I'm pretty sure folks in England would be outraged to learn another country had brought nuclear weapons onto it's soil, which had they known about, they would be very much against.
Welcome to the Scotland/England dynamic!
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I'm pretty sure folks in England would be outraged to learn another country had brought nuclear weapons onto it's soil, which had they known about, they would be very much against.
Welcome to the Scotland/England dynamic!
#ScottishIndependence
Any Scot who prefers being part of a Nigel Farage Britain, is completely bonkers.
Westie with mud covered nose from digging in garden
Even worse when they're white!
Reformβs Scottish leader may or many not be racist but heβs definitely wrong as knife crime falls in Scotland talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/03/07/r...
Scotland average council tax 35% lower than England,
30% lower than Wales.π
Compare and contrast BBC headlines of same story, Scotland and Wales
todayβs Fife Council budget meeting Labour merged their budget with the Tories and then the LibDems and Reform UK voted together with them to get it passed Such a parcel of rogues in a Nation The SNP budget that they joined together to oppose had an extra Β£6.3 million in it for flooding prevention π
Always the first to flee while everyone else suffers the consequences.
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Black History MonthβAlice Ball developed 1st effective leprosy treatment, 1915. She earned 2 bachelor's degrees in chemistry & a master's in organic chem & cracked the chemical code of the chalmoogra plant's oil to yield a drug. She died at 24. 2 men stole her formula www.nytimes.com/2023/04/08/o...
Meanwhile, Reform want to send us back to the 1970's.
β producing a combined output of 74 megawatts from 18 floating turbines, sufficient to power the entire city of Inverness (population 65,000) continuously and indefinitely from tidal energy alone.
SNP Government gives islanders around Β£5 000 each more than the rest of us in grant subsidies but are they grateful? Do they even know? talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/28/s...
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Mick Lynch: Farage didn't build a political career, he built a bonfire out of migrant families and called it leadership. #UKPolitics
Can anyone explain this logic?
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oops. White nationalism is a helluva drug.
Screenshot from The National Newdpaper
Fancy that!
Β£1 Billion invested into Scottish Businesses by oor Scottish Bank
It's almost as though a Wealth Fund from Scottish oil/Gas reciepts would have been a bloody good idea π€·ββοΈ
But Scotland can't have more nice things because we're not a normal independent country like Norwayπ
#SpunkForMilk
"Nobody over the last quarter of a century has done more to defeat the genuine, intolerant, abhorrent, extreme, far-right than me," says Nigel Farage, as he announces plans for the mass deportation of hundreds of thousands of people and a visa ban on anyone coming from six Muslim-majority countries
π An SNP investigation has revealed Starmerβs failed Brit card scheme cost the public almost Β£1 million - despite never being implemented.
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2587477...