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Highland Chief ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง

@lakin_ian

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University of life! - 20 yrs as MD ยฃ180ml Scottish company. (Rtd) - RGU (Aberdeen) Pulp & Paper Technology - BIM Economics & Management - Hon Doc. in Technology

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2 years
Now itโ€™s your turn Ms Sturgeon - YOU do the honourable thing and resign!
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4 years
โ€œThank you Nicolaโ€ for succeeding at NOTHING - whether it is education, CalaMac ferries, closed hospitals, care homes scandal, Prestwick airport, named persons scheme, โ€œobstructingโ€ the Salmond enquiry, Hate Crime Bill, running a deficit of ยฃ15bn yet conning people to vote SNP.
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2 years
A bit of fun - but true ๐Ÿ˜‚
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4 years
โ€œThank you Nicolaโ€ for sugar coating ugly nationalism, for making the poorer Scots believe you have a magic money tree, for telling people it will be easy to rejoin the EU, turning a blind eye to Anglophobia and that it is somehow ant-Scottish not to vote for you our Dear Leader.
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3 years
A serious question: Do you think Sturgeon is intentionally crashing the Scottish economy in order to somehow blame Westminster? No Freeports, oil or gas, fracking, nuclear or coal power, higher taxes, failed investments, tighter Covid restrictions etc, Anti-business & Scotland!
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Highland Chief ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง
4 years
So Nicola Sturgeon said today (with a straight face) she is worried about the impact of Brexit (17% of trade) on the economy of Scotland BUT she wants so-called independence from rUK where we do over 60%. You couldnt make it up this nonsense if you tried. Time to vote SNP out!
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4 years
Nicola Sturgeon reminds me of a tempestuous child who wants to leave home but is unable to explain how she would finically support herself without her parents credit card.
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4 years
Nicola Sturgeon under the cosh by โ€œMarr on Sundayโ€: 1. Excuses for painfully slow rollout of vaccines with high stocks in Scotland. 2. Couldnโ€™t explain her lapse of memory with Salmond scandal. 3. Couldnโ€™t defend the shocking drug deaths. 4,Polls narrow 52-48. Next leader??
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Martin Geissler: โ€œyour finger prints are all over the failed SNP policies - after all you have been in the room when all these decisions were made.โ€ Oops!
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4 years
Soon the end for the SNP. The choice is simple: vote Remain in the U.K. means Scot. will be part of the new ยฃ660bn trade deal with the EU, the U.K. internal market, world trade deals, keep the pound with no hard border. A vote Leave means the opposite plus 100% trade on WTO rules
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Car crash interview by Kuennsberg (comments by Sir Tom Hunter) with Yousaf on BBC: a) 11% Scots now pay 65% of all income tax which will harm growth. b) eduction standards down the pan e) falsely claimed Labour would win without Scottish votes - Useless by name useless by action
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4 years
What a mess we are in Scotland; higher R factor, unemployment rising faster than rUK, businesses not passed business grants from UK government, oil and tourism in big trouble - โ€œleadโ€ by a SG hell-bent at breaking up the Union at any cost. Bring back the Scotland we ALL loved.
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3 years
Nicola Sturgeon why do you not level with the SNP voters & explain the reason for our massive deficit is not that we earn or pay less taxes than England per capita but we spend up to 20% MORE (freebies like prescriptions etc) due to the Union Dividend funded by English taxpayers?
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3 years
Nicola Sturgeon why do you not level with the voters and explain why you have only spent 50% of the ยฃ9bn from Westminster to help with the devastation of Covid & what exactly you are doing with the money you trousered? Or should we expect SNP โ€œgiveawaysโ€ for the May elections?
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4 years
Indy exposed: 1. Using Sterling is not feasible as the fiscal deficit is forecast to be between 26-28% - this would lead to bankruptcy. 2. A Scottish currency would mean much higher interest rates and austerity otherwise flight of capital and a run on the currency. Come clean NS!
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3 years
Nicola Sturgeon said today that it would be be โ€œoutrageousโ€ if Westminster dared to block another referendum. What is โ€œoutrageousโ€ is her breaking the Edinburgh Agreement she signed & declared it was โ€œonce in a generationโ€ opportunity - then after she lost agitated for indyref2!
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Take note Nicola Sturgeon - no English people at the border in hazmat suits and masks shouting โ€œplague carriersโ€ at Scottish tourists and live streaming number plates of southbound vehicles like SNP supporters did in July last year. The SNP have a lot to answer for.
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โ€œThank you Nicolaโ€ for deflecting criticism on your growing list of failures ie the Salmond scandal,undermining Scottish fishermen in Brexit talks, โ€œtrowseringโ€ UK Covid money & most of all for conning people the EU (17%) is more important market than the UK (62%) for our exports
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3 years
Nicola Sturgeon why do you not level with the SNP voters & tell them their pensions and wages will be paid in Bawabees or Groats & that the value will drop by up to 30% less than the pound? Also how much higher mortgages will rise due to Scottish Gov. borrowing requirements?
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Andrew Marr: โ€œDo you now accept the GERS figures which clearly states Scotland gets 17% more to spend (ยฃ10bn) on public services than Eng.โ€ NS: โ€œyou asked me the same question beforeโ€ (getting angry!) AM: โ€œand the answer is?โ€ NS: โ€œwe are looking into the figuresโ€. No answers!
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4 years
Why is Nicola Sturgeon not supporting Scottish fishermen in Brexit trade negotiations with the EU? Could it be she doesnt want a good deal because an Indy Scotland would have to hand it back for EU membership? Well now - surely not!!
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3 years
Humza Useless on a mindless rant blaming the U.K. government on Sky news this evening for Scotland having 3.5x the English drug death rate and the worst in Europe despite an extra ยฃ2.200 per capita spend in a desperate attempt to deflect blame from his Dear Leader.
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2 years
As someone said: โ€œClyde built at its finest, on budget to a world beating design. A great example of what Scotland can deliver as long as the SNP are nowhere near itโ€. And BAE are doubling their recruitment for apprentices.
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4 years
Rishi Sunak needs to bypass the Scottish government and distribute the extra money direct to businesses in Scotland (like the highly successful furloughing scheme) to ensure more money targeted to help the economy is not trousered by the SNP.
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3 years
True to form Nicola Sturgeon blames Boris for โ€˜loss of lifeโ€™ from Covid in the U.K. YET the NHS is a devolved matter & she has the power to act. She even boasted that she would โ€œeliminateโ€™ covid in Scotland before a vaccine! Never once thanked Boris for the vaccines, furlough etc
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2 years
Asked by Martin Geissler what is the SNP plan to catch up with England regarding removal of Covid related restrictions โ€œno we donโ€™t have automatic triggersโ€ Eh? In other words nae clue - pathetic!
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3 years
Sturgeonโ€™s car crash on Andrew Marr Sunday: Her face got redder & redder as the interview progressed 1. no economic forecast for indy. 2. yes there will be a hard borderโ€. 3. 24% fiscal deficit but but..โ€. In desperation she did what she always does best - deflection & rabbit on!
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1 year
THE UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTH A number of us warned for years that the SNP was no more than a scam & a Ponzi scheme & in return we were accused of talking Scotland down & betrayal. Fast forward to today & ask yourself who are the guilty party.We all know the answer to that!
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8 months
Serious question: given the Barnett formula gives an extra ยฃ2,000 per capita more to spend on public services than England and that the majority of Scottish income taxpayers pay more why does the SNP have a black hole? a) Freebies (unavailable South) or b) 46% pay no income tax?
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2 years
Oops - what have I just said? - speaking ahead of Tuesdayโ€™s statement she actually said: โ€œIndy is essential to tackle the cost of living crisisโ€! Eh? No Barnett ยฃ12bn, out of the U.K. & EU markets, no currency, hard border, massive fiscal and national debt etc. What a charlatan!
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1 year
Serious point: as devolution has proved to be an expensive disaster under the SNP due to extremely low quality of MSPs why do not get rid of them all and have MPs sit for 3 days at Holyrood (dealing with devolved matters) and two days at Westminster on national issues?
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4 years
SCOTLAND BANKRUPT (even with Union money) due to the extended lockdown, the crash in oil and tourist jobs and the lack of a track, trace and isolate system that works. Be ready for NS to demand more borrowing powers to cover up the mistakes of her talentless and bungling SG.
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3 years
Nicola Sturgeon: why do you not level with the voters & admit there will NOT be another referendum during the life of this parliament but more of the same old SNP incompetence, grievances & anglophobia when most Scots simply want our economy to recover from Covid. Vote SNP out!
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4 years
โ€œThank you Nicolaโ€ for blaming the lack of vaccines when there is around 400,000 doses in warehouses in Scotland. Amazing spin and you are even getting better at conning your devoted cult.
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So Nicola Sturgeon (highly paid) FM said today she was waiting for local councils to come forward with a plan to get schooling started.-with no guidelines & no extra money. โ€œJudge me on educationโ€ she said in 2015! Meanwhile she dithers on lockdown - she only follows NEVER leads.
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3 years
Channel 4: Do you apologies for one of the highest Covid death rates in the world - โ€œnoโ€. Why is investment lower in the NHS in Scotland -no answer. Have you done a cost analysis post Brexit on Indy - โ€œaah the figures are different post-Covidโ€ Eh? Of course they are - much worse!
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4 years
Thank you Nicola (Part11) - for making our income tax and LBTT much higher than rUK, running the highest fiscal deficit in Europe, being the first country in the world to suspend FOI (unlike NZ), being 2 steps behind Boris in lockdown and paying yourself the same salary as the PM
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Quote of the day: โ€œItโ€™s about time the UK government clipped Humzaโ€™s wings. We cannot have him masquerading around the planet having discussions with world leaders without clearance from Westminster. If I was David Cameron I would close down all those pretendy scottish embassiesโ€
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2 years
Cambo will be developed by Shell due to support by the U.K. government overriding the socialist SNP and Marxist Scottish Greens objections. Hope for the 100,000 workers in the oil and gas sectors who can no longer be branded as pariahs by Sturgeon.
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Quote of the day: โ€œThe census shambles, the Salmond inquiry shambles, the named person shambles, the GRR shambles, the bottle return scheme shambles, the ferry shambles, education failings & much more. Scotland cannot afford another decade of decline under nationalist ideologyโ€.
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3 years
Serious question: do you think Sturgeon is a control freak? eg unnecessary Covid restrictions killing businesses, hate speech laws, named person scheme, school sex survey etc etc.
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4 years
Official: the SNP now wants an extension to the furloughing scheme in Scotland because they were too inept to make a positive lockdown decision compared to rUK. No surprises there as Sturgeon, Swinney, Hyslop, Freeman et al are third devision players with first devision salaries.
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SHOCKING: Kate Forbes wrote on the 9th January asking Rishi Sunak for further funding yet has paid out less than A TENTH to Scottish Businesses! PLUS Scotland has had 30% MORE from the U.K. government to spend per capita compared to England. Sheer hypocrisy!
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2 years
The latest poll showing support for so-called Indy plummeting should be of no surprise. There is far more that unites us than divides us and the Queen passing at Balmoral (which was her wish) reminded the people of Scotland of our unbreakable Union bond and joined history.
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4 years
โ€œThank you Nicolaโ€ for having amnesia during the Salmond scandal, suspending FOI, having your husband as CEO of the โ€œPartyโ€ (unheard of - other than communist dictatorships), your growing list of shamed appointed MPs/MSPs -yet holding on as the undisputed cult leader of the SNP
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โ€œThank you Nicolaโ€ for dictating the terms of the last referendum when you chose the positive โ€œYesโ€ slogan on the ballot paper, gave 16 yr olds the vote, the denial of a vote for Scots and Forces living in England most of all for conning people about โ€œonce in a generationโ€
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3 years
Andrew Neil (scourge of the Dear Leader) says it as it is about the shabby deal between the SNP and Greens.
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8 months
Serious question: Why does the SNP struggle to understand basic economics? a) Because they are a one-trick-pony obsessed with Indy at any cost b) Cannot attract anyone with a successful background c) Their main supporters like freebies & donโ€™t pay income tax. d) Grievances driven
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1 year
Quote of the day:โ€ โ€œNot a single power which has been devolved to Scotland has flourished. All of them are moribund or on on life support. The SNP look like they don't know what they are doing because they don't know what they are doingโ€.
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2 years
So we can build complicated U.K. aircraft carriers and frigates in Scotland but under the SNP we cannot even build simple ferries which have to be outsourced to Turkey. Failure after failure in the pursuit of narrow nationalism - no accountability!
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3 years
The not so silent โ€œThe Majorityโ€ launches an aerial and poster campaign for โ€œResign Sturgeonโ€
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4 years
โ€œLetโ€™s be clearโ€ (NS favourite words) if Scot. had voted Yes we would have been out of the U.K. & EU markets without our own currency- so bankrupt by now & unable to borrow fully for furloughing etc plus at the end of the queue for a vaccine. Mass emigration would have followed!
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4 years
โ€œThank you Nicolaโ€for holding onto your daily briefings (party political broadcasts) when we have zero deaths - especially as BJ only holds one when there is something new to say. But please remember to cancel them as soon as the job losses in Scotland nears pandemic levels.
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9 months
Insulting or just naturally thick? You decide!
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2 years
Nicola Sturgeon lecturing Laura Kuennsberg (BBC Sunday) that they wonโ€™t publish their economic plan until after the SNP conference (to stifle debate!) and that she โ€œdetestsโ€ Tories. She and her party have nothing to offer other than divisive referendums and offensive language.
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Quote of the day: โ€œThe SNP do not see their job as governing Scotland well but using the powers they have been given to rip Scotland away from the UK by every means possible & if the collateral damage is the utter devastation of Scotlandโ€™s economy and Scottish society so be it.โ€
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4 years
โ€œClap for Nicolaโ€ for hogging the limelight on TV every day, for avoiding scrutiny on care homes where the figures are one of the worst in Europe, appointing Kate Forbes to tell porkies and most of all for making Scotland pay the highest taxes with the worst fiscal deficit 6X rUK
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3 years
Nicola Sturgeon: why do you not level with the voters and admit a 26% fiscal deficit is NOT a โ€œbalancedโ€ budget for independence - and instead would be a recipe for bankruptcy in a โ€œIndyโ€ Scotland (a form of Darien 11) without the backup of the BoE as the lender of last resort?
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"In the Salmond inquiry there were accusations of a cover up, what did they do? Promise a review. In 2022 in investigations into the ferry scandal, what did they do? Promise a review. And now we have the industrial scale deletion of evidence for COVID the FM answer? A review.โ€
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Highland Chief ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง
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Just when you think it couldnโ€™t get worse for the NS - it does! First, they canโ€™t tell you why only 50% has been spent of the ยฃ9bn from Westminster now we learn their piggy bank is nearly empty for so-called Indy2 and Peter Murrell wonโ€™t open the books! More SNP resignations.
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Highland Chief ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง
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Now Humza must do the same as Germany and say โ€˜Not a Single Centโ€™ of the Scottish taxpayers ยฃ750,000 should now be made to UNRWA given the report they have been hiding hostages.
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4 years
Time to rethink about Holyrood. If the SNP had respected the โ€œ55โ€ in 2014 for a โ€œgenerationโ€ and focused on โ€œrunningโ€ the country - then fine. But they have not. It is used solely as a platform to undermine the Union. Either they respect the โ€œ55โ€ or face a vote to shut it down.
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1 year
Quote of the day: โ€œThe SNP coffers are empty, she no longer has access to the taxpayer funded credit card, and the campervan is still locked up. This has forced her to write her version of the history of her years of failure. Only the most gullible will be fooled into buying it.โ€
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4 years
โ€œThank you Nicolaโ€ for being our โ€œChief Mammyโ€, micromanaging our lives, not open & transparent, mismanage businesses like BiFab, CalMac, fail to deliver on your pledge on education but most of all for conning SNP voters that even with a 28% drop in GDP indyref2 is even thinkable
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3 years
Another amnesia moment for Nicola Sturgeon- One more to add to the list - itโ€™s difficult to keep up!
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4 years
Bluff & bluster from John Swinney who refused to answer the simple question from a reporter on what has happened to the ยฃ1 billion trousered by the SNP (Strathclyde Uni report) rather than support Scottish businesses eg bribes to the NHS, money for Indy campaign, vanity projects?
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3 years
Sturgeon claims Salmond is not fit for public office & Salmond claims that Sturgeon has failed Scotland Yet both these clowns want to run Scotland with no clue about which currency we would use or how we would finance our public services without the ยฃ11bn from the Barnett formula
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1 year
Harvie has turned into a complete clown. This dim-witted incompetent is an embarrassment to Scotland. Ewing speaks for the vast majority in wanting him booted out. For someone who couldn't even graduate from a polytechnic Harvie certainly has a vastly overrated opinion of himself
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3 years
A couple of losers of the first order - wrecking Scottish businesses and peopleโ€™s lives. According to the latest economic forecast there is now an โ€œavalancheโ€ of Scottish businesses facing insolvency.
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2 years
When the SNP are confined to the history books the question will be how did the level-headed people of Scotland accept failure after failure by Nicola Sturgeon and her SG before finally her kicking her and them out of power? Your thoughts?
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Highland Chief ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง
1 year
Quote of the day: โ€œThis is what happens when you have a single police service that has become more and more politicised. I can never imagine this happening under the old tri partite system where Chief Officers intentionally distanced themselves from politiciansโ€.
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4 years
โ€œThank you Nicolaโ€ for convincing poor SNP supporters that it is the fault of the โ€œwickedโ€ Tories and Westminster for their poverty whilst you and your โ€œhusbandโ€ live off expenses and bank over ยฃ275,000 a year - but most of all for speaking โ€œclearlyโ€ about nothing.
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3 years
Gloves are off with the various factions within the Nat movement as they accuse each other of foul play. Not only has 50% of the Covid money been trousered by Sturgeon - now itโ€™s claimed she & Peter Murrell are subject to a criminal complaint on missing donations! Vote them out!
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Wings: The police have visited @NicolaSturgeon and @PeterMurrell 's home, based on a criminal complaint regarding @theSNP 's missing ยฃ600,000 donations.
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4 years
โ€œThank you Nicolaโ€ for avoiding the blame for care homes, poor education, unopened hospitals, unbuilt ferries, deferring FOI, increased taxes, centralising power, ignoring anglophobia, not keeping records of vital meetings & most of all for โ€œdiscreditingโ€ Alex Salmond.
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6 months
Quote of the day: โ€œOn Yousafโ€™s watch there is no doubt that the SNPโ€™s decline has accelerated. But make no mistake โ€“ the rot started with Sturgeon and Scotland hasnโ€™t missed her. No amount of floral tributes can hide that fact.โ€
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4 years
Remember this nonsense only a couple of weeks ago which incited Nicola Surgeonโ€™s rabble โ€œarmyโ€ to threaten Eng. tourists at the border? Now we learn the R level is worryingly higher in Scotland than Eng. Note no Eng. threatening Scots at the border. Pure SNP nasty anglophobia!
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4 years
โ€œThank you Nicolaโ€ for squeezing the middle classes (nurses, teachers etc) with higher taxes and LBTT (compared to rUK)until the pips squeak - for successfully gagging your MPs & MSPs, your Hate Crime Bill & Named Person scheme & 100% record - in picking losers like CalMac, BiFab
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2 years
Has Sturgeonโ€™s InyRef2 dream already been shattered? Given the poor turnout of people to โ€œlistenโ€ to her latest ramblings on pretendee Indy at the Edinburgh Festival the answer is a resounding Yes!
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2 years
One of the best letters Iโ€™ve read for a long time - says it all!
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1 year
The NEXT referendum should NOT be about Indy - but about whether we want Holyrood in its present form -or to abolish it! Further to the chaos at Holyrood it is clear that the SNP & Greens are unfit to govern Scotland. Fresh elections NOW and prepare for a referendum on Holyrood๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿพ
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3 years
In 24 hours -Police investigate fraud allegations over a ยฃ600,000 โ€˜black holeโ€™ in SNP war chest. -2 SNP branches falsely claim ยฃ20,000 in business grants & forced to repay. - Expenses watchdog refers fraud concerns involving Alba candidate to Met police after defecting from SNP.
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4 years
โ€œThanks Nicolaโ€: for doing nothing to support Scottish fishermen & your policy to hand back our sovereignty to the EU in an attempt to protect 17% of our exports and the same time turn your back on the 62% U.K. internal market and the 2.2 billion size of the Commonwealth market.
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2 years
โ€œShamefulโ€ The Barnett formula was devised by the U.K. gov. to give the Scottish public services extra money to fund our public services which are more expensive to run than Eng. - sparse population, highlands & islands etc. But they have spent the extra money on freebies instead
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2 years
Oooooh what a whopper Sturgeon - how about you telling the truth for a change. You are destroying our country bit by bit.
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4 years
โ€œThank you Nicolaโ€ for opening the pandora box giving oxygen to ugly nationalism, refusal to take the blame on devolved fiascos like new hospitals, education, ferries, drug deaths, care homes, a fiscal deficit 5 X rUK etc.- but most of all for promoting Indy without a plan.
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4 years
โ€œThank you Nicolaโ€: for ignoring trivia like which currency we would use - with a discount of up to 30%; how we would fund the extra ยฃ2,200 per person we get by pooling and sharing in the U.K.,& most of all how our State pensions would be paid as it is funded by current taxation.
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4 years
โ€œThank you Nicolaโ€ for conning the people in Scotland that independence โ€œtranscends Brexit, oil and the economyโ€ by refusing to discuss the ยฃ15bn black hole and to focus instead on fermenting anglophobia, grievances and divisiveness - keep it up as you have nothing else to offer
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3 years
โ€œThank you Nicolaโ€ for not publishing one single credible financial report for Indy to avoid scrutiny as you have binned them all including your โ€œalternativeโ€ to GERS. So please continue to hoodwink your Indy supporters with your back of a fag packet economics to keep them happy.
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4 years
Indy exposed: 1. Socialist Republic of Scotland. 2. Out of the U.K. market. 3. Out of the EU (min. 10 years) 4. Hard Sexit - 100% on WTO rules. 5. No currency (10 years min) 6. MOD shipbuilding ends on the Clyde. 7. Austerity on stilts to balance the books.
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3 years
Aberdeen, Glasgow and Edinburgh plus aerial in Glasgow.
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2 years
N S announces that Indy Scotland would first cling onto the ยฃ, then switch to a Scots ยฃ, then join the Euro. Meanwhile no lender of last resort and depend on Wonga to finance our deficit & debt. Mentioned briefly hard border with our biggest trading partner. Same old, same old.
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She created a one-party state, police force, civil service etc staffed by her own supporters, & crushed any dissenters. Our country became badly divided & badly governed. Eventually, her self-righteousness trapped her โ€“ maintaining that a dangerous male rapist is a safe woman.
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1 year
Quote of the day: โ€œThe Gravy Train keeps rolling & the sucker tax payers keep getting shafted. All Holyrood has done is to give a lot of loud mouth hypocritical chancers the opportunity to trough endlessly at the public expense while doing nothing for the people of Scotland.โ€
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SNP main case for Indy (White Paper) in 2014 was based on massive reserves of oil (โ€œOor oilโ€) at a price of $117+ Today the price is $42 with a ยฃ50bn decommissioning cost. Canโ€™t wait for the SNPโ€™s White Paper 11 - without the UK credit card!
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1 year
Quote of the day: โ€œTHERE were three authorised signatories for withdrawal of money from the SNPโ€™s bank account - Murrell, Beattie & Sturgeon. Two of them have been interviewed. Will she now be interviewed by Police Scotland inquiring into the missing/unaccounted for ยฃ650,000โ€?
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Sturgeon soliciting for donations from SNP supporters despite her husband being charged with the embezzlement of party funds. The former FM, who remains under police investigation into SNP finances, is appearing as a guest speaker at โ€œadoption nightsโ€ for Nat politicians. Eh??
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1 year
Dirty tricks by the SNP? Who would have believed it! Time to close the circus down and get rid of the clowns.
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4 years
Serious question: If Scotland voted to leave in Indyref2 and regions like Edinburgh, Aberdeen & Borders voted to remain and partition resulted would there be a stampede of people from Nat areas to the Union areas or the other way round? After all Shetland could show the way.
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Quote of the day: โ€œRegardless of the blatant desperation to keep their Covid shenanigans secret & protect Sturgeon; any administration that does not keep records, minutes, notes & diaries & conducts its business in such a shambolic manner must be held to account by the public.โ€
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The SNP plan is working folks - the last one leaving please switch off the lights! Most Scots believe the income tax rate does not provide value for money, with 33% of those earning more than ยฃ28,500 would consider moving to other parts of the UK as a result - Survation Poll.
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