Maureen Pickering
@maureenpickering.bsky.social
Retired Depute HT, Scottish granny. Wants Scottish Independence for a fairer, more equal society where Scotland’s vast resources are used for the benefit of the people of 🏴, not Westminster. I am a Sovereign Scot and will bow to no monarch. No DMs
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Can’t wait for Anas Sarwar to call for Yvette Copper to resign, have a bit of a riddy when nobody in the Cabiney follows suit, then just pretend he’s the world’s biggest Yvette Cooper fan.
🚨 BREAKING: The High Court has ruled that the Government’s banning of Palestine Action using the Terrorism Act is unlawful
February 13, 2026 at 10:29 AM
Can’t wait for Anas Sarwar to call for Yvette Copper to resign, have a bit of a riddy when nobody in the Cabiney follows suit, then just pretend he’s the world’s biggest Yvette Cooper fan.
Scottish Labour – Not just friends of paedophiles but by far the most actual convicted sex offenders, including 5 paedophiles, convicted since 2007 talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/11/s...
Scottish Labour – Not just friends of paedophiles but by far the most actual convicted sex offenders, including 5 paedophiles, convicted since 2007
Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above. To be fair, she’s in the top position, though we’ll soon see how long she lasts there and you’ll note they’ve kept the &…
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February 13, 2026 at 10:32 AM
Scottish Labour – Not just friends of paedophiles but by far the most actual convicted sex offenders, including 5 paedophiles, convicted since 2007 talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/11/s...
An actual 97% resident doctor vote to call off strike action is not news yet last year when they might hopefully in the future do so, it was talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/11/a...
An actual 97% resident doctor vote to call off strike action is not news yet last year when they might hopefully in the future do so, it was
Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above. Four hours ago on the Scottish Government’s latest news site, surely followed by all political editors: Resident Doctors have voted to acc…
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February 13, 2026 at 10:31 AM
An actual 97% resident doctor vote to call off strike action is not news yet last year when they might hopefully in the future do so, it was talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/11/a...
BBC UK find ’55 babies who died may have survived with better care’ to add to police investigations into hundreds of avoidable baby deaths in NHS England but none in Scotland and NHS England pays out twice as much for maternity failings! talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/12/b...
BBC UK find ’55 babies who died may have survived with better care’ to add to police investigations into hundreds of avoidable baby deaths in NHS England but none in Scotland and NHS England pays out ...
Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above. First thing today, on BBC Breakfast, we hear of a joint BBC News/New Statesman, external investigation into maternity care at University Hospita…
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February 13, 2026 at 10:29 AM
BBC UK find ’55 babies who died may have survived with better care’ to add to police investigations into hundreds of avoidable baby deaths in NHS England but none in Scotland and NHS England pays out twice as much for maternity failings! talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/12/b...
Another attempt to hide the true NHS England performance as waiting lists in Scotland keep falling talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/12/a...
Another attempt to hide the true NHS England performance as waiting lists in Scotland keep falling
Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above. Today, BBC UK present, uncritically, the suggestion that waiting lists are falling at the same time as they’re getting longer, in NHS Alic…
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February 13, 2026 at 10:28 AM
Another attempt to hide the true NHS England performance as waiting lists in Scotland keep falling talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/12/a...
What kind of miserable wee s***e had the meanness of spirit to ask how much it cost to send the New York mayor an SNP baby box and which media outlet do they work for – what’s your guess? talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/12/w...
What kind of miserable wee s***e had the meanness of spirit to ask how much it cost to send the New York mayor an SNP baby box and which media outlet do they work for – what’s your guess?
That is cute! I love that. It’s from Scotland not England? I’ve met Sir Keir Starmer the Prime Minister of England when he visited that creepy Mandelson guy at the British Embassy. Engl…
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February 13, 2026 at 10:27 AM
What kind of miserable wee s***e had the meanness of spirit to ask how much it cost to send the New York mayor an SNP baby box and which media outlet do they work for – what’s your guess? talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/12/w...
Criminals stealing used cooking oil from Scotland’s chip shops are mobile groups ‘traveling to Scotland’ for opportunistic thefts talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/13/c...
Criminals stealing used cooking oil from Scotland’s chip shops are mobile groups ‘traveling to Scotland’ for opportunistic thefts
Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above. We know that the hundred’s of County Lines drug gangs terrorising small town Scotland, increasing violent crime, prostitution, child abuse…
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February 13, 2026 at 10:24 AM
Criminals stealing used cooking oil from Scotland’s chip shops are mobile groups ‘traveling to Scotland’ for opportunistic thefts talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/13/c...
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It’s a direct, if opposite, mirror of the BBC re the SNP and Scottish Independence .. SNP BAD we call it. Good news .. and there’s plenty .. is buried; bad news amplified or even worse, fabricated.
February 13, 2026 at 10:11 AM
It’s a direct, if opposite, mirror of the BBC re the SNP and Scottish Independence .. SNP BAD we call it. Good news .. and there’s plenty .. is buried; bad news amplified or even worse, fabricated.
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UK urged to negotiate with EU over Scottish energy funding
www.thenational.scot/news/2585135...
www.thenational.scot/news/2585135...
Warning as Scotland 'misses out' on £15 billion EU funding package due to Brexit
The UK Government is being urged to consider closer ties to the EU as Scotland is missing out on a share of a landmark £15 billion pound funding…
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February 13, 2026 at 10:00 AM
UK urged to negotiate with EU over Scottish energy funding
www.thenational.scot/news/2585135...
www.thenational.scot/news/2585135...
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I'm listening to Scottish Independence Podcasts | Unbinding the Union - the Law of Leaving on Podbean, check it out! www.podbean.com/ea/pb-tfte9-...
Unbinding the Union - the Law of Leaving
What are the legal routes to an independence referendum—and who gets to decide? Fiona and Marlene bring you the standout highlights from Holyrood’s Constitutional Committee, featuring evidence from to...
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February 13, 2026 at 10:00 AM
I'm listening to Scottish Independence Podcasts | Unbinding the Union - the Law of Leaving on Podbean, check it out! www.podbean.com/ea/pb-tfte9-...
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Scotrail - Scotland’s publicly owned railway - is seeing record numbers of passengers returning to rail travel with high satisfaction levels and lower fares thanks to the support of the SNP Government.
February 13, 2026 at 9:17 AM
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The English Labour Party in Scotland has been handed £200,000 by American health care firms. Those firms expect something in return for their 'investment'. That 'something' is Sarwar and Baillie's relentless attacks on our Scottish NHS. To undermine it in the eyes of the public.
Know your enemy.
Know your enemy.
February 13, 2026 at 9:21 AM
The English Labour Party in Scotland has been handed £200,000 by American health care firms. Those firms expect something in return for their 'investment'. That 'something' is Sarwar and Baillie's relentless attacks on our Scottish NHS. To undermine it in the eyes of the public.
Know your enemy.
Know your enemy.
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ALT #GetCounted #YesScots #Yes #SNP #Alba #ScottishGreens #LabourInScotland #LibDemsInScotland #ConservativesInScotland #TheNational
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February 13, 2026 at 9:26 AM
ALT #GetCounted #YesScots #Yes #SNP #Alba #ScottishGreens #LabourInScotland #LibDemsInScotland #ConservativesInScotland #TheNational
Today’s THE NATIONAL.
Get the paper at your paper shop or subscribe online at:
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Today’s THE NATIONAL.
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Good to hear the STUC speaking out.
www.thenational.scot/news/2585034...
www.thenational.scot/news/2585034...
UK urged to speak out as Donald Trump 'attempts forced starvation of innocent people'
SCOTLAND’S top trade unionist has warned the UK Government that it must oppose Donald Trump’s “deliberate attempt to force mass starvation on…
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February 13, 2026 at 9:36 AM
Good to hear the STUC speaking out.
www.thenational.scot/news/2585034...
www.thenational.scot/news/2585034...
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Radio 📻 Scotland has become Radio UK and is constantly promoting the Westminster Government Policies linking their policies into Scotland i.e 'what do you think?'. The Scottish Government has stopped existing. I caught only 2 days of discussion in the morn aboot Anas Sarwar & his failed rebellion.
February 13, 2026 at 9:36 AM
Radio 📻 Scotland has become Radio UK and is constantly promoting the Westminster Government Policies linking their policies into Scotland i.e 'what do you think?'. The Scottish Government has stopped existing. I caught only 2 days of discussion in the morn aboot Anas Sarwar & his failed rebellion.
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And so the undermining of Scottish Independence begins.
🔺 BREAKING: The estranged husband of Nicola Sturgeon and former SNP chief executive is alleged to have used party funds illicitly to buy a £124,550 campervan for his own use www.thetimes.com/uk/scotlan...
Peter Murrell accused of embezzling £460,000 in eight court charges
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February 13, 2026 at 9:42 AM
And so the undermining of Scottish Independence begins.
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Well you get what you voted for staying in the union RIGHT?
Well you get what you voted for staying in the union RIGHT?
Bank of Scotland announces closure of 11 branches including island site
THE Bank of Scotland has announced it will close 11 branches across the country this summer ...
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February 13, 2026 at 9:43 AM
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Well you get what you voted for staying in the union RIGHT?
Well you get what you voted for staying in the union RIGHT?
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16 to 29 year olds in Scotland have no say on their future as they were too young to vote on independence these are the people who are going to shape their own way through life they deserve to be heard.
#indyfef2now
#indyfef2now
February 13, 2026 at 9:51 AM
16 to 29 year olds in Scotland have no say on their future as they were too young to vote on independence these are the people who are going to shape their own way through life they deserve to be heard.
#indyfef2now
#indyfef2now
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Is it just a coincidence that Farage has started focussing on getting people into the office rather than WFH and the fact that one of his main donors has a commercial property empire?
Hmmmm, let me think.🤔
Hmmmm, let me think.🤔
February 13, 2026 at 9:56 AM
Is it just a coincidence that Farage has started focussing on getting people into the office rather than WFH and the fact that one of his main donors has a commercial property empire?
Hmmmm, let me think.🤔
Hmmmm, let me think.🤔
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🇮🇪☘️🇵🇸 If Ireland don’t boycott, the fans should make Lansdowne Rd (I still can’t call it Aviva) look like Celtic Park
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February 13, 2026 at 4:46 AM
🇮🇪☘️🇵🇸 If Ireland don’t boycott, the fans should make Lansdowne Rd (I still can’t call it Aviva) look like Celtic Park
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Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.
WATCH: Trump, EPA's Zeldin announce end of scientific basis for U.S. action on climate change
The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the most aggressiv...
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February 12, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.
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😡😡😡, They have blood on their hands.
Messages between Peter Mandelson and UK Health Secretary Wes Streeting reveal that top Labour figures are aware they are 'knowingly aiding and abetting' Israeli war crimes
Top Labour ministers 'know they aided Israeli war crimes', private messages suggest
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February 13, 2026 at 1:16 AM
😡😡😡, They have blood on their hands.
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But however progressive ScoGov's budget & tax policy is "Scottish" Labour won't support it because Labour Westminster Gov won't countence progressive tax policy.. #VoteSNP #Holyrood2026 #ScottishIndependence
The Scottish Parliament passed our Scottish Budget at Stage 1.
It includes the best cost of living support package in the UK, while ensuring 55% of Scottish taxpayers pay less income tax than south of the border.
The SNP government is on your side.
It includes the best cost of living support package in the UK, while ensuring 55% of Scottish taxpayers pay less income tax than south of the border.
The SNP government is on your side.
February 12, 2026 at 6:41 PM
But however progressive ScoGov's budget & tax policy is "Scottish" Labour won't support it because Labour Westminster Gov won't countence progressive tax policy.. #VoteSNP #Holyrood2026 #ScottishIndependence
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Fair enough but in Scotland we can actually vote snp1 Green2 #scottishrepublic #greenyes
February 12, 2026 at 6:51 PM
Fair enough but in Scotland we can actually vote snp1 Green2 #scottishrepublic #greenyes