A wee hidden gem of a glen, glenelg. The brochs , Gavin Maxwell's place,the ferry and the turntable ferryπ
A wee hidden gem of a glen, glenelg. The brochs , Gavin Maxwell's place,the ferry and the turntable ferryπ
Who the hell is this guy? And what does he want as a return on his Β£millions invested in Reform? Because it sure as shit isnβt a fairer, more progressive, equal and prosperous UK with good public services and well-regulated consumer protections.
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Big money has bought British politics
75% of Reformβs money has come from three rich white men
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MPsβ basic salary to rise to Β£110,000 by end of parliament, watchdog says.
This should be accompanied by a total ban on second jobs, which in most cases is a corporate bribe. Must end all conflict of interests.
Being a MP is a full time job. MPs must act exclusively as MPs.
Amid rising alarm over suspected pollfraud, Reform leader says allowing non-British citizens into ballot booth threatens democracy FOREIGN-BORN VOTERS STOLE BY-ELECTION BLASTS FARAGE that Reform UK was robbed of victory diary assertion in today's Mail on Sunday by foreign-born voters in last week's that 'Reform UK won the Gorton and Denton By Glen Owen Manchester by-election. by-election among British-born voters'. Amid mounting allegations that voter, fraud And he vowed that if he becomes Prime Pages 16-17 POLITICAL EDITOR and sectarianism contributed the Grecn
Truly, truly, truly disgusting.
Keep this Trumpist race baiting out of British politics.
Meanwhile, Reform want to send us back to the 1970's.
β producing a combined output of 74 megawatts from 18 floating turbines, sufficient to power the entire city of Inverness (population 65,000) continuously and indefinitely from tidal energy alone.
These people are poison. They will unleash racist thugs on the streets of this country and call it security. They will subjugate us to the US and call it patriotism. They must be stopped. There is no more important task in politics.
Two months ago the UK agreed to a deal in which the NHS has to pay Β£3bn a year more for US drugs.
The only thing we got was an agreement the UK would face no tariffs.
Now we are getting 15% tariffs on everything.
The deal must be torn up and no money stolen from the NHS.
Donor suspended from Tories pays Β£50,000 for dinner with Kemi Badenoch.
That is 2+ years of minimum wage.
Monies at this scale are paid to buy influence and favours.
Criminalizing purchase/sale of political parties and legislators is a necessary step for ending political corruption.
Obvs a take off ramp π
Bollards!
βBy continuously embracing untested technologies that are too new to warrant any serious scrutiny, necrocapitalism always manages to rebrand itself as a state-of-the-art improvement on its previous versionβ
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Love that platform clock
every time i pass it i always look up, great when you get stopped at the lights
NEW: βItβs a coupβ.
One year on from when DOGE entered the US treasury & Trumpβs blitzkrieg on the rule of law began, Iβve republished an article I wrote then about what the headlines werenβt saying.
NB: Theyβre still not.
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Major Change to Public EV Charging theorkneynews.scot/2026/02/17/m...
Summer concert schedule now 99% in place. Shows in Belgium, France, UK and Ireland. Details and ticket links at www.lloydcole.com/live/
Leaving the ECHR will not allow you to deport all Asylum Seekers, you can't deport a person without the other country accepting them.
But it will allow the State Pension, Minimum Wage, Paid Holiday, Max Working Hours, Maternity Leave and much more to be cancelled.
NEW: The FBI interview implicating Trump for raping and assaulting a 14 year old took place one day before Epstein was found dead in his jail cell, and emails about the credible accusation came around the time Blanche visited Ghislaine Maxwell in pirson. substack.com/home/post/p-...
I see yer Bam....
Well Mackenzie Crook's Small Prophets is an absolute sheer delight isn't it. No one else does quite what he does. Magical and beautiful and hilarious all at once.
Nothing to see hereβ¦just more criminals buying their way out prison.
DENIED - Melania refuses to kiss Trump on the lips.
π€―60% of Wes Streeting's donors are from private health.
Good to see your texts with Mandelson. The public also has a right to know if health policy is being driven by unaccountable lobbying
Wes Streeting, release your messages with private healthcare. weownit.org.uk/news/wes-str...
Infographic with Thames Water logo overlaid on a pie chart: 54% believe that Ofwat should reject the deal put forward by Thames Water's creditors, and put the company into special administration.
Thames Water's creditors want 15 yearsβ "leniency" from river pollution rules. They think they should be above the law.
That didn't go down well with their customers!
Check the full results of our Thames Water customer poll at vist.ly/4rard
We donβt have a functioning democracy when the people who lied to our faces to βget Brexit doneβ are never held to account for the damage theyβve causedβ¦ and, worse still, are rewarded for life, for cynically or moronically selling our country out.
They deserve nothing but our contempt. Forever.
It has a certain "stance" tho π
Make the A9 safe, certainly. Blow billions on road expansion during a time of climate crisis, when those funds are desperately needed elsewhere, utter madness.
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