Nicola Sturgeon: £150k a year wage. Secure employment. Days filled with stimulating activity and social interaction. Access to two large homes with gardens.
And she feels like crying...
"I took my eye off the ball" -
@NicolaSturgeon
That'll be drug deaths, the attainment gap, schooling, waiting lists, employment, vaccinations, fixing our roads, funding local authorities, college places, the NHS, the oil & gas industries, building ferries, Prestwick Airport...
Humza Yousaf has published a plan. Sadly, it’s not a plan for the NHS with an ageing population.
It is not a plan to build more affordable housing.
It is not a plan to exploit the benefits of AI for the Scottish economy.
It is instead an act of self-gratification.
It’s time
The scenes from the Capitol are utterly horrifying. Solidarity with those in 🇺🇸 on the side of democracy and the peaceful and constitutional transfer of power. Shame on those who have incited this attack on democracy.
I'd like to address this Q. directly to
@HumzaYousaf
&
@NicolaSturgeon
.
The next time an immigration van is out rescuing victims of trafficking or modern day slavery, and protesters unaware of the situation but emboldened by your words start a protest, what happens next?
Wow!
@thecarolemalone
just absolutely smashed the corrupt SNP, corrupt
@NicolaSturgeon
and ripped the whole stinking McMafia establishment apart in one minute.
👀 📺 Well worth a watch!
I want to buy this man a pint as he’s spoken for every single Scot who was scunnered by
@NicolaSturgeon
today with her ‘pot-holed drive into a brick wall’ roadmap.
Love. It.
One small example of why Theresa May was one of the most sincere people in modern British politics.
She will be greatly missed in the Commons and I’m delighted she has a new opportunity to continue serving us.
One final aside - the utter meltdown from the Scottish Nationalist politicians and various sympathetic commentators tonight is merely a glimpse to the utter implosion which lies ahead.
After 9 years of the majority in this country being barraged by such people, their eventual
This monologue by
@afneil
in tribute to the late PC Palmer is just a taste of why
#GBNews
is going to shake up British news broadcasting and British politics for the better in so many ways.
I see the SNP have appointed their new auditors.
I’m not going to comment on the fact their own annual confirmation statement was overdue as that would be unbecoming of another professional.
Instead I’ll simply say I’m delighted the SNP now see the value of the U.K. single
This is a fundamental problem we have in Scotland.
Successful, home grown, self-made Scottish business figures such as (Lord) Willie Haughey come in for criticism from two-bob politicians who haven't even run a menodge before they got elected, citing the usual tropes about greed
Last Friday I visited businesses in Glasgow and the Isle of Bute to see how our
#PlanForJobs
is protecting, supporting and creating jobs across the whole of the UK 🇬🇧 👇
I don’t think I’ve ever deleted a WhatsApp message history in my life. Why would you?
Serious questions for Nicola Sturgeon to answer here. What was it about COVID she wanted to hide?
I mean, Michael Matheson managed to burn through £11k worth of data usage and didn’t need to
See if push came to shove, one of these people would “fight to the death” for this country, and the other would be a conscientious objector.
Which is which? Hard to tell eh.
@StevenBonnarSNP
Wish Nicola Sturgeon would spare us the crocodile tears and get to the punchline. Who cares if she feels like crying? What about the people she is subjecting this to? Maybe they feel like crying.
PS: Why is travel within Scotland okay but not across to England? Nationalism.
Last month
@HumzaYousaf
called for Scotland to be Tory-free.
This month, facing a confidence vote brought by the Tories, he’s begging us to support him.
How desperate is this First Minister?
Wendy Alexander resigned the leadership of Scottish Labour over a £950 non-permissible donation.
David McLetchie resigned over some taxi fares.
Henry McLeish resigned after a debacle with subletting an office.
Michael Matheson is backed to the hilt by the Nat machine.
There
Scotland has its own legal system. It’s own education system and framework of qualification. NHS - ditto.
Of course we should have our own Parliament to focus on these issues.
The problem isn’t that we’ve got one.
The problem is that we used to have one and the SNP ruined it.
Why does Nicola address the country at 2pm when most people are working, whereas Boris times it for 8pm - prime time viewing, when you are going to maximise your audience?
Having spent hours trying to get Home Office to abandon their operation, without success, I am pleased Police Scot intervened on public safety & health grounds to release individuals involved.
But let me be clear, the Hostile Environment created by UK Govt is not welcome here.
I’m not interested in further adding to the pile on on Rhiannon. I’m sure she’s feeling rather silly after her infantile comment.
I am more interested in hearing what
@NicolaSturgeon
and others in their leadership are going to do about the systemic xenophobia within their party.
Anyone who watched former First Minister Alex Salmond give his evidence to committee last week can see a marked contrast with Sturgeon today.
He was confident and assured. Nicola is stuttering, stumbling over words, rushing. Not composed at all.
Nicola Sturgeon: more furlough payments, universal basic income, more government spending, as a country crashing out of the United Kingdom lacking sufficient tax revenues to pay for it all.
That's not a programme for government; it's a wish list for Santa Claus.
Nicola Sturgeon cannot blame Boris for not locking down early enough now.
She had the chance to contain and control the virus in Greater Glasgow with tighter measures but didn’t go far enough, as used in Aberdeen before.
Now all of Scotland pays for it.
If a politician gets thrown out of the chamber for accusing another politician of telling a lie, and it’s later held that politician did in fact lie, does the accuser get an apology?
Asking for a friend.
According to figures produced by BBC Scotland, someone earning £110k a year will now pay an extra £4096 a year in tax.
As there are so few people earning that level in Scotland, can I give a big shout out to the three council Chief Execs who are paying Michael Matheson’s mobile
So we can get this straight, on Thursday
@policescotland
ordered the release of two men immigration forces had in custody because they didn’t have the forces to clear the street.
Glad to see they’ve found themselves suddenly capable of handling a much bigger crowd of burley men.
Truthbomb: if there was anyone capable of replacing
@NicolaSturgeon
, she would’ve been forced out before now.
Which begs the question: if Scottish Nationalism is on the ascendancy, why are they so bereft of talent? Why is the calibre of SNP MSP so low no substitute can be found?
Events in Israel constitute one of the largest terrorist atrocities the world has seen since 9/11.
Decent people do not justify or rationalise such actions. The only appropriate comment is unqualified condemnation of this mass scale murder.
Put simply Maggie, let people think
We’ll never have peace in Israel or Palestine if we don’t recognise why those who’ve been subjected to blockade, occupation & worse retaliate.
Peace-making requires honesty. Including acknowledging awful violent acts by different actors. But we cannot erase context of occupation
People like Sir Tom Hunter do more for Scotland than people like Patrick Harvie could ever dream of.
It’s people like Tom who truly put Scotland on the map - not how or where we choose to govern ourselves from.
Someone shared this powerful narrative with me, by a random guy called Chris Wright. If he is on Twitter, I'd follow him. And if I were you, I'd read this. He doesn't miss and hit the wall.
#SNPout
#ResignNicolaSturgeon
Scotland has 9.7% of the population England has.
To match their speed of vaccination we should be on 27.1k jabs right now. We are not even two-thirds of that level.
It simply isn’t good enough
@NicolaSturgeon
@JeaneF1MSP
.
One of my Facebook friends has just referred to the slow, clunking, inefficient, incompetent Scottish Government as the 'porridgeburo' - great to start a Monday with a laugh!
“We have a very simple choice in the next parliament, whether we spend it debating an issue that in reality was resolved almost seven years ago.”
This
#bbcqt
audience member says in 2014 the SNP said the independence referendum was a “once in a generation vote”.
Sturgeon has a daily tv appearance to maintain a relationship with the public. Most days she doesn’t inform us anything new, it’s just reassurance.
Our other national leader makes one visit to show visibility in Scotland and the entire Scottish media and SNP have a meltdown.
Wow.
@afneil
is spot on. 150,000 Scots have never worked. Many of them young people who have been let down by the system. It’s a waste of our national potential.
“We need to get stuck in to our labour force, there’s a huge chunk of people that we need to get back to work”
Journalist Andrew Neil says we need to engage the workforce in the UK without stopping people coming in from abroad to work or study
#bbcqt
800,000 Scots live and work elsewhere in the U.K.
That’s 4x more than the whole EU27.
@NicolaSturgeon
wants to take away your freedom of movement across the British Isles and erect a hard border at Gretna.
She can remove our flag, but she can’t remove our Britishness.
She can put up the EU flag, but she’ll never take us back in.
What a delusion loser Nicola Sturgeon is.
via
@guidofawkes
Of all the issues Scotland is currently facing, it’s staggering the name of a cafe has had this much airtime.
This is why Nationalism is called the measles of the mind.
BREAKING: Edinburgh Castle will ‘review’ the name of its Redcoat Cafe after an online backlash
The ‘Jacobite function room’ name will now also be reconsidered, Historic Environment Scotland said
Colin Beattie claims he didn’t know about the camper van. As a fellow accountant I find this hard to believe. Here’s why:
Such a purchase would be classified in accountancy parlance as a fixed asset. Which necessitates the selection of a policy to write the asset off over its
Does anyone look at these scenes from today and just think “sod it, I’m doing what I want at Christmas” within reason, obviously.
The law applies to us all equally or it applies to none.
The Michael Matheson affair is a damning indictment on the state of Scottish politics.
£11k is a lot of money, but this is no longer just about money.
It is about the truth.
Matheson lied and he is still there.
Do something about it:
What a smoking gun. It appears what
@NicolaSturgeon
said in response to
@RuthDavidsonMSP
at FMQs this week was a pile of nonsense.
The FM said discharging Covid positive patients back into care homes was an NHS operational matter, nothing to do with her government. 100% false.
Tomorrow’s
@Sunday_Post
- Exclusive: leaked letter reveals minister’s pressure to put hospital patients in care homes at the peak of the
#coronavirus
pandemic in
#Scotland
.
The Green Brigade wing of the SNP speaks.
He’s an angry sort of person isn’t he. As if challenging constituents to a square go during a pandemic lockdown wasn’t enough.
A total Ned of an MP.
Hold on a minute... if the SNP are going further then the U.K. Government on quarantine for international travellers, because its devolved - why didn’t they take earlier action?
#bbcqt
I think
@NicolaSturgeon
’s tone suggests she’s losing her grip here. She’s overly aggressive. That’s not the manner of someone who thinks they are winning.
#NextLeaderOfScotland
What an absolute class act from
@RuthDavidsonMSP
on
#stvnews
there with
@STVColin
This Sturgeon case is growing arms and legs. There are more new questions arising than there were answers from
@NicolaSturgeon
- selective amnesia if ever we heard it.
The big question every Glaswegian has to ask themselves tonight is could this tier 4 madness have been avoided if we had a short Aberdeen style lockdown much earlier on when it became clear we had a problem here?
Second successive full council meeting in East Renfrewshire last night without a single SNP councillor in the building.
I appreciate circumstances sometimes mean people need to join remotely rather than turn up - but the entire group, on two occasions?
The democrat in me
The latest Audit Scotland report into the Scottish Government’s finances is damning.
£2bn underspend and tens of millions squandered on propping up businesses with little return on investment.
Hoping some of this finds it’s way to councils in the budget
The next time the SNP say they don't have money for hospitals, they don't have money for your local council, they don't have money for teachers - remember this:
They are paying people wages to come up with this stuff. Paying them with your money.
She doesn’t go out, she doesn’t drink, and she prefers books over parties. She can still travel, still meet people, still go to work, and still get paid.
The question you’ve got to ask is how much has Nicola’s life changed under lockdown compared to yours?
📚 If, like me, reading novels brings you joy & helps you through tough times, here’s my Xmas round-up of those I’ve enjoyed most this year. First pile is general fiction and next some classics I’ve read/re-read. Not all of them were likely to take my mind off things...
@NicolaSturgeon
@UKSupremeCourt
You can tell it’s voluntary because the people of Scotland voted for it.
Case dismissed!
Where to next Nicola - Judge Judy perhaps? 😂
As a lifelong Tory, naturally I am disappointed with the results tonight.
What I am pleased to see however is the rout of Scottish Nationalism which has riven my country for the past decade.
And I’ll take what’s good for country over party every day of the week.
Contrary to Tories suggestions at
#FMQs
, business funding is open right now & will be paid in Jan. That includes funding for all eligible businesses req'd to close or modify operations and top-ups for hospitality, retail and leisure. That forms bulk of £715m for biz since Oct.
FM has been consistent that she is looking forward to appearing infront of Committee under oath (as Peter has done twice) as she has nothing to fear from their questioning. Time to put an end to the nonsense conspiracies being peddled.
Looking at the flagship BBC news broadcast tonight, it’s pretty clear to see the contrast between the hordes of well wishers versus the rather pathetically sparse smattering of diehard republicans. It’s clear where Scotland stands.
Long Live the King! 👑
SNP plans for independence
- 11 points
SNP plans for Covid vaccinations 💉
- 0 points
They’ve got their priorities all wrong. No wonder Scotland is falling behind.
Why on Earth would the U.K. Government need to consult a devolved administration when investing money in the UK?
The SNP just don’t get it. They’d rather pick a fight over the constitution than see new funds benefitting communities in Scotland.
Well that’s quite a turnaround for a city which has had two mass gatherings with the express endorsement of the governing political party in the space of a week.
Bravo folks(!)
BREAKING: First minister confirms Moray and Glasgow will remain at level 3 restrictions for a further week.
Means Indoor meeting, indoor drinking in hospitality etc is delayed.
Boris got a fixed penalty notice for a misdemeanour involving a gathering of work colleagues.
Nicola Sturgeon’s house has been turned into Glastonbury by Police Scotland amid serious investigations.
One is going, the other clings on. Two wrongs don’t make a right, but is this
@RussellFindlay1
SNP members wear political badges and suchlike in the chamber and in committees all the time.
There is an SNP councillor on Renfrewshire Council who has a Yes flag for a backdrop.
Being triggered by a scarf in suffragette colours is a new low for the Nats.
So, did anyone notice how
@AlexSalmond
could recall every date, every meeting, like *that* whereas
@NicolaSturgeon
head bobbles, blinks, prevaricates, stutters and has sudden lapses of memory.
You don’t need to look far to see who’s telling the truth 👇
That's disappointing
@AnasSarwar
in today's Times:
"I think it’s safe to say I would choose Nicola Sturgeon over Boris Johnson"
Why does Labour keep feeding the Nats? Talking down the PM just enables the behaviour we saw from the SNP this week.
Link(£)
If there is such desire for independence in Scotland:
- why is the calibre of politicians pursuing it so low?
- why is that standard actually declining?
- why are there so few talented leaders coming through to replace Sturgeon?
52% for Humza and 48% for Kate Forbes.
Does that mean we’re going to have a People’s Vote now, considering the SNP don’t think that’s enough of a mandate?
This razor thin majority for Yousaf shows the broad church of the SNP is collapsing fast.
I wonder if the SNP will still be keen to use the forthcoming U.K. General Election as a de-facto referendum on breaking up Britain after the Rutherglen by-election result 👀
So
@NicolaSturgeon
just said the rest of us would be "vaccinated just as soon as supplies allow"
While 400,000 Covid vaccines are sitting in Scotland unused right now.
Less talk, more action, please.
Humza Yousaf said he will freeze Council Tax next year.
Let's be clear here - this isn't a freeze, it is merely a deferral because of the election.
We are waiting to hear back from a SG consultation which would see hikes as high as 22% - AFTER the election of course. Cynical.
The reason why the SNP are campaigning on the constitution - a reserved matter - is because they’ve failed on education, health, jobs.
Scottish education used to be ahead of England’s, and now it’s behind.
-
@lord_forsyth
#bbcqt
Well said that man!