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   Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Sunday, 17-Dec-2023 20:41:50 JST Mrs Cloudy

   This news seems to have gone pretty much unremarked by anyone, but it's a huge shift in ScotGov policy delivery. Millions of pounds in funding that's currently being used to support local active travel projects right across Scotland have been quietly cut. That equates to dozens of projects and hundreds of jobs. The silence is deafening. #Scotland #activetravel #FundingCuts https://www.pathsforall.org.uk/news/news-post/our-smarter-choices-smarter-places-programme-will-end-in-april-2024

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     Tartanroots (tartanroots@mastodon.scot)'s status on Monday, 18-Dec-2023 00:44:24 JST Tartanroots

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     @CloudyMrs London Austerity has very unwelcome consequences….

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     Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Monday, 18-Dec-2023 01:04:24 JST Mrs Cloudy

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     @tartanroots. That's where it starts, but Holyrood isn't blameless here. They're quick enough to trumpet "Highest spend per head of population" but absolutely silent when it gets dumped.

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     Radio Jammor (radiojammor@mastodon.scot)'s status on Monday, 18-Dec-2023 01:26:36 JST Radio Jammor

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     @CloudyMrs @tartanroots Sadly there is history to that behaviour. ScotGov is too quick to crow about things only to have to cut them following a squeeze later on.
     The problem is Westminster, true, but also they knew this was coming.

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     Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Monday, 18-Dec-2023 11:30:00 JST Mrs Cloudy

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     • Cat Herder 💔 🗽 🇺🇲
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     @CatHerder @radiojammor @tartanroots This isn't about external interference. This is an internal decision. It's an easy cut that hardly anyone noticed. Funds will go directly to Local Authorities to fill some of their gap. Any failure to deliver will now be on the LAs.

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     Cat Herder 💔 🗽 🇺🇲 (catherder@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Dec-2023 11:30:01 JST Cat Herder 💔 🗽 🇺🇲

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     @radiojammor @CloudyMrs @tartanroots
     When are people going to get tired of outside interference in the business of running things in Scotland?

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     Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Monday, 18-Dec-2023 17:21:10 JST Mrs Cloudy

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     • Cat Herder 💔 🗽 🇺🇲
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     @CatHerder @radiojammor @tartanroots ignoring internal issues doesn't persuade a single person that independence will make the difference they need to see.

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     Cat Herder 💔 🗽 🇺🇲 (catherder@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Dec-2023 17:21:11 JST Cat Herder 💔 🗽 🇺🇲

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     @CloudyMrs @radiojammor @tartanroots
     The external interference comes from the fact that you can't allocate all the funds raised in Scotland for Scottish needs.

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     Radio Jammor (radiojammor@mastodon.scot)'s status on Monday, 18-Dec-2023 17:28:28 JST Radio Jammor

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     • Cat Herder 💔 🗽 🇺🇲
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     @CloudyMrs @CatHerder @tartanroots But what will happen is that the Unionist propaganda machine will dress it up as an inability of Scotland to go independent. The likes of you and I may know better, but plenty of people who don't pay much attention do not.
     This is a mind-set of within our own bubble that we need to be careful of.

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     Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Monday, 18-Dec-2023 21:19:55 JST Mrs Cloudy

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     • Cat Herder 💔 🗽 🇺🇲
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     @radiojammor @CatHerder @tartanroots but the chain o freedom thing WAS a failure. Not a failure of the people who organised it or the people who attended, but a failure of the wider independence movement, including the SNP and Greens, to promote or support it. The main parties can't keep holding themselves above the grassroots. It can't work that way.

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     Radio Jammor (radiojammor@mastodon.scot)'s status on Monday, 18-Dec-2023 21:19:56 JST Radio Jammor

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     @CloudyMrs @CatHerder @tartanroots For me, that Chain of Freedom thing was the first time that we couldn't just post photos and say Unionist claims were not true, because it was all about the line. Any gaps meant it was a fail and you can't respond and say the gaps were not there. They were.

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     Radio Jammor (radiojammor@mastodon.scot)'s status on Monday, 18-Dec-2023 21:19:57 JST Radio Jammor

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     @CloudyMrs @CatHerder @tartanroots Like that ambitious Chain of Freedom thing, hailed as a success, but was not fully attended, leaving gaps, which could be exploited by the opposition propaganda and dismissed.
     To 'us' a success. To the opposition, an opportunity to disparage. What was it to the neutral or undecided?

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     Radio Jammor (radiojammor@mastodon.scot)'s status on Monday, 18-Dec-2023 21:48:13 JST Radio Jammor

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     @CloudyMrs @CatHerder @tartanroots Largely agree, but the organisers weren't great, either. They failed to promote their own event adequately (I wondered at one point if it was still on, with weather issues and lack of news) and should have called it off when the main groups failed to support it. They should have seen that the event would not have enough take-up to work as desired. They were too taken with the potential than the actuality.

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     Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Dec-2023 02:53:01 JST Mrs Cloudy

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     @radiojammor @CatHerder @tartanroots if "the main groups" will neither plan anything themselves nor support anything that isn't their own, what are they for?

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     Radio Jammor (radiojammor@mastodon.scot)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Dec-2023 03:00:16 JST Radio Jammor

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     @CloudyMrs @CatHerder @tartanroots I reject the premise.
     The "main groups" do have their own events, but by the nature of the organiser/organisation, they are political party operations and therefore not fully inclusive to the rest of the movement.
     Since AUOB has become pretty useless in this regard, we lack an alternative umbrella org that these parties and their reps can come together under.
     BFS claims to be grassroots, but I'm not so sure, and its mere name strongly implies biz only.

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     Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Dec-2023 03:15:30 JST Mrs Cloudy

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     @radiojammor @CatHerder @tartanroots So, here we sit. ☹️

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     Radio Jammor (radiojammor@mastodon.scot)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Dec-2023 03:17:00 JST Radio Jammor

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     @CloudyMrs @CatHerder @tartanroots

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     Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Dec-2023 03:18:09 JST Mrs Cloudy

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     @CatHerder @radiojammor @tartanroots old news. No one cares. The Great British Big Strictly in the Jungle takes all available attention span.

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     Cat Herder 💔 🗽 🇺🇲 (catherder@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Dec-2023 03:18:10 JST Cat Herder 💔 🗽 🇺🇲

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     @radiojammor @CloudyMrs @tartanroots
     They'll seize ANY opportunity to exploit and always the same mantra.
     There's no appetite for Indy.
     My gut feeling is that Indy support is equal to the stay in the EU vote.
     How is Gove not locked up for standing in contempt of court over his refusal to release the polling the people paid for?

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     Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Dec-2023 03:21:18 JST Mrs Cloudy

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     @radiojammor @CatHerder @tartanroots https://tenor.com/6lcE.gif