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John Ferry

@JohnFerry18

4 years

Got to say, the final season of @theSNP is a real nail biter.

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@JohnFerry18

3 years

Scotland isn't a one-party state. It's a nation administered by a party that regards itself as the embodiment of that nation & so struggles to tolerate opposition - which it sees as hostile to the nation. This is a recipe for degrading the norms of liberal democracy.

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@JohnFerry18

4 years

‘The Sunday Mail has obtained documents showing a firm – hired using public cash – demanded investigating committee members give written guarantees they wouldn’t ask a senior official crucial questions.’ Come again?

Scottish Government paid thousands to top lawyers over Salmond case

When MSPs refused to sign up to RGM Solicitors’ demands, the witness – a senior official – failed to give evidence at all.

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2 years

HMRC recommends regular self-employed folk, say a freelancer on 30K a year, keep business records going back at least 5 years. The idea @scotgov hasn't kept records from 2015 on a contract worth nearly £100 million of taxpayers money is simply not credible. #ferriesfiasco

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John Ferry

@JohnFerry18

4 years

Can we all agree now that flag waving nationalist marches, demonising of the press, and the dismissal of facts and expertise are not good for democracy?

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John Ferry

@JohnFerry18

2 years

I'm all for paying more tax to create a fairer society, but in Scotland today it increasingly feels like we're paying more tax to fund SNP incompetence, be it the ferries fiasco, the census debacle, or broader industrial & economic management failures. #ScotBudget

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John Ferry

@JohnFerry18

2 years

Looking forward to @NicolaSturgeon explaining today why Scotland becoming the first ever part of an advanced economy to cut itself off, overnight, from its treasury & associated deep tax base, as well as its central bank & currency base, will help with the cost of living crisis.

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John Ferry

@JohnFerry18

2 years

Note, Nicola Sturgeon is not launching an indyref2 campaign. She's launching yet another theatrical pretence that one is happening. It's fantasy. No serious person will buy the spin now.

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John Ferry

@JohnFerry18

4 years

Sturgeon's cold reaction when asked about the Royal visit to front-line medical staff looked pretty bad on News at Ten there, contrasting sharply with the warm response from the NHS staff themselves. Second PR mishap within a week (other one being NHS bonus ploy backfiring).

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John Ferry

@JohnFerry18

2 years

The more I think about this the more disgusted I am. Tens of billions of £s has just come to Scotland to bail us out of Covid & give us life saving vaccines, all thanks to our being in the UK, & now there’s a tax on big oil to help struggling families across the UK & we get this.

BBC Politics

@BBCPolitics

2 years

“It feels very unfair that Scotland is having to pay for the entirety of the UK” SNP’s Kirsty Blackman says 90% of the money raised by the energy profits levy will come from oil and gas “income made in Scotland” #BBCSundayshow

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John Ferry

@JohnFerry18

2 years

Absolute car crash. And she’s wrong to present secession as normal - no part of any advanced economy anywhere has ever split from its monetary and fiscal base. It would be a world first. The people of Scotland need to wake up to how extreme the SNP and their plans are.

ITV News

@itvnews

2 years

Nicola Sturgeon refused to name an expert who would argue there is a good economic case for Scottish independence when questioned by @PeterAdamSmith

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1 year

The ferries fiasco is the scandal that should have brought down the SNP long before we got to police raids and the seizing of a luxury campervan. New from me ⁦ @spectator ⁩ ✍️👇

Scotland’s ferry network is sinking, and taking the SNP with it

There has been more ferry chaos this week for Scotland’s beleaguered island communities, so much so that it now looks like the Scottish government is bringing in the Ministry of Defence to help with...

www.spectator.co.uk

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John Ferry

@JohnFerry18

2 years

Thing about Sturgeon & her colleagues constantly calling for another ref next year, they’re all on six-figure salaries & will be relatively asset/savings rich. They know they can largely protect themselves from the economic fallout. It’s regular folk who’ll suffer, as always.

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@JohnFerry18

4 years

Warning signs for any democracy: - The party holding power assumes it is the embodiment of the nation - Personality cult forming around a leader - Political opponents of the party in power framed as being in opposition to the nation - Flags, lots of flags

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John Ferry

@JohnFerry18

3 years

What currency will I be paying my mortgage in in an independent Scotland?

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@JohnFerry18

2 years

Scottish news these days (I'm watching it now on TV) is basically just as update on people trying to cope with SNP mis-management of our transport networks. Our country is grinding to a halt under Nicola Sturgeon.

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John Ferry

@JohnFerry18

4 years

As all income tax collected in Scotland goes to the Scottish Government, it has the power to make this effectively 'tax free' at no cost (just bump the payment up a bit so people get 500 after tax in their pocket) so isn't this the epitome of playing politics with the pandemic?

Ian Blackford

@blackfordian1

4 years

This is appalling. The Tory treasury appears to be rejecting the Scottish Government's plea to lift its tax on @NicolaSturgeon 's £500 'Thank You' payment to NHS & social care workers. @BorisJohnson must order an immediate U-turn on his bid to punish NHS and care workers #SNP20

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John Ferry

@JohnFerry18

2 years

Oh, hi Nicola. Errr, quick question: how did you get out of that misleading parliament thingummy...

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John Ferry

@JohnFerry18

4 years

Does @theSNP have a problem with institutional anglophobia? This certainly flies in the face of the open, civic nationalism the party says it represents.

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John Ferry

@JohnFerry18

4 years

I’d settle for a one-point plan for a Forth bridge that can function in winter, or a children’s hospital that can treat patients, or new ferries that can actually go to sea, or an education system that isn’t reducing literacy & numeracy. These. People. Are. A. Joke.

The National

@ScotNational

4 years

🚨 MAJOR INDYREF2 EXCLUSIVE 🚨 In Saturday’s National we can reveal the SNP’s plan should Boris Johnson refuse indyref2 – ask the Scottish people for a mandate, hold a legal referendum and dare Westminster to challenge it in court. Pick up the paper to read our report first. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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John Ferry

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3 years

While every country in the world was putting all the resources they had into meeting the challenge of a global pandemic, Sturgeon’s lot were holding money back and budgeting for big pre-election giveaways. Incredible. Really the epitome of playing politics with a pandemic.

Nicola Sturgeon

@NicolaSturgeon

3 years

🗳 👩‍💻 If ⁦ @theSNP ⁩ is re-elected in May, we will make sure every school pupil from P1 to S6 gets a laptop, Chromebook or tablet. In the digital age this should be as automatic as being given jotters and pencils was in years gone by. #BothVotesSNP

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@JohnFerry18

3 years

This is horrendous. How do we detoxify our political culture from what it’s become since 2014?

BBC’s Sarah Smith: Gun-toting US is less stressful than Scotland

Sarah Smith, the former BBC Scotland editor, has told how she was relieved to walk away from the “bile, hatred and misogyny” of Scottish politics.Smith, who was

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John Ferry

@JohnFerry18

1 month

The thing about this isn’t just the blatant Anglophobia but the snobbery: people eating fry ups! Beach holidays! If you’ve spent the past year doing 12-hour shifts on a hospital ward & all you want is two weeks somewhere warm to recuperate, that doesn’t make you a bad person.

The National

@ScotNational

1 month

Tomorrow's front page 🗞️ Our message to Spain ahead of Euro 2024 final 👀👇

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John Ferry

@JohnFerry18

4 years

I see some are seeing posts like this and deploying the straw man "too wee, too poor" argument & saying Scotland would just be borrowing and furloughing workers like any other country right now if we had gone indy. Let me explain why that doesn't stand to reason. Thread 1/

John Ferry

@JohnFerry18

4 years

If Scotland had become fiscally and monetarily independent in March 2016, as would have happened following a ‘Yes’ vote, this would simply not be possible. #interdependence

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John Ferry

@JohnFerry18

4 years

I’ve seen incompetence from London during this pandemic but not naked attempts to politicise it as we saw yesterday from the SNP. There’s being clever in politics & then there’s being coldly opportunist & callous. This is the latter. It’s disgusting.

Kate Forbes MSP

@_KateForbes

4 years

Tories, I understand, will always defend Boris Johnson. Labour and Lib Dems are intriguing - they'd rather attack the SNP, even if it costs Health and Social Care workers, than focus their ire on a UK Gov who just last week started to balance the books by freezing most pay.

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@JohnFerry18

2 years

We’re getting lectured about respecting democracy by people who are happy to go on the record expressing the view that they despise around a quarter of Scotland’s electorate.

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@JohnFerry18

7 months

The Covid inquiry has damaged Sturgeon’s legacy beyond repair ✍️

The Covid inquiry has damaged Sturgeon's legacy beyond repair

The Covid inquiry sessions have revealed an SNP government embroiled in secrecy, cover-up and the politicisation of a deadly pandemic.

www.spectator.co.uk

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John Ferry

@JohnFerry18

2 years

The SNP seem to be under the delusion the UK is a confederacy of independent states; a mere supranational club. I mean, they’re welcome to campaign for that if they like, but can we stop pretending the UK is not a fully fledged sovereign state?

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John Ferry

@JohnFerry18

2 months

Imagine the gall (or is it a complete lack of self-awareness?) it takes to say this given the record of her and her party over the past 10 years. Amazing

Channel 4 News

@Channel4News

2 months

“Populists are able to come in and whisper false promises in the ears of vulnerable people.” Former SNP Deputy Westminster Leader Mhairi Black says the UK could face a right-wing rebellion in the future if public services are “on their knees”.

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John Ferry

@JohnFerry18

4 years

Postscript: please stop voting for nationalists who almost ruined our country once & are pushing to do so again. The loss of your livelihood & security will be taken as an acceptable price for achieving their outdated dream of purified sovereignty around a single nation.

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John Ferry

@JohnFerry18

4 years

I spoke with some of the world's most respected macroeconomics & currency experts on the implications of 'sterlingisation' for Scotland's economy. Thanks to @spectator for publishing the result. Please read and share.

Is the SNP prepared for Scotland's next financial crisis?

As the world continues its fight against Covid-19, the Scottish National Party has been busy plotting Scotland’s exit from the UK. If the party gets its way and wins another referendum, Scots could...

www.spectator.co.uk

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John Ferry

@JohnFerry18

4 years

Scotland is heading towards a notional deficit of >25% of GDP & we actually have supposedly serious people arguing that in the next few years we should cut ourselves off from our central bank, from UK borrowing capacity, & set up a whole new state. It's zealotry. It really is.

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John Ferry

@JohnFerry18

10 months

There were 137 relevant WhatsApp groups across @scotgov . The messages of 70 individuals were asked for but were deleted. Who organised the deletion effort? What instructions (from whom/when were they given) led to this industrial-scale cover-up?

Nicola Sturgeon's Covid WhatsApp messages were deleted - newspaper report

Former first minister Nicola Sturgeon is reported to have deleted messages relating to the pandemic.

www.bbc.co.uk

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John Ferry

@JohnFerry18

2 years

Not true. As well as having significant powers over taxation, the Scottish government also has significant policy levers to grow the Scottish economy, which would deliver more spending power, and serial failure on industrial policy sits entirely with the Scottish government.

STV News

@STVNews

2 years

Key levers to help ease the cost of living crisis are still controlled by the UK Government, said the First Minister.

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John Ferry

@JohnFerry18

2 years

Can't get much clearer than this.

Representing Border

@ITVBorderRB

2 years

‘There’s no such thing as a de facto referendum’ Professor of public policy at Edinburgh University James Mitchell comments on the First Minister’s plan to fight the next UK General Election on the single issue of independence if a referendum is ruled out by the Supreme Court.

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John Ferry

@JohnFerry18

1 year

I can't work out why Sturgeon would walk away with no credible successor lined up and with a truncated process rushed into place to find a new leader when she must have known this would leave her party (and to some extent Scotland - see DRS!) in chaos. What are we not hearing?

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John Ferry

@JohnFerry18

2 years

It's fair to assume Nicola Sturgeon as First Minister signed off on the ferries contract given the size and importance of that contract, so when exactly did she do this, and why is there apparently no documentary evidence of it? #SNPFerriesFiasco

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John Ferry

@JohnFerry18

2 years

New from me @spectator : They can't build a ferry, organise a census or keep the railways operating, but when it comes to organising a grievance campaign, nobody does it better than the SNP. ✍️

The irrational cruelty of the SNP’s nationalism

Their cost-of-living demands – that Scotland keeps the revenue from the North Sea oil windfall tax – make no sense

www.spectator.co.uk

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John Ferry

@JohnFerry18

2 years

Don't worry, islanders, the SNP has a plan: they will hold a referendum next year leading to Scotland cutting itself off from its currency & tax base in 2025, creating a nationwide economic catastrophe so you don't feel singled out.

‘Catastrophic’ ferry failure by Nicola Sturgeon leaves Scottish islanders rationing

Confidence in the government ‘shattered’ after shops forced to ration essential items

www.telegraph.co.uk

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John Ferry

@JohnFerry18

7 months

Astonishing. Takes it upon himself to invite the highly controversial Turkish head of state, President Erdogan, on a visit to Scotland because "Turkey is a Nato ally." What is he thinking? Is he thinking at all? 😬

@GinaDavidson

@ginadavidsonlbc

7 months

NEW: FM Humza Yousaf quizzed on his Cop28 conversation with Turkey’s President Erdogan says he would raise human rights abuses with him should he visit Scotland and denies it was to do with getting extended family out of Gaza @LBC @LBCNewsScot

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John Ferry

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3 years

Worth noting that Scotland's implicit budget deficit is currently estimated at over 25% of Scottish GDP. This kind of increase is only possible because of a massive UK borrowing programme made possible by quantitative easing. @NicolaSturgeon 's policy is to turn that tap off

BBC Scotland News

@BBCScotlandNews

3 years

NHS staff in Scotland are to be offered a 4% pay rise, the Scottish government confirms.

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John Ferry

@JohnFerry18

2 years

That's that then. In the next general election the SNP will ignore health, education, the economy, as they campaign purely for secession. What a preposterous position the FM has put herself in. Will she cling to power and be humiliated then, or move sooner for a dignified exit?

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John Ferry

@JohnFerry18

3 years

As complex as it might seem, one thing has been clarified: Scotland separating from the UK puts state pensions at risk as Sturgeon & co. plan to use them in a game of bargaining - which they're likely to lose. How dare they play fast and loose with older people's welfare.

Glenn Campbell

@GlennBBC

3 years

“It will be for the @scotgov to fund Scottish pensions” @NicolaSturgeon says SNP position on state pension after independence not changed since 2014 But she says pensions would be part of initial negotiation with UK over assets and liabilities

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John Ferry

@JohnFerry18

4 years

Ardern is a social democrat, not a nationalist. Sturgeon’s politics has the single aim of dividing a nation because she can’t tolerate multiple overlapping nationhood. Hers is quite literally the politics of division.

Nicola Sturgeon

@NicolaSturgeon

4 years

Congratulations on your resounding re-election @jacindaardern . In a fine victory speech, these words resonate and perhaps they hold a lesson for Scotland too - “As a nation, we can listen, we can debate...we are too small to lose sight of other people’s perspective”

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2 years

An extraordinary interview: - Advocates being open-minded to a direct Nato/Russia confrontation - Advocates unilateral nuclear disarmament by the West as it would apparently put us (Nato/Western alliance) in a stronger position to confront Russia Is this for real?

Representing Border

@ITVBorderRB

2 years

NEW: Nicola Sturgeon says NATO shouldn't rule out No Fly Zone over Ukraine. FM 'shares concerns' about risk of direct military confrontation, but says should be considered on 'day to day basis'. 'Perhaps only thing' nuclear weapons are deterring is 'proper help' for Ukraine

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John Ferry

@JohnFerry18

2 years

Still haven’t heard anything on the SNP censuring MSP James Dornan for his awful statements on Sarah Smith - have I missed it?

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John Ferry

@JohnFerry18

3 years

When I was growing up in Airdrie people weren’t split into ‘real Scots’ and not real Scots. Don’t ever tell me the rise of the SNP and the nationalist movement has been positive for Scotland.

AirdrieForIndy

@AirdrieForIndy

3 years

Thank you to everyone who came along to West End Park in #Airdrie today to help lay out one of Scotland's largest flags - Scotia. The "Friends of West End Park" replaced our national flag with the union flag. Ask yourself why... Real Scots stand up #ForScotland not against it.

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John Ferry

@JohnFerry18

7 months

Summary of SNP's current secession pitch: - No BBC - Hard border with England - Economy unofficially using a foreign currency, with effectively no central bank support - End of fiscal transfers that support the public sector Who's buying this, other than fringe zoomers?

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@JohnFerry18

3 years

There are reasonable conversations to be had on how devolved funding works and how it can be improved, but the SNP's approach of constant grievance and political point scoring during a time of national emergency is both shameful and extremely counterproductive.

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John Ferry

@JohnFerry18

3 years

Me @spectator on tartan pensionsgate. Get it read!

Ian Blackford has exposed the SNP's pensions muddle

Amidst the Downing Street psychodrama, have we missed the moment the reality of Scottish fiscal autonomy finally dawned on the SNP? This week saw an extraordinary turn of events in London and at...

www.spectator.co.uk

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John Ferry

@JohnFerry18

4 years

What is the procedure for replacing the chair of a Holyrood committee if the committee members believe the chair is actively blocking the asking of questions that might be uncomfortable for a particular political party but are clearly in line with the remit of the committee?

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@JohnFerry18

2 years

From Brian Wilson, written in Feb 2021: 'One of Charles’s constituency staff had to work full-time on deleting social media abuse. There were vile anonymous messages attached to Charles’s car and pushed through his letter-box.'

Ian Blackford and the hounding of Charles Kennedy

BBC Alba, Scotland’s Gaelic language channel, is not normally required viewing for the political classes. This week, however, Lib Dems across the country were seeking it out on Freeview. The channel...

www.spectator.co.uk

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John Ferry

@JohnFerry18

3 years

When did Nicola Sturgeon become a president? The Scottish people didn’t elect her. They elected MSPs to a parliament, and that parliament transcends any individual ego.

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@JohnFerry18

2 years

This is nonsense. The key component of the cost of living crisis is inflation. Secession would create new supply-side issues that would act as an additional force pushing inflation in Scotland up even more.

Nicola Sturgeon: 'Independence essential to tackling cost-of-living'

The First Minister said that Westminster is 'not the solution to the problem'.

news.stv.tv

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John Ferry

@JohnFerry18

2 years

@NicolaSturgeon @BBCJamesCook There are two things you can do that would really help. One is to stop using inflammatory language such as labelling political opponents ‘democracy deniers’. The other is to actively eject people from your party who call people ‘traitors’.

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@JohnFerry18

2 years

So the SNP love affair with oil is back on and we should all forget about the climate crisis, right?

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@JohnFerry18

3 years

Eat Sleep ✔️ Hold back Covid emergency funding to use for electioneering Nicola Repeat

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@JohnFerry18

3 years

I see @NikitaBassi123 , who works directly for Nicola Sturgeon, has quickly deleted her tweet suggesting Scotland is colonised and subject to ‘British rule’ just like India was. These views are abhorrent and I hope the ignorance on display in that tweet is reflected on.

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John Ferry

@JohnFerry18

2 years

Some really nauseating fake solidarity-with-the-workers stuff coming from SNP MPs and MSPs at the moment amid council worker strikes, when their party has been responsible for hacking away at council budgets and power for years. Cosplaying as socialists. 🤮

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John Ferry

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3 years

Dear @ScotGovFM : Please stop using the pandemic for constitutional grievance. We live in a country with one of the world's most respected central banks & a treasury with exceptional borrowing power, which it is using for 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 benefit. Maybe ask why you wish to cut us off from that.

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@JohnFerry18

3 years

Scottish politics is so instinctively binary that non-SNP folk are falling into the trap of thinking they need to be in the Team Sturgeon or Team Salmond camp, but they don't. The massive egos, political zealotry & ruthless ambition of both characters has damaged our country.

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@JohnFerry18

4 years

Seriously, Scotland.

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@JohnFerry18

2 years

Why is @scotgov putting out constitutionally illiterate documents centred on the false premise that the UK is a supranational organisation of independent states like the EU? Our civil service should really not be used for these purposes.

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@JohnFerry18

3 years

The many billions of pounds needed to fund Scotland's bailout came automatically, when needed, thanks to Scotland's place within the UK monetary and fiscal union.👇 via @spectator

Sturgeonomics would have crashed an independent Scotland

The Omicron variant is upon us, which means the return of the Scottish First Minister’s news conferences. These can be testy affairs, as Michael Blackley, the Scottish Daily Mail‘s political editor,...

www.spectator.co.uk

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John Ferry

@JohnFerry18

10 months

I read this earlier and couldn't believe what I was reading. Returned to it a few hours later and it seems even worse. It's like she's seen the most vile comments from this weekend and tried to up the ante. That this person sits in Scotland's parliament shames us all.

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@JohnFerry18

2 years

The most interesting takeaway from this weekend (the FM's 'detest' quote is a distraction) is how preposterous the SNP leadership now appears when confronted with the economic realities of secession.

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@JohnFerry18

2 years

Lots of mistruths on @bbcdebatenight : - 'Almost 100% of Scottish energy comes from renewables.' Nope, it's a bit over 50%: - 'Scotland has a fixed budget.' Nope, it has significant tax raising powers.

Scotland’s electricity consumption isn’t 100% renewable - Full Fact

Scotland produces renewable electricity equivalent to its annual consumption, but some of this is exported. In 2020, 56% of the electricity consumed in…

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@JohnFerry18

4 years

A Scotland without an SNP government could have handled coronavirus better.

Tom Gordon

@DMScotPol

4 years

Devi Sridhar: Independent Scotland could have handled coronavirus better

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2 years

A reminder that if we had followed Ian's advice in 2014 we would, in March 2016, have cut ourselves off, overnight, from central bank currency support, leading to an economic crisis that would have made anything we're living through today seem like a walk in the park.

Ian Blackford

@blackfordian1

2 years

It brings to mind the false promises of the Better Together campaign in 2014 and the nonsense of a stable UK. The UK cut adrift from the EU and not being able to deliver a US trade deal. Time for Scotland to escape this madness and find a route back to the EU with independence.

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4 years

It is of course possible to be pro-EU while acknowledging the EU was out of order yesterday with its lurch towards vaccine nationalism, which makes @NicolaSturgeon 's - usually v-quick off the mark - silence on the issue very odd.

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@JohnFerry18

2 years

Pete Wishart has just said in the Commons that Scotland has a 'water supply that is the envy of the world'. I hear they talk of little else in the corridors of the UN.

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@JohnFerry18

3 years

Is Sturgeon planning to stand down and is getting a bit demob happy already? Very weird behaviour today.

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@JohnFerry18

2 years

Again, some day we’ll look back and wonder why anybody ever took Scottish nationalism seriously.

Jim Fairlie MSP SNP

@JimFairlieLogie

2 years

Leeks carrots tatties eggs and prime Scotch beef. All properly branded to support the Scottish brand. It makes sense for producers and retailers alike. There’s a lesson here from @LidlGB to @Tesco @waitrose @sainsburys @marksandspencer . #KeepScotlandtheBrand

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4 years

The SNP’s week in summary: - Scotland having the 3rd highest Covid-19 death rate in Europe doesn’t matter because we did good PR & remain popular - Lots of people who don’t support us are dying, which is progress - Let’s have Indy at any cost, including national bankruptcy 🤦‍♂️

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@JohnFerry18

3 years

I've put a lot of effort into @spectator pieces these last 12 months to show how the fiscal autonomy that would come with secession would be disastrous, but here's the Finance Secretary, with just a single tweet, more effectively making the case for our UK fiscal union. #upstaged

Kate Forbes MSP

@_KateForbes

3 years

Interesting development in Budget debate as Labour suggest hiking taxes in Scotland to raise an additional *£12bn* to deliver their Budget asks. That’s the eye-watering equivalent of doubling income tax revenues in Scotland from every income tax payer.

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John Ferry

@JohnFerry18

4 years

All journos attending tomorrow should agree with each other that they will all ask this question and nothing else, one after the other, until they get an answer.

Conor Matchett

@conor_matchett

4 years

NEW: Nicola Sturgeon refuses to be drawn on when she knew about discharges to care homes for positive Covid-19 patients

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John Ferry

@JohnFerry18

1 year

What on earth is a Minister for Independence meant to do? Like, really, on a day-to-day basis what will Jamie Hepburn be doing to meet his brief? 'Oh hi, it's the Minister for Independence here. Just wondering if any independence stuff is happening? No? Okay, cheerio.'

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@JohnFerry18

3 years

The really disturbing aspect of this is the chauvinism; the framing of an international NGO as unworthy outsiders to be denigrated because they're not Scottish enough. It's really sickening.

Jack Foster

@jackfostr

3 years

Responding to criticism of Green Party co-leader Patrick Harvie - who’s been accused of being an “apologist” for Nicola Sturgeon - @Ross_Greer says “it’s fair to say that Greenpeace don’t really understand Scotland”. #COP26 @LBC @LBCNews

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John Ferry

@JohnFerry18

3 years

If you’re still a member of @scottishgreens after this then you no longer get to consider yourself an environmentalist. Whatever Harvie, Slater, Greer and their colleagues priorities are, it sure as hell isn’t the environment.

Jack Foster

@jackfostr

3 years

Responding to criticism of Green Party co-leader Patrick Harvie - who’s been accused of being an “apologist” for Nicola Sturgeon - @Ross_Greer says “it’s fair to say that Greenpeace don’t really understand Scotland”. #COP26 @LBC @LBCNews

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@JohnFerry18

1 year

'In 2016, the Scottish government also provided Gupta with a three-year, £7 million loan on commercial terms to prop up the Dalzell steelworks. As of last December, not a cent of the principal had been repaid.'

Sanjeev Gupta has got to be joking

They should be pelting Gupta with tomatoes, but instead our leaders turn up to participate in the latest chapter of his hoax.

www.afr.com

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John Ferry

@JohnFerry18

2 years

How Sturgeon, Swinney etc can tell people they’ll set up a new central bank, army, navy, airforce, treasury, a plethora of regulatory and other agencies, all within 2 years and it’ll all be gravy, and keep a straight face saying it, is beyond me.

Jason Allardyce

@Jason_Allardyce

2 years

"Everything was about the optics and timing the announcements for political gain," says Jim McColl tells The Sunday Times

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John Ferry

@JohnFerry18

3 years

SNP spinners are successfully getting the messaging out that the ScotGov has 'started work' on a minimum income guarantee as if it has any chance of happening. All they're doing is consulting on the idea; a bit like how they started work on scrapping council tax over 10 years ago

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John Ferry

@JohnFerry18

4 years

- Danny Alexander was never Chancellor - No money was 'pinched' from Police Scotland (SNP insistence on central funding automatically moved budget out of VAT rebate remit as per Section 33 of 1994 VAT act) - SNP policing policy has been disastrous - Trust?!

Humza Yousaf

@HumzaYousaf

4 years

What a brass neck @willie_rennie has. Says we aren't funding Police Scot adequately, was a LibDem Chancellor Danny Alexander who unfairly pinched £125m of VAT from Police Scot while taking not a penny from English regional forces! No wonder noone trusts LibDems on Public Services

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@JohnFerry18

2 years

Precisely the correct facial expression to use when the First Minister degrades herself, her party and our democracy (and I guess by some folk's reckoning 'insults Scotland!') by calling you a 'pathetic attention seeker' in response to an entirely reasonable question.

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John Ferry

@JohnFerry18

11 months

Surely Flynn's behaviour on the show is a clear-cut example of the intolerance that is creating the toxic political environment @NicolaSturgeon complained of recently? If she's serious then this is precisely the behaviour she should be prepared to call out publicly.

Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP🔶🇺🇦

@agcolehamilton

11 months

On BBC Debate Night, @StephenFlynnSNP was asked a question he didn't like. He turned on the audience member, outing them as a conservative activist, inviting online harassment of the young man in question by nationalist keyboard warriors. Enough of these bullyboy tactics. 👇

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John Ferry

@JohnFerry18

2 years

When the First Minister insists her opponents must 'respect democracy' what she means is opponents must comply with her self-serving, narrow - and very nationalist - concept of democracy. Her instincts here are authoritarian, not democratic.

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John Ferry

@JohnFerry18

3 years

IFS report today confirming the SNP is using Covid-19 cash for electioneering. Here's a link to my @spectator piece last week on this:

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John Ferry

@JohnFerry18

3 years

I want answers from @NicolaSturgeon on practical questions. How many border guards will she employ to police the Anglo-Scottish border after she’s partitioned our island? And what currency will their wages be paid in?

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John Ferry

@JohnFerry18

3 years

What a waste of time, energy and resources separatism has been. It's holding Scotland back. Isn't it time those still clinging to Salmond and Sturgeon's failed ideology get on board with the will of the people and make Scotland the best it can be within the UK?

British Electoral Politics

@electpoliticsuk

3 years

Scottish Independence Voting Intention: NO: 50% (+1) YES: 44% (-1) Undecides: 6% (=) Undecides Excluded: NO: 53% (+1) YES: 47% (-1) Via @PanelbaseMD , On 20-26 October, Changes w/ 6-10 September.

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John Ferry

@JohnFerry18

2 years

Watching Ian Blackford on the BBC worrying about UK's current account deficit while at the same time promoting secession for Scotland, which would create a new state with a similarly very large current account deficit but with no national currency to keep the economy working🤷‍♂️

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John Ferry

@JohnFerry18

4 months

For those who don't have the time to catch up, here's the short summary of our first minister's day

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John Ferry

@JohnFerry18

7 months

Listen to this from 2021, and also the condescending tone in which it is delivered. Comes across now as astonishingly callous.

Ciaran Jenkins

@C4Ciaran

10 months

‘Can you guarantee to the bereaved families that you will disclose emails, WhatsApps, private emails if you’ve been using them. Whatever. That nothing will be off limits in this inquiry?’ My question to @NicolaSturgeon August 2021

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John Ferry

@JohnFerry18

3 years

Goodness. @Ianblackford_MP interviewed there by @petermacmahon confirming the SNP's latest wheeze to get around the reality of fiscal autonomy is to repudiate the 2014 position that an indy Scotland would look after its pensioners. Full on ex-pat fallacy stuff too. Madness 🤦‍♂️

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John Ferry

@JohnFerry18

4 years

‘When Nicola Sturgeon was told about Professor Pennington’s comments on the infective level of care homes, she brusquely dismissed them. “I don’t know where he got that figure,” she said. Might it not have been sensible to ask the professor himself?’

One of our wisest scientists is being ignored

Magnus Linklater: Ministers should have listened when Hugh Pennington warned that care homes were ‘super-spreaders’ of coronavirus

www.thetimes.com

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John Ferry

@JohnFerry18

2 years

Seems a good day to share again👇 A minority party going into coalition with another minority party to take control of a devolved, sub-state legislature does not automatically have the power to re-write the constitution of the state. That's not democracy.

Opinion | Beware authoritarians insisting we 'respect democracy'

The reasonable conversation about a clearly defined route to Scottish independence we need is being eclipsed by politicians, writes John Ferry.

www.pressandjournal.co.uk

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John Ferry

@JohnFerry18

2 years

People who say all politics is divisive and Scotland is no different are the ones who aren’t subject to political opponents placing them in a box marked ‘anti-Scottish’. They haven’t experienced their national identity being used as a weapon against them.

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John Ferry

@JohnFerry18

3 years

Whatever Cambo twists and turns we see from Sturgeon in coming days we can be sure of one thing: her positioning will have nothing to do with the climate emergency or the economy and everything to do with personal and party popularity.

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John Ferry

@JohnFerry18

4 years

SNP's ex-deputy leader knew of Salmond's 'perceived inappropriateness' 11yrs ago

THE SNP’s former deputy leader has said he knew 11 years ago of perceived “inappropriateness” by Alex Salmond towards female staff at Edinburgh Airport. Ex-MP Angus Robertson said…

www.thescottishsun.co.uk

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John Ferry

@JohnFerry18

11 months

Let me save National Records of Scotland a lot of time and effort: it failed because the SNP decoupled from the rest of the UK for ideological reasons without thinking through the consequences, thus providing more evidence that their setting up of a new state would be disastrous.

Connor Gillies

@ConnorGillies

11 months

NEW: National Records of Scotland chief exec tells @SkyNews “lots of lessons to learn” amid claims the £140m census was ‘botched’. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Boss Janet Egdell can’t tell me what went wrong after 89% of Scots eventually participated compared to 97% of English & Welsh households.

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John Ferry

@JohnFerry18

9 months

The SNP has today conceded that an indy Scotland will need its own currency before acceding to the EU and a hard border with England. I wonder if supporters of Scottish secession appreciate how significant that is for their cause.

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