Then, finally some serious hiking, 16 km, 1000 altitude m. Excellent weather throughout. Fine views all along, even saw three golden eagles 🦅 (steenarend). Lucky me ☺️ totally nackered now 🏴🥾 I love #Harris#Hebrides#scotland
While I would argue that the Greens also have Scotland's interest at heart (its just that FPTP screws them), this is a decent short article from Kate Forbes.
A triumph of over-engineering, the Forth Bridge, often called the Forth Rail Bridge since the arrival of the Forth Road Bridge: now one of three great bridges across this part of the Firth of Forth, each built in a different century. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/queensferry/forthrailbridge/index.html
@UndisScot "over-engineering" is often very wise in a changing world
What is just-about adequate today is very inadequate tomorrow
There are many little bridges near me over streams and small rivers that are hundreds of years old, built for livestock, pedestrians and horse-drawn carts
Now used by unimaginably heavy trucks, hit with increased flooding, largely ignored and neglected
Over-engineering is a gift to future generations and a humble acceptance that many changes are unknowable
If you want just one good reason why not to vote either Tory, Labour or LibDem in Scotland, this is it - they all oppose rejoining the EU whilst more than 69% of Scots recognise the astonishing economic and cultural damage that Brexit has done and want to rejoin. #ge2024#Scotland#IndependenceIsNormal
@Indyposterboy@Wen I don't believe it at all. You're trying to pollute my newly washed brain.
I watched distorting Scotland at lunchtime and our imperial masters were in Glasgow again. They tell me they are all for change. Having seen that on the telly, I'm fully convinced.
When are they going to play their new campaign song?
Scotland. Your reminder that Labour wants to dismantle devolution just as much as the Tories do, and their aim is to systematically reduce devolved powers and then ultimately close Holyrood. We've been warned. If we vote Labour then what follows is our own fault. #ge2024#IndependenceIsNormal#Scotland
The rocky defile guarding the entrance to the ancient fortress of Dunadd, north of Lochgilphead in Argyll. Occupied from about 500 to about 900, this was once one of the most important places in what has since become Scotland. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/kilmartin/dunadd/index.html
In the same week that Scotland's latest census data indicated that 66% of our population identifies exclusively as Scottish and only 14% as exclusively British, #Captain_UTurn launches the UK Labour campaign festooned in union flags.
Will the "patriotic" union flag shagging be a feature of "Labour" campaigning in #Scotland?
"Rishi Sunak’s fleeting visit should mark the beginning of an apology tour of #Scotland – and it's a reminder of why it's essential to vote #SNP to remove the Tory government and put Scotland first.
“This Tory government has been an unmitigated disaster for Scotland – imposing #Brexit, austerity cuts and a cost of living crisis, and denying Scotland's democratic right to choose our own future with independence."
@MadeyeTheCarnaptious  I don’t think it will just go off once. MI5 alerted to Rishi describing nationalists as extremists.
I think it will go off in lots of controlled explosions, each designed to put it onto the front page on that particular day. What is beyond doubt is that they will keep it rolling along with periodic press releases and it will only be finally settled one way or the other AFTER the election.
If they don’t like the result, it will be resuscitated for the Scottish election.
"In a statement on Thursday afternoon, Police Scotland said... a report had been sent "in relation to a 59-year-old man who was charged on 18 April 2024".
"They added that the investigation dubbed "Operation Branchform" had not yet come to an end.
"... a spokesperson for the COPFS said... investigations into two others, a 72-year-old man and a 53-year-old woman, remain ongoing."
