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Opinionated gobshite, stroke survivor, older gay man, Scottish independence supporter, columnist with @scotnational.bsky.social huge languages and linguistics geek. Blog at https://weegingerdug.wordpress.com Not interested in your crypto investment.
The obscenity and unhinged greed of Musk's trillion dollar pay deal can be seen clearly when you consider that it would allow him to spend a million dollars an HOUR for 114 years, or a million a DAY for 2738 years. These people are not taxed nearly enough.
November 10, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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...
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
I've been getting pushback from Labour loyalists for my last posts.

I'll just say this. I'm physically disabled. I depend on my husband, a foreign national with ILR, for support with mobility & daily living. Since Starmer got in the fear & anxiety I experienced under the Tories has only got worse.
November 8, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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.
November 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Keir Starmer has killed the Labour party. Find Out Now puts Labour on 15%, 3% behind the Greens. Labour needs to combat the far right instead of pandering to it.

The poll puts Reform UK on 33%, the Greens on 18%, the Conservatives on 16% and the LibDems on 11%

www.thenational.scot/news/2560405...
Labour slump to fourth in poll behind Greens and Conservatives
A NEW poll has put Keir Starmer's Labour Party in fourth place behind Reform, the Greens and Conservatives.
www.thenational.scot
November 7, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Proof that no matter how obscenely wealthy they are, the greed of the super-rich can never be satiated. No one 'earns' a billion never mind a trillion.

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Tesla shareholders approve $1 trillion pay package for Musk | CNN Business
Tesla shareholders approved a pay package on Thursday that could make CEO Elon Musk, already the world’s richest person, the world’s first trillionaire.
edition.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Make a song Scottish

Fly me to Dunoon
Chanson Dalmuir
That's A Moray
Coming In the Ayr Tonight
Twenty four Hours from Tolsta
Naver Gonna Give You Up
Born on the Forth of July
November 6, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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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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 …
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November 6, 2025 at 3:37 PM
The latest figures show that 262 prisoners in England and Wales were mistakenly released in the year leading up to March 2025, according to the prison service's annual digest. That's a 128% increase.

Number of prisoners mistakenly released in Scotland, 0
November 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
My latest blog piece, it's time to replace the discredited GERS figures with a more accurate assessment of the financial position of an independent Scotland

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The need for iGERS
The pro-independence campaign group Believe in Scotland has proposed a replacement for the discredited GERS (Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland) figures which are published every year to t…
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November 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Enabling Andrew's abuse,fine. Exerting pressure to get exemptions from laws that might affect their wealth, that's OK. Rampant hypocrisy on everything from the environment to personal morality, no problem. But meeting the Pope is where they draw the line.
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2558993...
Glasgow loyalist group nixs anthem after King's visit with Leo
The playing of God Save the King was notably absent from the staunchly royalist gathering.
www.heraldscotland.com
November 2, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I keep laughing when royal apologists say Charles took action because the royals don't want to take up Parliament's time. No, he took belated action in order to limit damage and avoid coming under scrutiny that would reveal he & his mother protected & enabled Andrew's abuse & corruption for decades.
November 1, 2025 at 8:58 PM
So it's official

Andrew is the nonce formerly known as prince

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
Prince Andrew to lose 'prince' title and move out of Royal Lodge
He will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor - Buckingham Palace says
www.bbc.co.uk
October 30, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I see Sky News is yet again bigging up Reform UK in Scotland. They never do the same with the SNP which is actually expected to win the Scottish elections in 2026 while the Scottish Greens, who are polling strongly, never get mentioned at all.
October 30, 2025 at 4:14 PM
With anti-immigrant hysteria threatening people with Indefinite Leave to Remain, we've applied for British citizenship for my husband. Our immigration lawyer says it should be straightforward. It's costing us £2755 in total. This gives us security but we are aware it's not an option for everyone.
October 29, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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October 28, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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October 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Wanting Scottish or Welsh independence is not reactionary nationalism. Reactionary nationalism is wrapping yourself in British flags, supporting Brexit & banging on about immigration.

You don't get a free pass from reactionary nationalism because you're British.
October 28, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Reform MP claims his English nationalist party isn't nationalist and likens supporting the LGBT community to supporting Hamas. It's a fundamental tenet of Anglo-British nationalism that it's better than other nationalisms because it's not nationalist at all.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/fresh-...
Fresh Reform UK Row As MP Warns Against 'LGBT-Supporting' Political Alliances
Former Tory Danny Kruger appeared to compare backing LGBT rights to supporting Hamas.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 3:38 PM
If you support Reform - a party that wants to strip Indefinite Leave to Remain from people who have lived in the UK for decades, working, paying taxes, and raising families. You do not "have legitimate concerns about illegal immigration". You're just a racist and a tool of the super rich.
October 28, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Absolutely, we should tell people who are thinking of voting Reform that it's the political equivalent of drunk driving, something only arseholes do.
Given the party's refusal to act on Pochin's brazen racism, it should be as socially unacceptable to vote for Reform as it was in the early 2000s to vote for the BNP.

And we should be prepared to say this to people's faces.
October 28, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Adverts should be representative of traditional British families.
October 28, 2025 at 11:59 AM