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raghnallborders, 3 days ago to BBC

The so-called #BBC is the de facto #EnglishStateBroadcaster

#youyesyet #YesScots #ScottishIndependence #endlondonrule #WhyNotScotland #scotlandineurope #scotland #ge #ge2024 #GE24 #brexit #torybrexit

Wen, 3 days ago to UKpolitics

Don’t underestimate Starmer’s push for workers’ rights – it could be his defining legacy

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/07/labour-workers-rights-keir-starmer-workplace

Could being the operative word. Workers do not fund his party, and he s determined to keep them out.

#UkPolitics #LaboutCorruption

junesim63, 7 days ago to climate

A good news story about one of the biggest rural tool-sharing libraries in the US.

"The library is like the best neighbor you ever had. Imagine if the person at the end of your block had 1,500 tools and they’d show you how to use them"

#ToolLibrary #Toolsharing #Consumerism #ClimateEmergency #RightToRepair

Chainsaws for all! I live on a rural island where we share all our tools | Environment | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/03/vashon-washington-community-tool-library?CMP=GTUK_email

russellt, 11 days ago to random

This!

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/30/stacy-gilbert-us-state-department-israel-gaza-aid

CloudyMrs, 12 days ago to random

When I was a teenager, we used to laugh an old folk who roared down the phone. Now I'm heading towards being an old person, and I'm completely bemused by the number of folk holding their phones at arms length and shouting their conversations in the street. Why have your phone on speaker in public places? I don't get it. Hold the damned thing to your ear and shoosht.

russellt, 13 days ago to random

Rafah attack

Israeli statement:

“It was a failed Hamas rocket attack, no, wait, it was us, but it was a precision-strike led by intelligence, targeting two senior Hamas figures in a sea of tents where 100,000 human shields were taking refuge because we ordered them to go there. How were we supposed to know there would be so many casualties?"

#GazaGenocide #IsraeliWarCrimes #USAComplicityInGenocide

Wen, 15 days ago to UKpolitics

It is foolish and self-indulgent for the anti-Starmer left to split the Labour vote

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/26/it-is-foolish-and-self-indulgent-for-the-anti-starmer-left-to-split-the-labour-vote

It is just so bad of us. The Guardian clearly believes that we should all (across the whole of the UK) vote for Labour, whether through policies and proposals disgust and repel us or not. Vote for bad or worse….

#UkPolitics #Guardian #Sodha

russellt, 18 days ago to random

How does the independence movement counter the pernitious effect of the unionist MSM?

russellt, 18 days ago to random

2/2

But it's not all about abolishing things, Labour will continue:

Trident
Rape clause
Genocide
Tory austerity
Supporting big business
NHS pivatisation
Unfair tax burden
Grant new oil and gas licences in the North Sea
Keep the Lords
Keep unfair benefit system
Starving kids at lunchtime

In this election you must vote for the party who are best for the majority in Scotland and that is certainly not the Tories or the other Tory party, Labour!

russellt, 18 days ago to random

To be clear if Labour wins the general election and follows that up with taking a majority in Scotland then:

Child Payments. Abolished
Free Prescriptions. Abolished
Free Bus Travel. Abolished
Free University. Abolished
Free School Meals. Abolished
Free Eye Tests. Abolished
£28 m for green tax. Abandoned

How do I know this, they voted against it or they have told us so!

1/2

russellt, 18 days ago to random

THE LibDem candidate in a key target seat donated £25,000 to the Conservatives under the leadership of Boris Johnson, The National can reveal.
Businessman Angus MacDonald hopes to rekindle the LibDem vote in their former Highland heartlands by taking the new Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire seat from the SNP.
But questions about his commitment to his new party’s stated pro-EU stance have arisen after The National revealed his previous support for the Tories in the run up to the 2019 election.

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Remind any of your friends considering voting Labour in Scotland ...

"LABOUR MPS HAVE ACCEPTED OVER £280,000 FROM ISRAEL LOBBY

Twenty percent of Labour’s sitting MPs have been funded by pro-Israel groups or individuals – including 15 who have been directly funded by the Israeli state."

What is the Israeli State getting in return? Isn't it an MPs job to represent their constituents?

russellt, 18 days ago to Palestine

Netanyahu and Biden governments in meltdown again as three countries bypass US veto and declare Palestine a state

The US and Israeli governments have reacted with fury to announcements by three European governments, at the same time, that they are recognising Palestinian statehood. Ireland, Norway and Spain have all now formally declared Palestine to be a state.

https://skwawkbox.org/2024/05/22/us-israel-rant-as-ireland-spain-norway-recognise-palestinian-statehood/

#Palestine #Gaza #USHypocrisy

russellt, 23 days ago to random

The owner of a mine in Yorkshire is supplying white phosphorus to Israel. Damning complicity!

https://www.google.com/url?q=https://t.dripemail2.com/c/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJhdWQiOiJkZXRvdXIiLCJpc3MiOiJtb25vbGl0aCIsInN1YiI6ImRldG91cl9saW5rIiwiaWF0IjoxNzE2MDExMzQxLCJuYmYiOjE3MTYwMTEzNDEsImFjY291bnRfaWQiOiIyMjY5MjY3IiwiZGVsaXZlcnlfaWQiOiJhc2Z3bWRqbmxtdnFwd3plM3F2dyIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnRoZWNhbmFyeS5jby9nbG9iYWwvd29ybGQtYW5hbHlzaXMvMjAyNC8wNS8xNy9pc3JhZWwtd2hpdGUtcGhvc3Bob3J1cy8_X19zPWRjMng5dDJ3cjdweHUxN3hyYnJoIn0.kHe3f1vSfKfVCHIJUmiSIOT6AL1o3wpXfk3TROBThJs&source=gmail&ust=1716099054351000&usg=AOvVaw21I8Pctg0inpWn7TIwjjVq

russellt, 30 days ago to random

Mandela’s grandson calls Lammy ‘apologist for genocide’

Shadow Foreign Secretary blasted after claiming anti-apartheid hero would have condemned student pro-Gaza campus protests, as Mandela’s grandson calls for students worldwide to join protests.

https://skwawkbox.org/2024/05/11/mandelas-grandson-calls-lammy-apologist-for-genocide/

#RedTories #GazaGenocide #IsraeliWarCrimes