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#LocalGovernment units in #Germany have an average population of 7,718 people. They have power over water, electricity, gas, heating, health, social security, police, passports, planning, traffic, vehicle tax, statistics, agriculture, forestry, fisheries....
Local government units in #Scotland have an average of 170,000 people. They have power over fuck all, basically.
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#LocalGovernment units in #Germany have an average population of 7,718 people. They have power over water, electricity, gas, heating, health, social security, police, passports, planning, traffic, vehicle tax, statistics, agriculture, forestry, fisheries....
Local government units in #Scotland have an average of 170,000 people. They have power over fuck all, basically.
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Bizarre statement by #AnasSarwar! 🙄
It's about his decision to eff to London, to a seat in the unelected #HouseOfLords. He will also be a minister for trade, but as a Minster Of State, he will have no power. The prize here is the Lords seat for life
At the end, he refers to his successor, in a context that can only refer to the party leadership. But he never actually says that he is resigning as leader of #ScottishLabour. Is he still leader?
#scotpol#ukpol
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Bizarre statement by #AnasSarwar! 🙄
It's about his decision to eff to London, to a seat in the unelected #HouseOfLords. He will also be a minister for trade, but as a Minster Of State, he will have no power. The prize here is the Lords seat for life
At the end, he refers to his successor, in a context that can only refer to the party leadership. But he never actually says that he is resigning as leader of #ScottishLabour. Is he still leader?
#scotpol#ukpol
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@alanferrier who could be the new Scottish Official Monster Raving Loony Party leader? The new Flat Earth Society leader? The new Muggles Defence League leader? The new Scottish Family Party leader?
Do we look like we care?
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@alanferrier who could be the new Scottish Official Monster Raving Loony Party leader? The new Flat Earth Society leader? The new Muggles Defence League leader? The new Scottish Family Party leader?
Do we look like we care?
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A tough 5 years for Scotland's silliest clown show. Traditionally, every other year the leader of #ScottishLabour would be humiliatingly defenestrated, and replaced with someone even less competent.
#AnasSarwar cheated by staying for 5 years, almost a million times the average tenure. The comedy cane from losing elections with increasing severity.
Now he restores the humiliation by crawling to the #HouseOfLords.
#SLAB Leader #11 due soon. Don't blink, or you'll miss them 😅🤣
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A tough 5 years for Scotland's silliest clown show. Traditionally, every other year the leader of #ScottishLabour would be humiliatingly defenestrated, and replaced with someone even less competent.
#AnasSarwar cheated by staying for 5 years, almost a million times the average tenure. The comedy cane from losing elections with increasing severity.
Now he restores the humiliation by crawling to the #HouseOfLords.
#SLAB Leader #11 due soon. Don't blink, or you'll miss them 😅🤣
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Increased oil & gas drilling will do absolutely nothing to lower bills. It a disservice to North Sea workers to funnel them into a dying industry to line the already heavy pockets of climate destroying barons.
Our energy security comes from nationalising the energy giants & increasing renewables - not oil and gas. #uk #politics #ukpol #scotland #scotpol
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Increased oil & gas drilling will do absolutely nothing to lower bills. It a disservice to North Sea workers to funnel them into a dying industry to line the already heavy pockets of climate destroying barons.
Our energy security comes from nationalising the energy giants & increasing renewables - not oil and gas. #uk #politics #ukpol #scotland #scotpol
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Increased oil & gas drilling will do absolutely nothing to lower bills. It a disservice to North Sea workers to funnel them into a dying industry to line the already heavy pockets of climate destroying barons.
Our energy security comes from nationalising the energy giants & increasing renewables - not oil and gas. #uk #politics #ukpol #scotland #scotpol
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Increased oil & gas drilling will do absolutely nothing to lower bills. It a disservice to North Sea workers to funnel them into a dying industry to line the already heavy pockets of climate destroying barons.
Our energy security comes from nationalising the energy giants & increasing renewables - not oil and gas. #uk #politics #ukpol #scotland #scotpol
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Increased oil & gas drilling will do absolutely nothing to lower bills. It a disservice to North Sea workers to funnel them into a dying industry to line the already heavy pockets of climate destroying barons.
Our energy security comes from nationalising the energy giants & increasing renewables - not oil and gas. #uk #politics #ukpol #scotland #scotpol
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It's Déjà Vow all over again.
I'm amazed the record still plays after so many outings.
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It's Déjà Vow all over again.
I'm amazed the record still plays after so many outings.
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It's Déjà Vow all over again.
I'm amazed the record still plays after so many outings.
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It's Déjà Vow all over again.
I'm amazed the record still plays after so many outings.
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It's Déjà Vow all over again.
I'm amazed the record still plays after so many outings.
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Yesterday I said that I had written three good essays this week, and published two of them. Today, I'm publishing the third. This one is not at all cheerful.
"So: given the data above, and the projected map above, the 'everyone dies' event projected by the Meteorological Office covers the triangle bounded by Plymouth-Norwich-Glasgow — and yes, that includes us here in Auchencairn."
Edit: I'm wrong. Correction pending.
#ExtremeHeat
#ClimateEmergency
#UKPol
#ScotPolhttps://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-output/2026-07-15-Everyone-dies-UK/
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Yesterday I said that I had written three good essays this week, and published two of them. Today, I'm publishing the third. This one is not at all cheerful.
"So: given the data above, and the projected map above, the 'everyone dies' event projected by the Meteorological Office covers the triangle bounded by Plymouth-Norwich-Glasgow — and yes, that includes us here in Auchencairn."
Edit: I'm wrong. Correction pending.
#ExtremeHeat
#ClimateEmergency
#UKPol
#ScotPolhttps://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-output/2026-07-15-Everyone-dies-UK/
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" #Burnham presents #Manchesterism as an antidote to the failures of the past four decades. It is intended to reverse what he calls the “four horsemen” of Britain’s apocalypse: deindustrialisation, #privatisation, #austerity, and #Brexit. In their place would come a “rewired Britain”, delivering prosperity in every postcode."
"The closest thing Britain already has to Manchesterism is not to be found in Manchester at all. It is Scotland."
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" #Burnham presents #Manchesterism as an antidote to the failures of the past four decades. It is intended to reverse what he calls the “four horsemen” of Britain’s apocalypse: deindustrialisation, #privatisation, #austerity, and #Brexit. In their place would come a “rewired Britain”, delivering prosperity in every postcode."
"The closest thing Britain already has to Manchesterism is not to be found in Manchester at all. It is Scotland."
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" #Burnham presents #Manchesterism as an antidote to the failures of the past four decades. It is intended to reverse what he calls the “four horsemen” of Britain’s apocalypse: deindustrialisation, #privatisation, #austerity, and #Brexit. In their place would come a “rewired Britain”, delivering prosperity in every postcode."
"The closest thing Britain already has to Manchesterism is not to be found in Manchester at all. It is Scotland."
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" #Burnham presents #Manchesterism as an antidote to the failures of the past four decades. It is intended to reverse what he calls the “four horsemen” of Britain’s apocalypse: deindustrialisation, #privatisation, #austerity, and #Brexit. In their place would come a “rewired Britain”, delivering prosperity in every postcode."
"The closest thing Britain already has to Manchesterism is not to be found in Manchester at all. It is Scotland."
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" #Burnham presents #Manchesterism as an antidote to the failures of the past four decades. It is intended to reverse what he calls the “four horsemen” of Britain’s apocalypse: deindustrialisation, #privatisation, #austerity, and #Brexit. In their place would come a “rewired Britain”, delivering prosperity in every postcode."
"The closest thing Britain already has to Manchesterism is not to be found in Manchester at all. It is Scotland."
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My old friend Andrew MacDonald is in his 80s now, but still as sharp as ever.
In his lifetime in Scotland's independence movement, Andy has watched various strands of indy thought swirl around him. He has debated with most of them. But Andy has stuck to the same principle: independence requires #sovereignty.
The older I get, the closer I get to Andy's view. And I love his 2017 song about his vision: "When Dawns The Day".
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My old friend Andrew MacDonald is in his 80s now, but still as sharp as ever.
In his lifetime in Scotland's independence movement, Andy has watched various strands of indy thought swirl around him. He has debated with most of them. But Andy has stuck to the same principle: independence requires #sovereignty.
The older I get, the closer I get to Andy's view. And I love his 2017 song about his vision: "When Dawns The Day".
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"DataVita, the Lanarkshire complex’s developer, says it will power the site in Airdrie with more than 1GW of renewable energy, including 400MW of solar power and 800MW of wind. This is more than one and half times the wind energy produced by Whitelee, the UK’s largest onshore windfarm... It is roughly the power needed to supply 800,000 Scottish homes."
The total number of homes (i.e. occupied dwellings) in Scotland is about 2.5 million.
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"DataVita, the Lanarkshire complex’s developer, says it will power the site in Airdrie with more than 1GW of renewable energy, including 400MW of solar power and 800MW of wind. This is more than one and half times the wind energy produced by Whitelee, the UK’s largest onshore windfarm... It is roughly the power needed to supply 800,000 Scottish homes."
The total number of homes (i.e. occupied dwellings) in Scotland is about 2.5 million.
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“There doesn’t seem to be appropriate scrutiny, public or otherwise, on these nationally significant projects. The figures and designs behind many schemes are at best indicative, and at worst complete bunk.”
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“There doesn’t seem to be appropriate scrutiny, public or otherwise, on these nationally significant projects. The figures and designs behind many schemes are at best indicative, and at worst complete bunk.”
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Andy #Burnham's coronation as UK Prime Minister is still a fortnight away. But already he has done a very thorough job of alienating Scotland & Wales.
It's not just crassness about #indyref. #TheGuardian's Wales correspondent Bethan McKernan notes a consistent pattern of missteps on devolution and finance. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/06/celtic-leaders-burnham-devolution-wales-scotland-northern-ireland
These are all basic issues of how the UK is now structured. The pitfalls are clearly signed. Burnham is not paying attention to 🏴🏴.
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Andy #Burnham's coronation as UK Prime Minister is still a fortnight away. But already he has done a very thorough job of alienating Scotland & Wales.
It's not just crassness about #indyref. #TheGuardian's Wales correspondent Bethan McKernan notes a consistent pattern of missteps on devolution and finance. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/06/celtic-leaders-burnham-devolution-wales-scotland-northern-ireland
These are all basic issues of how the UK is now structured. The pitfalls are clearly signed. Burnham is not paying attention to 🏴🏴.
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"The Democracy Man". Mike Small in @BellaCaledonia on the coronation (street) of Andy #Burnham as another man with no answer to Scotland and Wales.
His rhetoric is of ‘local democracy’, which he will, apparently, impose from above. 🙄
Centralised Decentralisation.
It’s all very strange and strangely familiar.
It is a very British, and a very Labour response to a crisis of their own making.
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"The Democracy Man". Mike Small in @BellaCaledonia on the coronation (street) of Andy #Burnham as another man with no answer to Scotland and Wales.
His rhetoric is of ‘local democracy’, which he will, apparently, impose from above. 🙄
Centralised Decentralisation.
It’s all very strange and strangely familiar.
It is a very British, and a very Labour response to a crisis of their own making.
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"When it was announced in January, the government promised that an £8.2bn AI datacentre complex in Lanarkshire [...] would be powered entirely from on-site renewables.
"The Guardian obtained internal correspondence showing that the government and the site’s developers [...] were privately acknowledging that the site had an 'issue' with 'power provision' and that this would not happen."
The SNP now just another party that kowtows to corporate interests.
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"When it was announced in January, the government promised that an £8.2bn AI datacentre complex in Lanarkshire [...] would be powered entirely from on-site renewables.
"The Guardian obtained internal correspondence showing that the government and the site’s developers [...] were privately acknowledging that the site had an 'issue' with 'power provision' and that this would not happen."
The SNP now just another party that kowtows to corporate interests.
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"You'll have had your democracy, jock."
English bloke blocks #ScottishParliament's mandate to hold referendum on independence. Again. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/07/05/burnham-rules-out-second-scottish-referendum/
Scotland proclaimed the principle of popular sovereignty in the 1320 #DeclarationOfArbroath. Seven centuries later #AndyBurnham is the latest wannabe-leader of England to uphold the English tradition of #ParliamentarySovereignty.
#Burnham wears cool t-shirts, for an ageing dad. But he's not cool with democracy.
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"You'll have had your democracy, jock."
English bloke blocks #ScottishParliament's mandate to hold referendum on independence. Again. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/07/05/burnham-rules-out-second-scottish-referendum/
Scotland proclaimed the principle of popular sovereignty in the 1320 #DeclarationOfArbroath. Seven centuries later #AndyBurnham is the latest wannabe-leader of England to uphold the English tradition of #ParliamentarySovereignty.
#Burnham wears cool t-shirts, for an ageing dad. But he's not cool with democracy.
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"You'll have had your democracy, jock."
English bloke blocks #ScottishParliament's mandate to hold referendum on independence. Again. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/07/05/burnham-rules-out-second-scottish-referendum/
Scotland proclaimed the principle of popular sovereignty in the 1320 #DeclarationOfArbroath. Seven centuries later #AndyBurnham is the latest wannabe-leader of England to uphold the English tradition of #ParliamentarySovereignty.
#Burnham wears cool t-shirts, for an ageing dad. But he's not cool with democracy.
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"You'll have had your democracy, jock."
English bloke blocks #ScottishParliament's mandate to hold referendum on independence. Again. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/07/05/burnham-rules-out-second-scottish-referendum/
Scotland proclaimed the principle of popular sovereignty in the 1320 #DeclarationOfArbroath. Seven centuries later #AndyBurnham is the latest wannabe-leader of England to uphold the English tradition of #ParliamentarySovereignty.
#Burnham wears cool t-shirts, for an ageing dad. But he's not cool with democracy.
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"You'll have had your democracy, jock."
English bloke blocks #ScottishParliament's mandate to hold referendum on independence. Again. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/07/05/burnham-rules-out-second-scottish-referendum/
Scotland proclaimed the principle of popular sovereignty in the 1320 #DeclarationOfArbroath. Seven centuries later #AndyBurnham is the latest wannabe-leader of England to uphold the English tradition of #ParliamentarySovereignty.
#Burnham wears cool t-shirts, for an ageing dad. But he's not cool with democracy.
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Meanwhile in #Scotland. 🏴 🙄
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Meanwhile in #Scotland. 🏴 🙄
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Meanwhile in #Scotland. 🏴 🙄
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Meanwhile in #Scotland. 🏴 🙄