George Foulkes
@GeorgeFoulkes
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Labour Peer, avid Hearts Supporter & former Chair of Age Scotland Former Councillor (Edinburgh & Lothian) MP (Carrick, Cumnock & Doon Valley) and MSP (Lothian)
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If Brexit was abandoned tomorrow there would be a collective sigh of relief around the country, we could concentrate on improving schools & NHS, sorting out prisons & much more. Only the speculators would grieve.
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BBC cancel Have I got news for you because Heidi Allen who is not a candidate was due to be on but had Farage who is a candidate on Question Time. Can anyone stop this disgrace?
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SNP
Can’t run ambulance service
Can’t build ferries
Can’t run trains on time
Can’t organise exams
So how could they run an independent country?
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As one of the architects of the Scottish Parliament I am deeply disappointed it has been hijacked by the SNP as a campaign for separation instead of a vehicle for improving Scotland
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The election in Scotland was to choose a Scottish Government to run devolved services for the next 5 years, not about the constitution which is a matter reserved to the UK Parliament.
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Tomorrow at 3:05pm in
@UKHouseofLords
I will challenge the UK Government to stop SNP
@scotgov
spending UK taxpayers money on reserved areas & redirect it to underfunded devolved services.
Paying civil servants to work on plan to break up UK must be stopped.
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Martin Lewis on
@BBCBreakfast
confirms EHIC will end with Brexit so no more medical cover on holiday. Is this what Leavers wanted?
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The First Minister chooses the “Independent” Adviser on the Ministerial Code, decides terms of reference, sees the Report first & is allowed to make redactions. Meanwhile her spin doctors issue statement based on selected quotes. How on earth can anyone question this?
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If the Holyrood Committee had voted 5-4 the other way
@NicolaSturgeon
would have shouted loudly that she had been ”cleared” so now she has to accept that she has been found guilty and accept the consequences
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Unbelievable!
After abusing Ruth Davidson in personal terms & being told off by the Presiding Officer
@NicolaSturgeon
has the audacity to say we should be able to debate without resorting to personal abuse!
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Surely John Major & Ken Clarke saying don’t vote for Johnson is much more earth shattering than Ian Austin & John Woodcock saying the same about Corbyn
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If
@NicolaSturgeon
had visited a hospital, travelled on a bus, spoken with folk in the streets as I have done she would discover the decline in Scotland she presides over & how much people want her to do the job she was elected to do & forget her obsession with independence
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Strange if
@NicolaSturgeon
falls, as seems likely, not because of failures on ferries, class sizes, Gupta scandal, NHS waiting lists,rail services,council funding,teacher strikes,illegal spending, MP & MSP scandals or Ministerial mistakes but on trans misadventures
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In France there is no energy crisis, the trains are running normally & there are no health waiting lists.
A combination of public ownership, EU membership & decisive leadership
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On Wednesday in
@UKHouseofLords
I will be saying that
@NicolaSturgeon
is taking UK Government for a ride & asking that Boris Johnson as one of his final acts as PM, having ruled out a Second Referendum,stops
@scotgov
improperly using taxpayers money to prepare for one.
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Parliament sits tomorrow not knowing when we rise, when we return, whether & when there will be an election or if & when we leave EU.
In 50 years in politics I’ve never known such chaos and it’s all caused by a few fanatics.
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I'm no monarchist but am puzzled as to why the Royal Visit by train to Edinburgh to thank key workers is different to
@NicolaSturgeon
coming from Glasgow by chauffer driven car to visit the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh for a photo-op, except for greater energy efficiency
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Some of us protested at the time that Nicola Sturgeon turned what should have been public health messages into party political broadcasts
It is now becoming clear this was their plan & the BBC colluded & anyone who objected was vilified
Well, ye ken noo!
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I’ve been active in politics for over 60 years and have never known such arrogance & contempt towards others with a different view as with the current
@scotgov
even during the worst Thatcher years.
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Sturgeon gave no reasons today why the arrangements for lifting the lockdown in Scotland are not the same as England, which are clearly based on the scientific & medical facts. They seem designed to enable her to keep control over our lives and require regular briefings up to May
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I regret to report that I have failed to get a satisfactory response on the Sturgeon “briefings” from
@BBCScotland
who appear to be in thrall to the SNP
@scotgov
We need to think what further action is needed to stop this abuse of public service broadcasting
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Here's a photo of me signing a letter with a formal request to my wife to take a picture of me signing a letter
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Can I reassure the many people who have been in touch expressing concern about the continued lack of impartiality on BBC Scotland because of the coverage of the daily SNP “ briefing” that our protests are continuing & widening. More news soon.
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When SNP urged a boycott of Tunnocks their sales soared so Baxters in for a boom!
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Sadly my Bill was not one of the top 25 in the Ballot so I now move to Plan B to move an amendment to a suitable Government Bill. I will keep up my campaign to hold
@scotgov
to account
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My challenge on Illegal
@scotgov
expenditure has annoyed the CyberNats so much they say I am too old to comment, that as a member of the
@UKHouseofLords
I should not have a view,although ,like them, I am a taxpayer and some wish me an early death! A nice bunch some of these Nats!
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Yousaf to address EU diplomats on Gaza despite UK Government concerns
The UK Government needs to take action before this meddling becomes dangerous
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Really disgraceful of
@BorisJohnson
refusing to meet
@NicolaSturgeon
when all she wanted was a £600,000 loan.
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George Foulkes has today written to the Chancellor of the Exchequer calling on him to step in to stop illegal expenditure by
@scotgov
on an "Independence Minister"
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A clear and unequivocal unanimous decision by Supreme Court brilliantly explained by Lord Reed.
The
@scotgov
should now stop wasting time & taxpayers money on a Referendum & do the job of running devolved services more effectively
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If you had a highly paid job, could travel the world at public expense, was able to blame someone else for your failures & avoid scrutiny thanks to legal and media compliance why would you want to spoil it with a dodgy referendum?
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What has “world leader”
@NicolaSturgeon
done to save the jobs of hundreds of workers at the McVities biscuit factory in Glasgow, or is she too busy fighting climate change & opening overseas offices?
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Three cheers for The Queen for insisting that the Prime Minister of the UK will be appointed in Scotland
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The SNP could pass a law at Holyrood to overturn the law of gravity but things would still fall down.
It's the same with a referendum. It is not within their powers.
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I’ve put a formal complaint to
@BBCScotland
that they are breaking Ofcom & BBC Charter rules on impartiality by broadcasting daily broadcasts by the SNP leader without the right of reply to Opposition parties. Others could follow this example!
@GeorgeFoulkes
@NicolaSturgeon
@SkyNews
@HTScotPol
@Sunday_Post
George, use your influence and challenge them .
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Hogmanay cancelled
Football supporters banned
Council tax dodgers
Jail phones scandal
St. Andrew's House unfit
Audit Scotland condemnation
Baby Box thermometer boob
all added to
Ferry fiasco
Selfiegate
Missing person?
Missing money & more
Happy New Year Nicola!
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My Private Members Bill to stop
@scotgov
spending your money on reserved areas will be in the Ballot on Wednesday
@RealStephenKerr
There needs to be a bill brought in at Westminster to stop the devolved administrations meddling in areas outwith their remit. Just so the likes of Sturgeon can play let's pretend at being a "wurld leader"
Only
@GeorgeFoulkes
seems to be trying to do something about it
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I’ve often crossed swords with Alex Salmond in both Holyrood & Westminster but his appearance before the Inquiry seem to me to be credible, sincere & honest & must surely have serious consequences
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Today in
@UKHouseofLords
debate on Scotland as Kate Forbes introduces her Scottish Budget I will be calling on the UK Government to clamp down on improper spending by
@scotgov
on reserved areas such as Foreign Affairs & the Constitution.
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Imagine if in London or Manchester all trains stopped before 10pm.
That’s happening in Edinburgh & Glasgow &
@scotgov
Ministers are paralysed with indecision & SNP MSPs & MPs meekly accept because they are controlled by the party machine.
There would be a Revolution elsewhere
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I have now written today to the Leader of the
@UKHouseofLords
asking her to take my demand for an urgent review of the legitimacy of some
@scotgov
spending to the PM & Michael Gove following representations from all over Scotland
Today in
@UKHouseofLords
debate on Scotland as Kate Forbes introduces her Scottish Budget I will be calling on the UK Government to clamp down on improper spending by
@scotgov
on reserved areas such as Foreign Affairs & the Constitution.
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Lack of judgment by
@BBCNews
putting Djokovic interview ahead of Ukraine crisis at 1:00pm
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There is little political debate in Scotland now. Opposition parties are gagged at Holyrood, Ministers take no part in real debate on the media or at meetings, the media are either sycophantic or ignored, non-nationalists on social media are abused. SNP members are kept in line.
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Scotrail chaos is not because it is publicly owned. I’m on an LNER train from London to Edinburgh, which runs every half an hour, an efficient publicly owned railway. Scotrail now suffers from poor management & political interference. Another SNP failed enterprise!
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Ambulance delays, Ferries fiasco, GP shortages, A&E delays, drug deaths, rail cuts, exam chaos, education attainment gap & many more sacrifices on altar of Independence & now it’s clear the SNP are unable to get a referendum so it was all in vain. How can you still vote SNP?
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So many people have commented to me recently how they think
@AnasSarwar
is so much more able, effective & likeable than
@NicolaSturgeon
The tide is turning!
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Whatever you think of the Tory Leadership election, and I don’t think it’s a model of democracy, it’s better than being annointed by Alex Salmond
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To correct any other interpretation Jackie Baillie & I asked BBC Scotland to stop televising live Sturgeon's daily Media Conferences which she was using for political rather than public health purposes
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The Sturgeon interview on Sophie Ridge is beginning to look as wise as Prince Andrew’s with Emily Maitlis
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I have received more emails & messages of outrage on the illegal expenditure on the so called "Independence Minister" than on any other subject.
The UK Government must act now or the Scottish Government will know they can spend UK taxpayers' money on anything and get away with it
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There's something wrong when Dominic Cummings and Seamus Milne, both unelected, have so much power.
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Today I asked the UK Government to call on UEFA to investigate the SPFL decision to end the season early, despite UEFA recommendations to complete it.
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How can the Scottish Government open and immediately use a temporary hospital in the SECC in Glasgow while the multi million pound "state of the art" new Sick Children's Hospital in Edinburgh remains unusable & unopened & why is no one in the media prepared to ask this?
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So sad that
@ScotParl
which was created by
@ScottishLabour
after decades of campaigning to bring real power to people of Scotland has been corrupted by SNP politicians & their families for personal gain as well as a futile & dangerous campaign to break up Britain
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Not only is the production of this document using taxpayers' money an abuse but the contents are manifest nonsense.
It should be binned immediately and attention turned to improving the deteriorating services and infrastructure for which
@scotgov
are actually responsible.
Humza Yousaf reveals Scots citizenship and passport plan
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I didn’t vote for you but you are taking decisions for me. What’s the difference?
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Hampden Park must be the worst National Stadium in Europe.
Not just a pitch like a ploughed field but spectator facilities, catering, toilets & access all early 20th. Century.
The SFA &
@scotgov
need to get together to plan a replacement
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The totalitarian state of Scotland which gave Sturgeon total power is now proving their undoing as the truth spills out in inquiries but the only way to stop it continuing is for the UK Government to exercise its default powers
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CyberNats are now claiming my criticism of
@NicolaSturgeon
is misogyny.This is rubbish!
My criticism is about her failure to do her job effectively, her arrogance & improper use of taxpayer’s money & nothing to do with her gender & personal attacks I have had will not deter me
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All this sycophancy about
@NicolaSturgeon
not only ignores the failures of her time in office but is an insult to the memory of Donald Dewar, the architect of Scottish devolution & a political leader of much greater calibre.
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Never forget who was the architect of the Bute House Agreement, the person who made Humza Yousaf her chosen successor and the wife of the person charged with embezzling SNP funds. She fooled many but not all of us! And now she has a vote in the VONC!
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Why are the media not following up the scandal of the missing Scottish Census?
Angus Robertson should be dealing with this instead of travelling the world having his picture taken.
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Car crash interview by
@NicolaSturgeon
on
@AndrewMarr9
show. Shouting, aggressive & in denial on border with England & cost of independence & so rambling time ran out!
#Marr
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At bus stop in Princes Street Terry Crossley of Great Scottish Events comes over to say he strongly supports my campaign to stop improper expenditure by
@NicolaSturgeon
& all in his local in Davidson’s Mains last night did too!
Encouraging to hear the tide is turning against SNP
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SNP MPs are flapping about like beached whales as they see their cosy jobs disappearing because of SNP/Green
@scotgov
disasters on ferries, deposit return, Gupta, NHS waiting lists,failure to dual A9,improper spend on Independence Minister & overseas jollies & offices & much more
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Poor John Swinney eviscerated by Nick Robinson on
@r4Today
unable to answer how leaving our largest market will not be a disaster like Brexit with a hard border between Scotland & England. Not a good start for SNP ploy on Second Referendum
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A wise owl drew my attention to the strange amount of £107,620 which Mr. Murrell gave to the SNP and thought it must have been a foreign exchange transfer but the only one which gives a round figure at the time is Swiss Francs so that can't be right!
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If
@NicolaSturgeon
had waited just a few more weeks before resigning she &
@PeterMurrell
would have been in the front row at the Coronation, one of the Royal events she loves so much.
There must have been really compelling reasons for her rush to resign.
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Let’s hope not too many people have taken the advice of
@NicolaSturgeon
and cut the bottom off their doors as Storm Eunice approaches
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I’m afraid I don’t share the sycophancy about
@NicolaSturgeon
.
Certainly she was a brilliant propagandist but a total failure running an administration & made no progress on her main aim of independence.
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My campaign to hold
@scotgov
to account is moving up a gear
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I have been granted by Lord Speaker a Private Notice Question (our equivalent of an Urgent Question) on it in Lords tomorrow at about Noon.
Has there been a demand for an Urgent Question on the Russia Report?
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I will be supporting
@Andrew_Adonis
in the
@UKHouseofLords
tomorrow in urging that we Revoke Article 50 Withdrawal now to end uncertainty
I'm sure you've done your utmost already, but with a debate on revoking Article 50 tabled in the HOL tomorrow, please could you see if there's any way of squeezing more juice out of the petition? No stone should be left unturned, with the stakes so high!
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At Tynecastle today it was encouraging to get strong expressions of support for my stand against illegal
@scotgov
spending
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Why is Bute House not being used as a home, office & media centre for the First Minister to prevent unnecessary travel between Glasgow & Edinburgh?
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There are a score or more scandals, each of which should have toppled a Government in a democracy.
Which begs the question as to how and why
@theSNP
Government still continues to rule Scotland.
The Gupta scandal should be highlighted more as its going to cost the Scottish Taxpayer £32 Million a year for the next 25 years. This alone should have brought this shambles of a government down.
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Lorna Slater, who got on to the Lothian Green list with only 36 (Thirty Six!) votes after the respected radical land reformer, Andy Wightman, was shafted, is in line to be a Minister in the increasingly discredited Scottish Government.
#greensellout
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Today in the
@UKHouseofLords
I detailed a catalogue of SNP Government breaches of the 7 principles of Standards of public life.
Peers from all over the UK were unaware but astonished.
Read full details in Hansard.
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The Swiss, who are Referendum experts, have just abandoned one because incorrect information was given to voters. There is to be a re-run. An example for UK to follow?
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Are any of those who voted SNP in May now feeling guilty about broken promises, ferry fiasco, McVittie's closure, education attainment gap, centralisation in Edinburgh, cuts in council budgets, SNP finance mystery & so much more or is it all worth it for Scexit to follow Brexit?
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The Scottish exam fiasco seems to be the last straw of SNP Government incompetence with even SNP activists up in arms as poorer students marked down.
@NicolaSturgeon
asked to be judged on education performance
#ResignSturgeon
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The UK Government should start to look at how the SNP are using Holyrood to run their campaign for independence using taxpayer’s money instead of improving the devolved areas they were elected to run.
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Spoke to a friend whose daughter is on course for 5 "A"s at Highers but unlikely to get into a Scottish University because of the SNP cap on Scots students so likely to go instead to Durham. Why is there not a huge protest at Scots Universities giving priority to non-Scots?
Always astonishes me that more people don’t know this has been the case for quite some time.
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SNP party political broadcast not about Education, justice, transport, housing, poverty, drugs deaths or even the NHS in the middle of a pandemic, but all about separation and the break up of the UK.
Tells you all!
#snpout
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The Durham Police seem to work more quickly on complaints than Police Scotland who are conveniently, for the SNP &
@scotgov
, delaying quite a few. I can’t imagine why!
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When
@UKHouseofLords
returns on Monday I will be intensifying my campaign to stop illegal spending by
@scotgov
An elected dictatorship is always wrong but when it is a devolved government there is a way it can be stopped if the UK Government exercises its responsibility
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SNP 'could withdraw' from UK Parliament if indyref is not granted
Some good news at last!
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Sadly she has “lost the dressing room”
BREAKING: Nicola Sturgeon pleas with Scots to stick to guidelines as covid cases rocket over Christmas
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SNP run Cosla & SNP
@scotgov
fail to agree a decent wage rise for poorly paid Council workers.
Meanwhile they employ yet another spin doctor, open a ‘Nordic’ office & “Health” minister
@HumzaYousaf
swans off to Commonwealth Games
When will Scottish voters wake up?
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@ITVBorderRB
Why don’t you try to get her on to answer questions on Ferries, NHS waiting lists, school attainment levels, resignations from SNIB,renegade MSPs,advice on competence of legislation, FOI refusals, missing laptops and bikes, cuts to councils, potholes & other devolved failures?
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Very reassuring listening to people talking (2 metres distant) in Edinburgh today and hearing real scepticism, bordering on hostility towards SNP
@scotgov
leadership for arrogance, patronising messages and presuming victory in May.
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Blocking opponents on Twitter, refusing FOIs, Swanning around in limos away from the public, refusing to arrange press conferences for genuine questions for journalists. Could the SNP
@scotgov
have a few things they are desperate to hide?
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More Scots are getting fed up with Metropolitan elite media luvvies like
@IainDale
importing their flawed view of Scottish politics in their once a year visit during the Fringe with easy questions to people whom we have had to thole for far too long.
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Once again most of media letting Sturgeon get away with describing the highest drugs deaths in Europe as “a terrible tragedy” but no acknowledgement that she is to blame.
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Peer says SNP government 'illegally using taxpayers’ money' in bid to break up UK
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