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@grendel1970
Jim Cassidy
2 years
@StuartRead1 @RMTunion Mick Lynch isn't on strike. We are, and we pay him to work on our behalf to get the best deal for all our members. Worth every penny.
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6 months
Top tips for North Lanarkshire Council: Save £££££s by not putting Women's sanitary products in the Mens toilets...
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Jim Cassidy
5 years
My letter in today's National regarding the disgusting witch hunt against @AlexSalmond .
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5 years
@StephenKing As George Washington famously said: To infinity and beyond!
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Jim Cassidy
5 years
Loads of new followers today. Was it something I said... #JusticeForAlex
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Jim Cassidy
5 months
. @ScottishLabour already run North Lanarkshire and this is what it is like close up. Labour have failed to tackle fly-tipping and failed to protect our environment. God only knows what Scotland will look like if they were to control our entire country.
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Jim Cassidy
5 years
At yesterday's #AUOBGlasgow March as we passed through George Square I received some vile abuse from the British Nationalists there. Apparently if you are a Scottish ex serviceman you are a disgrace to the armed forces for supporting your own country's right to be independent.
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Jim Cassidy
7 years
@BethWortham @GregAbbott_TX @NRA That's why we won't visit America at all.
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Jim Cassidy
6 years
Today @scottishlabour are handing out leaflets showing "SNP rail mayhem" using a picture of overcrowding on a train- in England! It's basically the English campaign leaflet reprinted, substituting SNP for Tory. Labour don't understand devolution and don't work #ForScotland
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Jim Cassidy
5 years
I tried to ask @jeremycorbyn if he was happy with one of his councillors heading the Orange Order in Scotland. He ran away. #IndyRef2 #DissolveTheUnion #ForScotland #ForwardAsOne
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Jim Cassidy
7 years
@TelegraphNews I'm not in the SNP. I don't vote SNP. I'm an ex serviceman. This appointment was crass and unnecessary.
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Jim Cassidy
3 years
Cancelled my subscription to The National today. I can no longer exist on a diet of carrots or Stephen fucking Paton.
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Jim Cassidy
8 months
@dazhmfc @PoliceScotland When you get lifted they don't let you pop home and change for your photie.
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Jim Cassidy
3 years
It's what she would have wanted... #janeygodley
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Jim Cassidy
2 years
Steve Wallis of Camping with Steve has brought joy to millions of people with his Youtube channel, supported by his Beautiful Wife. Our thoughts and prayers are with him now at this time. Rest in Peace Jess.
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Jim Cassidy
4 years
A homeless veteran sits a few feet from a poppy seller on Princes Street in #Edinburgh . Happy #RemembranceSunday when it comes. #LestWeForget
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Jim Cassidy
4 years
I love spending a quiet Sunday in bookshops, hiding all the Neil Oliver books...
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Jim Cassidy
6 years
I asked @LabourRichard why the Labour Party support nationalisation of the Scottish rail network, while in Wales they have awarded a FIFTEEN YEAR franchise to a French/Spanish consortium. He didn't answer. #allchangeplease #ForScotland
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Jim Cassidy
6 years
The Labour Party's(North British branch) Chief Scientist Jackie Baillie seems to have discovered a means to ensure mechanically propelled transportation NEVER breaks down. Ever. Sign her petition to roll out this scientific breakthrough! * *Terms and conditions apply. #Porkies
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Jackie Baillie
6 years
Hearing reports of train from Dumbarton breaking down at Hyndland @ScotRail . Want the disruption to stop? Then sign my petition:
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Jim Cassidy
5 years
@andrewlearmonth What? This Jimmy Buchan?
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Jim Cassidy
3 years
The persecution of Craig Murray was politically motivated. The postponement of sentencing to move it away from election day was politically motivated. His jail sentence is politically motivated. Any doubts whether or not he is a political prisoner end here. #FreeCraigMurray
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Jim Cassidy
2 years
@ScotRail @RMTunion @BTP I'd rather you put staff on the trains. Texting the police ISN'T a deterrent.
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Jim Cassidy
6 years
@GordonHay404 @WingsScotland Funniest part was when they pulled me in for a photo. I was asked to accept a leaflet from one of the activists. The look on her face as she realised I was wearing a YES t-shirt was priceless. The photographers were utterly oblivious... 😂 😂 😂
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Jim Cassidy
7 months
@SPFLWatch The rule about Rangers getting a penalty in every game is particularly unhelpful to our top tier of football.
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Jim Cassidy
6 years
@WingsScotland I'm an RMT rep. The behaviour of the GMB has been utterly outrageous, and they are a stain on the trade union movement.
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Jim Cassidy
6 years
We want RAIN!
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6 years
@jackiebmsp @ScotRail Hi Jackie. What measures can you take to ensure mechanically propelled transportation NEVER breaks down? #StopTellingLies
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Jim Cassidy
7 years
@WingsScotland First question on #bbcqt from Eric Holford: Conservative MSP candidate for #Airdrie in 2016. What are the chances of that?
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2 years
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Jim Cassidy
8 years
I was told I'd be £500 a year worse off if Scotland left the union. Now I'm being told I'm to be £500 worse off IN the union. #indyref2
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Jim Cassidy
6 years
@elgoldave @jjanderson79 @CYBERSCOT @BBCGaryR @TSSAunion @theSNP @scotgov @ScotRail @BBCScotlandNews I turned up in support of having a nationalised railway #ForScotland but found that the activists were 95% Labour, handing out party leaflets, and passing on misinformation about price rise. There were only 3 non Labour activists, 1 @TSSAunion , 1 @Dis_PPL_Protest , 1 unaffiliated
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Jim Cassidy
4 years
In UK waters, Scotland lands 87% of fish, yet only received 41% of the money the EU fisheries funding sent to the UK by the EU. Not only did @UKGovernmentEng trade Scottish fishing rights for jobs in England, but they then creamed off around 60% of the cash! #DissolveTheUnion
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Lord Digby Jones
4 years
In UK waters, the UK can only catch 10% of the EU Haddock quota; the French take 66%. In the Channel, non-UK EU boats take 91% of cod. From 1/1/21 these are our waters Mr Barnier. For the last four years you should have been preparing for this moment re fishing instead of
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Jim Cassidy
7 years
@JohnMasonMSP @WingsScotland Disgusted by @scotgp in their enabling of bigotry in Scotland. Shame on you @patrickharvie
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Jim Cassidy
5 years
Hmmm. @murdo_fraser has gone quiet. Should we call Mountain Rescue? #WheresMurdo
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Jim Cassidy
5 years
@GlennBBC Who invited this woman on as your guest on @BBCScotNine tonight? Who's next? Jill Stephenson? Alistair McConnachie? Pamela Nash? If you would read @WingsScotland You would know all about these unsavoury characters.
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Jim Cassidy
6 years
What an about face from the Scotsman! With the benefit of hindsight they now acknowledge that @RuthDavidsonMSP , @JamesKellyLab , @Ross_Greer and @patrickharvie were wrong by scrapping #OBFA rather than fixing it. MSPs must think twice in future before playing political football.
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Jim Cassidy
6 years
@WingsScotland @RMT_Scotland I'm an @RMTunion rep. Recently our union members voted NOT to affiliate with the Labour Party. This is basically affiliation and activism by the back door! Were it not for the fact I have members relying on me to represent them, I'd be seriously considering my membership
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Jim Cassidy
5 years
Heard a noise outside, clock is slow. I opened my front door to the sound of my neighbour shouting "right, nae cunt moves until I find out who clapped for Boris!" I quietly slipped back inside... #ClapForBoris
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Jim Cassidy
3 years
Got my @AlbaParty membership in today. 😎 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Jim Cassidy
6 years
If @RuthDavidsonMSP can get a mobile signal in her tank she might see these pictures coming from #AUOB #Dumfries today. Still think there's no appetite for self determination for Scotland? Think again. Independence. BETTER #ForScotland
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Jim Cassidy
6 years
@ScotlandTonight @DaniGaravelli1 Disgusting comments from @DaniGaravelli1 that those people who donated to @AlexSalmond crowd funder are at "the conspiracy theory end of the spectrum". Statements like that draw serious questions as to her judgement and motivations. Smear Salmond, smear his support.
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Jim Cassidy
7 months
@Sandford_Police "That's illegal" says illegally parked white-van man.
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Jim Cassidy
6 years
Scotrail live PPM figures right now. @LabourRichard should apologise to the @RMT_Scotland members who are working hard to deliver they best service possible. #allchangeplease #ForScotland
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Jim Cassidy
7 years
@GrayInGlasgow @ROSAZAMBONINI Watch the Tory councillor try to take down the Red Tory banner. No dignity.
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Jim Cassidy
4 years
Don't be a Dick like Dom. Stay home. Stay safe. Don't drown in the #SecondWave
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Jim Cassidy
6 months
@LesleyRiddoch This is not anything of the kind. Less a page well turned, more a path well trodden. John Swinney, Scotland's least inspiring politician has taken charge of a party crying out for a good shake up. Continuity John will do do nothing of the sort.
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Jim Cassidy
7 years
@WingsScotland @Gillian_Mac11 @patrickharvie @andywightman @JamesKellyLab @AnasSarwar @murdo_fraser @LabourRichard @RuthDavidsonMSP This is why we needed #OBFA It was a statement from the good people of Scotland that sectarian behaviour was unacceptable. Fix the act, don't scrap it.
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Jim Cassidy
7 years
@WingsScotland People used to look back at the rise of the Nazi party and ask "How could any country allow that to happen?" Watch and learn.
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Jim Cassidy
5 years
Okay Scotland. Ready for a challenge? #WheresMurdo ?
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Jim Cassidy
2 years
@ginadavidsonlbc @andrewlearmonth @LBC @LBCNews @NicolaSturgeon @AnasSarwar @Douglas4Moray If only I had been offered an SNP leaflet in my ward, perhaps I would have had the opportunity to visibly wince too. In fact, as a former SNP member I'd happily have told them to fold it in half, and keep folding it, before instructing them to shove it up their a**e.
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Jim Cassidy
6 years
Fantastic stuff! @WingsScotland debunking this evenings news before it's even been aired - with a bit of help from @AirdrieForIndy
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Wings Over Scotland
6 years
If you held a protest but nobody came:
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Jim Cassidy
8 years
Green screen in place for filming of #outlander on the Royal Mile.
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Jim Cassidy
2 years
@tlijanikhalilo @Carra23 England, arrogant at all times beforehand, then either terrible losers or insufferable winners.
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Jim Cassidy
7 years
@JR476757 @poppy_palace @GregAbbott_TX @NRA Of course he is. More shootings creates fear. Fear drives up gun sales. Texans sure are fearful folks.
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Jim Cassidy
6 years
@BudgeOutHMFC These people are a stain on @JamTarts For the second time in as many weeks Hearts 'fans' are involved in sick behaviour away from the ground. People like this are a stain on Scottish football. Thank goodness there are some fans like yourself who aren't willing to put up with it.
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Jim Cassidy
5 years
@RuthDavidsonMSP Now he is risen, he must take responsibility for the mess he has made.
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Jim Cassidy
6 years
As an @RMTunion member who is sick of seeing our industry suffer constant attacks from @scottishlabour I'd ask them to support getting powers #ForScotland and to stop using the railway as a convenient punch bag.
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Jim Cassidy
3 years
It speaks volumes when an MP and candidate to be MSP is having to hit the doorsteps on their own. SNP activists are ditching the SNP having seen that #ListVoteALBA is the way to go.
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Jim Cassidy
5 years
Every picture of Saturdays All Under One Banner march that you share makes a unionist cry. Please like and share! 😂 #IndyRef2 #DissolveTheUnion #ForScotland #AUOBPerth
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Jim Cassidy
3 months
@DanielJMath1 A few hours later...
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Jim Cassidy
5 years
@BBCJohnBeattie @BBCRadioScot Hi John. Feel free to join me on a cycle commute to work some morning. Bring Kaye Adams too. Then perhaps BBC radio Scotland can quit hosting inflammatory shows about #bloodycyclists
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Jim Cassidy
4 years
@BBCScotlandNews Been wearing one since March whenever in shops or on public transport. The majority of those I see saying online that they won't wear one seem to have a large amount of these 🇬🇧 in their tweets and bios. It seems some folk would rather die British than live Scottish.
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Jim Cassidy
6 months
@WingsScotland Anyone who thinks Humza alone, and over the head of his cabinet, ended the Bute House Agreement, buttons up the back.
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Jim Cassidy
4 years
@AlexHynes It would be very welcome if retailers in railway stations in Scotland stopped stocking the Sun "newspaper". #dontbuythesun
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Jim Cassidy
3 years
@brawday Why do Alba exist? Because of the utter failure of the SNP to plan for, and deliver,an independence referendum. Alba isn't the problem. The SNP is.
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Jim Cassidy
8 years
Quite a crowd gathering today to watch filming of #outlanderseason3 in #Edinburgh #outlander
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Jim Cassidy
6 years
@CllrSarah She's an ultra British Nationalist who has weaponised sectarianism and bigotry to increase her party's vote in Scotland.
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Jim Cassidy
7 years
The lengths we Signallers go to to get to work... @NetworkRailSCOT #beastfromtheast #Edinburghsnow
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Jim Cassidy
5 years
Imagine that Britnat MSPs all invested in a get-rich-quick scheme, lost their PERSONAL cash and were then offered their money back from Westminster with the proviso they sold out Scotland in the process. That's how the English bought Scotland's parliament in 1707.
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Jim Cassidy
2 years
@bbcdebatenight What planet is Jeremy Balfour on? Detestable, sadistic, inhumane, repellent policies do not originate in a vacuum. They are generated by detestable, sadistic, inhumane, repellent politicians, and are backed by their members. Don't be surprised if people detest you. #bbcdn
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Jim Cassidy
4 years
@IanLaveryMP @UandBLabour Sadly we now see former miners voting Tory. What on earth happened there?
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Jim Cassidy
7 years
@WingsScotland By Diane's logic though, apartheid was legal too, and should have been respected. Or am I getting confused now?
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Jim Cassidy
5 years
@BaxterPS @JimDOfficial He has. Many times.
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Jim Cassidy
7 years
@PhantomPower14 @BBCScotlandNews They get more brazen by the day!
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Jim Cassidy
2 years
Not easy negotiating my way round #Edinburgh today. Diverted down to the Cowgate. Enlightening.
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Jim Cassidy
4 years
Was going to buy some flowers for the garden. I'm off to buy some slabs instead...
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Jim Cassidy
2 years
To the sad individual who made up stories of an @RMTunion picket blocking the entrance to Edinburgh Waverley this morning: Please stop making false reports to @BTPScotland . Its not big,its not clever, and they know you are at it. They don't button up the back. #ToryRailStrikes
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Jim Cassidy
2 years
@poloandsons @SevilleCalculat Meanwhile, a few metres away...
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Jim Cassidy
6 years
@LVaughanJones @BBCWorld I'm not a subject. Like Charles, I detest Nicholas Witchell. Bring on the independent Republic of Scotland. #DissolveTheUnion #ForScotland
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Jim Cassidy
7 years
@giantpoppywatch @mariacaulfield @mariacaulfield hasn't even bothered putting a poppy on her profile. Says it all really.
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Jim Cassidy
3 years
"The independence referendum will happen when the people want it" says Mike Russell. We want it. We've mandated for it. Repeatedly in election after election since 2014 We've endorsed #IndyRef2 . The SNP have done nothing with that mandate. Fine words butter no carrots.
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Phantom Power
3 years
Mike Russell insists the Scottish independence referendum will happen in 2023
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Jim Cassidy
5 years
Oooh. Just walking along Princes Street in #Edinburgh when we got treated to a free sound check by @wearejames . See you tonight...
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Jim Cassidy
2 years
@PaulDiMascioSNP Why should he resign Paul? I put a petition to the Scottish Parliament which would have made it a legal requirement to step down and hold a by-election if an elected representative no longer represented the party on whose ticket they were elected on. The SNP opposed that.
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Jim Cassidy
5 years
Right @NicolaSturgeon Why aren't WE doing this?
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Jim Cassidy
9 years
MSP Elaine Smith denied supporting Better Together in this week's Airdrie and Coatbridge Advertiser. Oh dear...
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Jim Cassidy
5 years
@heraldscotland Gotta keep in shape...
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Jim Cassidy
3 months
Genuinely embarrassed by these cretins. Stop the boats? #ShowRacismTheRedCard
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Jim Cassidy
5 years
@BBCGaryR It broke yesterday, by a listener who called a talk show. The point was, how do you deal with it today. A. Ignore it, B. Deal with it briefly and move on, or C. Make it a top story given the importance of it. I'd have gone with ignore it. You seem to gone with option B.
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Jim Cassidy
8 years
@FionaHarvey2014 What a nasty spiteful woman.
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Jim Cassidy
2 years
@SouthScotlandIM Your logo and statement seem very close to that of Aberdeen Independence Movement. What links do you have to that group?
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Jim Cassidy
5 years
700 years ago on this day Scotland united to tell the world that it had the right to exist as an independent nation, and that if its king didn't behave in the best interests of the people, that the people had the right to choose a new king. Words as true today as they were then.
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Jim Cassidy
5 months
@Douglas4Moray Stand down. Your traitorous work is done.
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Jim Cassidy
6 years
@MarcusYoungM @JohnyQi @91Shahji You have some serious issues!
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Jim Cassidy
7 years
SNP vote collapsing in North Lanarkshire. 2nd Tory councillor elected.
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Jim Cassidy
5 years
@andrewgmorton Had a similar experience with a member of a shooting party in Killin. A boorish loudmouth who bored us all with views which lurched from dreams of empire to loathing if of Scottish scroungers. Later found drunk and unconscious in the hotel lift, having pissed himself.
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Jim Cassidy
4 years
@afneil Thanks to the Kent Strain the UK is collapsing. Well done you.
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