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   Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Sep-2024 05:30:42 JST Mrs Cloudy

   So that's it. I'm politically homeless. SNP have chosen to cut investment in the arts, nature, active travel, winter fuel allowance, and public transport. They can absolutely just fuck the fuck off. What's the point of them if they just follow the UK Government in everything they do? #scunnered #Scotland #theSNP has lost the plot.

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     Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Sep-2024 05:45:48 JST Mrs Cloudy

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     • DeterioratedStucco

     @SoftwareTheron don't generally stand a candidate where I am.

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     DeterioratedStucco (softwaretheron@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Sep-2024 05:45:49 JST DeterioratedStucco

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     @CloudyMrs
     Scottish Greens?

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     Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Sep-2024 05:52:18 JST Mrs Cloudy

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     They're saying they're continuing to invest in behaviour change and active travel infrastructure, but they cut funding last year, without warning to those who had been delivering those things for years, in favour of who or what, nobody knows. There doesn't seem to be any explicable plan.

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     Patrick Hadfield (patrickhadfield@mastodon.scot)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Sep-2024 05:55:09 JST Patrick Hadfield

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     @CloudyMrs they haven't done everything the Westminster govt does. They've put up income tax (and I'm pleased to pay it).

     But yeah, the cuts suck.

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     Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Sep-2024 05:55:44 JST Mrs Cloudy

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     • Charlie Stross

     @cstross Aye right. The bourach in Transport Scotland is all their own work. It's plain to see for anyone with eyes, but they continue to defend totally inexplicable decisions.

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Sep-2024 05:55:45 JST Charlie Stross

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     @CloudyMrs The Scottish budget is set by the Treasury in Westminster. They're prescribing cuts for *everybody*. The Scottish government is going along with this because they don't have any choice—any other course would be illegal, they're not doing it happily or willingly.

     (This should be an argument for independence right now, but it'll fall on mostly-deaf ears …)

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     Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Sep-2024 05:56:28 JST Mrs Cloudy

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     • Patrick Hadfield

     @patrickhadfield woopty do. That's OK then. 🤪

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     Clutha🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (clutha@mastodon.scot)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Sep-2024 06:09:20 JST Clutha🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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     @CloudyMrs Don’t you get it that Scotlands budget is controlled by Westminster?
     When Indy supporters blame ScotGov I wonder why they don’t understand the basics of devolution.

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     Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Sep-2024 06:14:35 JST Mrs Cloudy

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     • Clutha🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

     @Clutha gee thanks for the explanation and implication that I'm an idiot. Where we are today was not inevitable. If it was, what was the point of devolution in the first place?

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     Clutha🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (clutha@mastodon.scot)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 02:57:03 JST Clutha🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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     @CloudyMrs
     A wise politician, (labour used to have a few) said ‘power devolved is power retained’.
     Where we are proves they were correct.
     If ScotGov gets a budget cut services will obviously suffer.
     I hope the weirdo’s who chose Labour recently will put 2 & 2 together when prescriptions started costing, when free bus travel vanishes.
     Maybe, just maybe some will wise up.

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     Robert nixon (rabnnixon@mastodon.scot)'s status on Friday, 06-Sep-2024 01:32:31 JST Robert nixon

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     @CloudyMrs mind the cuts are coming fae WM, Wales cuts fae WM are times and a half scotlands getting,

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     Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Friday, 06-Sep-2024 16:40:16 JST Mrs Cloudy

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     • Robert nixon

     @Rabnnixon so devolution is pointless?