Martin MacDonald
@Innealadair
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An IT literate luddite. The killer app on a mobile phone is voice. I still have fond memories of DCL on VMS.
Joined March 2013
@usmanakhtar00 They don't have a Scottish regional manager like Labour, the Tories and the Lib-Dems so there wasn't really much option.
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@80_mcswan He's the leader of Reform UK and unlike Labour, Tory and the Lib-Dems they don't currently have a regional manager in Scotland. It should all be party leaders anyway, not a debate between Scottish party leaders and British regional managers.
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@Davyjrob67 "The BBC is funded by millions of people paying a licence fee". It's not a subscription, it's a tax which is a legal obligation if you possess equipment capable of receiving live broadcasts. That tax money is then handed to the BBC by the Govt whether or not you watch the BBC.
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Maybe there'd be more money in the budget if the SNP government didn't have to mitigate all the child poverty and freezing pensioner policies from Labour.
The SNP talk about having a mature debate as if we are wrong to be angry at their financial mismanagement. The fact is they have slashed council funding whilst receiving a record block grant from the UK Labour Government. Everywhere you look, their incompetence is plain to see.
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@CRobertsonUK Why didn't Labour change the Tories "Railways Act 1993" which privatised the railways and re-nationalise everything when Labour were in power in Westminster 1997-2010? Labour didn't even allow public rail bids in Scotland under the "Scotland Act 1998". The Tories did that in 2016
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@peterjukes The BBC is funded by a special tax set and collected by the Government and its Chair is appointed by the Head of State as recommended by the PM. The Government funds it and appoints its Chairman. It's a state broadcaster.
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@gwpurnell It will depend which Unionist party is highest in the polls but if Reform is up there then their regional manager <fill in the blanks> will be given a second home at the BBC. As the BBC demonstrated with Farage, air time is the key to making <fill in the blanks> a household name.
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@gwpurnell If Reform looks like the best Unionist hope in Scotland it will be interesting to see if the BBC switch horses to back their regional manager the way they do with the Labour and Tory regional managers every time one looks the better bet at dislodging the SNP.
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@jimnarlene The whole screaming ab-dabs media frenzy about banning cats is based entirely on the paragraph below from this report.
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@jimac111 The only focus for Labour in Scotland is the preservation of the Union. What will bother the Labour MPs in Scotland is the impact Starmer's policies will have on the independence movement but as long as what Starmer does doesn't shut the Road to Robes they're happy bunnies.
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@jimac111 It's a clash between the election fiction Labour in Scotland is the autonomous "Scottish Labour" and Anas Sarwar is their party leader with the reality that Labour is a single party and Sarwar is a second string regional politician who Starmer ignores.
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@iain_00 The UK thinks the US thinks of it as special when in fact the US thinks of it as a convenient airstrip.
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@Paul06559591 It's been explained that it's a tax paid by the US importer not the Canadian or Mexican exporter but that doesn't seem to get through.
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@patch8652 Mainly because inside England, "British" and "English" are interchangeable and "British" is regarded as a more inclusive word than "English" to use in the media.
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A clear analysis giving a possible cause for the mid-air collision over the Potomac in Washington DC.
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RT @msm_monitor: Labour MP Kirsty McNeil says she and fellow Scottish Labour MPs don't follow Scottish Labour party policy, they follow UK…
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