>it's another yanks having opinions about british food episode

the only Labour MSP remaining who consistently demonstrates that he has a strong vision and ideas to transform the country is Paul Sweeney, but unfortunately that vision and those ideas all focus on how Greater Glasgow should have a Mayor and how it should be him

if the Greens don’t step aside in Makerfield they’re depriving the country of Starmerism with a regional accent

Also, the explicit racism of stop the boats vs implicit racism of most other British immigration policy over the past 30 years

The core tension in English politics today is between English nationalism, which means England doing whatever it likes with no regard for anyone else, and British nationalism, which also means England doing whatever it likes with no regard for anyone else, but in a way that FBPE types are ok with.

No, what really needs to stop is Anglo fragility. Scottish people baulking at the suggestion we put your country first and our own country second is not discrimination.

So it turns out if you go cybernetic in Stellaris, then there's a risk that your species will invent the War Thunder forums.

The Labour Party will never abandon FPTP, because they still believe they and they alone have the God-given right to the support of every voter to the left of the Tories. No amount of "getting the right people in" will fix this, the culture of the party is broken, and the party must be abolished.

Reminder that public buildings in the UK flying the British flag is a show of support for the British state that not all British citizens would agree with I'd much rather they fly the Ukrainian flag than the butcher's apron tbh

Hibs at least earned theirs. Getting this worked up over beating Hearts? Sad.

Bought and sold for Kremlin gold What a parcel of rogues in a "party"

Andy Burnham has been allowed to stand by the NEC, endorsed by Wes Streeting, Wes Streeting has cancelled his Leadership challenge. The man who stood down for Andy Burnham to run was a Keir Starmer and McSweeney favourite. The Labour Party apparatus has chosen Burnham.

Realise I've shown up in Glasgow on a match day in all green lol

Once again, Scotland is spiritually Eastern European

Joanne Rowling's fellow traveller Kellie-Jay Keen is speaking at Tommy Robinson's rally tomorrow. Transphobia is the engine that pulls the train of fascism.

Part of the reason so many Scotnats can synpathise with Ukraine, I feel, is that have to listen to so many poor takes about country and society from people who barely understand it. We are better equipped to understand the feeling of being Westsplained to than nearly any other Westerner.

A new far-right terror attack in the UK has been confirmed in court. Alina Burns, then 18, tried to behead an Iranian refugee who was standing outside a barber's shop in Bristol with an axe The attack took place on 2 August 2025 but a judge did not rule on 'terrorism connection' until today

Tag yourself.

Britain exists as an entity that collects my taxes, (occasionally) paves the roads, and appears on my passport. As such, it is a country in precisely the same way the European Union is.

Btw I made a blocklist of Unionist weirdos, feel free to subscribe and send suggestions bsky.app/profile/did:...

In fact, this is probably the most accurate description of Britain today

If we had left in 2016, our membership of the EU would have been guaranteed.

Unionists cutting oxygen off from their brain by inhaling their own farts exhibit #4080

Wexit

It is notable that one of the most pronounced differences between Ukraine and the USA is that while both have corruption problems, the Ukr are investigating theirs up to the highest levels of govt, while the US govt is openly fostering more corruption.

Timing www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

A reporting portal for parking offences would take in so much revenue for councils. Stuff like this is easy.

"But by that logic then all Americans are responsible for Trump!" Yes.

the concept of a military is morally neutral and contingent entirely on whether your state does mostly good things or mostly bad things to other states

The racism is the point.

Mie Prefecture sent a survey to 10K residents in Jan/Feb about its plan to stop hiring foreigners to work in the prefectural government. You know who *didn't* get the survey? Mie's foreign residents, who were explicitly excluded from the mailing.

Congratulations to all the new graduates of the GenAI blocklist - I hope you enjoy your slop bubble bsky.app/profile/eidy...

One again proving my theory that English politics is just Scottish politics on a delay

Much of the casual denialism in Canada against the genocide definition of what the Crown and government did to Indigenous populations here is centered on the belief that there were no mass extermination camps akin to Auschwitz and therefore the term is hyperbolic.

Make no mistake, this is genocide.

That said, though, every old wee Tayside town is built on an old Pictish burial groundand some of them are lovely

I distinctly remember hearing about this months idk why folk are picking up on it now

McKenna's an almighty wank, totally off the deep end

If this happened in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland, you'd have commentators musing whether devolution was a mistake and whether direct rule would be preferable. Absolutely clapped political system.

The Guardian did an entire podcast called "Why Does Everyone Hate Keir Starmer" in which trans rights wasn't mentioned once and the only feelings on immigration and refugees mentioned were those of the right. The idea Labour's assault on minority rights are uncontroversial is just accepted as rote.

100% agree with this. An elections regulator able and willing to nitpick over the word "Alliance" in "Alliance for Unity" back in 2021, but unable/unwilling to address an obvious spoiler party that is compromising the integrity of Scottish elections is fundamentally unfit for purpose.

I'd take this one step further and apply this to all Labour diehards, Blairite and Corbynite and Stamerite alike. They don't want to admit they've all been wrong for *thirty* years at least, and that Labour is a fundamentally broken as a vehicle for change.

An independent Scottish republic

If Brown had accepted that peerage, I guarantee there'd be a faction trying to put him in

"TRUE Conservatism has never been tried!"

"Let's vote for change by electing a bunch of ex-Tories" 🥴