Sometimes cooking
Sometimes travelling
Always eating
Green fingers and a green mind; a fiesty auld Scots woman who eats what she grows and is environmentally friendly
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Last Notes npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 the fact NHS England bought into it in the first place is dreadful. Scotland, Wales and NI refused npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 the USA is biggest terrorist state on the planet and your military are all terrorists. You cannot attack another country killing innocent citizens just because you don’t like them or their policies. That makes you murderous terrorists. Since Trump 2 you have attacked unprovoked 8 countries. If any other nation did that they’d be vaporised. Maybe someone will do the world a favour and get rid of the USA as you are hated beyond description now and do t deserve to exist. npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 sadly it will be appealed by thd Government, so the proscription remains in place for now npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 it could derail Russian -Ukraine talks. This stands to cause greater friction. Ukraine doesn’t benefit at all. We should not be arse licking the USA. Starmer is so far up Trumps backside you can see him waving a white flag when Trump speaks. npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 oh I hope it’s worse. Really worse. The USA deserves to be destroyed. They are now a rogue tyrant state. Who is next? npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 it’s relatively difficult to for a public figure to win a defamation case in the USA and he will have to provide evidence of malicious intent. The discovery process could be interesting though should the BBC decide to defend as they could call under oath Trump and others to question them on Jan 7th. The BBC is actually insured so I fear they may back down and reach a settlement before it gets to court. npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 the issue is we can’t just rejoin no matter how much most of us want to. I am confident a few states would veto until such times as we had political stability. With Farage potentially the next PM they won’t go there as he’d just stop any talks. npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 these people never disappeared after WW2, they went underground. Whether European neo-Nazis or US KKK and alt right groups, they’ve flourished in the dark for years. It’s estimated there is 800 active neo Nazi groups in Europe, a good dozen in U.K. alone, and over 1600 active white suprematist groups in the USA, all with healthy membership. Add to that those who support but are not active members. Similar exists across Australia, Asia, in particular India and Japan. npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 welcome. I’m Scottish and here lots of our homes are older than that. The same across most of Europe. The bonus is they are robust. Sounds like a huge change for you. I used to live and work in NYC many decades ago. It’s a unique city. npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 that’s disgraceful. They’ve been part of the WI since the 80s. npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 in 2019 they murdered a group of Korean fishermen for no reason other than they might have seen USA forces acting illegally. Over 420,000 civilians, mostly women and children, have been massacred by US forces since 2001. The UN concluded more Afghan women and children were killed by the USA than by insurgents. In most of these cases the USA disregarded law. They have a policy of kill and ask questions later. The USA are little better than the IDF or Taliban. npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 I was brought up a Red Clydesider. npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 look at what Scotland has done with their ‘Hospital at home’ program to alleviate this. Health and social care are fully integrated here. An example is my elderly father in law. Once his medical condition was dealt with he was moved to a unit with occupation, physio and social care support to free up a clinical bed and get him and his home ‘discharge fit’. They had a full package in place for him within a week or so. The program is still in its infancy but it’s working npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 Nicola Sturgeon did a TED talk based on most of this in 2019. The U.K. Gov mocked her npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 not got experience myself, but there a few in Scotland and I noticed even a local community in Glasgow. The Scottish Gov and partners advise on this and also help fund. npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 I’m not sure arrests happened elsewhere in the country. I attended an anti-genocide protest in Glasgow the other night in response to the flotilla being intercepted and activists captured. Plenty of Pro Palestine placards. Glasgow Police didn’t bother, even when we crowded the Central Station as the rain became torrential. They just asked us nicely to leave a space for passengers. npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 that’s wonderful. I had a neighbour do something similar for me and you have no idea how grateful I was. Your neighbour is very lucky to have you npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 before he arrived here last month someone plonked a sign under the golf course “Trump” sign which said “twinned with Epstein Island”. We really do not like him here npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 I suspect Blair is behind this npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 the racist anti-immigrant bod will likely get prosecuted. The other 2 no-one is clear about. Following the Scottish Human Rights Commission intervention to Police Scotland and the Lord Advocate warning that policing of pro-Palestine protests risked impinging on people’s right to freedom of expression, the Lord Advocate has opined peaceful protest must be protected. There were no arrests outside the Scottish Office in Edinburgh where 100 PA protested npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 Quite possibly, although I think she was a useful tool to the right of the party as she can connect with the general public. The Telegraph exposing this know her stepping down weakens Labour further and gives Reform (and the Tories) a boost. That front bench is uninspiring and most of the public would be unable to identify them. Those that are more high profile - Lammy, Reeves, Cooper and Streeting are generally disliked. This is bad news for Labour npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 my red line too - will never vote for a party not registered in Scotland and are a branch of the main party. They simply have no independent thought and don’t have Scotland’s interest at the core of their policies. npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 I’ve stated numerous times today the complexity of this is not something most lawyers are versed in. I’m not and the areas of tax law plus trusts law concerning her child plus deeming provisions absolutely needs an expert. The only thing Laurie Magnus needs verified is did she provide all information to her lawyer. If she did then she’s off the hook. If she didn’t then it’s not so black and white. npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 Herzog is Starmer’s buddy. He is the person Starmer phoned to get advice when SNP tabled the Israeli motion that Hoyle scuppered. npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 It is an offence to place raw milk or cream on the market for direct consumption in Scotland - this includes distribution. The ban includes sheep, goats, buffalo and any other species farmed for its milk. It was banned after a number of outbreaks, mainly Salmonella, Campylobacter and E.Coli infection. The last outbreak was linked to 12 deaths. npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 the biggest mistake you’re making is watching the BBC. It’s where truth goes to die. npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 this is good news. I know we are limited in what we can do, but the optics are powerful npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 it’s very much in the news outside the USA with many calling the agression an act of war. npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 Do this Gov actually think what this authoritarian behaviour is doing to their support? npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 there’s also another side which is bad for USA. Globally nations are starting to divest from the USA. So not only are goods higher for Americans, but in time you’ll have fewer exports as others source products elsewhere. That will further negatively impact your economy. It is reckless npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 nah, they’ll still tie themselves in knots and lose more support npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 Ben-Givr is called the Jewish Nazi in Israel by his opposers. He is an evil b’tard associated with terrorism himself npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 indeed. Inequality is. What infuriates me is those fleeing war/famine/persecution arriving by boat to apply for asylum are tiny in numbers. All other immigration is approved and almost always requires a job offer. If the UKGov stopped all immigration and rejected all asylum claims tomorrow the lives of those shouting about immigrants would not improve and in some case their lives would be worse off. npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 there are no benefits from guns. My country has strict gun control laws- there were 2 gun related deaths last year. Taking into account population size, the USA has over 50 times gun related deaths. That is not normal. It’s your culture and social attitude towards guns that make you a first world global basketcase. Ditch the guns, change social attitudes, save lives npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 I will never forget or forgive global leaders for their inaction. This is no longer only Israel committing genocide, it’s a joint Israel & USA genocide supported by others through weapon sales and sharing of intelligence. npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 where’s the grown up? Turkey's economy has experienced high inflation and significant currency devaluation, but it is not hyperinflation, though it has the potential risk. Turkey's economy exhibits characteristics of stagflation, a combination of high, rising prices (inflation), stagnant or declining economic growth, and rising unemployment. Sound familiar? Turkey is a huge regional power, it’s not some two bit backwater. The USA may well be heading for stagflation soon. npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 the other aspect of this is almost every political scientist has said if Farage wins the next election the U.K. will break up. As someone who despises the Union I’d be happy as you can be if both Scotland and NI went our separate ways. Farage is an English nationalist - he’d probably be glad to see the back of us. npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 I too think stagflation is more likely at this point. The USA has lost it trustworthiness, credibility and influence. Trump’s trying to take you right back, only the rest of us are moving forward and forging new trade partnerships and strengthening ties. I have no doubt BRICS will move towards replacing the US$ as the global reserve currency. npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 oh do fk off you murderous b’tard npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 were doomed. npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 I think wishful thinking on his part. Latest polls (yesterday) have this new party wining more seats than Labour - that’s before they are formed etc. It only demonstrates Labour’s unpopularity. I don’t vote for any party registered in England, so won’t be voting for them, but wish them well. I suspect Labour and the Tories will be shredded at the next election. I hope so. Would love to see both parties consigned to the dustbin for good. Lab will only survive if they dump Starmer. npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 indeed. Israel is doomed. It may succeed in creating a greater Israel but at what cost? Israel has lost a whole generation of support in the USA. Same across Europe. They are our future politicians and they will not fund Israel. The majority of the world see them as genocidal maniacs. Israel will have few allies globally and be on their own. And displaced Palestine youth will be naturally planning revenge. npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 saw another port do this a few weeks ago. Bravo npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 Karma npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 friends of Israel is an Israeli lobby group and often referred to as the front door to the Israeli Embassy. There are fewer Tories than Labour associated with FoI. That says everything about Labour npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 are you a fkwit? npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 maybe they mean she’ll be doing all the hate speech 🤷🏼♀️ npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 and Biden and Trump and Blinken and Rubio and Austin and Hegseth should be standing beside him npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 if the Police submit this to COFPS I’d be very surprised if they took forward. What guidance has the Home Office issued as it’s causing confusion everywhere. This heavy handed policing is costing millions across the U.K. and all for nothing. npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 Labour have lost the bloody plot. They deserve to sink into oblivion npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 the EU will end up fining Apple plus potentially banning them npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 it’s when historians talk about “the U.K. a thousand years ago” I start shouting abuse at the TV. The eejits should know the union is only 318 years old. Back to our American friends, had a couple complain to me we build the castle in the wrong place as should have been away from the city with parking for visitors - they were serious. When I replied Iron Age people built a hill fort on the rock and the existing castle built in 1103 , he blurted “you mean it’s real?”. 🤷🏼♀️ npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 basically she’s an ass-licker. This indicates how hypocritical she is https://www.declassifieduk.org/what-happened-to-labour-friends-of-palestine/ npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 “bash a granny” Nandy. The nastiest and dimmest eejit in the front benches. Cannot stomach her. On a related matter I was asked by a polling company tonight will I vote Labour at the Scot elections and at the next WM GE. When I replied I can guarantee I’ll never ever vote for them the lady asking the questions replied she’d heard that hundreds of times today. npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 The Gov will never ever be able to prevent peaceful protest against proscribed groups that should never have been proscribed. There are lots of brave people willing to make a stand. What’s more, it’s making global headlines and making a mockery of the Gov and that is a powerful optic. Cooper has been left looking weak, pathetic and bought, not the strong Home Secretary she thought she was projecting. Globally she is being mocked and laughed at. npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 in this case Declassified have evidence the Israeli lobby, Embassy and Elbit Systems, the Israeli Arms Company did influence the U.K. Gov. It’s going to be fun watching Cooper proscribe ‘herself’ as the new direct action group have called themselves “Yvette Cooper”. On a wider scale, I think Gov’s are getting scared they can no longer control us and are terrified the electorate are turning to smaller and new political parties. npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 the Gov are not going to stop this as people will continue to protest npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 I agree. Roughly 40% of the electorate - those eligible to vote - didn’t vote in 2024. Many of them felt politically homeless. If Sultana & Corbyn can capture even 10% of that vote they will do damage to Labour. It is also likely they will take young voters from Labour anyway. npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 3/ I expect they will form informal Alliances and from what I’m reading those who will vote for them agree with that. It’s looking likely they will have the support of Mick Lynch behind them and rumours Eddy Dempsey and the RMT are interested. If that happens they become a stronger entity. A fragmented Westminster where no Gov can be formed in 2029 may be the catalyst to achieving PR npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 2/ If Ramsay and Chown win the Green leadership they will be focusing on the countryside brigade. If Polanski wins there will be more of a cross over but he’s said he’d work with Corbyn etc. Together the Greens and this new party could take 10% off the Labour Party and consign them to the bin with the Tories. That would be a good thing. / npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 I totally disagree. This really is basically a coalition of the independent MPs at WM. It brings them together which is more powerful than them being individuals. It was them who voted for Zarah to lead them - she just didn’t arbitrarily jump ship. She was never getting that Labour whip back. The Greens offer different policies. 1/ npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 you’re not doing enough though. Why are you not rioting, closing down cities, states, even Gov? npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 all that will happen is new groups will spring up. One already has - they targetted two nights ago a logistics company who transport weapons to Israel. They’ve called themselves “Yvette Cooper” 😂😂 npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 I am forever grateful I am Scottish. This is what’s happening here https://www.thenational.scot/news/25263760.scotlands-benefits-system-shining-example-independence/ npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 you are not alone. Those Labour MPs who voted for this should be publically shamed. Imagine being such an utter b’tard that you happily vote to make life immeasurably worse for people. npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 The BBC and The Gov and the Met have lost the plot. This will only lead to a further BBC viewer backlash and even less confidence in the Gov and The Met. It’s all unnecessary and, in my opinion, stems from a desperate Gov trying to control through authoritarianism as they have lost control of the narrative and unable to persuade people to agree with their views. It’s almost a case of the Gov saying ‘if you don’t agree with us we’ll punish you’. Sorry and scary state of affairs npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 wouldn’t bank on it yet. Now being reported a group of rebels on a WhatsApp group is growing again and expected to grow over the weekend. His concessions create a discriminatory 2 tier system. Personally I hope Starmer is destroyed. He’s an untrustworthy obsequious snake oil salesman npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 indeed. Just like a major supermarket chain in the U.K. has voted to not sell and products from Israel. A commercial choice influenced by ethics npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 and how much more is being donated to the party and not individuals? npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 I hope to see the day every member of the Israeli cabinet and every IDF member are tried at The Hague and thrown in a cell with the key tossed away. Or even better, round them up and throw them into a baying crowd in Gaza. I deplore violence, but could easily make an exception here. These people are inhumane monsters npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 unsurprised npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 the Jordanian border is open, so assume this is will be used. The Israeli Gov have now put in place insurance cover for all cargo ships sailing in their waters, but little cargo can be offloaded at Haifa and Ashrod due to damage. npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 add to that, Scotland has been the top destination for foreign direct investment in the UK outside of London for a decade. It also reported (by EY) that 25% of the global investors planning to establish operations in the UK next year have chosen Scotland. Scotland is now ranked sixth among the top ten FDI locations in Europe. KPMG has now predicted Scotland’s economy is set to outstrip the UK’s as a whole in 2026. npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 our funding is starved. The Treasury would panic if full fiscal powers was mandated. The Scot Gov has been focusing on improving the efficiency of public services, which has freed up resources for investment in other areas. Scottish Security Scotland, an integrated social & healthcare system, focus on prevention (Heath) and mitigating against poverty have hugely paid off. The Scottish National Investment Bank has also played a crucial role in this. npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 this is nuts and inhumane npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 turns out he is an 80 years old. I’m thinking he cannot be local, surely? npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 it has to be barely an existance. It is so upsetting. My paternal grandparents died in the Holocaust and I can’t help thinking about did they starve to death or were they murdered, just like those in Gaza. It disturbs me how the elderly and children and ill must be suffering and how parents and loved ones must be stressed beyond imagination trying to get food and medicines. Western leaders deserve to rot having enabled this. npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 I cannot recall the last time I saw a coherent strategy on anything from a U.K. Gov. If they simply took a step back and created strategies together with roadmaps to achieve objectives and desired outcomes we wouldn’t be in this mess. It just seems we have a bunch of rudderless ministers who have no idea how to govern and being influenced by the latest hot topic. npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 the media are shocking in their one sided reporting of this. npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 organisers state fewer than 5 million turned out across the USA. Out of a population of 340 million that is a tiny 1.5%. You need sustained daily disruption by a meaningful chunk of the population over months to try shift the dial. From Europe it looks like you don’t know how to tackle this administration. With all the best will in the world making pretty posters and placards and patting yourselves on the back isn’t going to change a thing npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 and Egypt is now deporting them npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 Egypt is deporting them all or not letting them into the country npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 Israel, Saudi, UAE and Kuwait all backed by the USA. Sisi has had to deploy ever more force to keep the lid on his own people and has killed almost as many people as Iran without so much as a whisper from the West. Sisi’s men are also doing Israel’s bidding, even to the point of stating on TV the al-Aqsa mosque is not located in Jerusalem's al-Haram al-Sharif compound and that Jerusalem is not a holy Muslim city. Israel publically thanked them. npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 yea, but then having to fork out more to fix any AI or IT disasters. Some may fall for her spin, but most of the electorate won’t. npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 Yes, the UK has a duty to protect vessels registered in the UK, known as "flag state" responsibilities. This duty extends to ensuring the safety, security, and welfare of the ship, its crew, and passengers npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 about time. npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/08/la-protests-photographer-hit-by-non-lethal-rounds npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 you’re being generous npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 no, Central funding for councils is so crap that Reform will slash some local services and use the central funding to improve other services - the question is what services will be slashed and what improved and will the people of Lancashire benefit? Reform are most certainly not my cup of tea, but they’ll either come out of this looking like incompetent idiots with people suffering or have found a formula to run councils better (doubtful) npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 there’s only a fag paper separating Labour and Reform. Why go low fat Labour authoritarian when full fat Reform offers you more🤷🏼♀️ npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 They are not allies of the USA. Russia’s objective is to weaken the USA. npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 ah, but the cowardness makes them short sighted. Not that many years ago a good number of the top twenty most deprived regions in the UK were in Scotland. The Scottish Gov stepped in to mitigated against the two child cap and now there are no areas in the top 20. The Scottish Government has stated that tackling child poverty is a national mission. npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 Maggie Chapman has also written an article https://mastodon.scot/@maggiechapman/114495592439718191 npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 sounds go to me, Tom. The dog whistle politics coming from Westminster is shameful npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 well said. I was born in Dublin but have lived in Scotland since a baby. My mother was Irish, my dad was German, my were grandparents Irish and Spanish, my husband is Italian, my two kids born in Norway, their spouses are Spanish and Grenadian. We all made Scotland home and can’t wait for Scotland and NI to regain independence. Five of the above immigrants are NHS Drs, one a pioneering surgeon. Good to know Starmer thinks we are worthless. npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 Brussells can only act on Starmer and his Governments direction. npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 as much as I try not to be judgemental, the great American public really do lack basic critical thinking skills. npub16c8x2gptkmhtp33tltyyk788lyde5n4nlr0w4gzs3lna0ah03ygqrnkqzv Linda 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹 Biden is very much complicit by providing the funding and arms. He is the enabler. He has broken both Federal and Intl Law. Should key Israeli Gov and IDF officials ever be charged with genocidal acts, Biden and Blinken will be next on the list. The law is clear on that. You cannot point the finger at Trump for today’s actions while Biden is shovelling money and arms into Israel as fast as he can. That is risible.
