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Ayrshireman and British patriot. Purveyor of fine apples and warm welcomes.
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Restore good governance by cancelling Heath and Blair.
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Until we have a Conservative leader who is not afraid to say that Britain was built by Elizabethan buccaneers, Georgian architects and Victorian engineers, and not by Jamaican bus drivers, they're not worth listening to.
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Angela Rayner was seen drinking a £75 Malbec with lobster (I know) in a London restaurant while mouthing off about the cost of living.
This is what happens when you pay low-grade oiks £85k to sit in parliament. They are no more in touch than Rishi Sunak.
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Milei is putting the Western economic consensus into a sack and drowning it. Within months, inflation has gone from 300% to 11% and the budget is now in surplus.
Socialists are going to have a hell of a lot of explaining to do.
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Less than two weeks before Boris Johnson committed the heinous crime of blowing out birthday candles, BLM were out on the streets in their thousands, defaced the statue of Winston Churchill, and the Met Police didn't seem particularly interested.
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Cyndi Lauper epitomises everything that Glastonbury has become. Clapped out artists who are too old to sing their own songs, so compensate with mindless monologues about ishoos.
A sea of flags, but not one a Union Jack.
F*ck this nonsense.
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Is this a party?
I only ask because it doesn't look very much like work.
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Sir Lindsay Hoyle blames the 'far right' for threats to MPs.
We really are governed by cowards and imbeciles.
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For those unaware, the Scottish Justice Minister has no legal qualifications whatsoever.
He's never had a job outside of politics or charity.
His only experience of the law was being caught driving without insurance.
Scotland is a basket case being run by activists.
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The BBC's relentless campaign to overthrow the Prime Minister should result in one thing. The termination of the Licence Fee in 2022, not 2028.
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Ten years ago, this would have been on the national news, but now it's just a Twitter post because London is a third world shit tip.
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Reform have announced they want to abolish IR35.
They have secured my vote.
An economic policy not designed by HMRC bureaucrats, but to grow the economy and reward risk-taking.
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@Martin_Durkin
What we've always done. Beauty and tradition are more valuable than banal modernity.
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I'm waiting on Nicola Sturgeon offering her resignation following the Supreme Court ruling, after she suggested that the PM should resign after the Supreme Court found against him in 2019.
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The biggest disaster to befall Scotland is that Ian Blackford is one of ours.
There isn't a bigger fool in Christendom.
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Glasgow Central Station will receive "Great British Railways" branding.
Top trolling.
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Orkney voted against devolution in 1997.
Orkney voted no to independence.
Orkney has never voted in the SNP.
Orkney has a government it never voted for. It's in Holyrood.
#AbolishHolyrood
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Boris should scrap the Barnett Formula and make Holyrood self-financing.
See how the SNP client state of public sector workers and welfare jockeys like a dose of "independence".
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While the supine British political class pour plaudits on Biden, let's recap.
His first words to the BBC were "BBC? I'm Irish."
He halted trade negotiations with Britain and weaponised the Irish border during Brexit negotiations and opposed any effort to assert our sovereignty.
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If the result of the 2014 referendum on Scottish independence is to be set aside and ignored, then so should the result of the 1997 devolution referendum. 🤷♂️
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When one takes the Oath of Allegiance, it must be taken sincerely. Anyone who caveats their oath in this way should be regarded as having repudiated the Oath and should be kicked out of Parliament.
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Charges against Nicola Sturgeon's sister have been dropped.
One call from the First Minister to the Procurator Fiscal's Office.
This is Scotland now.
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Scottish nationalism has gone from the verge of breaking up our nation in 2014 to shouting at the Loch Ness Monster in 2022.
It's over. They've gone 'Full Tonto'.
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As a nation, we've gone from supersonic airliners to 15 minute neighbourhoods because we have demeaned everything and everyone that built this nation, in favour of empowering a class of hectoring fuckwits to rule over every aspect of our lives.
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"You dancin'?"
"You askin'?"
"Am askin'"
"Am dancin'"
"You're nicked."
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Tories in Scotland stayed at home.
If Douglas Ross had spent his time in Westminster working to pull the rug from Sturgeon's Covid Tyranny, rather than fighting phantom referendum campaigns and attacking Boris, he might have found himself in a better position than he is now.
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Amend the Scotland Act to remove tax powers from Sturgeonstan and restore tax parity across the United Kingdom.
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Nancy Pelosi and an American delegation were in the House of Commons to watch defence questions, but all left the chamber when the SNP spokesman took to his feet. 😆
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Boris is basically saying the State has now done its part in rolling out a vaccine nationwide, and it's now up to us to behave responsibly.
Compare and contrast with the depressing approach of TV's Nicola Sturgeon, who will continue to act like a primary school head mistress.
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@LeanneWood
No, Miriam Margolyes is talking nonsense.
The United Kingdom has not fallen, it has had its sovereignty and independence restored.
There was no coup, it was a general election victory using verified paper ballots.
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Two organisations that don't have an ounce of credibility left this week:
The BBC and the Metropolitan Police.
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The most terminally stupid man ever to occupy a great office of state gets every one of his historical facts wrong.
"Churchill replaced Chamberlain just days before the Second World War, Lloyd George replaced Asquith weeks into Somme, Eden lost his job during the Suez crisis"
Shadow foreign secretary David Lammy says "there are always others" to replace Boris Johnson
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Sturgeon declared that Boris cannot ignore her demands for another independence referendum.
Shall we tell her?
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@Keir_Starmer
We need a plan for growth alright. You're not it.
We need to grow the economy, not the state. We need to stand tall, not take a knee. We need to know what women are and we need to prioritise veterans who have served our country over immigration cheats.
Jog on.
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Labour have doubled their seat tally with fewer votes.
This has all the ingredients for a government even more unpopular than Sunak's within months.
There will be no honeymoon. There is no mandate.
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This space has potential as a future concert hall or IMAX cinema.
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Sturgeon now wobbling her head on TV delivering hypocrisy and bilge in spades, as well as insulting the whole of southern Scotland, which actually did vote for Boris's government.
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Sturgeon's feigned drama in the chamber today would be nothing compared to what she would experience every day if any journalists in Scotland actually did their job.
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@cultfree54
It's astonishing to see a Speaker hoist himself on his own petard, particularly on an issue as inconsequential as a House of Commons motion.
That he did so on grounds of MPs' safety is a double indictment of Parliament's neglect in addressing the very real problems we face.
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Rather than freeing Scotland of Tories, I'd rather
#AbolishHolyrood
and free Scotland from its dismal cult of hectoring fuckwits who've turned the home of the Enlightenment into a global laughing stock, and send Yousless back to his calling as a Pollock community organiser.
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The Scottish Government will now go to the Supreme Court to argue for the right of convicted rapists to enter female-only spaces after submitting some paperwork.
The birthplace of the enlightenment. Remarkable
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Devolution Latest:
Die while waiting 40 hours for an ambulance, but a new office is being opened in Warsaw.
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Scottish independence is dead.
The best chance was with Alex Salmond in 2014. He's the only one of them who didn't make business break out in a cold sweat. He wasn't utterly detested by half the population.
It's over now. The current coalition is a laughing stock.
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Those who say NI is too much trouble and should be given to RoI miss the point.
They're British citizens, and their citizenship is just as valid as anybody else's. Nobody has the right to strip them of their nationhood or their citizenship for the sake of political expediency.
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Douglas Ross beats Nicola Sturgeon in calling for Boris to resign. The Scots Tories are a waste of space.
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Attention seeker Sturgeon to make her own announcements on the cost of living today in an attempt to steal some of the limelight.
Desperate stuff.
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SNP Scotland:
A chancer from Poland is a 'new Scot', but a real Scot who can trace his Scottish ancestry back centuries and is proud to be British can 'piss off back to England'.
Civic and joyous.
I would piss off to Cornwall if I could afford it.
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In Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em, Frank Spencer was sent to fix a boiler and caused a gas explosion. He walked away from the rubble sheepishly and said "that's all I can do for you."
Sunak is the Frank Spencer of politics. Expect to see him in Whitehall on roller skates shortly.
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Sturgeon may be enjoying her victory today, but I'd love to see her face if the next Tory leader grows a pair and makes the reversal of Blair's failed devolution experiment part of their campaign platform.
One can dream.
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Does anyone believe that Orkney, Shetland, Kirkcudbrightshire, Dumfriesshire, Roxburghshire, Selkirkshire and Berwickshire would choose to continue being governed by Nicola Sturgeon if Westminster offered them an opt out of Holyrood control with direct funding?
#AbolishHolyrood
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BREAKING: April Fool's Day cancelled in Scotland, because every day is April Fool's Day.
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In any other country, Patrick Harvie would be driving a taxi.
An uncomfortable Patrick Harvie faces questions on the farce of a single issue General Election.
It’s clear that his paymaster Sturgeon didn’t consult him on this. Oh well, at least he got a ministerial car out of his grubby coalition deal…
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Rent controls in Scotlandshire now.
Just when you thought this place couldn't get any more bonkers.
Good luck finding a property to rent now when they all go up for sale.
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Pound down and interest rates up. When does Jeremy Hunt get fired?
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Glasgow in 1999 (when Scottish Parl was created): The UK city of Architecture and Design, a thriving cosmopolitan city with a revitalised streetscape, and one of the best bar and club scenes in the UK.
Glasgow now: litter strewn cess-pit, homeless drug addicts on every corner.
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Campbeltown is much closer to Belfast than to Edinburgh.
Dumfries is much closer to Carlisle than to Edinburgh, and it’s closer to London than Lerwick is to Edinburgh. What’s the rationale for any of these places being governed by the Scottish Parliament?
Devolve and dissolve.
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Your reminder that it was f*ckwits like Nick Clegg who stymied all attempts to expand our nuclear base load because "the first power stations won't come online until the 2020s."
They have zero credibility. They should be in stocks on the streets and pilloried.
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In the '70s, the SNP profited politically from the North Sea oil boom. They objected to interest rates set in London.
Now they don't want the oil, want interest rates set in Frankfurt, and are digging up the Claim of Right from the 17th Century.
This is a movement in decline.
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I've poured a lot of scorn on the Tories recently, but it's worth restating that Labour are a motley crew of economically illiterate, race grifting, jew-baiting, comically stupid tankies, eco-clowns and open border fanatics who'll make a dog's dinner of the country.
#NeverLabour
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It's just a hunch, but I'd bet that the children of Scotland would prefer not to have to play on streets like this than have a UN convention incorporated into domestic law.🤷♂️
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Scotland has the population of Yorkshire, yet has 10 members of the Cabinet and 17 junior Ministers.
What a waste of time and money.
#AbolishHolyrood
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Now that we're in the business of undoing everything Tony Blair did, can we urgently get onto devolution?
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Britain's GDP per capita has dropped by 10% in the last 15 years.
Mass immigration has been a social and economic disaster.
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The new CalMac ferries will never put to sea because Sturgeon has had the bottom of the bow doors cut off.
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It’s hard to escape the conclusion that Scotland must eventually be confronted with a binary choice.
1. Be an independent nation and keep Holyrood.
2. Stay in the UK and scrap devolution.
The status quo is not an option.
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Too many unionists think that the job is done if the SNP are replaced at Holyrood by a rainbow coalition of also-rans.
This is sticking plaster stuff. The sooner unionists realise that the union will only be secure when we have one parliament rather than four, the better.
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In 1997, I was one of only 614,400 people who voted not to send Scotland down the pan.
Still proud to be one of the 'few'.
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Oh God. Oh Jesus Christ.
Iain Dale is to interview Nicola Sturgeon. Expect London-bubble softball adulation and a studious ignoring of the fact that there is a smouldering wreck where the Scottish economy, healthcare, education and transport infrastructure used to be.
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@Mij_Europe
Let me get this straight: democracy is in danger when governments do the things that the people want.
Someone has a screw loose.
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Can anyone give an example of another place where the head of government, the deputy head of government and the head of the police all resign within weeks and nobody knows why?
Somewhere in South America perhaps? The Hindu Kush? A far-flung mining colony on Phobos?
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@metpoliceuk
@ArchRose90
You never seem short of options when you find someone with a Union Jack.
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The Tories need a new leader who will:
1. Reverse all the tax rises.
2. Kick out all the illegals.
3. Scrap Net Zero.
4. Abolish devolution in Sco/Wal/Ldn.
5. Root out woke activism from public sector.
6. Take control of civil service.
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@themajorityscot
The Scottish administration is a student union masquerading as a government.
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Does anyone really believe that an Irish Barrister appointed by the SNP is going to hang Nicola Sturgeon out to dry?
Greater chance of Lord Lucan riding into town atop Shergar to watch an Elvis comeback gig and a flypast by Flight 19.
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The Tories hate the self-employed and Labour hate the working class. The Lib Dems hate classical liberalism and democracy while the Greens are basically Reds.
What a time to be alive.
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Brexit was the start of a process of removing unnecessary and burdensome tiers of government.
Holyrood is up next.
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If Scotland is going to go full Ulster, let's do it properly.
Suspend Holyrood.
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Britain is heading for very dark days ahead. No conservative revival can take place until the Blairite administrative state is completely dismantled.
1. Devolution
2. BoE independence
3. Supreme Court
4. Non-departmental public bodies
5. ECHR
6. Equalities legislation.
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ScotGov is festooned with oiks who've never run a business or had a real job, with zero understanding of the consequences of their actions. Their knee-jerk policies serve only to placate those with unwavering faith in anything that that emerges from the Dear Leader’s mouth.
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It's time for Scottish banknotes to be phased out in favour of a new UK-wide design.
They perpetuate the dangerous fallacy that Scotland has its own money supply which serves to misinform the gullible, and they all represent pseudo-banks that no longer exist.
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@MarkSteynOnline
is topping the news channel ratings, beating the BBC and Sky.
That's what happens when real issues over governance, immigration, big pharma and the influence of malign international organisations takes centre stage over leftist talking points and banal trivia.
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Is this when we find out that Mhairi Black isn't actually a ned from Paisley; that she is actually from Winchester, speaks 7 languages, and has been working as an undercover agent for MI5 for 7 years?
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Fantasy future government:
PM: Angela Rayner
Chancellor: Dianne Abbot
Foreign: David Lammy
Education: Eddie Izzard
Defence: Jeremy Corbyn
Can't wait to see the markets then.
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No, just abolish devolution. It has been a disaster everywhere. Unnecessary, costly and incompetent layers of government.
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Sunak's quest to win the approval of those who'll never vote for him by alienating almost everyone who might is an incredible act of political self-destruction.
It can only be deliberate as it cannot be explained by incompetence alone.
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Sturgeon is out of the country. Change the locks at Bute House and demolish the carbuncle in Holyrood.
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@aljhlester
There's a reason Bermuda isn't Haiti, North America isn't South America, South Africa isn't North Africa, Australia isn't Papua New Guineai, India isn't China, and Singapore isn't Cambodia.
The reason is the British Empire.
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@guyverhofstadt
@elonmusk
I suspect that
@elonmusk
has better things to do with his time than massage the egos of a caste of political rejects in Brussels and Strasbourg, but I could be wrong.
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