@lj58.bsky.social
Interested in health politics and Scottish Independence. Happily retired Edinburgh
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We need a donation cap, but how much should it be? electoral-reform.org.uk/we-need-a-do... Electoral Reform Society – ERS
We need a donation cap, but how much should it be?
In the UK today, there is still no legal limit on how much a single donor can give to a political party each year. That simple fact shapes our politics in profound ways. When unlimited m
electoral-reform.org.uk
December 6, 2025 at 7:43 PM
We need a donation cap, but how much should it be? electoral-reform.org.uk/we-need-a-do... Electoral Reform Society – ERS
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Scotland has 60% of UK fishing capacity, 60% of exports, but only 7.78% of the funding.
Are we so thick that we cannot see the injustices heaped on Scotland now almost daily.👇
Are we so thick that we cannot see the injustices heaped on Scotland now almost daily.👇
November 9, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Scotland has 60% of UK fishing capacity, 60% of exports, but only 7.78% of the funding.
Are we so thick that we cannot see the injustices heaped on Scotland now almost daily.👇
Are we so thick that we cannot see the injustices heaped on Scotland now almost daily.👇
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Residents living near the Thistle safe drug consumption facility in Glasgow pay only a TENTH of the bill for removing discarded needles after it opened than they did before it opened to further expose BBC Scotland’s bias by selection talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/08/r...
Residents living near the Thistle safe drug consumption facility in Glasgow pay only a TENTH of the bill for removing discarded needles after it opened than they did before it opened to further expose...
Professor John Robertson OBA Thanks to L for providing this convincing and objective evidence, that Thistle facility has not increased the number of dangerous discarded needles in the surrounding a…
talkingupscotlandtwo.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Residents living near the Thistle safe drug consumption facility in Glasgow pay only a TENTH of the bill for removing discarded needles after it opened than they did before it opened to further expose BBC Scotland’s bias by selection talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/08/r...
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Trevor Philips, "What is the implication of the white poppy?"
Zack Polanski, "The white poppy began after WWI, mainly from women's groups, who talked about peace and antifascism"
"So on the same day we remember the fallen, it's also about looking to the future and saying, we want a world of peace"
Zack Polanski, "The white poppy began after WWI, mainly from women's groups, who talked about peace and antifascism"
"So on the same day we remember the fallen, it's also about looking to the future and saying, we want a world of peace"
November 9, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Trevor Philips, "What is the implication of the white poppy?"
Zack Polanski, "The white poppy began after WWI, mainly from women's groups, who talked about peace and antifascism"
"So on the same day we remember the fallen, it's also about looking to the future and saying, we want a world of peace"
Zack Polanski, "The white poppy began after WWI, mainly from women's groups, who talked about peace and antifascism"
"So on the same day we remember the fallen, it's also about looking to the future and saying, we want a world of peace"
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Nice to see this exclusive report in the Guardian, breaking the news that I reported 3 years ago in "The Decade In Tory" (one of dozens of lucrative, mostly wasted COVID contracts via direct connection to senior Tories).
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Revealed: the billion-pound PPE contractor with a Tory MP on site
Special report: Uniserve was paid £1.4bn for Covid contracts that included supply of £178.5m in never-used equipment
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Nice to see this exclusive report in the Guardian, breaking the news that I reported 3 years ago in "The Decade In Tory" (one of dozens of lucrative, mostly wasted COVID contracts via direct connection to senior Tories).
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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The rule of law has delivered:
Profiteering
Poverty
Poor housing
Low wages/pensions
Queues for hospital appointments
Premature death to many
Sewage in rivers
Cuts in spending on essential services
Closure of libraries, community centres.
Whose law, who rules? Govts appease corporations/rich.
Profiteering
Poverty
Poor housing
Low wages/pensions
Queues for hospital appointments
Premature death to many
Sewage in rivers
Cuts in spending on essential services
Closure of libraries, community centres.
Whose law, who rules? Govts appease corporations/rich.
Nothing will change until the political system is freed from the clutches of corporations and the super-rich
The law is being used to enforce existing power structures for the benefit of the few
leftfootforward.org
November 9, 2025 at 8:57 AM
The rule of law has delivered:
Profiteering
Poverty
Poor housing
Low wages/pensions
Queues for hospital appointments
Premature death to many
Sewage in rivers
Cuts in spending on essential services
Closure of libraries, community centres.
Whose law, who rules? Govts appease corporations/rich.
Profiteering
Poverty
Poor housing
Low wages/pensions
Queues for hospital appointments
Premature death to many
Sewage in rivers
Cuts in spending on essential services
Closure of libraries, community centres.
Whose law, who rules? Govts appease corporations/rich.
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November 9, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Just absolutely classic BBC. You've just broadcast the most successful programme of the year, uniting Gen Z kids online and Boomers on broadcast in a return to appointment television. And instead of celebrating, your DG reigns due to a made-up right-wing scandal.
November 9, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Just absolutely classic BBC. You've just broadcast the most successful programme of the year, uniting Gen Z kids online and Boomers on broadcast in a return to appointment television. And instead of celebrating, your DG reigns due to a made-up right-wing scandal.
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Disgusting Daily Record politicises one baby death to malign Scotland’s maternity service, the best in Britain
talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/08/d...
talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/08/d...
Disgusting Daily Record politicises one baby death to malign Scotland’s maternity service, the best in Britain
Professor John Robertson OBA The Record today with another single case of supposed NHS failure then generalised and politicised to mislead readers and viewers. This representation of Scotland’…
talkingupscotlandtwo.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Disgusting Daily Record politicises one baby death to malign Scotland’s maternity service, the best in Britain
talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/08/d...
talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/08/d...
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EXCLUSIVE: Independence can 'restore Scots quality of life and living standards' an SNP MP has said, noting the UK’s dramatic drop in global rankings since the 2014 referendum from 15th to 22nd
Independence can 'restore Scots standard of living' as rankings show UK plummet
www.thenational.scot
November 9, 2025 at 8:38 PM
EXCLUSIVE: Independence can 'restore Scots quality of life and living standards' an SNP MP has said, noting the UK’s dramatic drop in global rankings since the 2014 referendum from 15th to 22nd
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We’ve tried really hard but cannot find a prisoner released in error and still ‘on the loose’ in Scotland so Call Fiona Stalker on the restarted ‘Call Kaye’ show to help us, please! It doesn’t have to be true. A neighbour? talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/08/w...
We’ve tried really hard but cannot find a prisoner released in error and still ‘on the loose’ in Scotland so Call Fiona Stalker on the restarted ‘Call Kaye’ show to help us, please! It doesn’t have to...
Professor John Robertson OBA, Director of the Goebbels Scotland Education Trust Are there any reports of prisoners released in error in Scotland who have yet returned to prison No absconding cases …
talkingupscotlandtwo.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:00 AM
We’ve tried really hard but cannot find a prisoner released in error and still ‘on the loose’ in Scotland so Call Fiona Stalker on the restarted ‘Call Kaye’ show to help us, please! It doesn’t have to be true. A neighbour? talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/08/w...
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Westminster-controlled “Scottish” parties would rather defend their leaders failures at Westminster than recognise the success of Scotland’s policies.
They’ll defend Westminsters failures and attack Scotland’s achievements.
That tells you all you need to know about where their loyalties truly lie.
They’ll defend Westminsters failures and attack Scotland’s achievements.
That tells you all you need to know about where their loyalties truly lie.
November 9, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Westminster-controlled “Scottish” parties would rather defend their leaders failures at Westminster than recognise the success of Scotland’s policies.
They’ll defend Westminsters failures and attack Scotland’s achievements.
That tells you all you need to know about where their loyalties truly lie.
They’ll defend Westminsters failures and attack Scotland’s achievements.
That tells you all you need to know about where their loyalties truly lie.
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Cutting taxes doesn't grow the economy. Richard explains this myth, that right wing parties including Labour continue to perpetuate.
Laffer's curve: the tax myth that promoted inequality youtu.be/lrO9VpQCXZU?...
Laffer's curve: the tax myth that promoted inequality
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Cutting taxes doesn't grow the economy. Richard explains this myth, that right wing parties including Labour continue to perpetuate.
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Irony: People saying the BBC is biased towards the left when a big part of why they’ve all been radicalised to vote Tory and Reform is BECAUSE of (yes you guessed it) the BBC’s right wing bias.
Couldn’t make it up.
Thicker than a submarine door.
Couldn’t make it up.
Thicker than a submarine door.
November 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Irony: People saying the BBC is biased towards the left when a big part of why they’ve all been radicalised to vote Tory and Reform is BECAUSE of (yes you guessed it) the BBC’s right wing bias.
Couldn’t make it up.
Thicker than a submarine door.
Couldn’t make it up.
Thicker than a submarine door.
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About Time … be great to see some other BBC Unionists also removed .
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#nounion #independence #vote #scottishgoverment #independence #vote #truth #yesyoucan #europe
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#nounion #independence #vote #scottishgoverment #independence #vote #truth #yesyoucan #europe
Kaye Adams taken off BBC radio show after conduct complaint
BBC News understands an investigation has been launched, though the corporation would not comment on the nature of allegations.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 19, 2025 at 4:23 PM
About Time … be great to see some other BBC Unionists also removed .
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#nounion #independence #vote #scottishgoverment #independence #vote #truth #yesyoucan #europe
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#nounion #independence #vote #scottishgoverment #independence #vote #truth #yesyoucan #europe
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SNP-run Glasgow City built 110 times more social rent homes than Labour-run Liverpool last year talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/10/19/s...
SNP-run Glasgow City built 110 times more social rent homes than Labour-run Liverpool last year
Liverpool’s complete social rent homes build last year – 5 Professor John Robertson OBA Thanks, once more, to Dottie for alerting us to this: In the Guardian yesterday: According to the…
talkingupscotlandtwo.com
October 20, 2025 at 8:28 AM
SNP-run Glasgow City built 110 times more social rent homes than Labour-run Liverpool last year talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/10/19/s...
