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Hopeful for Scottish Independence , Hillwalker, MS struggler. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[Child of Alba 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @ChildOfAlba]

The country which didn’t vote for Brexit but was forced out anyway because England wanted it is the country worst affected by it. Come on folks! We need out of here. London will never work in our interests. Who better to do so than Scots in their own country?

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A farmer dies in April 2026.

His son inherits the farm. The farm has been in the family since 1847.

The farm consists of: 300 acres of grazing pasture, a farmhouse built in 1892, a barn, a milking parlour, two tractors of varying ages, a Land Rover that runs about 70% of the time, and a herd of 180 Hereford-cross cattle.

On paper, the farm is worth approximately £3.2 million. This is because land near him has been bought recently by a London hedge fund looking for carbon credits, which has dragged the comparable value of every field within forty miles upward to a number nobody local can justify.

In cash, the farm produces a profit of about £28,000 a year in a good year. In a bad year it loses money. The son also works as a fencing contractor three days a week to keep the operation viable.

The inheritance tax bill on a £3.2 million estate, even at the reduced 20% rate, comes to approximately £140,000 after the increased threshold is applied. The son does not have £140,000. The son has never had £140,000. The son has £4,200 in his current account and an overdraft.

The son sells 60 acres to a developer to pay the tax. The developer puts solar panels on the 60 acres. The remaining herd cannot be sustained on the reduced land. The herd is sold. The barn becomes a holiday let.

A different family eats Brazilian beef this Christmas without knowing why the price went up.

The Treasury collects £140,000.

The land never produces British food again.

[Phil Rostron ⚽️👍🍻 @bigphil321]

Bloody hell, this hit home 💙💙💙😢😢😢

[Mike Scott @MickPuck]

If you haven't heard this yet, pop your volume up and let it blast!
DON'T EVEN HAVE TO SAY HIS NAME 👻

[Michael Stewart @mstewart_23]

Bernard Ponsonby has absolutely nailed the Independence Referendum question.

Does the current legal veto of Westminster sit with the notion of democracy?

We all know the answer to that rhetorical question.

[Mhairi Hunter 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @MhairiHunter]

Btw if you have forgotten to send back your postal vote you can hand it in at your polling station so it can be counted.

[#WheresTheChange 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 #FBSI #FBPE @st3ph3nsk3lt0n]

@HRwritesnews

[David Mitchell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇺🇳 @dm180914]

Trying to find a positive case for the union

[steve @bagshaw2112]

This made me smile #nasa #oil #clangers @NASA

[Moog @a_toots]

It’s going to take generations for America to return to normality once this fucking clown show is over.

[Mark Hammond @MarkHam80780803]

Trump:”I like to hang out with losers, it makes me feel better.”

[Kenneth MacRae @kmacraeplockton]

Plockton in the distance and The Cuillin of Skye from inside Strome Castle.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

Wow! After Donald Trump mocked Gavin Newsom and other people with dyslexia and learning disabilities, Newsom’s wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, just completely torched him.

The end is the best part.

[Scotland’s Story @80_mcswan]

Nigel Farage has said that the handgun ban in the UK is ridiculous.
The ban was introduced after the tragedy of Dunblane.
His comments are a disgrace and an insult to all those who lost their lives at Dunblane.
The ban must never be reversed.

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?” Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote the following response:

A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.

There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.

And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.

So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:

• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.

• You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.

[Epic Clip Vault @EpicClipVault]

Nebraska farmer shuts down a pro-fracking group by asking them to drink the water near his farm

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD…

Can we STOP with this ‘special relationship’ BS

And also…can we wake up to the treachery of our right wing press?!

[Gill Maxwell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎗🇪🇺 @GillMaxwell]

Hundreds of us who work in Scotland's music sector have signed this letter to BBC Radio Scotland.
The decision to axe curated music shows highlighting Scottish talent-established and emerging- is a major mis-step. Shameful.

[Just Dave now @justdavenow89]

If you will never vote for reform please like and repost

Let's show the polls are incorrect

[Iain Dear @DearIain]

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