John Healey rides in on his white charger to protect pensioners from... Labour policy! What a hero... ๐
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Scottish Indy supporter. ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ ๐ช๐บ ('fanatic'!?) Former OU tutor. Likes music, footie and technology. Retired and loving it! I REALLY will not respond to DMs unless I know you.
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This could get "interesting". UK reservoirs could run dry before Xmas, requiring water to be brought in from elsewhere. This is reported in the Daily Mail - I know - and so their map excludes Scotland (and NI) from the shortage graphic. Of course, Scotland has no such problem. I wonder why? 1/3
"Trust is earned", say the BBC - repeatedly. That is true of course. They never mention that stupidity and arrogance are endemic to the BBC. They are an organisation who have been criticised by the UN for facilitating genocide in Gaza. They do not seem to understand that we have NO trust in them.
Even the UN can see what the BBC is... I wonder what BBC Vetify will make of this story?
Andy Burnham: the great communicator? Definitely not. The great obfuscator? Oh, yes!
Then I would suggest that it is not really a Scottish press event. Instead, it is a unionist propaganda event. Par for the course these days.
NEW: The Conservatives have banned The National from attending a Scottish press event with Kemi Badenoch โ just weeks after condemning Reform UK for their attacks on the media ๐ ๐ www.thenational.scot/news/2...
A guy poisons a female coworker over time. He could have got a life sentence. Instead, he got away lightly. Now he wants his felony conviction expunged! Wow! This is off the scale entitlement. There is no reason to do that. I wonder what his justification is? "But I'm a man!", is my guess, sadly. ๐
So Badenoch vows to fight the SNP "for our union". What does she mean by "our"? Well, the Tories haven't been voted in by Scotland for over 70 years and the people do not have a majority wanting to remove powers from Holyrood. So "our" union means "England's" union. It's a colonialist point of view.
This is really depressing. Misogyny is a big problem. How can women feel safe if the people that they look to for help are perpetrators? Every police officer found guilty has broken a fundamental trust and should be kicked out of the force. Glad that the Chief Constable is not trying to bury this.
As the UK tries to rush headlong into massive AI Data Centres, there are many cautionary tales about AI. This one comes from Anthropic and refers to their own AI chatbot, Claude. Fortunately, this was a simulation but Claude didn't 'know' that. What a great world AI could give us! ๐ณ
Had a response to a post from someone who clearly supported a federal UK. Full of assumptions, condescension and stupidity! The best way forward, apparently, is for Scotland to be part of a federal UK. I am getting dรฉjร vu... 2014 Vow? I am weird because (s)he told me that it would involve a new 1/2
constitution and (s)he was giving me a way to become independent. How kind! ๐Ah, we have a devolved parliament but we are better to have one set up by England. Really? Why would we put trust in that? Why would WM grant us the right to leave when they refuse it now? Off the scale idiocy. Blocked. 2/2
Hey, BBC! This is why many people don't watch the BBC Scotland channel. We don't want to listen to anti-Scotland propaganda which ignores the facts. England is much worse, again, but they can slag Scotland with impunity due to the BBC's Scotland-bad agenda. Who wants a lie factory in their lounge? ๐คท๐ผโโ๏ธ
talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/10/07/d...
The abuse of Scotland is set to continue. By now, we should all realise that our politics can either have us: staying in the UK and having the government apply 'democracy' (I am using the term loosely) to suit England whilst denying Scotland hers or: becoming independent and going our own way.
This is not about democracy. Nor is it about ensuring that we 'can' have nuclear power stations. This is about the Tories, having spent seven decades in the wilderness in Scotland, overriding our elected gov't so that we WILL have nuclear power stations. The abuse continues. Only indy stops this.
I can understand his choice. The alternative was to big up a positive message from the Tories. Yeah, that just couldn't happen... and so...
NEW: Scottish Tory leader Russell Findlay has been branded 'obsessed' for using his conference speech later today to attack independence www.thenational.scot/news/2...
His comment is inherently stupid! An independent country in the EU is still independent but is a member of a strong union with benefits and corresponding responsibilities. Scotland, in the UK, is not independent. Once we leave we'll go our own way but have a relationship with the UK without abuse.
๐ฌ๐ง Cllr Brian McGinley, a โLABOUR in Scotlandโ Councillor for Ayr, telling Scots that we shouldnโt be independent, because we should keep westminster as our โMastersโ ๐ฌ๐ง Brian isnโt the sharpest tool ๐คช ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ Are you YES yet ? ๐ช๐บ
Chinese Whispers for the modern age... AI agents search online for material to use for their "reports". That source material is becoming ever more AI too. Where will this take us, I wonder? I would guess that it will be nowhere good!
Absolutely vile. More poisonous bile from a sham news channel.
GB News has sparked fury after a guest suggested all asylum seekers should be 'castrated' during a live broadcast ๐จ ๐ฃ๏ธ 'These hateful and dangerous comments promote violence against people seeking asylum and they must be urgently investigated'
I'll say one thing for Burnham: he knows how to deliver a shambles! He "would say" that Scotland's future has been decided for a generation - despite that never being included in the Edinburgh agreement. So, wishful thinking then. And he failed with the question: how long is a generation? Gibberish!
Watch as Andy Burnham squirms as he's grilled on his 'once-in-a-generation' independence claim ๐ Credit STV News ๐ธ
Technically they did promise hundreds of jobs. Ten hundred...
NEW: Michael Shanks has been accused of a "vain attempt" to "rewrite history" after making an "insulting" claim about GB Energy. Shanks claims Labour only ever pledged hundreds of jobs at its Aberdeen HQ - in reality, 1000 were promised www.thenational.scot/news/2...
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It has always been clear that conflating the outcome of a parliamentary election - many issues and multiple voting choices - with the outcome of an independence referendum - single issue and a binary voting choice - was just plain wrong. This poll gives fresh evidence of just how badly wrong it is.
๐ฅ New poll commissioned by Believe in Scotland destroys claims that Unionist votes from 2026 Scottish Parliament election can be counted as pro-Union votes. ๐ Read more: www.believeinscotland.org/breaking_new...
I am so shocked! I had such high hopesโฆ checks notesโฆ oops, no, this is exactly as expected. Just like all the money โspentโ on Grangemouthโฆ
EXCLUSIVE: GB Energy has been branded a 'complete failure for Scotland' after files revealed fresh details about the company's activities north of the Border
Trump says that the only controls needed for the development of AI is a "strong and smart president". Well, that rules out AI development whilst he is president...
This video gives us all food for thought. AI Data Centres are not the only scary tech thing around.
Burnham says there is no consensus for a second independence referendum - this is not true. He 'clarified' things by saying that there was a consensus when the first referendum was granted - this is not true either. Support for indy was around 27% at that time. Labour cannot stop telling lies.
BREAKING: The Prime Minister has responded to the First Minister of Scotland, telling him independence and another referendum remain 'off limits' In the letter, Andy Burnham stresses that 'there is no consensus' for a referendum in Scotland or Northern Ireland
Andy Burnham releases the genie of indy ref 2 and then thinks he can put it back in the lamp! It's the kind of thing that will happen when a politician is made PM without having the ability to do the job.
EXCLUSIVE: Andy Burnham's terms for an independence referendum in Scotland 'must also apply to Wales', Plaid Cymru's Westminster leader has said ๐ฃ๏ธ 'The people of Wales have given a clear mandate for more powers to come to Wales'
He is missing a trick, here. Just grant Scotland an indy referendum and we will leave. Then he no longer needs to worry about the existence of the true north of the UK! Additionally, a unified Ireland and an independent Wales would leave Burnham as the PM of England - matching how he sees himself.
Prime Minister Andy Burnham snubs Scottish voters and media to schmooze with the royals for SECOND time ๐
Doubtless he will tell his puppet masters that he did visit Scotland but he didn't inhale...
NEW: Andy Burnham has been spotted with the royal family during a visit to Scotland ๐ It comes after the Prime Minister completely avoided Scotland on his so-called 'listening tour' of the UK www.thenational.scot/news/2...
So that would leave just one independence referendum that they would need to interfere with to ensure that ... erm... "democracy" survives. Personally, I would pass on their kind offer!
Scottish Labour MP Brian Leishman has said his party should back indyref2 if the SNP agrees to a 25-year ban on a third referendum ๐ฃ๏ธ 'Scottish Labour should not have anything to fear about another independence referendum'
Ah, London! Ignorance and arrogance. Oh... this stereotyping thing must be catching!
Outdated stereotypes of Scotland do still exist - and we came across an especially frustrating example in London this weekend 'They all roared with laughter... I was actually quite shocked' Watch The National Podcast on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts