Pete Wishart
@PeteWishart
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MP for Perth and Kinross-shire. Musician. Author. Parliamentary Tweeter of the year.
Perth, Scotland.
Joined April 2011
Brian lost the whip because he had the temerity to vote against welfare cuts to try and protect the most vulnerable in his constituency. This is what Starmer's Labour does.
Labour rebel Brian Leishman has lost the party whip amid a clear out of MPs by Keir Starmer
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Labour decide to keep the devolution crushing Internal Market Act because like the Tories they want to have the last say on what Scotland can and can not do.
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Their 'one in one out deal' with France will do absolutely nothing to smash the gangs or stop people coming. But what it does do is establish 'classes' of the wretched. Those that may qualify for consideration and those who don't. Safe routes are what's required.
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Absolutely hilarious, and I don't think we'll be taking any advice from them. But finally a route to Parliament for the Albists. A place in the House of Lords certainly gets them over their tricky never being elected to anything problem.
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One of the few good things about modern consumerism is you don't have to watch things you don't want to. Just like you don't have to buy the Spectator. .
So, we exported Marxism to Ethiopia and it starved to death – and now we had the temerity to add Spandau Ballet, Phil Collins and Nik Kershaw on top . ✍️ Gareth Roberts: How Live Aid ruined pop music .
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Watching #LiveAid40 and will never forget watching it first time round and thinking live performance will never get better than this and in so many ways it hasn't. Practically everybody there will be over 60 now. There was never a generation more in tune than the 80s.
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I knew a Stranger in an Island once. .
EXCL: Starmer insists he still believes in the sentiment behind his “island of strangers” warning - and that Britain must be an “integrated society”. PM clarifies he does not regret the speech, just that particular phrase because of Powell similarity.
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The right wing metropolitan view about immigration is forever foisted on the whole of the UK as if there is some sort of 'national' consensus. The fact is that the UK's immigration policy is contrary to the Scottish interest.
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Christine is probably the only Lib Dem frontbencher anybody will know. They've not exactly made household names of themselves. .
Edinburgh MP sacked from Lib Dem frontbenches over rebellion in memory of late husband, via @therachelamery .
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In all the outrage about 'small boats' they have never been remotely interested in why people risk their lives to come here and what compels them to make this dangerous journey. This 'one in one out' will not make one bit of difference.
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They're now using every question they get in every departmental question session to ask the same questions about the 'Scottish Government'. They are not just embarrassing themselves but also their constituents who now have no MP to scrutinise the UK Government on their behalf.
Every single question to the Secretary of State for Scotland about 'the SNP' from Scots Lab MPs. They have absolutely no interest or curiosity in enquiring about what the UK Gov is doing in our country. Their constituents hate it and all they're doing is hastening their demise.
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Just wait till he sees what SNP voting Perthshire has received from the UK Government. #absolutelynothing
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Every single question to the Secretary of State for Scotland about 'the SNP' from Scots Lab MPs. They have absolutely no interest or curiosity in enquiring about what the UK Gov is doing in our country. Their constituents hate it and all they're doing is hastening their demise.
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As long as they leave the whole means to come to the UK in the hands of people smugglers then they have absolutely no chance. They are now reduced to slashing inflatable boats as Government policy. That's where they're now at.
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We're back to this absurd conspiracy theory again. If it was a 'conspiracy' it would be the most elaborate in political history involving the Government, judiciary, the police, complainants and practically every lever of the state.
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"Keir Starmer must not punish children for his disastrous mistakes over the Labour Party's cuts to disabled people".
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The sheer energy and passion they apply to denigrating and talking Scotland down is truly 'exceptional'. We are so poorly served by 'our' commentariat.
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Well, that's certainly one way to win back all those people who voted for them last year who now think they're heartless and chaotic.
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The 'real purpose' is to divide the independence movement and then turn on itself until it splinters into oblivion. It's a story as old as the People's Front of Judea. .
No progress can be possible if the more radical wing of the independence movement continues to fracture itself into ever-smaller splinters, writes Craig Murray ✍️
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Us almost exactly a year ago. Celebrating our 7th victory in a row and our first in the new constituency of Perth and Kinross-shire.
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