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John retweeted
Great Britain and Ireland’s deepest freshwater lakes, by country.
Scotland: Loch Morar: 310 m (1,017 ft)
England: Wast Water: 79 m (259 ft)
Wales: Cowlyd: 75 m (246 ft)
Ireland: Muckross Lake: 75 m (246 ft)
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Watch as John Swinney shuts down Reform UK's leader in Scotland Malcolm Offord after being challenged on a second independence referendum
'He knows he’s got something to fear'
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King Charles inherited £650m tax free, gets £354m a year tax free from the tax payer including £132m personal spending money and has an estate worth £22bn that’s never taxed.
Like if he needs a pay cut.
RT if you want the Monarchy gone.
#NotmyKing
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🤝 Leaders of Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Wales have signed memorandum on independence to work together.
All nations should have a choice over their future.
ALT Joint statement by Plaid Cymru, SNP, and Sinn Féin calling for cooperation among Scotland, Wales, and Ireland to build a stronger future through democratic means.
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Martin Lewis, there is something very, very, very wrong in the system... 😡
So … let me get this straight:
* British Gas made a profit of £1.3bn between January & June
* BP announced profits of £6.95 billion between April and June alone
* Shell has profited by £9.4bn in a year
The MEN at the top:
* John Pettigrew, boss of National Grid received £6.5m bonus on top of his salary
* Chris O’Shea, chief executive of British Gas owner Centrica was paid almost £2m last year in salary and benefits
* Centrica's non-executive directors were paid almost £1m
* Scottish Power's CEO Keith Anderson is on £1.15m.
* E.On boss Michael Lewis is on £1m
* EDF's Simone Rossi is also on £1m
* And their top execs enjoyed a share of £4.65m
* Peter Simpson of Anglian Water earned a £1.3m pay package
* Welsh Water bosses awarded themselves bonuses of over £930,000
* Severn Trent bosses awarded themselves bonuses of £5.56m
* Thames Water's Sarah Bentley, received a £727,000 bonus on top of her £2m annual salary
Meanwhile there are...
* People who haven't had breakfast and/or lunch TODAY, because they can't afford it.
* People using FoodBanks because food is becoming more of a luxury than a necessity.
* Children celebrating a birthday without presents.
* Parents worrying about new school uniforms - and some schools enforcing rules which are not cost-effective.
* People who can't get to work because they can't afford to put petrol in their cars/pay for public transport anymore.
* People who are working so much they're making themselves ill, and they STILL CAN'T AFFORD to pay their bills.
* People who have been given fines by these same energy/water companies because they couldn't afford to pay their bills in the first place - increasing their debt.
* Customers being told to do STAR JUMPS TO KEEP WARM for crying out loud!
* Hose pipe bans when gallons of water leak away everyday.
* Elderly people NOT DRINKING because they're worried about running out of water!!!
All this and energy prices are set to rise up to 75% in October...
THIS IS MADNESS!.. I'm all for supporting profits … I'm not for supporting greed at the cost of lives of others.
Something needs to change.
Why is customers' money being used to make life more comfortable for those who are making life more intolerable for the rest of us?
I actually don't understand how the energy companies are allowed to get away with this and why the government aren't stopping them instead of handing out money.....
COPIED AND PASTED FROM OTHERS :
PLEASE KEEP IT GOING SO MORE AND MORE GET TO SEE IT .
John retweeted
Channel 4 came looking for a scandal. They didn’t expect me to investigate THEM.
I’ve gone through their allegations one by one: the sources, the fundraising, the money trail, the recordings, the witnesses and the evidence they conveniently left out.
They wanted to put me on trial in front of the British public, so I brought the receipts.
THE DISPATCHES DECEPTION:
Watch it. Share it everywhere. Then decide for yourself who’s telling the truth!
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September 11, 1297 is a date that should need no explanation for anyone who loves Scottish history. On that morning, William Wallace and Andrew de Moray positioned their outnumbered Scottish force on the north side of the River Forth and waited. Below them, the English army of the Earl of Surrey began crossing the narrow wooden bridge at Stirling, which could only pass two horsemen abreast. What happened next was not luck. It was brilliant, cold-blooded tactical thinking.
Wallace and Moray waited until roughly half the English force, perhaps five thousand men, had crossed. Then they came down from the slopes and hit the bridge from both sides simultaneously, cutting the English army in two. The cavalry on the north bank, trapped in the marshy ground, was ridden down and destroyed. Those still on the south bank could only watch. The English commander Hugh Cressingham, who had arrogantly dismissed the Scots as a threat, was killed in the rout. By some accounts the Scots skinned him afterward, and Wallace reputedly had a sword belt made from the hide.
This was the battle that proved Scotland could fight back. It wasn't just a military victory, it was a statement. The professional army of one of Europe's great powers had been torn apart by a force of Scottish common soldiers fighting for their land. Andrew de Moray died of his wounds shortly after and rarely gets the recognition he deserves. Wallace carried the fame forward. But both men turned the course of Scottish history on that bridge. What aspect of the Wars of Independence do you think is most overlooked by mainstream history?🏴👑⚔️
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A Scottish fisherman would not say the word pig at sea. Or salmon. Or minister. Some would not say kirk, or rabbit, or hare. If one slipped out, the whole boat had to touch iron.
This is not a vague folk memory. Walter Gregor wrote it down in the north east in 1881 and listed the words exactly. Swine, salmon, trout, dog, minister, kirk. None of them were spoken once the boat left the shore.
So they built a second vocabulary. A pig was a grunter, or in some crews Sandy Campbell. A salmon was the reid fish. A rabbit was a fower fitter, or a mappie. A minister was the man wi the black quyte, or a sky pilot. The kirk was the bell hoose. And if somebody forgot, you put your hand on anything iron in the boat and said cauld iron, and it was mended.
Shetland went furthest of all. There the fishermen kept an entire substitute language at sea, much of it left over from Norn, the old Norse tongue of the islands. A knife was a tullie. A church was a buanhoos. A cat was the skavnashi, the nose shaver. The Devil was da auld chield. Jakob Jakobsen recorded hundreds of these words before they went.
And there was a trade in weather.
Women on the northern coasts sold wind, tied into a rope. Three knots. Loose the first and you got a fair breeze. Loose the second and you got a gale. Nobody was ever supposed to loose the third.
It sounds like pure invention until you find the records. The custom is written about as early as the thirteen hundreds, and it turns up all round the northern seas, from Lapland and Norway to Orkney, Shetland, Lewis and Man. And in 1814 Walter Scott himself walked up Brinkie's Brae in Stromness and met Bessie Millie, who sold him a favourable wind for sixpence. He never forgot her.
These were not silly people. They were people who went out in open boats onto the North Atlantic and understood exactly how little control they had. 📷
When the sea can take everything, you are careful about what you say out loud.🏴👑🧬⚔️💙
John retweeted
Ex-UFC fighter was the mastermind of the biggest cash heist in British history #ufc #leemurray
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n one stretch of Scottish sea, the old sailors said you did not survive by rowing harder. You survived by finishing the rhyme.
The Minch is the strait between the Outer Hebrides and mainland Scotland, and the water around the Shiant Isles runs so hard and so strange that Gaelic tradition called it the Stream of the Blue Men, or the Current of Destruction. It has wrecked a great many ships.
The reason, according to the storytellers, was the Blue Men themselves. Grey-blue human shapes with long trailing hair, living in caves under the tideway, sometimes called storm kelpies. They swam alongside boats and flung the sea over them for sport. And when they meant business, their chief surfaced and spoke a line of verse up at the skipper.
The skipper had to answer it. In metre. Immediately. One recorded exchange has the chief calling up, man of the black cap, what do you say as your proud ship cleaves the brine, and the skipper firing straight back that his ship was speedy and steady, and if it sank it would wreck their caves. Out-rhymed, the chief signalled his followers and they went under.
Not strength. Not prayer. Wit, delivered at speed, in a language you had to actually be good at.
Which Scottish sea story did you grow up hearing, and who told it to you?
#BlueMenOfTheMinch #ScottishFolklore #Hebrides #GaelicTradition #ClanAndCrown🏴👑⚔️🧬
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In the summer of around 1480, on the grey waters off the Isle of Mull, father and son met in battle. The Battle of Bloody Bay is one of the most extraordinary and brutal chapters in the long, violent saga of the Lordship of the Isles, and it happened not between ancient rivals, but within the same family.
Angus Og MacDonald had grown tired of waiting. His father John, Lord of the Isles and Earl of Ross, had, in the eyes of many of his chiefs, become too cautious, too willing to submit to the Scottish crown, too ready to negotiate away the independence that the Lordship had always stood for. The chiefs backed Angus Og. John refused to yield. And so their galleys met off Tobermory in what may have been the largest naval engagement in the entire history of the Hebridean sea lords.
Angus Og won. His father was taken captive. The victory was brutal, the costs on both sides staggering, and the triumph ultimately hollow. The Lordship of the Isles, already weakened by internal strife and the relentless pressure of the Scottish crown, would be forfeited just thirteen years later. Bloody Bay was not just a battle. It was a family ripping itself apart and, in doing so, tearing the heart out of a Gaelic world that would never quite recover. 🏴🏴👑⚔️⚓️
#ScottishHistory #ClanWars #LordshipOfTheIsles #HighlandHeritage #ScottishHeritage
