Mandy Lawson
@ajlawson.bsky.social
Scottish European community activist, looking forward to my beautiful, resourceful country (not a county or a colony to be exploited or asset stripped by our equal partner in union England ) becoming an independent carbon zero nordic country very soon
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NEW There's no overstating how significant the Nathan Gill case is. On Friday, the close associate of Nigel Farage was jailed for over 10 years for taking bribes ultimately from a friend of Putin. It's a complex, detail-heavy story that raises questions about Farage’s claim Gill was ‘one bad apple’🧵
November 23, 2025 at 11:53 AM
NEW There's no overstating how significant the Nathan Gill case is. On Friday, the close associate of Nigel Farage was jailed for over 10 years for taking bribes ultimately from a friend of Putin. It's a complex, detail-heavy story that raises questions about Farage’s claim Gill was ‘one bad apple’🧵
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Britain’s oil, gas and finance curses www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11... Why is the UK failing? It's not because we are no good: it's because the government squandered oil and then bowed down to finance. We never had a hope once our governments put them first.
Britain’s oil, gas and finance curses
In 1993, the economist Richard Auty coined the term “resource curse” to describe the paradox that countries with abundant natural resources often grow more slowly and less equitably than those without...
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November 23, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Britain’s oil, gas and finance curses www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11... Why is the UK failing? It's not because we are no good: it's because the government squandered oil and then bowed down to finance. We never had a hope once our governments put them first.
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“Over 150,000 Twitter accounts based in Russia tweeted about Brexit during the referendum, an investigation found..Britain "knows" what Russia is doing” but Tories were bankrolled by Russian money & compromised.
www.businessinsider.com/russia-used-...
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Russia used a network of 150,000 Twitter accounts to meddle in Brexit
Russian-based Twitter accounts focused their attention on the Brexit referendum in the days leading up to the vote, data scientists have concluded.
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November 22, 2025 at 7:16 PM
“Over 150,000 Twitter accounts based in Russia tweeted about Brexit during the referendum, an investigation found..Britain "knows" what Russia is doing” but Tories were bankrolled by Russian money & compromised.
www.businessinsider.com/russia-used-...
www.businessinsider.com/russia-used-...
youtu.be/O_6AdrMLWbw?.... Reality check from economist Richard Murphy... tough times ahead
Why Rachel Reeves’s first budget cannot survive the coming financial meltdown
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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November 21, 2025 at 11:41 PM
youtu.be/O_6AdrMLWbw?.... Reality check from economist Richard Murphy... tough times ahead
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My latest blog piece, a vote for Labour, or for another anti-independence party in Scotland, is voting to be ignored and irrelevant.
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A Labour vote in Scotland is a vote not to matter
You’ve got to hand it to the Labour party, they are certainly consistent, consistent in their shafting of Scottish workers. It’s almost as though, despite Labour’s protestations t…
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November 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
My latest blog piece, a vote for Labour, or for another anti-independence party in Scotland, is voting to be ignored and irrelevant.
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November 19, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Anyone else feeling like this about 2025?
I've No More F***s To Give!
YouTube video by Thomas Benjamin Wild Esq
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November 18, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Anyone else feeling like this about 2025?
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The moment when 30 million American's received healthcare (2010) The moment when insurance companies had to start covering preexisting conditions, young adults could stay on their family's policy and I could trust that the small print couldn't screw me if I needed serious medical assistance. 🇺🇸
November 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM
The moment when 30 million American's received healthcare (2010) The moment when insurance companies had to start covering preexisting conditions, young adults could stay on their family's policy and I could trust that the small print couldn't screw me if I needed serious medical assistance. 🇺🇸
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trans people exist.
billionaires shouldn't.
billionaires shouldn't.
November 16, 2025 at 6:23 PM
trans people exist.
billionaires shouldn't.
billionaires shouldn't.
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My latest blog piece, about Shabana Mahmood pandering to the basest instincts of the far right and why it's doomed to failure
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Starmer’s Labour enables fascism
When the race baiting far right criminal Stephen Yaxley-Lennon and the hard right Reform UK are praising Labour’s policies, you know that something has gone profoundly wrong in a party which …
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November 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM
My latest blog piece, about Shabana Mahmood pandering to the basest instincts of the far right and why it's doomed to failure
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Good news!
740,000 undergraduate students have benefitted from free education since your SNP Scottish Government abolished tuition fees.
Students south of the border will soon have to pay £9,535 a year.
You’re better off with the SNP. 🏴
740,000 undergraduate students have benefitted from free education since your SNP Scottish Government abolished tuition fees.
Students south of the border will soon have to pay £9,535 a year.
You’re better off with the SNP. 🏴
November 15, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Good news!
740,000 undergraduate students have benefitted from free education since your SNP Scottish Government abolished tuition fees.
Students south of the border will soon have to pay £9,535 a year.
You’re better off with the SNP. 🏴
740,000 undergraduate students have benefitted from free education since your SNP Scottish Government abolished tuition fees.
Students south of the border will soon have to pay £9,535 a year.
You’re better off with the SNP. 🏴
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🇬🇧 The Red Tories (North britain Branch Office) are now willing to work with the Fascists in order to defeat the SNP 🏴
November 3, 2025 at 3:56 PM
🇬🇧 The Red Tories (North britain Branch Office) are now willing to work with the Fascists in order to defeat the SNP 🏴
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🙌 Huge double digit lead for Scottish independence in a latest poll.
🔎 This is a (+3%) boost in a month, from the same pollster.
🏴 The harder we work, the stronger the movement.
🔎 This is a (+3%) boost in a month, from the same pollster.
🏴 The harder we work, the stronger the movement.
October 27, 2025 at 6:16 PM
🙌 Huge double digit lead for Scottish independence in a latest poll.
🔎 This is a (+3%) boost in a month, from the same pollster.
🏴 The harder we work, the stronger the movement.
🔎 This is a (+3%) boost in a month, from the same pollster.
🏴 The harder we work, the stronger the movement.
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“We don’t have illegal aliens… the legal term for my people were slaves….”
🚨This is what leadership looks and sounds like in 2025.✊🏼
🚨This is what leadership looks and sounds like in 2025.✊🏼
October 26, 2025 at 2:49 AM
“We don’t have illegal aliens… the legal term for my people were slaves….”
🚨This is what leadership looks and sounds like in 2025.✊🏼
🚨This is what leadership looks and sounds like in 2025.✊🏼
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Do you know what a group of frogs is called?
AN ARMY
AN ARMY
October 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Do you know what a group of frogs is called?
AN ARMY
AN ARMY
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The SNP's Stephen Flynn spelled it out clearly today: Scotland belongs to everyone who lives here - wherever they were born.
(video stream: @broadcastscot.bsky.social )
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October 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The SNP's Stephen Flynn spelled it out clearly today: Scotland belongs to everyone who lives here - wherever they were born.
(video stream: @broadcastscot.bsky.social )
(video stream: @broadcastscot.bsky.social )
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BREAKING: SNP members have backed John Swinney's independence strategy at party conference.
Members backed making an SNP majority at Holyrood 2026 the mandate for a second referendum.
Members backed making an SNP majority at Holyrood 2026 the mandate for a second referendum.
October 11, 2025 at 3:11 PM
BREAKING: SNP members have backed John Swinney's independence strategy at party conference.
Members backed making an SNP majority at Holyrood 2026 the mandate for a second referendum.
Members backed making an SNP majority at Holyrood 2026 the mandate for a second referendum.
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Oh dear that failed spectacularly as the BBC arranged an all-right-wing panel to challenge Green leader Zack Polanski on Question Time last night. But he schooled them all. And it was a perfect example of how to cut through establishment propaganda with clarity and compassion.
Zack Polanski schooling a right-wing BBCQT panel was a brilliant lesson in how to beat propaganda
The BBC arranged an all-right-wing panel to challenge Green leader Zack Polanski on Question Time last night. But he schooled them all.
www.thecanary.co
October 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Oh dear that failed spectacularly as the BBC arranged an all-right-wing panel to challenge Green leader Zack Polanski on Question Time last night. But he schooled them all. And it was a perfect example of how to cut through establishment propaganda with clarity and compassion.
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I called this out on #BBCQT last night and I'm calling it out again now.
He is gaslighting a nation.
He is gaslighting a nation.
Farage insists ex-Reform UK Wales leader convicted of bribery is ‘bad apple’
Farage insists ex-Reform UK Wales leader convicted of bribery is ‘bad apple’
Farage said he was shocked by Nathan Gill’s admissions relating to pro-Russia statements
Nigel Farage has insisted his party’s former leader in Wales who was convicted of taking pro-Russian bribes was a “bad apple” who betrayed him.
The Reform UK leader was in Caerphilly campaigning for his candidate in a forthcoming Senedd byelection when he was asked about his links to Nathan Gill. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I called this out on #BBCQT last night and I'm calling it out again now.
He is gaslighting a nation.
He is gaslighting a nation.
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Latest poll puts Greens just two points behind Labour. When I said we weren't here to be disappointed in Labour but to replace them, I meant it.
Join us and let's make hope normal again.
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Join us and let's make hope normal again.
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October 9, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Latest poll puts Greens just two points behind Labour. When I said we weren't here to be disappointed in Labour but to replace them, I meant it.
Join us and let's make hope normal again.
join.greenparty.org.uk
Join us and let's make hope normal again.
join.greenparty.org.uk
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We just hit 93,000 members.
We're polling on average higher than we have ever before.
Over 1000 people joining a day!
Join our movement.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
We're polling on average higher than we have ever before.
Over 1000 people joining a day!
Join our movement.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Join the Green Party
Join the Green Party from just £6 a year. Become a member today - join the only party standing up for people and planet.
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October 8, 2025 at 6:57 PM
We just hit 93,000 members.
We're polling on average higher than we have ever before.
Over 1000 people joining a day!
Join our movement.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
We're polling on average higher than we have ever before.
Over 1000 people joining a day!
Join our movement.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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What will it take for regular people to understand that if they refuse to stand up against fascism they will not be spared? Fascism is a serial killer with no restrictions on who it targets.
October 8, 2025 at 5:07 PM
What will it take for regular people to understand that if they refuse to stand up against fascism they will not be spared? Fascism is a serial killer with no restrictions on who it targets.
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Still waiting for it to trickle down...
October 6, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Still waiting for it to trickle down...