Sam
@mcclinton.bsky.social
Retired happily and enjoying life in Scotland - hoping for an independent Scotland in my lifetime
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Here they come, just as we approach the Scottish Gov elections, you could set your clock by it, www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ministers ordered to publish Nicola Sturgeon inquiry evidence
The Scottish government has been ordered to publish some of the written evidence from an investigation into whether Nicola Sturgeon broke the ministerial code.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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SNP urges Scots to back independence as forecasts predict slowest growth in living standards for decades. 👇
November 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM
SNP urges Scots to back independence as forecasts predict slowest growth in living standards for decades. 👇
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Nothing proves the Trump administration is made of mean whims based on lies better than a president who is murdering people in boats "because I am so strongly against drug trafficking" pardoning someone who trafficked more drugs than a hundred fishing boats could carry.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/28/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/28/p...
Trump says he will pardon former Honduran president serving sentence in drug-trafficking case | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump said Friday he intends to grant a “full and complete pardon” to former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, a move that would erase a major US drug-trafficking conviction ...
www.cnn.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Nothing proves the Trump administration is made of mean whims based on lies better than a president who is murdering people in boats "because I am so strongly against drug trafficking" pardoning someone who trafficked more drugs than a hundred fishing boats could carry.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/28/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/28/p...
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£13 billion to 7 mayors.
£820 million to Scotland. Cities in England get more than a whole country!
£1.7 billion to connect somewhere called Thamesmead to somewhere called Bectkon.
£820 million to Scotland. A district light railway connection between two London suburbs
news.sky.com/story/dlr-to...
£820 million to Scotland. Cities in England get more than a whole country!
£1.7 billion to connect somewhere called Thamesmead to somewhere called Bectkon.
£820 million to Scotland. A district light railway connection between two London suburbs
news.sky.com/story/dlr-to...
DLR to be extended to Thamesmead, budget confirms - everything we know so far
The plan will see the creation of two new stations and a tunnel underneath the River Thames linking Thamesmead and Beckton.
news.sky.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:10 PM
£13 billion to 7 mayors.
£820 million to Scotland. Cities in England get more than a whole country!
£1.7 billion to connect somewhere called Thamesmead to somewhere called Bectkon.
£820 million to Scotland. A district light railway connection between two London suburbs
news.sky.com/story/dlr-to...
£820 million to Scotland. Cities in England get more than a whole country!
£1.7 billion to connect somewhere called Thamesmead to somewhere called Bectkon.
£820 million to Scotland. A district light railway connection between two London suburbs
news.sky.com/story/dlr-to...
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🏴🇮🇪 Before I went to Dublin this week, I was interviewed by Mark Paul of the Irish Times.
You might like a read: www.irishtimes.com/world/uk/202...
You might like a read: www.irishtimes.com/world/uk/202...
November 28, 2025 at 5:55 PM
🏴🇮🇪 Before I went to Dublin this week, I was interviewed by Mark Paul of the Irish Times.
You might like a read: www.irishtimes.com/world/uk/202...
You might like a read: www.irishtimes.com/world/uk/202...
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🏴 🇮🇪 First Minister Swinney and President Connolly have annoyed the Scotland denying britNats 🇬🇧
November 28, 2025 at 7:21 PM
🏴 🇮🇪 First Minister Swinney and President Connolly have annoyed the Scotland denying britNats 🇬🇧
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The FBI spent a million dollars redacting powerful men's names from the Epstein files. The victims? Twenty-eight names in one document alone unredacted, exposed, hunted down by reporters in front of their children. Privacy, it seems, is reserved for those who can afford to return the favor.
November 28, 2025 at 12:23 PM
The FBI spent a million dollars redacting powerful men's names from the Epstein files. The victims? Twenty-eight names in one document alone unredacted, exposed, hunted down by reporters in front of their children. Privacy, it seems, is reserved for those who can afford to return the favor.
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Any British person who refers to 'welfare' when they mean social security benefits and the payment, receipt and eligibility for them has a fair chance of being a wrong 'un.
November 28, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Any British person who refers to 'welfare' when they mean social security benefits and the payment, receipt and eligibility for them has a fair chance of being a wrong 'un.
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the US is what rampant militarised populist nationalism looks like. Don't stop paying attention.
Below are just some of the actions that I added to the TrumpActionTracker this morning
www.trumpactiontracker.info
Below are just some of the actions that I added to the TrumpActionTracker this morning
www.trumpactiontracker.info
November 28, 2025 at 12:20 PM
the US is what rampant militarised populist nationalism looks like. Don't stop paying attention.
Below are just some of the actions that I added to the TrumpActionTracker this morning
www.trumpactiontracker.info
Below are just some of the actions that I added to the TrumpActionTracker this morning
www.trumpactiontracker.info
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Why do so many prominent Brexiteers live in France? Nigel Lawson; Andrew Neil; and former Brexit Party & UKIP MEP David Coburn. Asked to account for himself in the Nathan Gill story it turns out he lives in a French chateau. The brazen hypocrisy of this lot is just staggering!
November 28, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Why do so many prominent Brexiteers live in France? Nigel Lawson; Andrew Neil; and former Brexit Party & UKIP MEP David Coburn. Asked to account for himself in the Nathan Gill story it turns out he lives in a French chateau. The brazen hypocrisy of this lot is just staggering!
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Arrogance on stilts.
No longer can this be called 'A voluntary union' if English politicians keep denying to recognise a legitimate mandate.
If Westminster cannot say what the mechanism is that we can use to leave, Then it is tantamount to a hostage situation.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
No longer can this be called 'A voluntary union' if English politicians keep denying to recognise a legitimate mandate.
If Westminster cannot say what the mechanism is that we can use to leave, Then it is tantamount to a hostage situation.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
No independence referendum if SNP wins majority, Reeves says
The chancellor has refused to support a second vote if the SNP wins a majority of seats in May.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Arrogance on stilts.
No longer can this be called 'A voluntary union' if English politicians keep denying to recognise a legitimate mandate.
If Westminster cannot say what the mechanism is that we can use to leave, Then it is tantamount to a hostage situation.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
No longer can this be called 'A voluntary union' if English politicians keep denying to recognise a legitimate mandate.
If Westminster cannot say what the mechanism is that we can use to leave, Then it is tantamount to a hostage situation.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
November 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
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Let’s play “spot the moment the UK left the EU”
UKIP/Brexit Party/Refuk really do capture the imbeciles.
UKIP/Brexit Party/Refuk really do capture the imbeciles.
November 27, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Let’s play “spot the moment the UK left the EU”
UKIP/Brexit Party/Refuk really do capture the imbeciles.
UKIP/Brexit Party/Refuk really do capture the imbeciles.
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BBC staff have now been banned from repeating the description of Donald Trump excised from Rutger’s Reith lecture. Makes his warning here all the more chilling.
youtu.be/9UlYdocG5Bs
youtu.be/9UlYdocG5Bs
'What are they afraid of?' Historian's lecture cut by BBC
YouTube video by LBC
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 3:43 PM
BBC staff have now been banned from repeating the description of Donald Trump excised from Rutger’s Reith lecture. Makes his warning here all the more chilling.
youtu.be/9UlYdocG5Bs
youtu.be/9UlYdocG5Bs
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www.businessforscotland.com/the_uk_budge...
#YouYesNow #IndyClan?
It's TIME for #ScottishIndependence 🏴
#YouYesNow #IndyClan?
It's TIME for #ScottishIndependence 🏴
November 27, 2025 at 4:53 PM
www.businessforscotland.com/the_uk_budge...
#YouYesNow #IndyClan?
It's TIME for #ScottishIndependence 🏴
#YouYesNow #IndyClan?
It's TIME for #ScottishIndependence 🏴
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Scotland’s future is up to people who live in Scotland, not Rachel Reeves, Keir Starmer or any other Westminster politician.
November 27, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Scotland’s future is up to people who live in Scotland, not Rachel Reeves, Keir Starmer or any other Westminster politician.
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Quick analysis of The Times today:
Wall to wall negative coverage of Labour’s budget. An editorial that tuts about lack of growth but takes no responsibility. And a double page ad to join Farage/Reform.
Absolutely no analysis on how rightwing ideology - including Brexit - has been utterly ruinous.
Wall to wall negative coverage of Labour’s budget. An editorial that tuts about lack of growth but takes no responsibility. And a double page ad to join Farage/Reform.
Absolutely no analysis on how rightwing ideology - including Brexit - has been utterly ruinous.
November 27, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Quick analysis of The Times today:
Wall to wall negative coverage of Labour’s budget. An editorial that tuts about lack of growth but takes no responsibility. And a double page ad to join Farage/Reform.
Absolutely no analysis on how rightwing ideology - including Brexit - has been utterly ruinous.
Wall to wall negative coverage of Labour’s budget. An editorial that tuts about lack of growth but takes no responsibility. And a double page ad to join Farage/Reform.
Absolutely no analysis on how rightwing ideology - including Brexit - has been utterly ruinous.
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The last minute replacement of the judge presiding over the Palestine Action judicial review with a panel with Zionist links is deeply, deeply troubling.
November 26, 2025 at 10:34 AM
The last minute replacement of the judge presiding over the Palestine Action judicial review with a panel with Zionist links is deeply, deeply troubling.
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English government bringing up the rear for the rest of the UK.
November 26, 2025 at 11:50 PM
English government bringing up the rear for the rest of the UK.
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You just cannot take the iPaper seriously when it wheels out Kwasi ‘mini budget’ Kwarteng to comment on the budget.
We don’t *ever* want to hear from this arrogant clown again.
“No prudence”
FML.
We don’t *ever* want to hear from this arrogant clown again.
“No prudence”
FML.
November 27, 2025 at 8:05 AM
You just cannot take the iPaper seriously when it wheels out Kwasi ‘mini budget’ Kwarteng to comment on the budget.
We don’t *ever* want to hear from this arrogant clown again.
“No prudence”
FML.
We don’t *ever* want to hear from this arrogant clown again.
“No prudence”
FML.
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🚨Two Scottish independence podcasters have been arrested under terrorism laws
👉 www.thenational.scot/news/2...
👉 www.thenational.scot/news/2...
November 26, 2025 at 5:36 PM
🚨Two Scottish independence podcasters have been arrested under terrorism laws
👉 www.thenational.scot/news/2...
👉 www.thenational.scot/news/2...
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It’s says so much about the british media in Scotland that there has been absolutely no mention of this meeting on the bbc, The Scotsman or The Herald
Their propaganda by omission is just an indication of their fear for their union
🇬🇧 The unionist media is in an information War on Scotland 🏴
Their propaganda by omission is just an indication of their fear for their union
🇬🇧 The unionist media is in an information War on Scotland 🏴
First Minister John Swinney has met with Irish president Catherine Connolly 🏴 🇮🇪
Swinney said it was 'a great privilege' to meet Connolly and 'discuss the deep connections and shared values of Ireland and Scotland'
Swinney said it was 'a great privilege' to meet Connolly and 'discuss the deep connections and shared values of Ireland and Scotland'
November 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
It’s says so much about the british media in Scotland that there has been absolutely no mention of this meeting on the bbc, The Scotsman or The Herald
Their propaganda by omission is just an indication of their fear for their union
🇬🇧 The unionist media is in an information War on Scotland 🏴
Their propaganda by omission is just an indication of their fear for their union
🇬🇧 The unionist media is in an information War on Scotland 🏴
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Labour came in promising to cut energy bills by £300. Now they’re almost £200 higher, and they trumpet a change that won’t even cover the increase since they took office.
Is this really it??
Scotland deserves better than this chaos. A fresh start with independence. 🏴
Is this really it??
Scotland deserves better than this chaos. A fresh start with independence. 🏴
November 26, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Labour came in promising to cut energy bills by £300. Now they’re almost £200 higher, and they trumpet a change that won’t even cover the increase since they took office.
Is this really it??
Scotland deserves better than this chaos. A fresh start with independence. 🏴
Is this really it??
Scotland deserves better than this chaos. A fresh start with independence. 🏴
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The very first thing the Prime Minister does is use the household budget metaphor.
A metaphor - this report into BBC coverage - said could be "easily misleading."
Why is the government trying to mislead the country?
A metaphor - this report into BBC coverage - said could be "easily misleading."
Why is the government trying to mislead the country?
November 26, 2025 at 12:05 PM
The very first thing the Prime Minister does is use the household budget metaphor.
A metaphor - this report into BBC coverage - said could be "easily misleading."
Why is the government trying to mislead the country?
A metaphor - this report into BBC coverage - said could be "easily misleading."
Why is the government trying to mislead the country?