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'.
Even by Fiona Bruce’s unionist standards that was an outrage. 100% arguing against the facts put forward by Drew Hendry. That was a n utter disgrace and utterly shameful but the rabid Brit Nat BBC knows no shame
SNP MP Drew Hendry gets a unionist pile on 'including' Fiona Bruce who is supposed to be a presenter, but he holds his own and swats them away.
@bbcquestiontime
are a disgrace, no other politician faces this hostility.😡
@msm_monitor
As a Chartered Accountant I suggest that it cannot possibly be the case that £600k is unaccounted for. One may, or may not, be delighted with what the money is spent on, but that is not the same thing at all. Anyone else of the view that it is Adams who is unaccountable?😇
@JohnSimpsonNews
@itvnews
@SkyNews
@BBCNews
@Ofcom
@GBNEWS
BBC Scotland News is Brit Nat propaganda. Much of it is achieved by omitting highly relevant facts. Their purpose is saving the “Precious Union”.
It is never Unspun unlike your own programme which I watch to REALLY hear what is happening.
The lead story on BBC Wales evening news tonight was a call from Wales' children's commissioner for the Labour led Welsh Govt to copy the £25 child payment allowance which was introduced in Scotland by the SNP. You won't hear *that* on Good Morning Scotland.
Except Nicola Sturgeon's Action was not "draconian" as
Coates says. Far from it, her position was rational and scientifically based, not prejudiced nonsense as per Boris the Buffoon.
@AnasSarwar
Sarwar: they have been offered better pay and conditions. This offer is better than already accepted in Sheffield. You are using the membership for your own political ends. WE SEE YOU
Starmer & Sarwar have ever repudiated Nandy’s views-blocking of a referendum is straight out of the Spanish playbook re Catalonia. Labour wish there had never been an IndyRef, never mind an IndyRef2. They wish to rule Scotland without the bother of winning an election in Scotland
@lisanandy
@LGA_Labour
Lisa Nandy who wants to use batons,riot police and tear gas against a people on these islands, their crime in Lisa Nandy eyes is they democratly voted for a government of their choice, Lisa Nandy says they should not have a vote, unless its a vote for Lisa Nandy.
@BBCJamesCook
James Cook: I notice that you adopted what now appears to be BBC standard approach to Scottish Government spokespeople. You did not merely ask additional questions to Nicola Sturgeon (acceptable) but repeatedly interrupted her in mid reply. impartiality😡
She favours Scottish independence that is why she is being attacked. Does anyone expect the Labour First Minister to be treated as if he is a hostile witness which is what is happening here?
Anyone would think Nicola Sturgeon had done or said something so terrible like “Let the body’s pile high” ,handed out PPE contracts to her mates and wanted a herd immunity approach while deliberately allowing mass gatherings.
She’s a leader and a successful one ,that’s all.
The position of Secretary of State for Scotland should have been abolished when Holyrood was created. In the hands of Jack it is a propaganda outfit and a mechanism for blocking the exercise of devolved powers by Holyrood.
Even a lot of Singaporeans, just like too many Scots today, believed that independence would not work for them. In fact it has been an absolute triumph, as would be an independent Scotland
BBC: 'People not charged with a crime are entitled to privacy. Speculation is unwise and could damage an innocent person's reputation for life.'
Care to explain this then?
#BBCscandal
#bbcpresenter
@GMBGarySmith
Aye. Labour will save you like they saved the Scottish car industry, the Scottish steel industry, the Scottish coal industry-and wasted the incredible opportunity of Scottish oil.
IDIOTS!!
Many Scots seem too embarrassed to admit being conned. Nobody should ever consider voting Labour when, in full knowledge of the value of North Sea oil, Donald Dewar declared an independent Scotland would be as poor as Bangladesh, then the poorest in the World. DO NOT TRUST LABOUR
@AnasSarwar
Sarwar: I agree that Ferrier was unquestionably wrong in her actions, but It is untrue to say that she left people “voiceless”. I literally saw her on numerous occasions speaking in the Commons and I understand she continued constituency surgery work. Why lie???
Healey later stated the Scots should have realised the oil was far more valuable than WM was pretending. This is 1987 when Labour pretended the oil was running out. Some context-Norway did not even start its $trillion+ oil fund until the 1990s. Labour are NOT on Scotland’s side!
@marc4indy
Was ever a nation so badly served by its journalists? They have all in effect taken the Westminster shilling-they are the true descendants of the “parcel of rogues”
@RuthDavidsonPC
@galledin2
Davidson: any comment on Boris Johnson who “elevated”you to the Lords? He has resisted handing over ANY Whats App messages having the UK government spend £200,000. Hypocrisy from you, as usual
Watch this clip from BBC Wales evening news to see just how bad things are with the Welsh NHS. They are in very, very real trouble. Labour has run Wales for decades. Anas Sarwar should be confronted with this the next time he claims the SNP has failed the Scottish NHS.
@AnasSarwar
Sarwar: That is not what Labour in Wales are saying, you complete and utter liar. They recognise that it is the Tories who are to blame, the same Tories with whom you are in alliance in many councils in Scotland.
@jackiebmsp
@ScottishLabour
I guess you turned a Nelson eye to the STV IPSOS poll out today showing the SNP 10% ahead of Labour?. I think the change has been and gone already. One look at Shanks abstaining on Gaza let many realise the only change with Labour is NO change
@IanMurrayMP
@Keir_Starmer
Ian Murray: Labour run Birmingham has just effectively declared bankruptcy due to cost of equal pay claims. Solved in Glasgow by the SNP who prevented a similar outcome in Glasgow caused by Labour failures.Labour are bussing people to Rutherglen to tell Scots how to govern!!!😳😂
He is treated in exactly the same obsequious way as Ruth Davidson was treated when BBC Scotland invented her, and fell for their own propaganda that she would soon be FM. I bet Sarwar will never be FM either😇
Anyone remember Anas Sarwar appeared on Debate Night during the Rutherglen & HW by-election? He repeatedly attacked council tax rises. BBC Scotland is always quick to platform this guy, but never wants to question him on his past comments.
I suspect they would be much more revealing about these Brit Nat unionists who showed no real concern for people during the pandemic, merely a desire to politicise Covid to fulfil their political ambitions. Anyone who thinks Boris did a better job than Sturgeon is blinded by bias
@KennyFarq
@ruth_wishart
Farquharson: you are just trolling now. Even if everyone in Scotland on the electoral register had voted Labour at the last GE, Johnson would still have had a substantial majority. You know this, so why try to deceive? I guess it is "Precious Union" first, Scotland last for you!
Labour in power in Wales throughout the 21st Century-an unintended warning to Scotland never to let their “Scottish” branch office anywhere near power in Scotland. Voting Labour in Scotland would be an act of self harm
@GlasgowPam
@ScottishLabour
Pam: utter nonsense. The Scottish parliament has behaved in the correct way, supported by your party. There is no equivalence between SG and Westminster. Have some self respect and recognise that
@camillahmturner
Turner: so the Scottish Government had legitimate options and took one of which the Daily Telegraph 😂😂😂disapproved. So bloody what???😇
@carolvorders
Carol: Funny but sad how Labour leaning people in England nearly always have more than a tinge of imperialism/ English or British nationalism in their political makeup, but just cannot recognise that in themselves
Jackie Baillie doesn’t think what is happening in Labour run Wales is relevant to Scotland. I and many others believe that Wales is in fact a profound warning to Scotland to keep an ever incompetent Labour branch office well away from power!
Just in case you weren't aware, the Labour Govt in Wales is still facing strikes in the NHS. Yes, Anas Sarwar's party are presiding over a Welsh NHS that's far worse than its Scottish counterpart. Anas Sarwar would make things worse in Scotland. Far worse.
What sort of equal Union is it (I know, I know😳) where the solitary Labour MP in Scotland can say with a straight face (without challenge by the Sky interviewer who later gives Humza a hard time) that his party will block the elected wishes of the majority Scottish parliament?
Well said. Labour MPs are coming up from England to Rutherglen in search of restoring Scotland’s MPs to lobby fodder status. Scotland as Scotland is of no interest to them and its needs will be ignored for the”greater good” of British nationalism.
@GlasgowPam
You young lady should actually be ashamed of yourself! This happened under your
#Labour
party & the
#SNP
have built new schools I am surrounded by 3 in my town! Upgraded & maintained others so don’t come on here with your opportunistic clap trap! McConnell sent back £1.5 Billion!
Describing an A&E Dept at a Scottish hospital as "like a war zone" is particularly tasteless given the situation in Gaza right now. What is it about BBC Scotland presenters that they routinely treat exaggerated text messages from unknown sources as though tablets of stone?
@msm_monitor
In the case of Laura Maxwell there is no question. She is pro-Union, anti-SNP. It is probably the very reason that BBC Scotland employ her😇
Here’s your ‘Hate March’
@SuellaBraverman
fuelled by you, with St George flags shouting “England till I die” marching to ‘defend’ the Cenotaph, rioting, attacking the police, disrupting the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month
#RemembanceDay
🇵🇸🕊️
@StephenFlynnSNP
@Strocky2010
Who knew that the surely satirically named “Scotsman” has next to zero understanding of Scotland? It does explain the woeful spinning of its pro Union news stories and its constant editorials opposing the actions of the Scottish Government.
@RuthDavidsonPC
Davidson: you are the political plank who swore there was no chance of BorisJohnson becoming PM and that the only way to stay in the EU was to vote against independence. Aeay and sleep in the Lords!
@msm_monitor
BBC Scotland is literally a broadcaster controlled from outwith Scotland as broadcasting is not devolved. As its controllers oppose Scottish independence, this attitude informs all its output, and those who most strongly fulfil this approach are the ones promoted.
The Labour Party were co-conspirators with the Tory Party in suppressing the reality of the value of Scotland’s oil. They have not changed-Labour will sell out Scotland for a whiff of temporary power in England, and a retirement sinecurefor many in the Lords
🇬🇧Establishment deceit to rob 🏴fills me with rage!
McCrone Report buried for decades👇
'70s Norway & Sco-same oil fields.
Norway world's 2nd richest country...Lifestyle our parents should've had & future our children should be looking forward to stolen!
@afneil
Neil: what is this “UK” nonsense!!As a Scotsman you are well aware that Scottish water has never been privatised. As you are always attacking the Scottish Government perhaps you could break the habit of a lifetime and congratulate them on resisting you beloved Tory party failures
Valance speaking in glowing terms on how ‘brilliant’ Scotland’s health data was & how it helped inform huge swathes of pandemic data/policies. And how integrating health data had been done long ago, which was huge benefit to all 4 nations.
I believe WM knows that sooner or later Scotland will leave and they are actively working to undermine the economy of Scotland in anticipation of that day.
In summary then … £600 million from windfall taxes on Scottish oil and gas collected by UK Govt are being spent to undermine Scotland’s Grangemouth refinery and economy to finance a similar facility abroad in Belgium … at a cost of 400 Scottish jobs😮
#ScottishIndependence2024
I hope it a not too boring when I say yet again that Labour run Wales is a grim but vital warning to Scotland to never ever let Labour into power in Scotland again!!
So
@UKLabour
Simply do not care about NHS according to Junior Doctors....Thankfully
@scotgov
do respect our
#NHSScotland
and the wonderful people that work in it.
BBC Scotland: officially under the control of Westminster as broadcasting is a reserved matter. They are set up to support the Union. They are the BRITISH Broadcasting Corporation and literally a unionist institution
BBC Scotland is employing a complete news blackout of this extraordinary story. A candidate opposing the policies he's standing on. Imagine this was the SNP candidate publicly attacking Humza Yousaf's high-profile policies?
@GlennBBC
Glenn Campbell: that is not impartial journalism. It is Brit Nat spin. I guess you know that your Brit Nat overlords have your back and approve of your "reporting" which is indistinguishable from that of the opponents of the SNP
@LesleyRiddoch
In England Nick Robinson shills for the Tories, in Scotland he shills for Labour, who are currently the strongest defenders of the Union. He works for the BBC where impartiality is a blatant lie.
@paulhutcheon
Hutcheon: Scots see clearly that the overwhelming majority of journalists are pro Union just as you are. You would not be in your job if you were not a Labour unionist. It is true that all bar one of the newspapers in Scotland oppose Scottish independence. That damages democracy
@IanMurrayMP
Ian Murray: the dogs in the street know that the Labour Party abstention is because the proposal was an SNP one. Scotland does not need a Labour Party whose primary function is opposing the SNP not the Conservatives.
@RishiSunak
Sunak- BUT you continue your campaign to block democracy in Scotland. No section 30 but a section 35. You are clearly determined to assert you ownership of Scotland. It will not end well for the Brit Nat unionists
@mmgeissler
Martin Geissler: that was not the most important point from the interview. The most important point was that the Professor convincingly confirmed that Scotland’s water is in a much better state than in the rest of the UK. Why did you not go with that??😇😳
@magnusllewellin
BUT still not a single Tory MP from Scotland voted against the U.K. government on this issue. This unionist rag is a shameless propaganda sheet
@MrJohnNicolson
The judge should have ruled that out of order but never would. Commenting on the validity of someone else’s emotional reality is evidence of nothing but his own vindictive degeneracy and is clearly politically,yes politically, motivated. Shameful!
Lifelong brainwashing makes that difficult for many, but not quite so hard for younger people who have lived with a Scottish Parliament and therefore cannot be deceived into swallowing earlier slurs that Scots could not run their own Parliament.
@ScotNational
@Dennyclan
So the infamous 40% rule would become the 50% rule.
If enacted, I can see no other option for Scotland than that its MPs would have to withdraw from Westminster. This would be the vast majority of Scotland’s MPs, possibly even all of them.
Surely a “fresh start” from Labour will save them? Oh wait, Labour are in charge of this chaos in Birmingham, which fortunately the SNP saved Glasgow from-by saving Glasgow from the incompetent, equality denying, Labour Party😳
@heraldscotland
More utter rubbish from the Tory propagandist Tom Gordon. Implying financially irregularity but without the slightest evidence. Tom Gordon does a disservice to journalism-and democracy.
@andrewlearmonth
It is a complete abandoning of Scotland in order to gain votes in England. The Union is fatally wounded, and this is evidence that Labour realise this, though they will pretend that they do not.
A largely unremarked story of the summer is the importance of Scotland succeeding in avoiding strike action in our NHS. It really matters to service delivery and people's lives.
@IanMurrayMP
@HumzaYousaf
Ian Murray: probably a great many people who care about Scotland on a wider scale than on the football pitch, recognise that virtually ever other country outside the anachronistic UK also have the wit to run their own country as well as their own football team😇
It is deteriorating this afternoon into open attacks on Nicola Surgeon for the “crime” of even believing in Scottish independence. Of that she has been found wickedly guilty, including it would appear by the presiding judge. This should be declared a mistrial-for trial it is😡
“Scottish” Labour were-and would be again-the greatest betrayers of Scotland because the people trusted them. Labour
conspired with their Westminster owners to disguise Scotland’s wealth so that many of them fulfilled their personal ambitions. Never trust a Red or Blue Tory.
When Scotland become independent, I would like to see this scandal, and the McCrone Report used in History lessons in school. It's important that our children know the monumental scale of the organised theft of our natural resources by the English Tory red and blue establishment.
@simon_telegraph
Simon Johnson:the imprisonment of Scotland continues with the applause of the supporters of a party that has not won an election in Scotland since 1955. I know you love the Tories but let them win an election in Scotland before overruling it
@ScotNational
Conclusive evidence that the SNP were correct to be about to deselect her. I am an avid viewer of debates on the BBC parliament channel and rarely saw her making a contribution.
@ScotNational
Westminster has effectively written the law such that England de facto rules Scotland. The Supreme Court recently declared Scotland is not a colony. They should have actually declared that Scotland’s position is much worse than a colony as virtually every colony legally escaped.
@nytimes
A mis-analysis. Firstly, the Queen has sadly passed, and her influence will therefore wane. Secondly, the Union of the Crowns (1603) is distinct from the Union of the parliaments (1707).
Ruth Davidson was BBC Scotland’s invented politician before she shafted them for a place in the Lords. Now they have moved on to their true love, and invented the latest unionist saviour, a pointless Starmer puppet called Sarwar.
@GlennBBC
Glenn Campbell: if you were not the committed Brit Nat unionist that you are, you would be emphasising that Scotland is the ONLY one of England, Wales and Scotland that voted Remain. BUT that does not play to your agenda!
@paulhutcheon
Hutcheon: the SNP candidate is Katy Loudon and she cannot be blamed for any of the actions of Margaret Ferrier. Your beloved Labour candidate Shanks CAN be blamed for abandoning his anti Brexit stance and endorsing Starmer's incoherent & disastrous "make Brexit work" fantasy.
@JohnSimpsonNews
@itvnews
@SkyNews
@BBCNews
@Ofcom
@GBNEWS
John.Thank you. I assume that, understandably, you are unable to dedicate the time to watching BBC Scotland News😀. If you wish a quick study, try watching their Sunday Show today in which Mr Geissler ignores the Speaker chaos except as an intro to an unrelated attack on Yousaf.
MICHAEL STEWART 'Labour trying to welcome Independence supporters with a level of disingenuousness not seen for a long time.
“Vote for us and we’ll actively stop your ability to vote for Independence”
@murdo_fraser
Murdo Fraser: I have been watching Holyrood live today and there is no WM nonsense to prevent me calling your comment here the LIE that it is.
No “Scottish” Labour MP owes allegiance to Branch Office leader, Sarwar. Their political futures depends on the approval of Starmer not Sarwar. They know this, and will
act and vote accordingly. Hence Murray & Shanks abstained on the Gaza ceasefire motion as instructed by Starmer
@Free_to_leave
10.20am Johnson already attacking Scottish devolution as a problem in decisions and saying this must be sorted out next time. You have been warned Scotland! Next time Westminster will not be seeking to properly consult with Holyrood, but rather to make all decisions for Scotland
@paulhutcheon
Hutcheon: you seem to be in profound disagreement with Labour’s Vaughan Gething and his political analysis in Wales that the Tories are the primary cause of the financial problems in Wales. OR are you just a lying Labour propagandist???
Gordon Brown is a fanatical British nationalist who will accept any difficulties which befall Scotland rather than support independence. Scotland is expendable to him
Gordon Brown in an article in the Guardian today. The Gordon Brown who told us we'd all be Better Together and that being ruled by a Tory PM was better than independence. Who believes any of the verbiage that this empty drum bangs out?
@RealStephenKerr
Kerr: if your claim of “the terrible handling of local councils from the SNP” were true, and not just one of your fantasies, then surely the SNP would not have achieved the best council results in their history? BUT, of course, you despise the electorate’s views 😇
@paulhutcheon
Hutcheon: I expect the reason for the timings of arrests etc.
will come out in the future when historians of Scottish independence write about how independence was delayed, but not prevented, by the unethical biased journalism of Brit Nat unionism
@ImmigrSchorschi
@AlisonF24917473
@NicolaSturgeon
@pritipatel
@SkyNews
The Westminster Tory Government are the controlling colonial masters of Scotland. Gradually the majority of people in Scotland are coming to see that, and to recognise that independence is essential for a respectful relationship between Scotland and England.
@GlennBBC
Glenn Campbell. You should be thrown out of the BBC, and you would be, were your anti SNP stance not exactly what the BBC are paying you to provide.
@paulhutcheon
Hutcheon: such disgusting cynicism from you. What is the Labour run Wales increase in the Welsh child payment? It is an increase from ZERO to ZERO.
We do need a free press, but the Daily Record most assuredly is not it😡
@magnusllewellin
Puerile nonsense. The Tories are not being blocked from standing. It is entirely legitimate,as in NORMAL, for a political party to seek to defeat its opponents.