Today the #independent newspaper is bleating about “why are the pensioners a special case” when they should be asking “why are millionaires a special case”

Happy St. Andrew's Day to each and every one of you! #StAndrew

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Your enemy is not refugee but the person and circumstance of who he made him/her one Willie Nelson

Imagine what it's like for us in Scotland. Negative spin on everything SNP does, including brilliant stuff like free prescriptions, Scottish Child Payment, Baby Box, no university tuition fees. It's relentless "SNP bad", day after day.

The UK Government’s decision to allocate Scotland only £28m of the £360m Fishing and Coastal Growth Fund is condemned in the Scottish Parliament | Charlie McCarthy

Hope Alan isn’t holding his breath waiting for a coherent response. “Cause SNP Baaaaaaaaad”.

Westminster has gone from "Now is not the time, Scotland.." to "Never will always be the time now, Scotland.." Who do you know accepting this from English exceptionalist elite types? If you know of anyone accepting of this slap in our collective faces, please enlighten them as soon as possible. 💙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

We should make it so flying by Private Jet is nearly as expensive as owning one. They can afford it.

via John Frankish

As if we ever expected anything different from the Wastemonster. It was always going to be the case. Don't waste your vote in HR26, Vote SNP 1 and Scottish Greens 2 and keep Deform UK off the List Vote sensibly not loyally youtu.be/qRpj2pmMn90?...

EXCLUSIVE: The UK Government is trying to 'run the whisky industry into the ground' with continuous hikes on duty, an Islay distillery owner has said Read here: www.thenational.scot/news/2...

Tackling child poverty is my driving mission - and thanks to our actions, Scotland is the only part of the UK where child poverty is falling. Glad that Labour was finally shamed into doing the right thing.

has Scotland become a Free for all? now we have the English chancellor dictating to Scotland what she's saying is it doesn't matter what Scotland votes for Scotlands is not getting it because they say So www.thenational.scot/news/2565403... 👇

#YouYesNow #IndyClan? It's TIME for #ScottishIndependence 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Rachel Reeves says this Labour Governments decisions are "necessary." Why is it always necessary to hit the living standards of the 99%? When are we going to make the necessary decisions about extreme wealth?

London: 7°C - Pitlochry: -2°C Yet the person freezing in Pitlochry pays more for electricity — electricity generated in their own town. Meanwhile, London, which produces almost none, pays less. This isn’t just unfair. It’s exploitation. And it’s happening in Scotland every single day. #AreYouYesYet

🔥 Rachel Reeves says there’s a “hole” in the public finances. A new decade-long Brexit study quantifies it: A 6–8% hit to GDP That's £180bn-£240bn a year It means less tax revenue and so less money for everything. Brexit made Britain MUCH poorer.

"A new poll suggests nearly half of Britons think there are more migrants in the UK illegally than legally, but in reality just 7% arrive through irregular channels" Charlie Angela on how sensationalist reporting in the right wing press is fuelling falsehoods and misconceptions

Remember what Nicola Sturgeon said well it's now coming into view 👇

We are being ripped off in all directions & not just by the elite. The corporations who's goal in life is to sustain us in retail therapy are raking in billions in profits on the back of rising food prices.

Labour came in promising to cut energy bills by £300. Now they’re almost £200 higher, and they trumpet a change that won’t even cover the increase since they took office. Is this really it?? Scotland deserves better than this chaos. A fresh start with independence. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Scotland gets less and l don't believe that shite about Ansas Sarwar. Otherwise, did he ask for the Welsh & Ni Government! Nasty wee woman. No one opposed Defence Contracts in Scotland. It's literally Rachel Reeves & Labour's job to since Defense is reserved. The criticism was aimed at no Public 💷🙄

Damning line from the OBR this: "We have assessed that none of the policy measures in this Budget have a sufficiently material impact to justify adjusting our post-measures potential output forecast." Ie it's a budget which does nothing new for growth.

Wake up Scotland this is where all your money going 👇 £13 billion to 7 mayors. £820 million to Scotland. So cities in England get more than a whole country.

Don’t worry folks, the OBR has now removed the document from its website. That should do it…

Nothing says ‘rebuilding the NHS’ more than returning to crippling financial schemes that landed us in billions of pounds of debt that we won’t pay off until 2050, eh Rachel Reeves?

Budget shambles. OBR report published ahead of the UK Chancellor's speech. Then hurriedly withdrawn.

OBR estimates that abolition of two-child cap will reduce child poverty by 450,000 and benefit 560,000 families by an average of £5,310 per year.

The leaked OBR assessment states that Rachel Reeves decision to freeze income tax thresholds will raise £8.3 billion in 2029-30. So income tax will be going up, contrary to the election pledge, but stealthily, rather than openly

Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (RAAC) was used in UK construction from the mid-1950s until the early 1990s, meaning its use spanned both Conservative and Labour governments not SNP

Northumberland Reform councillor ordered to pay £38,000 debt to his own council www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...

Rich men used to pride themselves on being philanthropists. These days, they brag about being philanderers.

🇬🇧 The Red Tory “Secretary of State over North britain” doesn’t even know when St Andrew’s Day is

When Gary Robertson signed off at the end of the last BBC Radio Scotland 'Good Morning Scotland' he stated that the Support staff in the background Editor, Producers, Researchers were staying on for the replacement 'Breakfast Scotland' People should not be surprised when it turn out it's a 'Rebrand'

Jackie Baillie wants to privatise our NHS!! That's why she continuously lies about the Scottish NHS when it is the best performing NHS in the UK. She's shown her true colours #RedTory #LabourLiar Independence is our only option www.thenational.scot/news/2443689...

Anyone STILL not wanting Scottish Independence, has a reason, they'd rather not talk about.

Maybe RR should actually look at the true problems. Going after the poorest in the UK WILL NOT TOUCH THE SIDES of its problems. It will remain on its fast decline.

My attendance record in the European Parliament was the 4th worst out of 751 MEPs, yet I managed to turn up to vote AGAINST plans to tackle Russian misinformation. Thankfully this is of no interest to the media.

And there we have it, privatization is whats planed for our SNHS if they get their grubby hands on it, we already know shes had quite a few meetings with the privet health care company's 😡. www.thenational.scot

Again we have a government willing to go after the wrong people. Tax avoidance seems preferable to Labour MPs as it may upset some of their wealthy donors. So the mantra seems to be ''let's go target the 'lower hanging fruit' of benefit claimants, They make for better headlines anyway''.

People have a right to feel frustrated. But Nigel Farage is turning it into anger and division. He's directing it away from the wealthy and toward the vulnerable. Who benefits? Him and his donors.

Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.

From Covid, to Grangemouth, to Brexit, DRS, GRR and on and on and on. The UK Government fucks Scotland. The UK Government blames the Scottish Government. And oh dear it looks like both are to blame and squabbling now.

Scotland’s responses to the Covid pandemic were severely constrained www.thenational.scot/politics/256...

Anent Grangemouth: £14m from the UKGovt gets you a new Lidl, not a high tech renewables industry. It’s a bauble. Westminster has taken *£300 billion* in oil taxes & given you the cost of a warehouse shed. Be so very grateful Scotland, eh? Get off your knees, unless you’re a unionist of course.

This is absolutely disgusting, how long has this been hidden?? From the public, I take it public health and the environment means nothing to these people 😡