Gordon Guthrie @gordonguthrie Twitter profile

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Gordon Guthrie

1 year

Its that time where I say goodbye to Twitter ;-) I have just started a First Minister's Digital Fellowship with the Scottish Government studying the interplay between politics, policy, legislation and state computer systems. 🧵

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Gordon Guthrie

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6 years

Your periodic reminder that Twitter keeps Nazi accounts from being seen in Germany because the law says it has to It keeps them available for the rest of us by choice

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@danhett Guy I worked with didn't realise "question only you know the answer too" for his internet banking was shared with his call centre banking So the lassie asks him how big his cock is and he has to close his account out of embarrassment

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Everyone is raging at Nicola Sturgeon meeting Michelle O'Neill Wait til they find out Boris Johnson met her days ago and made Clare Fox a peer

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Brother pointing out that lockdown in England ending (schools opening, back to work) at the same epidemic levels that most European countries went into lockdown

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3 years

If the same points about the structure of the Union are.being made by the SNP FM in Scotland, the Labour FM in Wales and the DUP FM in NI then maybe, just maybe, the problem lies in the structure of the Union Hashtag just sayin

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7 years

English is such a shite and parochial language that it doesn't have a word for the key unit of comparison for micro-satellites and space hardware unlike Scots

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6 years

Vote in the Mid-Terms if you are in the US

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@KieranCassel Um, Twitter already chooses who does and doesn't tweet, Instagram blocks nipples but not Nazis - read their TOCs pal

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Ask yourself this, if Shamina Begun can have her citizenship revoked because she COULD claim Bangladeshi citizenship, where does that leaves Europe's Jews? We've seen this film before, it ends badly. It's illegal because of Eichmann - no matter if she's an angel or a devil

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Tom Newton Dunn from The Sun on Sky News Paper explaining that Boris Johnson is planning to ask Ireland to agree to have a common rule book with the UK and de-align with the EU Srsly? This is insane, genuinely protestant-on-a-horse, Curragh-mutiny, proper nutjob stuff

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Gordon Guthrie

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1 year

There is a trivially obvious problem in a world where EVERY BUSINESS can spin up 100,000 bots to make sales calls

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Gordon Guthrie

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3 years

Normal people on here: Happy New Year to all my followers Scottish people on here: Happy New Year to all my followers WHEN IT COMES

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Gordon Guthrie

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EU proposing Ukraine join and selling them aircraft Looks like the EU is going to come out of this crisis stronger and more important * * and the UK weakened and more irrelevant - time for Scotland to come back to Europe

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2 years

Did you know that there is a lovely 50 seater cinema in the New Town of Edinburgh? Bet you didn't - I didn't and about 60 or 70 members of my family who lived within 500 metres never mentioned it neither (Plz retweet) 🧵

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6 years

@KieranCassel Nothing to do with the law, Twitter could enforce its own rules

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@brachyexpert @GooseCG When the Norwegian sabotage team parachuted in to blow up the German Heavy Water plant during the last war, they stayed in mountain huts up in the snow and one of them found a sledge of his that had been stolen before the war ;-)

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5 years

I think something's wrong with Twitter, I'm not seeing all the Labour Party tweets about the Glasgow women council workers getting their settlement cheques

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Gordon Guthrie

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6 years

I should also point out that the 'radical free speech' doctrine of Twitter/Silicon Valley has the added benefit of not hiring staff to police platforms and brings lower costs/higher profits, so there is that...

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7 years

Glasgow (which he represents) is the No 1 city in the world for the manufacture of compact satellites, with 7,000 jobs dependent on it

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I am haunted by a random tweet from a couple of months ago All women know a woman who was raped No men know any rapists These two statements are incompatible - and in light of the current brou-ha-has, I think fairly pertinent...

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@DavidThedoc1210 @danhett He was a senior IT architect too lolol

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3 years

Edinburgh outside the Consolate

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4 years

Your periodic reminder that the criminals Mike Watson, Jeffrey Archer and Conrad Black sit for life in the UK House Of Parliament and make actual laws

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4 years

Handing prisoners the right to vote is an insult to victims. The SNP, Labour, Liberal Democrats and the Scottish Greens all voted to give criminals in jail the right to vote in Holyrood yesterday It’s only @ScotTories who will stand up for victims of crime.

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Gordon Guthrie

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6 years

It's not an actual political ideology of free speech, it just pretends to be...

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Gordon Guthrie

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3 years

You periodic reminder that Scotland and Wales gave refugees the vote for the first time anywhere in the World last Thursday Today the Westminster government proposes to put aylum seekers outside the law in relation to deportation Outlaws with no recourse to justice

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Gordon Guthrie

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5 years

Is it just me, or is the Cooper Bill not just @joannaccherry 's indicative vote proposal but acceptable to Labour because it didn't have an SNP MPs fingerprints on it?

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8 years

@GaryLineker More people watched Midsomer Murders than failing Gary Lineker. FAKE NEWS. Sad I was the best goalie, the greatest, yuge hands

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Gordon Guthrie

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5 years

@mediafriendly @allisonpearson @bbclaurak @BBCNews @BethRigby Wut? Like how TV journalists are filmed everyday?

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Gordon Guthrie

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Your reminder to the people fondly reminiscing about ice on the windows inside the house and how we survived: you were young then, you are old now, and people died younger then, in part because of ice on the inside of the windows

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Gordon Guthrie

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4 years

Fox News cuts away from Trump Jr and Rudy Guilliani fake votes rant to call Michigan for Biden, lololol

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Gordon Guthrie

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7 years

The SNP Government didn't demand a second referendum, they were elected on a manifesto of protecting Scotland's interests with one...

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@KingofSW6 @euanmccolm yeah, he's a Professor of General Practice at Edinburgh University and his other half is a public health consultant, so there is that...

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Gordon Guthrie

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News of the 64 hits Berlin...

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@kumar_pallav @riccardomc COBOL developers are being buried in gold caskets in custom pyramids

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Gordon Guthrie

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7 years

#snpbecause I want to live in a modern European Scotland that is a good friend to our good friends, not an isolated UK sucking up to Trump

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3 years

<Our Brexit deal is oven ready, shame there's no gas to run the oven> is quite the bloody plot twist

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Gordon Guthrie

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4 years

My lovely Mum died a week past Sunday. We are flying back to Scotland for the funeral today.

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Gordon Guthrie

@gordonguthrie

4 years

If the plan is to codify and rationalise the holding of referendums in the UK then the Irish border poll has a periodicity of 7 years which is unalterable as it is embedded in an international treaty, let's use that Then Scotland can have another IndyRef in 2014 + 7...

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Gordon Guthrie

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3 years

Thoughts and prayers to The Spectator who launched their Scotland minisite today Thoughts and prayers

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Gordon Guthrie

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7 years

If we are not in a Customs Union then there is a hard border in Northern Ireland which we have already agreed there won't be... So, with all due respect, WTF is going on with the Westminster Government?

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Gordon Guthrie

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10 years

Booking a 12,000 seater hall for a political meeting is bold. Filling it in a day is mental. The New Scotland is a weird place, but good!

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6 years

@andrew_lilico @Sime0nStylites This is all a bit 1930s no? the national destiny and all that guff - English nationalists are weird

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Gordon Guthrie

@gordonguthrie

5 years

And yet Scotland has extended the franchise to all legal residents, separating nationality from citizenship altogether - a civic nation born of civic nationalism not this crazy blood/ethnic nationalism

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5 years

To allow non-UK nationals to choose the UK government is to undermine the entire concept of citizenship. The last thing Labour needs is to go into this election still ignorant of important themes such as citizenship, nationhood and belonging.

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Gordon Guthrie

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7 years

Your periodic reminder that Broadband is a reserved power, the SNP government has had to do Westminster's job because they are so crap at it...

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Time for @theSNP Govt to get real. Their broadband rollout in Scotland has been lamentable & the people of Scotland deserve better

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4 years

here in Germany we are quite enjoying our freedom to have parties of up to 50, to drink in bars all night, to visit friends and family Sure we have had to wear masks in shops and on public transport for a few months

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Gordon Guthrie

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5 months

Scottish politics continues to be read as English politics by pundits and commentators Government at Westminster is informally run on WhatsApp therefore Government at Holyrood is, etc, etc A Hate Crime Bill would be a wedge opportunity at Westminster therefore... 1/

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3 years

The way to stop people drowning in the channel crossing to apply for asylum is to let them onto the ferries and apply for asylum when they land These are mostly refugees from countries we broke, smashed, crushed...

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Gordon Guthrie

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4 years

If anybody is in isolation and who has never programmed but wants to learn basic coding (html to write webpages and javascript to make them do stuff) - lets schedule a couple of hours a week and I can learn ya some shit

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Gordon Guthrie

@gordonguthrie

3 years

...and yet when the Crown Office ordered you to comply with Lady Dorian's court order you decided the law didn't apply to you because of your made-up reading of the Scottish Constitution, so there is that...

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Actually where there is rule of law it is not always down to the electorate. It is down to the law. Regardless of how people vote. And until the law is changed.

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Gordon Guthrie

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3 years

Brexit in a nutshell

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6 years

@JonasKuske @realDonaldTrump Banning him would be a start ;-)

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2 years

You can't pay your rent with your pension contributions Tom, nor the equivalent value of your additional holiday entitlement mid-£30k salaries are the norm here not £50k-£60k

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Gordon Guthrie

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8 years

I have a new book on an independent Scotland after Brexit

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4 years

The UK has coped with having different laws for murder between Scotland and England for all of its existence I'm sure a little divergence on the matter of what shops can open won't set the heather on fire FFS

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4 years

For those of you who didn't get the opportunity to come to the funeral, my Mum's obituary is in the Scotsman today

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@JasonPoolej2 When my mum went to London to work at 16 in '53 she was given a hatpin by her mother for the train from Edinburgh ;-)

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7 years

Glasgow is the leading world city for compact satellite production, mebbies the Tory MSPs for Glasgow should know that, eh?

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7 years

This has to be a spoof, surely.

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Gordon Guthrie

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2 years

Gordon Brown is right about a majority of (Scottish) people wanting a reformed UK more than Independence The problem is that there is almost no interest in reforming the UK in Westminster politics

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Gordon Guthrie

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4 years

Prior to devolution, for example, the parliamentary scrutiny of the Scottish Health Service ran to a whopping 8 sets of Scottish Health Questions 12 times a year, usually late at night in an empty Commons...

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4 years

@Sperocaof @naoisefalafel <Lesley, an attractive fire-breather> is one hella strong opening line to a tweet there tho

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I was warning about Corona viruses long before Dominic Cummings

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4 years

Having a drink outside in Germany - mandatory tracing slip

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Gordon Guthrie

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6 years

@sehurlburt The old enterprise pricing joke. Quote a figure, if they don't flinch add 'per month' if they still don't flinch add 'per seat'

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Gordon Guthrie

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2 years

The first (and predictable) victim of ChatGPT poisoning has happened - and its quite a big one

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Gordon Guthrie

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1 year

I think it's right that @PeterMurrell has stood down - when the backroom becomes the story it damages the party and government But it shouldn't overshadow the tremendous shift he has put in, and the huge contribution to our cause and our election victories that he made

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Gordon Guthrie

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7 years

All good stories, like the Oddysey, start in the middle Thus doth my Toby Young story begin

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6 years

@RodrigoRallo @ekp Um, dude, she was the Chief Executive of Reddit, one of the top 10 web properties, she isn't making this up

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2 years

Whrn we talk about ceremonial as cosplay I think this sums it up Two Scottish Westminster Cabinet ministers stood vigil for the Queen in the uniform of her Scottish bodyguard, the Royal Company Of Archers Their <vigil> lasted 20 minutes - it was a photo-op

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6 years

Double Scheilhalion

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@britnidlc @TerryKoz My mum left school at 16 in the early '50s and went to London to work - her mum gave her a hatpin for the train

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Gordon Guthrie

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If you have an unsent postal ballot you can hand it in at any polling station Public Service Announcement plz RT http://t.co/UCg0QrP5db

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@iainmartin1 @michaelgove Because he made taking cocaine even once be a career-ender for teachers but is now saying that doesn't apply to him?

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'There's no difference between Macron and Le Pen', from the people who brought you 'there's no difference between Trump and Clinton'

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Yer Da

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@NightHunterTaur @kruszinit @hewwwwwwwo Bless, you know that the book Meritocracy is a satire right?

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Glasgow, I am in you, what a lovely new train station

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3 years

If the Scottish Tories want to prevent an IndyRef they should just win an election to Holyrood and form a government, call me naive, or old fashioned if you like...

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7 years

Big London @theSNP branch meeting tonight, they are working hard in the call centre ;-) and sent £5k north this week, yay!

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3 years

Just blocked the Alba Party, right thing to do, turn them the volume right the way down

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5 years

For sale. One ditch. Undied in.

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Gordon Guthrie

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why we tolerate the Viscount who crashed Northern Rock calling us elites from his column in The Times I just don't know

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"Brexit has become a struggle about who controls the country — and given their socioeconomic profile, Remainers are accustomed to having their way."

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@Samfr 5 years ago at a do with civil servants was told by someone in his private office that there was a secret contest so see who could smuggle the most <a>s into his name in official docs The (then) winner had managed Raaaaab

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@twlldun @danielmgmoylan @DenisMacShane Ho-Ho-Ho Chi Min I believe you meant to say...

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Gordon Guthrie

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7 years

Congratulations on the Scottish Tories on their stunning victory in the French Presidential election - knocking it out of the park

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3 years

I hope someone will turn up to Prime Minister's Questions this week wearing tinsel and just ask Johnson "What's the capital of Bolivia?" or "What element has atomic no 34?" or something...

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Gordon Guthrie

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5 years

When people say that you cant beat the Tories with Centerist politics show them this

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.⁦ @NicolaSturgeon ⁩ has arrived for the photocall with new SNP MPs in Dundee

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@MooseAllain The saddest line in English writing is from Mrs Beaton's Cookbook "First break the heart of a young lettuce"

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Wow I didn't realise that the fella saying EU nationals would be off the electoral register was on the board of Scotland In Union

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@MooseAllain Her Dad worked in a sorting office and whenever someone posted a stack of postcards with the one stamped but blank by mistake he would pop her address on it She got fistfuls of blank postcards a month, no message, just her Dad thinking of her at work - lovely

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Gordon Guthrie

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If you want an objective answer as to whether he should be on this damn board, then don't bloody ask me All I know, in the bowels of Christ, is that he is a copper-bottomed shit

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Man who runs a private limited company called These Islands Ltd to promote his political views condemns political opponents for starting private Ltd company to promote, etc, etc

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Why I support Scottish independence in a single tweet - British nationalism is completely deranged

Department for Business and Trade

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. @LiamFox and the @GREATBritain campaign are delighted to be supporting Boultbee’s restoration of one of 🇬🇧's iconic Spitfires. 👉 Once restored the plane will embark on an around the world flight in summer 2019 #ExportingisGREAT

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Brutal from @fotoole

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Delayed obituary/appreciation of my mum in the Times today

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Your periodic reminder that the laugh line at Donald Dewar's funeral was his glee at England getting humped in the Euros by Bulgaria the weekend before he died

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This isn’t harmless football rivalry but blatant anti Englishness. Totally embarrassing. To all my English family and friends - This isn’t Scotland.

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My hot take on Article 16 is that (a) most Europeans don't think about Brexit much (b) the nicities of the GB/NI border are way too much detail for 99.99% of Europeans (c) if it was fixed by a call from the Irish Foreign Minister it's not much of a crisis

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Is there a better line in pop than 🎶 Cathy I'm lost, I said, although I knew she was sleeping 🎶? I rly, rly doubt it - but send 'em my way peeps

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8 years

Watch Cat Boyd answer the question "how did you vote in the Brexit referendum?" #bbcqt

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@questionableway @TheTallestPlant I don't want to be rude but basic stuff - the UK doesn't have a constitutional Mouthing off about a legal and political system about which you know nothing is a bit, you know... Also - the US as a paradigm of rule of law? Rly?

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