BBC News at 6 suggesting that cancer waiting lists in Scotland are only 'slightly' shorter though that means 12 000 English patients a year would have been seen on time had they lived under SNP Government:
talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2024/12/17/c...
A magnificent Budget in Scotland- all the work of the SNP.
I’ve never shed a tear at a budget before, been angry, yes but no tears. I cried when @shonarobison.bsky.social mitigated the 2 child cap. I know what poverty does to kids but it also harms our economy.. poorer health, low value work, mental ill health. We’ve bought better health for 000’s of Scots.
Scotland reintroduces Winter Fuel Payment for 2025/2026.
Obviously the money to be found from next year's budget, but good news nevertheless
📣 Eradicating child poverty is the Scottish Government's top priority.
🥀 But when Labour came into power in Westminster, they kept the brutal two-child cap.
🏴 Our budget will end it in Scotland, lifting over 15,000 Scottish children out of poverty.
🏥 Our budget will deliver £2 billion more for Scotland's NHS - taking funding to a record £21 billion.
🩺 We’ll make it easier for people to access GP appointments, improve A&E, and ensure more Scots get the care they need in good time.
SHONA ROBISON ‘We've waited but Labour haven't delivered - this SNP government will…
We will work as hard as possible in 2025 so we can start paying families as early as we can in 2026…
Be in no doubt the (2child benefit) cap will be scrapped. My challenge to Labour is to work with us.’
#Budget2024
I don't think anybody should be interested in having a word with Nigel Farage.
Every bit of Scottish/Gaelic culture movingly at Alex Salmond’s memorial in St Giles. Our songs, our poems in our Kirk - emotional heartfelt & epic. The Proclaimers Cap in Hand almost unbearably poignant. Tx to organisers & all performers. Message clear. Yes movement must unite
Better with you present!
Post one on BlueSky!
The biggest mistake Scots made was voting No to Independence in 2014.
We are paying for that every single day
As a nation we are stagnating under this Union and having our assets stripped in front of our very eyes.
#ScottishIndependence
We had so many new #IndyClan eXpats I had to create another starter pack.
If you're fighting for #ScottishIndependence and would like added please let me know.
go.bsky.app/MFr3aEK
Still YES then, YES now, AYE 'til I die. 🏴
Scotrail is already in public ownership
England is not Britain
Britain is not England .
Must be talking about England/Wales/NI - ScotRail, a separate organisation, is already in public ownership.
An international arrest warrant has been issued for Netanyahu.
If you want him arrested, Like.
If it needs to be right now, RT.
Bluesky can suspend Nigel Farage in less than 36 hours.
But the Police can't question him over the riots he incited, even after 5 months.
That was fast.
But it feels to me that our community has now fully reassembled here on Bluesky - and actually more cohesively than before.
Lovely.
I heard that Andrew Tate tried to come stretch his awkward wings here and got banned in just one day.
Sorry, hate has no home here. Stay in the bad place, thanks.
Andrew Tate:
I’M HERE
Bluesky:
No
I’m so glad Andrew Tate was denied a voice here. Why should we be confronted with his aggressive misogyny and homophobia? Why should he get to spew his hatred anywhere? Of course we can reject him and all he stands for. It needs to be our response more often.
Thank you 🦋
Andrew Tate got banned from Bluesky in less than one day.
Another reason things are so much better here than Twitter.
Good morning Bluesky
Let us tell you about Scotland.
We produce oil but soon to have no refinery.
We produce electricity but make no money from it.
We have ports but cannot trade from them.
That's only the half of it. Wait till we tell you about the nuclear weapons in populated areas!
Headline reads Elon Musks X collapse.
A little something to brighten the day of all Bluesky users.
Scotland’s electricity prices are based on use of gas by England and Wales. Independent, we’d have some of the cheapest electricity in Europe, and profit from supplying it to rUK
