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@BloodyPolitics @JohnSwinney Yes, this is exactly why I won't be voting for them. This and "Isla" Bryson. Oh aye... and the ferries 🤦‍♀️. (used to be a card carrying member too)

Currently trending on X a video which probably still gives SNP First Minister @johnswinney nightmares and rightly so. I hope this week's election gives him and his very sinister Scottish Government the order of the boot. #SNPout

Can you believe humans were literally gifted a planet overflowing with trees, food, water, medicine, and sunshine? Yet somehow we said, “Let’s invent debt, political parties, and war.”

I find this plausible 😉♥️

A two-megawatt windmill is made up of 260 tons of steel that required 300 tons or iron ore and 170 tons of coking coal, all mined, transported and produced by hydrocarbons. It hold 700 gallons of oil and hydraulic fluid, and like car these need to be replaced every 9 months. People might fall for the idea that we can merrily run on sunshine and breezes, alone, but with a few trillion dollars worth of mythical mega-batteries providing backup for a few minutes, it could spin until it falls apart over and over again and never generate as much energy as was invested in building it.

@Iromg Please don't tar us all with the one brush. As a ST holder & Motherwell fan, the Ugly Sisters continue to embarrass us all.

What a ludicrous spectacle. Blue balaclavas and Palestine flags. Time for Scottish football to grow up…

This is Spain… Where hundreds of thousands of ancient olive trees are being ripped out and replaced with solar panels. Trees, bees and insects all wiped out. You know .. to save the planet 🤡

So, let me get this straight: you want to increase mining and child slavery in countrys like The Congo, ship those elements to China, so they can burn coal to power their factories, to build solar panels, to be shipped half away around the world in containers using oil, and cover the British countryside in Solar panels, destroying vital habitat, farmland, and natural flood planes, because you dont want the uk to use fossil fuels - "for the environment"? ...For a country that contributes less than 1% of all the entire world's pollution? So we can save £117 a year on fuel bills? £2.25 a week. Are you absolutely utterly f*cking stupid? Seriously, genuine question - are you absolutely f*cking stupid?

So a man invited to the BAFTA’s as inspiration for a film demonstrating the horrific hostility and lack of understanding people with Tourette’s face… is now facing horrific hostility and a lack of understanding over his Tourette’s? Have I got that right? 🤦

@StevenJonMiller Yes

Is this Reform U.K’s biggest mistake to date? Welcoming Nadhim Zahawi to the party.

Let’s get one thing straight before they gaslight you into swallowing this. This is NOT just about “age verification” so kids can’t scroll TikTok. The under-16s social media ban, and the under-18s VPN ban, is digital verification for everyone; because the only way to enforce it is to make every single person prove their age, prove their identity, and “check in” with the State before accessing the modern internet. And yes… you already know where it leads. OneLogin. A centralised identity system designed to collect your credentials and your biometrics (face, iris, fingerprint) and bind them to a single government account. This ban is not the end goal. It is one verification type. One tiny draconian token. One single piece of the Digital ID puzzle. And the equation remains the same: OneLogin + GOV Wallet = Digital ID. Age verification will become one token on that wallet, but first, before the wallet is fully normalised, before it’s “rolled out” to every citizen through exclusion and coercion, they’ll do what they always do: They’ll introduce the gate first. To access a VPN, a social media site, or even an AI tool, you will be forced to “prove” you are over 16 or 18 — and the proof won’t be a private check, or a local device setting, or a parental control. It will be a government check. A government login. A government permission slip. You will have to “check in” with GOV OneLogin to access the internet like a normal person — and soon enough a token for this will be issued into the GOV Wallet, just like the proposed BritCard token that has now allegedly been “scrapped.” This is the same system, the same architecture, the same rollout pattern... just with a different sticker slapped on the front. And once the token exists, it becomes the default. Once it becomes the default, it becomes the requirement. Once it becomes the requirement, it becomes the leash. Because what they’re building is not an age gate. It’s a permission gate. A surveillance gate. A system where your ability to access platforms, services, information, communication — your ability to exist online — becomes conditional on your compliance with a credential check that is logged, tracked, and centrally controlled. They will see what you do. When you do it. What you search. What you access. What you post. And people will still be saying, with a straight face: “Well, it’s a good thing under-16s are being banned from social media… they’ll be safer.” That’s the bait. Then you hear Starmer say: “How will parents police this alone?” And notice what he’s really saying. He is not empowering parents. He is positioning the government next to parents, granting the State the same “authority” to parent your child, to decide what is healthy, what is harmful, what is permitted, what is “wellbeing,” and what must be restricted. The same government that has lied to you for years about safety. The same government that signs away your rights in the name of protection. The same government that cannot define a woman, cannot secure a border, cannot arrest a p3dophile (rather employs and promotes them), cannot run a hospital — but somehow wants you to believe it can be trusted to police your child’s mind. And if you think this is going through “proper process,” think again. A month ago they announced a consultation on the under-16s ban. That consultation is a red herring. Because Starmer’s little phrase “Fast Track” is just PR language for something much uglier: Henry VIII powers. Powers that allow ministers to change legislation without parliamentary scrutiny, without debate, without any democratic friction. And that means the actual rules — the ones that govern your data, your access, your verification, your wallet, your permissions — will not be written on the floor of the House. They will be written by an unelected civil servant in a closed room, and rubber-stamped by a Secretary of State. The consultation is not democracy. It is the hologram of democracy. Designed to make you feel heard while the law is already coded, the architecture already built, and the enforcement mechanism already chosen. And it gets worse. Because this ban is being routed through the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill; a bill that will receive Royal Assent before the consultation even ends. So what exactly are you “consulting” on? A decision that’s already been made. A system that’s already being implemented. A lock that’s already being installed on your front door while they ask you what colour you’d like the handle to be. Then there’s the Unique Identifier for ALL children. They will sell it as “tracking attendance.” But it isn’t an attendance system. It is a digital tether. A permanent state identifier for your child, designed to follow them across systems, databases, services, education, healthcare, “wellbeing,” behavioural monitoring, and digital permissions. And once you combine a Unique Identifier with digital tokens, with “digital wellbeing” regulation, with AI-driven scoring, you have built something monstrous: A system where a child’s “Wellbeing Score” can drop — determined by government-approved metrics, possibly processed by government AI — and the State can remotely revoke their digital tokens. Effectively deleting their social existence until they comply. No access. No platform. No digital participation. No “privileges.” Just compliance. And here’s the part people are missing: They are granting themselves the power to amend the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill without proper parliamentary scrutiny and without waiting for the consultation to end. They are giving the Secretary of State delegated powers to regulate “digital wellbeing” which is a euphemism so broad you could drive an authoritarian regime through it. They can amend laws at any time. They can expand definitions at any time. They can widen the net at any time. Meaning the Prime Minister and Secretaries of State become the architects and the judges. The lawmakers and the enforcers. And Henry VIII powers are named after a tyrant for a reason. Because they were designed for a monarch who forced Parliament to pass laws and accept personal proclamations. That is the lineage of the power Starmer is dressing up as “Fast Tracking.” This isn’t safeguarding. It’s centralisation. And it doesn’t stop there. The other legislation being pulled into this system is the Crime and Policing Bill which is progressing as we speak and the Online Safety Act 2023 — both of which contain mechanisms to expand and amend enforcement without passing fresh primary legislation. Meaning they can tighten the screws without the public ever noticing. No new “big scary bill.” No headline. No national debate. Just silent regulatory expansion. A little more coercion. A little more surveillance. A little more permissioning. Until one day you wake up and the internet — the place you work, learn, communicate, bank, shop, organise, speak, and live — requires you to present a government token just to enter. And you’ll be told it’s normal. You’ll be told it’s safety. You’ll be told it’s “for the children.” This consultation is a farce. The law is being passed. Age verification for all will be forced upon us unless we act now, and unless people stop staring at the headline and start seeing the architecture. This is not even the start of mission creep. This is another step. Another spoke. Another token. Another gate. And yes, there are other ways to improve online safety. Every person over 16 is issued with a National Insurance number. There are privacy-preserving options. There are local-device checks. There are non-centralised approaches. But that is not the point. Because the point is not safety. The point is control. This is part of the digital gulag. The panopticon. A credentialed society where your ability to participate is conditional, permissioned, and revocable... and where the State holds the master key. Linked below is another important post about the Digital ID stack that everyone needs to understand...

The BRITcard, listen up....

@OlooneyJohn If I'm honest, I couldn't be arsed watching it, John

I didn’t see it but i have a question to my army of light. Was the winter olympic opening ceremony in any way satanic ? I ask as i expect a yes, but I’m sure thats just the conspiracy theorist in me eh… tell me tell me

One of the greatest rip offs of our time just got even worse. Aye, hang on and we'll all fucking walk to the airport.

@Graeme_McGarry It would need to be a spectacular offer, if he did go. They're all on a journey together and by the looks of it, thoroughly enjoying it!

Despite a few reports of interest this morning and plenty of speculation, my understanding is that Motherwell are firm on Tawanda Maswanhise staying at Fir Park in this window. Too late to source a replacement, so not for sale.

@gordie79 @days_scottish Maybe if all the punters who get on coaches & travel from Lanarkshire to Parkhead & Ibrox went to Fir Park instead, the home crowd would be bigger?? 🤔🤷‍♀️

@days_scottish motherwell still can't sell out at home , even with this so called best manager in Scotland

Motherwell fans at Livingston yesterday

@Graeme_McGarry If he could just perfect his finishing 👌👌👌

Lots of chat about Tawanda Maswanhise at the minute and rightly so, he's on fire and another brace for him today, but Elijah Just is a magnificent footballer. Classy, technically brilliant and works his socks off.👌🏻

@KonstantinKisin First came across you via a post on the Oxford Union Debate on "Woke Culture". You wiped the floor...! Reasoned, articulate arguments 👏 The world needs more Konstantins 🤷‍♀️

Welcome new followers - a few things you should know: - I am not left or right and I am not party political, I care about what's true and what works - I want Britain, America and the West to be strong, confident and united - I co-host the biggest independent political discussion show in Britain (@triggerpod) - I write my own thoughts down at konstantinkisin.com - Most important: I don't care if you're offended 😉

@Jenny_1884 Yes, yes & yes

Who agrees that the UK should withdraw from the WHO?

@todayyearsold Used to use this method when my old dog crapped all over the house. Used rubber gloves, obvs 🤷‍♀️

I need a moment

@francescajayne_ Nope. Clever and honorable 🤷‍♀️

I am absolutely gutted that Rachel has just won £47,800. Mean woman. #TheTraitors #Traitors