Stuart Budd
stuartbudd.bsky.social
Stuart Budd
@stuartbudd.bsky.social
🇪🇺 Pro Europe and Scottish Independence
'𝑻𝒐 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒆, 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒌, 𝒕𝒐 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒚𝒊𝒆𝒍𝒅..', Ulysses, Tennyson.
I'm English and learnt about the SM before it existed.

Then I traded with the EU until the exceptionalists trashed everything and continue to trash everything

This UK trade 'expert' didn't even have CBAM in his list pre UK GE

Meanwhile, Brexit exceptionalists continue to trash us businesses.
November 13, 2025 at 8:26 AM
The Kremlin show their card
I'm not sure the UK (England really) is able to fend off the far right / Kremlin threat.
There are too many confused English.
November 11, 2025 at 11:49 AM
In 1945 the British made sure Germanys public broadcasting system would never be taken over by an authoritarian leader.

You are a Communist so don't understand why that act was important.

The Polish understand.
That is why Solidarnosc is outside the European parliament.
November 11, 2025 at 8:33 AM
These manufactured concerns about immigration and the resulting nonsense over FoM from some, less professional outfits and dodgy political parties reminds me of this.

There are a load more like this regarding Scottish seats.
October 31, 2025 at 8:09 AM
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Greens or Plaid
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Greens or SNP
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Greens or LibDems

Nobody using a Ukrainian flag in their banner should be supporting Labour who are preventing Ukrainian refugees from applying for citizenship.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
October 24, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Scotland needs a hard border for WTO rules and to protect standards.

I watched Ireland and Northern Ireland solve the land border with Brexit barriers in real time.

Overnight (in reality it was slower but appeared to be overnight) the registration plates of lorries changed from UK to Irish.
October 22, 2025 at 7:53 AM
This reminded me in Bristol we had a couple of 'quest' systems.

LETS
Bristol pound

I still have some Bristol pounds. 🔽

Issues we found where:
Limited services available.
Interaction with the Sterling economy didn't work.

Maybe the limited size / takeup was the issue. 🤔
October 19, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I saw this article and wondered why an American was pictured.

Then I read the article and it turns out to be a picture of Steve Reed MP, the Secretary of State for Housing. 🙄

Unbelievable!
This Labour government have totally lost the plot.
October 17, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Nobody in 2014 wanted to remove rights from our neighbours.

The vote was to gain rights

The Brexit vote was to remove rights from our neighbours.
Labour reinforced this by ruling out FoM / protection for our neighbours.

Thus, more deportations, while europe watches.
www.itv.com/news/2025-09...
October 12, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Hey @vixxl.bsky.social
💚👍
October 11, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Both you and this government appear to be falling a bit short of what you said would be delivered before the GE. 🤔
October 9, 2025 at 4:09 PM
2/
The 🇬🇧 NHS is so large that it kept 🇺🇸 drug prices low due to the quantity bought.

Now the 🇬🇧 is weaker it is forced into a bad agreement with the 🇺🇸 that has wanted to raise drug prices to the 🇬🇧 for decades.

www.bmj.com/content/367/...
October 8, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Hello @gillianmacmsp.bsky.social

This is for Glasgow Kelvin and Maryhill from Nowcast here:
www.nowcast.uk/holyrood/map

@scottishgreens.org are within 1.4% of taking the Holyrood seat for the Greens at 1st preference from the SNP.
October 3, 2025 at 6:38 AM
This is very good @carladenyer.bsky.social and it is updated.

It is from one of your members, joshhousden.bsky.social who runs bsky.app/profile/nowc...

Looking at the Bristol NW ward data I think you can take the seat.

There is a full ward map here:
www.nowcast.uk/house-of-com...
October 3, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Words:
'Reform policy is racist' Starmer
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Actions:
Reforms to prove migrants 'contribute' to UK society:
news.sky.com/story/shaban...

Result:
Untrustworthy: 61%
bsky.app/profile/youg...

Lessons learnt:
None
September 28, 2025 at 10:30 AM
It isn't just Labour people.
I've come across a few LibDems who are very anti migrant.

Meanwhile, one for your book.
Swan Lives Matter with 10,000 likes! 🙄
September 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
This is what you said would be delivered before the GE:

Security
Veterinary / SPS
Qualifications
Touring artists
Youth mobility / Eurasmus
PEM
Erasmus
Gibraltar

This is what you have delivered
Gibraltar
September 25, 2025 at 10:14 AM
This article explains the situation.

They are stuck with attempting to get extreme 2024 Tories to vote for them (who still think they are One Nation Tories) while ignoring the big wins covering food standards / farming sector / small businesses and Labour voters.

archive.fo/k7d72
September 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The response to me for saying Labour should support FoM in order to be able to deliver their own policies within their own manifesto. 😂
September 20, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Set out a pathway with rough dates and tell a story of where you want Scotland to be in ten years.

With annacavazzini.bsky.social as chair of the EU single market and terryreintke.bsky.social as Co-President of @greens-efa.eu the @scottishgreens.org are the best connected Scottish political party.
September 18, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Do you think I am stupid?

Racism has destroyed our economy, small companies like me and the union.

You are a disgrace.
September 16, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Cost of Brexit and leaving the Single Market & Customs Union for farmers and SMEs.

This reduces growth and raises prices for *everything*.

Example, £855 of beef
Before Brexit: £545
With Brexit: £1,130

Meat Management trade magazine, Jan 2025, Page 21:
emag.meatmanagement.com/html5/reader...
September 13, 2025 at 9:59 AM
That is the same as tried in early 2017 but not taken up by anyone.

When authoritarians were told a story about vacancies and shown some cards of people with skills they decided to keep FoM.

Yet, here we are, the govt is now removing working people.
This govt is not up to the task and needs to go.
September 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
The issues are in the first comment: 🤷‍♂️
bsky.app/profile/stua...

Directly, for small companies and me, the costs:

Everytime you do not address problems and just say "tax the rich' it creates more Reform voters.

Provide solutions to real problems
What are yours?
September 12, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Last day of being the boss @carladenyer.bsky.social
You took the Greens from 2.7% to 6.4% of the vote and put Bristol on the map with a solid Green foundation.
Well done. 👏

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_P...
September 1, 2025 at 1:59 PM