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The Irish word for pound is púnt and this is why you should have some diversity in your marketing teams.
You've heard of elf on the shelf. Now get ready for...
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Never let it be forgotten that at the outset of the 2024 UK race riots, JK Rowling spent days on end spreading hateful far-right lies about this young muslim woman of colour.
#Olympics2024
boxer Imane Khelif says the wave of hateful scrutiny she faced over misconceptions about her gender 'harms human dignity', and called for an end to 'bullying'.
She is set to fight in the women's 66kg semi-finals later today 🥊
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Today was a special day. Today I said “I do” to the man I’m spending the rest of my life with. ❤️
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I’ve been trying to find the words all day. I’m just in awe of the strength and resilience shown by
@NicolaSturgeon
in the face of constant attacks from every direction. She is, without a doubt, one of the greatest politicians of modern times. No wonder they fear her.
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Eight years ago today, Scotland voted No - largely based on currency fears.
Then: £1 = $1.64
Now: £1 = $1.14
#YouYesYet
?
#indyref
📉
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Good morning 👋🏻 I’m the guy who Joanna Cherry falsely and maliciously smeared as a misogynist this week.
But the actual truth is that she bullied Westminster staff and that the SNP covered it up. Buckle up for this long, wild thread! 🧵
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I haven't felt this gutted since 19th September 2014.
@NicolaSturgeon
is the greatest political leader of my lifetime. Every single one of us in Scotland owes her an enormous debt of gratitude for her service, which must have taken an enormous personal toll.
BREAKING: Nicola Sturgeon is set to resign as First Minister
Story to follow
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THREAD: I know Margaret Ferrier. I put in some incredibly hard graft to help get her elected. I worked as her senior parliamentary aide for 2 years.
I've been waiting for her to do the right thing, but today it has become abundantly clear that she has no intention of doing so.
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JK Rowling: I can be arrested for saying this
Police Scotland: No, you can't
And just like that, JK's ridiculous claims are exposed as utter bull💩. Imagine having such enormous wealth yet spending your days being a mad, joyless, old crank.
Police Scotland says they have received complaints about JK Rowling's X post on Easter Monday.
A spokesperson said: "The comments are not assessed to be criminal and no further action will be taken."
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“The far-right thug… got 46 votes and I am proud that once again, Glasgow Southside has shown the racists and the fascists that they are not welcome”
@NicolaSturgeon
showing Jayda the door 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
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@_BillieBelieves
My last dog refused to drink tap water one time years ago. A few days later I came down with a severe tummy bug. Turns out there was cryptosporidium in the water supply and he was being a good doggo by trying to warn me.
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It’s been a long day and I need to empty my head about
@_KateForbes
before I go to bed.
A thread… 🧵
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Once a rising star. Became obsessed with creating a binary system. Collided with her own supermassive ego. Went supernova and ended up a destructive singularity.
Cheerio, you disgraced bully 👋🏻
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I’ve said my bit and I’m going to end this thread on a positive note. Here’s my favourite photo ever of me and my husband, on our wedding day. Goodnight.
Today was a special day. Today I said “I do” to the man I’m spending the rest of my life with. ❤️
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Do one you pathetic, narcissistic, abusive loser. History will fast forget you, but the hostile environment you’ve helped cultivate with your hateful mates will leave a deep scar across a generation.
“History will show that major opportunities were squandered by Nicola Sturgeon and Ian Blackford”
Joanna Cherry turns her fire on the SNP’s former leaders, as she loses her Edinburgh seat to Labour’s Scott Arthur - overturning a near 12 thousand majority.
#GeneralElection2024
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Thank you for listen to me offload. I've held on to a lot of this for years. I've tried to go through official party channels. But the party is broken. It desperately needs repair. There can be no more opaqueness.
It's time to let the sunlight disinfect.
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There is no joy in watching someone destroy their own happiness in this way. I've found the last week and a bit to be deeply unpleasant and uncomfortable. I wish she had listened to reason. I wish she had just done the decent thing at the outset and resigned.
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There are 4738 accredited Living Wage employers in the UK.
27.8% are in SNP-run Scotland.
3.7% are in Labour-run Wales.
It's absolutely clear which is the party of fair work. Thanks for drawing this to everyone's attention
@LabourRichard
. 👏🏻
It was great to meet Craig from
@UtopiaComputers
this morning to find out how being a Living Wage Employer benefits them.
The next Labour government will give around 470,000 people in Scotland a pay rise with a £10 Real Living Wage.
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Joanna Cherry accuses everyone of being a misogynist, except for the actual misogynists she associates with. Her attempts to silence her critics are as farcical as her framing herself as being silenced and oppressed.
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Fun fact: Until this week, the last time that Ash tweeted the word ‘independence’ was December 2021.
I am announcing my candidacy to be the next leader of the Scottish National Party. I will reinvigorate the party, give power to the members and take our party on to further success. Independence - nothing less.
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But the problem is not that I recently called Joanna Cherry a pathetic, narcissistic, abusive loser. The problem is that she *is* all of those things. And a bully. And that the SNP failed to hold her to account. The party protected her, knowing she bullied staff.
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Douglas Ross just got told off by the Deputy Speaker for bleating on about Scottish independence instead of addressing the
#CostOfLivingCrisis
.
No wonder his colleagues think he's a lightweight - he's a one trick pony and he's sounding a bit knackered.
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Here’s an example of the bullying and smears I endure from Joanna Cherry’s inner circle. Someone fabricates vile defamatory lies about me and sitting MP Rosie Duffield then publicly endorses them.
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To the pundits and those celebrating the resignation of
@NicolaSturgeon
…
Free from the responsibilities and scrutiny of public office, she is arguably going to become an even greater asset to the independence movement now.
Be careful what you wish for!
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Margaret has tried to paint herself as a victim in all of this. She's not a victim, she's a failure. By hanging on to her highly-paid position, Margaret continues to fail her constituents, her staff, her colleagues, and all the activists who worked tirelessly to get her elected.
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Being an MP is a privilege and carries an enormous amount of trust with it. Margaret has broken that trust irreparably.
With so many of her constituents having lost their jobs through no fault of their own recently, it is obscene for Margaret to cling on to hers.
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My employer rightfully recognised that my personal tweets were none of his business and refused to comply with Joanna’s despotic dictate. I am forever grateful for his support in that moment.
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Over the past week & a bit, I've reached out to offer Margaret support and advice, as have many others. She's ignored us all.
Instead, Margaret seems to be hell bent on doing the wrong thing. I can draw only one conclusion: that she is thinking of nobody but herself right now.
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Joanna’s effort to silence and intimidate me was not only morally and ethically repugnant, but incredibly hypocritical given she self-identifies as a free speech champion. Her actions were those of an unruly tyrant.
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Please appreciate how inappropriate and sinister this misconduct was. Joanna Cherry attempted to weaponise my employment, during the pandemic when unemployment was high. She abused her position as an MP in an attempt to intimidate and threaten me.
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And so that is the story behind the unhinged reply from Joanna that many of you have seen to that tweet. She decided to spout a stream of deranged abuse in response, making her attack very public.
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Some of you know part of this story already, but not the worst of it. I tried to deal with this through the SNP complaints process, but party bosses have strung me along and protected their bully MP instead. The complaint is still ‘under investigation’ after 3½ years.
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Joanna also falsely labelled me a misogynist in her poisonous diatribe. I don't underestimate the problem with misogyny in the SNP but it is a complete lie to accuse me of being part of that problem. Joanna trivialises misogyny by using it to score cheap points & smear me.
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I am not a second class citizen. But that is how Kate views me, whether she would admit it or not.
Being gay isn’t a choice. Kate’s beliefs *are*. I don't care how sincerely held she considers them to be. My life is not up for debate.
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Saying that I kicked Margaret when down was a gross mischaracterisation. Margaret endangered staff, colleagues, and members of the public. And as we now know, her actions were criminal.
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The party just isn’t listening. It says it is, but it isn’t. If SNP HQ ignores members, what chance is there that they’ll actually listen to the public?
If
@theSNP
can't stand up to bullies, how can we believe it'll stand up for Scotland?
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A few days ago, I received a written apology from SNP HQ in relation to their botched handling of my complaint. But still no progress. It just isn't good enough. This is a dreadful failure of the party's duty of care.
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This isn't infighting. This is injustice. How many other people have been bullied like this? How many complaints has SNP HQ suppressed? There are many good people in the SNP. There are also many good people who have left the party, often quietly, in anger and frustration.
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Joanna should never have been allowed to pass parliamentary vetting with this matter unresolved. I emailed SNP HQ before the last vetting cycle to ask if my complaint was being considered as part of the process. I never got a reply.
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The 'old boss' that Joanna referred to was Margaret Ferrier, who I had worked for between 2015 and 2017. After Margaret broke coronavirus laws in 2020, I called on her to stand down in a thoughtful intervention which received praised across the political spectrum.
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Now that I've got everyone's attention, it seems like a good time to remind people of how much of an unhinged bully Joanna Cherry is. Here she is in 2021 losing her shit at my tweet about *Star Trek* to accuse me of misogyny for being critical of Margaret Ferrier's crime.
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I was out walking the dogs in Tollcross Park earlier. Two women passed me, watching a
@JaneyGodley
voiceover video, absolutely buckled with laughter. That failed comedian’s an actual household name. You’re my councillor and I’ve never seen hide nor hair of you pal.
Welcome to Scottish politics folks - where SNP politicians get away with saying absolutely slanderous quotes and have it tweeted by a failed comedian with zero repercussions.
For the record,
@SNPdavid
this 👇 is proper "gutter politics" not scrutinising the Leader of Glasgow CC.
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An important point to note is that I blocked Joanna Cherry on Twitter that evening. I have never unblocked her since. She circumvented that block this week to post a screenshot of one of my recent tweets, inviting yet more abuse upon me.
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Joanna's attack precipitated a campaign of horrific online abuse against me. I was inundated with vile tweets from mainly anonymous 'gender critical' accounts. I was doxxed, with people openly discussing very personal details about my life and where I lived.
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In January 2021, I lodged a formal complaint to the SNP about Joanna's bullying. I have chased that complaint up numerous times. The party has deliberately covered up for Joanna, and absolutely nothing has been done to progress my complaint.
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Joanna sent yet another email, furious that her demands had not been met and livid that I had pinned the tweet. Her correspondence was utterly unhinged. She came across like a maniacal dictator. Joffrey from Game of Thrones level of crazy.
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Nonetheless, having someone abuse the Westminster power dynamic against me like this was a sickening experience.
I’ve never been one to give into bullies and in an act of complete defiance, I pinned the tweet on my profile. This sent Joanna over the edge…
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Joanna's fury was incredibly unsettling. The only parallel I can draw is what staffers in MP offices refer to as 'fixated individuals'. Her language and demands were unreasonable, unprofessional, and completely unacceptable.
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To hear her say that she won’t seek to roll back my rights is insulting.
I don’t want to be tolerated. I won’t ask for acceptance - I demand it. My marriage will not be beholden to the grace of Kate Forbes.
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The events I’m about to outline happened in late January 2021, a few days before Joanna Cherry was expelled from the SNP frontbench at Westminster. At the time, I was working for another SNP MP in Glasgow.
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Later that evening, I decided to watch my comfort telly - Star Trek Voyager. A quote from Captain Janeway about bullies resonated with me that day. So I tweeted about it. I did so in a personal capacity. I did not mention or identify Joanna in any way.
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I did nothing to deserve this treatment from Joanna and it had a serious impact on me. That day, I vomited more than once because of how stressed and anxious I was made to feel. Being attacked by someone with one of the most powerful jobs in the country is truly horrible.
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@OwenJones84
Scottish Labour employed the homophobe behind this headline as their Communications Director. Shove your faux outrage Owen.
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Joanna was totally unrepentant and to this day has never acknowledged or apologised for her actions. Quite the opposite in fact - she seems to think that she was in the right with all of this.
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Margaret's intention to remain in office benefits nobody, least of all herself. Her failure is now a quagmire that she's refused help to escape. Every day that passes, every action she takes, every word she speaks, she gets swallowed up even more in it.
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Instead of contacting me in a reasonable manner, Joanna Cherry sent an angry, demanding email to my employer insisting he ‘take action’ to force me to delete the tweet. She cc'd the SNP National Secretary, commanding that disciplinary action be taken against me.
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The UK Government has added a new map to its coronavirus data page showing percentages of vaccinated adults and it is the ultimate riposte to the Scottish Tories' fake cries of missed targets in Scotland.
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I genuinely care about the future of the SNP. Party policy has manifestly improved many lives. I have friends who deserve to be re-elected in 2026 & 2027. I have many friends who did not deserve to lose their jobs a week and a half ago.
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On the day in question, I tweeted in a personal capacity at the editor of the National. Despite not being named in my tweet, Joanna decided that I was making comments about her.
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"You know, I'm really easy to get on with... most of the time. But I don't like bullies. And I don't like threats. And I don't like you."
I've been rewatching
#StarTrekVoyager
recently and forgot how amazing the delivery of this line is by from the iconic
@TheKateMulgrew
. 🙌🏻
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Douglas Ross / Scottish Tories are no doubt going clip this video and only use the last 30 seconds to dishonestly manipulate and distort what actually happened.
Before they do that, here's the full exchange, in which Ross wilfully ignores reality.
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💉 The Scottish Government took a lot of heat from political opportunists for prioritising care home vaccinations, which meant a slower roll-out at the start.
📉 This graph shows complete vindication of that strategy. An enormous amount of vulnerable lives saved.
Worth a read - “Scotland reaps dividend of Covid response that diverged from England” via
@FT
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Douglas Ross - a man with the likability and charm of a cold toilet seat - knows exactly what kind of dangerous hatred he is inciting.
This isn't about protecting kids, it's about creating division in society. That's all the Tories have left - fear, hate, and bigotry.
It’s totally inappropriate to hold a show like this for kids under the age of six.
Story time for babies and young kids shouldn’t focus on gender or sexual identity.
That is common sense and on behalf of constituents who’ve contacted me, I’ve raised this with the council.
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When I hear Kate say she believes marriage to be between a man and a woman, what I hear is that she sees my marriage as a pretendy version of her own - as something of much less value.
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Just had a torrent of homophobic abuse and violent threats screamed at myself and my boyfriend from a car at the top of Sauchiehall Street. We’ve come a long way, but so long as there’s one prick out there who thinks that’s okay, we’ve still got a way to go.
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I'm
#SNPbecause
of its vision for a Scotland of equals & trailblazing LGBTI policies 🏳️🌈
#VoteSNP
#GE17
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Kate's faith isn't the problem though; it's her beliefs and views that are concerning. These beliefs make her unsuitable for the highest position in Scottish politics, and any perceived compatibility on her part is a chimera.
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BREAKING:
@UK_Together
launch new billboard campaign focused on positive case for the union
#indyref
http://t.co/hYKag7VX4G
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Kate’s self-comparison to Angela Merkel is an Olympic-worthy bout of mental gymnastics. The SNP may be a broad church, but a church it is not. Kate is not standing to lead the Christian Democratic Union.
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I took a principled stance over Margaret Ferrier’s behaviour. In return, Joanna Cherry impugned my character. Her attack led to abuse and doxxing by her fanatical followers. Joanna lacks the decency to apologise or acknowledge her wrongdoing but today I stand vindicated.
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It is for the courts to decide if Jeffery Donaldson has committed the awful crimes he has been charged with, so the only comment I’ll share today are his own questionable words from 2012…
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Ultimately, Kate is not the person to lead either the SNP or Scotland. The kindest thing she could do for those who prematurely endorsed her is to now withdraw from the contest.
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Everyone will have their own opinion on who came across well, but can we all just agree that Douglas Ross was an absolute car crash? I’m dying of second-hand embarrassment for him. I mean, read the bloody room Dougie.
#BBCLeadersDebate
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Last month, Joanna Cherry was rubbishing someone’s suicidal thoughts. This month, it appears she’s liking tweets mocking someone’s disability.
Stop ignoring her vile behaviour and do something,
@StephenFlynnSNP
&
@HumzaYousaf
.
To the untrained eye this might look a lot like an SNP MP endorsing a blatantly ableist sentiment
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Our office, like most MP's office, is overwhelmed with passport cases at the minute. The Tories have run the service into the ground so that they can say it needs privatised and sell it off to their profiteering mates.
Boris Johnson has threatened to privatise the Passport Office if it does not start delivering better value for money, a source has said.
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In case you're wondering where socialist messiah Jim Murphy disappeared to, he's now sharing a platform with comrades Ruth Davidson, Arlene Foster and Michael Gove.
#BetterTogether
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Like Neil, I was raised in (County) Antrim.
Like Neil, I now live in Glasgow.
Like Neil, I support Scottish independence.
And like Neil, I can spot sectarianism a mile off. This is disgusting. There’s no excuse whatsoever for how Neil has been attacked today.
Or maybe folk can advise if this is an attempt to foment sectarian hatred against me?
It's certainly a very strange and unsettling thing, whatever is going on here ... I'll leave it to folk to judge for themselves what the motives and mindset are...
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Off to give blood for the first time in twenty years and I definitely appropriately attired. 🩸 🏳️🌈
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Progress report: I’m still head over heels and we’re enjoying cocktails in Edinburgh celebrating one amazing year as a married couple.
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
Today was a special day. Today I said “I do” to the man I’m spending the rest of my life with. ❤️
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I don’t believe that Kate would intentionally wish to cause hurt. Nonetheless, that is what she has done. Besides feeling hurt, I am also incredibly disappointed.
Kate ticks so many boxes in this leadership contest. She is almost the full package. Almost.
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All this said, I greatly respect the fact that Kate was honest in her interview today. I believe her to be a person of great personal integrity - a quality that would have been a phenomenal asset to her in the office of First Minister.
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I had a small hope that today's launch would carry with it a message that her societal viewpoint has evolved. To be frank though, she may well not believe in evolution either.
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My position is rooted in compassion. Kate’s Channel 4 interview is painful to watch. She is obviously conflicted and finding her beliefs difficult to reconcile with her ambition, seemingly unable to accept the reality of them being mutually exclusive.
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My initial reaction to this is that I’ll have to take care not to rip my ballot paper, such will be the force and conviction with which I mark my
#BothVotesSNP
.
I suspect a great many others will feel the same.
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Hey
@Keir_Starmer
- I've redesigned your logo free of charge 🥀
👇Labour have now u-turned on:
🇪🇺 Brexit
🎓 Tuition Fees
🏠 Rent Controls
🗳️ Electoral reform
🍎 Free School Meals
💷 Public Sector Pay
📢
@MhairiBlack
: "Under Keir Starmer, the sad reality is, it’s hard to distinguish Labour from the Tories."
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Angry man shouts woman down. What an ugly image. No clearer indication that he's lost the argument. Hopefully
@RossThomson_MP
reflects on his unacceptable behaviour in the
@HouseofCommons
today and apologises to
@MhairiBlack
, and to his constituents.
#WASPI
A sample of the SNP vs the Scottish Conservatives on women's pensions age
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This is what we were told in 2014.
Since then we’ve had 7 more years of austerity and the Tories put my tax up just last week.
Project Fear, meet Project Reality. 🤝
Government in an independent Scotland could have to consider either tax rises or spending cuts 'before too long'.
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Found the Tardis on the campaign trail. Caught Labour activists trying to hitch a ride back to a time when everyone voted for them. Sad, frankly.
#ActiveSNP
#VoteSNP
#GE19
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What difference a few months make eh? Add Kingfisher to list of companies who scapegoated
#indyref
for their failures
http://t.co/Rg01EcdRCa
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Here’s to Scotland’s future as an independent country in the EU.
🏴🇪🇺
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