Rhiannon Spear 🦄 she/her
@RhiannonV
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Chair of TIE Campaign 🏳️🌈 / Trainee Solicitor ⚖️ / Former Glasgow City Councillor 💛/ Mother🤱
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I could not be prouder of my mum, a lifelong member of
@theSNP
+ a proud European.
What a woman 🥰❤️
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If you don't think rape culture is systemically present within our society have a watch of this.
Think about how he talks about women. Think about how he talks about sex and what he thinks about consent.
This is turning consent and coercion into a game.
#WhyINeedFeminism
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It's clear what May is doing.
She's delaying the vote on the deal to hold Parliament to ransom in January. Because in Jan it's this deal or no deal. We exit regardless.
In Jan she will have had time to build political capital behind that sentiment.
Westminster is a joke.
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To all the men who are feeling uncomfortable today, who are struggling to understand how they can personally deal with male violence.
Sit with that.
Sit in that discomfort.
Because every woman has to + we've come up with our own solutions.
Where's yours?
#SarahEverand
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94.9% of SNP members voting on a deal that includes a commitment to progress the GRA within the first year.
It's extremely clear that twitter is not representative of our members or the general public.
A huge success for a kinder, more progressive independent Scotland!
💛🤝💚
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If Cummings was attending the Job Center he'd have been sanctioned already.
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Words cannot begin to explain the multitude of emotions I'm feeling today as I graduate in Law holding my daughter.
I am severely dyslexic + could never have dreamed of this at school + it would never have been possible without the love + support of
@rhyscrilley
!
❤️🎓
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This is appalling, absolutely + utterly appalling.
This is systemic racism, this is how we undermine black women, this is how white privilege manifests in conversation.
Afua is interrupted + challenged to defend a white man who shared a picture of a chimp. 🤦
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Thank you so much for everyone who voted for me.
Let me be clear, I will represent ALL women of the SNP.
Where you have concerns I will engage with you.
It is an absolute honour to the be the first Women's Officer of the SNP. 💛
#SNP19
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Vida Valentine Crilley-Spear born 18:48 on 30th Dec weighing in at 6lbs 12oz. ❤️🎉
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In 2014 Alex Salmond shackled us with a "once in a generation" line, this year he's given unionist reporters the gift of Scotland needing a "supermajority" rather than just a democratic majority in the Scottish Parliament which we now have.
He's no help to independence.
None.
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We've got our own little Easter good news story for you.
@rhyscrilley
+ I are four weeks pregnant. 🙈
We know this is early + understand the risks involved all too well.
But we want to smash the stigma around miscarriage + show the reality of trying to grow our wee family.
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Jeezo, anti-trans groups really don't like people looking into their funding. 👀
I also find it ridiculous that "women's groups" can't criticise my politics without criticising my intellect or my ability to be a law student. 🤷
This isn't any kind of feminism I know.
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Today's been hard so I took myself to a loch + plunged in.
It shouldn't be like this for women in politics.
It shouldn't be like this for women full stop.
Let's start a conversation about how we make things better. Something has to change.
Until then, know I'm ok.
❤️🏴
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Incredible turn out to support trans rights in Glasgow today.
Opposition groups couldn’t get this kind of turn out bussing people in with months of notice.
A huge antidote to the misinformation + bubble of online rhetoric.
HUGE LOVE 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
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THREAD: I wont RT the JK Rowling essay.
It's hurtful + does not further the conversation about how we progress trans rights or women's rights.
It's just a really unhelpful contribution covering many of the old tropes that have already been addressed.
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So
@RishiSunak
drives straight onto the Weymss Bay ferry, skipping the queue leaving many locals to wait for the next boat as his THREE cars got priority.
Already off to a bad start. 👎
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We've had a very special morning unpacking our baby box.
I cannot put into a tweet how much I love this policy from
@theSNP
.
Books, music, clothes, thermometers, bed, sling, play mat + lots more.
Our wee Chickpea will have the best start, everything we need is right here. 💛
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I passed my third year at
@UofGLaw
🍾🎉
I am ecstatic.
I completed my exams last year at 9 months pregnant + this year with a newborn.
All those exhausted long nights paid off.
One more year to go! ❤️
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Six
@SNPyouth
members elected to Glasgow City Council yesterday. What a team! Looking forward to the next five years. 🎉
#ForGlasgow
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The verdict today will be traumatising for many who have experienced sexual assault.
Fear of not being believed paralyses many into never reporting.
We should pause to acknowledge this is a hard time.
Im disgusted at those who immediately seek political capital from this.
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Stuart Campbell's obsession with me has lasted over 3 years, it is not political critique - it's harrassment.
The questions have all been answered by me in 3 hustings + again in writing to members of H+I as is part of our healthy internal democracy.
He does not intimidate me.
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I am surrounded by incredible women, too many to mention.
I'll just mention one women who has inspired me from the start, who constantly makes me strive to be the best woman I can be + to pave the way for the next generation.
Happy
#InternationalWomensDay
@NicolaSturgeon
💛
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Glasgow Girl
@RozaSalih
leading the chant here.
This is a peaceful protest + I'm so proud of our city.
No one is illegal. Let them go. ❤️
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After much consideration + talking with local members I have decided to seek selection to be the SNP candidate in Argyll and Bute.
Representing my home constituency would be an absolute privilege. 💛
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I've just had it confirmed that my wee pregnancy has failed and I will have a miscarriage.
We told folk about the pregnancy early because we wanted to smash the stigma around miscarriage & in experiencing one myself now, that is exactly what I want to do.
#BabyLossAwarenessWeek
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I have been sent this tonight.
My open letter called for a better conversation.
Inviting Meghan Murphy to our Parliament is stoking a fire.
If you want to have a civil conversation about trans identities this is NOT how you go about it.
It's embarrassing. We must do better.
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This morning I tweeted that if you follow Wings Over Scotland then you're part of the problem. Here's my reasoning for this:
tl;dr: Wings is toxic online & bad for winning indy.
He's incapable of having a reasoned debate and he is only interested in outrage and causing offence.
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If Kate withdraws it’s bc people have overwhelmingly rejected intolerant views while respecting her right to have them.
In last 24h Kate has demonstrated she cannot separate personal from political + that’s what it rests on.
It’s not silencing or bullying, it’s accountability.
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God, I'm exhausted - exhausted to my bones.
But I will never let a small vocal mob stop me from standing for what I believe in.
And I believe in an independent Scotland that is fairer + more equal for everyone who chooses to live here.
I will persist.
💛🏴
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I'm the same age as the class of Dunblane.
I got off the bus on that day on Bute to my Dad on his knees, weeping, arms stretched to meet his 5 year old daughter + hold me like it was his last chance.
If pain like that doesn't instigate change we've lost all sense of humanity.
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THERE WILL BE AN INDEPENDENCE REFERENDUM!
🏴💛✨
🏴 The people of Scotland have spoken - it's an SNP landslide.
✅ Highest number of votes
✅ Highest number of constituency seats ever
✅ Highest vote share ever in a Scottish election
👇 Once we rebuild Scotland from COVID, there will be an independence referendum.
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Just a friendly reminder that many people who work at Pacific Quay (not all direct employees of the BBC) are pro indy.
In 2014 I was shouted at aggressively while I got my lunch and called a traitor by a man in a mask.
Remember it's about persuading people of indy. 🙏❤️
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How can I to take part in a selection contest with this going on?!
This isn't a fair process when there is a coordinated campaign of harrassment + disinformation against me. It's not normal.
Its impossible.
There's official Yes pages sharing this stuff.
I'm exhausted.
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It is absolutely appalling that Paul Sweeney has had to identify himself as the complainer out of fear there would be no action taken against Ross Thompson.
Westminster is completely incapable of dealing with allegations of any abuse of power, never mind sexual assault.
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Here's to every woman standing for the Scottish Parliament next year.
Misogynists hate to see women strive, + strive we will.
💪❤️🏴
4/ And on the subject of calling it out even when it’s on my own ‘side’, disagree with
@RhiannonV
as much as you like, but leave out the misogynistic abuse.
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I am tired of coming on to twitter to see people in the Yes movement knocking lumps out of each other.
We're our own worst enemy + its unhelpful to the cause.
If we cannot be civil with one another under the shared goal of independence how are we meant to convince no voters!?
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In 2019 I penned a letter signed by hundreds of women in support of GRR.
From that point onward I was targeted by anti-trans activists who were clear they wanted me out of political life in Scotland + silenced.
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Constantly being called a pedophile or a child groomer because I support LGBT rights cannot become normal + I refuse to let it become normal.
We are seeking legal advice + will take action where we can.
The rhetoric needs to change.
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Oh geez! Now my mum AND dad have made the international press.
Look at them go!
Independence is polling consistently above 50% + the Westminster elite are getting their arse handed to them by my mum + dad on Bute.
It's coming yet.
#indyref
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Aaron Campbell. His name is Aaron Campbell.
We all knew this.
When scum of the earth were making this about refugees we knew it was a young white man.
I will never forgive the disgusting, vile opportunism of the right.
Now let our community heal + leave the family alone.
MURDERER NAMED: Aaron Campbell who killed Alesha MacPhail is seen here addressing his YouTube followers.
The 16-year-old who also abducted and raped her can now be named.
More here:
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I've opened my twitter tonight to yet more nonsense + bullying.
I'm 8 months pregnant. I'm working full time still. I have the cold. I'm exhausted.
If your feminism is inviting people to take pops at me online have a long hard look at yourself. ✌️
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I cannot deal with the show of support for trans people at
#SNP19
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We all couldn't fit in the photo 🤣
Aw the love ❤️😘
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Too cute not to share.
@rhyscrilley
+ I had our 12 week scan today + our wee chickpea was waving back at us.
So unbelievably relieved + thankful.
Baby Crilley-Spear due 27.12.19
❤️😍🎉
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As National Women's Convenor of
@theSNP
I have sent out an email tonight to all Women's Officers.
Council elections are only 352 days away. Only 29% of Councillors in Scotland are women + it's essential we change that.
Let get more women elected.
(Details in the email)
💛💪✨
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Tell me you feel threatened by powerful women without telling me you feel threatened by powerful women... 🤣🤣🤣
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Tuesday T.
Being a feminist doesn't mean you can be an asshole.
Being a feminist doesn't stop women calling out other women who are being assholes.
Feminism is about total equality, not creating privilege for women to bash minority groups with no repercussions.
☕
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It is time for
@theSNP
to take action.
You cannot on one hand promote free speech + on the other threaten legal action in an attempt to silence those that disagree with you.
The party is being held to ransom by someone who thinks their ego is bigger than our cause.
As an inclusive, intersectional organisation we condemn the support given to Sarah Phillimore today by an SNP MP. Phillimore's antisemitism and transphobia are not part of the Scotland we want to see - bigotry in all forms must be opposed.
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What a day. 🎓
Confirmed I'm Graduating from
@UofGlasgow
with a Diploma in Professional Legal Practice With Merit. ❤️
Starting my Traineeship with
@Anwar_and_Co
imminently. ⚖️
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Democracy is dead in the UK.
An unelected monarch has just suspended parliament for an unelected Prime Minister so he can force through a Brexit that no-one voted for + Scotland voted outright against.
We should be taking to the streets!
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Launching the Alba party whilst being completely incapable of pronouncing Alba is litrally the embodiment of white male privilege.
I present to you Alex Salmond.
🙈
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You know watching this now it is abundantly apparent as to why
@NicolaSturgeon
wasn't invited to take part in
#ITVDebate
.
She's a different class of politician who can speak from the heart, not wedded to scripts + rhetoric.
She'd wipe the floor with the lot of them.
#ITVDebate
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Today's enquiry should be about improving the process of handling serious complaints of sexual harrassment within the Scottish Parliament.
The committee is not to exonerate a man who has admitted inappropriate behaviour + was described as a sex pest by his own lawyer.
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The SNP will continue to oppose Trident, hard Brexit and the scapegoating of immigrants. Get back to me when labour can say the same! 👊
Question for Indy movement now is can they offer a better vision than Labour under Corbyn? With SNP leading, I can't see it.
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Not at conference today but I am graduating from
@UofGlasgow
with my Diploma in Professional Legal Practice! 👩🎓✨💖
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Just documenting this moment of pure joy as I feed Vida tonight.
Today I submitted my final assessment of my law degree.
Four years, a miscarriage, a pregnancy, a full time job + many a late night study sessions but I've done it. I've bloody done it. 😭
🎉🥂🍾👩🎓
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Final Assessment of my Diploma in Legal Practice done. 😭
I'm done. Five years of working full time. Five years + everything I've been through I've done it.
I'm so happy I could burst. ✨🎉
If anyone wants to chat study whilst pregnant I'm here for all the advice! ❤️
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What's happening right now is absolutely bizarre.
The chief minister of Gibraltar and the DUP have seen the Brexit deal and yet May is refusing to show it to Scottish Ministers.
Independence seems inevitable, the Tories are actively running our campaign for us.
#Indyref2
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I also experience this. It's obsessive, unsettling + constant.
Twitter has become a really horrible place where I'm scared to tweet about my daughter without limiting replies.
It isn't normal behaviour + I've said that for years now.
It's got to the point that whatever I tweet about - the climate emergency, Afghanistan, COVID, my cats - my mentions get filled with anti-trans obsessives.
It's a genuinely disturbing case study in online radicalisation, but it isn't studied properly because it's respectable.
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Really disappointed + just devastated to hear an MSP return to bottom of the barrel tropes about trans women being predators, rapists + abusers.
My heart breaks at women being pitted against each other.
I'm weeping at the state of this conversation.
We must do better. 😭
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Ex PM set to make £20 million lobbying a BILLIONAIRE Chancellor.
Current PM sends texts to BILLIONAIRE offering tax avoidance.
Current BILLIONAIRE Chancellor tells NHS staff a meagre 1% increase is 'fair + reasonable'.
IF
YOU'RE
NOT
ANGRY
YOU'RE
NOT
PAYING
ATTENTION
😡
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Alex Massie works for the Spectator who's commissioning editor is Mary Wakefield, wife of Dominic Cummings.
Be taking absolutely zero lessons on editorial impartiality from him 🤮
I wonder if everyone hoping to be an SNP candidate next year will get a spread in the National or if that privilege is reserved for the editor’s partner?
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Stuart Campbell is still stalking my twitter feed so he can find offence to my tweets.
He blocked me from his Wings account + has blocked me from his new account yet he continues to tweet about me.
It's strange, stalking + harassing behaviour.
Please stop. 🙅
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I'm
#SNPbecause
I have so much hope for my child's future.
@theSNP
will ensure
💛 they can go to University
💛 they'll never pay for healthcare
💛 Scotland is safer by removing WMDs from the Clyde
💛 that we don't have to put up with UK Tory govts we didn't vote for
#VoteSNP
💛
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Last night
@rhyscrilley
asked me to marry him and I said yes.
We can't wait to celebrate with you all when we're back! ❤️
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Silence is compliance + the lack of action on transphobia within the SNP has created an environment where events like this do not surprise me any more.
I am deeply embarrassed + heartbroken that this is happening in the party I represent.
This cannot be tolerated.
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Or we could tax the rich 🤷♀️
Public urged to raise £5m for NHS staff with One Million Claps appeal
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When my daughter sees flowers she'll always stop to smell them. 🥰
A lesson for life right there.
Take great joy in the little things.
Stop to smell the flowers. 🌺
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I feel horrible.
I’ve been an active SNP member for over a decade, on the doors encouraging people to vote Indy + SNP.
I’ve given so much of my time + energy to the party + I’ve just watched Ash + Kate willingly throw it under a bus for their own short sighted ambitions.
💔
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This has been my week.
My phone has been off since Saturday.
I'm terrified I miss casework due to the volume of emails, texts, voicemails + phone calls I am recieving.
Those amplifying this after I have apologiesed know what they're doing.
Please stop.
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We do not need to oppress trans voices to ensure women's voices are heard.
We do not need to oppress trans people to uphold our feminism.
We do not need to oppress trans rights to continue to push for much needed progress for women's rights.
It's not one or the other. ❤️
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Folk are angry about me limiting my replys, restricting free speech + debate while simultaneously publicly + freely berating me about it.
The idea that you're entitled to anything from me is underpinned by misogyny.
Women owe you nothing.
You have no right to a reply from me.
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Let that sink in. Not one police officer was a credible or reliable witness. 🤯
Fantastic outcome for our client who was charged as a result of their involvement in the Kenmure Street protest. Acquitted of all charges after an 8 day trial conducted by our Erin Monaghan, the Sheriff noting that NONE of the police officers were credible or reliable witnesses.
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I stood back at the vigil this evening in Glasgow + wept.
My heart is heavy + I feel helpless.
Something must change, we cannot continue raising our daughters knowing what they will experience in their life.
Patriarchal structures of power + it's protectors need to end now.
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Just taking the dog a walk.
I take this with me every time.
Do men realise women have to do this?
Not a rhetorical question.
#SarahEverard
#ReclaimTheNight
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I am absolutely inundated with requests to sign.
If you want to sign just email me at rhiannon
@tiecampaign
.co.uk!
The outpouring of support has been huge and it is much appreciated!
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I'm drinking gin because this day has merited it.
And while I drink this gin I'm thinking that if we want to build a stronger and more equal Scotland, asking people to think critically about having a female speaker at a rally shouldn't cause this amount of grief.
Cheers! 🥂
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This guy! I will never stop learning from him! Solicitor of the Year but he is so much more than that. So proud to call him my friend (& colleague on the
@tiecampaign
board of trustees) ❤️
Congratulations
@AamerAnwar
💪
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First photo is debating
#ScotlandBill
, the second is voting on it. They don't care about Scotland. It's disgraceful.
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Happy New Year folks.
I hope your night has been as wild as ours. 🥂
Here's to 2020 🎆🎉
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My notifications are going mad again because Stuart is RTing me and calling this a personal attack.
I've had the worst day of my life. I've lost a baby. Know that this man is vile & has no interest in women's rights or supporting women.
If you follow him maybe reconsider.
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Jim Kavanagh just told me to shut up in the council chambers.
This is how Labour treat women.
His own group couldn't even applaud him.
Old + outdated politics that needs to end in this chambers.
Labour are struggling to keep up.
Who is this Jim Kavanagh speaking at
#GCCbudget
- how rude! Did he actually tell
@RhiannonV
to shut up? Was he one of the Lab cllrs shouting at her earlier because she dared to have an opinion? Not my kinda politics.
#SNPforGlasgow
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Utterly bizarre. 🤷♀️
The complete unwillingness of some people to be able to engage in civil adult conversation whilst simultaneously demanding the need for people to engage with *their* conversation is infuriating.
Blocked by an MP in my own party. Is it just me?
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On Monday Rhys, Vida + I all tested positive for Covid. It's been a rough week, especially isolating with a very active toddler.
Fingers crossed we're through the worst of it now.
Stay safe everyone, the pandemic is not over yet. 😷♥️
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As a woman in politics Ruth Davidson has responsibility to make the political sphere a more welcoming environment for everyone.
This rhetoric is completely unnecessary + unacceptable.
I've never heard this, so it says more about the circle's Ruth keeps.
Ruth Davidson: voters now call Nicola Sturgeon 'that f***ing woman'
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Do you know what the real conspiracy is?
Men harrassing, abusing + raping women with impunity in Scotland.
Women scared to report sexual violence for fear of being exposed.
ONE IN FOUR WOMEN EXPERIENCING SEXUAL VIOLENCE.
That's the conspiracy.
BELIEVE WOMEN.
#METOO
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A little broken after hearing about RBG today.
She believed in women + stood up for what was right even when she was the only dissenting voice in the room.
As a law student, in politics + as a mother I'm in awe of her.
May we know them, may we be them, may we raise them. ❤️
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Stuart Campbell calling 19 year old activists of the SNP careerists when he has raked in hundreds of thousands of pounds of Yes supporters money, made his whole career of the back of the Yes movement + now wants to start his own party?
🤔🤣
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World, please meet Evelyn Valentine Crilley-Spear born on Valentine’s Day!
Vida is absolutely over the moon to be a big sister!
💕✨
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Let's be clear this is a peaceful protest. There is no need for the escalation we've seen from
@policescotland
.
Refugees are welcome here!
Let them go.
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Ten years + two kids later, we’re married.
07/10/23
💒💖✨👰♀️
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I've never related to a meme as much as this in my life.
I'm exhausted, my anxiety is a wreck, I feel like the whole world hates me quite a lot, I really have to manage my mental health but I'm still here + I still believe in creating a kinder, fairer, more equal world.
😳😳😳
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