Folks can make 10s or even 100s of thousands in rent payments on time, no issues. And then be told they can't qualify for a mortgage with a LOWER monthly payment. The system is rigged. It's predatory. And it needs to change.

It may not undo it but never underestimate how much it matters. It happened to my family, for different reasons. My great uncle & aunt were forced against their will to give up their 5 children who were all told they were unwanted. 7 lives ripped apart for 1 reason - poverty.

The trouble began when Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Schools, which consisted of experienced and well-informed men and women whose job included helping and advising, was replaced by Ofsted, whose sole function is to judge and criticise and condemn.

.Mhairi Black 🏳️‍🌈 is right: "Under Starmer, the pro-Brexit Labour Party has lurched to the right, and is now little more than a pound-shop Tory tribute act – copying Tory policies and quoting Tory prime ministers.” We are being failed by liars & frauds. thenational.scot/news/23408528.…

When we saw #NeverVoteConservative, we mean never vote for Sunak's Blue Conservatives, AND never vote for Starmer's Red Conservatives. Vote for a party that supports the 99%, and the environment, not the establishmentarian parties that only support the 1%.

Seems to be a bit of a backlash against the idea of a wellbeing economy, which is seen as somehow pie in the sky. Worth reflecting that the UK is very much an outlier in its sheer scale of inequality. Too many people have internalised this as normal. x.com/jburnmurdoch/s…

I come onto Twitter for one minute to post something up that I think some folk will like & I'm reminded that there are some very unkind people in this world. I know it's often a result of being treated unkindly by others themselves but honestly, are they this cruel in person?

The SNP is a basket case. Leftwing voters are starting to desert the party for Labour. But the only thing standing in the way of a real threat to SNP rule is Keir Starmer & his Tory-lite embrace of Brexit. The future of Scotland hangs on who wins the left heraldscotland.com/politics/viewp…

This should win @kezdugdale.bsky.social Columnist of the Year

A majority of Scots want independence. And quite rightly so. Have the rest of you not noticed the mess the UK is in? Being in the UK is killing Scotland. Both main UK parties are Brexiteer, right-wing, democracy denying Tories. #YesScots #ScottishIndependenceASAP

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I've said it before but 'down with the crown' is a far better slogan than this Americanised 'not my king' nonsense. Not my king implies that someone else is. If you are against the monarchy then you want no kings 🙄 It demeans the message and purpose 😞 Do better eh?

First Glasgow is stopping its night bus service in the city - hard news in the context of the new LEZ and ongoing criticism of public transport. First say there are only an average of 14 passengers per route - I'm often one of them. Are you? heraldscotland.com/news/23644232.…

Glasgow's late night transport is already woefully, shockingly and sickeningly inadequate. So the solution from First Bus? Make it even worse. 😡 This must not be allowed to stand. This is what over-privatisation has brought us - dangerous streets & desperate poverty and health.

What then is 'capitalist society' But feudalistic enforced piety Upon the poor, but not the rich - Who cancel lives with but a switch. Organised selfishness and greed Is what the masters hold as creed, But when the rafters shake anew Those left to stand be not they few.

Didn't you break me Before and before? Didn't you break me then? Didn't you make me Ow'r and ow'r? Only to break me again? Didn't you take me Then show me door? Cause love was too beyond your ken? Will you forsake me? No more. Please no more! For me it's not if, but is when.

Absolutely despicable! This is the corporate hell-hole some places are turning into.

The Tories are currently engaged in what we’re all pretending is a normal party conference. It’s more a monstrous circus that’s rolled into Manchester. What are the Tories now but a ruined, international laughing stock, a pariah that’s turned on itself heraldscotland.com/politics/23827…

The question is not 'to be or not to be'. It is when to be, and when not to be.