OK. I'm struggling a bit here. Countless people telling me Liz Truss trashed the economy. Unless I'm mistaken, none of the measures in the 'so called' mini budget were actually implemented. So how exactly was the economy trashed?
Has anyone else noticed a huge number of tweets from people? with very few followers keeping the Dominic Cummings story going, and generally joining the pile on of anyone showing even a modicum of support for the guy.
So pleased the rug has been pulled from under the SNP. They were praying for no deal as that played to their constant grievance. So they will now have to vote in favour of the deal otherwise they are voting (or not) for the very thing they said they were against, no deal. Awesome
Following the release of Equity's apology, the members of its minority ethnic members committee - since renamed the Race Equality Committee - said they had "no choice but to resign".
No, they should have been sacked.
I truly despise this gobby, chip on his shoulder, arrogant tw*t, and the party he represents.
BBC News - Boris Johnson: SNP wants confidence vote to remove 'zombie' PM
So, according to Abbot two million people can't fill in a form by the 31st October. Really?
BBC News - Brexit: Freedom of movement plan 'will create chaos' - Abbott
Professor John Curtice tells BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland he was "absolutely" surprised by Labour's result in Rutherglen.
Where the feck has he been these past few months. Just shows how reliable his expert opinion is.
This latest poll is worrying. SNP heading for a majority. Just how much damage do they have to do, and how much money do they have to waste, before their faithful start to look elsewhere.
Well sadly for Patrick a longer video has emerged & he can be quite clearly seen coming along the one way street the wrong way and not out of the park as he said (which incidentally looks closed).
So, is the Govt Minister lying & has he committed a road traffic offence?
(3/3)
It's not only journalists who are sceptical. Every right minded person living in Scotland should be appalled at what we are witnessing. Sadly, there will be quite a few who will simply turn a blind eye because they can't or won't accept the SNP doing wrong.
‘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
Totally false to suggest Scot Gov has power to ‘remove the cap’. Power lies with UK Gov. It’s on them to scrap it or devolve the power. Scot Gov can introduce new benefits - it has already done, spending millions on child payment. But ppl still face injustice of 2 child cap.
So Audit Scotland found nothing untoward in regards to the ferry contract, according to Sturgeon. How would they come to that conclusion when they state there was a lack of a paper trail.
“I can’t believe it because I really sat there will all my family saying thank god we are not down there with all these idiots.
“But here we have one ourselves.” Elaine Johnston with lawyer
@AamerAnwar
speaking outside the Covid Inquiry in Edinburgh today.
I'm astounded at the number of tweets I've seen supporting Corbyn after last nights Andrew Neil interview. What I saw simply confirmed my opinion of both him and the Labour party. Goodness knows what they saw.
What I find so funny is these nationalists types that are telling us there is nothing to see here regarding a potentially fraudulent expenses claim of £11,000 were the very same people going apoplectic and demanding resignations over a slice of cake.
auditors employed by the SNP decided they were going to cut back the activities they were involved in and that was true of many auditors and for many organisations.
Pardon my ignorance, but auditors make their money by auditing. Why would they cut back?
My take from last night's dispatches program.
1. Swinney immediately used the 'collective responsibility' line. Meaning he's involved but will spread the blame around a bit.
2. Audit Scotland won't get very far and will be obstructed from the get go.
That Brand fellow has a bit of a problem in my very humble opinion.
It's become farcical.
He obviously sees it as a mission, but all he's doing is stopping me from watching ITV news. I doubt I'm on my own.
They must have bought a nail gun for that coffin of theirs. Tax goes up, min unit alcohol going up, shafting the holiday lets, council tax going up. Who in their right mind votes to be poorer?
SNP plans to ban sale of homes with gas boilers
VAL MCDERMID 'There will be difficulties along the way, but at least they will be difficulties we'll be dealing with ourselves and not being dealt with by those we didn't vote for.'
#ScottishIndependence
Two days after his big conference, it goes tits up. You'd think they'd have done some due diligence before making such a grandiose announcement, but this is the SNP after all.
Brussels scuppers important strand of Humza Yousaf’s independence strategy by refusing to negotiate with any politicians not authorised by the UK government.
Once the UK’s most trusted political leader, now Nicola Sturgeon is defending herself for deleting her WhatsApp messages instead of giving them to the COVID inquiry as others have.
Relatives of those who died in the pandemic say she’s lost their trust.
There was a piece on STV last night about Scottish land reforms. I didn't catch it all but got the impression they were complaining about the limited number of people owning vast areas of Scottish land.
Didn't the Scottish SNP gov, gift a whole estate to that Gupta fellow?
So why have so many Scots made their home in England? It must be awful for them living among so many people with different ethos.
Or maybe you're looking for a difference that doesn't exist.
'Everything I have learned about Scotland (since I am not a Scot) is that it has a fundamentally different ethos to England. I think it is this fact that drives the independence debate.' Excellent column by
@RichardJMurphy
.
Sir Ed Davey has refused to apologise over his position in the Post Office scandal, despite being asked to more than ten times in an interview with ITV News'
@PaulBrandITV
Respect to
@HumzaYousaf
for speaking out about his mental health struggles on
@RestIsPolitics
- It's not easy for people, particularly men, to speak out when they are findings things difficult, but it's so important people feel they can do so.
SNP Health Secretary Michael Matheson to pay back taxpayers for £11k iPad roaming bill racked up on family Xmas/NY hol in Morocco
There will still be pressure for him to hand over iPad to to Holyrood authorities to check his "assurances" that usage was for parliament duties only
To fit a heat pump to my home would cost a fortune. The existing CH pipework and radiators would have to be replaced, as it's a microbore system. That means clearing every room and lifting all floorboards. Doubt I see much change out of £15-20K. How does that save me money.
Ahead of our Spring Conference, co-leaders
@patrickharvie
and
@lornaslater
visited Star Renewables in Glasgow.
Technologies like the heatpumps developed here will be essential if we're to meet our climate targets, cut our bills, and break our dependence on autocratic regimes.
blameworthiness? Is that even a word.
More woke insanity. Prison sentences are supposed to act as a deterrent. This nonsense will encourage offending.
BBC News - Courts urged not to jail under-25s because brains are immature
Never in a million years is this a legitimate expense. Smacks of gross incompetence.
BBC News - Minister's £11,000 iPad bill is legitimate expense - Humza Yousaf
At
#COP26
in Glasgow, Scotland became the first developed nation to pledge
#LossAndDamage
funding.
First Minister
@HumzaYousaf
said
@ScotGov
leadership has helped unlock over $650 million investment at
#COP28
, showing the value of our international voice.
EXC: SNP is running out of cash following an exodus of members and the legal costs linked to the police investigation into the party’s funding
NEC was told party is “having difficulty in balancing the books due to the reduction in membership and donors”
Probably a point to be made about new MSPs being expected to live, travel, dress, spend money like an MSP for a month before they receive a salary...
Hello, unplanned overdraft... 😨
Will be asking in induction tomorrow if advances are an option.
I've blocked more accounts in the past three weeks than in my entire time on Twitter / X. The vitriol spouted by those with Palestinian flags in their bios is horrendous. The thing is, it's amazing just how many of them are Sottish Indy fanatics. So it's a win-win really.
❌Not constructive for UK minsters to undermine Scotland’s positive international work and ignore efforts to cooperate.
📝Sadly Foreign Secretary David Cameron cancelled a meeting we were supposed to have this week to discuss these issues and wrote a public letter instead.
OK, you start. How is an independent Scotland going to make me wealthier, when I already take home less than my peers South of the border because of higher taxation in Scotland?
It is clear that there is momentum towards a majority wanting Scotland to become an independent country. Time to get round the doorsteps to discuss how an independent Scotlsnd will be wealthier and fairer whilst accepting our responsibilities to tackle climare change.
Reading Wings over Scotland is quite an eye opener. It transpires there are several factions within the Yes movement who appear to hate each other as much as they hate Unionists and Tories. Strikes me, that hate wouldn't disappear in an independent Scotland. Civic & Joyous?
Ah, quite the response. Trying for a pile on?
I hope you won't be too disappointed when you don't see independence in your lifetime and you will always be British.
So in the bin you go
Don’t you just love people like this.
@TrickyDicky1954
Look at that profile. Shall we all doff our caps to the English gentleman supporting poor wee Scotland.
Shall we send children to dance at his house each night to show our appreciation.
A legend in his own mind.
Judging by the tweets defending Sturgeon by some nationalists, I get the impression they are really hurting.
They can't come to terms with the notion that the SNP is as corrupt as the political party they hate so much.
Personally, I'm cockahoot.
This is grade A bollox. I've been to Portugal every year for well over twenty years minus Covid years. Every time I have had to present a passport. Same when returning to the UK.
If we were in the EU, the French would not need to do individual passport checks.
If no individual passport checks, the process at Dover would be quicker.
The Dover queues are, therefore, partly caused by Brexit.
Not a contentious point, surely?
May 1961 JFK said in congress by the end of the decade we will put a man on the moon. July 1969 Neil Armstrong was the 1st man to walk on the moon.
In 2015 FM N. Sturgeon announced in parliament Scotland would put two new ferries in the water by the end of 2018 and 2019.
Really couldn't give a f*ck.
After three years of remainers, the ones that lost the referendum, trying every dirty trick in the book to overturn the result, I hope they implode or spontaneously combust.
🏴
@NicolaSturgeon
: "As an independent member of the European Union, Scotland would be a partner and a bridge-builder — not just a bridge to building a stronger economy and fairer society, but a bridge between the EU and UK."
The guy on the news said the the decorating fiasco isn't having much effect on the man in the street, but added that might change the longer it rumbles on. It's the media rumbling it along. What does that tell us?
@michrismason
@PaulBrandITV
From what I can gather it's in relation to a tiny percentage of the population that seem to believe the world revolves around them.
Oh, another advisor! A behavioural scientist and covid expert? Don't you have to be a virologist.
BBC News - Covid expert given government adviser role
FM taking no prisoners here.
The Oppositions' smears falling flat on their face. Anyone listening to this will have heard wild conspiracy theories being repeated verbatim by Ruth Davidson & Jackie Baillie. Your reminder that assertion is not evidence.
#FMQs
Can someone explain to me the additional council services an occupier in a detached house receives over someone in a semi-detached property or even a flat for that matter. The proposed Eye watering increases in council tax is just what we need in a cost of living crisis.
@thatfoxxybloke
@CazHcatgirl
And what are many Labour MP's saying now! They are relieved Boris is going, as he would have been the greatest threat at the next election.
Talk about own goal.
Why would anyone in their right mind pay at least £12.5K, after the grant to install a heat pump when a gas boiler can be installed for £2K.
Meanwhile, China and India are building 100's of coal fired power stations. It's madness.
This is a beautiful read. Gary Lineker is a hero.
Nobody chooses to put their children in a leaky boat unless the water seems safer than what they’re running from.
The Conservatives have become so desperate and shrivelled they are punching down on the dispossessed for votes.
The Baby Box.
Free bus travel.
Record high health funding.
The Scottish Child Payment.
Record high university admissions.
A new, fairer social security system.
More progressive income tax system.
🏴 This is just some of
@NicolaSturgeon
's legacy.
💛
#ThankYouNicola
!
Vote SNP for a better future?
So we just forget about sixteen years of abject failure.
I see the latest soundbite is rid Scotland of Tories by voting SNP. Better placed ridding ourselves of the SNP.
Lovely day for leafletting in Milnathort for
@PeteWishart
campaign. If not very cold. Vote SNP for a better future in the EU and to rid Scotland of the Tories once and for all
#Independence
#VoteSNP
I for one am glad he speaks the way he does. Political correctness is destroying our way of life. Offending someone isn't, and shouldn't be a crime. I wish people would have more backbone. I hate to think what the country will be like in another 50 years if we carry on like this.
Q: Alistair Burt said your description of PM's Brexit plan as a suicide vest around UK was "outrageous, inappropriate & hurtful" He said this lang had to stop but it doesn't. You brought shame on your party when you described veiled muslim women as letterboxes. Fit to be PM?
Is this guy referring to the daily Nicola Sturgeon show. The one she got got really crusty when asked a question she didn't like. The one where she expected a certain level of intelligence from people unravelling her word soup. That Nicola Sturgeon show?
We could also add the the very same people who are complaining about a “lack of accountability” from Nicola Sturgeon were the loudest complainers when she held herself accountable live on tv nearly every day during the pandemic.
FFS. Who do these people think they are? Sick to my back teeth of the lot of them, but every now and then someone manages to wind me up even more.
BBC News - Brexit: MPs push to prevent no-deal in law
It said the levy would tackle the impact of thousands of tourists on port communities.
I'm sure local business's be thrilled these fuckwits are threatening their income.
BBC News - Cruise ships visiting Scotland to be charged emissions tax