Alastair
@alastair-m.bsky.social
Scottish through and through. Socialist, traveller and totally against anyone perpetuating SEZs or blocking Scottish Independence.
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Sounds like a plan
April 7, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Sounds like a plan
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This pops up every so often when trade figures come out. UKG promises to "tear down" barriers but does nothing.
Important to say, only the UK has this problem. We've been tearing down these barriers for years. It's called the single market.
Apparently, however, the has to reinvent the wheel.
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Important to say, only the UK has this problem. We've been tearing down these barriers for years. It's called the single market.
Apparently, however, the has to reinvent the wheel.
🧵
March 24, 2025 at 1:46 PM
This pops up every so often when trade figures come out. UKG promises to "tear down" barriers but does nothing.
Important to say, only the UK has this problem. We've been tearing down these barriers for years. It's called the single market.
Apparently, however, the has to reinvent the wheel.
🧵
Important to say, only the UK has this problem. We've been tearing down these barriers for years. It's called the single market.
Apparently, however, the has to reinvent the wheel.
🧵
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Tucson, Arizona today.
Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.
23,000 showed up.
Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.
23,000 showed up.
March 22, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Tucson, Arizona today.
Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.
23,000 showed up.
Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.
23,000 showed up.
What is Starmer waiting for?
March 23, 2025 at 8:31 PM
What is Starmer waiting for?
Wake up call for Starmer I've ever there was one. Trump is Toast #TrumpToast and Europe needs us #EU.
The UK would now want to rejoin the EU by 55% to 33%
Removing those that don’t know - that’s a 62.5% to 37.5% breakdown.
Removing those that don’t know - that’s a 62.5% to 37.5% breakdown.
March 20, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Wake up call for Starmer I've ever there was one. Trump is Toast #TrumpToast and Europe needs us #EU.
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Kill Tesla, Save The Country
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March 19, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Kill Tesla, Save The Country
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"Let us screw the public so our owners can get richer" is, I think history shows clearly, the problem not the solution.
March 14, 2025 at 9:24 PM
"Let us screw the public so our owners can get richer" is, I think history shows clearly, the problem not the solution.
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Kevin Bridges just donated £20,000 to a Scottish children's charity! How do you support causes that matter to you?#CharitySupportt
https://www.thenational.scot/news/24798495.kevin-bridges-makes-generous-donation-scottish-childrens-charity/
https://www.thenational.scot/news/24798495.kevin-bridges-makes-generous-donation-scottish-childrens-charity/
Kevin Bridges thanked for
KEVIN Bridges has been thanked after making a huge donation to Scottish children’s hospices ...
www.thenational.scot
December 16, 2024 at 4:28 PM
Kevin Bridges just donated £20,000 to a Scottish children's charity! How do you support causes that matter to you?#CharitySupportt
https://www.thenational.scot/news/24798495.kevin-bridges-makes-generous-donation-scottish-childrens-charity/
https://www.thenational.scot/news/24798495.kevin-bridges-makes-generous-donation-scottish-childrens-charity/
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Mark Carney, "We will never, ever, in any way shape or form be part of the US. America is not Canada"
March 14, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Mark Carney, "We will never, ever, in any way shape or form be part of the US. America is not Canada"
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The economy is showing severe warning signs after Trump's first month in office. This shouldn't be surprising. He doesn't understand the economy and tanked pretty much every business he ever touched. youtu.be/zbh9SW5Cgqg?...
How Trump Killed Every Business He Touched | Robert Reich
YouTube video by Robert Reich
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March 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
The economy is showing severe warning signs after Trump's first month in office. This shouldn't be surprising. He doesn't understand the economy and tanked pretty much every business he ever touched. youtu.be/zbh9SW5Cgqg?...
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I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable.
Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.
Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.
Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
March 14, 2025 at 2:46 AM
I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable.
Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.
Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.
Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
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Leavitt: "Tariffs are a tax hike on foreign countries [and] a tax cut for the American people."
The AP’s Josh Boak: “I’m sorry, have you ever paid a tariff? They don’t get charged on foreign companies. They get charged on the importers”
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The AP’s Josh Boak: “I’m sorry, have you ever paid a tariff? They don’t get charged on foreign companies. They get charged on the importers”
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Trump Press Secretary Loses It When Asked to Explain Tariffs
Karoline Leavitt gave the wrongest explanation of how tariffs work.
newrepublic.com
March 11, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Leavitt: "Tariffs are a tax hike on foreign countries [and] a tax cut for the American people."
The AP’s Josh Boak: “I’m sorry, have you ever paid a tariff? They don’t get charged on foreign companies. They get charged on the importers”
newrepublic.com/post/192614/...
The AP’s Josh Boak: “I’m sorry, have you ever paid a tariff? They don’t get charged on foreign companies. They get charged on the importers”
newrepublic.com/post/192614/...
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Here’s how new U.S. rules will affect Canadian snowbirds
Just STOP travelling to the US
www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
Just STOP travelling to the US
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Here’s how new U.S. rules will affect Canadian snowbirds
New U.S. rules cracking down on illegal immigration will affect many Canadian snowbirds who travel south of the border, requiring them to register for the first time, says an immigration lawyer.
www.ctvnews.ca
March 11, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Here’s how new U.S. rules will affect Canadian snowbirds
Just STOP travelling to the US
www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
Just STOP travelling to the US
www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
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One of my companies informed me they cancelled a $2m conference in Florida. Why ?
They didn’t feel they could pass on the incremental cost of tariffs. So they are cutting expenses.
That’s a city that lost a ton of tourism revenue.
The cost of tariffs isn’t just the cost of the tariff
They didn’t feel they could pass on the incremental cost of tariffs. So they are cutting expenses.
That’s a city that lost a ton of tourism revenue.
The cost of tariffs isn’t just the cost of the tariff
March 10, 2025 at 9:38 PM
One of my companies informed me they cancelled a $2m conference in Florida. Why ?
They didn’t feel they could pass on the incremental cost of tariffs. So they are cutting expenses.
That’s a city that lost a ton of tourism revenue.
The cost of tariffs isn’t just the cost of the tariff
They didn’t feel they could pass on the incremental cost of tariffs. So they are cutting expenses.
That’s a city that lost a ton of tourism revenue.
The cost of tariffs isn’t just the cost of the tariff
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Hopefully the cult will start to realize that it's the R's that have put them in hell on earth. FAFO
March 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Hopefully the cult will start to realize that it's the R's that have put them in hell on earth. FAFO
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Remember: If unions didn’t matter, powerful corporations wouldn’t spend millions of dollars every year to stop them from forming. Keep up the fight.
March 9, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Remember: If unions didn’t matter, powerful corporations wouldn’t spend millions of dollars every year to stop them from forming. Keep up the fight.
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(3/3) With decades of Western policy consensus callously swept aside, European nations must now do everything within their power to preserve Ukraine’s sovereignty and repel Russia’s aggression.
March 4, 2025 at 5:57 PM
(3/3) With decades of Western policy consensus callously swept aside, European nations must now do everything within their power to preserve Ukraine’s sovereignty and repel Russia’s aggression.
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(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.
March 4, 2025 at 5:57 PM
(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.
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French Prime Minister François Bayrou today declared the alliance with the US is seriously wounded and called President Donald Trump’s attitude toward Ukraine “an indecency”
www.politico.eu/article/fran...
www.politico.eu/article/fran...
Trump’s ‘indecency’ endangers transatlantic alliance: French PM
François Bayrou calls U.S. president’s treatment of Zelenskyy “a staggering scene marked by brutality.”
www.politico.eu
March 3, 2025 at 7:47 PM
French Prime Minister François Bayrou today declared the alliance with the US is seriously wounded and called President Donald Trump’s attitude toward Ukraine “an indecency”
www.politico.eu/article/fran...
www.politico.eu/article/fran...