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Wen

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I am a climber, runner, cyclist and swimmer. In between that I run a small (but perfectly formed) analytics company, splitting my time between Edinburgh, The Highlands and The Borders, campaign for Scottish independence, bake bread and occasionally dabble in bad art.

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Wen, to UKpolitics
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Conservative Electioneering

Interesting, Police Scotland announce charges and continuing investigations of ‘two other people’ to coincide with GE campaign and Police England one on Angela Rayner will finish before the GE.

I am unsure who will benefit more, Starmer or Sunak, the two S****s of Westminster society.

CloudyMrs, to random
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22 May - General Election Called
23 May - SNP prosecutions appear back on the news.
Expect daily updates.

Wen,
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@CloudyMrs And Angela Rayner pops backup. A Con-Lab alliance?

ChrisMayLA6, to random
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Vital point:

The date of the general election seems designed to disenfranchise young people as much as possible, since most university students who vote do so at their term-time address. Universities are in recess on 4 July & many students will be at their parents’ or between university accommodation. Please make sure anyone you know in this situation registers at an appropriate address, preferably with a postal vote.

Michelle Kimber
Plymouth
(Guardian letters)

Wen,
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@ChrisMayLA6 ahh but at least they have been called outside of school@holidays. Scotland… whops, don’t worry parents won’t be voting Tory there.

ChrisMayLA6, to random
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So, just to be clear, if the Tories lose the election (which seems likely) and Labour then decide not to continue the policy of deportation to Rwanda... what happens to all the money (over £200m) so far transferred to Rwanda?

Can we expect a claw-back or should we just add it to the growing pile of money the Tories threw away (or more accurately thew to their mates)?

Wen,
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@ChrisMayLA6 of course not. No refundable if theRwandan lawyers have done their job properly

Wen,
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@ChrisMayLA6 well the Nazis hid ‘their’ monies in Switzerland for a rainy day. All hail Cruells’s pension fund.

Geri, to random
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I would wish to see Lee Anderson lose his seat

Wen,
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@Geri an easy wish to fulfil i expect

JugglingWithEggs, to random
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So…I hadn’t realised quite how much my old hearing aids had deteriorated until I got fitted with my new non-Bluetooth hearing aids today. It was a revelation!

I had been struggling for at least a year. Every conversation I had was at the edge of my hearing ability except those with my partner and son (very loud!). It wasn’t my ears that had got deafer…because my hearing test was almost identical to 3 yrs ago. Hearing aids do loose power over time.

But it’s amazing hearing clearly again!

Wen,
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@JugglingWithEggs there’s lots of evidence to support the problems tha hearing loss bring. Get those tests/support in place.

RustyBertrand, to random
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My wife has put on weight and I’m no longer attracted to her. What should I do?

"Attraction waning is one thing. But don’t confuse that for a moral insight about your wife. If you cannot separate those feelings, you’d do her a kindness by leaving. But you may regret the conflation of appearance and moral value once your own body begins to change under you."

This is kind of important. He makes a moral judgement on her as she ages.

Most men leave their wives if they get cancer. (despite tv tropes of the grieving sensitive man) Most wives stay till the end.

Just stay away from them. At 48 I can say it doesnt matter how beautiful, skinny, or smart you are. Deep down they hate us. Especially if you get fat or sick.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/may/24/my-wife-has-put-on-weight-and-im-no-longer-attracted-to-her-what-should-i-do

Wen,
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@RustyBertrand most? Is that an absolute or some relative scale?

Wen, to random
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Scottish LibDem candidate donated £25,000 to Boris Johnson's Tories

As they say, the leopard never changes his shorts…

https://www.thenational.scot/news/24342125.scottish-libdem-candidate-donated-25-000-boris-johnsons-tories/

How is that for the supposedly EUrophile party?

MadeyeTheCarnaptious, to Scotland
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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?

#OptionalIdentityMark
#LabourInNameOnly
#VoteLabourGetThatcherism
#IndependenceIsNormal
#ScottishIndependence

Wen,
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@linuxgnome @MadeyeTheCarnaptious satire misspelt?

Wen,
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@linuxgnome @MadeyeTheCarnaptious I am surprised they have at least been honest and not tried to make the red rose, red white and blue…

SubtleBlade, to Plants
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at warehouse speech turn out to be

First campaign day marked by concerns about ‘’ in audience and PM putting foot in mouth in
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/23/questioners-at-sunak-warehouse-speech-turn-out-to-be-tory-councillors-derbyshire-euros-wales

Wen,
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@SubtleBlade it doesn’t surprise me, but then the clumsiness of the subterfuge doesn’t either. I bet the bbc lapped it up (the questions bit)

Wen,
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@vanitarium @SubtleBlade not his money, never his or his families. Cash flows one way only.

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‘Rishi Sunak Claimed Inflation is Back to Normal and Brighter Days are Ahead – he’s Completely Wrong About Both’

https://bylinetimes.com/2024/05/23/rishi-sunak-claimed-inflation-is-back-to-normal-and-brighter-days-are-ahead-hes-completely-wrong-about-both/

Wen,
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@Thebratdragon @therightarticle careful to rely on people not remembering that even as inflation has fallen,e prices for staples are much higher than before these eejits got into power.

They can’t have it both ways. Are they responsible for the drop while simultaneously (ir)responsible for the rises?

AnthonyFStevens, to random
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#Tories #CONservatives #Tory #Sunak #GTTO #ToryCorruption #ToryScum #Brexit #Covid #Starmer #Labour

Austerity, Brexit, Covid Lockdown Parties, PPE Scandal, Raw Sewage in UK Waterways & Coastal Areas, Economic Crash, Record Inflation, Record Interest Rates, Cost of Living Crisis, Pensions Decimated, Mortgage Rises, NHS in Crisis, Schools Crumbling, Housing Crisis...

This is the choice. It's really that simple.

#GE2024 4th July

Vote #Labour 🌹 ❎️ 🗳

Wen,
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@AnthonyFStevens @soren @CloudyMrs I am glad. But listen to Starmer for other examples.

https://www.thenational.scot/news/19884897.labour-explain-keir-starmer-will-settle-independence-without-indyref2/

We are might pissed off that Labour stood by. Actually collaborated on Article 50. Other examples are available.

Wen,
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@AnthonyFStevens @CloudyMrs @soren ahh you have got to the point. Scotland is a different country, but what England gets, Scotland has to lump. We are in general a more communitarian, gently left country. Domination from another country, be it on Brexit, social care or even just the removal of resources is not acceptable.

Wen,
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@Theriac @AnthonyFStevens @CloudyMrs @soren well said. Too much gets assumed south of the border. Arrogance and ignorance.

Wen,
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@Theriac @AnthonyFStevens @CloudyMrs @soren oh and add in a separate legal system…

Wen,
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@AnthonyFStevens @Theriac @CloudyMrs @soren those most clearly don’t include the Labour Party,…

Wen,
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@hengymrohebwlad @Theriac @AnthonyFStevens @CloudyMrs @soren if they could give Scotland away but retain the resources I am sure they would be quite content.

People might not remember but England unilaterally redrew boundaries for fossil fuel exploitation before devolution under Blair, and those resources still in Scottish waters were derided as worthless during the referendum campaign. And now….

As to the McCrone report, I won’t go there.

Wen,
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@AnthonyFStevens @Theriac @CloudyMrs @soren 90% of it comes down to resources - power and water. The rest is prestige and grouse moors.

Wen,
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@AnthonyFStevens @Theriac @CloudyMrs @soren I might believe you if it was not for the general conversation about independence a few years ago. Did you miss it?

Wen,
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@AnthonyFStevens @Theriac @CloudyMrs @soren surely you came across Labour MPs campaigning for the union?

Wen,
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@AnthonyFStevens @Theriac @CloudyMrs @soren btw - what constitutional nightmare? Yes lots of technical untangling, but as Scotland has a separate legal system..

Wen,
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@AnthonyFStevens @Theriac @CloudyMrs @soren you should catch up with the derailed proposals the Scottish government put up against ‘project fear’. The Unionist objections were almost as risible as the Brexit campaign.

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