robert Profile Banner
robert Profile
robert

@RobDunsmore

Followers
2,863
Following
1,414
Media
11,272
Statuses
97,702
Explore trending content on Musk Viewer
Pinned Tweet
@RobDunsmore
robert
8 years
Folk want Scottish Govt to function as if it has all the powers of a normal state, deny it that very thing, then complain when it doesn't.
20
575
720
@RobDunsmore
robert
4 years
That seems, erm, a bit misleading newsnight
Tweet media one
199
2K
15K
@RobDunsmore
robert
5 years
Kay Burley tries to drop the old "you'll need to accept the €" chestnut on Ian Blackford, who's having none of it.
1K
3K
9K
@RobDunsmore
robert
6 years
Random guy from Ayr never disappoints, "Is this where Treeza May's comin' doon?..."
241
5K
9K
@RobDunsmore
robert
3 years
Raab, "The police don't normally look back and investigate things that have taken place a year ago"
3K
2K
7K
@RobDunsmore
robert
6 years
Caroline Nokes, humiliated in committee.
590
2K
5K
@RobDunsmore
robert
5 years
(and totally inappropriate use of "mansplaining" btw)
80
119
2K
@RobDunsmore
robert
6 years
Want to watch Oliver Mundell get his arse handed to him by Maree Todd? Of course you do.
186
748
2K
@RobDunsmore
robert
5 years
Kirsty Blackman asks Mogg if an impact assessment on the deal have been done. WTF is that response?
412
955
2K
@RobDunsmore
robert
5 years
Frickin’ love Kirsty Blackman.
73
520
2K
@RobDunsmore
robert
5 years
FM is asked about alternative options for independence if Section 30 is not granted, response about legitimising those refusing one is very good.
66
792
2K
@RobDunsmore
robert
4 years
"The effect of the Bill has been described as a power grab by the Scottish National Party. I am not given to hyperbole - which I thought this was - but now, having read the Bill... I can see why this expression is being used by them", Lord Hope of Craighead
41
996
1K
@RobDunsmore
robert
6 years
Could get interesting. Joanna Cherry asks Chris Heaton-Harris (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Exiting the European Union) about the Seaborne Freight ferry contract.
134
846
1K
@RobDunsmore
robert
7 years
Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney answers Adam Boulton's "do you think this week's kerfuffle has been necessary?"
80
430
1K
@RobDunsmore
robert
6 months
excuse me
182
641
1K
@RobDunsmore
robert
6 years
Peter Grant skelps Sammy Wilson’s erse, big time.
68
373
1K
@RobDunsmore
robert
5 years
Failed former prime minister Theresa May yesterday in parliament, yelling, 'We all know an independent Scotland WILL NOT be in the European Union, it WILL NOT BE ALLOWED to be in the European Union". I have Nicola Sturgeon's warning about the UK being a prison ringing in my ears.
656
514
1K
@RobDunsmore
robert
4 years
please give the next public building a Gaelic name for maximum meltdown
22
250
1K
@RobDunsmore
robert
6 years
I like Derek Mackay's response here.
80
632
1K
@RobDunsmore
robert
3 years
It is kinda incredible Scotland was named as Europe’s best-educated population by Eurostat recently, after everything you constantly hear. Even if it was second, or third, or fourth, that would still be quite an achievement! But you’re a nationalist if you mention it.
25
361
1K
@RobDunsmore
robert
3 years
They're essentially doing to Sturgeon what they did to Corbyn
74
246
1K
@RobDunsmore
robert
5 years
Stephen Bush, "I think it's basically unsustainable at this point for anyone to be able to argue that the referendum mandate in 2014 for Scottish independence could possibly be said to still be alive"
48
477
998
@RobDunsmore
robert
5 years
Ross Thomson, “I never wanted that job anyway”.
126
224
884
@RobDunsmore
robert
4 years
Looking at that new direct ferry from Ireland (Rosslare) to Dunkirk, it's approx 550 miles. One from Grangemouth to Dunkirk would be approx 465 miles. Hmm.
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
76
217
853
@RobDunsmore
robert
8 years
Alex Salmond slams caller who calls Scottish independence treacherous. #ClassicEck
42
473
835
@RobDunsmore
robert
4 years
Oofa
44
337
849
@RobDunsmore
robert
2 years
Scottish Labour telling us independence would be a disaster as bad as Brexit so we better not try while at the same time telling us to that they’ll make Brexit work. I love a good paradox but that’s just taking the piss.
26
252
791
@RobDunsmore
robert
4 years
My first reaction is oh god this again, second is why is this bothering me, third is if you think reading road signs is dangerous should you really be on the road?
Tweet media one
158
108
771
@RobDunsmore
robert
6 years
bbcqt, 2046. "Yes, you sir, the elderly man in orange, what's your question."
Tweet media one
55
226
741
@RobDunsmore
robert
6 years
@baz_brice @GMB @Ross_Greer @piersmorgan @susannareid100 Erm, Churchill was 24 when he stood for election (and lost). Greer is 24.
20
18
717
@RobDunsmore
robert
2 years
Queen Elizabeth was 96 when she died in the country that last voted Tory when she was 29.
25
252
748
@RobDunsmore
robert
4 years
this isn't a gangsta rap pub
312
118
685
@RobDunsmore
robert
3 years
How can you forget you earned £30,000?
72
102
672
@RobDunsmore
robert
3 years
Neil Oliver, King of Scotland, taking a rest from slaying COVID-19 so children don't have to be vaccinated
Tweet media one
84
92
646
@RobDunsmore
robert
4 years
Ewan McGregors twitter feed full of radges asking what currency will you use
91
72
643
@RobDunsmore
robert
6 years
Gordon Brown, the man who vowed in 2014 that the UK would be a federal state within two years if Scotland votes No, is now warning us that "devolution is at risk". I think what what we'd like to hear is an apology.
44
337
650
@RobDunsmore
robert
3 months
When Random Guy from London notices you know it’s not just you
Tweet media one
1
339
652
@RobDunsmore
robert
2 years
“I don’t want this referendum to turn into a false choice between who loves Scotland and who hates the Tories. The truth is we all love Scotland, and I’m sorry Ruth but most of us hate the Tories.” —Anas Sarwar, BBC Scotland Big Debate on Independence, 27th May 2012
20
392
620
@RobDunsmore
robert
4 years
The clip you’ve all been looking for. Douglas Ross MP, “you’ve got to giggle”.
39
227
597
@RobDunsmore
robert
5 years
The whole 10 minute segment is worth watching: Ian Blackford speaks with Sky News' Kay Burley and Beth Rigby
78
250
567
@RobDunsmore
robert
6 years
Tory MP (apparently Ian Liddell-Grainger) shouts "Suicide!", as SNP leader Ian Blackford asks the Speaker what options are available (on devolution and the lack of debate). How is this acceptable behaviour?
67
694
555
@RobDunsmore
robert
4 years
Douglas Ross nods along as Ruth Davidson says, "Retaining our place in the [EU] Single Market should be our overriding priority"
26
272
541
@RobDunsmore
robert
6 years
Sky journalist doesn't name Labour MP Hugh Gaffney, who, of course, blames the #GlasgowWomensStrike on SNP cuts. Brass neck, plated with titanium, riveted with tungsten.
95
455
522
@RobDunsmore
robert
3 months
"I would like to know what's in Starmer's mind, I think he's a hollow man"
11
235
547
@RobDunsmore
robert
3 years
Don’t back doon, double doon
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
Tweet media three
30
66
540
@RobDunsmore
robert
3 years
Couldn’t make it up
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
Tweet media three
Tweet media four
53
81
514
@RobDunsmore
robert
6 years
The Nine is growing on me.
37
246
514
@RobDunsmore
robert
2 years
The last time Scotland voted Tory, Albert Einstein was still alive.
29
188
511
@RobDunsmore
robert
5 years
"You want to leave me for that?! For that trash?! I'm better than them, you'll be better off with me, not with them, stay with me, I've locked all the doors anyway so you're not going anywhere! EFTA?! They won't have you either, they're worse than trash! You're going nowhere!"
14
74
495
@RobDunsmore
robert
2 years
Not taking it well, bless
Tweet media one
93
85
498
@RobDunsmore
robert
4 years
4hrs later. Amazing.
Tweet media one
23
119
493
@RobDunsmore
robert
6 years
George Galloway is in your zeitgeist again telling again Scots not to back indy and be happy Brexiteers. Shall we remind ourselves of the what he told us about the EU back in 2014, and what he says now?
133
467
463
@RobDunsmore
robert
4 years
Kirsty Wark making the suggestion that if SNP (and other pro indy parties) win Holyrood elections next year, it won’t be a mandate for anything constitutional. This is the message we’ll be hearing a lot now, your electoral victory won’t really be a victory.
59
156
463
@RobDunsmore
robert
1 year
Angus Robertson at WM Scottish Affairs Committee today, scathing about the behaviour of the Scotland Office
12
300
487
@RobDunsmore
robert
9 months
Real mystery why Newsnight Scotland was cancelled
16
354
485
@RobDunsmore
robert
4 years
Lisa Nandy praising female leaders around the world in dealing with COVID. Does that include Scotland, you ask. What do you think.
349
244
461
@RobDunsmore
robert
6 years
If you’ve seen the actual P1 ‘tests’ the BBC have been showing us today, it’s not an unreasonable conclusion to reach that the opposition care more about politics than children.
16
236
453
@RobDunsmore
robert
3 years
Lisa Nandy, “We in Labour need to listen to what the people are saying. Except in Scotland lol.” #bbcqt
8
98
456
@RobDunsmore
robert
3 years
"That polling seems to suggest that if Nicola Sturgeon only gets say a one seat majority, that might put minds at rest down in Westminster that it isn't as urgent as it seems... " Camilla Tominey on Marr. The noise you hear in the background is the goalposts being moved.
63
156
457
@RobDunsmore
robert
5 years
“Does England lose anything when it loses Scotland?” “You would presume not.”
187
509
441
@RobDunsmore
robert
4 years
Sarah Smith suggesting an SNP majority of one isn’t really a majority at all, classic shifting the goalposts. Even playing by their rules and winning, you still lose. BBC making it impossible not to conclude it’s not an arm of the state.
16
123
451
@RobDunsmore
robert
3 years
Have to say, never thought it would be free to watch Eric Idle tell Jackson Carlaw to go fuck himself.
8
77
436
@RobDunsmore
robert
1 year
is this going to be problem
Tweet media one
41
43
407
@RobDunsmore
robert
2 years
Anas Sarwar - "Mandates come from the electorate in an election, they don't come from pollsters. John Curtice shouldn't decide when the next referendum is, it should be the people of Scotland who decide when the next referendum is."
60
290
413
@RobDunsmore
robert
2 years
Keir Starmer, “UK has had slow economic growth under the Tories for 12 years, it’s really terrible” Keir Starmer, “Only within the UK has Scotland flourished economically”
32
155
399
@RobDunsmore
robert
7 years
. @AlynSmithMEP tells the European Parliament "I'm heartbroken, Scotland will not be silent within this process". #ScotRef #brexit
23
306
387
@RobDunsmore
robert
2 months
Kenny MacAskill won his SNP seat in 2019 with over 24k votes. In 2024, under Abla, he came in 8th out of 9 and garnered 638 votes. The Abla Party are not vote winners, please get that in your head.
24
102
396
@RobDunsmore
robert
7 months
Thought I'd clip the final question to both Nicola Sturgeon and Alister Jack, make your own mind up.
46
248
378
@RobDunsmore
robert
4 years
Johnson corrects himself from saying Scottish Nationalist... to Scottish National Party. Proves that when they use the latter they know exactly what they’re doing.
9
85
358
@RobDunsmore
robert
5 years
Jeremy Vine show, part one. "I mean, for goodness sake, Scotland, how is it going to survive, what does it have?" "Oil. And a monster in a lake. And?... "
413
302
345
@RobDunsmore
robert
4 years
Mark Blyth, "I've finally come round to the idea that Scotland's future is as an independent country... when the British elites talk about levelling up, they're not interested in levelling up Scotland"
7
156
349
@RobDunsmore
robert
7 years
Richard Murphy at Holyrood on #GERS , and gets a couple of wee digs at we-know-who-wink-wink in.
13
370
340
@RobDunsmore
robert
4 years
Hilary Benn: "No I'm not in favour of another independence referendum (for Scotland)" - But you wanted another EU referendum, didn't you? Benn, 'Yeah but that was different cos, er, reasons"
112
151
340
@RobDunsmore
robert
6 months
Very weird how it's now being reported that the SNP are being denied a 'request' for an emergency debate, when it was Hoyle himself who offered it by way of an apology. The gaslighting around this entire episode is bonkers
7
136
349
@RobDunsmore
robert
2 years
"Are there any circumstances in which you would allow another referendum on Scottish independence?" The framing of this question assumes denying democracy is inbuilt into the system, the questioner sees no issue asking it.
59
171
345
@RobDunsmore
robert
6 years
I think Scottish Tory MP John Lamont just had a minor breakdown realising how the argument "business is good at adapting, good at dealing with challenges" just blew a hole right through his anti-independence position.
27
231
320
@RobDunsmore
robert
3 years
Pretty much the entire unionist online contingent consists of mostly the same middle aged middle class men from 2014, but the pro indy folks have a new younger generation fighting for their, and our, futures. That tells us something good I think.
50
72
324
@RobDunsmore
robert
2 years
You only have to recall BBC Scotland bowed to pressure to cease airing the entire Covid live updates on TV not because the information wasn't useful but because it saw polling for the SNP and independence rise.
5
122
325
@RobDunsmore
robert
6 years
Exclusive preview of the new BBC Scotland television channel.
24
124
303
@RobDunsmore
robert
2 years
when Objective Details Guy gets an objective detail wrong
Tweet media one
29
92
319
@RobDunsmore
robert
4 years
After spending the last few days watching CNN, you really notice how class ridden the BBC is
10
67
315
@RobDunsmore
robert
3 years
The Cheese Hate Crime Act (Scotland)
224
83
299
@RobDunsmore
robert
5 years
Potential Labour leader Lisa Nandy describes how 'people stopped listening to them and we stopped listening to half of the country' over Brexit, then comes out with this stinker on indyref. Completely tone deaf, learned nothing, old wine new bottle.
132
126
288
@RobDunsmore
robert
7 years
"... not be subject to laws made by people we don't elect and we can't remove." *except for viewers in Scotland
17
295
298
@RobDunsmore
robert
6 years
David Mundell's response to the Attorney General saying businesses in Northern Ireland would be advantaged by May's deal? 'Stop making it about Scottish nationalism.'
218
292
297
@RobDunsmore
robert
5 years
Sums it up pretty much. Nicola Sturgeon on ITV election night answering questions on what next. For Brits, democracy is only on their terms.
13
134
294
@RobDunsmore
robert
4 years
He’s no right in the napper
122
56
283
@RobDunsmore
robert
2 years
Effie as a Spanish polis
Tweet media one
107
68
290
@RobDunsmore
robert
5 years
It’s the self-confidence, the abscence of “hang on a minute, I’m not sure about this, maybe I shouldn’t say anything that’ll make me look ridiculous...”, it’s quite impressive. Wish I had that.
12
24
283
@RobDunsmore
robert
6 years
Jonathan Hall, NFU Scotland, describes how EU CAP money destined for Scotland was withheld by Westminster.
15
399
283
@RobDunsmore
robert
6 years
"Devolution Max will be delivered without any conditions." Rory Stewart, 2014. A study into 'why you should never trust a Tory', WYSNTAT for short. See next tweet.
21
281
277
@RobDunsmore
robert
2 years
Don’t speak Gaelic cos it might put off potential trading partners. Imagine saying that out loud about literally any other language and not being considered racist
Tweet media one
45
60
289
@RobDunsmore
robert
9 years
Scottish Twitter vs UK Twitter. 😂😂
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
11
356
275
@RobDunsmore
robert
8 years
Ken Stott, "in order to achieve democracy, Scotland should be independent". #Marr
13
273
268
@RobDunsmore
robert
8 months
Thought this was worth clipping
18
186
287
@RobDunsmore
robert
6 years
Some folk have been asking how this ended for Mundell, I have obtained this exclusive non-broadcast footage.
21
85
264
@RobDunsmore
robert
4 years
'SNP Scottish Government embarrassing UK Government by announcing vaccine programme first, and they're doing it deliberately'
17
26
268
@RobDunsmore
robert
2 years
What stage of grief is this at
Tweet media one
43
29
256