Ross Greer
@Ross_Greer
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Green MSP for the West of Scotland, 'dour faced fundamentalist' accordingly to the Daily Mail, he/him ✝️🏳️🌈🍉
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Great chat with
@BBCDavidWL
this week for
@bbcpodlitical
, including:
🗳️ Voting Green at the General Election
💚 Our impact in government, particularly for tenants
📢 The right to protest
✝️ Jesus (I'm a fan)
👩⚖️ The Hate Crime Act & not being an asshole
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Once again for the people in the back:
Churchill 👏 was 👏 a 👏 white 👏 supremacist 👏 mass 👏 murderer 👏
Today marks the anniversary of the death of Sir Winston Churchill, who died in 1965 at the age of 90.
For many, the greatest Briton to have ever lived.
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Or we could just expel the apartheid state currently committing genocide from Eurovision? Every argument Russia's suspension last year applies to Israel this year
An Israeli campaign is being launched to disqualify Olly Alexander, the British representative for Eurovision 2024 after he signed an open letter condemning Israel as an apartheid state.
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'The Aryan stock is bound to triumph.' - Winston Churchill
'Keep England White" is a good slogan.' - Winston Churchill
'I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion.' - Winston Churchill
And then there's his views on 'lesser' whites...
No
@Ross_Greer
Winston Churchill was neither a white supremacist nor a mass murderer but the greatest Briton who ever lived. You only have the freedom to make stupid, ill-informed comments because he fought for your freedom. Some irony?
#GMB
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You live in a country where a sizeable proportion of your heavily armed population are anti-vax conspiracists, believe Obama was born in Kenya and that Democrats rigged a free election, all thanks to your unregulated news media churning out dangerous lies without consequence.
This is what happens when you live in a country where there is no First amendment. Insanity:
Variety: ‘U.K. media regulator Ofcom launched an investigation after more than 41,000 people complained about Piers Morgan’s comments on Meghan Markle.’
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Get a grip of yourselves
@SkyNews
. Displaying four Lib Dem MSPs as if they came fourth but relegating the eight Scottish Greens to 'other' is just embarrassing.
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Just off with your producer getting this sorted.
Given your history with folks' phones though, I'm sure you already know that 😉
Hi
@Ross_Greer
- come on
@GMB
tomorrow & debate with me your assertion that Churchill was a 'white supremacist mass murderer'. If you decline, we'll know you're a gutless as well as thick ginger turd.
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Did he really just fly from London to Cornwall to talk about a 'greener' future?
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Wait till he finds out what colour Winston's hair was 😉
UPDATE: The thick ginger turd MSP
@Ross_Greer
who said Churchill is a ‘white supremacist mass murderer’ will be appearing live on
@GMB
tomorrow.
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The BBC are being played by secretive ultra-right think tanks funded by shadowy corporate interests who want to privatise the NHS.
Following this exchange with BBC execs I've asked for further answers in writing.
Full exchange:
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The Gender Recognition Reform Bill was passed overwhelmingly, with Yes votes from MSPs of all parties
Attempting to block it shows the lengths the UK Government will go to both to deny trans people the basic dignity they deserve and to undermine the Scottish Parliament
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This is terrorism
Breaking: Israeli occupation forces break into Al Maqasid hospital in East
#Jerusalem
, ransack medical equipment and tear-gas patients and medical staff
#Palestine
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Far right thugs just attacked a rally organised by asylum seekers in Glasgow to highlight the shocking conditions they are forced to live in.
Scotland has a fascism problem. We need to talk about it.
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I've sat on a GFA body with the DUP & other NI parties for 6yrs. There's no point pretending its about the Protocol OR that an election could solve it. The problem is that the DUP can't accept a nationalist First Minister. In their vision of equality they must be more than equal
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There is now a clear parliamentary majority in favour of an independence referendum. If the UK insists it is still a parliamentary democracy, this this mandate must be respected. The people of Scotland should be the ones to decide our future.
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When you think you're attacking me but you're actually just revealing that you think of fast food workers as a lesser class of human being 👇
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An MP was MURDERED. A plot to murder another was revealed last week. Death threats are multiplying.
Despite all of that, this is what the BBC chooses to report. Whoever did this isn't fit to do the job they are doing.
"We can again start to put the fear of God into our MPs - they deserve nothing less after the way they treated us"
Former UKIP leader Nigel Farage launches his new Brexit Party
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If you've written a manifesto the Tories can't attack, you've written a Tory manifesto 🥀
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It's a privilege to have Palestinian Prime Minister
@DrShtayyeh
here in Scotland for
#COP26
🇵🇸🏴
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The police are not going to win this without utterly unacceptable and disproportionate use of force. They need to accept that, release the two men held in that van for almost six hours and withdraw.
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2016: 17,216 🗳
2021: 26,632 🗳
From the bottom of my heart, thank you, thank you, thank you to every single West of Scotland Green voter who placed their trust in us either once again or for the first time. Exciting times ahead for our movement 💚💚💚
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Israel is an apartheid state, it is an occupying power, it systematically brutalises the Palestinian people and yet it is supported militarily, politically and economically by the UK and US.
Not in our name
#BoycottIsrael
#Gaza
#SaveSheikhJarrah
#AlAqsaUnderAttack
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Nicola Sturgeon has made history, shown that compassion is a strength rather than weakness in politics & often defended progressive values when others folded
She has brought Scotland so much closer to our independence. It's been a privilege to campaign alongside her
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Two men saved from deportation today by the determination of their neighbours. People make Glasgow.
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🧵 Two of my constituents, one a baby, are stuck in Lithuania and experiencing exactly the kind of hostile environment which gives me no confidence whatsoever that the UK Government are capable of supporting Ukranian refugees.
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Some replies here thinking I'm defending everything about Britain. Nope!
I'm pro-Scottish independence, a regular critic of the UK media and totally agree that the monarchy is a daft, racist institution. Our media standards are flawed but infinitely better than America's though
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Fair play to the Clydebank and & Milngavie voter who just wrote the words to Karma Chameleon on their ballot, complete with a drawing of a Chameleon 🦎
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Iran's drone attack on Israel is catastrophic, as was the Israeli attack on Iran's Damascus consulate this is a response to. There will be no shortage of Western condemnation of Tehran but it will be pretty hollow coming from those who gave Israel a free pass to break int law
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Looks like another week of polite society types exhausting every euphemism at their disposal to avoid saying that anti-Irish/Catholic racism is in fact anti-Irish/Catholic racism.
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Conveniently, a fifth of Scotland is currently barren grouse shooting estates. Let's start there.
A fifth of land should be given to woodland, new report says
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We won't be taking any lectures on extremism from
@Douglas4Moray
, who as an MP handed the genuine extremists in the DUP unprecedented influence over the UK Government.
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Honey-glazed gammon speaks 🤣
And you're a thick ginger turd who'd be spewing this filth in German if it wasn't for Churchill.
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Deeply uncomfortable hearing Viktor Orbán described as a 'populist' by UK media today. His government are Holocaust-revisionist antisemites, profoundly Islamophobic and aggressively authoritarian. Dont normalise them through these benign descriptions.
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Sick and tired of Labour stealing Green policies once they're popular.
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Eight Catalan ministers jailed. Takes the total to ten political prisoners in Spanish jails. Dark moment for our 'new Europe'.
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Amber Rudd is not a moderate. She deported asylum seekers to their deaths & oversaw a system of benefits sanctions which led many of the most vulnerable to their deaths.
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Glasgow at its best, defending the GRR bill, the trans community and Scottish democracy
🏳️⚧️🏴🏳️🌈
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At £28,500 you'll pay £6 more in Scottish income tax versus rUK. For that you get:
💊 Free prescriptions
👩🎓 Free university tuition
🚌 Free bus travel for under 22s & 60+
👨🏫 Better pay for public sector workers like teachers
& more
Labour just oppose taxing the genuinely wealthy
For a second time in his speech, Sarwar attacks the SNP for making Scots earning £28,500 and above pay more tax than elsewhere in the UK.
“They can no longer pretend they’re on the side of working people in Scotland”
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Fuck this. Independence really can't come soon enough
Keir Starmer says there is a case for GPS tagging some asylum seekers
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Suella Braverman was one of the cruellest people to hold high office in recent UK history. Regardless of who replaces her, we can all enjoy this moment 👋
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This 'Victory over Europe' stuff is really uncomfortable revisionism. It was a victory in Europe, for Europe and won by Europeans & our many allies. Is this 'over Europe' language being used anywhere but the UK?
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Collective punishment is a war crime, but Israel knows the US & UK will protect it from ever being held to account
Israel will cut off its supply of electricity to Gaza, Energy Minister Katz says -
@Reuters
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While we've been on lockdown our true enemy, the mountain goats, seized their first town. This war will be long & brutal and I fear we will not prevail 🐐
I think I just got a group of goats in Llandudno arrested.
Let me explain... first, I saw this from inside a dark pub (the one I live in currently). I thought I was seeing things. So I took some video:
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2,500 replies and counting. Most of those having a tantrum just don't know history but there's a strong current of 'Three million Indians dying slow & hideous deaths was a price worth paying'.
To deal with its murdrous history, Britain needs to start by learning it.
Once again for the people in the back:
Churchill 👏 was 👏 a 👏 white 👏 supremacist 👏 mass 👏 murderer 👏
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Is Scotland a one-party state?
➡️ Proportional voting system
➡️ Minority government
➡️ Said govt regularly defeated by opposition majorities on a range of issues
➡️ Majority of media opposed to governing party's reason for existing
So no, we're not. Stop with this dreary pish
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Expect Police Scotland to explain pretty quickly to Parliament why they decided to facilitate rather than disperse multiple mass gatherings during a national lockdown today.
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Unlike my thoughts on Churchill, this will cost me votes...
I don't like Irn Bru 😮
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As an olive branch across the Atlantic, I'm away to watch the US version of The Office, which is clearly the better show on account of actually being funny.
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In forty seconds
@patrickharvie
sums up Ruth Davidson's utter hypocrisy and contempt for democracy, either Scottish or British
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Labour wrecked the ceasefire vote, have completely derailed the public debate on the genocide in Gaza and unleashed a wave of anti-Muslim hate under the disingenuous guise of concern for MPs' safety. Now they're openly admitting to the grubby tricks they used last week
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My favourite moment of the
#STVdebate
? When
@patrickharvie
passed the temperature check at the door. If he'd failed, I was the designated stand-in 😬
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The crowd giving
@HumzaYousaf
the 'I hate racism but you should have dealt with this quietly' lines are pretty neatly showing how racism gets to fester unchallenged whilst it's victims are judged for responding in ways which make polite society types feel uncomfortable
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It's going to be a difficult 48 hours, but it will absolutely be worth it 🏳️⚧️
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
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The same knuckle-draggers who spent the duration of last summer's George Floyd protests giving it the 'Blue Lives Matter' nonsense 👇
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A genocide is happening live on TV but rather than oppose it, Keir Starmer thinks he is 'showing leadership' by waiting for Biden's position and then imitating that. Career-defining cowardice
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I'll be on
@GMB
with
#HoneyGlazedGammon
Piers Morgan at 7.15am, talking about Churchill and history vs jingoism.
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As a politician who has received *a lot* of death threats I really resent the line that Hoyle had to select the Labour amendment because of concerns for MPs' safety. Labour are briefing that they threatened his job so they could avoid 100 MPs rebelling against Starmer, that's it
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Compare and contrast the intense levels of TV coverage UKIP received when they were polling at 10% to what the UK's Green parties are getting right now, as we host a global climate summit.
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In a crowded field, Keir Starmer must be the most disingenuous and dishonest politician in the UK right now. Is there a single part of his own leadership campaign he hasn't disowned?
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We're going to do this. We're actually going to do this 🎉🏴🗳🏴🎉
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Two different Scottish parties are now dealing with the consequence of selecting candidates with a history of anti-Catholic bigotry. Another reminder of how far this country still has to go in even accepting that this is an endemic problem, never mind tackling it.
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So much energy at Glasgow
#YouthStrike4Climate
! Everyone from primary to secondary to college and uni students plus teachers and parents here saying enough is enough 🌍💚✊
#ClimateStrike
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Solidarity with those resisting a Home Office deportation in Glasgow today ✊
At Kenmure Street now. Two men now being held in the immigration van which has been surrounded.
Chants of “let them go” from the near 100 protesters here.
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@jamiegreeneUK
Why is it more important that our language is civil than your actions are? Is 'detestable' language really worse than the Rape Clause? Benefit sanctions? Deportation flights to Rwanda?
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Can we please now focus on why the government complaints process failed these women so badly and how a parliamentary inquiry was allowed to compound that trauma?
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You really are a nasty little bigot. Presumably you've never taken your kids to the panto?
It’s totally inappropriate to hold a show like this for kids under the age of six.
Story time for babies and young kids shouldn’t focus on gender or sexual identity.
That is common sense and on behalf of constituents who’ve contacted me, I’ve raised this with the council.
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Final spoilt ballot of the day, this one from Dumbarton, was cast for 'Bobby Sands MP'
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When 50,000 Yazidis were stuck on Mount Sinjar, what did ISIS & the PKK do:
ISIS: Commit genocide, rape & enslave
PKK: Drive trucks & tractors across northern Iraq, open & hold an evacuation corridor and die fighting ISIS so 35,000 Yazidis could escape
#twitterKurds
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The 'Putin would love Scottish independence' discourse tends to neatly skip over the fact that the driving forces of the Yes movement are also intensely pro-European. We want the opposite of fragmentation and division on our continent 🏴🇪🇺
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Absolute pish. Parliament wasn't doing the SNP's bidding when we passed multiple amendments to the emergency bill over their objections. You've lied for the sake of a press release and you dont care that the lie is pressuring people to risk their health & that of their families.
Online & established hybrid arrangements are fine. But parliament does not just exist to do the SNP’s bidding. We need full opposition led debates & scrutiny - for this we need a restoration of a full parliamentary timetable.
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In East Renfrewshire 19% of households have no access to a car.
In West Dunbartonshire its 40%.
In Glasgow its 50%.
Cutting fuel duty isn't how you support those on the lowest incomes. The savings are overwhelmingly made by those already more financially secure.
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#ImYesBecause
is trending 👍
I'm Yes because I want to live in a 21st century European nation, one which gets the governments it votes for, not in an 18th century tribute act having a profound post-imperial identity crisis
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If this is true he has to resign or be removed. The Speaker must be impartial but after his antics today there is no chance of Lindsay Hoyle being viewed as such ever again
Senior Labour figures tell me
@CommonsSpeaker
was left in no doubt that Labour would bring him down after the general election unless he called Labour’s Gaza amendment
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Yes, Tony Blair deserves a trial at the Hague rather than a knighthood.
An imperial 'honours' system which knighted everyone from Mussolini to Jimmy Saville doesn't really have a reputation to protect though, does it? Blair can't disgrace what's already shameful.
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I've been a
@scottishgreens
member since I was 15. I've spent all of my adult life so far advancing this cause. Its hard to describe how I felt today, seeing our members' overwhelming support the cooperation agreement. We will absolutely repay that trust. For people & planet 💚🌍
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This terrible deal is dead. Tomorrow, No-Deal will be overwhelmingly rejected. MPs can't solve this crisis. Its time for a
#PeoplesVote
. Its time to cancel Brexit.
#Brexit
#BrexitVote
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Just so we're clear, Scottish Labour's position is that people urgently need Labour in power, but they refuse to even try securing any power in 31/32 councils, because it would mean working with at least one other centre-left party and that's apparently unacceptable
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There is no need for new nuclear power in Scotland. Our energy future is in renewables of every source & scale.
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The three pro-UK parties are now led by an Old Etonian and two Knights of the realm, who all went to the same university. Totally normal country...
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Comprehensive win at the Court of Session. Article 50 can be revoked and even UK Government attempt to deny our expenses is rejected. 🏴 ⚖ 🇪🇺
Awesome team effort
@andywightman
@joannaccherry
@C_Stihler
@AlynSmith
@davidmartinmep
@JolyonMaugham
& our exceptional legal team.
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Can't stop thinking about this. The UK Government have just published a report which puts a positive cultural spin *on the slave trade*
But sure, there's no institutional racism in Britain
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Says a lot that the UK Government wouldn't extend the furlough when Scotland & Wales were crying out for it but flipped when England needed it.
English workers deserve support but so did workers across the country. The Tories have just shown, again, where power lies in the UK.
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A Westminster Government which Scotland didn't vote for, using a veto power it gave itself after a Brexit Scotland also voted against, has stopped a recycling scheme which Scotland's elected Parliament did vote for
This is the tip of the iceberg if Scotland stays within the UK
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If you're about to complain about young people's behaviour as the cause for infections rising the most amongst their age group, first ask yourself what the average age was of the staff at the bars, restaurants, cinemas etc. you've been in recently.
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A sickeningly disingenuous speech from
@RuthDavidsonMSP
, making for a fitting end to a sickeningly disingenuous decade as an MSP. Now she slinks off to the Lords, never to be held democratically accountable again.
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Germany's first openly trans MPs, both Greens 🇩🇪💚🏳️⚧️
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As a Protestant who can not only still walk past this Catholic Church but who would be welcome inside it, this 'religious no-go zones' line is some premium strength BS.
When you'd rather cancel a march than avoid going past a Catholic Church we've seen all that we need to.
Glasgow creates its 1st religious no-go zone
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Well I for one am *shocked* that it was the super rich ripping us off all this time and not immigrants or the disabled...
#ParadisePapers
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Total Green & SNP votes:
2,640,892 🟢🟡
Total Tory, Lab & LD votes:
2,624,835 🔵🔴🟠
Help me out here Rachael, which of these is the bigger number?
The Scottish electorate did not vote for a Green/SNP government.
In May 2021, Nicola Sturgeon failed to get her majority. Now, we’re living with the consequences of an undemocratic duocracy. (Yes, I made up that word)
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I have requested that the SQA appear before Parliament's Education Committee immediately to justify themselves and their system.
We told them it would penalise young people in deprived communities, they ignored us and that is exactly what has happened.
#SQAresultsday
#SQAresults
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In all the British media coverage of Italty's new neo-fascist Prime Minister I haven't seen mention of the fact that her party sits in a European political grouping founded by the UK Conservative Party, the ECR
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