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Sheila

@rosiejohn.bsky.social

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

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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

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…

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December 7, 2025 at 1:51 PM

Sheila

@rosiejohn.bsky.social

How Labour have given the lie to their own excuses on the two-child cap
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How Labour have given the lie to their own excuses on the two-child cap

Rachel Reeves is under pressure to resign after misleading the public, markets, and even her own party’s MPs over the state of the UK’s finances

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December 5, 2025 at 9:10 AM

Sheila

@rosiejohn.bsky.social

Scotland needs to escape Starmer’s rancid Right Wing Labour regime

Scotland’s only hope for our future is to escape this
Dysfunctional
DisUnited Kingdom

#VoteSNP

Vote for a
Scottish Party who will
ALWAYS prioritise
Scotland

Because
🇬🇧Labour
NEVER
Have and
NEVER will

December 2, 2025 at 6:51 AM

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@specialscot.bsky.social

Only a fool now doesn't want Scottish Independence.

Independent Scotland will be one of the Richest Countries in Europe.

Dial M for Madeye 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺 @carnaptiousmadeye.bsky.social · 12d

Who you gonna trust?

NOT LABOUR.

#IndependenceIsNormal

November 30, 2025 at 10:44 PM

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Rich Price

@radiopricey.bsky.social

Not sure Farrago is an ideal candidate to be calling for an ethics probe! 🤔

November 30, 2025 at 10:37 PM

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George Takei

@georgetakei.bsky.social

Murdering crew members claiming they were smuggling drugs while pardoning a drug kingpin. Very on brand for the Trump regime.

A tweet from Al Franken criticizing reports that 80 supposed low-level smugglers have been killed. The image below shows former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández speaking at a United Nations podium, with a guard standing behind him.

November 30, 2025 at 10:45 PM

Sheila

@rosiejohn.bsky.social

Andrew Tickell nails it with his description of lowly🇬🇧Labour Branch Officer Sarwar😂

Andrew Tickell: Rachel Reeves has left Anas Sarwar in even more trouble
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Andrew Tickell: Rachel Reeves has left Anas Sarwar in even more trouble

IN the Budget last week, Rachel Reeves announced “£820 million to the Scottish Government over the spending period” and suggested that she’d…

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November 30, 2025 at 8:04 AM

Sheila

@rosiejohn.bsky.social

FACTS MATTER

THE SUNDAY NATIONAL

Inside the US-backed right-wing push against abortion rights in Scotland
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Inside the US-backed right-wing push against abortion rights in Scotland

A RECENT review of Scotland's abortion laws led to widespread right-wing outrage last week ...

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November 30, 2025 at 7:36 AM

Sheila

@rosiejohn.bsky.social

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Sheila McKenzie🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 on X: "Have Scottish Government's significantly widened access to free flu vaccine to give more than twice as many, per capita, protection from worrying new mutation, prevented a crisis? https://t.co/Nz8PNcvSLF" / X

Have Scottish Government's significantly widened access to free flu vaccine to give more than twice as many, per capita, protection from worrying new mutation, prevented a crisis? https://t.co/Nz8PNcvSLF

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November 21, 2025 at 9:15 AM

Sheila

@rosiejohn.bsky.social

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Not in the Covid Inquiry reporting today – How First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, and the Scottish Government kept excess mortality here at just over half the UK average despite the delay in devolving ...

Professor John Robertson OBA I’m grateful to @amaccj for reminding me of this and for the link to the source. When the final assessment is made, we need to set the scene with these facts:…

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November 20, 2025 at 10:02 AM

Sheila

@rosiejohn.bsky.social

What next for asylum seekers? Shaving their heads and taking out their gold fillings?
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What next for asylum seekers? Shaving their heads and taking out their gold fillings?

Once upon a time, the Labour Party used to understand that immigration wasn’t tearing the country apart. It understood immigration was what was…

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November 20, 2025 at 8:04 AM

Sheila

@rosiejohn.bsky.social

@mrjamesob.bsky.social

I think you mentioned on today’s programme that you’ll be discussing Richard Tyce & thought you might be interested in this response to him
BELCHING
GUFF

😡AGAIN😡

Kelly Given: I am neurodivergent and this is a letter for Richard Tice
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I am neurodivergent and this is a letter for Richard Tice

Dear Richard Tice, I had the misfortune of reading your most recent nonsensical diatribe about neurodivergent kids

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November 18, 2025 at 2:37 PM

Sheila

@rosiejohn.bsky.social

Landmark trans court case involving Scotland’s aristocracy ‘hidden’ for 50 years
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Landmark trans court case involving Scotland’s aristocracy ‘hidden’ for 50 years

AN Edinburgh court case involving members of Scotland’s aristocracy was kept from the public record, enshrining an anti-trans bias in law for more…

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November 10, 2025 at 4:25 AM

Sheila

@rosiejohn.bsky.social

🟩 The UK’s former environment secretary risked “misleading the public” by repeatedly attacking Scotland’s water quality and insisting it was inferior to England’s, a watchdog has ruled.

👇Here is what you need to know: www.believeinscotland.org/uk_gov_lies_...

UK gov lies about Scottish Water exposed

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November 5, 2025 at 2:50 PM

Sheila

@rosiejohn.bsky.social

NHS Ayrshire & Arran is NOT ‘on the brink of collapse.’ In England, some NHS trusts have entered special measures or been merged, but Scotland’s 14 territorial boards remain operational

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NHS Ayrshire & Arran is not ‘on the brink of collapse.’ In England, some NHS trusts have entered special measures or been merged, but Scotland’s 14 territorial boards remain operational

Professor John Robertson OBA The Daily Record today has the above and: NHS Ayrshire & Arran owes nearly £130m and now tops the list of Scottish health boards with the largest amount of debt, sa…

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November 4, 2025 at 10:00 PM

Sheila

@rosiejohn.bsky.social

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UK gov lies about Scottish Water exposed

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October 31, 2025 at 2:41 PM

Sheila

@rosiejohn.bsky.social

NHS England threaten longer waiting lists, already quarter of million longer than in Scotland and to ration care – Imagine that was in Scotland?

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