🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Irene Golden 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Journalist (retired), life long independence supporter, genealogy addict, married, with one son and 1 Hungarian Vizsla

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

Yes, Nadhim Zahawi, there is absolutely something sick with Britain – and it’s the sheer brass neck of corrupt individuals like you who fleece the country for millions in unpaid tax, then lie through your teeth about your tax fraud.

Let’s not forget that in 2024 Zahawi – who had previously denied paying £5 million to HMRC to settle his unpaid tax - claimed he was being “smeared” by the journalists who exposed him. It was, he said airily, just a “careless mistake”.

Well.

Which of us hasn’t stuffed £5 million down the back of the sofa and forgotten it was there until the dog found it? It could happen to the best of us.

Really, the man is such a perfect match for Nigel Farage’s bunch of avaricious charlatans. Just another multi-millionaire with the morals of the gutter.

The sickness in Britain lies in those who whip up division and hate, who deride and punch down, who sneer instead of encourage, who tear down instead of build.

They aren’t the majority and they certainly don’t represent us. They’re just a hypocritical minority who think different rules apply to them and have no qualms about exploiting others.

[Angus Robertson @AngusRobertson]

The BBC misreported the Scottish Government budget on its flagship network radio programme @BBCPM yesterday. They have subsequently apologised to me but refused an on-air correction. This morning @BBCr4today has not reported on Scottish Budget at all. #ScottishBudget

[🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Irene Golden 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @igolden5]

@Heccles94 Scotland - Left 👍

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

The British establishment have all ready covered this new Banksy up.

Can we get it Retweeted 10,000 times to show that they can never cover up their complicity in war crimes??

Protect the right to protest! RT!

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

https://t.co/L17BBtvvZC

[YES Brechin @BrechinYes2]

What a difference an hour makes.
Jump on a plane in Aberdeen and 1 hour later you are in Stavanger, Norway.
Aberdeen folk stuck in the UK burdened with its debt of £2.7 trillion.
Stavanger folk living in a nation with a wealth fund of £1.3 trillion. Will we ever learn?

[Lesley Riddoch @LesleyRiddoch]

Unbelievable. Donald Trump has been invited to a state visit. We should not roll out the red carpet to celebrate this man. Add your name to the petition: https://t.co/nEmFBSWsiP via @38degrees

[John Swinney @JohnSwinney]

BREAKING NEWS : @theSNP WIN Kilmarnock North by-election. Well done to Cllr Caroline Barton and her team. Perfect start to the Scottish Labour Conference.

[𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 @politicsusa46]

I am incandescent with rage right now. I feel sick to the stomach. A US Vice President stood today on the soil of where so many Americans gave their lives to defeat fascism in Europe. He delivered a disgraceful speech that spat on their graves. Not that we should expect any different, given his boss skipped visiting the graves of fallen Americans in Europe for fear of getting his hair wet. The same man who called the same fallen heroes suckers and losers.

As a Brit that loves America and the American people, I am deeply disturbed at the insults delivered by a man who once described Donald Trump as an “idiot" and said he was "reprehensible." Privately, comparing him to Adolf Hitler.

How times have changed. Vance is now part of the most authoritarian administration in American history. An administration actively seeking to deny bodily autonomy to women. An administration pursuing the same mass deportation of immigrants that Europe witnessed in 1930s Germany. Vance is a man that his own president doesn’t even see as his successor.

He came to Europe to vomit his Christo-fascist bile on leaders from the UK and across Europe, in what appears to be a retribution tour designed to assert American power.

The U.S. are to my knowledge the only NATO country to have invoked Article 5 of the NATO charter after 9/11. We, his European allies, met that call with no questions asked. We sent thousands of soldiers to the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq to fight a war on the false premise of Donald Rumsfeld’s ‘known unknowns’. We did this despite millions of our own citizens protesting in the streets of our cities.

Our military stood shoulder to shoulder with his military and we, like many Americans, stood to salute our fallen young men and women returning home day after day. I have tears in my eyes as I write this, thinking of them and their loved ones. Our brave men and women willingly gave their all and far too many made the ultimate sacrifice in support of an American led war.

For the record, 6000 Ukrainian solders server alongside American soldiers in Iraq. This, despite Ukraine not being a member of NATO. In 1994 upon signing the Budapest Memorandum they gave up their nuclear weapons in return for security assurances from the US and the UK. These were then reneged upon in 2014 when Russia invaded Crimea. They were told ‘An assurance is not a guarantee’.

Now, despite their friendship and their brave sacrifice on the battlefields of Ukraine, the President of the United States has decided to abandon them and hand a victory to an indicted war criminal, who illegally invaded the sovereign territory of a US ally. An ally who’s soldiers had previously lost their lives supporting America in its war on terror.

SHAME ON HIM. Shame on the man who dodged the draft and never served a day in defense of his nation. He is a coward and I would gladly call him that to his face. To all those Americans on social media currently posting vile insults to those who have always been there for America, I say, democracy is bigger than you, as you sit anonymously behind your phones posting poison.

America might have the most powerful army on the planet, but remember, that same army fled from Saigon after being handed their ass by a bunch of peasant rice farmers, armed with grenades made from discarded US coke cans. Ukraine have been to the Russian army what the Vietnamese were to you and we salute them.

You might want to throw Ukraine under the bus while stealing there mineral deposits, BUT EUROPE WILL NOT ALLOW THAT TO HAPPEN. I know for sure that the UK will not abandon the Ukrainian people. Our aid to GDP contribution already exceeds that of the US as does Poland, Germany Finland and others.

The U.S. is no longer a reliable ally and if need be, we will stand with Ukraine without America.

As for your pathetic tariffs, do your worst. You will soon have no friends but thugs and autocrats, so I’m sure Wun Dum Fuc will be right at home.

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

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[🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Irene Golden 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @igolden5]

@SkyNews Absolutely disgusting.

[Dave Doogan MP @DaveDooganSNP]

😳 Incredibly, Labour are blaming the Scottish Government for their failure to deliver the £300 cut to our energy bills that they promised during the election.

💨 They are on the ropes in Scotland having thrown reality to the wind.

[Stephen Flynn @StephenFlynnSNP]

This is absolutely fucking absurd.

[Bill Cruickshank @BjCruickshank]

I am truly shocked by this: https://t.co/M2izRQ1qd3 Anas Sarwar leader of Labour in Scotland is willing to work with the far right Farage. Truly unbelievable!

[The National @ScotNational]

📽️ Watch as Labour ministers' words come back to bite them as MPs vote on the Waspi compensation bill

[YES Brechin @BrechinYes2]

Can't have carbon capture. England can.
Can't have a deposit return scheme. England can
Can't have an oil refinery. England can.
Can't have electricity cables underground. England can.
Can't have just about anything. But England can.
What's the point of being in this Union?

[KnightAngel INDY🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @KnightAngel45]

@LeftieStats A #RedTory #ErmineSocialist writing for the Sun says it all 👿
#ScottishRepublic ✊

[Howard Beckett @HowardRBeckett]

It is not solely the unlawful arrest that is so alarming.

It is police believing they can act with impunity.

Listen to the casual arrest threat levelled at a member of the public who questions the legitimacy of their actions.

This is authoritarianism.

Dangerous times.

[MSM Monitor @msm_monitor]

BBC Scotland News is in pro-Sarwar campaign mode. Headlines and bulletins will be worded to assist the Scottish Labour leader. Almost all political output should be dismissed as suspect. Polls suggest Sarwar's hopes of becoming FM lie in tatters. Unless they shift, this will continue.

[Bill Cruickshank @BjCruickshank]

So who are the subsidy junkies now? https://t.co/KyhfnaEfku