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John The Scot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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One of the 8 Billion on the planet. Software developer. Scottish not British.

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John The Scot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @johnthescot.bsky.social · Aug 29

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Patrick Stewart sketch: what has the ECHR ever done for us?

YouTube video by The Guardian

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 1h

NEW: We need to talk about Russia.

So, yes, that's why we need to talk about Nigel Farage.

My personal newsletter on the story behind the story. Brexit, Trump, Russia & now...Nathan Gill.

open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

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John The Scot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @johnthescot.bsky.social · 1h

Those Brexit benefits are rolling in now. Thanks Nigel.

www.itv.com/news/2025-10...

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John The Scot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @johnthescot.bsky.social · 2h

Ouch, that was a bummer. I normally do it at midnight before going to bed.

John The Scot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @johnthescot.bsky.social · 5h

That would wind me right up.

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John The Scot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @johnthescot.bsky.social · 11h

I spent yesterday rewiring my cousins garage. I was using a coiled extension cable so it came to mind after first attempt.

John The Scot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @johnthescot.bsky.social · 12h

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John The Scot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @johnthescot.bsky.social · 12h

How the hell do they think Palestinian refugees feel in the UK every day?

Labour are bought and paid for.

www.declassifieduk.org/israel-lobby...

Israel lobby funded half of Keir Starmer’s cabinet

Exclusive: Labour’s top team has accepted hundreds of thousands of pounds from pro-Israel funders.

www.declassifieduk.org

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John The Scot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @johnthescot.bsky.social · 13h

They have misused the word for so long that they have diminished it's meaning to nothing.

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John The Scot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @johnthescot.bsky.social · 13h

It's the work of the Gestapo.

John The Scot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @johnthescot.bsky.social · 21h

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John The Scot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @johnthescot.bsky.social · 1d

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 2d

Will Netanyahu torpedo the ‘Gaza peace plan’ sooner rather than later?

Here’s Noam Chomsky explaining the cyclical pattern of Israel reaching a ceasefire with Hamas, and then openly breaking the ceasefire and resuming the slaughter.

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John The Scot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @johnthescot.bsky.social · 2d

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John The Scot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @johnthescot.bsky.social · 2d

Not good with a Reform government coming.

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Helen Johnston @hj4euinspain.bsky.social · 3d

New report finds UK’s top scientific institutions have inadequate institutional defences to prevent potential political interference.
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/str...

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Strengthening the institutions we rely on

A new report finds that the UK’s arm’s length public bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation

yorkshirebylines.co.uk

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John The Scot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @johnthescot.bsky.social · 2d

They are under the illusion they won a landslide, the reality is they only had 35% of the vote. They are losing that quickly.

John The Scot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @johnthescot.bsky.social · 2d

Sláinte.

John The Scot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @johnthescot.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks, it's been a difficult year.

John The Scot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @johnthescot.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks James. We opened a rather expensive single malt to remember lost family.

John The Scot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @johnthescot.bsky.social · 2d

Woking, you won't find any sweaty Princes there.

John The Scot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @johnthescot.bsky.social · 2d

I lost my brother to cancer in May, he was only 50.

I have spent this week with another brother who moved away years ago.

Starmer, Farage, Trump, nothing matters more than family. Make the most of them whilst you can.

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John The Scot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @johnthescot.bsky.social · 3d

UK government declared painting planes as dangerous as ISIS.

Crazy government is not isolated to USA.

John The Scot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @johnthescot.bsky.social · 3d

Wandering around a random garden centre in middle England listening to all the old racists going on about how it's their country. The rest of us are doomed because of these old bastards. Same dumb bastards that gave us Brexshit.

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John The Scot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @johnthescot.bsky.social · 3d

They tried that approach the last general election and got 35% of the vote.

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Mark Thomas @markthomasinfo.bsky.social · 3d

“You’re banned, you can’t chant that, you’re nicked for holding a sign, you’re kids are poorer, you’re colder, you have to have an ID card and the racists have legitimate concerns in our island of strangers… now vote for us or Farage wins.”

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