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Roy Bennett
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Market gardener and grower amongst many other things, self builder, healer, pragmatist, dreamer and doer, Scottish independence supporter. Activist and now soon to be writer.
Not interested in crypto or trading/finance⛔. No business promotion⛔.
Not so different, cracked heads, broken bones and injuries, jail, blacklists, oppression is oppression time and location doesn`t change it, in the end it always end in blood being spilt if not stopped, this was my era and much worse over 25 years, now my children's war, the struggle never ends.
October 29, 2025 at 10:26 PM
The old "keeping up with the jones`s" greed, the individualistic "we are better than them" infection relabelled as "Aspiration" and they would wreck it for everyone, just as long as they were ok, boy was he right.
September 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Just remember when you chose to believe Scargill, Benn, etc were "the enemy within" instead of listening to what they were warning you about ? and so voted to sell everything off, thinking those "aspirational politics" of Thatcher/Blair would make you richer, this is where you led us all.
September 22, 2025 at 7:43 PM
When this 🔽 is unfolding don`t tell me Labour/Lib Dem/ Conservative voters care, because they are the voters who brought about this situation by knowingly voting for Neo Liberal Economics for 45 years, just so they could prosper at everyone else's expense. Its on you, no one else, time to own it.
September 22, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Two things
1 Observation of economic effects is not resentment.
2 Noting a key driver of the Brexit vote isn`t postulating
3 You have no alternative answer, twice been asked twice you have deflected away.
4 Objective fact Thatcherism has existed for 4 decades
5 1 & 4 is not based on "feel" but data
September 16, 2025 at 3:54 PM
How long before Starmer instructs the UK police to do this ?
If you think it can`t happen here then you never understood what Scargill and the miners faced at Orgreave, this is why he was demonised, he, his fellow union men like McGahey knew exactly who they were fighting, see this
August 25, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Given you class Corbyn as a "dreamer" you clearly have no intention of building a world without war, instead preferring to increase and amplify bigger war making alliances, not smaller ones, and then you try to tell me your keeping my kids safe, nonsense. Like this American / NATO "protection" ?
August 23, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Murdering and slaughtering vastly more people than any other nation since the second world war, and you call Russia barbaric ? Pics below American war damage
Yes Russia is appalling but America also kills its citizens at home via shootings, beatings, its as bad as Russia on close examination
August 23, 2025 at 8:10 PM
and is still bombing and killing 24,000 babies and children, tens of thousands of women and men and children in Palestine as we speak, using the same weapons NATO uses, which you clearly support. www.pbsamerica.co.uk/series/kill-...
August 23, 2025 at 8:10 PM
You can always help us leave, oh sorry forgot you can`t afford to can you, not once in 300 years has England dared stand on its own two feet, instead it captured 61 other nations who when they finally escaped not one wanted to come back. I wonder why.
August 5, 2025 at 9:45 AM
I love the give us an economic forecast, whilst ignoring the fact every single UK forecast ever had had to be adjusted because its always wrong. Yet Ireland which is smaller than us doesn`t get questioned to see if its viable as a state, or Malta, Iceland, etc etc .
July 30, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Better together for you, not us, I haven`t seen a single shred of evidence where we couldn`t do better under our own control, consider this and ask why the UK won`t follow Scotgov policies without being forced to. www.gov.scot/publications...
www.gov.scot/news/scrappi....
July 26, 2025 at 11:52 PM
No promises were kept, the Internal Market Act undermines Devolution completely, breaking every promise ever made
Where have the SNP broken promises to the UK? Reciprocal arguments need evidence, so where have the SNP lied or broken promises to the UK Govt ? Don`t try the once in a generation trope
July 26, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Reform ? 🤣Try again you have no clue about civic nationalism (Scots) versus blood and soil nationalism (Farage, et al) www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemoc...
July 26, 2025 at 10:44 PM
It doesn`t benefit us, it lies and deceives us at every turn, remember this ? Not to mention the Internal Market Act www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/406...
www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-...
July 26, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Gers is not good enough, its just accepted historically and given UK gov couldn`t agree on how to change it Scotgov just runs with it, aka both parties have agreed to use a debatable and questionable mechanism. We could easily stand on our own, if we want to what right has England to deny that ?
July 26, 2025 at 10:24 PM
You want more ? I have plenty
July 26, 2025 at 9:36 PM
See these, cutting trade to the rest of the UK is a red herring you depend on our energy, food, security (Faslane), etc, any disruption to that would be catastrophic for England, but not for us, we have the EU as an additional outlet, try again
July 26, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Scotland gets more money from Westminster than they give in taxes - Evidence for this please, and no GERS won`t do its an "estimate" not hard data.
Leaving an economic union that doesn`t serve us is to our advantage. Such as these disadvantages forced on us. I have more examples
July 26, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Oh give over, we have nuclear, tidal, wind, solar, Hydrogen, Pumped storage hydro, Battery parks, all growing and well beyond our capacity to consume everything produced 24/7/365, unless of course you going to try and claim tides and water stop flowing, you are flogging a dead horse and you know it.
July 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The great Jimmy Reid speaking about freedom, compared with our politicians today, this man is a giant. www.facebook.com/reel/6426651...
July 6, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Its tinkering round the edges and you know it, Scotland has demonstrated how to do far, far better and he refuses to copy tested policies known to reduce poverty, etc, if Scotland can do it with one hand tied behind its back why won`t Labour ? Its called the Bain principle www.ft.com/content/cf41...
July 3, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Its simple Starmer fetishizes neo liberal Thatcherite economics, that produced this, and continues to listen to corporate lobbyists, etc, in maintaining Blairite economics which continued Thatcherism. Until that ideology is changed he`s rearranging the chairs on the deck of the Titanic
July 3, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Labour, the party of Social insecurity
June 30, 2025 at 4:24 PM
And they know it will never happen, these are the very people who drove Thatcherism for 45 years, they knew 30 years ago the damage that was being done, where were they then ? can you really see them wanting to pay more ? They can just see the system is collapsing and they will lose everything.
June 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM