Joe Ray
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@HumzaYousaf
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"Scotland will be on the right side of history and of humanity." - What total narcissistic sanctimony. He thinks this conflict is about him. Whatever side of history Scotland is on, it doesn't involve running propoganda-ops for Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
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“Hell will freeze over before Boris gives them permission to hold another referendum,” one close ally of the prime minister said. “It’s just not going to happen on his watch.” - a very welcome attitude at the top of the UK government.
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Who will speak for the Yazidis & deliver even a modicum of justice for them? Do ISIS bride apologists even consider the evil committed against the Yazidis?
“The women were burned to death in iron cages because they refused to have sex with Isis fighters”
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@afneil
I really hope the full extent of the law is used to force the Scottish govt to comply with these requests. The statutory public enquiry was announced in May 2020 so they new full well to preserve evidence.
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@SFGate
I'd argue that housing violent male offenders in a women's prison is a form of cruel and unusual punishment toward women inmates.
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Is the SNP using money designated for supporting businesses hit by the pandemic for election giveaways?
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Nicola Sturgeon on Andrew
#Marr
was totally shambolic. But her performance provided good evidence of how the UK leaving the EU has made it more difficult to achieve Scottish secession. The SNP know full well how unpalatable a hard trade border with the rest of the UK is.
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Humza is to be formally “babysat” by the UK ambassador to the EU in his meeting with the European Commission vice-president, to stop him “discussing the constitution or criticising UK policy”. Entirely correct course of action too.
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Oil is expected to open tomorrow at $30 a barrel. Let’s take a moment to reflect how the SNP’s fantasy 2014 separatist prospectus was based on a perpetual oil price of over $100 a barrel – and promises to finance a sovereign wealth fund, ending austerity & other unicorns
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@IMAO_
Exact same in the UK. Vacuous demands for an end to Israel's military action that are either extraordinarily naive or extraordinarily cynical.
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Interesting that the SNP’s new “England will pay for Scottish pensions” policy is the same as Sinn Fein’s, who claim the UK will continue to pay for Northern Irish pensions in the event of Irish unification.
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@HumzaYousaf
@StephenFlynnSNP
@theSNP
Israel provides around half of the electricity needs of Gaza and about 10% of Gaza's water. Israel is under no obligation under international law to provide electricity or water to an enemy it is at war with. Take the issue up with Hamas, the government of Gaza.
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A new Scottish currency spells major financial risk for Scotland’s 700,000 mortgage holders, 1 million pensioners & all 32 local authorities (who hold sterling debts of £18 billion). When they realize what a new currency involves, middle class support for secession will evaporate
@TimScottUK
Sterling could go up or down v the S£. In order to hedge you should split your savings and put half in sterling and half in S£. That way you will stay the same regardless of what happens.
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Many of the Scottish football team live & work in England. Under the SNP’s plans, they would not be allowed to vote in a future secessionist referendum. Meanwhile, any Serbian temporarily resident in Scotland would be given a vote to break up the UK. This is fundamentally wrong.
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@SangitaMyska
Can you please elaborate what is wrong with his tweet? Because otherwise there is no other option but to conclude that you have no credible counter-argument.
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@HumzaYousaf
A ceasefire sounds great, as long as it involves the release of all Israeli hostages and the total surrender of Hamas and their terrorist conspirators Palestinian Islamic Jihad. I hope other MP's place these conditions within any parliamentary bill.
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@Peston
Why are London-based progressive commentators consistently the most credulous people in the political world? Have you been paying any attention to how a nationalist-dominated Scotland has changed the 'tone and tenor' of politics in exactly the way Sturgeon "heeded" against?
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1. The SNP’s case for separating Scotland from the UK now rests entirely on joining the European Union. The core demographic any future Scotland-Out campaign has to win over are Remain voting Unionists...
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It is poignant time to remember that the SNP’s former leader, Arthur Donaldson, was jailed during WW2 for attempting to collaborate with the Nazi’s by seeking to establish himself, in the event of a Nazi invasion, as a “Scottish quisling” in charge of a puppet govt.
#DDay75
It will be a privilege to represent Scotland at the D-Day commemorations in Portsmouth today and Normandy tomorrow. It is more important with every year that passes that we remember the horrors of WW2, honour its sacrifices and learn its lessons.
#DDay75
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@acgrayling
Comparing IQ between different social demographics? Marvellous, now please do the same for sex, race, bodyweight?
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The very definition of going woke and going broke. High on DEI, the geniuses at Natwest Group thought they could needlessly start a political battle with Nigel Farage.
Nat West CEO Alison Rose resigns only hours after Board hadn’t guts to fire her despite her admitting she’d briefed BBC about N Farage account. Howard Davies, chairman of the NatWest Group Board, says she’s leaving “by mutual consent”. Spotlight now falls on Coutts CEO Peter
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It has been very amusing to watch the separatists lose their heads over the very reasonable proposal to allow Scots in the UK the right to vote in a future referendum. Just wait for their response when we start debating the question (it will not be Yes/No)
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Internal seccession within Scotland will become a far bigger issue should the SNP get their referendum to separate from the UK. Shetland, Orkney, Borders, Dumfries and Galloway are all candidates to remain with the rest of the UK if Scotland secedes
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1. A thread on the second order effects of a new Scottish currency. The SNP’s Sterlingization policy is so economically abysmal it is highly unlikely to see the light of day. It also precludes EU membership. Therefore, a new currency is the most likely option.
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@HumzaYousaf
@scotgov
Wonderful. Did you ask them to demand the release of Israeli civilian hostages And then did you say that is the fastest way of ending this conflict?
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“Originally called the Manchester Guardian, the paper was founded in 1821 by John Edward Taylor using profits from a cotton plantation that used slaves" - If the Cecil Rhodes statue must fall, surely progressives must demand the Guardian fall as well?
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1.The SNP’s currency plan for Scotland after it separates from the UK involves using Sterling in an unofficial capacity, with no independent central bank to act as a lender of last resort or conduct its own monetary policy. AKA Sterlingization.
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I have written about the prospect of a new Scottish currency and the threat it represents for people’s mortgages, pensions and incomes.
@CityAM
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@BBCPolitics
The protests were crossing a line by their clear intimidation of Jews when they started on Oct 7th. Maybe you should have stood up against them a little earlier, instead of thinking this was a tiger you could easily ride.
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@GlennBBC
@David_Cameron
@HumzaYousaf
If it happens once more they should immediately remove all Scottish govt offices from UK govt posts abroad. Should have happened long ago too.
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The SNP’s latest manoeuvrings do seem like quite the own-goal: “It has effectively closed off her referendum options at a massive cost to the Scottish govt's own budgets. This setback is entirely Sturgeon’s and its consequences must be laid at her door.”
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This is a total demolition of the SNP’s currency plans for a separate Scotland. The SNP’s proposed Sterlingization plan is easily one of the worst ideas in global economics. It would reduce Scotland to penury and would take years to recover from.
#indyref2
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@VictoriaPeckham
Trans-ideology has all the hallmarks of being a bizarre religious cult. The pseudoscience, the aggressive intolerance about questioning its claims, the silencing of heretics and blasphemers (denouncing critics as 'transphobes' and banning ‘deadnaming’)
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1. The SNP’s plans for secession involves establishing a new floating currency, as outlined in their Growth Commission secessionist economic prospectus. Senior SNP figures favour introducing this after a short period of using sterling unofficially i.e. sterlingization.
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Tony Mackay, economic adviser to the World Bank and European Commission predicts Scotland’s new currency post-secession would be valued 22% less than sterling, causing major challenges for Scottish mortgage holders and public sector workers.
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The only comparable country using the same currency plan Nicola Sturgeon is initially proposing for a separate Scotland is Montenegro. Population of 500,000, outside the EU & Eurozone but uses the Euro unofficially without access to a central bank. Guess what happened to them?
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I’m curious to know what tactical advantage the SNP see in adopting this new position on pensions as if this is presented in a referendum campaign it will be a clear vote loser. I can just see the “Vote Yes/Leave for the the SNP to cancel your gran’s pension” placards…
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Entirely the wrong question to be asking. We should instead ask: Which historic, highly successful, democratic, advanced nation states do you support separating into two? Germany, France, Spain, United States, Canada? How will they each be improved if they were to partition?
What an energetic place twitter can be. So many new campaign groups. One thought for pro union/dependence campaigners to consider: which small advanced societies & economies would your arguments have supported becoming the success they are? Any? Or have they all made a mistake?
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"This clause means the UK Govt can go over the heads of the Scottish Parliament in health, education and transport to name but three. " - I know it is absolutely marvellous isn't it?
This clause means the UK Govt can go over the heads of the Scottish Parliament in health, education and transport to name but three. This could be the end of devolution as we know it. The Tories tried to kill devolution at the ballot box. They are now trying to legislate for it.
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The SNP’s new currency policy – sterlingization with no central bank followed by a new Scottish currency & then a promise to join the Euro, would not survive one week of a formal referendum campaign. It is riddled with holes & takes voters for fools.
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The SNP have become so depraved even Derek McKay decided he could no longer be associated with them
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@VictoriaPeckham
The British public will never consent to gaslighting nonsense like this. Which is why I think Labour will be out of power for rather longer than five years.
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Just the FM of Scotland promoting Sterlingization (i.e. no official central bank) in the midst of the biggest depression Scotland has ever endured. If this harebrained scheme was implemented over the past year it would have meant no furlough for the 900,000 Scots who benefitted.
This by
@AndrewWilson
on the case for independence - and the paucity of the case against - is excellent and well worth a read.
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If the SNP had their way Scotland would right now be managing the coronoavirus lockdown with the largest budget deficit in the EU, no official currency or central bank and therefore no monetary policy and no fiscal reserves.
#indyref2020
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The reason the SNP are still unable to produce credible answers to these major issues after seven years is not because they have been unable to devote sufficient time or resources to answering them. It is because they have tried extensively & realized that no good answers exist.
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It is beyond time for the culture which emboldens this stupidity to come to an end.
“Hundreds of athletes have changed gender by declaration & limited hormone treatment have already achieved honours as women that were beyond their capabilities as men”
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Joining the European Union involves a legal and public commitment to Eurozone membership. There is no wriggling out of this. And as repeated polls have proven, the Euro is electoral kryptonite to the Scottish public.
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@HumzaYousaf
@UNOCHA
Dear First Activist of Gaza, please try using your pulpit to demand that Hamas accept a permanent ceasefire and relinquish power in Gaza.
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The SNP’s case for joining the EU is so dreadfully weak because when presented with the facts of EU membership, such as a new currency and ensuing implications for mortgages and pensions, the SNP know that Scotland will never vote for it
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An easy evisceration of the SNP’s new pensions policy of demanding the UK pays indefinitely for Scottish state pensions: “A movement that was on the brink of achieving its goals would not pretend another country will pay your pension.”
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The reason the SNP have no clear answers on the economy, borders and EU accession is because clear answers on these issues causes them to lose support for secession.
'Getting support for independence to the 60% mark and keeping it there would help but this won’t happen until we have in place the crucial arguments we need on the economy, borders and EU accession' //
@joannaccherry
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This is a shameless argument. Nicola Sturgeon would not be able to name a single power that the Internal Market Bill is removing from the Scottish parliament, because the Bill is not removing any.
1/ The Internal Market Bill that the U.K. government will publish today is a full frontal assault on devolution. And to the usual “but the SNP would say that” voices, read the Welsh Government view below, rightly referring to the Bill ‘stealing’ powers from the devolved govts...
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"Scottish nationalism only works if you draw a line on the map between Eyemouth and Annan and decide your sole political and moral focus is what happens north of that line….The English must be othered. It is as simple and as brutal as that.”
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1. A few thoughts on the SNP’s latest currency position.
This is the SNP’s fourth or fifth currency position in the past 15 years (they change it so often one loses count) and has been crafted to, ahem, calm the nerves of the cautious, pragmatic electorate of middle Scotland.
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@jackappleby
The elevation of subjective, unverifiable whim over objective, external reality is the definition of gaslighting. If gender-ID is real, then self-ID’ing as a different race, species, height, age is possible too. It is truly absurd and represents an assault on objective truth.
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If any further secessionist referendum is granted issues like national debt, the currency, citizenship rights and pensions must all be confirmed before it takes place. The SNP must not be allowed to sell a fantasy prospectus again.
#indyref
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And for the record, the chance to have a Yazidi sex slave was a core part of the marketing pitch that ISIS recruiters used when recruiting jihadists across Europe. They were not ignorant of this. The chance to enslave, rape & torture were core motivations of ISIS recruits.
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Well this is dreadful. And is practically a reverse of the status of Scottish education from a few decades ago. There is zero reason for separatists to argue that secession is needed to fix the education system. This decline has happened on their watch.
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@BenedictSpence
Remainers comprise the single most unimpressive political movement of the 21st century. No curiosity or insight into how their opponents think coupled with high-handed arrogance. The biggest mystery of the Brexit drama is how they managed to scrape 48%.
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1. It is not only mortgage holders who would be under threat by the prospect of a new Scottish currency and its likely devaluation. Renters would be under threat too. Think of landlords with property portfolios funded by sterling mortgages from UK banks…
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@jk_rowling
If I was a legal entrepreneur this is the area I would be looking into. There does seem to have been serious instances of negligence in how transitioning has been conducted.
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@George_Osborne
Thanks George, what other public statues and monuments do you support public vandalism against? I and many others are keen to be involved. Please also detail how a UK government should support such acts of public violence in future?
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It is time to give the 2014 referendum result a firmer legal footing. Place it clearly in law that the result will stand for a generation (25-30 years) and that subsequent separatist majorities in that time will not change things.
#indyref2
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“Wishart, a walking snarl, is the former keyboard player in Runrig whose greatest achievement as an MP is being the former keyboard player in Runrig” – Stephen Daisley, 2017
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It takes a very dedicated form of narcissism to even consider hijacking a climate change march (or indeed, any other type of protest) in order to parade your particular brand of nationalism to the cameras.
#COP26Glasgow
#ScottishIndependence14
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I mean this is such an incoherent and unwinnable argument for the separatists. The UK will now be spending UK taxpayers money in Scotland instead of giving it to the EU to spend on its behalf. And this provides a new rationale for secession? This is beyond desperate.
Clause 46 of the Internal Market Bill gives the Tory Government powers over Scottish health, education, justice, transport, culture, sport, housing, & economic development. It is a direct attack on the Scottish Parliament, as endorsed by 74% of Scots in 1997. We need independence
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Spare a thought for the Nationalist horde tonight - the SNP have just confirmed that iScot will involve sado-austerity, all possible currency choices are dreadful, GERS is real & accurate, iScot will makes Scots poorer & all the warnings from Better Together in 2014 were correct
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@BBCScotNine
@mmgeissler
@theSNP
@AlynSmith
The SNP's foreign spokesman
@AlynSmith
has clearly not been watching events unfold in Ukraine if he thinks the UK has chosen 'isolation. The UK is the leading military partner to Ukraine and is highly valued by Ukranians.
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@bigbenn1e
@afneil
No country has ever joined the EU without its own central bank and own currency. Scotland will only be eligible for EU membership with its own floating currency.
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The SNP's new economic secession document is so bad it makes one wonder if it was handwritten by the Scottish Greens. But alas, it is all just lifted from 2018's Growth Commission plan. Their basic economic plans have regressed from even that low point.
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@NathanJRobinson
Hamas is literally the govt of Gaza. They choose to hide beneath Gazan civilians and use them as human shields. This is their strategy.
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@VictoriaPeckham
@Martina
@thetimes
Arguing that men who identify as women are biologically female is one of the stupidest things to ever be uttered in human history. How on earth can this notion be taken seriously in a society where literacy, education and science are widespread?
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Hopefully this becomes a trend amongst Scottish local authorities. Lots of incentives for non-separatist controlled councils to align themselves more closely with the UK government rather than Holyrood.
Aberdeen Council, which is run by Tory and former Labour councillors, has voted to bypass Holyrood and the devolution settlement
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12. The logic of the SNP’s Pro-EU separatist pitch mandates a free floating Scottish currency on day one of leaving the UK. This is a glaring weakness in their prospectus and is waiting to be exploited. Very few people tempted by separating from the UK have even considered this.
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Last 10 opinion polls on Scottish secession with the latest Savanta/Comres poll giving No a 7% lead. Which is interesting because a Savanta/Comres poll in December gave Yes a 10% lead before undecideds were excluded.
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Sturgeon still trying to argue that leaving a loosely integrated union will be catastrophic but leaving a deeply integrated one won’t
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@NicolaSturgeon
says she's making case for
#indyref2
because "the damage [of Brexit] done to Scotland is likely to be monumental"
#marr
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Excellent news - the Internal Market Bill doesn’t only strengthen the United Kingdom but also gives the UK government the explicit power to spend in devolved areas. The SNP are only in uproar because this Bill threatens the hold on their fiefdom.
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Abolishing freedom of movement for Scots within the UK will not be popular. Nor will ending the right of Scots to use the NHS anywhere in UK
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EU membership criteria will not allow a separate Scotland to use Sterling and will demand that Scotland adopts a new free-floating currency if it wishes to join. A new Scottish currency is electorally toxic yet no-one is attacking the SNP on this.
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I’d give Burnham & other devolved govt leaders a greater role in challenging Scottish separatism. Canadian provincial governments played a central role in challenging Quebecois separatism & could often do so with greater credibility than the Canadian federal government.
Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham says the SNP's ban on travel from Scotland to Manchester is an example of "double standards and hypocrisy"
He tells Nick Robinson, Nicola Sturgeon is treating the north of England with "contempt"
#Marr
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@piersmorgan
@BobDuffield
This is straight up gaslighting - and sanctioned by the force of the state. There is no justification for this. It is entirely wrong and unfair.
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Behind the self-righteous façade of many progressives lurks a disturbing authoritarianism. Scotland’s proposed hate crime legislation is awful.
#HateCrimeBill
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@zsstevens
@KennyFarq
@Common_Weal
@thecommongreen
UK pensions are funded by current taxation. In a separate Scotland, Scots pensions will be paid by existing Scottish taxpayers. The idea the UK will pay for Scottish pensions after Scotland leaves the UK is delusional.
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9. However, I am not the only one who thinks a new currency would bring disaster to the personal finances of Scots. This is Andrew Wilson, the SNP’s economic ‘guru’ denouncing the very currency policy he wrote (he favours an initial period of sterlingization)
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@michaelgove
And unlike in 2014, only UK citizens should be allowed to vote. The SNP are intending to allow EU citizens and foreign residents while stopping Scots resident elsewhere in the UK and abroad. Please stop this.
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@Ross_Greer
A far better investigation would be to uncover how much in foreign aid given to the Palestinians has been used by Hamas to buy weapons and prepare for war?
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@tom_watson
I believe Tom Watson is 5 weeks away from experiencing what is known as a 'political reckoning'.
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If Nicola Sturgeon has been found to have breached the ministerial code should she resign? Henry McLeish resigned as FM after failing to declare income from sub-letting his Westminster constituency office. Sturgeon's matter seems to be much more serious.
#SNPCivilWar
FM
@NicolaSturgeon
has referred herself to independent advisers on the Ministerial Code re her meetings with Alex Salmond. She says: “I have acted in good faith throughout, However, I understand it is also important for Parliament and the wider public to be assured of that"
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The Scottish Government is about to waste a vast amount of taxpayers’ money and civil service time on producing another dishonest prospectus for breaking up the UK.
@JohnFerry18
details what an honest secession prospectus should contain.
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@KateForbesMSP
@AndrewWilson
Bold argument here. Every successful democratic nation uses fiscal transfers from wealthier to poorer areas. This is the norm in Germany, France, Canada, USA, Sweden and more. Is Katie Forbes suggesting a separate Scotland would not do this?
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Here is a novel idea - instead of disingenuously portraying day-to-day govt trivialities as the next epoch-defining scandal how about the media attempt to inform the public on how the scientific committee meetings & other government functions actually work during the CV19 crisis?
This may turn out to be the biggest scandal of the crisis:
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Depraved SNP cheerleading of the deaths of elderly Scots is not only immoral but also misplaced. Demography is not destiny. As they age, people mature, become less radical and more supportive of the status quo. And Scotland’s elderly population is due to increase.
@AngusRobertson
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@bbcmtd
@morton_wendy
@redditchrachel
@TheGreenParty
Why on earth is this person elected as a Conservative MP?
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