LinB
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Scottish, support independence, cats, books, politics, rejoining EU. Love being a granny to my beautiful granddaughters.
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Meanwhile Robin Ince genuinely has been cancelled for daring to voice his opinions and for defending trans people.
Where's the outrage from the "cancel culture" lot?
What are the Free Speech Union doing to help him?
Where's the outrage from the "cancel culture" lot?
What are the Free Speech Union doing to help him?
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
December 13, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Meanwhile Robin Ince genuinely has been cancelled for daring to voice his opinions and for defending trans people.
Where's the outrage from the "cancel culture" lot?
What are the Free Speech Union doing to help him?
Where's the outrage from the "cancel culture" lot?
What are the Free Speech Union doing to help him?
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Today’s figures show real progress in our schools:
✅ Record literacy and numeracy
✅ Higher attendance
✅ More teachers, with smaller class sizes
Huge credit to pupils and staff. We will keep driving improvement for every young person in Scotland.
✅ Record literacy and numeracy
✅ Higher attendance
✅ More teachers, with smaller class sizes
Huge credit to pupils and staff. We will keep driving improvement for every young person in Scotland.
December 9, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Today’s figures show real progress in our schools:
✅ Record literacy and numeracy
✅ Higher attendance
✅ More teachers, with smaller class sizes
Huge credit to pupils and staff. We will keep driving improvement for every young person in Scotland.
✅ Record literacy and numeracy
✅ Higher attendance
✅ More teachers, with smaller class sizes
Huge credit to pupils and staff. We will keep driving improvement for every young person in Scotland.
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Submissive Ayr MP feeds English Health Secretary with lies about her own NHS which is far better than his and betrays all the staff in her constituency talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/30/s...
Submissive Ayr MP feeds English Health Secretary with lies about her own NHS which is far better than his and betrays all the staff in her constituency
Professor John Robertson OBA On 25 November, Elaine Stewart, MP for Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock, joined the tragic trail of Scottish Labour MPs prepared misrepresent their own NHS boards in order to w…
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November 30, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Submissive Ayr MP feeds English Health Secretary with lies about her own NHS which is far better than his and betrays all the staff in her constituency talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/30/s...
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Let’s defeat the politics of hate and despair with the politics of hope.
Honoured to march with the STUC through Glasgow against racism, and for a fair and diverse country that we must remain.
Honoured to march with the STUC through Glasgow against racism, and for a fair and diverse country that we must remain.
November 29, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Let’s defeat the politics of hate and despair with the politics of hope.
Honoured to march with the STUC through Glasgow against racism, and for a fair and diverse country that we must remain.
Honoured to march with the STUC through Glasgow against racism, and for a fair and diverse country that we must remain.
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The hypocrisy of Sarwar and his wee pal Dougie.
November 30, 2025 at 8:21 AM
The hypocrisy of Sarwar and his wee pal Dougie.
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Mairi Gougeon MSP has submitted a motion condemning the UK Government’s decision to award a paltry 7.78% of the "Fishing and Coastal Growth Fund" to Scotland.
Scotland accounts for more than 60% of the UK’s fishing capacity.
Scotland accounts for more than 60% of the UK’s fishing capacity.
Scottish Parliament overwhelmingly supports Scottish fishing
The UK Government’s decision to allocate Scotland only £28mn of the £360mn Fishing and Coastal Growth Fund is condemned in the Scottish Parliament
bylines.scot
November 30, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Mairi Gougeon MSP has submitted a motion condemning the UK Government’s decision to award a paltry 7.78% of the "Fishing and Coastal Growth Fund" to Scotland.
Scotland accounts for more than 60% of the UK’s fishing capacity.
Scotland accounts for more than 60% of the UK’s fishing capacity.
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It’s not where we come from that counts, it’s about where we’re going.
Great to meet Afghan Scots children at Maryhill Burgh Halls and hear a lovely rendition of Robert Burns.
Great to meet Afghan Scots children at Maryhill Burgh Halls and hear a lovely rendition of Robert Burns.
November 29, 2025 at 9:42 PM
It’s not where we come from that counts, it’s about where we’re going.
Great to meet Afghan Scots children at Maryhill Burgh Halls and hear a lovely rendition of Robert Burns.
Great to meet Afghan Scots children at Maryhill Burgh Halls and hear a lovely rendition of Robert Burns.
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Woww !! Even the unionist campaigning ‘The Herald’ recognises that Labour’s Indyref position makes Scotland a “HOSTAGE” in the Union
'How can a union be voluntary if one party is neither allowed to leave, nor told how they can ever leave? It is not voluntary. It is a hostage situation' || @neilmackay.bsky.social
www.heraldscotland.com/poli...
www.heraldscotland.com/poli...
November 29, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Woww !! Even the unionist campaigning ‘The Herald’ recognises that Labour’s Indyref position makes Scotland a “HOSTAGE” in the Union
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Hind Rajab's mother, Wesam, is the embodiment of dignity, carrying with her a pain that no parent should have to bear. Yesterday, she addressed the Doha Film Festival and spoke movingly and tenderly of the urgent need to protect Gaza's remaining children.
November 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Hind Rajab's mother, Wesam, is the embodiment of dignity, carrying with her a pain that no parent should have to bear. Yesterday, she addressed the Doha Film Festival and spoke movingly and tenderly of the urgent need to protect Gaza's remaining children.
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People in Scotland want an asylum system that is controlled, that they have confidence in, and that shows compassion.
The Home Secretary’s proposals do none of these things.
We need a humane, effective and efficient system 🧡
Read our full response: ow.ly/Er6w50Xublv
The Home Secretary’s proposals do none of these things.
We need a humane, effective and efficient system 🧡
Read our full response: ow.ly/Er6w50Xublv
November 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
People in Scotland want an asylum system that is controlled, that they have confidence in, and that shows compassion.
The Home Secretary’s proposals do none of these things.
We need a humane, effective and efficient system 🧡
Read our full response: ow.ly/Er6w50Xublv
The Home Secretary’s proposals do none of these things.
We need a humane, effective and efficient system 🧡
Read our full response: ow.ly/Er6w50Xublv
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My latest blog piece, a vote for Labour, or for another anti-independence party in Scotland, is voting to be ignored and irrelevant.
weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2025/11/19/a...
weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2025/11/19/a...
A Labour vote in Scotland is a vote not to matter
You’ve got to hand it to the Labour party, they are certainly consistent, consistent in their shafting of Scottish workers. It’s almost as though, despite Labour’s protestations t…
weegingerdug.wordpress.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
My latest blog piece, a vote for Labour, or for another anti-independence party in Scotland, is voting to be ignored and irrelevant.
weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2025/11/19/a...
weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2025/11/19/a...
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Shabana Mahmood on the BBC this morning talking about desperate people fleeing war and persecution as being given a "golden ticket" and "handouts" and saying she's got a "moral mission" to take them away from them
Indistinguishable from the rhetoric of Reform www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/shabana-ma...
Indistinguishable from the rhetoric of Reform www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/shabana-ma...
Shabana Mahmood and the Politics of Extortion
Labour's strategy of telling its supporters to back Reform-style policies, or get a Reform Government, is the politics of the protection racket and it is not going to work
www.adambienkov.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Shabana Mahmood on the BBC this morning talking about desperate people fleeing war and persecution as being given a "golden ticket" and "handouts" and saying she's got a "moral mission" to take them away from them
Indistinguishable from the rhetoric of Reform www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/shabana-ma...
Indistinguishable from the rhetoric of Reform www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/shabana-ma...
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I came to this country as a child refugee. No English, no certainty, no idea what my life could become. Britain gave me refuge.
Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.
A thread 🧵 1/8
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.
A thread 🧵 1/8
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 10:29 AM
I came to this country as a child refugee. No English, no certainty, no idea what my life could become. Britain gave me refuge.
Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.
A thread 🧵 1/8
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.
A thread 🧵 1/8
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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This is as bad as anything proposed by Reform.
Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 6:43 AM
This is as bad as anything proposed by Reform.
Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Those of us in Scotland have had to put up with hugely biased output from BBC & Radio Scotland for years. Their anti SNP reporting is obvious (see some examples below), but apparently, it takes bias to someone in a foreign country for anyone to care. #bbc
November 10, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Those of us in Scotland have had to put up with hugely biased output from BBC & Radio Scotland for years. Their anti SNP reporting is obvious (see some examples below), but apparently, it takes bias to someone in a foreign country for anyone to care. #bbc
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Just once, I'd like an "immigration shake-up" to actually *improve* things for asylum seekers, restoring rights rather than taking them away. But no, these only ever go in one direction, and it just happens to be the direction Farage and his troglodyte supporters want. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK seeks inspiration from Denmark to shake up immigration system
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is taking cues from some of the toughest migration laws in Europe.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Just once, I'd like an "immigration shake-up" to actually *improve* things for asylum seekers, restoring rights rather than taking them away. But no, these only ever go in one direction, and it just happens to be the direction Farage and his troglodyte supporters want. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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As nurses in our Scottish NHS it is so demoralising having Labour telling lies repeatedly about our NHS. It is the best performing NHS in the UK.
talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/08/9...
talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/08/9...
99% of drug and alcohol patients seen in 3 weeks, 99% of children and adolescents with mental health problems seen on time and 98% of cancer patients begin treatment within 31 days but local Labour MP...
being missed. Professor John Robertson OBA UK Labour’s Elaine Stewart outside her local hospital to shout about supposed failures, demoralising passing staff again and being carefully selecti…
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November 8, 2025 at 6:04 PM
As nurses in our Scottish NHS it is so demoralising having Labour telling lies repeatedly about our NHS. It is the best performing NHS in the UK.
talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/08/9...
talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/08/9...
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The one thing he stands for is denying Scotland any democratic right to choose it's future.
November 8, 2025 at 8:39 AM
The one thing he stands for is denying Scotland any democratic right to choose it's future.
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6 months until the election.
Let’s build a fairer, more prosperous, more affordable country.
An independent Scotland. 🏴
Let’s build a fairer, more prosperous, more affordable country.
An independent Scotland. 🏴
November 7, 2025 at 1:01 PM
6 months until the election.
Let’s build a fairer, more prosperous, more affordable country.
An independent Scotland. 🏴
Let’s build a fairer, more prosperous, more affordable country.
An independent Scotland. 🏴
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Senior UK government figures like Healey, Alexander, and now Lammy claiming that the SNP are a national security threat isn't just infantile, it's dangerously delegitimising a democratically elected government, and is the first step in securitising the issue of Scottish self-determination.
November 5, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Senior UK government figures like Healey, Alexander, and now Lammy claiming that the SNP are a national security threat isn't just infantile, it's dangerously delegitimising a democratically elected government, and is the first step in securitising the issue of Scottish self-determination.
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Please bookmark and share widely. This is a summary of all the work and links to articles I've done over the last 3 months, so worth keeping somewhere.
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November 4, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Please bookmark and share widely. This is a summary of all the work and links to articles I've done over the last 3 months, so worth keeping somewhere.
free-scotland.scot/resources-fo...
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Tuesday 4th. Only £314 to get to target but only 5 days left.
If you haven't already shared this with you friends, family and followers, could you please repost and ask them to search behind the sofa. Thanks
Funding for Scottish Independence Related Media www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/funding-fo...
If you haven't already shared this with you friends, family and followers, could you please repost and ask them to search behind the sofa. Thanks
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Tuesday 4th. Only £314 to get to target but only 5 days left.
If you haven't already shared this with you freinds, family and followers, could you please repost and ask them to search behind the sofa. Thanks
Funding for Scottish Independence Related Media www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/funding-fo...
If you haven't already shared this with you freinds, family and followers, could you please repost and ask them to search behind the sofa. Thanks
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Funding for Scottish Independence Related Media
To raise funds for the production of Scottish Independence related media specifically the 'Free Scotland From Westminster' campaign
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November 4, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Tuesday 4th. Only £314 to get to target but only 5 days left.
If you haven't already shared this with you friends, family and followers, could you please repost and ask them to search behind the sofa. Thanks
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Didn’t realise that in Scotland and NI unaccompanied child refugees have access to a guardian. Sensible and compassionate for all sorts of reasons including giving added protection from traffickers. . talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/02/s...
November 2, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Didn’t realise that in Scotland and NI unaccompanied child refugees have access to a guardian. Sensible and compassionate for all sorts of reasons including giving added protection from traffickers. . talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/02/s...