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Every single member of the Tory cabinet with children sends them to private schools. Not one of those schools is planning on opening any time before September.
'We owe it to children to open schools.'
Education Secretary Gavin Williamson insists that children need to go back to school and that is what the government are working towards.
Read more on this story here:
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In today’s episode of “Totally Stupid Branding” we have...
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Back in the real world, today five people died in Scotland from
#COVID__19
Bar workers have dumped a large pile of ice outside Glasgow City Chambers in protest at the new restrictions on bars and restaurants
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You forgot to add, “Which is nonsense as the Scottish Government is legally forbidden to spend more money than it has. A restriction sadly not extended to Westminster.”
But I’m sure you’ll correct yourselves soon…
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has said the Scottish Government is 'as guilty' as the previous Tory government on the country’s finances.
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The
@CommonsSpeaker
looks bereft as MPs endorse the
#PrivilegesCommitteeReport
.
Not a surprise given his long record of indulging Johnson’s lies, refusing to make him issue corrections, and gleefully expelling anyone who pointed out the lies.
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Dear Scottish Television
@WeAreSTV
,
I don’t know how to break it to you but one of your football commentators just says “we’re going to win tonight” but Scotland isn’t playing.
I know this will be embarrassing for you so maybe have a quiet word.
Love,
Scotland x
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Shame we couldn’t tune in at 7pm to watch the whole game live like a normal country.
We would definitely recommend tuning into BBC One Scotland at 10.30pm to watch extended highlights of tonight's 2-0 win over Denmark 😍😍
📺
@BBCOne
Scotland
⏰ 10.30pm GMT, Mon 15 Nov
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What ban?
Oh you mean in England?
I keep forgetting your Premiership is focused solely on England.
We said we would lift the ban on onshore wind farms.
We have.
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Thanks to
@BBCScotlandNews
for ensuring a wide range of opinions on the
#BBCLeadersDebate
. We’ve had people who are against an independence referendum all the way through to people who are really, really against a referendum.
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Kind of
@BBCScotlandNews
’ Glenn Campbell to illustrate the FM’s point about the fundamental impossibility of getting a fair hearing with his final, graceless, pointless, hysterical intervention.
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SNP win election after election: Doesn’t matter. You’ll do what you’re told.
Labour win one: We won. Get over it. You’ll do what you’re told.
'We have a clear mandate to govern all four nations'
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Credit to
@UKLabour
for excelling once again. Keith Starmer was even worse on the Sunday Show than anyone could have imagined.
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267 days at sea. 749 days being repaired. £3.2bn spend by Westminster. But, “ferries”.
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Scottish television pretending that its country is England for reasons unknown.
More than 90 arrests across the country as far-right protests turn violent.
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Today the SNP Administration in North Ayrshire approved over four million pounds in extra help for our citizens to tackle child poverty, food poverty and fuel poverty. This will be in addition to the millions of pounds from
@theSNP
Scottish Government.
Notice anyone missing?
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When in power in Holyrood over eight years
@UKLabour
built 6 (yes, six) houses.
The SNP have built over 100,000 (yes , six figures).
Maybe sit this one out.
Scotland is in the grips of a housing emergency and children are paying the price.
The SNP must act.
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Thanks
@BBCScotlandNews
. In the midst of a deadly global pandemic I definitely didn’t want to hear from the First Minister of Scotland who has all the information and is integral to the decision making process. I’d much rather hear from mediocre journalist Glenn Campbell. 🤦🏻♂️
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British Nationalists: Right lads. This is our chance. Hit them with everything we’ve got. Victory is assured.
Scottish Voters:
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Dear
@BBCNews
. He’s not the Health Secretary, he was the English Health Secretary. Happy to help.
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It takes eighteen months for driver training. Blaming the people who’ve been in charge for three weeks indicates either lack of knowledge, in which case why comment, or bad faith point making. Which do you think?
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Dear BBC, I am neither an MP nor an MSP. Neither am I the leader of a political party or have input into government. What time would you like me on next week?
Gordon Brown: Holding an independence referendum in Scotland during a pandemic and a recession "is not the right time at all"
#indyref2
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There’s that Andy Burnham on the radio demanding that Scotland be answerable to Manchester, aided and abetted by every corner of the media.
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The SNP win an election.
@BBCScotlandNews
report it with a clip of Nicola Sturgeon “defending” a spurious Tory claim followed by both Westminster and Holyrood Tories being given a platform to claim that an election win is not a mandate. This isn’t news, it’s propaganda.
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Leicester.
If the SNP is to retain the two metre rule while everyone else changes, it must prove to the public why it's necessary.
Thousands of jobs in Scotland could be saved if the Scottish Government reviews the 2m rule.
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Utterly bemused at the reporting of
@bbcnews
on the independent
#HamiltonReport
finding that the FM had unequivocally not broken the ministerial code as Nick Eardley posits that it will take a "few days to understand what this means". It means that the FM is innocent.
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Yes, it's awful.
Yes, he should go.
But can we spend a few minutes exploring how Murdoch got video from a secure government building please.
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I see that
@KayBurley
of
@SkyNews
is doubling down on her atrocious behaviour towards
@IanBlackfordMP
today rather than holding up her hands and saying sorry. Sadly not untypical of the type of metrosplaining Scotland continually suffers.
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Business was ready.
Recyclers were ready.
Scotland was ready.
All sacrificed so that Tory Westminster could prove that while they have no clue they have ultimate power over Scotland.
Great to see Lidl opening up a Deposit Return Scheme across Glasgow for plastic & aluminium drink containers - making use of the infrastructure for the national DRS here & now 💚
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The patronising “Scotland-should-be-grateful-for-what-it’s-given” mentality that’s been on display over the last 24 decades is the primary reason why we have such a large Scotland-Labour divide in this country.
The patronising “the-North-should-be-grateful-for-what-it’s-given” mentality that’s been on display over the last 24 hours is the primary reason why we have such a large North-South divide in this country.
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No it hasn’t.
So no you haven’t.
Oh wait, you’re talking about England aren’t you?
I keep forgetting you’re an England only government.
The onshore wind ban has been in place for 9 years.
We've been in government for 72 hours, we've lifted it.
That's the pace we're going to move at.
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This “story”, from people who are actually paid to write, pretends that a non-existent currency created at an unknown point in the future after Scotland’s inevitable independence will be worth less than that used by the isolationist far right Tory run rump of the U.K. Laughable.
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You’re wrong. You mean England.
Britain needs utilities that prioritise drinkable tap water over executive bonuses and shareholder dividends. Tell me I'm wrong.
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Why do you think, despite it being Labour policy, and your MSPs voted for it, only the SNP have been attacked over the gender recognition bill? And why have you accepted the Labour Westminster attacks on your stance?
(Just kidding. Of course
@BBCScotlandNews
didn't ask this.)
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Scottish Client Journalists: The SNP is declining. Sturgeon is finished. Independence is done.
Scottish Electorate: Well yes, we do support
#independence
, Nicola Sturgeon, and the SNP, thanks for asking.
#56
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Later on
@BBCScotlandNews
we have an exclusive report as we interview Douglas Ross in a nice wee park whilst he tells us how he was right all the time and our reporter nods along totally “forgetting” to ask any questions.
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The Scottish Government is training more doctors so clearly
@BBCNews
has to find a negative way to report it.
Corpse shortage due to rise in Scottish medical students - report
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Fascinating watching Andy Burnham continue his attacks on Scotland this morning, clearly calculating that his path to the Labour leadership depends on him being more of an English nationalist than Johnson or Starmer.
#marr
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Imagine thinking that this is such a great thought that you retweet your own tweet.😳
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No. Because the SNP told everyone during the election but media, including your own
@BBCNews
, refused to report it.
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The year is 2054. Scotland has been independent for 29 years. Somewhere in a basement
@alexmassie
celebrates the fortieth anniversary of writing the same column for money.
@BBCScotlandNews
still invites him on as an “undecided” voter.
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Did no one tell the KC it’s an enquiry and not a prosecution?
Nicola Sturgeon chokes back tears at Jamie Dawson KC's final question: 'The story of Covid in Scotland is the story of the hubris of Nicola Sturgeon, is it not?'
🗣 'I'm deeply sorry to each and every bereaved person'
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If you’ve been told to stop following people because you have issues with the SNP then follow me instead. But be prepared for me to change your mind.
#ScottishIndependence
is the destination. The SNP is the vehicle.
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The big take away from Cummings’ evidence? Every single thing the opposition complained about in Scotland was actually a consequence of decisions taken in Westminster by the Tory government.
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For the avoidance of doubt - this programme, to feed school children during the school holidays, was an initiative from
@theSNP
when we ran
@North_Ayrshire
council. How do I know? I started it.
@jeremycorbyn
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In which a hard right newspaper asserts Scotland is Tory English property to be kept or disposed of with no regard for Scotland’s wishes. 🤦🏻♂️
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I, for one, am stunned to find that a concerted media smear against the SNP during a general election was found to be groundless.
BREAKING: A Scottish Parliament investigation into the alleged misuse of postage stamps for general election campaigning has found no evidence that stamps were used inappropriately.
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Ooh. Ooh. I know this one. It’s because the cuts are actually to the Scottish budget, they’re made by the far right Tory Westminster government, and no one is surprised any more that
@UKLabour
shills are more interested in protecting the Tories than fighting for Scotland. Next?
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But not sorry enough not to do it again when it suits their narrative.
We have removed an image from an online news article about bonfire night which referenced previous fires in Scotland. The picture caption was attributed to the wrong location. We apologise for the error.
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During its term the SNP government has built more houses in Scotland than Labour is promising in England despite the population difference.
And, to be clear, they’re not building anything. They’re asking others to do so.
That’s not ambition, that’s surrender.
The Scottish Government needs to meet this level of ambition.
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Hiring this tired writer shows the Times is bereft of ideas.
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So is your Great British Railways going to buy Scotrail which is already in public hands?
Or did they just casually equate Britain and England? Again.
This is AMAZING 🚄🎉🚄🎉🚄
The new Labour government will finally bring our railway into PUBLIC OWNERSHIP, backed by 67% of the public
Great British Railways will be publicly owned holding company for rail franchises as private sector contracts expire
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Labour’s “offer”.
£150m or
£30m per year or
£6 per person per year or
50p per person per month
And all you have to give up is the child payment, free education, money to the NHS, etc, etc.
Or just
#voteSNP
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So it turns out that despite
@BBCScotlandNews
previously saying that individual polls showing a lead for Yes won’t be reported but a series of four or five would qualify - they still don’t report them. I’m shocked, shocked I tell you.
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Scottish MPs don't get to vote on English affairs. English MPs get to run Scotland. It's time to leave.
I have been appointed as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Scotland👇
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Things Dominic Raab will use his phone for: Checking James O’Brien’s Twitter feed.
Things he refuses to use his phone for: Saving people from imminent death in Afghanistan.
Of course, he blocked me for compiling a few clips of him saying stupid things.
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An explicit promise. A referendum. In this Parliament. Can we now stop bickering and get behind the independence campaign please.
#indyref2
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Remind me.
Is this the same lad that was full square behind Johnson and then Truss?
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On
#bbcpoliticslive
the host allows the oleaginous Tory representative to make unfounded allegations regarding Scottish Government performance but stops
@Dr_PhilippaW
challenging the misinformation. The difference is striking and appalling.
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That’s the Glasgow lab run by the Tory Westminster government. But you knew that.
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Here's the impartial
@bbcnews
presenter after
@StewartHosieSNP
pointed out that introducing the game changing Scottish Child Payment in England could pull one million children out of poverty there.
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There’s Everyman millionaire Tom Hunter asking the important questions on
#bbcsundayshow
Who’d have predicted the state of the U.K.? The SNP
Who’d have thought we’d have Johnson as PM? The SNP
Who’d have predicted the disaster of Truss? The SNP.
Who’ll he vote for? Labour. 🤦🏻♂️
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What a perverse way to frame a huge Labour Westminster cut.
The Scottish Government is unable to guarantee that it will provide all pensioners in Scotland with a universal winter fuel payment after cuts announced by the Chancellor.
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We have.
For example an ex pop star came to Scotland to shill for
@UKLabour
by pretending that Scottish water is run the same way as English water.
Can you imagine?
"'We've been lied to': Feargal Sharkey and green activists to take to streets over water pollution."
Indeed we have, indeed we have.
#floodthestreets
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I’m sure
@BBCScotlandNews
will be clearing the schedules to investigate.
EXC: Alister Jack’s deleted WhatsApps included messages to the PM about matters taking place in Scotland and to members of the Cabinet about 'specific policy' issues, it can be revealed.
It comes after he told the UK Covid Inquiry he 'did not do Government by WhatsApp'.
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Stop saying Britain when you mean England.
The private sector didn't build Britain's water utilities. The private sector has completely failed in its attempt to run Britain's water utilities. The private sector should give Britain's water utilities back to the public sector and say sorry.
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So on the day that
#covid
restrictions in Scotland are tightened
@BBCScotland
at the urging of far right Westminster Tories and sanctioned by the new Tory head of the
@BBC
decides to restrict essential public health briefings.
They're not even pretending to be impartial any more
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Labour were warned about the hole in public finances, repeatedly.
They said it wasn’t true and the media agreed.
Here, for example, is Angela Rayner pretending it’s not true whilst dreaming of all the private jet flights she can take at public expense.
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Quite appalling coverage on
@Channel4News
there. Compare and contrast the simpering invitation to the rabid Tory British nationalist to undermine Scotland with the incredibly vicious attack by the presenter on Scottish independence. They’re usually better than that.
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To be clear, and despite the label, I am not a Tory. I'm the man that upset a Tory from the
@ScotTories
by calling them Tories because, err, Tory is the name the Tories choose to call themselves. So they're Tories. I may or may not be taking this entirely seriously. 😇
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Spoiler: She didn’t.
Today I met with WASPI women from across Scotland including committed campaigners from Ayrshire. I will stand with the WASPI campaign, they have come so far.
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This is unacceptable and I can say that from experience.
In my decades of campaigning for independence I’ve been physically abused and, on one memorable occasion, when at the polls with my family someone said, “You know your dad’s a c*** son?.”
Where’s my article
@thetimes
?
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As an SNP councillor I am horribly familiar with the abuse I get when I post.
However, the other day I was tagged by
@MonicaLennon7
after a meeting we had with
@lornaslater
.
To say I was unprepared for the underserved abuse directed at these women is a massive understatement.
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In just over two months time council elections will take place in Scotland.
Given the closeness of the
@Conservatives
and their Russian donors the
@ScotTories
must give a public guarantee that this money is not being used to fight their campaign.
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Dear
@BBCScotlandNews
I’m calling for England to follow Scotland’s rules. Where’s my article?
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I see that
@BBCScotlandNews
is maintaining their self imposed omertà on identifying the owners of Network Rail, the company causing rail cancellations. It’s the Westminster government.
#RailStrikes
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Scotland was denied information from Westminster that could have saved lives during a deadly pandemic. Shouldn’t that make the headline?
Not a single follow-up check has been carried out by officials in Scotland.
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If you're wondering why
@BBCScotlandNews
is desperately trying to concoct a story around the Scottish COVID enquiry, to the extent of door stepping Jason Leitch, read this. It's distraction from Tory Westminster, nothing more.
The Covid Inquiry has revealed that genuine contracts were delayed and then cancelled so that fraudulent VIP lane ones could be put through.
This explains the mammoth £14.9bn PPE fraud.
Now it time to get all the money back and put them all in jail.
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There are few more risible sights than a London Tory journalist, Sunak’s best man and husband of Johnson’s most high profile hire, completely failing to explain Scottish politics. I struggle to find a single verifiable assertion in this dire diatribe.
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There’s an England Scotland game on
@ITVSport
and
@WeAreSTV
. The teams are being described as “we” and “they”.
Care to guess which is which?
#EverydayEnglishNationalism
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There you have it. The
@UKLabour
representative on
#bbcpolitcslive
boasting that they suspended two councillors for refusing to vote for the Tories.
We know where we stand. Time to leave.
#Indyref2023
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I’m confused.
@BBCScotlandNews
has just announced on the Sunday show that Salmond has not called on Sturgeon to resign. But
@BBCsarahsmith
was clear that he had. Who to believe? The
@BBCNews
or the
@BBCNews
? Maybe
@bbcpress
can help?
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So let me get this straight.
@ScotTories
@RuthDavidsonMSP
, late of the Bake Off, had time to break cover to condemn
@MareeToddMSP
for making traditional Scottish tablet but keeps silent on the abuse doled out by her
@North_Ayrshire
councillors to
@JoyOfTheSNP
and others.
Yes?
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Hi
@timesscotland
,
The SNP administration at North Ayrshire Council alone is planning on building over 1600 new homes by 2027.
Maybe you mean Tory England?
Love,
Scotland
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Fact check: There are no
@UKLabour
councillors in Ardrossan.
That’s why we’re spending over £170M in the town to upgrade facilities, improve the public realm and build new a leisure centre complete with swimming pool. That’s what happens when you
#VoteSNP
The sun was shining on us in Ardrossan today.
You can see in North Ayrshire what a difference Scottish Labour Councils make.
Every part of Scotland deserves local champions to fight for their area. Vote Scottish Labour on May 5 to put your community first.
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The fact that Sarah Smith is trending in the UK must surely give
@bbcnews
pause for thought as to whether she or they have any credibility in Scotland. But it won't.
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I see that
@SkyNews
is continuing their boycott of the third largest party at Westminster in favour of a far right party that has never had an elected member.
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Nice to know that The Spectator, led by staunch Scots Andrew Neil and Fraser Nelson, fully support staunch Scot Ben Wallace in his view that the British army consists solely of English soldiers and exists solely for English needs. Can we stop paying for it now please?
'It's not our job if you can't run your health service in Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon.'
🗣️ Defence Secretary Ben Wallace on the military being overstretched
Watch the full episode 👉
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For context this is the lad that got angrily upset that the Scottish Covid hospital was named after a Scottish nurse rather than an English one…
In a Scotland where 250,000 kids are growing up in poverty & 860,000 people are on NHS waiting lists we deserve better than manufactured nationalist nonsense about cafe names.
17 years in power & this is all they’ve got to say. It’s just embarrassing.
It’s time for change.
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If you’re wondering where
@BBCScotlandNews
get some of their pathetic attack lines I give you:
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He didn’t say that.
But you knew that already.
SNP spent too long focused on independence - Swinney
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Nice to see
@BBCScotlandNews
covering all angles on Scottish politics by having a Labour _and_ a Tory newspaper writer commenting on
#FMQs
. Balance, BBC style.
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I’ve read it.
It’s not.
It boils down to Westminster must stop Scottish legislation with which it disagrees whilst Holyrood must never interfere with Westminster legislating in devolved areas.
In other words it’s British nationalism writ large.
Smart thinking in this piece.
This is how Labour can make devolution work after years of division
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It’s taken less than a month for this lad to go from declaring that he’ll stand up for Scotland to declaring that Scotland should do exactly what the Tory Westminster government does.
That’s what you’ll always get from
@UKLabour
MPs.
The UK Gov has announced 196 pools that have been awarded a share of the Swimming Pool Support Fund. Leisure centres in Scotland are crying out for investment but the SNP hasn't announced any similar scheme here, despite receiving £6m to do so. Why?
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Scottish Government ministers travelling abroad to represent and promote the country is, apparently, a “jolly”.
Tory Douglas Ross travelling to New York for Scottish week with no official role is, presumably, a necessary journey?
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