🎗️ It's the privilege of my life to be elected to represent the communities of Baillieston Ward - I will work tirelessly to repay their trust.
Disappointed
@LaurenMartinSNP
wasn't elected with me but I'm proud of the campaign we both ran and have no doubt she will be back!
Queen set to pay millions for a $2000 an hour legal team known to make celeb problems "go away" for Prince Andrew.
"despite an affluent lifestyle, he has no discernible income."
Meanwhile, for us, national insurance increased, universal credit cuts and a fuel and food shortage.
Looks like the Labour party in Glasgow have decided they don't need to show up to Glasgow's city budget.
It's no wonder the people of Glasgow no longer trust them to run our city - an absolute dereliction of their duty as councillors.
So Sturgeon lied because Salmond's lawyer said Salmond was telling the truth?
Could someone tell certain members of the committee I have some magic beans to sell them?
🥀 It was not Glasgow that demolished these tenements - it was Glasgow Labour. In the process they drove a motorway through the centre of Glasgow directly over existing communities.
Glasgow demolished over 100,000 of its traditional tenements between 1960 and 1990.
Around 70,000 are left.
We should build many more of them, with sandstone façades and bay windows.
I tested positive for coronavirus yesterday despite showing no typical symptoms. Thankfully I'm feeling okay but just a reminder that it can happen so easily.
NHS testing and track and trace have been fantastic. Got my result within a day and a call shortly afterwards.
Seeing the Labour Group in Glasgow laughing about the damage Brexit has done to Scotland's economy will leave Glaswegians with a sour taste.
Unlike Labour and the Tories
@theSNP
will always stand up for Scotland's place in the European family of nations.
👇 A wee reminder for
@BorisJohnson
When even their own party leader can't be bothered remembering the branch managers name, what chance do they have?
#MurrayRoss
🏴
@HumzaYousaf
speaking to the Glasgow
@believeinscot
Rally at George Square.
"Our independence will not be won by politicians. It will be won by the people, it will be you."
🏴 I'm announcing my intention to seek nomination for Eastwood Constituency in the 2021 Elections.
🎗 The Tories have let Eastwood down. They deserve a responsive SNP MSP that will stand up for what is right for the constituency.
📰 Read more:
Absolutely ridiculous from Richard Leonard claiming that being dragged out of the EU on Friday will not constitute "a material change of circumstances".
Is it any wonder why Scottish Labour find themselves totally irrelevant when they find themselves backing yet another Tory PM?
Scotland overwhelmingly rejected Brexit but we are paying the price.
📈 More expensive food
✋️ Loss of freedom to travel and work in 27 countries
📉 Less EU workers coming to support our public sector
This is the cold hard reality of allowing others to make decisions for us.
Shameful for the
@Daily_Record
to roll out Gordon Brown claiming Labour will end child poverty the day after Glasgow Labour tried to stop
@theSNP
calling for an end to the two-child cap and bedroom tax.
Labour must think our heids button up the back.
Earlier this week, Glasgow's Labour councillors voted against the SNP's motion calling on the UK Government to abolish the two-child cap and the bedroom tax.
To lift our children and our pensioners out of poverty, you must
#VoteSNP
☀️ Great responses on the doorsteps for our team in Rutherglen for
@theSNP
's National Day of Action.
🎗️ The Cost of Living Crisis was at the forefront of voters minds and there was huge support for
@HumzaYousaf
's policies to support struggling households during the crisis.
🏴
@HumzaYousaf
will be out in Rutherglen + Hamilton West today, leading
@theSNP
’s first nationwide Day Of Action this year.
👊🏼 “The SNP will be taking its progressive vision for a fairer Scotland to doorsteps across the country today.”
#ActiveSNP
Meghan Gallagher saying Tories losing their deposit isn't bad really tells you all you need to know.
The only objective Labour and the Tories in Scotland care about is trying to close down the debate on Scotland's independence and they are willing to swap votes to achieve it.
Tories are subjecting us to eight weeks of internal politics in public while the city around them is literally on fire.
Meanwhile
@theSNP
Scot Gov quietly gets on investing in a greener, better connected future.
Our latest investment supports
@Orbitalmarine
in its operation of the world’s most powerful tidal turbine. This investment recognises the role tidal technology can play in delivering clean, predictable energy.
#netzero
🤔 I'm struggling to see what possible justification
@BBCPolitics
have for missing
@theSNP
's early and vociferous campaigning to scrap the two-child cap since its introduction.
🖼 Here are just a couple of examples to show how long ago
@theSNP
began the push to scrap the cap.
🗳 Great to be out speaking to voters with
@Shettleston_SNP
this week.
🌫 The disgust at the lack of any hope on offer from the Westminster parties is coming through loud and clear on the doors.
🏴
@theSNP
will always offer a vision to improve the lives of people in Scotland.
🤔 Hi Pauline, any chance you could tell me when
@GlasgowLabour
changed the position on supporting an LEZ & why that decision was made?
Strange that your party now feels it's fine for Glaswegians to continue suffering the health impacts of excessive air pollution in our city.
Not sure what evidence
@BBCsarahsmith
has for her claim that the FM "has ENJOYED the opportunity to set her own lockdown rules...".
Can't imagine the toll of managing her Government during this crisis. Last thing we need is journalists trying to play politics with a pandemic.
☀️ Great to be out campaigning in Sunny Baillieston today.
📈 Real concern at the rising cost of living due to a disastrous Brexit backed by Labour and the Tories.
🏴 Only with independence will we have the powers we need to tackle the cost of living for the people in Scotland
🌍 Scotland is leading the way in tackling climate change - and in securing climate justice for those countries hit hardest.
Imagine how much more we could do as a normal independent country.
#COP26
#COP26Glasgow
Fitting weather for both these videos.
One: a bright forward looking message. 🏴🇪🇺
The other: a grey howl of despair for a disappearing past. 🇬🇧
#indyref2
#ScotlandsForEurope
🧵 An absolute privilege to be elected
@theSNP
National Secretary by party delegates at our Annual Conference over the weekend.
@theSNP
is far and away the largest party in Scotland and the responsibility of delivering for our members will always be at the heart of what I do.
Vote Labour so Keir Starmer and Anas Sarwar can dump smuggler gangs in Scotland?
Odd policy from the director of one of Labour’s most influential think tanks, backed by half the shadow cabinet.
'Why don't you put the smuggler gangs on the barge and ship it to Scotland for all I care?'
Criticising the government's Rwanda plan,
@joshsimonstweet
has a solution for the 'small boats crisis' if Labour win the next election.
@IainDale
🗳 In every single Tory held seat in Scotland
@theSNP
are the clear challenger.
🎗 Only voting SNP can make Scotland Tory-free at this election.
🏴 And only Scottish Independence can make Scotland Tory-free forever.
🗣️
@HumzaYousaf
: “From the Highlands to the Borders, let’s rid this country of Tory MPs once & for all.
Whether it’s in May or November, or any month in between - let them hear the message loud & clear.
Your time is up & the SNP is coming for you.”
🗳 REMEMBER TO VOTE TODAY: A message from
@NicolaSturgeon
to the young people of Scotland.
🏴 Young people are set to lose so much if we leave the European Union.
🇪🇺 Make sure your voice is heard - vote
@theSNP
today and send a clear message, Scotland’s for Europe!
My heartfelt thanks goes out to
@theSNP
members of Baillieston ward for selecting me as their candidate.
It is an absolute privilege and I will work tirelessly to repay that privilege in my campaigning over the coming months and hopefully as your local Councillor.
🏴 The Scottish Independence movement is built on a foundation of an outward looking civic nationalism that embraces difference.
🇬🇧 The danger to a tolerant and welcoming society comes from the extreme form of inward looking British nationalism pursued by extreme politicians.
🏴 Fantastic to get out chapping doors in Glasgow after today's campaign launch.
👇 Join
@theSNP
and let's lock the Tories out of Scotland forever with Scottish independence.
🏴 2024 will be a pivotal year for Scotland.
🔒 Together, we can lock out the Tories
💪 If you are a member, get involved by contacting your local branch.
✍️ Join us at
☀️ Great to get out speaking to voters across Baillieston this afternoon.
🏴 Folk here are increasingly convinced that only independence can ensure that Scotland's democratic wishes are respected.
#ActiveSNP
I wonder if
@jackiebmsp
and
@Keir_Starmer
also believe the United Nations Secretary-General is playing politics by calling for a humanitarian ceasefire?
I am deeply disturbed by the horrible situation and dramatic loss of life in several hospitals in Gaza.
In the name of humanity, I call for an immediate humanitarian cease fire.
Activists from
@YesScot
letting
#Glasgow
know what Boris Johnson really thinks about our city and Scotland.
#ItsTime
to take our future in to our own hands. 🏴🇪🇺
👇 Posting this helpful reminder for
@RishiSunak
and
@trussliz
when they ask who wants another referendum.
It is not just
@theSNP
the Tories are treating with utter contempt - it is also the voters across Scotland who cast their ballot for another referendum.
🗳️ Exciting to hear from postal voters on the doors who have already cast their ballot for
@KatyLoudonSNP
in the by-election!
🎗️ Every vote will count on 5th October so don't miss your chance to vote for an MP who will stand up for an independent Scotland's place in Europe.
🎗 Why
@valmcdermid
backs
@theSNP
:
👶 We back the Scottish Child Payment.
🙅♀️ We refuse to implement the bedroom tax.
📦 We support the baby box.
⚕️ We support free prescriptions, free dental care for people under 26 and free parking at hospitals.
🎓 We back free tuition.
🗳 Polls are open across Glasgow.
🏙️ The Scottish National Party (SNP) have delivered for Glasgow, moving our great city forward where previous parties failed.
🕑 Don't turn back the clock - cast your vote for
@theSNP
today to keep Glasgow moving forward.
🏙️ This is Glasgow - a great city with great values, which deserves strong, principled voices.
🥀 From pay discrimination to PFI, don't allow Labour to take it for granted again and make the same old mistakes.
📺 Watch this film made by
@GlasgowSNP
and
#VoteSNP
on Thursday.
🚪 Lovely day for canvassing in Dalmarnock with
@Shettleston_SNP
for
@DavidLinden
.
📉 Folk here have had enough of a broken Westminster that is badly letting them and their families down.
🏴 Only
@theSNP
is offering a future free of Westminster and path back to the EU.
👇 There is a really concerning pattern of behaviour emerging from
@ScottishLabour
representatives here. Their candidate for Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy is just the latest in the line of those espousing hateful views.
🧵 See examples from just this week below 1/3
NEW: A Scottish Labour candidate who was found to have shared 'dozens' of 'racist and Islamophobic' tweets has now deleted her account.
One post shared by Wilma Brown had suggested that Humza Yousaf's family getting out of Gaza was not 'a coincidence'.
Douglas Ross is so terrified of the verdict of the Scottish people on independence that he's reduced to pretending that democracy in Scotland is illegal -
@NicolaSturgeon
#FMQs
A productive
@theSNP
NEC meeting today.
Important dates for members:
🏴 Special Independence Convention - 24th June
🎗️ National Council - End of August exact date TBC
🗳️ Annual Conference - 15th to 17th October
🚶♂️Great to be back out campaigning on Saturday's for
@theSNP
again!
🏴 For Scottish independence and a fair, green and just recovery it's got to be
#BothVotesSNP
.
🥀 Same old Labour. They had the chance to abolish the House of Lords when they were in Government and failed.
Keir Starmer would just be more of the same old broken Westminster system. Scotland deserves better.
EXC: Labour’s pledge to abolish the Lords is set to be watered down in favour of “reform” after an eleventh hour row between Gordon Brown and Starmer aides
Story with
@patrickkmaguire
@hzeffman
The Scottish Tories have ditched Jackson Carlaw - the people of Eastwood will get their chance next year.
We need to show them that we will stand up for what is best for the constituency.
That is why I'm seeking selection to represent the SNP in Eastwood in 2021 🏴🇪🇺
🏴 I'm announcing my intention to seek nomination for Eastwood Constituency in the 2021 Elections.
🎗 The Tories have let Eastwood down. They deserve a responsive SNP MSP that will stand up for what is right for the constituency.
📰 Read more:
🏴 Difference between the
@BBCNews
and the
@CNN
headlines.
When an instinctive fascist comes out on national television to undermine democracy our news sources are our first line of defence.
The BBC needs to get a grip on this.
"Essentially everything we do in Wales is predicated on the budget that we get from the UK Government." - Jo Stevens MP Labour Shadow Cabinet Minister for Wales.
Strange to hear a Labour MP speak the truth so bluntly, and as a result totally undermine
@AnasSarwar
in Scotland.
Polling suggests there may not be any Tory MPs in Wales after the election….The Welsh secretary ought to concentrate on that."
“Slagging off" the Welsh government is not productive says Jo Stevens MP, after Welsh performance in popular subjects falls to the lowest level ever.
👀 Is Mangus Linklater saying that the cottages he is trustee of should not reassure guests that they have:
👷♀️ the right repair standards
⚡ an energy performance certificate
🔌 an electric condition and safety report.
🤮 water that has been tested for legionnaires’ disease!?
Magnus Linklater says he may be criminalised by
@scotgov
on 1st Oct:
“Is this really what the Scottish government wants?… Our form has yet to be completed. I may be about to join the criminal class.”
He won’t be alone: there may be thousands…
Really wise words from
@NicolaSturgeon
about the ongoing leadership election that I hope the candidates will all take onboard.
It's also worth noting that all leadership candidates have been elected under an identical system run by the same company in the past.
“I don’t understand what the specific nature of the concerns are”
@NicolaSturgeon
facing questions about the SNP leadership election process
Kate Forbes and Ash Regan’s campaigns have called for independent auditors to be brought in
👷 Fantastic to welcome
@NicolaSturgeon
to the opening of
@city_building
's state of the art apprenticeship college today to mark the start of
#ScotAppWeek23
.
The new college ensures
@city_building
apprentices continue to receive top quality training that will benefit Scotland.
🚨 BREAKING: First Minister
@NicolaSturgeon
Scotland’s independence referendum will be held on the 19th of October 2023.
🏴 The campaign is on! Join over half a million people and pledge your support for Scottish independence at
😷 When Coronavirus hit, the SNP postponed plans for
#indyref
until after the pandemic.
When Tories were asked to postpone Brexit, they refused. They pulled the UK out of the EU, causing untold chaos for people and businesses, right at the peak of the second wave.
#BothVotesSNP
🗳 Great response on the doors campaigning for
@theSNP
candidate
@malcmcconnell
in Hillhead Ward for the by-election!
Voters in the ward have until 10pm to cast their ballots.
Wild that
@UKLabour
seem to have been let off the hook without an apology for lying to the press and public about "talks" with
@theSNP
.
Rather than talks it seems Keir Starmer has already decided he'll be ordering Michael Shanks, Ian Murray and rest of UK Labour to abstain.
🥀 Hi
@AnasSarwar
and
@jackiebmsp
, is it now
@ScottishLabour
policy to allow UK Government's to interfere directly in Scottish budgets?
I imagine Scottish voters will be extremely keen to hear about Labour cutting deals with Tory Governments to ensure they pay more Council Tax.
EXC: Labour council leader urges Michael Gove to scupper SNP council tax freeze plan.
Stephen McCabe says the UK Gov should hand £45m of Barnett cash to councils directly, bypassing the Scottish Gov.
Looking incredibly difficult to justify the speakers decision as anything other than nakedly political given the clerk's advice that has now been released.
BREAKING: Speaker selects the govt AND Labour amendments on SNP ceasefire motion. Will come as massive relief to Starmer. Told by sources that it would have been a 'huge' problem if not called, with one figure telling me rebellion would have been bigger than the 56 last time
Residents in Glasgow East have no wish to see their constituency used to promote divisive politics.
I've got a proud record to stand on, David doesn't.
The SNP has an appalling record, which is why he's focused on trying to divide our community.
CAPTION COMPETITION: What was being said?
@NicolaSturgeon
has
#votedSNP
today. You have until 10pm to cast your vote and send a clear message: Scotland's for Europe 🏴🇪🇺
Thanks to all the amazing activists across
@GlasgowSNP
for helping give
@theSNP
its best ever result in a European Election.
Tories and Labour are running out of chances. Scotland is European and if Westminster tries to drag us out we will be independent 🏴🇪🇺
#EUelections19
The Tories and Labour took the English local elections as a signal for
#Brexit
.
It looks like they will be getting an even clearer signal from Scotland in
#EUelections2019
today: We are for Europe and we will not be leaving 🏴🇪🇺
Great response from
@MairiMcAllan
on what
@theSNP
have delivered:
👶 Baby boxes to provide essentials for everyone
👦 1140 hours of free high-quality childcare
And that's just the start, there are many more policies implemented by
@theSNP
here:
#bbcqt
👇 Nice of
@wesstreeting
to confirm that "all roads do lead back to Westminster.".
Hopefully
@UKLabour
colleagues in Scotland will no longer try to deny the obvious reality for their political gain and join
@theSNP
in seeking fair funding for Scotland.
‘All roads lead back to Westminster’
No, not an SNP soundbite.
Instead, those words belong to UK Labour’s Shadow Health Secretary as he explains why the NHS is in crisis in Wales.
Well worth a listen, and a share.
#NHS
Seriously desperate stuff Paul. Labour have already paid the price in Scotland for trying to tell the electorate they chose wrong. If they choose to let the Tories in because of their blind hatred of the SNP then there's further still for Labour to fall here
Non-story. If the next UK General Election resulted in a hung parliament and Labour was able to form a minority government then any SNP MPs would have two options: to support a Labour government or to support the Tories. That's it. There would be no need for any 'deal' or 'pact'.
#DogsAtPollingStations
Great to be manning the polling station at St Francis Primary in the Gorbals!
🇪🇺 Remember every vote in
#EUelections2019
will count. Your nation needs you. Send a clear signal: Scotland’s for Europe and we’re not leaving.
#VoteSNP
today! 🏴
Can
@AnasSarwar
explain why it's unacceptable for
@UKLabour
MPs in Scotland to vote for a ceasefire in Westminster but it is okay for Labour MSPs in Scotland to vote for a ceasefire?
How this can be viewed as anything but playing politics during a humanitarian crisis?
🏴 Fantastic weekend catching up with
@theSNP
pals at our annual St Andrews dinner.
🏆 Was surprised and humbled to receive the Calum Cashley Staff Member of the Year Award.
🤔 If Labour Whips can not even promise their own MPs that they will lift the two-child cap and are having to resort to threats instead, then what does that tell you?
@Keir_Starmer
's Labour is fighting hard for Tory policies that keep children in poverty.
MPs say Labour whips are really laying it on thick with warnings to potential rebels on the SNP two-child benefit amendment.
One says it is "all stick" rather than any promises on the issue itself. Another describes the tactics as "astonishing."
👇 The same kinds of dark money networks that campaigned for Brexit & against Labour are kicking into gear against
@theSNP
.
With indy closer than ever the Tories & their cronies will stop at nothing to stop indy. Let's not give them the satisfaction.
🗳️ It's polling day in Rutherglen and Hamilton West!
🎗️ For an MP who will always stand up for Scotland - not their London bosses - make sure to cast your vote for
@KatyLoudonSNP
.
🛂 Due to the UK Govt any voters will have to take a copy of photo ID to vote - expired ID works.
🥀 Last one out after Labour are done can get the lights.
In Labour-led Birmingham their failure to end pay discrimination against a largely female workforce has led to:
📈 Council Tax rises of 21%
📉 £300m of cuts
💡 Dimming of the lights
Out of order for one of our MPs to be on the front page of a union supporting paper attacking the First Minister on the first day of our party conference.
No idea what
@joannacherry
was thinking but the unionist parties will be delighted with this narcissistic self-sabotage.
🏙
@theSNP
delivering real change in Glasgow.
📈 Foreign Direct Investment in Glasgow at record levels.
🚺 Delivering equal pay to a workforce discriminated against by Labour.
🧒 Our Holiday Programme helping tackle child poverty during the holidays.
🏘️ Communities in Scotland’s largest city have been failed time after time by Labour.
🔎 Read how the SNP are leading the way in delivering real results for Glasgow.
🎉 Delighted to be elected alongside fab Councillor and my pal
@ChristinaSNP_
to represent Glasgow on
@theSNP
NEC.
✊ Looking forward to the work ahead!
#SNP19
I agree with
@AnasSarwar
about the austerity Scotland's councils face.
The only thing he got wrong was where the austerity comes from - the UK Government.
I wonder if his party will sign up to the
@COSLA
campaign for fair funding from the next UK Government?
#STVLeadersDebate
📢 Really timely campaign from
@COSLA
the day after
@JohnSwinney
warned about the serious dangers of continuing UK austerity to Scotland's public services.
Will
@Keir_Starmer
and
@RachelReevesMP
commit to the pledges laid out by COSLA - particularly an end to austerity?
How can
@BBCScotlandNews
possibly justify dropping the daily
@scotgov
briefings just as we are seeing positive cases of coronavirus begin to rise?
Now more than ever it is so important that we are getting clear government guidance out to the public to stop the spread of
#COVID
.
🏴 If you live in Kelvin Constituency help
@theSNP
make history by sending
@kaukabstewart
to the Scottish Parliament as its first ever BAME woman.
Make it
#BothVotesSNP
to put Scotland's future firmly in Scotland's hands.
👇 Looks like we are seeing the more blatant side of the "unionist regime" in waiting Alister Jack warned us about.
It is a cosy club in Westminster - and you are not invited.
The only way to break up that club for good is with Scottish independence by voting
@theSNP
.
Great rallying speeches at
@ProvanSNP
this morning and now out with
@CathcartSNP
.
Make sure to send a clear message on 23rd May: Scotland's for Europe and we are not leaving
#ActiveSNP
#VoteSNP
.
@ChrisMcEleny
and
@KennyMacAskill
, will you call out this abuse from a blog you write for?
Abuse in politics is never acceptable and the regular attacks rolled out on your party colleagues and others from this site is not a good look for people committed to stamping it out.
I've hesitated to write this as it relates to a sexual offence against my child. But I do so now at her direct request. The Wings blog sought to attack me today by writing this about my daughter. He not only takes away the agency of a brave young woman, he denigrates all victims.
✉️ In response to constituents getting in touch concerned about the loss of the Winter Fuel Payment I have written to Labour MP for Glasgow East
@johnadgrady
asking him to vote to protect the allowance tomorrow.
The books should not be balanced on the backs of our pensioners.
No new money from UK Government. Simply our own money early and anything extra will have to be paid back.
A cynical attempt by the Tories to dodge the buck when it comes to supporting Scottish businesses during the pandemic.
I'm sure people will correct me if I'm wrong, but sounds like this isn't additional funding at all.
Instead, it's an advance on expected Barnett consequentials coming in the New Year.
Sounds like if Scot Gov get more than they're due, they'll have to pay back the difference.