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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this is a very median leftist opinion

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The Alternate Historian @althistorian.bsky.social · 1d

Can't believe this might become the symbol of Amermaidan.

Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 2d

Frogtifa

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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 1d

Won't someone please think of bearsden

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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 2d

Ash Regan, leader of the Caledonia party, coming up

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Ash Regan has quit the Alba Party

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Oldfirmfacts @oldfirmfacts.bsky.social · 2d

A handy guide

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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 2d

At this rate it will be "did you know that England, Scotland, Wales and part of Ireland used to be one country"

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2d

pretty worried that people in 2200 are going to be expressing similar sentiments about the UK tbh. 'Did you know that the UK was once considered one of the richest European nations?'

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2d

at the start of the twentieth century Argentina was one of the richest nations on earth per capita, and not even in, like, the way that Nauru was in 1968.

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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 2d

Steve Clarke has earned his place in the history books as the most vindicated practitioner of terrorball, no one is doing it like him

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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 2d

Laughably stupid and a quintessential Scottish victory

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Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.bsky.social · 2d

Steve Clarke (not Karl Marx) paired with the quote "We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall make no excuses for the terrorball."

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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 2d

I think it's bad that we allow financiers operating out of the gulf states to run massive private propaganda operations designed to undermine British democracy and stir up racial hatred

Ben Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 3d

If a news organisation is making -200% margin after five years, it is not a commercial operation and should be assumed to have a different purpose.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 3d

The channel lost £33 million to communicate its content to a large audience
www.business-live.co.uk/enterprise/g...

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 3d

pubs: Traditional Working Class-coded, masculine, everyone kind of subconsciously pretends they're a miner in a union hall when they're at the pub, Can Be Trust

Nandos: childlike, innocent, foolish, Must Be Paternalised

Techpriest @techpriest.bsky.social · 3d

NGL though, extending pub opening hours whilst simultaneously making it illegal for Nandos to do free drink refills feels very on brand for Starmerism

Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 3d

Well, no, I don't agree with that. I do think people still like pubs and selling them pubs open late will be a popular policy.

But as others have observed, it's insane to combine this with the continued War on Sugar.

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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 3d

The SNP began planning for the LD-Green-SNP-PC coalition government early I see

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Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.bsky.social · 3d

I made a Refugees Welcome saltire flag shop

www.contrado.co.uk/stores/refug...

Refugees Welcome Saltire Flag

Show refugees that they are welcome in Scotland.Single-sided mesh fabric flag.

www.contrado.co.uk

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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 3d

Hollow laughter

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 3d

Palestinians will feel understandable relief. The West should feel nothing but shame. Gaza has been obliterated. The territory rendered uninhabitable. Tens of thousands murdered in cold blood. The entire population subjected to starvation tactics. And now, colonial subjugation under Trump and Blair

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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 3d

Get in lads, America is doing imperial military interventions in Latin America again (probably)

LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 3d

A bunch of defense accounts on twitter said that they got leaked something classified lol

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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 3d

Honestly, I can't imagine them introducing half of Roy Jenkin's reforms

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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 4d

You can go the boring route of saying the Edwardian era but a more interesting case would be the Napoleonic Wars and the extension of the repressive state under Pitt, Liverpool etc

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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 4d

I can't wait for the bizarre discourse this will somehow cause in Scotland

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 4d

it's going to be cool watching Quebec do indy ref 3 but this time with MBC's racism

Defence Scheme Enjoyer 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇲🇽🇵🇸 @maxp94.bsky.social · 4d

Very curious to see how liberal-progressives continue to square their image of Quebec as a haven of cool, progressive culture with the next PQ majority

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 4d

to explain this to non-Canadians, imagine if the next independence referendum was essentially led by the Quebec version of Reconqueste/Rassemblement National

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 4d

it's going to be cool watching Quebec do indy ref 3 but this time with MBC's racism

Defence Scheme Enjoyer 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇲🇽🇵🇸 @maxp94.bsky.social · 4d

Very curious to see how liberal-progressives continue to square their image of Quebec as a haven of cool, progressive culture with the next PQ majority

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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 4d

All I'll say is from memory when the SNP had 120,000+ members, there was a noticeable increase in the quality of comms etc. the party just looked so much more professional and at ease

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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 4d

Not inconceivable that 2025 is the year that the GPEW hits 100,000 members

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 4d

Nearly 3000 new members in the 24 hours since the Party Political Broadcast.

Extraordinary.

Hope is returning. 💚🚀

Join.greenparty.org.uk

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 4d

I'll bite. What is the benefit we gain from politicians being able to 'thoughtfully' say in private 'blacks, British Bangladeshis, British Pakistanis, British Indians, mulattos....all the same, and clearly from the look of them not-integrated?'

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 4d

Shadow DEFRA SoS, Victoria Atkins MP, bemoans those trying to score points off Jenrick's "private" remarks: "These are conversation we must have thoughtfully away from the clickbait of social media that, sadly, is so often the case."

And here is Victoria Thoughtful-Atkins at a farmers' protest. ~AA

Victoria Atkins with a thoughtfull bullhorn, wearing a non-clickbait union jack jacket.

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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 4d

Kind of but also no. Spain was always a place to holiday. Dubai has a weird influencer/entrepreneur status attached

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