John Cooper MP
@JohnCooperDG
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Member of Parliament for Dumfries & Galloway. Casework: [email protected]
United Kingdom
Joined September 2024
This is about empowering local authorities’. Tripe!.It’s about taking more money from hard-pressed businesses in the fragile #tourism sector and if a levy is imposed in D&G it will cost jobs - not create them.
Members have agreed to hold a consultation on a possible visitor levy.
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Every one a tragedy, and official rooms for drug-taking in Glasgow.and soon Edinburgh make not a whit of difference. The Right to Recovery Bill from @ScotTories is the serious way to tackle this crisis.
New figures show there were 24 drug related deaths across the region in 2024 – up from just 12 in 2023.
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Pleasure to meet David and Wilma at Rainton. Sorry Wilma could not be there to see this accolade awarded.
David Finlay, who launched the businesses at Rainton Farm with late wife Wilma, has been awarded an honorary fellowship.
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Bring up the ✂️ and cut the red tape!.Spot on from @jamesowild.We have regulators that are paper tigers failing to influence sectoral behaviour while miring business in pointless, expensive, bureaucracy.
From @jamesowild: If we want to drive grow, we must take regulation as seriously as spending and taxation
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RT @DavidDavisMP: The politicians who promoted digital ID cards think it makes for a fantastic headline, but it is a terrible policy in rea….
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‘May we see you papers, please?’ is the opening line in the film Casablanca, set in Vichy controlled Morocco in the war. It has no place on the streets of modern Britain.
From llggeorgia: Mandatory ID cards would not help combat illegal migration, but would undermine our way of life
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Of course it was The Few aboard Spitfire and - especially - Hurricane fighter aircraft who won the Battle of Britain, but the Dowding System was the essential framework for the #RAF.
Ahead of the annual commemoration service for the life of Air Vice Marshall Lord Hugh Dowding and the unveiling of a bust and replica spitfire at Dowding House in Moffat this weekend, I paid tribute in the House of Commons to Dowding's immeasurable contribution to victory in the
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RT @jackmrankin: Shocking race-based discrimination is robbing chances from young talent. It is simply unacceptable that DEI, not hard wo….
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This Budget is the Nightmare Before Christmas.
Figures continue to show it’s tough on the physical high street already. Setting her Budget for the last pay day before Christmas means Chancellor could really ruin Q4 trading.
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RT @ScotTories: In his speech all about independence, John Swinney claimed “you can’t just support democracy when it suits you.”. Has he fo….
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RT @RuralScotTories: Lives continue to be at risk on the A75 due to the SNP's shameful neglect over the last 18 years. Send them a message….
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RT @CraigWHoy1: Today I urged John Swinney to support the campaign I launched with @fincarson to save lives by dualling the A75. He didn’t….
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RT @CommonsBTC: At the latest session of our inquiry into the issues small businesses in the UK are facing, we heard from @HMRCgovuk that p….
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The #hospitality sector is in a storm created by Labour at Westminster and the SNP in Holyrood. It’s particularly hard on youngsters who often get that all-important first job in this vital sector of the economy.
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Maintenance 👍🏻. Convoys rather than full closure 👍🏻. Ongoing indifference to serious attention for the A75 from @FionaHyslop 👎🏻. 🚘 #HighwayFromHell 🚛.
Amey will begin work on a section of the A75 on Sunday evening.
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RT @staylorish: John Swinney claims the Norwegian frigate deal debunks the 2014 argument that Scottish independence would mean no such orde….
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RT @griffitha: The Great British Pub, restaurants and hospitality venues are bleeding out. 84,000 jobs have been lost in the sector alone….
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RT @GallowayNews: The facility can now be found at 45 Victoria Street and can be used by customers of all major banks. .
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The facility can now be found at 45 Victoria Street and can be used by customers of all major banks.
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RT @jackmrankin: If you don’t support speech you don’t like, you don’t support free speech. The Graham Linehan armed arrest shows that ou….
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