Burnham: like all his recent failed predecessors as PM, he doesn't give a damn about Scotland, its people, and their needs. Treating Scotland as a colony of England rather than a sovereign nation proves this is not a voluntary Union. The issue of Scotland's independence isn’t going away.

Nothing has changed. Same old Red Tories. John Healey will spend more on defence than Reeves. Like Reeves, Healey is a right-wing fiscally conservative politician, an old pal of Brown & an Iraq War supporter. And his new chief secretary (deputy) Emma Reynolds, an avowed Blairite.

Science is the basis of the NHS, tech & wider economy. It is foundational for future jobs. Burnham, an English Lit graduate, has abolished Dept for Science, Innov & Tech. The UK’s AI sector has expressed alarm about the abolition of the DSIT, because tech policy will now lose influence in UKGovt.

Starmer’s legacy. A huge Labour betrayal of the UK. x.com/rosieduffiel...

@zackpolanski.bsky.social : "The question I have for Andy Burnham is, is he willing to take on those vested interests? We can't just continue as things are, as normal. He needs to be ready to take on power and wealth, and I've not seen that from him yet"

Banking Billionaire threatens Burnham

Last night Israel bombed a residential building in Gaza city & murdered at least 5 people, including 3 children.

So under Labour energy price cap went up £200 last week and now Burnham gives back £42 starting in October for a year. This leaves people £158 out of pocket.

Spain acts against the power of the social media billionaires www.instagram.com/reel/DUberOm...

Burnham: ‘my first instruction will be to end rough sleeping’ (UK: highest homelessness in OECD). When he became mayor of Greater Manchester he also pledged to end rough sleeping. He didn’t do that, but tbf rough sleeping did fall. But rough sleepers in Manchester are now above when he took office.

I wrote a book called 'One Day', superbly illustrated by @benjamindraws that tells the story of Jewish members of the French Resistance who escaped from the train deporting them to Auschwitz. My father's uncle and aunt were on the same train but didn't escape.

This is a poem about dead children - by Michael Rosen. Police Scotland arrested a man for *reciting* this poem. The UKLabour regime has supported the genocide of 20,000 children. In 2026 you will be arrested for reciting a poem about murdered children. Video: Save the Children. x.com/forexkeyleve...

Today: Paris & Berlin have called for new “emergency measures” to shield EU industry from surging Chinese imports, as the 2 countries cooperate deeper on defence co-operation & EU integration. The 2 most powerful countries in Europe, have resolved to protect jobs & commerce in the EU single market.

Scotland has high rates of cancer. Most of it caused by factors in our environment like radioactivity. We must reject nuclear power for cancer reasons & the fact that we don’t need it for electricity generation in Scotland. Important Lancet paper highlights nuclear cancer risks x.com/profjwr/stat...

Scotland has high rates of cancer. Most of it caused by factors in our environment like radioactivity. We must reject nuclear power for cancer reasons & the fact that we don’t need it for electricity generation in Scotland. Important Lancet paper highlights nuclear cancer risks x.com/profjwr/stat...

14 years in prison as a TERRORIST for a quote?!

What Marco Rubio Just Did is SHOCKING & soon no one will be able to talk about it

The new crime of opposing genocide & the slaughter of children. What our grandfathers, grandmothers, fathers & mothers fought against to defeat Nazis & fascists is now being criminalised by US on behalf of their Israeli pals. And Labour have already started. www.doubledown.news/watch/2026/j...

The UK, Israel & USA have repeatedly BLOCKED and undermined the path to peace in the interests, not of justice, or ordinary people, but for the benefit of rich controlling elites. x.com/saulstanifor...

Labour dishonesty, again & again. Almost everything they say - Burnham included - is a big fat lie. x.com/wokeratimart...

Why not Scotland? Instead of Europe we’re being offered ‘man-chester’ 🤔 x.com/hmcentee/sta...

Awkward facts & English exceptionalism. And no sports reporter on BBC said this x.com/sheilam19534...

Abair làithean mìorbhaileach a bh'againn aig @sabhalmorostaig.bsky.social airson a' cho-labhairt @asls.org.uk 2026! Mìle Taing a h-uile duine. Looking back on a wonderful few days at the ASL conference in Sabhal Mòr Ostaig. So many thought-provoking papers and stimulating conversations.

This week’s BMJ: Starmer’s legacy. He agreed to increase NHS payments to US Big Pharma by £45 billion which will result also in thousands more excess deaths in UK (BMJ analysis).

Dr Smith, working in Gaza @BBCr4today “the inhumanity of Israeli military continuing to slaughter & murder & target essential support like food, water, fuel & medicines. Dr Smith says that Israelis control everything that goes into Gaza & there isn’t even paracetamol for patients with cancer”

Dr Smith, working in Gaza @BBCr4today says “the inhumanity of Israeli military continuing to slaughter & murder & target essential support like food, water, fuel & medicines. Dr Smith says that Israelis control everything that goes into Gaza & there isn’t even paracetamol for patients with cancer”

The soul-searching and recriminations should start with a look at why England expects to win a World Cup. It might also reflect on why the idea of the Falklands, with all of its militaristic, imperial baggage is still a defining political issue in 2026 bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/07/16/f...

#StopaskingStartaction to #EndtheUnion #CelticAlliance #AllianceforIndy

Thanks to 'Talking Up Scotland' for this... This is a shocking regressive plan that Scotland must reject 👎 talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/07/11/u... INDEPENDENCE NOW 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

NYTimes: “Never in the past 50yrs have we seen anything from a US president like Trump’s determination to undermine voters’ faith in democracy itself, which is fine with him as the only way to hold on to power & get what he wants. A degree of ruthlessness & narcissism-a kind of political sociopathy”

Prof Mike Danson on Burnham’s Manchesterism: “There have been no fundamental changes in the powers of neighbourhoods, communities or boroughs within the city-region: Manchesterism isn’t based on principles of community empowerment, subsidiarity or community wealthbuilding” Just more Labour bullshit

The truth about despicable Starmer: a cruel, unempathic carreerist who has no moral compass, just relentless ambition. But also a Zionist enabler of the murder of children. The signs were there: failure to prosecute Savile & criminalisation of people protesting murder in Gaza x.com/mjdaly57/sta...

Oh yeah. Burnham wants to bypass the devolved governments because he thinks the UK government knows better what Scotland needs. 🙄 If there was a problem with how the Scottish government is governing, we wouldn't see the SNP leading it for its 20th year in a row.

🇳🇴 Norway is one Scotland's closest neighbours and is currently ranked as the 2nd best place to live in the world, on the UN Human Development Index Report. Here we take a look at three of the motivating factors that caused Norway to seek it’s independence. www.believeinscotland.org/why-norway-c...

🇮🇸 Iceland is a thriving independent Northern European nation. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Here is what an independent Scotland can learn: www.believeinscotland.org/iceland

🟦 Ten years on from Brexit, three nations of the UK - Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland all have First Ministers who want to leave the Union. That is no coincidence. 🟥 Brexit was an English project, not a British one: www.believeinscotland.org/ten_years_on...

🟦 Ten years on, Brexit is another “great betrayal” of Scotland. 🟪 The latest from Business for Scotland: www.businessforscotland.com/ten_years_on...

A Scottish Citizens’ Convention is central to winning independence. It will engage 100000s in the nation they want: housing, energy, health, democracy, pensions, taxation, public services, environment, economy: a people’s manifesto for Scotland’s future. www.thenational.scot/politics/262...

The parade of Westminster Regime toadies decrying Argentina & demanding player bans or sanctions is quite frankly embarrassing. Let’s hope Scotland not associated with this show of bad losing. You lost & are out: get over it. And holding on to a colony thousands of miles away is now unsustainable.

Well they couldn’t possible follow lead of Scotland, could they. Or France which has brought in pricing caps.

Huge story. A senior clinical manager at the trust that runs mental health services in Essex says he was told 4,000 unresolved patient safety reports needed to be "gone", while a public inquiry was under way. Inquiry into 2000 deaths at the Essex Trust. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Consumer group Which says the price of some everyday essentials has risen by more than 110% in the last year, and some of the biggest rises overall are in supermarket own brand products (the budget ranges many people rely on) We need price caps on essential items.

"What are we going to do about food prices?" Ranvir Singh asks, what are the levers Andy Burnham can employ to tackle rising food prices? Neither of the guests - Salama Shah (Tory, right wing) nor Caroline Flint (Labour, right wing) mentions price caps on essential items.

"What would you say to [Burnham] this morning.. as to what it is you're seeking from a new PM" @zackpolanski.bsky.social : ".. we are living in rip off Britain.. low wages & high bills.. there are actions Burnham could take that would start to rectify this.. rent controls.. a wealth tax"

@zackpolanski.bsky.social : "If we'd frozen rents in 2022 we would have saved the average UK renter £2,400 every single year & saved the govt £2bn every single year.. rent controls are a win win for everyone"

@zackpolanski.bsky.social : "We know if we taxed 1% on assets of £10m or 2% on assets of £1bn or more, we could be raising between £15-£24bn.. & just as importantly, we would stop the hoarding of assets. Its that hoarding of assets that's creating the inequality in this country" 🎯

".. everything we've seen so far.. this doesn't sound like we're moving in a direction to end rip off Britain. It looks like more of the same status quo & in hoc to vested interests" @zackpolanski.bsky.social on the prospects of Andy Burnhams premiership.

Huge story. A senior clinical manager at the trust that runs mental health services in Essex says he was told 4,000 unresolved patient safety reports needed to be "gone" (covered-up), while a public inquiry was under way. Inquiry into *2000* deaths at the Essex MH Trust. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

mRNA vaccines are safe & effective x.com/thelancet/st...