Dial M for Madeye 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇪🇺 / is on Nostr

Scots, English, fluent Spanish and less fluent French speaking supporter of #ScottishIndependence, profoundly opposed to Tories Red or Blue.

Trying not to be carnaptious all of the time - family, friends, single malt, photography, books, travel, music, cycling and walking help keep me sane.

'Que la ignorancia no te niegue, que no trafique el mercader con lo que un pueblo quiere ser.'
(Joan Manuel Serrat)

Location: Glasgow, Scotland
Avatar: Commissioner Dreyfus
Banner photo: Neon sign 'NO BAMS' it's a Glasgow thing...

Last Notes

2024-09-30 08:43:14

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#BusinessAsUsual
#LabourSnoutsInTheTrough
https://media.mastodon.scot/media_attachments/files/113/225/613/248/896/513/original/975cc47130952fd3.mp4

2024-09-25 12:05:13

"Britain has become a country with such a narrow bandwidth of politics that the main political parties are virtually indistinguishable in policy terms and the public discourse of social policy is simply grotesque, shaped as it has been for decades by the right-wing press to the extent that this has been inculcated and normalised for millions of people."
https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2024/09/25/the-big-opportunity/

2024-07-26 12:04:09

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Gaslighting.
Bullshit.
Lies.
#StarmerLiedLabourDied
#CaptainUTurnWillTurnOnScotland

2024-07-26 07:57:28

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We haven't. It's been inflicted upon us.

2024-07-25 16:39:09

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I didn't vote for Starmer's Labour and walked away from Blair's Labour in 2003.
The Labour Party no longer exists.

2024-07-25 16:31:47

"... this was an opportunity [for Starmer] to give the left a kicking. But prioritising factional score-settling over the hungry bellies of little children? Labour was founded to abolish hardship, and poverty is a form of violence unnecessarily imposed by a wealthy society on its citizens. Those seven Labour MPs who voted to rescue children from poverty marched through the voting lobbies to uphold their party’s traditions; the leadership’s behaviour has desecrated them."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/24/disciplining-mps-voting-children-poverty-keir-starmer

2024-07-07 16:55:51

Oh dear.
"Starmer blasted as he gives expenses scandal MP plumb job."
"[Starmer] has revived the political career of former home secretary Jacqui Smith by appointing her as Higher Education Minister [for England] and giving her a seat in the House of Lords."
#ToryContinuityParty
#VoteLabourGetTory
#ChangeMaErse
https://www.thenational.scot/news/24436187.keir-starmer-blasted-gives-expenses-scandal-mp-plumb-job/

2024-06-28 11:13:15

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Certainly their political influence should be strictly limited for example by a very low ceiling on "donations".

2024-06-17 18:20:05

I was 18 when Thatcher was elected. I didn't vote for her.
I was 36 when Blair was elected. I did vote for him.
Then the Tories' turn came around and inevitably they got back in.
We ended up with Thatcherism again, this time on steroids, with nothing much to show for Blair (or Brown).
Under Starmer, "Labour" has morphed into the Tories under Cameron.
I'm old enough to remember.
I'll never vote Labour again.
#ScottishVotesForScottishParties
#ScottishIndependence
#IndependenceIsNormal

2024-06-16 05:55:47

This shouldn't be tolerated, under any circumstances.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/24390269.orange-order-concerns-marches-pass-near-catholic-churches/

2024-06-13 18:39:35

Which is your preference for Starmer?

2024-05-29 21:26:15

If Labour "demanded" the #SNP should be excluded from the #ITV debate, what is Starmer afraid of?
Top photo: Starmer campaigning in England.
Bottom photo: Starmer campaigning in Scotland.
Spot the difference. Starmer's "patriotism" has limits.
https://media.mastodon.scot/media_attachments/files/112/526/475/668/653/226/original/5ecbc3a067135be1.png