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  1. @adrianww @LaChasseuse @peterbrown @Alternatecelt @Wen a properly defined and managed National Park might well do that, but we don't have those in the UK. Instead, we have zones set up to undermine democratic planning systems and to allow large landowners to evade #LandReform laws.

  2. @Wen @adrianww @Alternatecelt @peterbrown @LaChasseuse @ScottishGreens I think a lot of people felt the SNP had made a mess of too many things, not least #ScottishIndependence. No local government reform, no local tax reform, no effective #LandReform, too little progress on #Climate and on #JustTransition, too little improvement on education, and some real missteps on industrial policy, although that had been difficult.

  3. @Alternatecelt @adrianww @peterbrown @LaChasseuse @Wen Galloway needs democratic accountability, which Dumfries and Galloway Council is much too large, and much too under-resourced, to provide.

    Scotland, generally, needs both local government reform -- we don't currently have any local government -- and in particular local government finance reform (which tinkering with #CouncilTax rates will not do); but to do that we need to get oligarchic power out of local politics, and that, too, is hard.

  4. RE: mastodon.scot/@peterbrown/1164

    "GAZA, April 26, 2026 (WAFA) – The death toll from the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip has risen to 72,587, with 172,381 people injured since the start of the war on October 7, 2023, medical sources reported on Sunday" while the world is watching... @villebooks
    #WesternComplicity #IsraelWarCrimes #Genocide #Futuricide #EthnicCleansing #Zionism #IsraeliMostDegeneratedArmy #CrueltyToHumans

  5. @CorvidCrone @neonsnake @tf @Tarbh @peterbrown @simon_brooke @bobjmsn @petealexharris

    i have to concede to you now because i am a fan of punching nazis and have many posts here on the topic, i even tried to get #APN (always punch a nazi) trending

    but like i said: the existence of a grey area does not remove the existence of a black and white area in morality

    you need to understand that

  6. @Alternatecelt @Wen @simon_brooke @adrianww @peterbrown Instead of a travelling circus, what Ireland & Scotland both need is decentralisation, as #Lesley Riddoch repeatedly reminds everyone. That means much more power to local govt, with an extra layer of local govt

  7. Following on from
    mastodon.scot/@peterbrown/1150

    Taking an inhuman volume of knowledge #IVK
    combining it & presenting the result is similar to a toddler with lots of colours of modeling clay.

    They mush it together & present you with a brown 'model' that's supposedly looks like Grandma.