Maureen Pickering
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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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Road deaths halve and offences fall by a third as ‘SNP’ [sic] Road Safety Framework achieves significant results with 5 years to go
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Road deaths halve and offences fall by a third as ‘SNP’ [sic] Road Safety Framework achieves significant results with 5 years to go
Image – Grok AI Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above. In the Edinburgh Reporter yesterday based on a Sunday Mail report: Scotland’s roads are becoming deadlier amid rising fata…
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February 11, 2026 at 11:53 AM
Road deaths halve and offences fall by a third as ‘SNP’ [sic] Road Safety Framework achieves significant results with 5 years to go
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Summing up Anas Sarwar and why all the sneakiest politicians resign, change Parties and don't care.
He wants to be sacked, so he can avoid the humiliation coming in May. Then he can return when a new leader is in Westminster and claim to be principled. It's nothing but self preservation!
February 11, 2026 at 9:19 AM
Summing up Anas Sarwar and why all the sneakiest politicians resign, change Parties and don't care.
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Labour now go into the Scottish election with a fatally wounded Anas Sarwar who has publicly expressed his lack of confidence in his lame-duck party leader, writes Paul Kavanagh ✍️
Read here: www.thenational.scot/politi...
Read here: www.thenational.scot/politi...
February 11, 2026 at 11:26 AM
Labour now go into the Scottish election with a fatally wounded Anas Sarwar who has publicly expressed his lack of confidence in his lame-duck party leader, writes Paul Kavanagh ✍️
Read here: www.thenational.scot/politi...
Read here: www.thenational.scot/politi...
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Ya really just couldn't make this 💩 up
Wanted: Regional Director to work for an organisation opposed to home working. The successful applicant will be expected to work from home.
February 11, 2026 at 11:14 AM
Ya really just couldn't make this 💩 up
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Wes Streeting still ready to challenge Starmer despite show of unity, allies say.
He had majority of just over 500 votes in the last election.
He would take Labour further to the right. Funded by healthcare companies, handing the NHS to corporations and private equity.
He had majority of just over 500 votes in the last election.
He would take Labour further to the right. Funded by healthcare companies, handing the NHS to corporations and private equity.
Streeting still ready to challenge Starmer despite show of unity, allies say
Health secretary poised to make leadership bid after May local elections to pre-empt a potential challenge from rival Rayner, MPs close to him say
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2026 at 8:17 AM
Wes Streeting still ready to challenge Starmer despite show of unity, allies say.
He had majority of just over 500 votes in the last election.
He would take Labour further to the right. Funded by healthcare companies, handing the NHS to corporations and private equity.
He had majority of just over 500 votes in the last election.
He would take Labour further to the right. Funded by healthcare companies, handing the NHS to corporations and private equity.
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You don't have to look far, to see Andrew Mountbatten's appalling lack of judgement.
February 11, 2026 at 11:10 AM
You don't have to look far, to see Andrew Mountbatten's appalling lack of judgement.
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It is possible to support Palestine and a Palestinian State and still be horrified at the rise in anti semitism in the UK.
February 11, 2026 at 8:49 AM
It is possible to support Palestine and a Palestinian State and still be horrified at the rise in anti semitism in the UK.
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Also under red & blue tories. The agenda is much the same. Scotland, wake up! A GP friend tells me the writing has been on the wall for a long time. #IndyClan
#ScottishIndependence
#SNP1SG2
#ScottishIndependence
#SNP1SG2
#EndLondonRule #AllUnderOneBanner #ScottishIndependence #UnitedForIndependence
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February 11, 2026 at 7:48 AM
Also under red & blue tories. The agenda is much the same. Scotland, wake up! A GP friend tells me the writing has been on the wall for a long time. #IndyClan
#ScottishIndependence
#SNP1SG2
#ScottishIndependence
#SNP1SG2
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Labour minister claims No 10 'did not know' of Matthew Doyle's links to a paedophile before putting him in the Lords.
But in December, No 10 said they did know, and investigated.
So, who's telling fibs? And will there be any accountability?
But in December, No 10 said they did know, and investigated.
So, who's telling fibs? And will there be any accountability?
Labour minister directly contradicts No 10 over peer's links to convicted paedophile
LABOUR are under pressure to explain whether a Government minister or a Downing Street spokesperson spoke “bunkum” about when they learned of…
www.thenational.scot
February 11, 2026 at 10:43 AM
Labour minister claims No 10 'did not know' of Matthew Doyle's links to a paedophile before putting him in the Lords.
But in December, No 10 said they did know, and investigated.
So, who's telling fibs? And will there be any accountability?
But in December, No 10 said they did know, and investigated.
So, who's telling fibs? And will there be any accountability?
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Given the timescale of the Epstein/Bannon/Farage European ‘Movement’ in 2018, you’ve got to wonder about Johnson’s visit to see Putin proxy Alexander Lebedev earlier that year without his security detail.
The Russian Bots started pushing ‘moggmentum’
bylinetimes.com/2019/02/19/h...
The Russian Bots started pushing ‘moggmentum’
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February 11, 2026 at 8:00 AM
Given the timescale of the Epstein/Bannon/Farage European ‘Movement’ in 2018, you’ve got to wonder about Johnson’s visit to see Putin proxy Alexander Lebedev earlier that year without his security detail.
The Russian Bots started pushing ‘moggmentum’
bylinetimes.com/2019/02/19/h...
The Russian Bots started pushing ‘moggmentum’
bylinetimes.com/2019/02/19/h...
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Sarwar's playing a high-stakes game of political poker. Unfortunately his hand is the Starship Enterprise, the 3 of Cups, Mr Bun the Baker, Vine Street and Colonel Mustard.
February 11, 2026 at 12:02 PM
Sarwar's playing a high-stakes game of political poker. Unfortunately his hand is the Starship Enterprise, the 3 of Cups, Mr Bun the Baker, Vine Street and Colonel Mustard.
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'Today 95% of Scotland’s inshore seas are still open to damaging fishing methods such as bottom trawling and dredging... the marine equivalent of “bulldozing a rainforest”.'
Louis Macmillan and Issie Jeffrey of Young Sea Changers Scotland, via The National
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Louis Macmillan and Issie Jeffrey of Young Sea Changers Scotland, via The National
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February 11, 2026 at 9:00 AM
'Today 95% of Scotland’s inshore seas are still open to damaging fishing methods such as bottom trawling and dredging... the marine equivalent of “bulldozing a rainforest”.'
Louis Macmillan and Issie Jeffrey of Young Sea Changers Scotland, via The National
archive.is/V13bK
Louis Macmillan and Issie Jeffrey of Young Sea Changers Scotland, via The National
archive.is/V13bK
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A good article on the illusion of heat pumps by Lauren Taylor at the P&J ...... www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/aber...
Lauren Taylor: I'm all for eco-friendly changes but not if it leaves people living in freezing cold misery
Tenants in Aberdeen City Council's Cloverhill development have shared what it's like living with a home using an air source heat-pump, and though they are meant to be more efficient they certainly don...
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February 11, 2026 at 9:34 AM
A good article on the illusion of heat pumps by Lauren Taylor at the P&J ...... www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/aber...
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New Lesley Riddoch and Fraser Thompson podcast.
Scottish Labour - led by Anas Sarwar or Keir Starmer? A moot point until the two worlds collided so publicly on Monday.
Labour's Holyrood campaign - to be run by Starmerite Douglas Alexander to elect Starmer-sceptic Sarwar?
Scottish Labour - led by Anas Sarwar or Keir Starmer? A moot point until the two worlds collided so publicly on Monday.
Labour's Holyrood campaign - to be run by Starmerite Douglas Alexander to elect Starmer-sceptic Sarwar?
You are on your own mate
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast · Episode
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February 11, 2026 at 11:01 AM
New Lesley Riddoch and Fraser Thompson podcast.
Scottish Labour - led by Anas Sarwar or Keir Starmer? A moot point until the two worlds collided so publicly on Monday.
Labour's Holyrood campaign - to be run by Starmerite Douglas Alexander to elect Starmer-sceptic Sarwar?
Scottish Labour - led by Anas Sarwar or Keir Starmer? A moot point until the two worlds collided so publicly on Monday.
Labour's Holyrood campaign - to be run by Starmerite Douglas Alexander to elect Starmer-sceptic Sarwar?
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Vote SNP 1&2 and let Deform UK take over the List. In 2021 voting SNP 1&2 got 79% of the constituencies but only 3% of the List while the Tories got 7% of the constituencies but 39% of the List
You lose List seats if you win constituency seats vote SNP 1 and Scottish Greens 2 for an Indy majority
You lose List seats if you win constituency seats vote SNP 1 and Scottish Greens 2 for an Indy majority
February 11, 2026 at 11:19 AM
Vote SNP 1&2 and let Deform UK take over the List. In 2021 voting SNP 1&2 got 79% of the constituencies but only 3% of the List while the Tories got 7% of the constituencies but 39% of the List
You lose List seats if you win constituency seats vote SNP 1 and Scottish Greens 2 for an Indy majority
You lose List seats if you win constituency seats vote SNP 1 and Scottish Greens 2 for an Indy majority
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The D'Hondt formula is based on regional votes, most regions will have a majority of SNP constituencies which means they lose Regional List seats
If SNP 1 gets 9 constituencies, SNP 2 is divided by 10 meaning all parties with more than 10% get List seats before SNP.
Deform vote splits Yoonie vote
If SNP 1 gets 9 constituencies, SNP 2 is divided by 10 meaning all parties with more than 10% get List seats before SNP.
Deform vote splits Yoonie vote
February 11, 2026 at 11:38 AM
The D'Hondt formula is based on regional votes, most regions will have a majority of SNP constituencies which means they lose Regional List seats
If SNP 1 gets 9 constituencies, SNP 2 is divided by 10 meaning all parties with more than 10% get List seats before SNP.
Deform vote splits Yoonie vote
If SNP 1 gets 9 constituencies, SNP 2 is divided by 10 meaning all parties with more than 10% get List seats before SNP.
Deform vote splits Yoonie vote
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We're starting to see something rather nice in Wales. Support for the ghastly Reform UK is going backwards, while Plaid Cymru are gaining with each poll. These figures are from the Yougov weekly Westminster polling.
February 11, 2026 at 10:23 AM
We're starting to see something rather nice in Wales. Support for the ghastly Reform UK is going backwards, while Plaid Cymru are gaining with each poll. These figures are from the Yougov weekly Westminster polling.
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Come on Scotland. We can do the same. #Scotland #Holyrood26
We're starting to see something rather nice in Wales. Support for the ghastly Reform UK is going backwards, while Plaid Cymru are gaining with each poll. These figures are from the Yougov weekly Westminster polling.
February 11, 2026 at 11:25 AM
Come on Scotland. We can do the same. #Scotland #Holyrood26
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Did you see on the news about UK Labour’s Scottish branch office distributing an election flyer with a made up quote to more than 1 million Scottish homes? No, neither did I. #Scotland #Holyrood26
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Made Up Quote - Indy PosterBoy
Did you see on the news about UK Labour’s Scottish branch office distributing an election flyer with a made up quote to more than 1 million Scottish homes?
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February 11, 2026 at 11:28 AM
Did you see on the news about UK Labour’s Scottish branch office distributing an election flyer with a made up quote to more than 1 million Scottish homes? No, neither did I. #Scotland #Holyrood26
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" Now with the full endorsement of Labour in Scotland"
Thank You ANAS SARWAR 🤣🤣
#CitizenJournalists
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Thank You ANAS SARWAR 🤣🤣
#CitizenJournalists
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February 11, 2026 at 9:17 AM
" Now with the full endorsement of Labour in Scotland"
Thank You ANAS SARWAR 🤣🤣
#CitizenJournalists
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Thank You ANAS SARWAR 🤣🤣
#CitizenJournalists
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Nigel Farage calls for an end to working from home as the Reform leader kisses goodbye to a generation of voters.
Just don’t vote Reform
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/nig...
Just don’t vote Reform
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/nig...
Nigel Farage calls for an end to working from home
Nigel Farage has reignited the culture-war debate over remote working, calling for an end to working from home.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
February 11, 2026 at 7:54 AM
Nigel Farage calls for an end to working from home as the Reform leader kisses goodbye to a generation of voters.
Just don’t vote Reform
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/nig...
Just don’t vote Reform
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/nig...
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£9.00 per item in Englandshire.
February 11, 2026 at 8:56 AM
£9.00 per item in Englandshire.