Welsh First Minister, Labour's Mark Drakeford, has just said that the the UK Government's blocking of Holyrood's GRR Bill is wrong, a dangerous move, and he agrees with First Minister
@NicolaSturgeon
that it could be a slippery slope.
For anyone who needs to hear it, you are absolutely not to blame (and do NOT have to apologise) for trusting someone who you later find out to have behaved inappropriately.
From the bottom of my heart, thank you to everyone who has supported + campaigned for me over the past few months 💖. It wasn’t to be this time, but I’m so, so proud of our campaign.
Incredible results across the country; a huge endorsement of
@NicolaSturgeon
+
@theSNP
.
#SPE21
🙃 It takes some brass neck for Anas Sarwar to keep saying - with a shocking level of confidence - that Labour want to kick the Tories out of power whilst Labour is currently handing the Tories power through grubby backroom deals in councils across Scotland
#VoteLabourGetTory
📺 It means so much to hear
@NicolaSturgeon
talk about the menopause with the openness and honesty she does.
It can’t be easy to do but it’s having such a positive impact. It’s inspiring more + more conversations amongst friends and family - and that can only be a good thing!
Things I’m done debating:
1️⃣ Whether there’s a mandate for IndyRef2 - there definitely is.
2️⃣ Whether the UK has significantly changed since 2014 - it definitely has.
3️⃣ Whether the Tories get to tell people in Scotland when they can have their say - they definitely don’t.
"We are fighting health inequalities with one hand tied behind our back. We are spending £600million a year mitigating harsh, brutal Tory policies that impact on the poorest people in our society."
@MareeToddMSP
This kind of comment by a once senior politician is the type of thing puts all young women off entering politics. I hope women from all parties will call out this disgraceful behaviour from a supposed feminist for what it is.
“We’ve got to make sure in this election that we elect SNP MPs to Westminster
“Who will protect the Scottish interest, rail against austerity, take action to address the cost of living crisis.
“And make sure there is a future made in Scotland for Scotland.”
@JohnSwinney
"Brexit has put your food bills up unnecessarily.
"It has been an unmitigated disaster for the economy.
"The worrying thing for me is the silence from the Labour Party...silence on £18billion of cuts and silence on Brexit"
@TheSNP
's
@StephenFlynn
on
#BBCDebate
📺
@NicolaSturgeon
on
@loosewomen
discussing the baby box and the baby loss memorial book.
💛"These are the kind of things that often get dismissed...but I think they're important because they go to the heart of the values you have as a country and how you care for each other."
📺 Ahead of
@theSNP
conference this weekend,
@NicolaSturgeon
tells
@BBCBreakfast
:
“I was elected as First Minister on a commitment to an independence referendum - that’s
#democracy
. I was elected with a record share of the vote…on a record turnout.
We are going to deliver.”
ACTUALLY...it's not "SNP claims".
It's:
➡️ The Institute for Fiscal Studies
➡️ The Institute for Government
➡️ The Resolution Foundation
➡️ Joseph Rowntree Foundation
To name but a few...
.
@NicolaSturgeon
“My dream is that we live in a world where those fleeing violence and oppression are shown compassion and treated like human beings.”
Stark contrast to Tory Home Secretary who only a number of days ago said hers was of plane taking off to Rwanda.
#SNP22
📺 "I make no apology whatsoever for having a Minister for Independence because we need independence now more than ever before."
@HumzaYousaf
🏴 Independence is how we unleash and unlock the potential of Scotland, and escape the disastrous impact of Westminster control for good.
“We’re not here to cosy up to the Westminster status quo, we’re here to deliver for the people of Scotland”
@StephenFlynnSNP
on
@ITVNews
making it clear a vote for
@TheSNP
is a vote to put Scotland first.
I am SO delighted to announce I’ve been confirmed as the SNP candidate for Edinburgh West for the next
#GeneralElection
🥳😬😊.
So grateful to members and friends for their support - onwards!
#MassonForEdWest
#ActiveSNP
Brilliant event with
@5050Parliament
this afternoon. I was asked to speak about women leaders & whilst getting ready for it, I couldn’t get this image out of my head. This moment between
@NicolaSturgeon
,
@natalieben
&
@LeanneWood
says everything about why we need women leaders.
“We have a chance tomorrow to shape the future of our country…to design a future that’s made in Scotland, for Scotland.”
@JohnSwinney
campaigning in Leith tonight before polls open at 7am!
🗳️
#VoteSNP
🎙 Kicking off day 1 of SNP conference with a wee reminder from
@NicolaSturgeon
, on GMS, that:
“
@theSNP
has just won an election with the highest share of the vote that ANY party has EVER won in the history of devolution!”
Let’s do this 👏🏼
#SNP21
"Migration is absolutely essential to our public services.
It's absolute essential to our businesses.
And it's absolutely essential to our economic success."
@theSNP
's
@StephenFlynnSNP
clear, concise and correct on benefit of migration to our society.
.
@NicolaSturgeon
"Independence would give us - like it does other independent countries - the levers we desperately need to respond to a crisis like this.
But more than that, independence would give us the wherewithal to build a better, wealthier, fairer future."
#ScotPfG
Was such a treat showing off the beautiful Queensferry to
@NicolaSturgeon
. I think it’s safe to say she had a fab time! It was great getting the chance to chat with her about the important issues facing the area + what we can do to address them.
#BothVotesSNP
#MassonForEdWestern
The Tories are struggling to explain what looks like will be a big defeat today - saying it’s down to the fact they’ve been in power for 12 yrs.
🔥
@JohnSwinney
tells
@SkyNews
“It’s interesting because
@theSNP
has been in for power for 15 years + we’re still winning elections.”
Wow,
@NHS_Lothian
, you are bloody knocking it out the park! Staff have even choose to stagger their lunches so they can keep the queue moving 👏🏼. Thanks so much for boosting me up 💪🏼
#rollupyoursleeve
📺
@HumzaYousaf
on
@SophyRidgeSky
challenges Rishi Sunak + Keir Starmer.
“If you continue to tell Scotland that the UK is a voluntary union, then prove it.”
If people vote SNP for Scotland to become an independent country, the people will have spoken. Politicians must listen.
Made my journey to
#Yes
in time for the vote 7 years ago.
Now, in 2021, I’m
#StillYes
and more folk in Scotland have made/are making that journey too. They may not have been there in 2014 but I have absolutely no doubt that they will be for
#IndyRef2
Delighted that John Swinney has copy and pasted my free schools meals policy from September.
Hopefully his next act is to follow
@ScotTories
plans to increase teacher numbers by 3000, back to pre-SNP levels.
🤩 I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the best thing about
@theSNP
is the amount of amazing activists we have!
💛 All raring to go in Blantyre this morning. Working hard to get
@KatyLoudonSNP
elected as the SNP MP for Rutherglen and Hamilton West!
#VoteKaty
#ActiveSNP
Speechless.
Things* to be ashamed of:
❌Two Child Cap/Rape Clause
❌Austerity cuts
❌Bedroom tax
❌Not allowing refugee children into the UK
❌Voting against free school meals
*Non exhaustive
Things not to be ashamed of:
✅Feeding hungry children
“They're not just trying to scupper the DRS - they're trying to undermine devolution. We've seen it multiple times.”
First Minister
@HumzaYousaf
brands Westminster’s DRS glass ban order 'democratic outrage'
✨ Day 1 of the campaign to elect
@KatyLoudonSNP
as the SNP MP for Rutherglen and Hamilton West.
🤩 What a bonnie bunch ready to get going to elect a strong local representative who will stand up for them and for a fairer society.
#LoveLoudon
#VoteKaty
🚨SCOTTISH THEATRE NEWS 🚨
The Scottish Government has just announced a further £10 million fund to support not-for-profit venues in the performing arts sector who are experiencing significant difficulties from the impact of Covid-19.
Thank you
@NicolaSturgeon
@FionaHyslop
👏
The SNP is the democratically elected government of Scotland.
If Labour think that is irrelevant then it shows the contempt the Labour Party holds for Scotland.
It's clear only
@theSNP
will put the people of Scotland first. On 4th July, vote SNP.
.
@StephenFlynnSNP
“
@theSNP
will enter the next election with fresh leadership and as the only party offering Scotland a choice over our future, a route back to Europe, and the strongest opposition to Westminster cuts.”
Both the Tories and Labour have hastily dismissed (and deliberately mischaracterised) ambitious and radical proposals to tackle drug deaths in Scotland by decriminalising personal drug use.
Why?
Because they’ve put their animosity towards
@theSNP
above saving lives.
“Friends, let’s believe in Scotland.
Believe in the people of Scotland.
And let us not just believe in a better future – let’s make it happen!”
@HumzaYousaf
There is no unallocated pot of money.
The funding
@theSNP
has provided to give workers a fair pay deal + avoid further strike action, requires money to be taken from other areas because Westminster is not increasing Scotland’s budget inline with inflation (or, in fact, at all).
FM
@NicolaSturgeon
says she’s pleased bin and school strikes are off for now, as unions consult members on a new pay offer. But she’s warning the deal will require the Govt to take money from elsewhere in budget
@LBC
@LBCNews
👏WELL DONE, FOLKS!
@NicolaSturgeon
confirms that on 1st, 2nd, 3rd and boosters, Scotland remains the most vaccinated part of the UK.
All adults over 18 should be eligible for a booster (gap between second doses and boosters is 3 months) so let's get to it!
#RollUpYourSleeve
💪
As candidates we welcome questions on our policies and our views, but asking a candidate personal questions about whether she has had an abortion is bang out of order and I can’t believe I even have to say that.
.
@ShonaRobison
"We must be clear: all the evidence tells us that the cause of violence against women and girls is predatory and abusive men; it is not trans people. We must not conflate the two."
☀️ What a lovely morning for
@NicolaSturgeon
to launch
@theSNP
’s council manifesto.
“We live in serious times, and in serious times what communities across Scotland need is serious leadership. That's what SNP councillors and SNP councils will deliver.”
🗳
#VoteSNP
on 5th May
Never let anyone tell you that independence is separate from people’s daily concerns.
It is fundamental to those concerns.
It is about where decisions about Scotland are made.
Decisions over:
💷 Our economy.
🚑 Our health service.
🏡 Our living standards.
@JohnSwinney
Can’t put into words how revolting the sun’s front page is. For anyone who is experiencing domestic abuse,
@scotwomensaid
's domestic abuse helpline + web chat is open 24/7:
☎️ 0800 027 1234
📧 and ⌨️:
#dontbuythesun
Reality of Westminster control for Scotland:
For next year, the Scottish Government is looking to spend £3 billion to help mitigate the impacts of the Tory-made cost of living crisis.
#ScotlandDeservesBetter
Gorgeous day in Queensferry - made even better when a young woman stopped to tell me how great it is that she will be voting for a young woman, from the arts sector, to be her MSP. To top it off, she also told me about her journey from No to Yes!
#MassonForEdWestern
#BothVotesSNP
I cannot thank
@theSNP
enough for this. I could not have gone to university and would not be where I am today, without free tuition. Everyone deserves the same opportunity!
“Free tuition in Scotland is a reality - and it is a reality
@theSNP
will always protect.”
@NicolaSturgeon
makes her commitment to universal public services in Dundee.
#GE2019
#VoteSNP
People of Rutherglen and Hamilton West deserve an MP who will fight for real change from Westminster cruelty.
Keir Starmer’s U-turning to back the very worst of Tory policies underlines that Labour don’t offer any meaningful change.
Only
@theSNP
offer a real alternative.
👇 After another u-turn from Keir Starmer to defend Tory poverty policies, we’ve had to update our graphic again. This time, he’s protecting the Tories’ brutal bedroom tax.
🏴 In Scotland, the SNP Scottish Government are protecting families by fully mitigating the bedroom tax.
📻 On
@TimesRadio
,
@Ianblackford_MP
raises the VERY good point that Scotland produces more than enough renewable energy that we shouldn’t be in this mess.
This crisis is because of Westminster failure.
Independence is the only way to reach our potential for energy production.
Tonight’s
#STVLeadersDebate
made it crystal clear that only
@TheSNP
provide a real alternative to Westminster’s austerity, Brexit and cost of living crisis.
On 4the July, vote SNP for a better future for Scotland.
UK Govt has decided not to fund the Conference of Youth at
#COP26
.
@NicolaSturgeon
confirms that the Scottish Government has decided to fund the Conference of Youth to meet for four days in Glasgow in the run up to COP. 🌎💚
#SNP21
What a watch! Not only the unveiling of a budget that puts “wellbeing and fairness at its heart”, but that budget being delivered brilliantly by the 29 year old
@KateForbesMSP
- making history as the first ever woman to deliver a budget 💪🏼
#ScotBudget
🥀 The Labour Party has made a "political choice to continue with Tory austerity" and Anas Sarwar is clearly “powerless" in standing up to Keir Starmer.
@TheSNP
Depute Leader, Keith Brown
In his first speech as First Minister,
@JohnSwinney
quotes from the great Scottish poet, Hamish Henderson.
“So come all ye at hame wi Freedom,
Never heed whit the hoodies croak for doom.
In your hoose a’ the bairns o’ Adam,
Can find breid, barley-bree and painted room.”
“The SNP will be fighting an energetic, optimistic campaign full of enthusiasm.
A campaign infused with hope and optimism for a better future.
A campaign of hope and unity.
I can’t wait to get started.
Let’s put Scotland First.”
@JohnSwinney
💰 SNP candidate for Rutherglen and Hamilton West,
@KatyLoudonSNP
, has said Keir Starmer’s Labour party is “costing Scotland millions of pounds” by backing cruel Tory policies like the bedroom tax.
🗳️ Only
@theSNP
offers the real change people deserve.
💛 So proud of
@KatyLoudonSNP
+
@theSNP
team for their incredible work in the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election.
💪🏼 Not the result we hoped for but, be in no doubt, we’ll come back stronger than ever.
🏴 People deserve a better future than what Westminster has to offer.
“Independence is not just desirable - it is essential if Scotland is to escape the disaster of Brexit, the damage of policies imposed by governments we don’t vote for, and the low growth, high inequality economic model that is holding us back.”
@NicolaSturgeon
🎙️
@HumzaYousaf
says
@theSNP
should offer a manifesto for an independent Scotland.
☝🏽 And in that manifesto - page one, line one, a simple powerful statement to the people:
🏴 “VOTE SNP FOR SCOTLAND TO BECOME AN INDEPENDENT COUNTRY”
.
@nicolasturgeon
announces a Local Visitor Levy Bill. This will let councils like Edinburgh introduce a
#TouristTax
- a measure that is the norm in many top European cities.
#ScotPfG
Wee reminder that, standing shoulder to shoulder with the Tories:
1️⃣ Labour is ‘running’ Edinburgh council.
2️⃣ Labour rejected the proposals for the 5% pay offer for council employees.
3️⃣ Labour refuse to try to secure more money for Scotland from Westminster.
Quite telling that this guy doesn’t seem to know Labour is actually meant to be in charge of the council - although there’s very little evidence of that, to be fair. A combination of glaring inexperience & political naivety has left Edinburgh looking like a midden.
Some seem to need clarity, so here goes:
Decriminalisation is NOT legalisation.
It‘s treating personal drug use + addiction as a health + social issue, + reducing stigma.
It can replace criminal penalties with civil penalties like education or treatment programmes, or fines.
The Tories have given us austerity, Brexit & a cost of living crisis made in Westminster - they've shown nothing but disrespect and contempt for Scotland.
They deserve nothing less than to be electorally wiped out – that is what voting for
@theSNP
can deliver at this Election.
📻
@Ianblackford_MP
on
#GMS
makes it clear that if Tory MPs were putting the people of this country first then they would allow a general election to take place.
🏴
@HumzaYousaf
will be out in Rutherglen + Hamilton West today, leading
@theSNP
’s first nationwide Day Of Action this year.
👊🏼 “The SNP will be taking its progressive vision for a fairer Scotland to doorsteps across the country today.”
#ActiveSNP
.
@NicolaSturgeon
“For the strong, experienced leadership that the country needs;
For a bold, progressive, ambitious policy programme to kickstart our recovery from Covid;
And to secure the right to choose our independence.”
#BothVotesSNP
#SNP21
It is hugely insincere for
@Douglas4Moray
talk about eradicating the "POVERTY-RELATED attainment gap" without accepting the root cause - poverty - and that his Westminster bosses are fuelling a rise in the levels of poverty across the UK.
#FMQs
📺
@Ianblackford_MP
tells
@BBCBreakfast
the UK is “the most unequal society in North West Europe and the effects of this Tory budget will deepen down on the inequality that is already there.”
The priority should be getting people through this winter - not rewarding the rich.
🤩 And that’s
@theSNP
’s campaign officially launched for
@KatyLoudonSNP
to be the next MP for Rutherglen and Hamilton West.
💪🏼 “I pledge to fight tooth and nail for Westminster cost-of-living support for the people in Rutherglen and Hamilton West.”
At tragic times like this, we see what our leaders are made of and the values they hold.
Despite the unimaginable personal agony
@HumzaYousaf
and his family are going through right now, I struggle to think of anyone showing as much strength, compassion and integrity. ❤️
In an emotional interview with Sky's
@BethRigby
, Scotland's First Minister Humza Yousaf says his wife is "in complete distress" as she awaits news of family members in Gaza.
Read more:
Nicola Sturgeon tells
@BBCsarahsmith
she wants
#indyref2
in “earlier part” of next Holyrood parliament.
Asked about PM’s plan to block it FM says: “If people vote for a referendum, there will be a referendum”
“Migration is possibly the biggest challenge facing Scotland’s economy right now – and it is unforgivable that every Westminster party is completely ignoring Scotland’s specific needs.”
@_KateForbes
Great day for
@HumzaYousaf
to be out in Bellshill with an amazing bunch of
@theSNP
activists, speaking to people and businesses about their priorities.
The SNP is the only party that will protect communities across Scotland from the brunt of Westminster policies.
#ActiveSNP
The only crystal clear way to put Scotland’s future in Scotland’s hands is by electing a majority SNP Government in May. On top of that, you will be voting for a trusted, compassionate leader with a strong track record.
#BothVotesSNP
#SP21