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Ian TurtonJust been reminded that for much of the west coast of Scotland travel is being disrupted by sectarian orange marches.Why do we still allow this to happen in the 21st century?<a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/ScotPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScotPol</a>. <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/sectarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sectarianism</a>

Ian TurtonI was recently reminded of the Rolls Royce workers who refused to refurbish engines for Pinochet's air force. Are the current unions not bothered by Israel?<a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/50CTJnPn0RC2tXg18zfcXxy/the-scots-who-stopped-air-strikes-by-a-violent-chilean-dictator" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/50CTJnPn0RC2tXg18zfcXxy/the-scots-who-stopped-air-strikes-by-a-violent-chilean-dictator</a><a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/ScotPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScotPol</a>

Jennie KermodeYesterday I looked at some of the issues surrounding the UK government's Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment (PIP) Bill. Today I look at what it means for people in Scotland, and the questions that need to be asked ahead of next year's Scottish election. <a href="https://bylines.scot/society/can-disabled-scots-trust-labour/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://bylines.scot/society/can-disabled-scots-trust-labour/</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/disability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#disability</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/ScotPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScotPol</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/TakingThePIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TakingThePIP</a>

Chip ButtyI'm glad Fergus Ewing is leaving the SNP. There are a few others I'd like to see follow him out the door. <a href="https://functional.cafe/tags/ScotPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScotPol</a>

Police State UK"The row has reignited a longstanding debate over whether the Barnett formula – in use since 1978 – is fit for purpose, and whether it should be reformed or scrapped in favour of a universal needs-based approach."<a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/UKPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKPol</a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/ScotPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScotPol</a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/WelshPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WelshPol</a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/Cuts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cuts</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jun/15/rachel-reeves-accused-of-leaving-devolved-nations-in-red-after-nics-rise" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jun/15/rachel-reeves-accused-of-leaving-devolved-nations-in-red-after-nics-rise</a>

Simon Brooke<a href="https://mastodon.social/@Lazarou" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Lazarou</a> Swinney is a technocrat. A manager. Very like <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Starmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Starmer</a>, in fact: a man without any vision or strong ideals, just doing what seems to be pragmatic in the moment. A tactician, not a strategist.He has been a good servant to Scotland in departmental roles, but he's not a leader, and not fit to lead.He will not take us to <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ScottishIndependence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScottishIndependence</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ScotPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScotPol</a>

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈lol, see?'A Scottish Keir Starmer' ditching the progressives, obsessed with Reform, to hell with the majority of other voters, it's the Protest Vote they want!<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKPOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKPOL</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKPOLITICS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKPOLITICS</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JohnSwinney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JohnSwinney</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ReformUK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ReformUK</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScotPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScotPol</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SNP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SNP</a>

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈He's like the SNP's own Keir Starmer....ditching all the progressive votes, chasing bigotry....He's no Nicola Sturgeon. So the Establishment won't come for him, he's safe from them. Not a threat like Nicola was...<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jun/12/snp-swinney-criticism-bylection-result" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jun/12/snp-swinney-criticism-bylection-result</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SNP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SNP</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScotPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScotPol</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Swinney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Swinney</a>

Simon BrookeOor Lesley mentioned this video she made on her podcast this week. As she says, this is a perfect miniature of Scotland's power problem...But she needs to learn to pronounce Bealach na Bà!<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ScotPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScotPol</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/GridTransition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GridTransition</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/CleanEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CleanEnergy</a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0kUgdms368" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0kUgdms368</a>

David Palk#RejoinEU 💖🇪🇺🤎🕊STBO <a href="https://mas.to/tags/fascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascist</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/farage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#farage</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/scotpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scotpol</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/antifa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antifa</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/@JackTheCat" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@JackTheCat</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/06/nigel-farage-kill-tories-reform-uk-surge-scotland-hamilton-byelection" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/06/nigel-farage-kill-tories-reform-uk-surge-scotland-hamilton-byelection</a>

eclectechJust needed to shout that out into the void.I will now return to putting hats on animals, but FFS.They should hang their heads in fucking shame, all 7000-odd of them.<a href="https://things.uk/tags/ScotPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScotPol</a> <a href="https://things.uk/tags/UKPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKPol</a> <a href="https://things.uk/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politics</a>

eclectechI'm not even going to comment on the top two results here, but FFS.Reform in third place & NOT just by taking Conservative votes (although they were entertainingly demolished, albeit not enough to lose their deposit).Over 26% voted Reform.Over 7000 people.An image jumps into my head of Begbie in the old Trainspotting meme "nae cunt leaves here til we find out what cunt voted Tory".But updated, obvs.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Hamilton,_Larkhall_and_Stonehouse_by-election" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Hamilton,_Larkhall_and_Stonehouse_by-election</a><a href="https://things.uk/tags/ScotPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScotPol</a> <a href="https://things.uk/tags/UKPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKPol</a> <a href="https://things.uk/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politics</a>

Simon Brooke<a href="https://mastodon.scot/@GlasWolf" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@GlasWolf</a> I think the Rural Housing Burden is a really good idea and <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ScotGov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScotGov</a> are to be congratulated for it; but without finance it cannot work.<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ScotPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScotPol</a><a href="https://www.gov.scot/publications/housing-burdens/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.gov.scot/publications/housing-burdens/</a>

Simon Brooke<a href="https://mastodon.green/@christineburns" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@christineburns</a> If, instead, we sold that electricity cheapest where it is cheaply generated – at cost, perhaps, of curtailing industrial **customers** in those areas on those rare occasions when the tide is slack and the wind isn't blowing – we'd move investment in energy intensive industries, and consequently jobs, into those remote coastal regions, reduce their endemic fuel poverty, and decrease the need for expensive new grid infrastructure.<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ScotPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScotPol</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Decolonisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Decolonisation</a>/Ends

Simon Brooke<a href="https://mastodon.green/@christineburns" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@christineburns</a> but the Grid takes that cheap energy away over long distances via inefficient transmission lines in order to be sold at relatively subsidised prices in the south east of England, where, because of lower wind speeds, tighter planning and more expensive land, it's very much more expensive to generate clean electricity.<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ScotPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScotPol</a> /Continued

Simon Brooke<a href="https://mastodon.green/@christineburns" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@christineburns</a> part of the problem here is that the National Grid is by design a colonial extractivist mechanism. Power to the consumer is most expensive precisely in those remote areas where clean energy is cheapest and easiest to generate – <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ScotPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScotPol</a> /Continued

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈<a href="https://mastodon.scot/@ScottishGreens" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@ScottishGreens</a> is it me or is the SNP going down the shitter these days? 😔 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SNP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SNP</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScotPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScotPol</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LochLomond" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LochLomond</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScottishGreens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScottishGreens</a>

jfmlPlease all come to the counter-protest that StandUpToRacism is organising this Saturday, 24th May at St Giles Cathedral at 11 am in Edinburgh to stop far-right that are coordinating a „Great British Strike“(🤔🤦‍♀️). <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/edinburgh?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#edinburgh</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/scotland?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scotland</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/antifa?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antifa</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/protest?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#protest</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/fascist?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascist</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/islamophobia?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#islamophobia</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/music?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#music</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/racism?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#racism</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/antiracism?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antiracism</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/antifascism?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antifascism</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/antinazi?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antinazi</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/uk?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#uk</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/ukpol?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ukpol</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/scotpol?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scotpol</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/resist?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#resist</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/fcknzs?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fcknzs</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/democracy?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#democracy</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/AlwaysAntifascist?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AlwaysAntifascist</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/StopTheFarTight?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StopTheFarTight</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/RefugeesWelcome?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RefugeesWelcome</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/StandUpToRacism?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StandUpToRacism</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/NoToIslamophobia?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoToIslamophobia</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/NoPasaran?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoPasaran</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/FascistsNotWelcome?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FascistsNotWelcome</a>

Simon Brooke<a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/@wood5y" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@wood5y</a> It's worse than that. To pass the citizenship test, you have to have detailed knowledge about Magna Carta (but not the Declaration of Arbroath or the Cyfraith Hywel) and a game called 'cricket'.By that standard, very few Scots are 'British'. It's as if we didn't exist.<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ScotPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScotPol</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ScottishIndependence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScottishIndependence</a>

Simon Brooke<a href="https://mstdn.social/@Holberg" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Holberg</a> In Scotland, period products are free by law for everyone who needs them.This is one of the reasons I'm proud to be Scots. We are, I believe, the first country in the world to do this, and, when you think about it for even five minutes, it's an essential component of social justice and inclusion.(Sadly, chocolate is not free)<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ScotPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScotPol</a><a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2021/1" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2021/1</a>

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