Chickyholic 🏴
@chickyholic.bsky.social
Geriatric "Extremist" apparently. - Scottish independence asap please. Genealogy. Vegan. Long term CFS. Hate animal abuse/exploitation. Happy slave to an SSPCA rescued feline🐈. Ex X.
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I wonder just how many ordinary Joe Bloggs are willing/able to pay £10K just to access their party leader? And do they realise they are paying into a private company who presumably will be the receipient of all the funds?
EXCLUSIVE: Reform UK are running a 'cash for access scheme in all but name', a senior SNP MP has alleged after they launched a £10,000-per-year membership
Read here: www.thenational.scot/news/2...
Read here: www.thenational.scot/news/2...
December 7, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I wonder just how many ordinary Joe Bloggs are willing/able to pay £10K just to access their party leader? And do they realise they are paying into a private company who presumably will be the receipient of all the funds?
White really isn't the best colour for her, is it?
Keir Starmer says the 'hugely talented' Angela Rayner will return to his Cabinet
Former deputy Angela Rayner will return to Cabinet, says Keir Starmer
www.thenational.scot
December 7, 2025 at 3:20 PM
White really isn't the best colour for her, is it?
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The winners of the Scots Trad Music Awards 2025 were announced and celebrated in Aberdeen last night 👇
See the full list of the Scots Trad Music Awards 2025 winners
www.thenational.scot
December 7, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The winners of the Scots Trad Music Awards 2025 were announced and celebrated in Aberdeen last night 👇
And as the second block fall a panic-tricken cry from an ex tenant of the third tower still to fall is hear to cry "omg - I left the kettle on!"!
Three towers have been demolished in a carefully planned blowdown, ending more than 50 years of housing history in Motherwell
Historic residential towers demolished in controlled explosion
www.thenational.scot
December 7, 2025 at 3:17 PM
And as the second block fall a panic-tricken cry from an ex tenant of the third tower still to fall is hear to cry "omg - I left the kettle on!"!
If any Indy Bluesky-er is still on X and can identify Indy-supporting politicians there, can you give them a gentle nudge up the bahookie and persuade them to join us here? They're obviously not going to see any pleas made here.
@davidbirkettsnp.bsky.social @thesnpmedia.bsky.social @snp-dmg.bsky.social :
Why indeed aren't ALL the SNP MPs and MSPs on Bluesky? You have a huge SNP and other independence supporting presence here, but very little from the politicians - their presence is needed and would be helpful.
Why indeed aren't ALL the SNP MPs and MSPs on Bluesky? You have a huge SNP and other independence supporting presence here, but very little from the politicians - their presence is needed and would be helpful.
@davidbirkettsnp.bsky.social @thesnpmedia.bsky.social @snp-dmg.bsky.social
Please get all SNP politicians posting here
This letter from Seamus Logan to Wes Streeting I saw on Facebook is important
Please get all SNP politicians posting here
This letter from Seamus Logan to Wes Streeting I saw on Facebook is important
December 7, 2025 at 3:14 PM
If any Indy Bluesky-er is still on X and can identify Indy-supporting politicians there, can you give them a gentle nudge up the bahookie and persuade them to join us here? They're obviously not going to see any pleas made here.
😢😢😢
Here I am again, here again is the daily thread.
Hopefully worth waiting for.
It was another destructive night as Ukraine's air defence just cannot cover the whole country + Russia inflicted more civilian death as well as damage to critical infrastructure. Let's begin Day 1383.
Hopefully worth waiting for.
It was another destructive night as Ukraine's air defence just cannot cover the whole country + Russia inflicted more civilian death as well as damage to critical infrastructure. Let's begin Day 1383.
December 7, 2025 at 2:48 PM
😢😢😢
@davidbirkettsnp.bsky.social @thesnpmedia.bsky.social @snp-dmg.bsky.social :
Why indeed aren't ALL the SNP MPs and MSPs on Bluesky? You have a huge SNP and other independence supporting presence here, but very little from the politicians - their presence is needed and would be helpful.
Why indeed aren't ALL the SNP MPs and MSPs on Bluesky? You have a huge SNP and other independence supporting presence here, but very little from the politicians - their presence is needed and would be helpful.
@davidbirkettsnp.bsky.social @thesnpmedia.bsky.social @snp-dmg.bsky.social
Please get all SNP politicians posting here
This letter from Seamus Logan to Wes Streeting I saw on Facebook is important
Please get all SNP politicians posting here
This letter from Seamus Logan to Wes Streeting I saw on Facebook is important
December 7, 2025 at 2:43 PM
@davidbirkettsnp.bsky.social @thesnpmedia.bsky.social @snp-dmg.bsky.social :
Why indeed aren't ALL the SNP MPs and MSPs on Bluesky? You have a huge SNP and other independence supporting presence here, but very little from the politicians - their presence is needed and would be helpful.
Why indeed aren't ALL the SNP MPs and MSPs on Bluesky? You have a huge SNP and other independence supporting presence here, but very little from the politicians - their presence is needed and would be helpful.
A longish and scary thread but worth reading. Until politicians take this on board, and populations are educated till they at least understand what's likely to happen, there doesn't seem to be any way of averting disaster or to coin a phrase, "the end of the world as we know it":
Collapse of key Atlantic current could bring extreme drought to Europe for centuries, study finds. @swinda.bsky.social
That's an under-appreciated impact of #AMOC shutdown, of particular concern given the recent results showing much higher likelihood of this. 1/2
www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
That's an under-appreciated impact of #AMOC shutdown, of particular concern given the recent results showing much higher likelihood of this. 1/2
www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
December 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
A longish and scary thread but worth reading. Until politicians take this on board, and populations are educated till they at least understand what's likely to happen, there doesn't seem to be any way of averting disaster or to coin a phrase, "the end of the world as we know it":
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SNP ordered separate NHS app because of need for Scotland’s better-funded, better-delivered and more integrated social care not for reasons given by Telegraph talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/12/07/s...
SNP ordered separate NHS app because of need for Scotland’s better-funded, better-delivered and more integrated social care not for reasons given by Telegraph
Professor John Robertson OBA In the Daily Telegraph, 24 November 2025: SNP ministers decided to create their much-delayed Scottish NHS app from scratch after being warned against the “pol…
talkingupscotlandtwo.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:21 PM
SNP ordered separate NHS app because of need for Scotland’s better-funded, better-delivered and more integrated social care not for reasons given by Telegraph talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/12/07/s...
A quick glance at that pic before I read the text - and I thought it was Starmer! A bit chubbier in the jowls but otherwise ......... .
Malcolm Offord has said he 'doesn't believe' Nigel Farage is racist after announcing his defection to Reform UK
Scottish peer who defected to Reform dismisses Nigel Farage racism allegations
www.thenational.scot
December 7, 2025 at 2:10 PM
A quick glance at that pic before I read the text - and I thought it was Starmer! A bit chubbier in the jowls but otherwise ......... .
Israel changes the definition of "ceasefire" 😡😡
BREAKING: At least 373 Palestinians have been killed and 970 wounded since the start of the ceasefire in October, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/ro90fr
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/ro90fr
December 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Israel changes the definition of "ceasefire" 😡😡
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Haste the day WE Sovereign Scots
BREAK THE STRANGLING SHACKES
&
TEAR OUT THE EMBEDDED CLAWS
of
FOREIGN English Colonialist Occupying Oppressors
IN PERPETUITY
&
hold to account traitors who took
THIRTY PIECES OF COLONIALIST SILVER
to
BETRAY Scotland & WE her people
NEVER FORGIVE/NEVER FORGET
BREAK THE STRANGLING SHACKES
&
TEAR OUT THE EMBEDDED CLAWS
of
FOREIGN English Colonialist Occupying Oppressors
IN PERPETUITY
&
hold to account traitors who took
THIRTY PIECES OF COLONIALIST SILVER
to
BETRAY Scotland & WE her people
NEVER FORGIVE/NEVER FORGET
December 6, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Haste the day WE Sovereign Scots
BREAK THE STRANGLING SHACKES
&
TEAR OUT THE EMBEDDED CLAWS
of
FOREIGN English Colonialist Occupying Oppressors
IN PERPETUITY
&
hold to account traitors who took
THIRTY PIECES OF COLONIALIST SILVER
to
BETRAY Scotland & WE her people
NEVER FORGIVE/NEVER FORGET
BREAK THE STRANGLING SHACKES
&
TEAR OUT THE EMBEDDED CLAWS
of
FOREIGN English Colonialist Occupying Oppressors
IN PERPETUITY
&
hold to account traitors who took
THIRTY PIECES OF COLONIALIST SILVER
to
BETRAY Scotland & WE her people
NEVER FORGIVE/NEVER FORGET
The answer to that's easy - let Scotland go and live it's own life. You won't need to worry about "taking a lot" from Scotland any more.
And "taking a lot" are the relevant words - taking the oil, revenues for starters.
And "taking a lot" are the relevant words - taking the oil, revenues for starters.
“We’ve had a lot from Scotland but the tail cannot go on wagging the dog any longer” talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/12/07/w...
“We’ve had a lot from Scotland but the tail cannot go on wagging the dog any longer”
By Liz S “Nigel Farage was once run out of Edinburgh . Now Scottish voters are embracing his rabble rousing”. Really ? Which scottish voters (with a small ‘s’)? Is it not really, in …
talkingupscotlandtwo.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
The answer to that's easy - let Scotland go and live it's own life. You won't need to worry about "taking a lot" from Scotland any more.
And "taking a lot" are the relevant words - taking the oil, revenues for starters.
And "taking a lot" are the relevant words - taking the oil, revenues for starters.
Behold a potential MSP (if Scots in the constituency he decides to represent are unwise enough to vote for him). A mini Farage/Trump at the heart of Scotland's government.
Twunt because sometimes twt and cnt just aren't enough". 👇
December 7, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Behold a potential MSP (if Scots in the constituency he decides to represent are unwise enough to vote for him). A mini Farage/Trump at the heart of Scotland's government.
🎯🎯 And if Reform's grand plans are allowed to take hold in Scotland you can imagine what damage it will wreak on the Scottish landscape - and ultimately the Scottish tourist industry.
Behind populist slogans and patriotic rhetoric of #ReformUK lies a devastating agenda for nature that, according to conservation groups, risks accelerating the decline of already fragile ecosystems.
My latest for @bylinetimes.bsky.social
My latest for @bylinetimes.bsky.social
'Nigel Farage's Plan to Scrap Nature Protections Would Speed 'Demise' of UK Countryside'
Reform UK’s vow to scrap thousands of nature laws risks pushing Britain’s depleted countryside into irreversible decline, argues Stuart Spray
bylinetimes.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:57 PM
🎯🎯 And if Reform's grand plans are allowed to take hold in Scotland you can imagine what damage it will wreak on the Scottish landscape - and ultimately the Scottish tourist industry.
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NHS England’s high risk repair bill backlog is FIVE times greater per head than NHS Scotland talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/12/07/n...
NHS England’s high risk repair bill backlog is FIVE times greater per head than NHS Scotland
By stewartb The Herald amplifying and elaborating upon – on its front page no less – Tory health spokesperson, Dr Gulhane’s sighting of buckets catching rainwater from a hospital’s leaking roof, pr…
talkingupscotlandtwo.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:25 PM
NHS England’s high risk repair bill backlog is FIVE times greater per head than NHS Scotland talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/12/07/n...
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Anybody else noticed the similarity between Tommy Robinson aka Laxley Lennon and William Joyce aka Lord Haw Haw?
Wonder if they are related?
historyatkingston.wordpress.com/2023/02/20/o...
Wonder if they are related?
historyatkingston.wordpress.com/2023/02/20/o...
December 7, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Anybody else noticed the similarity between Tommy Robinson aka Laxley Lennon and William Joyce aka Lord Haw Haw?
Wonder if they are related?
historyatkingston.wordpress.com/2023/02/20/o...
Wonder if they are related?
historyatkingston.wordpress.com/2023/02/20/o...
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Ofcom has reversed course. After dismissing complaints about Rupert Murdoch’s transphobic TalkTV, the regulator will now be launching an investigation into the rightwing broadcaster 🔎
https://goodlaw.social/ycba
https://goodlaw.social/ycba
TalkTV: Ofcom bows to pressure | Good Law Project
We said we’d sue over Ofcom’s decision to dismiss 22,000 complaints about transphobia on TalkTV – now the regulator has caved.
goodlaw.social
December 7, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Ofcom has reversed course. After dismissing complaints about Rupert Murdoch’s transphobic TalkTV, the regulator will now be launching an investigation into the rightwing broadcaster 🔎
https://goodlaw.social/ycba
https://goodlaw.social/ycba
In a word (OK, two words) "b****r all".
Covid fraud under the Tories cost the UK taxpayer £10.9bn.
VIP lanes and crony contracts.
Lack of anti-fraud controls in Covid scheme.
Money handed out for non-existent employees
Newly formed companies got public money
No competitive tenders
Poor checks on quality.
How much would be recovered?
VIP lanes and crony contracts.
Lack of anti-fraud controls in Covid scheme.
Money handed out for non-existent employees
Newly formed companies got public money
No competitive tenders
Poor checks on quality.
How much would be recovered?
Covid fraud under the Tories cost the taxpayer £10.9 billion
The counter-fraud and error measures during the pandemic under the Conservative Government were accused of being 'so lax they may as well have left the door wide open'
www.mirror.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
In a word (OK, two words) "b****r all".
This plant would be a disaster for the environment in many ways - is the last thing the world needs. Given it is in Belgium, is this the plant that the UK government is funding in the wake of Grangemouth etc?? Whatever, it shouldn't happen. I've signed.
act.clientearth.org/page/181217/...
act.clientearth.org/page/181217/...
Take a stand against plastic pollution: Add your name!
I support ClientEarth as they challenge petrochemicals giant INEOS's catastrophic plastic project in court. Together, we can use the law to end the age of plastic once and for all. Will you join me?
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December 7, 2025 at 12:29 PM
This plant would be a disaster for the environment in many ways - is the last thing the world needs. Given it is in Belgium, is this the plant that the UK government is funding in the wake of Grangemouth etc?? Whatever, it shouldn't happen. I've signed.
act.clientearth.org/page/181217/...
act.clientearth.org/page/181217/...
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Tomorrow's Sunday National 📰
'It's cash for access': Elite donors fund Nigel Farage
'It's cash for access': Elite donors fund Nigel Farage
December 6, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Tomorrow's Sunday National 📰
'It's cash for access': Elite donors fund Nigel Farage
'It's cash for access': Elite donors fund Nigel Farage
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I hope the Scottish media presses Malcolm Offord on the hypocrisy of a man who set up the Vote No Borders campaign announcing he'll be standing for a party which wants to close borders to everyone who's not white and rich.
But I won't be holding my breath
But I won't be holding my breath
December 6, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I hope the Scottish media presses Malcolm Offord on the hypocrisy of a man who set up the Vote No Borders campaign announcing he'll be standing for a party which wants to close borders to everyone who's not white and rich.
But I won't be holding my breath
But I won't be holding my breath
I gather he's giving up everything to run for Holyhrood - giving back his elevation to the HoL, all his privileges that go with that, and resigning from everything else England-wise. DOn't know which constituency he's looking at but I imagine the Tories and Lab are very worried bunnies!
That's Malcolm Offord trying to be a trail blazer for Reform. Won't Farage be thrilled to have a Reform presence in the HoL 😡😡:
www.thenational.scot/news/2567810...
www.thenational.scot/news/2567810...
Scottish peer defects to Reform UK with announcement in Falkirk
MALCOLM Offord, the current treasurer of the Scottish Conservative Party and a member of the House of Lords, has defected to Reform UK
www.thenational.scot
December 6, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I gather he's giving up everything to run for Holyhrood - giving back his elevation to the HoL, all his privileges that go with that, and resigning from everything else England-wise. DOn't know which constituency he's looking at but I imagine the Tories and Lab are very worried bunnies!
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How adorable. Come across the pond to see the real Democracy meltdown
December 6, 2025 at 1:59 PM
How adorable. Come across the pond to see the real Democracy meltdown
What a waste of perfectly good crumble and custard 🙄
Protesters have poured custard and apple crumble over the glass case holding the crown jewels in London, stating that 'democracy has crumbled'
Four people have been arrested, and the Tower of London has been closed to the public
Four people have been arrested, and the Tower of London has been closed to the public
December 6, 2025 at 4:51 PM
What a waste of perfectly good crumble and custard 🙄