Richard Green
@rickleftscot.bsky.social
Retired (from work not politics) Leftist and Atheist. Supporter of the Radical Independence Campaign (RIC). For an independent Secular Scottish Socialist Republic.
Not dure about the double act billing here, but at last we have ZS venturing north of the border. We desperately need some Scottish joined up debate about YP and how it relates to the Scottish political situation.
October 9, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Not dure about the double act billing here, but at last we have ZS venturing north of the border. We desperately need some Scottish joined up debate about YP and how it relates to the Scottish political situation.
Not welcome in Scotland.
July 24, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Not welcome in Scotland.
The difficulty of tactical voting in the Holyrood list vote weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2025/05/20/t...
This is a very good explanation of how tactical voting for independence doesn’t work with Holyrood’s hybrid voting system.
This is a very good explanation of how tactical voting for independence doesn’t work with Holyrood’s hybrid voting system.
The difficulty of tactical voting in the Holyrood list vote
It is now less than a year to the next Scottish Parliament elections and once more social media screen space is being consumed with arguments about tactical voting in the regional list vote. Every …
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May 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
The difficulty of tactical voting in the Holyrood list vote weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2025/05/20/t...
This is a very good explanation of how tactical voting for independence doesn’t work with Holyrood’s hybrid voting system.
This is a very good explanation of how tactical voting for independence doesn’t work with Holyrood’s hybrid voting system.
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Brilliant stuff
Tory MP IT Support
Tory MP IT Support
YouTube video by Michael Spicer
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April 26, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Brilliant stuff
@ricscotland.bsky.social Excellent RIC meeting today. Decisions to step up the campaign against Farage and Reform, good statement on Trans rights following the so called Supreme Court ruling and preparations to be at the republican rally next month.
April 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
@ricscotland.bsky.social Excellent RIC meeting today. Decisions to step up the campaign against Farage and Reform, good statement on Trans rights following the so called Supreme Court ruling and preparations to be at the republican rally next month.
Supreme court judgement: Another victory for authoritarians and oligarchs
open.substack.com/pub/greenlef...
Very good article showing that the attack on trans’ rights could be used by the authoritarian far right to further attack civil rights. The thin end of the far right wedge.
open.substack.com/pub/greenlef...
Very good article showing that the attack on trans’ rights could be used by the authoritarian far right to further attack civil rights. The thin end of the far right wedge.
Supreme court judgement: Another victory for authoritarians and oligarchs
Following last week's Supreme Court judgement, Green Left Scotland hosts Cllr Elaine Gallagher on who should care, and why.
open.substack.com
April 21, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Supreme court judgement: Another victory for authoritarians and oligarchs
open.substack.com/pub/greenlef...
Very good article showing that the attack on trans’ rights could be used by the authoritarian far right to further attack civil rights. The thin end of the far right wedge.
open.substack.com/pub/greenlef...
Very good article showing that the attack on trans’ rights could be used by the authoritarian far right to further attack civil rights. The thin end of the far right wedge.
It's disgraceful how Vance is trying to use Greenland's desire to be independent as a way to attack Denmark and engineer a US take over.
March 29, 2025 at 6:40 PM
It's disgraceful how Vance is trying to use Greenland's desire to be independent as a way to attack Denmark and engineer a US take over.
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Why is the obvious choice of a #WealthTax still being dodged?
A wealth tax, as well as fairer taxes on corporate profiteers and highest earners, would deliver far more money than any cuts to benefits and public services.
Workers and communities need the government to fight their corner.
A wealth tax, as well as fairer taxes on corporate profiteers and highest earners, would deliver far more money than any cuts to benefits and public services.
Workers and communities need the government to fight their corner.
March 27, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Why is the obvious choice of a #WealthTax still being dodged?
A wealth tax, as well as fairer taxes on corporate profiteers and highest earners, would deliver far more money than any cuts to benefits and public services.
Workers and communities need the government to fight their corner.
A wealth tax, as well as fairer taxes on corporate profiteers and highest earners, would deliver far more money than any cuts to benefits and public services.
Workers and communities need the government to fight their corner.
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6 days ago, the world's richest man falsely accused me of "committing crimes" for protesting Tesla.
Today, I'm back outside a Tesla showroom in Seattle w/ 500 of my friends.
So long as people continue to speak up, authoritarianism will fail.
Video in 2 parts. Pt 2 in comments.
#TeslaTakedown
Today, I'm back outside a Tesla showroom in Seattle w/ 500 of my friends.
So long as people continue to speak up, authoritarianism will fail.
Video in 2 parts. Pt 2 in comments.
#TeslaTakedown
March 15, 2025 at 11:22 PM
6 days ago, the world's richest man falsely accused me of "committing crimes" for protesting Tesla.
Today, I'm back outside a Tesla showroom in Seattle w/ 500 of my friends.
So long as people continue to speak up, authoritarianism will fail.
Video in 2 parts. Pt 2 in comments.
#TeslaTakedown
Today, I'm back outside a Tesla showroom in Seattle w/ 500 of my friends.
So long as people continue to speak up, authoritarianism will fail.
Video in 2 parts. Pt 2 in comments.
#TeslaTakedown
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Trump thinks we have transgender mice because he doesn't understand what transgenic means.
Hegseth thinks we have gay aircraft because a pilot named his plane after his mother whose surname was Gay.
Musk thinks he saved us money on contracts cancelled when George W. Bush was president.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Hegseth thinks we have gay aircraft because a pilot named his plane after his mother whose surname was Gay.
Musk thinks he saved us money on contracts cancelled when George W. Bush was president.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
March 7, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Trump thinks we have transgender mice because he doesn't understand what transgenic means.
Hegseth thinks we have gay aircraft because a pilot named his plane after his mother whose surname was Gay.
Musk thinks he saved us money on contracts cancelled when George W. Bush was president.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Hegseth thinks we have gay aircraft because a pilot named his plane after his mother whose surname was Gay.
Musk thinks he saved us money on contracts cancelled when George W. Bush was president.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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What happened in the Oval Office today was horrifying - but, as this piece says, there is now no denying the truth of Trump’s alignment with Russia. Everyone who values freedom, democracy and peace must stand full square with Zelensky and Ukraine.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
At Least Now We Know the Truth
It’s ugly, but necessary to face.
www.theatlantic.com
February 28, 2025 at 8:39 PM
What happened in the Oval Office today was horrifying - but, as this piece says, there is now no denying the truth of Trump’s alignment with Russia. Everyone who values freedom, democracy and peace must stand full square with Zelensky and Ukraine.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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He is not just appeasing Putin, he is aligned with him. And every single client journalist, political shill & public/online cheerleader on both sides of the Atlantic is too. Against Zelensky. Against Ukraine. Against freedom. Against the most basic tenets of decency.
February 28, 2025 at 7:21 PM
He is not just appeasing Putin, he is aligned with him. And every single client journalist, political shill & public/online cheerleader on both sides of the Atlantic is too. Against Zelensky. Against Ukraine. Against freedom. Against the most basic tenets of decency.
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I’d like to apologize to President Zelenskyy and the people of Ukraine on behalf of the people of the United States of America
February 28, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I’d like to apologize to President Zelenskyy and the people of Ukraine on behalf of the people of the United States of America
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JD Vance thinks he can school Zelenskyy on the war in Ukraine because he's seen it on TV.
Jesus wept.
The Trump administration is an embarrassment.
Jesus wept.
The Trump administration is an embarrassment.
February 28, 2025 at 6:20 PM
JD Vance thinks he can school Zelenskyy on the war in Ukraine because he's seen it on TV.
Jesus wept.
The Trump administration is an embarrassment.
Jesus wept.
The Trump administration is an embarrassment.
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Screw those traitors in the White House.
February 28, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Screw those traitors in the White House.
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When Rishi Sunak made the Vaccine deal with Moderna as Chancellor, he had up to £530m invested in Moderna.
Now Michelle Mone is desperately bringing it up.
Like if you want Mone on trial.
RT if you want them both facing the music.
Now Michelle Mone is desperately bringing it up.
Like if you want Mone on trial.
RT if you want them both facing the music.
February 27, 2025 at 2:17 PM
When Rishi Sunak made the Vaccine deal with Moderna as Chancellor, he had up to £530m invested in Moderna.
Now Michelle Mone is desperately bringing it up.
Like if you want Mone on trial.
RT if you want them both facing the music.
Now Michelle Mone is desperately bringing it up.
Like if you want Mone on trial.
RT if you want them both facing the music.
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If the stakes weren’t so high, the contortions & humiliations of all the people who cheered this in & sneered about ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ etc would be absolutely hilarious.
Complete batshit lunacy on the president's Truth Social account. Yes, he really posted this.
February 26, 2025 at 7:41 AM
If the stakes weren’t so high, the contortions & humiliations of all the people who cheered this in & sneered about ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ etc would be absolutely hilarious.
“The whole cabinet, the whole government, most people in this country, recognise the pressures the world is under, recognise more will have to be spent on defence.” Jonathan Reynolds, Labour minister today on Sky news. Grangemouth, fuel for pensioners, Rosyth ferry? No. More bombs? Yes! Disgraceful
February 16, 2025 at 10:47 AM
“The whole cabinet, the whole government, most people in this country, recognise the pressures the world is under, recognise more will have to be spent on defence.” Jonathan Reynolds, Labour minister today on Sky news. Grangemouth, fuel for pensioners, Rosyth ferry? No. More bombs? Yes! Disgraceful
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Utterly shameful that Labour is now pandering the the anti-immigration hate of Farage and co. Starmer, the 2020’s face of appeasement.
Utterly shameful that Labour is now pandering the the anti-immigration hate of Farage and co. Starmer, the 2020’s face of appeasement.
Maggie Chapman: Deportations footage is a new low for Home Office
IF our civilisation is measured by how it treats its most vulnerable members, then the UK is proving itself to be a cruel and primitive society this…
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February 14, 2025 at 4:57 PM
www.thenational.scot/politics/249...
Utterly shameful that Labour is now pandering the the anti-immigration hate of Farage and co. Starmer, the 2020’s face of appeasement.
Utterly shameful that Labour is now pandering the the anti-immigration hate of Farage and co. Starmer, the 2020’s face of appeasement.