I’m not that interesting, middle aged, SNP voter since I turned 18 regardless of leader or dislike of some of their policies but draw the line at bigots
Beyond disgusted at the obscene amount of money being spent to celebrate a woman whose only achievement was being born to the right parents
#AbolishTheMonarchy
So Kaye Adams is trending because she used a dodgy scheme to avoid paying quite a lot of NI & tax & HMRC aren’t happy about it, let’s have a Radio Scotland phone in & a loose women discussion about rich folk & tax fraud
I am & always have been a Scot even if most of my ancestry is Irish, are all those claiming Humza Yousaf isn’t a Scot applying that to me as well? Of course they’re not because I’m white, it’s racism & Islamophobia & they can fuck off
My thoughts on the bile from bath”defending my womanly rights” I’m a middle aged granny not a fucking Disney princess, I can fight my own battles & transphobia isn’t one of them independence is
Hey
@BBCScotlandNews
how come you televise live coverage of Keir Starmer’s speeches but not those of our FM, as a Scot living in Scotland I’m more interested in what our First Minister has to say than what Westminster’s opposition leader does
🧵 Today, First Minister
@HumzaYousaf
gave the first in a series of speeches which will expand the economic case for independence, focusing on higher living standards.
He outlined the SNP’s fresh approach to industrial policy.
The attempt to demonise Nicola at the covid enquiry after Johnson & Sunak got an easy ride has only underlined 1. How much better she was 2. How corrupt the UK media are
#IStandWithNicolaSturgeon
So
@AnasSarwar
as you’ve just done a deal with the tories to take South Lanarkshire council when can we expect the windfall tax on the energy companies that you promised in your local election manifesto?
So a man with a conviction for wasting police time complaining about how the SNP spend their own £ led to Nicola Sturgeon being subjected to an over the top investigation but Gove & Hancock are quietly questioned about PPE corruption as witnesses!
I still want independence, I’m still an SNP member, I still support Nicola Sturgeon & I want to know why Scottish tories are calling for her to resign from our party when their leader Sunak is being investigated for lying about handing public money to his wife
Thinking about NS, wee Scottish wummin that would give you the shirt off her back but wouldn’t take any shite off you & that was my mammy & grannies, kind I hope I am & want my lassies & granddaughters to be & that’s why she’s liked, she’s us
Love how the Apologise thread is full of folk, from every part of the UK, demanding that Nicola should very much NOT apologise for saying something we all know, Jonson is a fucking clown, well said Nicola 👏👏👏
How many fucking times do we Scots have to say
#NotInMyName
before yoons wise up to the fact that the English will never stop voting for spineless wankers who skip after the US every time they say let’s go bomb some brown folk 🤬
#YouYesYet
#NotInOurName
Here’s an idea, rather than a GB energy based in Scotland let’s have a Scottish energy based in an independent Scotland for the benefit of Scots & let England develop a green energy strategy that benefits them
@carolvorders
Even non SNP voters were grateful for her during covid, we weren’t too impressed by Labour’s Lord Foulkes & Jackie Baillie who lobbied the BBC to stop showing her vivid updates
Fuck all to do with independence, Nicola Sturgeon & Mark Drakeford we’re both attempting to save lives, Gove & the tories we’re primarily interested in pocketing as much public money for as they could for themselves, mates & donors 🤬🤬🤬
Wow! Hugo Keith asks about communication with the devolved governments.
Michael Gove first dismisses concerns from Mark Drakeford who repeated asked for information.
Then Michael Gove says the Scottish government'ss responses and criticisms may have been politically inclined
So Stephen Flynn apparently looked miserable at the cenotaph, don’t know about you but I was always told memorial services aren’t the place to be laughing & chatting
All those English folk who tuned into Nicola’s covid briefings for common sense & honesty & who are amazed at how she’s being portrayed by the press, still believe the forensic tent wasn’t about discrediting her?
#IStandWithNicolaSturgeon
Quick look on here & Nicola’s been lifted in an investigation into SNP finances based on a complaints from Alba members, hey
#PoliceScotland
which stations can I make my complaints at into Tory funding & Tory corruption re public funds?
Having read what Marion Miller was tweeting I really don’t stand with her or anyone else peddling hate speech against anyone. I’m a woman & I won’t wheesht, I refuse to support transphobia
I’m gutted at losing Nicola but now I’m getting angry, now my lifelong belief in independence is personal, to all those who hounded her out of office, this isn’t over, her legacy will be
#ScottishIndependence
#IStandWithNicola
FFS, Jason Leitch has been excellent in his role especially during the pandemic, it’s disgusting to see no marks like Dross & British Nationalist “journalists “ smearing him rather than thanking him for his services to Scotland
So Suella Braverman & Nicola Sturgeon are both trending & it says it all that MSM are bumming up far right Braverman but trying to discredit Nicola who’s done her best on a limited budget to make life better for Scots by mitigating Tory policies
I’m quite amused that all those people who happily retweet Andrew Neil, who lives in France, rabidly disparaging independence are screeching that Brian Cox shouldn’t have a say as he lives in USA, hypocrisy, default setting of British nationalism
My dad way back in the 70s was out canvassing 4 the SNP because he wanted a brighter future for his kids & grandkids, it’s been a long slog & he’s got great grandweans now but we’re almost there so
#VoteSNPforINDEPENDENCE
Nicola Sturgeon is still far & away the best politician in the U.K., all these heavy handed attempts to discredit her are doing is reminding folk not just how blatantly corrupt the tories are but that not one of them will even be interviewed by police
#IStandWithNicola
I’m 59, I’ve never not had an NHS dentist & I changed dentist last year, never had a long wait for hospital appointments or waited more than an hr in casualty, see my GP no bother, either I’m Scotland’s luckiest woman or the BBC talk bollocks
Only BBC Scotland would consider a man with toothache to be an authority on Scotland's dental practices. This item is unbelievable.
Note that in Scotland 18% of dental practices are accepting new patients. In Wales, England and Northern Ireland it's 7%, 9% and 10% respectively.
I see all the self proclaimed feminists are celebrating the resignation of a female politician whose done more for women’s rights than every one of them put together
#IStandWithNicola
#WomenWontWeesht
Here’s the thing about Peter Murrel as an SNP member if a party employee embezzled our funds they should be charged what I want to see is an investigation & arrests into all the public money given to Tory donors & friends-still SNP
#ScottishIndependence2024
Don’t forget it was just a couple of weeks ago that Kaye Adams described both Humza Yousaf & Nicola Sturgeon as “not human”, she’s unhinged & out of control but BBC Scotland defend her to the hilt
Kaye Adams has just read out a message that equates Humza Yousaf's 'Tory free' slogan with Hitler's 'final solution' that saw millions of Jews murdered. Not for the first time Adams' hatred of the SNP has caused her to cross the line. Seriously, she needs to go.
“History will show that major opportunities were squandered by Nicola Sturgeon and Ian Blackford”
Joanna Cherry turns her fire on the SNP’s former leaders, as she loses her Edinburgh seat to Labour’s Scott Arthur - overturning a near 12 thousand majority.
#GeneralElection2024
Why are the BBC trying to rewrite Mary Whitehouse as a force for good? I’m old enough to remember her & she was a vile woman who was forever trying to make the rest of us conform to her right wing, ultra Christian view of the world
Hey
@jackiebmsp
you’re always demanding SNP resignations but you’re also trying to claim we have to vote Labour to beat the TORIES, why aren’t you all over this & leading calls for
#ResignDouglasRoss
? Worried it would fuck up your council coalitions
My list area is South Scotland, we currently have 3 SNP list MSPs, Alba are standing here if they get enough SNP votes then they replace an SNP MSP, if they don’t they end up letting a yoon in, how does this increase pro Indy MSPs?
The thing about BBC Scotland & it’s latest smear campaign against Nicola Sturgeon & Jason Leitch is that even British Nationalists know it’s BS, all they doing is reducing their own credibility
BREAKING: The Scottish National Party confirm they will force a vote in the House of Commons calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
The vote is likely to take place on Wednesday 21st February as an opposition day motion.
I see all the English flag shaggers who didn’t make it to the cenotaph yesterday to riot during the silence are frothing at the mouth because Stephen Flynn didn’t sing that awful dirge & had the audacity to lay a Scottish wreath with the card at the bottom
If Mone is, quite rightly, under police investigation for bribery then why aren’t the politicians she bribed? Gove is in this up to his neck why hasn’t he been questioned?
#HappyMothersDay
to all the mums out there. A special mention to these two queens, my mum & wife, who are the best mothers I know.
Mother's Day can be tough for so many, especially if your mother is longer with you. Thinking of you all ❤️
Yet the SNPs been managing to do it for years in Scotland on a fixed budget, I know young families with secure tenancies in new build council houses, perhaps Reeves should give Swinney a call
Rachel Reeves asked about whether the Government will actually invest any more public money in building homes, replies, "We need the private sector to build homes. We're not going to be in the business of building those homes directly".
While The King is trending can I just add my tuppence worth, I want to know how much public money, including security, was spent in his 1st year so the spoiled man child could pamper his ego with his various proclamations & coronation?
#AbolishTheMonarchy
If you’re in England the you won’t know this but the BBCs Glenn Campbell makes Laura Keunsberg look impartial, his hatred of the SNP particularly their female politicians is both blatant & appalling & he has no qualms about dishonesty
#ResignGlennCampbell
No Victoria,SNP have no say on wether or not the government puts forward an amendment,they did,protocol says that’s the one debated,Starmer bullied the speaker into breaking protocol because Starmer didn’t want his MPs voting for an SNP motion
“I loathe these shenanigans… Labour has had multiple opportunities to debate this issue on their own Opposition Days over the last four months”
SNP MP John Nicolson speaks to
@vicderbyshire
after the House of Commons descended in chaos over a Gaza ceasefire debate
#Newsnight
This is the same BBC Scotland who happily used social media to name Nicola Sturgeon, released without charge remember, & who frequently use social media to smear & lie about the SNP, they just don’t like getting called out about it
Off the scale irony. Adams and her colleagues have been pushing innuendo and speculation about the SNP finance probe for months. They don't like social media because it exposes them for what they are.
My husband just pointed out that Lisa Cameron will no longer have a constituency office, she can hardly expect to squat in one paid for by the SNP, I pointed out she doesn’t need one as she does fuck all for us anyway especially those of us outwith EK
Folk in England might find this hard to believe but BBC Scotland is even worse than the BBC in England, they’re so bad their head political reporter Glenn Campbell is known as Shitehawk
#BoycottBBC
#JackieBaillieResign
now there’s a hashtag anyone who has even the vaguest sense of decency can get behind, we all know her thing is constant criticism of our SNHS but she crossed the line by using a serial killer in her smears
Don’t watch terrestrial tv but reading this trend I assume Britain & England are being used interchangeably again,Scotland doesn’t have academy schools, all still council owned & run, schools in Scotland have been being rebuilt by SNP government
#Panorama
Wee bit of context here, FM in Holyrood is elected by MSPs, after Nicola’s resignation it wasn’t just Humza who put himself forward Ross,Cole-Hamilton & Sarwar did too, Humza won.👇isn’t just a loser he’s a deceitful loser
#VoteSNP2SetScotlandFree
Reading through the thread about Rutherglen it’s noticeable that SNP posts are by Scots , Labour ones are mainly English MPs, says it all really, by the way I live in South Lanarkshire & in our council it’s
#VoteLabourGetTory
& a council tax hike
The BBC has issued an apology & correction after Kaye Adams made claims about the Hate Crime Act that weren't true. The correction was published on an obscure website three weeks after the broadcast. Listeners duped by Adams will never know they've been duped.
📺
#SCC2024
BROADCAST UPDATE 📺
We have been notified by BBC Sport they are no longer able to stream the semi-finals and finals of the Scottish Curling Championships 2024. This is due to BBC Sport reviewing editorial guidelines on 'Undue Prominence'.
🧵 1/5
Just had 2 teenagers at the door, canvassing for the SNP, it really is brilliant to see young folk doing this.
#SNPbecause
our youth want an independent Scotland & it’s up to us oldies to make sure they get it
Yet he has no problem being in coalitions with them all over Scotland & what’s even worse is they don’t even have the guts to own up to it, S Lanarkshire is one of those they claim is a cooperation agreement, why the fuck would you cooperate with them?
There were several highlights from Anas Sarwar's speech. This one, where he projects his inner 'Mr Bean' as he tries to display anger, was toe-curling.
Raab in Telegraph: “I was subject to trial by media for six months, fuelled by warped and fabricated accounts leaked by anonymous officials breaching the rules of the inquiry, the Civil Service Code of Conduct, or both”. His charge…
End of the BHA is the end of Nicola’s era & I have mixed feelings about it but one thing I’m very clear on is that Kate Forbes is not & never has been leadership material especially of a progressive party
Another threatening letter from tv license, apparently I’ve got till the 14th then they’ll open an investigation into me, it really pisses me off, no other organisation whose services I don’t use keep insisting they have the right to demand I tell them why 🤬
I’m actually crying here, thank you Nicola for everything, I have nothing but admiration for you & the strength you’ve shown, for your genuine care for the Scottish people & the way you’ve grown support for independence
#IStandWithNicola
For the dickheads making obnoxious comments, Humza makes it clear he’s trying to get information from Cleverley not just about his own family but all Scots in Gaza & Israel, it’s our Jewish & Palestinian communities being deliberately ignored by Westminster
"I may be First Minister of Scotland, but in this situation I feel powerless"
Scotland's First Minister, Humza Yousaf, tells
@KathrynSamsonC4
he feels "helpless" watching his in-laws who are trapped in Gaza.
See the tories have got their bots & trolls out in force to attack Lorna Slater for the collapse of the DRS & subsequent job losses, deflecting from the small fact that it’s their boss the power crazed Jack who blocked it & bears responsibility 🤡🤡🤡
Just back from the dentist, 2 fillings & a mould made for a partial denture-£33.72, much as I hate the dentist thank Christ I’m in Scotland where NHS dentistry is still widespread & the norm
@StormySturgeon
No, it was a deliberate strategy by Netanyahu to deflect criticism of the appalling apartheid system he runs, there are plenty of Jewish folk in the world who loathe Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, attacking them is anti demotion
I honestly thought I couldn’t detest a Labour leader more than Blair, I was wrong I loathe Keir Starmer with his RW policies, lust for genocide & blatant lies from a depth I didn’t know my soul had
#VoteSNP2SetScotlandFree
@brawday
@NEisimeileachd
The whole I won’t vote for independence under Sturgeon crap does my head in, I never liked Salmond, didn’t stop me voting SNP or yes, it’s about self determination if you won’t vote for the party that can get it you’re not pro Indy
Anyone in England who’s starting to realise BBC are biased & think that Bruce & Keunssberg are awful, this is BBC Scotland, they make GBeebies look sane & balanced & Kaye Adams is one of their worst offenders 👇
Kaye Adams has just read out a message that equates Humza Yousaf's 'Tory free' slogan with Hitler's 'final solution' that saw millions of Jews murdered. Not for the first time Adams' hatred of the SNP has caused her to cross the line. Seriously, she needs to go.
Does Salmond & his ego somehow see him riding back into the SNP to take over? Does he really think either the MSPs, MPs or members would tolerate that? I doubt if even he is that lacking in self awareness, what a vindictive shit he is
Growing up in a family of political activists & listening to nitpicking arguments I always swore I would never join a political party, decided that it’s time to put my money where my mouth is, husband & I just joined the SNP
Hoyle really is scum, a weak, cowardly man whose support for Israel & pride in his father setting up Labour Friends of Israel is more important than genocide, whose desire for a seat in the HoL outweighs any morality
#YouYesYet
#SNP2Independence24
Given the events of last week, the SNP's Stephen Flynn asks the speaker of the House of Commons if he'll grant an emergency debate (called an SO24 debate) on the subject
Despite the fact that Lindsay Hoyle promised one when he made his apology last week, he now says no.
You’re probably unaware that the Labour candidate is a former Lambeth councillor married to the man who brought down Corbyn & installed Starmer, she claims to be local because they sold up & moved to Lanark, Ross is fromLarkhall & genuinely local
#VoteSNP
I see we’re back to middle aged & elderly men championing Kate Forbes & not being able to understand why so many women & the LGBT community are horrified by her because it’s not their rights she’s against
So from what I can see so far Rachel Reeves is cutting winter fuel payments, scrapping the plan to cap adult social care charges & she’ll be raising taxes & cutting benefits in October, wonder if
@AnasSarwar
will surface to explain why he called this change?
Does anyone else wonder how millionaire
@AnasSarwar
would respond if the workers at his family firm unionised & went on strike to get the living wage?
#VoteLabourGetTory
#YouYesYet
Very admirable of Fergus Ewing but it would be nice if he occasionally chose to represent the SNP constituents who elected him on the SNPs mandate rather than his Tory constituents whose mandate was rejected
“I choose to defend my constituents and let the cards fall where they may”
Fergus Ewing gives a statement after being suspended from the SNP Holyrood group for a week
Thank you so much, Mr Mayor, for extending free school meals across London for another year. Now every child in the city, whatever their circumstances, will have access to nutritious food, helping them to thrive. It takes real courage to stand alone and blaze a trail, and Sadiq's
We all knew not to believe Starmer’s BS about improving devolution but he proved it beyond all doubt today when he & the bulk of the Labour Party abstained on section 35, then they wonder why we don’t vote for them
@implausibleblog
@ricmontg
Scottish families with kids in low income jobs that qualified for child tax credits were delivered weekly food boxes,including fruit & veg,during covid,it’s all down to political choices, the SNP chose to feed kids, the tories chose to feed offshore accounts
I’m starting to suspect that some of the usual suspects who claim to be pro Indy but are trying to bring Humza Yousaf down aren’t just motivated by him not being AS but can’t stand the thought that a non Christian brown man is going to bring us independence
I know young families with new build council houses & extra money in their pockets to help with childcare costs, who got baby boxes, who get free nursery places & universal free school meals, thank you
#NicolaSturgeon
for making their lives easier
#IStandWithNicola
Finding it quite amusing that the “we won’t wheesht for indie” lot are now asking me to “wheesht for indie” because they want me to support the Salmond ego trip
Cancer’s not something I would wish on anyone, even King Charles, & it’s good it was picked up during his prostate exam but how many men are waiting for that same prostate exam? How many won’t have a cancer discovered until it’s too late?
And one of those candidates standing on Starmer’s manifesto will be Leah Stalker so why is her wife Fiona Stalker conducting political interviews on BBC Scotland? When Elizabeth Quigley married John Swinney years ago she was removed from political reporting
In the context of a UK general election there is no Scottish Labour. There is only Labour. Every Labour MSP will be campaigning for Keir Starmer's manifesto. That, and only that, is what they should be questioned on. Why? Because that's what they're urging you to vote for.
I watched Joanna Lumley on the last leg wittering on about how the garden bridge would improve her daily walk & would only cost us a £100 each & went from quite liking her to loathing her
I’m a 60 yr old granny, I grew up a long time ago & not only do I have an alternative, independence, that I’ve been voting for my whole adult life I really don’t like some patronising prick telling me I should vote for genocide supporters
@implausibleblog
Bet her son took baby boxes for his family & free nursery places,if his kids are school age I’m pretty sure he’ll be enjoying not having to pay for school dinners,folk like her disgust me, happy to take but not give,most Scots pay less tax than English
I’m delighted that Labour got a good kicking in Rochdale but Galloway? Just another reason for independence, England does like a conman & liar in politics
See it’s Lorna Slater’s turn to get attacked by the yoon bots today, FFS, it’s taking your ginger bottles back for money, how young do you have to be in Scotland to have never done that?
Baillie making a snidy comment about something that pisses a lot of Scots off & Humza jumping right in & ripping the piss out of her with obvious enjoyment, I’ll be laughing about that for days 👏🤣
#FMQs