There will be political commentaries. Mine is human.
@NicolaSturgeon
was one of the first to reach out when Amy took ill. During a pandemic, with everything going on, just that bit of kindness meant so much.
That is character and decency personified - and we're grateful for it.
Amy - and the entire family - are absolutely overwhelmed with the kindness, love and support from everyone.
It's been invaluable and a huge boost. Thank you ❤.
Amy's a fighter - strong, brave & determined. She's making progress and we're with her every step of the way 🥊💪
Statement from the Office of Amy Callaghan MP:
On Wednesday, Amy was found collapsed at home suffering a brain haemorrhage. She was admitted for emergency neurosurgery and is in recovery.
Our thoughts are with Amy & her family. We ask their privacy is respected.
International law now applies across the river Clyde in the
@COP26
‘blue zone’ which has now become
@UN
territory for the climate summit
Via
@Katy_McCloskey
So, just to recap: the committee have came to a conclusion about a report that's not published until Tuesday, with the final wording to be agreed, with that same committee still in the room talking about the report that's just, mysteriously, been selectively leaked.
Righto 👌
Today was a brilliant day.
By us all collectively sacrificing, sticking to the rules and looking out for each other, it means I'm now allowed to visit Amy.
Please don't let it slip. Today was just too wonderful ❤
#KeepTheHeid
Bouncer rejected me from a bar, from what I - and my Glaswegian friends - can make out, seemingly solely because of my accent.
Have to say it’s the most hostile Glasgow has felt in a full week. Nationalism is a hell of a drug.
This year was an absolute shocker. We're still here and we'll not face its like again.
Thanks to everyone who got us both through. I'll never be able to convey the appreciation enough.
For Auld Lang Syne, my dear ❤
#HappyNewYear2021
Two emotions.
❤Pride: after surviving, learning to sit, stand, walk & more, to where she is now - back on the benches - is heroic
Incredulity: despite the above, she's (typically) putting others first before her health because her workplace didn't offer reasonable adjustments
Happy 3️⃣0️⃣ 🎂 🥳
You've been through more than you should and you've overcome more than is fair.
You've done it all. Inspiring me and others in the process.
Have a brilliant day - it's more than deserved 💖
That comment from Tess White was just sad. Pauline showed the best of the Parliament - consensus, cross-party working on issues, none more so than racism - that are so beyond tribalism.
Tess was the opposite. Radicalised rhetoric based on Twitter patter rather than reality
#FMQs
Know what's good? A first term MSP - a new Minister - walking the walk and having the bottle to set boundaries when it comes to fair employment practices.
Can't have both a fairer, inclusive Scotland (or politics) then lambast folk for *checks notes* upholding workers' rights
It's entirely possible to think that Govanhill has huge, undeniable inequality which needs a community/political led response whist also reserving the right to ignore the ignorant ramblings of a beany hatted Rambo.
Don't normally like sharing this bile but must be called out. This is horrendously open homophobia. Anyone justifying it to score political or constitutional banter points are total spacecadets. The inference is clear. Get in the bin.
🚨Doing that personal news klaxon.
Delighted to join the
@ScottishTUC
on March 7th as their new Campaigns & Communications Officer.
With a cost of living crisis - and exploitative workplaces undermining workers throughout it - there's plenty to fight and win for our movement✊🏻
A lot of parliamentary staff will be losing their jobs tomorrow and through no fault of their own. It's a really brutal business. Not nice at all. I get folk will (rightly) celebrate their campaigns but just bear it in mind is all.
Shout out to all the other pretend adults who, like me, completely destroyed their sleeping pattern over the past two weeks and who return to work today having certainly only got two hours sleep. Max.
😓😣
That'll be Jo Swinson not turning up to one of East Dunbartonshire's biggest hustings, despite appearing on the
#MarrShow
this morning, due to her "national duties"
The Tory candidate also hasn't turned up. Suppose they're an interchangeable concept.
#AmyForEastDun
There's far too many people screenshotting their CHI number, postcode, date of birth and full names in pursuit of Twitter likes over basic internet common sense.
There's genuine anger in this room. As we knew, the people of East Dunbartonshire are being ignored, neglected and dismissed by their pop-up MP. Who didn't even have the grace to pop-up this evening, despite appearing on national TV this morning.
Time for change
#AmyforEastDun
Yet again, Sturgeon announces a measure before the UK Govt. If it's not a concerted attempt to embarrass Westminster, it's having precisely that effect anyway.
Something that 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 stood out today was the FM saying that, despite
#MeToo
, it's still difficult for women to come forward and report sexual harassment.
She was then asked to apologise on behalf of a man who was accused of sexual harassment. Thereby proving the above👆
Almost 10 years on from 'all clear', that's my wee Mum officially discharged from her breast cancer care. 🎀
God bless the nurses, doctors, surgeons, the NHS and all their teams.
What an utterly brilliant day x
📸My Moddies teacher, a complete hero of a guy who introduced me to trade unions, is in here taking action. Never underestimate - or undervalue, for that matter - the role teachers can have in your life.
✊Up the John-Paul Academy. Up the teachers. Up the
@EISUnion
#PayAttention
The replies to this are utterly rancid.
It's a repugnant type of human who views job losses through a constitutional prism.
Horrible news for everyone involved. Solidarity x
Today I turned 28 🎂.
I've had two homemade sausage rolls, one coffee and one beer (thus far).
I'm incredibly happy with my lockdown birthday choices.
Sláinte x
A hill I'll die on: Craig Gordon was an excellent servant to Celtic and the 3rd best Celtic goalie of my lifetime (we're talking from Gould onwards).
Horrific injury. Doesn't deserve to go out like that and I hope he doesn't.
Tottenham turn to Postecoglou as a primary candidate
Feyenoord convinced Slot to give them a season in Champions League, but there were also questions about working in Spurs' structure
It's possible to be happy that Trump is away whilst acknowledging, if not espousing, that Joe's not the messiah.
Honestly, we get it. Just gies 5 minutes to be happy with that a quasi-fascist has been given his jotters, organised & achieved - in part - by the left of America.
🗣Neil Lennon blasts the
#SNP
government, Andy Walker and the media in an explosive press conference. Don’t miss the football show today on
#Youtube
#Facebook
live and here at 4pm
#Celtic
#NeilLennon
See if you're outraged at waste on the streets of Edinburgh, be just as outraged at the paycuts suffered by the workies who have to clean it up.
Stand with them.
2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣1️⃣👋
💍Got engaged.
💉Got vaccinated.
⛳Got golfed.
Anything else 2022 throws at us, we'll go onwards with hope and optimism.
#HAPPYNEWYEAR2022
when it comes, folks. For Auld Lang Syne x
That's a year since our team started working from home. Since then, we've helped 1500+ constituents - a 42% increase - often for those most in need.
I know there's no love on for MSPs but their staff, like our team, deserve huge credit for their graft.
BREAKING NEWS Sky Sports tonight understands that
@CelticFC
Striker Odsonne Edouard has returned a POSITIVE test for being the best striker to play in Scotland since Henrik Larsson.
Not every day your better half makes the front page 📰.
@clydebankpost
reporting on
@AmyCallaghanSNP
amazing work with
@TeenageCancer
&
@TYAPSP
calling for young people to have better access to mental health support throughout their cancer journey.
Proud is an understatement.
🚨 Tune into to our Get Out The Vote Rally tonight at 7pm as we interrogate Line of Duty star Martin Compston.
✍️ SNP members can sign up here:
📱You can also watch on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube & Twitch.
My timeline has been a bin fire today. Instead, here's Alfie looking like he's about to announce his candidacy as the Dug MSP for Eastwoof* 🐶
*photo was taken in Dumbarton but I can't think of another lame dog based pun with Scottish Parliament constituencies.