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Grantybot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @grantybot.bsky.social · 22h

This is blistering truth, please give it a watch! Utterly refreshing

Catriona @catrio.bsky.social · 23h

Well worth watching Mairi McAllen SNP tearing Tory liars to pieces

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Grantybot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @grantybot.bsky.social · 1d

Watching QT. Zia Usuf launches attack on @zackpolanski.bsky.social , Zach answers , then is accused of attacking anyone he disagrees with by a telegraph reporter. What a bomb scare of a right wing programme.

Well played Zach, the only human on the panel. The rest might as well be the same person 🤷

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BUCKERS @deathofbuckley.bsky.social · 2d

Just seen a headline which asks "Thatcher was born 100 years ago and her reign feels a lifetime away. Why is her effect on the country still so huge?"

It's because she was a massive bastard. Hope that helps x

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Grantybot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @grantybot.bsky.social · 3d

Fuck this, Lib Dems are a politer continuation of the norm. We need to obliterate the current system and rebuild it from the bottom up. Starting with Scottish independence for us and the Greens in England.

Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 3d

My message to the millions of One Nation conservatives who reject the divisive politics of Badenoch and Farage is this:

Come and join us. Help us save our country. Come and win with us.

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Sam Whyte @samwhyte.bsky.social · 3d

They simply cannot decide whether or not they want us to speak the language.

Badenoch: Curb students taking "rip-off" degrees such as English.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d

I'm never actually going to need to write another comment piece again am I?

The right wing shit rags are just going to keep recruiting for us.

Folks - want a better country?

Join.greenparty.org.uk

The party even more dangerous than Starmers labour - UK's answer to Putin's communists

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Grantybot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @grantybot.bsky.social · 4d

Seems a very noble name change. More power to you Zach

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 4d

An incredible scoop from Darren here lifted straight from... Polanski's public Wikipedia page

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Grantybot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @grantybot.bsky.social · 4d

A family member of mine wasn't allowed in the house with a green top one night.

I still think about that a lot. You can imagine the attitude they had towards "foreigners" based on that.

It's a wonder I turned out the way I did 🤣

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Grantybot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @grantybot.bsky.social · 4d

Know what IS British?

Clamping down on protest, open political corruption, foreign owned billionaire media, shit in the water, genocide supporting, islamaphobia and I could go on forever.

Fuck the UK, free Scotland

Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 4d

This 'un-British' vibe is really beginning to piss me off

I'm being gas lit by my own Govt and I'm really not happy about it

Labour are seemingly happy to drift into the authoritarian arena daily

BBC News - Starmer urges students not to protest on 7 October
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Keir Starmer asks students not to join protests on 7 October

The prime minister says it is "un-British" to hold pro-Palestinian protests on the second anniversary of Hamas's attacks on Israel.

www.bbc.com

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Grantybot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @grantybot.bsky.social · 4d

Holy fuck, I had family in the orange order. Long gone now but inclusive they weren't. Get this in the bin

The Herald @heraldscotland.bsky.social · 4d

'There’s a feeling too that the Orange Order has acted in good faith and in the spirit of One Scotland Many Cultures; that they’ve moved into those values and helped advance Scotland’s reputation as an inclusive, diverse and tolerant nation' || Kevin McKenna 👇

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Grantybot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @grantybot.bsky.social · 4d

He was my MP when I lived in Barrhead. Cares not a jot about the local people. Now they've got Blair McDougal, blaming the SNP for cuts when he's part of the reason. Treacherous cunts!

Scotch Whisky Truths 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @specialscot.bsky.social · 4d

Lobbying is legalised bribery. It's based on myriad lies.

Jim was a mainstay of the #bettertogether movement.

Which was based on myriad lies.

Jim Murphy makes millions through lobbying firm after Keir Starmer came to power

FORMER Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy has made millions of pounds through his public affairs firm since Keir Starmer came to power

www.thenational.scot

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Grantybot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @grantybot.bsky.social · 4d

Disgusting, profiting out of other human beings utter misery. Paid for by the tax payer, yet another scam to make a connected rich person richer.

The wealthy are the biggest financial parasites in our society

Viva la revolution

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Asylum hotel provider makes £180m profit despite claims of inedible food and rationed loo paper

Asylum seekers and charities tell BBC of

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Grantybot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @grantybot.bsky.social · 4d

Help people and they'll thrive. Spread the wealth

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 4d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
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Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Iris Cook @montrose.bsky.social · 4d

Dark

Israel is the devil
They are trumping the Nazis with their own final solution

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Grantybot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @grantybot.bsky.social · 5d

I'm sure Starmer and Lammy will be appearing soon in solidarity like they did for Manchester. Or is something different? Can't quite put my finger on it....🫣

Ben Whitham @drbenwhitham.bsky.social · 6d

Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week
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Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime'

Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Grantybot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @grantybot.bsky.social · 5d

Same old tired tropes- if you're too poor just find a better job. They live in a different world to us. Where are these better paid jobs? I worked in social care, best job in the world but scandalously poorly paid. Who does those jobs when everyone leaves? A journalist could easily ask 🤷

Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 5d

Mel Stride is lying here about Conservative policy.

In fact, like Reform, official Conservative policy is to report long-term legal residents who have ILR and are not earning enough or are claiming benefits.

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Ungagged! @ungagged.bsky.social · 8d

Just for the lols. JD Vance has indicated he loves funny memes. Thanks to @colbertlateshow.bsky.social for this very funny one he can laugh along with.

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Grantybot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @grantybot.bsky.social · 5d

Mel Stride, Tory "we are the party of fiscal responsibility"

This is what happens when there are absolutely no consequences for politicians. Too many Tory scandals to mention, hypocritically glossing over the fact they were in power til 1.5 years ago 🤷

They just pick up where they left off

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Grantybot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @grantybot.bsky.social · 5d

Terrific. Every question batted away beautifully. Goodall acting as the establishment mouthpiece. "How do we compensate the shareholders?" re nationalisation of English water.
Y'know the ones responsible for putting shit in the rivers? How do we reward them for that?!
They should be in prison

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 5d

We must all keep speaking out.

Thanks for all the kind words for this pretty combatative interview.

The truth is simple. Let's just all keep telling the truth.

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'A classroom of kids is massacred everyday': Zack Polanski on Gaza

YouTube video by LBC

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Grantybot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @grantybot.bsky.social · 5d

I used to serve folk like this in various Paisley pubs.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Trump tries to goad the Navy into booing "Barack Hussein Obama" but is met mostly with silence

Grantybot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @grantybot.bsky.social · 5d

I'd like to see the ScotGov start calling out the media like this.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 5d

I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.

Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.

Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?

Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk

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Grantybot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @grantybot.bsky.social · 5d

I believe the whole idea is that they can keep on pumping carbon into the atmosphere for profit whilst pretending to capture it, won't even consider renewables until they own the wind and sun too.

Lesley McG @lesleymac.bsky.social · 5d

Well looks like yet another UK government massive waste of tax payers money . Just like their proposed small nuclear reactors which are not even technically feasible right now

🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 5d

"as we see delays in the rollout of CCS projects and more evidence that suggests most CCS installations do not work as well as anticipated, many are questioning whether investing in this type of decarbonisation is viable."
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Grantybot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @grantybot.bsky.social · 5d

This has been on my mind, every time I switch on the telly there's coverage of antisemitism, with right wing knobends giving their contrived opinions. Not a word about attacks on Muslims or a big fucking racist protest about them. Two tier indeed

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 5d

The attack in East Sussex comes as Britain sees a wave of protests demonising Muslims and asylum seekers.

‘Hate crime’: UK police probe suspected arson attack on mosque

The attack in East Sussex comes as Britain sees a wave of protests demonising Muslims and asylum seekers.

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Grantybot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @grantybot.bsky.social · 6d

Truly scared of bringing children up in the glorious UK. I hope by the time they're adults Scotland will be a thriving, inclusive , royalty free land of legends.

Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 6d

“Ministers are to give police new powers to target repeated protests, aimed particularly at cracking down on demonstrations connected to Gaza, the Home Office has said.”

They’re enabling a genocide and silencing opposition. This is authoritarianism.

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Police to get broader powers to crack down on repeated protests

The move is not a ban on protests but "about restrictions and conditions", Shabana Mahmood tells the BBC.

www.bbc.com

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