Lesley
@lasslesley1.bsky.social
🏴 Lassie that wants an independent Scotland 🏴
Nurse in Scottish NHS
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Nurse in Scottish NHS
#Nursesforindy
@nursesforindy.bsky.social
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Scottish Republic
#FreePalestine
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BBC Scotland reporting on the Glasgow Council workers' pay dispute and still not acknowledging that this is a mess which was created by the Labour party.
October 5, 2026 at 5:35 PM
BBC Scotland reporting on the Glasgow Council workers' pay dispute and still not acknowledging that this is a mess which was created by the Labour party.
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🔴 BREAKING: BP, Uber, Amazon and more paying Tony Blair's think tank $25,000 for “networking” opportunities with politicians and policy makers at party conferences
Experts say "looks and smells like cash for access"
Full story on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-t...
Experts say "looks and smells like cash for access"
Full story on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-t...
BREAKING: Tony Blair Institute’s $25,000 corporate network “smells like cash for access”
Exclusive documents show Tony Blair's think tank offers corporate members such as BP and Uber "networking" at party conferences and "a stronger voice" in policy debates.
democracyforsale.substack.com
September 25, 2026 at 6:10 PM
🔴 BREAKING: BP, Uber, Amazon and more paying Tony Blair's think tank $25,000 for “networking” opportunities with politicians and policy makers at party conferences
Experts say "looks and smells like cash for access"
Full story on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-t...
Experts say "looks and smells like cash for access"
Full story on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-t...
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Malcolm Offord today in Holyrood
Orange Angry Orange
Alt: Orange Angry Orange
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September 22, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Malcolm Offord today in Holyrood
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The climate crisis is here.
New fossil fuel drilling won't cut household bills, it won't make our country more energy secure, and it will only worsen the climate emergency.
Scotland needs to invest in clean, green renewables to secure our future.
New fossil fuel drilling won't cut household bills, it won't make our country more energy secure, and it will only worsen the climate emergency.
Scotland needs to invest in clean, green renewables to secure our future.
September 10, 2026 at 6:00 PM
The climate crisis is here.
New fossil fuel drilling won't cut household bills, it won't make our country more energy secure, and it will only worsen the climate emergency.
Scotland needs to invest in clean, green renewables to secure our future.
New fossil fuel drilling won't cut household bills, it won't make our country more energy secure, and it will only worsen the climate emergency.
Scotland needs to invest in clean, green renewables to secure our future.
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My latest blog piece, Burnham's expected reverse ferret. Burnham is taking a leaf from Starmer's playbook and gaslighting us into believing that he did not say what we all heard him say and moreover has invented a pre-2014 consensus that never existed.
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Burnham’s expected reverse ferret
Andy Burnham has replied to John Swinney after the latter wrote to him asking for a meeting to put the process for triggering a Scottish independence referendum on a legal basis after Burnham repli…
weegingerdug.wordpress.com
September 10, 2026 at 6:27 PM
My latest blog piece, Burnham's expected reverse ferret. Burnham is taking a leaf from Starmer's playbook and gaslighting us into believing that he did not say what we all heard him say and moreover has invented a pre-2014 consensus that never existed.
weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/09/10/b...
weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/09/10/b...
I can't believe this London-based landowner is putting the iconic Glenelg to Skye ferry at risk. Support the local community - not millionaire financiers - and save the world famous Glenelg to Skye ferry by joining me and signing the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
Save the Glenelg - Skye ferry!
This ten minute crossing is famous around the world - and is believed to be the last turntable style ferry anywhere. It's an iconic part of Skye's history, but it's under threat thanks to a wealthy la...
you.38degrees.org.uk
August 29, 2026 at 6:22 PM
I can't believe this London-based landowner is putting the iconic Glenelg to Skye ferry at risk. Support the local community - not millionaire financiers - and save the world famous Glenelg to Skye ferry by joining me and signing the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
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Decisions about Scotland should be made by the people who live here.
Scotland can build a fairer, greener future as a normal independent country.
It's an anti-democratic outrage that the Tories and Labour have joined forces to cast a veto against our parliament.
Scotland can build a fairer, greener future as a normal independent country.
It's an anti-democratic outrage that the Tories and Labour have joined forces to cast a veto against our parliament.
FM calls for referendum powers as draft independence bill published
The draft bill would be introduced into Parliament if the Scottish government secured the necessary powers from the UK government.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 28, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Decisions about Scotland should be made by the people who live here.
Scotland can build a fairer, greener future as a normal independent country.
It's an anti-democratic outrage that the Tories and Labour have joined forces to cast a veto against our parliament.
Scotland can build a fairer, greener future as a normal independent country.
It's an anti-democratic outrage that the Tories and Labour have joined forces to cast a veto against our parliament.
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The behaviour of the super-rich is making the climate crisis worse for all of us, costing nature, homes and lives.
We shouldn’t have to pay the price for billionaires hopping between their shooting estates and yachts.
We shouldn’t have to pay the price for billionaires hopping between their shooting estates and yachts.
A Scottish private jet tax could raise £400m by the next election, according to new analysis 👇
www.thenational.scot/news/2...
www.thenational.scot/news/2...
August 20, 2026 at 3:52 PM
The behaviour of the super-rich is making the climate crisis worse for all of us, costing nature, homes and lives.
We shouldn’t have to pay the price for billionaires hopping between their shooting estates and yachts.
We shouldn’t have to pay the price for billionaires hopping between their shooting estates and yachts.
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Tomorrow's front page 📰
BBC under fire over Glasgow documentary's 'glaring flaws'
BBC under fire over Glasgow documentary's 'glaring flaws'
August 18, 2026 at 9:12 PM
Tomorrow's front page 📰
BBC under fire over Glasgow documentary's 'glaring flaws'
BBC under fire over Glasgow documentary's 'glaring flaws'
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I am proud that in Scotland, people with disabilities already benefit from free bus travel at all times.
We also made bus travel free for under-22s, and we are rolling out the £2 bus fare cap for everyone across the country. That’s the SNP delivering for Scotland. 🏴
We also made bus travel free for under-22s, and we are rolling out the £2 bus fare cap for everyone across the country. That’s the SNP delivering for Scotland. 🏴
🚨 BREAKING: Andy Burnham has announced 24/7 free bus travel for disabled people from next April
August 18, 2026 at 8:10 AM
I am proud that in Scotland, people with disabilities already benefit from free bus travel at all times.
We also made bus travel free for under-22s, and we are rolling out the £2 bus fare cap for everyone across the country. That’s the SNP delivering for Scotland. 🏴
We also made bus travel free for under-22s, and we are rolling out the £2 bus fare cap for everyone across the country. That’s the SNP delivering for Scotland. 🏴
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While Burnham's announcement that disabled people's bus passes in England will be valid 24 hours a day from April next year is to be welcomed, it would have been nice for the UK media to acknowledge that 60+ and disabled bus passes in Scotland have been valid 24 hours a day for years now.
August 18, 2026 at 11:14 AM
While Burnham's announcement that disabled people's bus passes in England will be valid 24 hours a day from April next year is to be welcomed, it would have been nice for the UK media to acknowledge that 60+ and disabled bus passes in Scotland have been valid 24 hours a day for years now.
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So entrenched and extensive have the Taliban’s restrictions on women been that UN experts, scholars and human rights professionals have characterised it as 'gender apartheid', David Pratt writes in a special report ✍️
Read more: www.thenational.scot/politi...
Read more: www.thenational.scot/politi...
August 16, 2026 at 12:49 PM
So entrenched and extensive have the Taliban’s restrictions on women been that UN experts, scholars and human rights professionals have characterised it as 'gender apartheid', David Pratt writes in a special report ✍️
Read more: www.thenational.scot/politi...
Read more: www.thenational.scot/politi...
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A former BBC News director has criticised the broadcaster's coverage of Reform UK's latest welfare plans branding it 'bizarre' 👇
Read more: www.thenational.scot/news/2...
Read more: www.thenational.scot/news/2...
August 16, 2026 at 2:21 PM
A former BBC News director has criticised the broadcaster's coverage of Reform UK's latest welfare plans branding it 'bizarre' 👇
Read more: www.thenational.scot/news/2...
Read more: www.thenational.scot/news/2...
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It will not have escaped your notice that Scotland is now an increasingly impatient place, with many voters not much content, like your good self, to let Whitehall call all the shots which matter, writes Ruth Wishart in a letter to the new PM ✍️
Read more: www.thenational.scot/politi...
Read more: www.thenational.scot/politi...
August 16, 2026 at 3:00 PM
It will not have escaped your notice that Scotland is now an increasingly impatient place, with many voters not much content, like your good self, to let Whitehall call all the shots which matter, writes Ruth Wishart in a letter to the new PM ✍️
Read more: www.thenational.scot/politi...
Read more: www.thenational.scot/politi...
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EXCLUSIVE: Andy Burnham has been urged to 'sever all ties' with Israel and demand an immediate end to the occupation amid ongoing settler violence in the West Bank
🗣️ 'Empty words and calls for legality will not suffice in the face of these horrors'
🗣️ 'Empty words and calls for legality will not suffice in the face of these horrors'
Andy Burnham must 'sever all ties' with Israel amid West Bank settler violence
www.thenational.scot
August 14, 2026 at 8:03 PM
EXCLUSIVE: Andy Burnham has been urged to 'sever all ties' with Israel and demand an immediate end to the occupation amid ongoing settler violence in the West Bank
🗣️ 'Empty words and calls for legality will not suffice in the face of these horrors'
🗣️ 'Empty words and calls for legality will not suffice in the face of these horrors'
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EXCLUSIVE: The UK Government has blocked the release of files on a shadowy Israeli firm caught meddling in the Scottish parliament elections 🚨
Downing Street cited an exemption that allows documents to be withheld if they would 'prejudice relations' with another state
Downing Street cited an exemption that allows documents to be withheld if they would 'prejudice relations' with another state
August 11, 2026 at 3:11 PM
EXCLUSIVE: The UK Government has blocked the release of files on a shadowy Israeli firm caught meddling in the Scottish parliament elections 🚨
Downing Street cited an exemption that allows documents to be withheld if they would 'prejudice relations' with another state
Downing Street cited an exemption that allows documents to be withheld if they would 'prejudice relations' with another state
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My latest blog piece, Wednesday is GERSmas day when anti-indy parties celebrate figures purporting to show one of the most resource rich nations in northern Europe is an economic basket case & say this is why Westminster mismanagement should continue.
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GERSmas Day 2026
It’s always welcome to have some good news for independence, but that’s especially true on GERSmas eve as the British media in Scotland and anti-independence campaigners gear themselves…
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August 11, 2026 at 7:27 PM
My latest blog piece, Wednesday is GERSmas day when anti-indy parties celebrate figures purporting to show one of the most resource rich nations in northern Europe is an economic basket case & say this is why Westminster mismanagement should continue.
weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/08/11/g...
weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/08/11/g...
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Zack Polanski has called out the BBC’s coverage of Reform UK press conferences, but will it change the mainstream media's approach? 🤔
It's one of the topics reporters Steph Brawn and Lucy Jackson get their teeth into on this week's Media Watch podcast 👇
It's one of the topics reporters Steph Brawn and Lucy Jackson get their teeth into on this week's Media Watch podcast 👇
Zack Polanski calls out BBC for IGNORING Greens while airing Reform & GB news face 15000 complaints!
Steph Brawn is joined by Lucy Jackson on the latest episode of medi...
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August 11, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Zack Polanski has called out the BBC’s coverage of Reform UK press conferences, but will it change the mainstream media's approach? 🤔
It's one of the topics reporters Steph Brawn and Lucy Jackson get their teeth into on this week's Media Watch podcast 👇
It's one of the topics reporters Steph Brawn and Lucy Jackson get their teeth into on this week's Media Watch podcast 👇
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EXCLUSIVE: A Scottish council has been accused of acting as a 'receptionist' for a company developing an AI data centre that would displace plans for more than 1000 homes if built
www.thenational.scot/news/2...
www.thenational.scot/news/2...
August 9, 2026 at 6:37 PM
EXCLUSIVE: A Scottish council has been accused of acting as a 'receptionist' for a company developing an AI data centre that would displace plans for more than 1000 homes if built
www.thenational.scot/news/2...
www.thenational.scot/news/2...
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Unionist media and its cronies ridiculed SNP Scotgov's plans for call-in GPs and price caps on essential foods as amateur and pie in the sky nonsense in run-up to Scottish election. Labour UK now plan to copy these things. Media response? Tumbleweed.
August 7, 2026 at 5:46 PM
Unionist media and its cronies ridiculed SNP Scotgov's plans for call-in GPs and price caps on essential foods as amateur and pie in the sky nonsense in run-up to Scottish election. Labour UK now plan to copy these things. Media response? Tumbleweed.
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EXCLUSIVE: Corporation tax figures for the UK and Ireland provide a 'mere glimpse into the wealth of an independent Scotland', the SNP have claimed
Ireland's €33bn tax take 'a glimpse of wealth of independent Scotland', SNP say
www.thenational.scot
August 2, 2026 at 2:11 PM
EXCLUSIVE: Corporation tax figures for the UK and Ireland provide a 'mere glimpse into the wealth of an independent Scotland', the SNP have claimed
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Come on SNP and Scottish Greens. You both asked for our votes on manifestos that promised a second independence referendum.
Together, you hold the biggest pro-independence majority in Holyrood's history.
It's time to turn that mandate into action.
It's time to deliver.
Together, you hold the biggest pro-independence majority in Holyrood's history.
It's time to turn that mandate into action.
It's time to deliver.
August 1, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Come on SNP and Scottish Greens. You both asked for our votes on manifestos that promised a second independence referendum.
Together, you hold the biggest pro-independence majority in Holyrood's history.
It's time to turn that mandate into action.
It's time to deliver.
Together, you hold the biggest pro-independence majority in Holyrood's history.
It's time to turn that mandate into action.
It's time to deliver.
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Our Scottish Government tried to implement a recycling scheme but was blocked by the Union of which we are a part.
In the EU sovereign Governments just got in with it. #ruyesyet #scottishrepublic #greenyes
In the EU sovereign Governments just got in with it. #ruyesyet #scottishrepublic #greenyes
July 25, 2026 at 5:49 AM
Our Scottish Government tried to implement a recycling scheme but was blocked by the Union of which we are a part.
In the EU sovereign Governments just got in with it. #ruyesyet #scottishrepublic #greenyes
In the EU sovereign Governments just got in with it. #ruyesyet #scottishrepublic #greenyes
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'The future direction of Scottish politics has to see the SNP attempt a reset and renewal: a tough ask after two decades in office. It will require a post-Swinney leadership to explicitly break with the Sturgeon era.'
@gerryhassan.bsky.social via Bella Caledonia
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@gerryhassan.bsky.social via Bella Caledonia
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The Summer of Scotland after Sarwar, Sturgeon and Swinney
The Andy Burnham administration has taken office. It faces huge challenges – economic, political, geopolitical – along with no direct popular mandate and the rising storm of radicalised…
bellacaledonia.org.uk
July 25, 2026 at 10:48 AM
'The future direction of Scottish politics has to see the SNP attempt a reset and renewal: a tough ask after two decades in office. It will require a post-Swinney leadership to explicitly break with the Sturgeon era.'
@gerryhassan.bsky.social via Bella Caledonia
bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/07/24/t...
@gerryhassan.bsky.social via Bella Caledonia
bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/07/24/t...
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Scotland's facing a wave of hyper-scale data centre applications.
If built they'd consume more than 1.5 times our peak electricity use, with no requirement to assess their environmental impact.
We need to ensure our economy works for everyone, not just tech billionaires.
➡️ greens.scot/datacentres
If built they'd consume more than 1.5 times our peak electricity use, with no requirement to assess their environmental impact.
We need to ensure our economy works for everyone, not just tech billionaires.
➡️ greens.scot/datacentres
July 25, 2026 at 11:50 AM
Scotland's facing a wave of hyper-scale data centre applications.
If built they'd consume more than 1.5 times our peak electricity use, with no requirement to assess their environmental impact.
We need to ensure our economy works for everyone, not just tech billionaires.
➡️ greens.scot/datacentres
If built they'd consume more than 1.5 times our peak electricity use, with no requirement to assess their environmental impact.
We need to ensure our economy works for everyone, not just tech billionaires.
➡️ greens.scot/datacentres