📜 TODAY IN HISTORY: 16 January 1707 📜
The Act of Union was ratified in the Parliament of Scotland by 110 to 69 votes. It merged the English and Scottish parliaments, and was a key stage in the creation of Great Britain, and then the United Kingdom. 🇬🇧
I'm done!! no 2nd cost of living payment yet, £1.22 left on the emergency on the electric, I now won't be able to run my dialysis machine until payday!
Octs price hikes have killed me, I'm using £10 a day just on electric compared to £2 a day this time last year!
Scottish Conservative leader says he supports the #MiniBudget which 'will see every single person in Scotland paying less tax' if the Scottish Government follow suit.
@Douglas4Moray says people 'are the best judges of how to spend their own money'
If you were to time travel back to the 1970's with this image and showed it to people, they'd assume it was the National Front conference. An extraordinary image and this along with GSTK a nadir for the British labour movement.
I have come late to this Kwasi Kwarteng behaviour at Her Majesty’s funeral but I think it highly troubling both being highly offensive & inappropriate but also because it speaks to character
A 22 yr old woman has been charged today for holding an ‘anti monarchy’ placard. Meanwhile, there are *no* charges for the killing of unarmed black man, Chris Kaba… 7 days later.
With Monday the 19th of September now being a bank holiday all food banks will be closed due to the queens funeral .
They will all be open as normal from Tuesday the 20th of September.