and counting.
January 29, 2026 at 9:48 PM
174 cosponsors to impeach Kristi Noem. I know the saying about counting chickens, but this is an impressive number.
Why is this being allowed in the UK by this govetnment. apple.news/A0UcCN7dVRU-...
Man given Musk's brain chip in UK trial says it 'feels magical' — Sky News
The neurosurgeon leading the trial tells Sky News the level of control the Neuralink chip offers is
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January 29, 2026 at 9:50 PM
Why is this being allowed in the UK by this govetnment. apple.news/A0UcCN7dVRU-...
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And if you are reading this in the United States you, you can get the Kindle version of the book for the bargain price of $0.99 but only till the end of the week. Go on, astonish me!
I’m gey prood o the fact that, like Burns, I’m a lad that wis Born in Kyle. (thanks for the title, Rabbie) This is fae a chapter on the guid Scots words we yaised ilka day that dated back tae afore Burns’ time. Lug in tae me readin mair like this on Audible. Ye’ll fair enjoy it.
January 27, 2026 at 3:36 PM
And if you are reading this in the United States you, you can get the Kindle version of the book for the bargain price of $0.99 but only till the end of the week. Go on, astonish me!
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Images from the Scottish Diaspora tapestry - three of many
panels which were inspired by stories in my book The Scottish World. These are on the Scottish influence on Gothenburg and Jonsered in Sweden. It was lads from my own Irvine Valley who took fitba to Gothenburg.
panels which were inspired by stories in my book The Scottish World. These are on the Scottish influence on Gothenburg and Jonsered in Sweden. It was lads from my own Irvine Valley who took fitba to Gothenburg.
January 28, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Images from the Scottish Diaspora tapestry - three of many
panels which were inspired by stories in my book The Scottish World. These are on the Scottish influence on Gothenburg and Jonsered in Sweden. It was lads from my own Irvine Valley who took fitba to Gothenburg.
panels which were inspired by stories in my book The Scottish World. These are on the Scottish influence on Gothenburg and Jonsered in Sweden. It was lads from my own Irvine Valley who took fitba to Gothenburg.
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It's easy to slip into cause and effect debates, but much of your thread makes great sense - thanks for posting 👏. What a shame there isn't a minister for Gaelic AND Scots to put more of a spotlight on this.
January 29, 2026 at 6:09 PM
It's easy to slip into cause and effect debates, but much of your thread makes great sense - thanks for posting 👏. What a shame there isn't a minister for Gaelic AND Scots to put more of a spotlight on this.
Parallel to the WASPI situation people who are to receive the state pension are only now finding out they may have been contracted out and not sufficiently informed what this would mean, and won’t receive their full state pension, this is happening to a friend of mine atm, the UK Gov is a disgrace.
January 29, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Parallel to the WASPI situation people who are to receive the state pension are only now finding out they may have been contracted out and not sufficiently informed what this would mean, and won’t receive their full state pension, this is happening to a friend of mine atm, the UK Gov is a disgrace.
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Oops!
January 29, 2026 at 3:17 PM
Oops!
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So, Mr Manning, what first attracted you to the racist outfit - Reform?
Was it perhaps the lure of a racist leader promising mass deportations, an ICE-style border force and the removal of our human rights framework?
Seems the only possible explanation for why this keeps happening.
Was it perhaps the lure of a racist leader promising mass deportations, an ICE-style border force and the removal of our human rights framework?
Seems the only possible explanation for why this keeps happening.
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As reported on @lbc.co.uk with @mrjamesob.bsky.social
Nigel Farage urged to suspend Reform candidate over 'abhorrent' &'sickening' social media posts
Reform UK spox "As soon as we became aware of these posts, we immediately opened a disciplinary investigation"
www.lbc.co.uk/article/nige...
As reported on @lbc.co.uk with @mrjamesob.bsky.social
Nigel Farage urged to suspend Reform candidate over 'abhorrent' &'sickening' social media posts
Reform UK spox "As soon as we became aware of these posts, we immediately opened a disciplinary investigation"
www.lbc.co.uk/article/nige...
Nigel Farage urged to suspend Reform candidate over 'abhorrent' and 'sickening' social media posts | LBC
Mike Manning is Reform UK's candidate in an upcoming by election on Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council.
www.lbc.co.uk
January 29, 2026 at 6:06 PM
So, Mr Manning, what first attracted you to the racist outfit - Reform?
Was it perhaps the lure of a racist leader promising mass deportations, an ICE-style border force and the removal of our human rights framework?
Seems the only possible explanation for why this keeps happening.
Was it perhaps the lure of a racist leader promising mass deportations, an ICE-style border force and the removal of our human rights framework?
Seems the only possible explanation for why this keeps happening.
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BREAKING: The Senate just blocked a bill that would have renewed ICE's budget without real, enforceable changes.
This is a direct result of hundreds of thousands of people across the nation demanding that our Senators vote no.
This is a direct result of hundreds of thousands of people across the nation demanding that our Senators vote no.
January 29, 2026 at 6:26 PM
BREAKING: The Senate just blocked a bill that would have renewed ICE's budget without real, enforceable changes.
This is a direct result of hundreds of thousands of people across the nation demanding that our Senators vote no.
This is a direct result of hundreds of thousands of people across the nation demanding that our Senators vote no.
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I wonder what the WASPI women think about that?
January 29, 2026 at 3:07 PM
I wonder what the WASPI women think about that?
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When the president was calling all Somali immigrants "garbage" who "come from hell" and "contribute nothing" to America and therefore needed to go "back where they came from" did you ask him to "stop the rhetoric," Tom?
Homan: "I begged for the last two months on TV for the rhetoric to stop. I said in March -- if the rhetoric doesn't stop, there is gonna be bloodshed. And there has been. I wish I wasn't right. I don't want to see anybody die."
January 29, 2026 at 2:07 PM
When the president was calling all Somali immigrants "garbage" who "come from hell" and "contribute nothing" to America and therefore needed to go "back where they came from" did you ask him to "stop the rhetoric," Tom?
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Waspi women will get no compensation, says Pat McFadden, Labour Minister for DWP. It would be neither practical or fair. This makes Labour the Party of Injustice. No different to Tories at all.
January 29, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Waspi women will get no compensation, says Pat McFadden, Labour Minister for DWP. It would be neither practical or fair. This makes Labour the Party of Injustice. No different to Tories at all.
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Just had an interesting e-mail from the SNP on to how members should be voting on the Regional list. SNP members will be getting an e-mail tomorrow pm from their ballot provider, Mi-Voice, re maximising the vote share on each regional list. Am guessing this will be re each region's best options?
January 29, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Just had an interesting e-mail from the SNP on to how members should be voting on the Regional list. SNP members will be getting an e-mail tomorrow pm from their ballot provider, Mi-Voice, re maximising the vote share on each regional list. Am guessing this will be re each region's best options?
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Prior to the UK General Election, Labour politicians lined up to back the WASPI women & pledged to support their campaign for compensation.
Labour lied!
Today, they betrayed the WASPI women in a dishonourable, despicable & detestable way.
Labour lied!
Today, they betrayed the WASPI women in a dishonourable, despicable & detestable way.
January 29, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Prior to the UK General Election, Labour politicians lined up to back the WASPI women & pledged to support their campaign for compensation.
Labour lied!
Today, they betrayed the WASPI women in a dishonourable, despicable & detestable way.
Labour lied!
Today, they betrayed the WASPI women in a dishonourable, despicable & detestable way.
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"All governments decay eventually. What distinguishes Keir Starmer’s is the speed with which the necrosis has set in. After little more than 18 months in office, it already resembles the last months of Rishi Sunak’s premiership"
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The prisoner of Downing Street
[FREE TO READ] The smell of death is descending on a directionless government
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January 29, 2026 at 1:46 PM
"All governments decay eventually. What distinguishes Keir Starmer’s is the speed with which the necrosis has set in. After little more than 18 months in office, it already resembles the last months of Rishi Sunak’s premiership"
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Can they really be called a PARTY anymore?
They sold out years ago,and they will suffer for it,come May.
They sold out years ago,and they will suffer for it,come May.
January 29, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Can they really be called a PARTY anymore?
They sold out years ago,and they will suffer for it,come May.
They sold out years ago,and they will suffer for it,come May.
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@snp.org have fought endlessly to right this wrong against WASPI woman and here we have the UK Labour Party yet again denying them, shocking betrayal. apple.news/Ah7RgV4wlQgW...
apple.news
January 29, 2026 at 2:26 PM
What part did the UK Labour Party in Gov at Westminster play in this??
January 29, 2026 at 2:37 PM
What part did the UK Labour Party in Gov at Westminster play in this??
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@snp.org have fought endlessly to right this wrong against WASPI woman and here we have the UK Labour Party yet again denying them, shocking betrayal. apple.news/Ah7RgV4wlQgW...
apple.news
January 29, 2026 at 1:54 PM
@snp.org have fought endlessly to right this wrong against WASPI woman and here we have the UK Labour Party yet again denying them, shocking betrayal. apple.news/Ah7RgV4wlQgW...