You ought to be ashamed of yourselves. Insulting the memory of our hero William Wallace who was hung, drawn and quartered by an English king because he refused to accept his hegemony. Your disrespect of Wallace is calculated and disgraceful.
The Wallace Tower in Ayr will remain lit up in red, white and blue up to and including Monday 19 September to commemorate the life of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
I am today a septuagenarian. I joined the SNP when I was 14. I was a SNP Councillor for 36yrs. I’ve campaigned for Indy since my Pr 5 teacher told me about Scottish history & lit a fire that has never died. I really do feel Indy is within our grasp. Please let it be so.
It’s about time SNP folk called out the BBC.
Kate Forbes should have said to Bruce “You have interrupted me 7 times before I’ve even got started. You’ve interrupted none of the rest to the same extent, and if you can’t restrain your bias, there’s no point me being here.”.
Rachel Reeves has confirmed plans for a new national wealth fund.
It's set to back private investment with public money – expected to be funded by a raid on Scotland’s oil and gas sector.
The SNP is condemned by the Tories for discussing Independence during a pandemic. The Tory Leader comes to Scotland, disobeying Covid rules, to discuss Independence. Cue silence from the Scottish Tories. Hypocrisy doesn’t even touch this.
My 4 year old granddaughter came home from nursery today with a UJ lunchbox. There is no circumstances in which she would ever have been sent home with a saltire lunchbox.
@FifeCouncil
stop trying to indoctrinate our bairns. Who gave you the right?
I was a Scottish Office civil servant for decades. Here’s how it works. I get a credit card for expenses. I spend as prescribed. Finance Department scrutinises my spend. I repay anything not allowed.
This is absolutely staggering - £2.7 million on mobile phones for prisoners in Scotland. There are serious questions to be asked of the SNP around the amount of taxpayers money thrown at this project.
The Speaker did not make a “mistake”. He made a considered decision to take a Labour Amendment - against all the conventions of the HoC - having been told by the Clerks that doing so would preclude the SNP Motion being debated. He did this at the behest of the Labour Party.
The King is visiting “Scotland first” because of “uncertainties about the Union…” according to the BBC.
They then go on to talk about the SNP. BBC is pumping out unchallenged political propaganda.
FM has a most impressive grasp of her brief but even she can’t know why 75 year auld Mary from Auchenshoogle hasnae had her vaccine yet. Or indeed why auld Mary went greetin tae a reporter rather than phone the helpline on 0800 030 8013.
That appalling buffoon Johnson has just said that “ Scotland has a particular problem with the resilience of its public service”. This is a shocking lie. And it cannot be allowed to stand.
According to Labour, UK will have 100% electricity generation from renewables by 2030. When this happens, bills will come down by £300pa.
They didn’t explain why Scotland with 110% of our electricity generated from renewables now, has highest electricity prices in Europe.
If a country has no ability or right to decide its own future because its democratically expressed views are always overruled by a larger neighbour, then that country is, by definition, oppressed.
@BjCruickshank
@southayrshire
It is beyond shocking. But it is deliberate and calculated. An insult to the memory of The Wallace, an insult to every Scot.
I can advise that, as a SNP member, I have never had a letter with a stamp from the SNP. As a SNP activist, I have never been offered stamps for the leaflets we deliver by hand.
Sir Keir Starmer “It’s a big year for this country. It’s Her Majesty’s...” Then goes on to praise England’s football team. . He then shamelessly conflates England with Britain.
I cannot actually believe this man is so dense.
Anybody who thinks this
#CovidInquiry
is any other than a Unionist witch-hunt is wholly deluded.
The UK Inquiry is focussed on trying to discredit the former FM having glossed over the greater culpability of Boris Johnson and the UKG.
There’s something deeply unsavoury about the Labour Party. Against a Gaza ceasefire until the SNP uses one of the scant Opposition days to move a Motion. Plays semantics with Motion and call it their Amendment. Subverts the Speaker to take their Amendment. Blames the SNP.
Watched 15 minutes of the so called UK news. No mention of any issues with NHS in England,Wales or NI. Then it’s Armageddon only in the Scottish NHS according to the BBC. Despite it being the best funded, best managed and best staffed NHS in the UK.
Great to be out in Ferryhill today talking to local people about my plan for a better
#AberdeenSouth
. Residents are fed up that the SNP focus all their attention on the central belt at the expense of Aberdeen. It’s time that changes and that Aberdeen gets its fair share.
Every time I see Labour promote privatisation of the NHS, I remember pre 2007 that infection was rife throughout Scotland’s hospitals caused by Labour’s use of privatised cleaning services. The SNP SG brought cleaning in-house in 2008.
Believe Baillie at your peril.
97 year old mother hasn’t been vaccinated so daughter phones a reporter. Phone the feckin helpline. Unbelievable that MSM are still going on this tack.
#covidbriefing
At my SNP Branch meeting tonight. Membership Secretary reporting an increase in Members over last month with an additional 2 joining tonight.
Reports of our demise are much exaggerated.
I wonder if the vile Andrew Neil would have said “ I’ve seen more folk at a St Mirren match” if left wing supporters were storming Buckingham Palace or the House of Lords?
Apparently, Alexander, the Motherwell Manager, is a virologist. A real achievement for someone who can barely string 3 words together. Stick tae fitba pal. For virus information, I’ll be sticking with Jason Leitch.
Front page of the Herald “I never thought I’d see poverty like this again” says Gordon Brown.
He campaigned for just that, still campaigns for it and will always campaign for it because “We’re better together” he vowed.
He was 107 years old. He was the last living Desert Rat. He was Scotland’s oldest man.
But BBC,which was orgasmic recently in relation to VE Day celebrations, can’t even acknowledge his passing. Did I say he supported Independence?
BBC, in its coverage of the Supreme Court rulings, said that the Tories condemned the “SNP” for playing “grievance politics”. Fails to mention that the Scottish Parliament voted unanimously for these incorporations into Scots Law and it was the Tory UKG who challenged this.
It’s not an attractive look is it? Rachel Reeves, an English Labour MP who has no clue about the Scottish Parliament, telling the Accounting Unit Leader how to think and act.
Anyone who thought Sarwar had influence or autonomy in the Labour Party must be sadly disillusioned.
Douglas Ross has been on BBC as long as the FM was. I’m struggling to find the need for this or the relevance of it. He said nothing that added to the sum of human knowledge.
Connecting the Borders Railway to Carlisle through Langholm and improvements to the A75(the road the
@scotgov
forgets)will make a huge difference in my constituency
Remember when the FM was pilloried for days when she momentarily forgot to put a mask on when she stood up at a funeral? Scottish Tories weren’t so silent then.
2 feckin eejits down in Carlisle to escape Covid precautions say they are there because “There’s no restrictions and all our friends have Covid”. Outrageous behaviour that has been encouraged and facilitated by the Tories and MSM.
It takes the casting vote of the SNP President of COSLA to win the vote to give LG workers a 5% increase in wages. Tories and Labour, the corrupt coalition, voted to award 3.5%.
And the supine Unions are silent.
They laughed at us and told us we were conspiracy theorists and fantasists for daring to suggest that the BBC manipulated the news in the years leading up to the Referendum. They’re no laughing noo.
STV News-England is removing legal requirement for face masks on public transport whilst Scotland retains it - “Should folk getting on a train in London be expected to wear a mask when it crosses into Scotland?”
Why is MSM constantly challenging the Covid message in Scotland?
UK Labour has imposed a new London based candidate on Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy Constituency. Didn’t bother telling the members, didn’t give them a choice and the news was announced to them by the Daily Record.
Democracy Labour style.
“The great progress in our vaccination programme seems to be irritating Ruth Davidson for some reason.” Says the FM.
Furthermore “the Armed Forces are Scotland’s Armed Forces paid for by the people of Scotland...”.
Davidson’s face is tripping her.
Bruce cannot help herself interrupting Kate Forbes. There is a pattern of this. She allows Sarwar and Ross to witter on.
This is actually ridiculous.
#bbcquestiontime
Scotland is shite. Everybody in Scotland is shite. Even though we’re better than the rest of the UK in just about everything, we are still shiter than them. According to the BBC.
According to BBC, Reeves says “It’s time for a new Government in Scotland”.
Time for a new Government in the country with best performing public services & economy in the UK yet not time for a new Government in Labour Wales with the worst services in the UK. Labour hypocrisy.
I’ve just seen Johnson’s appalling behaviour towards the Leader of the SNP Group in Westminster.
He cares not a jot for the fishing industry, he refuses to answer questions and he is allowed to behave like a boor by the Speaker.
That idiot Andrew Bowie wonders how the accident “was allowed to happen/to take place”. The blame game again. No depths to which these folk won’t stoop.
If the SNP does not address the McCarthy like fanaticism of some of its youth movement, it is going to drive out members of decades like myself. I am sickened by the damage they are doing -with impunity - to the SNP.
In Scotland, the SNPGovernment, despite one hand tied behind their backs, have lifted 100k Scots bairns out of poverty with the Child Payment of £26 per child per week.
Political editor Liam Thorp tells
#Newsnight
Labour "isn't choosing" to lift hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty under their manifesto pledges.
STV says “relief for shoppers as prices start to fall”. Actually, it’s the rate of inflation that is (apparently) falling. Prices are still increasing, just not at the current rate.
If we believed everything we read on Scottish Twitter, we’d think the SNP was on a downer. The reality is very different. My Branch - with new Members still trickling in - now has a membership equal to that of 2015. Go figure.
#BothVotesSNP
1/ Around 1m folk have been vaccinated but BBC go to 91 year old Alice -film crew to her front door- who is complaining she hasn’t been vaccinated. Unusually - the Health Board got the right to reply. They’ve tried on numerous occasions to contact her to no avail.
These BBC fitba commentators really do believe they are broadcasting to England only. Focusing on the England team during every game and every game viewed through an English prism. The other nations of the UK deserve better.
There is a serious want about Fife Tory Councillors.
Leslie decides she will follow English rules, and now Watt. Going to a country in partial lockdown, and possibly bringing the virus back here, in order to cast a snook at the SG is insane.
Insult to injury
@Tesco
. Not content with importing unneeded lamb to one of the best lamb producing countries in the world, you discount it to half price. So a leg of NZ lamb is circa £13 and a leg of
@Scottish_Lamb
is circa £26 making it virtually unsaleable.
Journalism has been seized by fanatics who manipulate the facts, hype the negative, protect the Establishment and cannot abide legitimate comment. What a dismal time.
The Labour party has been seized by fanatics. The Conservative party is besieged by fanatics. The SNP is menaced by fanatics. Reason & moderation are boring: conviction & extremism are thrilling. What a dismal time.
The Health Minister says Care Home owners who wish to pay their staff more than the increase authorised by the SG are free to do do. Over to you Robert Kilgour.
BBC at it again. SG hasn’t enough money to “pay for all its promises”. No. The SG hasn’t enough money to pay for public services because WM has decimated its funding.
BBC then goes on to report Welsh Government budget problems far more sympathetically.
The Coylumbridge Hotel management should get no compensation from the Government. Under any circumstances.
The scenes of their staff leaving with carrier bags is bloody beyond the pale. Quite frankly, I would jail the feckers.
Remember when Davidson said she couldn’t be leader of the Tories because she would need to be away from her child. Presumably she’ll turn down the peerage Johnson is offering her then.
Any other country in the world facing a power grab would have the full support of their MSM to oppose it. Scotland’s MSM don’t even mention it.
#stvnews
After allowing Murray to ramble on unchallenged, Bruce then tries to interrupt Joanna Cherry who is responding to him. She’s made of sterner stuff though and carries on.
#bbcqt
Why does MSM try so desperately every day to catch the FM out? Is it a competition between them? How does this infantile behaviour advance the cause of public knowledge and safety?
Who is up for 34 Independence parades in Glasgow on the same day in September? In what parallel universe would this ever be approved by City of Glasgow Council?
New Prime Minister Boris Johnson has pledged to make broadband one of his priorities. I welcome this commitment.
In
#Stirling
, many homes have slow or non-existent broadband. There is plenty the UK and Scots Govs can do to help.
Watch:
Article on BBC News about AI process developed in Aberdeen that can find tiny breast tumours. So, given there’s a Scottish dimension, surely BBCS will feature this huge development?
But no. BBC Scotland lead article “Scotland the worst in Europe for cosmetic fillers”.
“As England lifts travel restrictions, what will Scotland do?” asks BBC Scotland.
Wouldn’t it be so good to see the Scotland, and indeed the world, clearly rather than through an Anglocentric prism?
An absolutely appalling end question by Anwar’s sidekick. What in heaven’s name has the trial of a former FM to do with a COVID Inquiry?
#UKCovidInquiry
Preparing to launch my
#GE2019
Campaign. For me it’s always been constituency first. It’s a huge honour to have been MP for Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale & Tweeddale for the last 14 years and I hope local voters will give me the chance to continue on 12 December
@ScotTories
Radio Scotland Reporter interviews President of Catalonia who is visiting FM. And then for "balance" seek views of a Unionist in Catalunya
This is the same BBC that can't be bothered phoning anyone to balance Davidson's unchallenged accusations against SNP/SG.