Marie the extremist 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

The rose of all the world is not for me I want for my part Only the little white rose of Scotland That smells sharp and sweet—and breaks the heart #indyref2

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

1. You think you’ve seen it all. You really have not. I’m a hard-bitten journalist of 39 years’ standing, but details of this story made me shout, weep and slap my head. This week’s column + 🧵
https://t.co/dalKiMhkrk

[Pippa Crerar @PippaCrerar]

Headline writers not messing about

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"The illegal discharges into the Lake District’s most famous lake and the failure to report them is destroying the UK’s natural treasure."

Within the last 72 hours @unitedutilities has not only been outed for illegally dumping hundreds of millions of litres of sewage into lake Windermere but berated by the Information Commissioner for not complying with the law and it's quite obvious the company couldn't give a flying fig about any of it.

Our system of regulation is a shambles.

https://t.co/oXgonUDF29

[Marie the extremist 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @marie_arran]

@SimonForrest11 This is what you’re looking for Simon.

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

5. The fact that they treat it as some kind of game tells you all you need to know about these useless and pernicious old boys’ clubs.
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[Michael Walsh @thatbloodyMikey]

Genuinely blows my fucking mind that a Labour MP can sit on national TV & speak about how they received “a Gift” of what most people struggle to earn in an Entire Year, & spent it on a Birthday Party for Journalists.
Just How fucking out of touch are our political & media class?

[Marie the extremist 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @marie_arran]

@margaret8662254 @KirstieMAllsopp Yes cal Mac and Scot rail can confirm excellent.

[Tory Fibs @ToryFibs]

Blimey!

Take a bow Sky News - that is some first class journalism.

[Stephen Flynn @StephenFlynnSNP]

Yet last year the Commissioner deemed it reasonable to launch an investigation into my use of 28 pence worth of stationery.

The process lasted four months. It concluded with no action, of course.

[Paul Lewis @paullewismoney]

This is nonsense. The standard new state pension will rise by £460 a year but only 27% of pensioners get that. The rest get the old basic state pension which 73% get will rise by £354 a year. It is misleading and plays into the wealthy pensioners trope.

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

Today the overwhelming majority of 650 men and women who can each claim £3400 towards their heating costs will vote against pensioners being able to claim £300 towards their heating costs

[Scottish Teachers for Permanence @Teachers4Perm]

We are a large group of over 3500 Scottish teachers united to protest the current state of teaching in Scotland.
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A THREAD:

1) The number of qualified and experienced teachers without permanent posts in Scotland is entirely unacceptable.

[Michael Spicer @MrMichaelSpicer]

saying 'stop the boats' over and over again as if they don't have human beings in them leads to libraries being torched. if you want someone to blame, blame the right wing media and all those mps who made immigration a dirty word in the last election.

[Mambo Italiano @mamboitaliano__]

The question might seem trivial, but give it a moment’s thought:

Why does Venice 🇮🇹 float?

What does it rest on?
And, most importantly, why doesn’t it sink?

A Thread🧵 to explain it to you

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

They're basically going around beating up people of colour and calling it a protest at this point.

[Marie the extremist 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @marie_arran]

@scottishlass1st He didn’t read your pinned 😏

[A Scot @AScot94175440]

How the English Government is making Scotland poorer part two

Scotland has 25% of Europe’s wind and wave energy potential. There is no way on this planet European countries including whatever remains of the UK would not pay the going rate to an independent Scottish State to tap into that. Yet as a colony of the UK Scotland pays a premium fee just to connect to the British National Grid. Westminster is already planning to build a power line from the Scottish offshore energy network to Yorkshire to syphon off energy and sell it. Bypassing the Scottish end of the National Grid altogether.

I have more ways the England Govt is purposely making Scotland poorer. Give me a follow if you want to read more.

[A Scot @AScot94175440]

How the English Government is making Scotland poorer part one

Scotland is oil rich with potentially up to another Trillion Pounds worth of oil under its waters so the English parliament decide to pay Ineos £600 Million Pounds to build a plant in the EU in return for closing the only oil refinery in Scotland. Why is this a problem you may ask? Well first it increases oil exports, Scottish oil is actually among the best quality in the world and attracts top dollar per barrel so England’s coffers fill with more Scottish tax revenue that it mostly keeps to use outside of Scotland. Secondly as Scotland can no longer produce petrol or diesel it has to import from somewhere else. England has five oil refineries and as we are a British colony we will be forced to buy these refined products made from our own oil from England.

I have more ways the England Govt is purposely making Scotland poorer. Give me a follow if you want to read more.

[Lindsay Bruce @RogueCoder250]

What's the coldest place in the UK? Scotland.

Who generates the most energy per capita? Scotland. Where does it go? England.

Who pays the most for said energy? Scots.

Who just slashed winter fuel payments that will disproportionately affect Scottish pensioners?

"Labour".