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ChrisMayLA6, to random
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Here is the (two dimensional) political placing of the parties in the forthcoming UK election from Political Compass....

If you thought you didn't have an awful lot of choice, the fact that all major parties are (on this assessment) siting in the blue (Right/Authoritarian) quadrant will confirm that suspicion

source: https://www.politicalcompass.org/uk2024

h/t @melanie @PoliceStateUK

MacNaBracha,
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MacNaBracha, to politics
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This needs more attention. Sure, people want rid of the 'Tories' but is there a real alternative (in England)?

Labour are literally in the same political territory as the Tories and the DUP.

MacNaBracha,
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@chemoelectric It's based on current policies, speeches and voting records. Have you got better methodology?

MacNaBracha, to edinburgh
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Edinburgh looking to close another cultural venue. Posh flats on the way?

https://chng.it/bCBZSF5CpG

MacNaBracha,
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@rticks Don't think it's anything to do with SNP or ScotGov. It's a Labour/Tory council as well.

ScottishGreens, to random
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"It is regrettable that it has ended this way, it didn’t need to. We draw no satisfaction or pleasure from this." - Patrick Harvie MSP

Now is the time to return to some stability. It's time to put people and planet first.

#ForPeopleForPlanet ✊🌍

MacNaBracha,
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@ScottishGreens Being outside of government won't help you advance your aims. Voting with Tories is a no-go. And while I don't like the SNP's conservative faction, they're the ones likely to benefit from this bùrach. As someone who's not party political, I'm scunnered with all you.

patrickhadfield, to random
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We've gone from resolute to revolving-door in double quick time.

"Humza Yousaf poised to quit as first minister"
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/29/humza-yousaf-considers-quitting-as-scotland-first-minster-snp?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

MacNaBracha,
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@patrickhadfield @GezThePez @MadeyeTheCarnaptious @ferryoons @rebelrebel62
Difficult choices. SNP moving to the right is not palatable. The Greens intending to vote with a Tory motion, the same. If the Greens were to join Labour and the Lib Dems, it would be the last time I voted for them.

MacNaBracha, to edinburgh
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Here lyes the spowfe of a Leith maltman.

#StandingStoneSunday #Leith #Edinburgh #Scotland #graves #Scots

MacNaBracha,
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The grave of John Pow, "Malt Man in Leith", who died on 4th December, 1750. It stands between South Leith Parish Church and the nearby graves of the Balfours, maternal ancestors of the novelist Robert Louis Stevenson. It is believed that Stevenson saw the grave while attending a funeral at the church and borrowed the name for the character 'Blind Pew' in his adventure novel 'Treasure island'.

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3721814

MacNaBracha, to LGBT
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MacNaBracha,
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@kumarvibe
https://www.holyrood.com/news/view,sectarianism-should-be-classified-as-a-hate-crime-scottish-government-told_9510.htm

Some want it extended to include sectarianism - most often around football matches though.

MacNaBracha, to Football
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The email for the CEO of the Scottish Football Association for anyone wishing to let him know, constructively, of their displeasure at recent incidents of sectarianism and violence in Scottish football.

#SFPL #ScottishCup #HateSpeech #football #Scotland #sectarianism #Rangers #Hibs #racism #MastoDaoine

https://www.ceoemail.com/s.php?id=ceo-289694&c=Scottish%20Football%20Association-Chief%20Executive

MacNaBracha,
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MacNaBracha, to poetry
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Rinn mi dearmad air seo air Là Eadar-Nàiseanta nam Ban. Lèirsinneach, dubhach.

Had forgotten about this classic from the great Sorley MacLean for #InternationalWomansDay

Ban-Ghàidheal

Agus labhair T’ eaglais chaomh
mu staid chaillte a h-anama thruaigh;
agus leag an cosnadh dian
a corp gu sàmhchair dhuibh an uaigh.

Is thriall a tìm mar shnighe dubh
a’ drùdhadh tughaidh fàrdaich bochd;
mheal ise an dubh-chosnadh cruaidh;
is glas a cadal suain a-nochd.

#Gàidhlg #Gaelic #SorleyMacLean #poetry

MacNaBracha,
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And Thy gentle church has spoken
about the lost state of her miserable soul,
and the unremitting toil has lowered
her body to a black peace in a grave.

And her time has gone like a black sludge
seeping through the thatch of a poor dwelling:
the hard Black Labour was her inheritance;
grey is her sleep tonight.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1wS6CV9DKg6wRpWVBnx6nw1/ban-ghaidheal

MacNaBracha, to random
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Starmer is loathsome for many things, but now he's given pro-Putin charlatan, friend of Farage and British unionist Galloway a way back into the political mainstream...

#Gaza #Starmer #RedTories #Galloway #ScottishIndependence #Rochdale

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68405486

MacNaBracha,
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@Wen He's is horrible. An utter narcissit and chancer.

MacNaBracha, to climate
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What a time for the right-wing Sir Keir Starmer and Labour to abandon their committment to funding renewables and green investment.

#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #environment #SirKidStarver #Labour #RedTories #politics

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68110310

MacNaBracha,
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More on Starmer caving in to pressure from the Tories. This Tory govt of all people...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68232133

MacNaBracha, to Scotland
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MacNaBracha,
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Air a dheagh ràdh.
Well said!

MacNaBracha, to edinburgh
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A classic Edinburgh derby in the cup today. Live on council telly too.

#Edinburgh #SpartansFC #HeartsFC #HMFC #ScottishCup #SPFL #Football #Saturday

MacNaBracha,
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@fkamiah17 Coonsull telly still in common usage here!

samueljohnson, to random
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MacNaBracha,
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@samueljohnson Jeezo... that was never printed on the side of a bus.

MacNaBracha,
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@samueljohnson Oh dear...😆
'Spot' the Unionist... ho-hum...

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