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actor and comedian

Glasgow, Scotland
Joined December 2011
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@roketronnie
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4 years
Buddy goes on a food odyssey, but doesn’t get any,in #Partick #DogsofTwittter #Glasgow
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Veteran Jack Russell Buddy takes the lead in Partick #Glasgow #dogsoftwitter @roketronnie
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Malawi has just donated £1 million to help clean up Scotland #COP26 #Glasgow
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drivers check your tyres after driving down Renfrew Street #Glasgow roads, not so good
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2 years
not a single Scottish stand-up comedian takes on the Scottish government, that says it all really
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the Presiding Officer at Holyrood has to censure the First Minister and suspend until a full apology is made before Holyrood, nothing less is acceptable; she’s on national television supposedly representing ALL of Scotland; she has brought her position into disrepute
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3 years
***BREAKING*** Nicola Sturgeon has apologised to the family of Robert the Bruce who were traumatised over accusations that he was mean to a spider
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2 years
as far as I am aware not a single politician in Scotland has condemned the behaviour of the banner wavers at Celtic’s game ,if that is the case then it is shameful, why remain silent?
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Nicola Sturgeon says there is no ‘bottomless pit of money’ except of course when it’s being spent on trips to Canada,America,Italy,Copenhagen or the Bute House ‘entertainment bills’ which all adds up to quite a ‘bottomless pit’ for the political elite in the Edinburgh bubble
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3 years
the difference between Jackie Baillie and Nicola Sturgeon is that Jackie Baillie cares
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4 years
does anyone else think nippy’s a nutter?
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3 years
two senior members of an investment bank walk, two weeks later an Audit report draws attention to a £5bn black hole,these two events are not unrelated,it’s like something out the manual of the bleeding obvious
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3 years
been out of Scotland 24-hours, the difference is tangible, the SNP plan is to depress expectation, ambition, aspiration, it’s the one thing they are actually succeeding in
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4 years
I never realised the First Minister hated the Royal family as much as she seems to, why is everything conflict and aggression with her, courtesy,it doesn’t cost a dime
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3 years
Kate Forbes: Scotland can be an independent country standing on our own two feet Kate Forbes: Westminster, give me more money
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4 years
it emerges that Scotland has the worst COVID figures in the UK, cue the First Minister abandons the daily one show, now that’s what I call a coincidence
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2 years
so the SNP are royalists, always have been, always will be, how come then only a few months ago Nicola Sturgeon was warning William & Kate to stay out of Scotland?
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2 years
#Glasgow tonight
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3 years
that map on the mask, there is definitely something wrong with these people, using a horrendous conflict as virtue signalling tourism
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2 years
I have never once heard the First Minister of Scotland speak either Gaelic or this other language Scots, not once, she only speaks in English, so why is she so aggressively pushing this onto the population, what’s the point if she can’t be bothered herself?
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Nicola Sturgeon admits to getting a great education, which was under Labour run Strathclyde Region with Thatcher in power at Westminster, so this hatred of Westminster, Toarries & Red Toarries isn’t rational, it’s just a hatred of England isn’t it?
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Flynn sporting an Interflora window display on his lapel is infantile showing off and making a mockery, shows him up as an idiot too #Scotland today 😃 classless
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3 years
Nicola Sturgeon runs a one man band administration,her MSPs don’t get a look in,what happens is she throws daggers at the press and blames Westminster, meanwhile the clapping seals pick up their inflated salaries and expenses,nationalism is a fraud
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3 years
If you heckle Sturgeon you’ve to make a grovelling apology, however she is able to shout across the chamber and heckle with impunity, who writes the rule book at Holyrood?
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today just might be the day Holyrood died, a First Minister reading the wrong script, ferries being built overseas, so there really is no point to this over expensive charade, it would be better with beefed up councils, and ferries left to a UK agency
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4 years
just had the #SNP at the door offering a 3-bedroom cottage in the #Cotswolds , said I would think about it
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3 years
I’ll go one further and predict it will be worse than that 👇
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2 years
If @theSNP want to hold a ballot let them pay for it themselves, funding this farce should not be met by UK taxpayers
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3 years
been paying taxes for 53.5 years, UK passport, I’ll travel wherever takes my fancy, thank you very much dentist
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2 years
a proper police force would wade in and arrest these hate-mongers in Perth
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2 years
for all you Scottish nationalists who have hate in your hearts, that doctor who helped deliver your children, that surgeon who saved or gave renewed life to you or a family member, there’s a good chance they voted Tories, why would you detest that? simply unfathomable
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3 years
it’s becoming increasingly obvious, to me anyway, that anyone who voted SNP is stupid, gullible and probably not the full shilling, just like their leader
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2 years
did the leader of a political party in Scotland actually say she ‘detests Tories?’ full of grace & charm
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now he’s gone there is the little matter of Sturgeon/Blackford/Robertson over Grady/Salmond, time to get that laser focus on what goes on behind closed doors in the SNP
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3 years
I’m willing to wager without any hard evidence except a few strands of cut hair and hearsay, throw in a Nike conference,that what has been going on behind the scenes at Bute House is worse than Johnson to a factor of 10
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2 years
#SNP down 15% in Dunblane!!
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2 years
taking a free ticket in the royal box to see your favourite teenage heart throbs #DuranDuran while denying children a commemorative #Jubilee book will go down as the single most meanest political act Nicola Sturgeon has ever misjudged; I hope she pays a heavily for that
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3 years
Sarah Smith ‘relieved’ to leave Scotland, funny that’s exactly how I feel every time the Polo crosses the border or I step onto the Heathrow Express, here I was thinking it was just me;Scotland has become a poisonous backwater
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2 years
there are sound reasons for closing Holyrood, Patrick Harvie is one there are sound reasons for abolishing list MSPs, Patrick Harvie ticks all the boxes what is it he earns? £100k, the gravy bus courtesy of UK taxpayers incredible
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3 years
how bad is Sturgeon’s judgement when she thinks Godley is the best face to promote Scotland’s NHS
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4 years
I hope the voters in Scotland sat up and took notice of that aggressive belligerent performance from the First Minister today in Holyrood,outbursts like that have no place in a civic joyous country and it was a poor reflection of what is needed as leadership
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3 years
I think when an MSP stands up and quotes a report and the PO’s response is “I haven’t seen that report” then it is time to close Holyrood, the UK gov should step in and discipline the PO too
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can hardly believe the First Minister is picking a fight now with a children’s choir
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3 years
does anyone else think the SNP is a freak show, or is it just me
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If the Governor of the Bank of England walked out with immediate effect,no explanation,all hell would let loose, meanwhile in Scotland no one bats an eyelid when the CEO of the UK taxpayer funded Investment Bank does just that,why no opposition voices demanding answers?
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2 years
I don’t think I’ve ever seen Sturgeon so humiliated as she was by Ciaran Jenkins reduced to underprepared,unprepared gibberish, what has she been doing as leader since 2015
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4 years
well the independence referendum votes are in from the Borders by-election YES = 34% NO = 66% these figures look pretty much like last week’s vote in Lanarkshire
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a filthy business this Grady case, Blackford has to go, seems there is a serious bullying culture right at the top of the #SNP a puzzling question, does the CEO have any role in dealing with complaints? where is he?
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I’ve been watching the emergence of nationalism since the mid 1960’s, saltire crazy paving in Dundee, the aberration of Gordon Wilson, Sturgeon is the end game in this failure, Scottish nationalism has run its course, it’s going nowhere, Britain prevails, it always will
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3 years
an SNP weekend break in Kiev, funded by UK taxpayer, when are people going to wake up?
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Alex Salmond is saying Nicola Sturgeon has ruined the independence project, single-handedly #SupremeCourt
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Imagine your life is centred round despising a country south of Gretna, all your life every day nothing but hate for a country that shares the same space,same money,same families, same language and culture,same roads and rail,what an empty hate filled life,that’s the SNP for you
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Sturgeon has taken her eye off the ball,bin men strike back on, it’s what happens when you’re more interested in preening for the cameras rather working on the detail of the day job #Glasgow #COP26 #GlasgowRats
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Shell pulling out, what do you expect? Scotland is a hostile environment for business, nationalists may not like that truth but it is solely down to them, ask McVitie’s
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I think there could be a good few scalps on May 6th, John Swinney will be one
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I hope the SNP get a right slap in the dish at the May elections,it could happen
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an embarrassed man who doesn’t know where to look as his fans disrupt a minute’s silence
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Wings is putting it out there that Nicola Sturgeon could be defeated in her constituency in May, many would be up for that, his is an interesting conjecture [he seems quite amused by the prospect too] #ResignSturgeon
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news black out over Scotland’s First Minister, what can possibly be going on
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the Minister for Halloween arriving early doors
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notice how Sturgeon says ‘the buck stops with me’ while pointing the finger elsewhere? that’s real leadership
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seems the SNP punters on here are all for paying more tax,seems 50% of Scots pay no tax, we’re reliably informed 50% want independence, is there I wonder a correlation buried in there
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no one in Glasgow held a conversation in Gaelic today but the denizens are being force fed the expense of a language no one speaks, on police cars and ambulances, what a waste of time and money
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Holyrood isn’t doing anything that couldn’t be done by councils
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the 6.00am radio spin for the Scottish independence blueprint is “Scotland is being held back by the UK’ the reality is ‘Scotland is being held back by Nicola Sturgeon,the SNP & nationalism’ @theSNP @theSNPMedia
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there is something fundamentally wrong in this country when grown adults can’t respect a minute’s silence, self-respect non-existent and are unable to respect the rights of others, for 60 seconds
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It’s becoming clearer by the hour, the SNP leadership have thrown in the towel, they’ve had a heads up from the SC, it’s over
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a political leader earning £160k + expenses who expresses agreement with the sentiment that she can’t wait to get ‘the f*** out’ should be asked to have her resignation letter before Holyrood first thing Tuesday morning,all right minded MSPs should be calling for just that
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wouldn’t it be different if you switched on TV and there were Scottish politicians debating a policy on how best to close the Attainment gap instead of a snarling First Minister defending her conduct over 14 years of secrecy & no minutes, Scotland could move forward then
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in all my years going to #TheOpen stretching back to ‘68 not once have I seen a politician on course posing for photographs, bizarre doesn’t cover it
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‘appears it hasn’t been properly recorded’ an astonishing admission from Scotland’s First Minister, who apparently is a trained lawyer, if that’s her defence it’s time she was shown the door
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the #SNP could offer me £600,000 in the bank, a holiday home in the Bridge of Allan,I still would never vote for independence,my British nationality doesn’t have a price,any economic argument is irrelevant
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when someone asks the First Minister a reasonable question, instead of a polite measured response, she gets all aggressive and angry, why would that be? all seems a bit Freudian to me #FMQs
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Scotland is not run by the rule of law, but by the rule of Sturgeon, Justice by diktat, behind closed doors, the North Lanarkshire decision is quite sinister,targeting individuals
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must say the silence from the woke brigade on the reduction of the age of consent in Scotland to 13 years has only been matched by the void like silence from the opposition at Holyrood,if they do not oppose this they will be seen by me as anti-child, complicit enablers,waken up
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do the SNP still want to remove Trident or are they now fully paid up members of NATO?
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one thing to come out of Iain Dale’s smooch with the First Minister is he now has an idea of the toxic atmosphere generated by the most divisive politician ever to disgrace the political landscape in Scotland
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Is there any other country shaving 6 inches off the classroom doors? is it an international thing or just a nationalist thing, the First Minister may think it common sense,but so is asking what’s happened to the remaining £9,700,000 allocated for school ventilation? @ScotGovFM
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If as they say there is a £128 million ferries black hole and no one is accountable, Holyrood should be closed indefinitely
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that this exposé is left to the BBC is evidence enough that Holyrood isn’t fit for purpose, a building of subsidised food, expenses and a 2 day week …..and why it needs shut down
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I think Holyrood needs to be put on hold,UK officers commandeer the building, changing locks etc….all electronic devices taken control off,from top down,each MSP interviewed with access to all devices, criminal charges if cooperation refused,this whole scandal needs immediacy
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I really don’t think it the role of ‘devolved’ leaders wading in demanding the UK PM resign, it will run its own course,meanwhile in a parallel universe PM Johnston did not wade in demanding Sturgeon resign when she misled Holyrood,or Humza without insurance
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Tv personality Nicola Sturgeon isn’t a serious politician, her achievements are zero, she is the gravy bus commander and if you don’t agree with her you get sent a nasty letter
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is Johnson sitting on OECD report? is Johnson building the ferries? is Johnson dictating care home policy? is Johnson talking about ‘soft borders’? Is Johnson responsible for sluggish vaccine roll-out, no passport? why then is Johnson such an issue for the #SNP in this election?
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remember that 8-hours where she sat and thumbed her nose at the panel, can’t remember,don’t recollect, can’t McColl, well she should now be dragged down to Westminster to start remembering, meanwhile the Holyrood brigade should pack their bags and stand for council,shut Holyrood
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This unaccounted for £5bn, the place should be closed tonight, salaries stopped, every MSP on unpaid leave, then dismissed and told to stand for council if that is their wish
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Compston Grady Blackford that nice girl from Bearsden,Callaghan within 24-hours all examples of the true face of Scottish nationalism, in what they think is the privacy of their own cabal, turns out it’s nasty and vile,the public sees a deceptive fraudulent mask @theSNP
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am hearing from an insider that Harvie’s speech went down like a lead balloon
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listening to Nicola Sturgeon is like ‘vote my way & it’s all plain sailing’ from a woman who stood in front of a ferry with painted on windows, bear that in mind when the grand plan is revealed tomorrow
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what’s noticeable visiting these great cities Birmingham, London, Leeds is they are buzzing,in Leeds at 9.00am this morning, workmen busy renovating the town centre, house building apace, streets mobbed,nightlife lively; there is something wrong in Scotland,Glasgow especially
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If a First Minister refuses to answers questions on a survey which she herself put out,then she should resign
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the sooner we have a referendum on closing Holyrood the better, the Uk taxpayer is being royally ripped-off
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wow, Deek was on holiday when the contract was signed according to sleepy cuddles; there’s industrial scale lying by someone, now who in ScotGov is a big fibbber do you think,someone senior to Deek,who could it be?
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the problem scotland doesn’t seem to see is the SNP are just at it,they are not a political party in the true sense of having a programme of incremental improvements,things are just running down,ever notice that? but raking in Barnett, worsening day on day, vote them out in May
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so that’s the £20 Child Payment gone AWOL, this SNP administration are world leaders in making lists of failed promises
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Andy Burnham asking for compensation, threatening court etc was the ace card, shining a light on ScotGov finances, the last thing Sturgeon wanted, she really is cowardly, more politicians in Scotland should call her bluff more often
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am delighted UK gov is taking a hand to test the legality of bills passed by Holyrood, it’s the correct type of checks and balances to ensure the devolved administration doesn’t lapse into ‘tin pot dictatorship’
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just had the shock of my life in Tesco….one of my preferred tipples McEwan’s Champion ale [7.3% delicious kick] is now £2.38 up from £1.99, a 20% hike on a bottle of beer, but I take comfort knowing it helps pay for subsidised food and drink for MSPs at Holyrood
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for the avoidance of doubt, Scotland is a great country, but only because it’s a part of the United Kingdom like many parts ,Yorkshire, Lancashire, Devon & Cornwall, London and its surrounds, Cardiff, Swansea, Belfast, Lurgan, we are one we will always be the UK 👍
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I would do a deal with the devil to keep the SNP out of office
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Nicola Sturgeon likes to boast of having seen off 4 Prime Ministers,but is she aware that Queen Elizabeth II has seen the backs of 7 SNP leaders and counting;her Majesty,not boastful, going about her day job for 7 decades,the FM should clamp about that second rate record of hers
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