By ruling out rent controls, this new Labour Government are already demonstrating that they have no interests in supporting struggling people in this country - but will always back the interests of the powerful and wealthy.
NEW: Energy Minister Michael Shanks has been blasted for boasting about renewable power in Glasgow while the UK Government is reportedly set to sign off on further drilling for oil and gas in the North Sea. https://t.co/YZqucPnYMB
Imagine that the Senned, Stormont and Holyrood set aside a vote to be held on the same day demanding that Broadcasting should be devolved - and then the Westminster Govt don't even bother voting at all and just tell them it fucking wont be.
Right there is the test of devolution.
Labour's support for Israel's genocide and war crimes isn't something 'to change the tone on'.
Andy Burnham, your most senior ministers have said it's genocide.
What are you waiting for?
End UK's complicity now. Ban arms sales. Full sanctions.
Labour's new Energy Secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh is in Aberdeen today.
With 1,000 oil & gas jobs lost every month, her first stop should to the Job Centre to understand the consequences of Westminster policies.
It's time to back Scottish workers and keep the North Sea working.
🤖 **AI Data Centres in Scotland: Progress or Power Grab?**
Big Tech wants our land, water & energy for massive data centres—at what cost? Join the debate with Dr Christa Hook.
📍 St Joseph’s Hall, Peebles
🗓 Thu 30 July, 7pm
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If Scotland gets more back than we deserve from the UK, why do no English MPs complain?
We take more than we provide, we’re constantly told.
Why won’t successive PMs act? Why do they make English people suffer to please Scotland?
And why is it me who’s ‘Anglophobic’?
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Singing, “Send him victorious, happy & glorious, long to reign over us’ Swinney is seated to one side, an irrelevance, a minion shown his place in his own country while England’s king and Prime Minister sit in the first rank. Unionists are crowing over this. He has shamed us all.
Heard John Swinney on @BBCr4today. As ever, the voice of reason. But we've moved on in the Indy movement. Action bellows while warm words merely whisper. Time to get off our knees!
🇺🇸 From today, tariffs on Scotch whisky entering the United States have been scrapped.
🏴 A Team Scotland effort to secure a great deal for both Scotch whisky and Kentucky Bourbon.
🚀 Huge boost for our incredible local distillers here in Angus.
🥃 Slàinte!
Journalist: “You've said that Russia should repay for reconstruction of Ukraine. Do you believe Israel should repay for reconstruction of Gaza?”
EU chief spokesperson: “I have no comment at this stage.”
*Days later, the journalist is fired*