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Me on BBC Scotland:
I'm not convinced that the majority of Scots actually want a second independence referendum right now and I don't believe that an independent Scotland would make the majority of people better off. These points matter. 250000 Scottish kids live in poverty.
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We're fed up with referendums. There is no majority for Scottish independence.
Nicola Sturgeon should, for once, focus on the day to day job of governing our country and improving public services.
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The abuse I am getting from cybernats for calling out the First Minister’s indyref2 sham is very telling. Thin skins and closed minds
We're fed up with referendums. There is no majority for Scottish independence.
Nicola Sturgeon should, for once, focus on the day to day job of governing our country and improving public services.
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I found myself a teenage single mum in 1999. Under Labour I received working families and childcare tax credits which got me back on my feet.
I dread to think what would've happened under the Tories. Don't let anyone tell you Labour and Tory governments are the same.
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With everything going on in Scottish politics you have to question: has there ever been a more patronising line than *you yes yet?*
Implying that folk who didn’t agree with the SNP were daft and that it was only a matter of time before your mind would be changed.
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Nearly 250000 kids are living in poverty in Scotland but Scottish Nationalism is different to all other kinds of nationalism and it’s definitely not about flags. Got it?
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I’m really glad Nicola Sturgeon is raising the issue of child poverty. If only she was leader of a government that could do something about it.
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The behaviour of Kate Forbes here, scrolling on her phone, is rude and dismissive.
"I'm being asked to vote for someone who thinks there's something wrong with me, not because of any views I hold but simply because of who I am. I will not do that."
Greens MSP
@Ross_Greer
sets out why his party opposes the appointment of Kate Forbes as deputy first minister.
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Scots were asked in 2014 whether they wanted independence. They were offered a white paper prospectus and rejected it. The matter is settled. I’m focused on fighting for Labour Governments in Holyrood and Westminster.
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A feminist Labour Party member’s response to Jo Swinson:
🥰 pleased woman leading Lib Dems
😣 gutted UK Labour hasn’t yet had female leader
🤔do remember her record in coalition
🔥think most people don’t care about latter as Brexit is issue of day
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Tell me this isn’t real?
Glasgow women getting ready for work this morning wearing clothes we’ve bought ourselves whilst the Lord Provost uses our Council Tax cash to go to John Lewis 🤬
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Those who look at this and still support independence right now...I want you to show how you plan to backfill that £12bn gap plus the extra investment needed to lift 250000 kids out of poverty.
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I see folk are losing their minds over this but the truth is that politicians, like everyone else, need to be able to find common ground.
If you’re a political activist and only hate how do you think you can persuade people to switch vote to your party?
Me and my favourite Labour politician
@DavidLammy
at the
#PutitothePeople
rally (we even share a birthday)
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Scotland wants to remain in the Uk. We don’t want to leave.
Me on
@ScotlandTonight
last night
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Will this reduce child poverty in 2020-2021?
BREAKING: Nicola Sturgeon to lay out Indyref 2 question, timing and terms within months
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Watching Nicola Sturgeon on Marr. This is the leaflet delivered to my house. Tell me how the SNP are locking Boris out?
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This is a fascinating interview.
I see a bloke unable to make close relationships, who claims he feels guilt for nothing, doesn't seem bothered at stirring up hate.
Attention seeking.
A loner. Someone to be pitied.
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Record numbers of kids live in poverty in Scotland. The SNP Government won’t introduce the Scottish Child Payment until 2021 and not every “eligible” family gets it until 2022.
What’s the advice to families in the meantime? Eat flags?
Majority of people in Scotland now want
#Indyref2
and would vote for independence, according to new poll in
@HolyroodDaily
- attempts by the Tories to block Scotland’s right to choose our own future are undemocratic and unsustainable.
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🚨 This requires urgent investigation.
Scotland can’t claim to want to close the poverty related attainment gap when the SQA gets to shred the achievements of our poorest kids.
Here it is.
Poorest pupils Higher pass rate reduced by 15.2% between teacher estimate and statistical moderation.
Richest pupils rate reduced by just 6.9%.
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I note Stuart Campbell keeps talking about “his team”.
He walked away from court alone and back to his bitter wee existence. He’s a pathetic piece of work.
Kezia Dugdale wins Wings Over Scotland defamation case
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If you’re heterosexual and blithely waving away Humza Yousaf’s rehabilitation of Brian Souter like it’s not significant, please go and educate yourself about the harm Clause 28 did to LGBT+ Scots. Many are STILL scarred and it’s distressing to see him back in the political
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Scotland’s poor can’t afford the cost of nationalism
Poverty rates in Scotland have started to rise and more needs to be done to tackle deprivation, a report has found.
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I agree with Richard Leonard, we should be tackling the fundamental wrongs in Scotland (like shocking rates of child poverty), as a priority over a second independence referendum.
The matter was settled decisively in 2014.
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Ultra chutzpah from the SNP here. They had to be dragged kicking and screaming to support
@MonicaLennon7
bill. Even the Tories supported it before them.
🌍 Scotland is the first country in the world to provide free period products, including tampons and sanitary pads, for all women.
📺 Here's what
@Trevornoah
had to say about our ambitious plan to end period poverty for good...
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I want to finish off the fence in my garden.
At times like this I miss:
My dad’s band saw
My dad’s workbench
My dad’s knowledge
My dad’s shed
But mostly I just miss my dad
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When does Nicola Sturgeon expect to use the powers of the Scottish Parliament to deal with kids who are growing up poor?
Nicola Sturgeon has said she expects a second referendum on Scottish independence to take place next year.
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The idea that any parts of Scotland are without deprivation or that it is wrong for a certain *kind* of person to comment about it is, obviously, absurd
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Significant apology from Nicola Sturgeon to learners who lost out in the SQA mess.
Most SNP politicians should reflect on why they put party before fairness in defending a situation which kicked the poorest kids hardest.
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Nick was incredibly talented and had the world ahead of him. Anything he did, he did brilliantly, and yet he remained down to earth. Nothing was too much of a bother to him. He’d help anyone and was so very kind.
Thinking of his family and partner. We love all of you so much 💔
"Nick has been a wonderful colleague. He was a hugely talented journalist, presenter and author – and one of those rare people who light up the lives of everyone around them."
Head of News and Current Affairs at BBC Scotland Gary Smith pays tribute to Nick Sheridan.
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“Poorer young people don’t do as well as affluent young people” especially when their grades are lowered by a model designed to enforce this idea
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This is an appalling motion by SNP MSP John Mason. This man is dangerous to women’s health and does not believe we should control our own bodies
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Nicola Sturgeon looks like she’s going through the motions on
#Marr
this morning.
Rattled on Plan B questions and lacking the drive which she’s shown for so much of her term as leader.
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Getting lots of snark from the cybernats. Let me repeat it again. Scotland does not want to leave the UK. We want to remain.
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Please don’t let Scotland be the country that crowdfunds Wings and Salmond but leaves Andy Wightman unable to afford his defence.
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This Brian Souter? Enjoy the glitzy dinner Humza
NEW: The controversial former donor Brian Souter is back in the SNP tent — and helped organize a glitzy business dinner for Humza Yousaf, FOI docs reveal
Top Yousaf SpAds even asked Souter if he could "nudge" people to attend the dinner
Story below:
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M&S till lady has done a LOT for my mental health today by IDing me 😂😂😂.
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This is why I’m a socialist not a nationalist or a unionist.
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Waving flags doesn't end poverty, doesn't educate our kids or create jobs.
That goes for Saltires AND union flags.
I'm so sick of this.
Flying more Union Jacks in Scotland is the key to strengthening the United Kingdom, according to a Conservative leadership candidate ....
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Honestly bless the SNP.
In the event of a hung Parliament their toys out of the pram option would be…letting the tories in? Aye ok.
Despite their well publicised problems, the SNP think the possibility of a hung Parliament provides an opportunity.
Senior figures are talking explicitly about
#indyref2
powers being the price of their support…
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Cos people from a working class background can’t have nice things. Get in the sea GB news grifter
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I’m seeing some craven types trying to defend this because the Provost is in the public eye.
So are our crossing patrollers, classroom assistants and care staff. Do they get free underwear and nails from Glasgow City Council? 🤷🏻♀️
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Perfectly possible to think that Boris is a walloper and still think Scottish independence is A Duff Idea (especially if you want to make people better off)
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Sophie Ridge, interviewing Boris Johnson, with an expression that speaks for 99% of the country.
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Turning 40 isn’t so bad: sun is shining in Glasgow ☀️☀️, I’ve had state sanctioned fresh air, am full of birthday cake and we’re playing disco.
Thankfully our next door neighbour has a glitter ball in his window so I know we’re safe 🕺🏻⭐️👌🏼
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On behalf of all Scottish Labour Party members I believe it is essential we get a SNP leadership debate with this guy
Leadership contender Graeme McCormick gets a rapturous reception at last year’s special SNP conference in Dundee. (He proposes a unilateral declaration of independence.)
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Who in the Scottish Govt made the political decision to ignore the scientific modelling especially around 1st years in halls?
Coronavirus spreading in universities was "entirely predictable," says epidemiologist Prof Mark Woolhouse
#Marr
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I have no idea what first attracted the court case losing Stuart Campbell to appear on a state owned Russian propaganda channel.
Loving the continued use of 'we' by both Campbell and Salmond, as if anyone beyond their tiny, angry fan base pays any attention to them anymore.
In the third in the series on leading UK political
#blogs
, we interview Scottish blogger Stuart Campbell on the origins of
@WingsScotland
, his scathing interrogation of the mainstream media + plans for
#WeeBlueBook
v2.
📺 ON:
FB
YT
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As a teacher in 2012 I became convinced that universal free school meals was the only way to tackle the stigma and prejudice around child poverty. I also happen to believe that nutritious, unprocessed food isn’t a *nice* thing to have. It’s an essential.
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An MP here, showing that the devolved NHS, under an SNP Government, is not meeting the needs of patients.
And he chose to highlight this during a General Election campaign....
Being an MP means more than just simply standing up in the Chamber and speaking; much of the job is casework related.
It's always great being able to assist when people need it the most and I hope after 12th Dec I will be able to continue helping.
#VoteSNP
#ActiveSNP
#GE2019
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The SNP are pretending that they want to end No Deal.
A reminder (especially to Labour folk in rest of UK) = the SNP want Scottish independence
SNP now on for a General Election in mid Oct - this changes the numbers significantly
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🌈 Very saddened by the decision to ban personalised &
#RainbowLanyards
at the Scottish Parliament. Expressing identity & support for
#LGBTQ
+ rights is not a "perceived bias" - it's about inclusivity & acceptance.
#EqualityMatters
🏳️🌈
NEW: Scottish Parliament staff will no longer be able to wear personalised lanyards - including rainbow lanyards - to minimise the "risk of perceived bias".
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🌹Some say third time lucky 🍀 I hope that applies now 😊🤞
I stood for selection in the seat of Rutherglen & Hamilton West in September 2022 before it was twinned in March. Due to recent events its now a stand alone seat.
Here’s why I hope to become the Labour candidate 🌹
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Instant unfollow to anyone who is tweeting that they are happy someone has coronavirus. What an extraordinarily selfish position to take.
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This, I regret, is the biggest heap of whataboutery I’ve seen for a long while.
Eva Bolander displayed a gross error of political judgement and I would expect journalists to hold any politician to account for it without fear or favour.
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I don't give a damn about SNP in-fighting but this is awful:
Glasgow City Council unlawfully turned away homeless people on 3,365 occasions over the last 12 months
The system is failing whilst the SNP fantasise over independence
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If the problem, in your mind, is that a man in a dress automatically equals *sexualised adult content* are you going to stop taking your kids to pantomime every year?
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For those hard of thought but determined to see conspiracy; I am not a Labour candidate. Sorry to disappoint y’all 🚀
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I was sceptical about this idea in the first place but after seeing prominent SNP types suggest this is a vehicle for indy why would anyone waste their time?
This is not an exercise in good faith.
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Dedicated to every woman who has suffered an infection of mansplaining
“As far as I’m aware she does not have any degree in economics.”
“I was and I remain a professor of economics.”
This is what happened when a Brexit Party MEP questioned the expertise of Green MEP Molly Scott Cato over post-Brexit trade.
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😍😍So cute how Scottish nationalism is much better than all other kinds of nationalism. A cuddly type in fact 😍😍
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I’m literally just watching the Indy Ref documentary (don’t ask) and I genuinely can’t stomach the idea of doing this again
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Not surprised Scottish Green members are disillusioned. Their party has become the SNP’s puppets.
Climate change won’t be solved with nationalism.
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Costs a small fortune for my family to travel to the mainland. Why do they have to wait for a by election for the SNP to take action on eye-watering transport prices?
@tprwills
: "I will take 20% off Northlink cabin costs, make SIC ferries free for foot passengers and secure a long-term extension of the Air Discount Scheme.
But that's just the start: I will be pushing for more."
#ShetlandByElection
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This cake contains 1kg of marzipan. I’m not even sorry about that.
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Scottish Labour has its own policy platform. Don't expect us to argue the case for our political opponents.
The majority of Scots don't want an independence referendum right now and neither does Labour. Me on BBC Seven Days
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This is an advert for a private school masquerading as a piece of journalism.
If they can pay £2.5mil for this then they can pay business rates and have VAT on fees.
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This is a big climb down for the Scottish Government
BREAKING: A public inquiry is to be held into issues at the new children's hospital in Edinburgh and Glasgow’s Queen Elizabeth University Hospital
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🚨No Apology Rant Alert 🚨
I was 20 when I bundled up me + a 13month old baby, came back from the Highlands and went to Glasgow Uni to get my degree.
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Make.This.All.Stop.
We have a climate emergency. Increasing number of children are growing up poor and we're...fighting over bloody borders. Unforgivable.
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The SNP don’t seem to want anyone talking about their record on tackling child poverty.
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Keir Starmer "I don’t want Scotland to leave the UK. I profoundly believe in solidarity across borders."
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When you’re focused on the day job not tedious constitutional issues
#OTD
1997. Labour reach 100th day in Gov. They list achievements as:
BOE Independence
Land Mines ban
Hand guns ban
Social Chapter
£1.3bn hospital building programme
Healthy school meal for every child
VAT fuel cut
NI Peace talks
£1bn for education
Devolution
Poll lead is 34%
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Things I’m learning about dogs: in the week Joy has come to live with me it turns out there is a LOT of twigs and moss outside. A puppy is a seamless transfer system to being this into the house.
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This is the most ridiculous thing I've heard for a long time. A black market in tampons? 🤣🤣🤣
We pay university tuition worth £0000s to EU students and we're supposed to be worried about smuggled sanitary pads? WTAF
SNP Government criticised over opposition to period poverty bill after raising fears over "cross-border tampon raids".
They suggested folk outside Scotland could come and take the free sanitary products and sell them.
Legitimate, or ridiculous?
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Not a single sentence about how wealth would be redistributed from the wealthiest to the poorest.
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I thought the first job of a newspaper was to hold the government to account not the opposition.
Obviously the Scottish Government has such a great record on child poverty that the Nat Onal has nothing better to do.
Honest Subtitles: We know what Richard Leonard SAID - but here's what he meant. Please enjoy our first video from
@lumi_1984
.
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Actually unbelievable that on the eve of a general election Tory politicians are trying to claim with a straight face that they represent a stable government. Kick them out tomorrow. Vote Labour
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📢ANNOUNCEMENT
Really sorry Labour pals but I’ve been found out.
I am, in fact, a TORY INFILTRATOR.
PS imagine being that angry at 5:30am wow
PPS this bloke’s version of indy Scotland looks super tolerant 😂😂😂
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For our next magic trick we will get people who already agree with us to agree with us again. You’ll never believe what we’re going to agree on at the end of this
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The Conservatives do not deserve to be in government. They think nothing of misleading the public
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I don’t understand how a convicted sex offender can remain as a councillor in Aberdeen and someone who has admitted pestering a young boy, as Derek Mackay has, continues to hold public office.
'It’s gross misconduct, the rest of us would lose our job'
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My dad took me to his union meetings and my mum taught me if there’s a picket line you don’t cross it.
@IsabelHardman
@jessphillips
My mum, a teacher at the local comp, once took me through a picket line so she could teach me: she was the only teacher in that day, I was the only pupil. It was dramatic, as it would have been for JRM's son with today's protesters, but quite an education.
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Imagine being the member of the establishment government party in Scotland and having so little political confidence that you campaign outside our Labour Conference.
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Proud to support my union’s campaign for an immediate £2 per hour pay rise for Scotland's key workers
@GMBScotOrg
#AfterTheApplause
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If your granny or grandpa is a Tory party member please go see them and ask them not to vote for Boris.
Sadly,
#HIGNFY
isn’t on the air during the selection of a new Prime Minister. Fortunately, the dropping of court proceedings against Boris Johnson for misuse of public office means we can now show the uncensored footage from the show in which the case was discussed.
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I met no English tourists in Ullapool yesterday who had struggled with drive due to BBC weather map bias.
#phew
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That interview didn’t need to be cut off tbh.
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Mogg on C4 news has a look on his face that I expect his wife has only seen on the five or so occasions necessary to create future employment for nanny
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The brave women and men of the Scottish Wall guards as they set out to defend free period products from the notorious cross-border tampon raiders.
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I'd prefer to discussing child poverty than the constitution, but until Brexit is resolved, Scottish Labour must have a clear 2nd ref/remain position. No trade unionist should ever fear putting a deal back to members. This honours the 2016 result and gives people the final say.
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Scottish Government and Universities Scotland have put profit before people – LabourList
Well said
@MoragInnes
👏🏼
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Patience levels after 20 seconds of walking in Edinburgh during festival =
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I want to get to a stage where I never have to think about Dominic Raab again.
WATCH: Dominic Raab explains his opposition to feminism - "what I want to do is get to a stage where we don't really think about gender."
#Ridge
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