Cllr Ruairi Kelly
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I lived on the Bibby Stockholm while working in Shetland. It was one person to a cabin and we were only on it about 10 hours a day to eat and sleep. I can assure you it was not luxurious and with 2 people to a cabin and most/all day on board it's a recipe for disaster
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Selfie with all the Glasgow Labour councillors doing their job
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I'll be taking a week or two off after Oisín Singh Kelly was born yesterday. Can't wait to get both back home today.
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Praising NZ for doing the things you blocked Scotland from being able to do isn't the win you think it is
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So the people of Glasgow have to foot Labour's pay discrimination bill but the UK government will cover the same bill in Birmingham. Those broad shoulders of the union not doing much lifting north of the border
NEW: Gov agrees to free up £2.5billion in cash for 19 strapped councils to try and stop them going bust
(11 council deals includes cash for previous years too)
Includes £1.1bn for bankrupt Birmingham Council after £700m equal pay lawsuit...
Capitalisation directions will allow…
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Delighted that my motion on anti-Irish racism was passed at full council. Disappointed though that some tried to "both sides" it and dilute it to sectarianism which does the victims of racism a disservice.
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Anyone suggesting
@theSNP
should have voted to end FoM on an indicative vote must not have been listening to us for the last 3 years. Understandable maybe though as the BBC has a habit of cutting Ian Blackford off
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Glasgow will be footing Labour's pay discrimination bill for the next 30 years and is still paying off extortionate PPP contracts. Combined they cost the city around £70+ million a year, that's Labour's legacy in this city
“What is really happening right now is Glasgow disproportionately suffers from cuts.
The solution the SNP seems to have is that local communities are going to compete with each other for resources.” -
@PostmanCarson
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Disappointed that the
@Call_It_Out_
hustings tonight has been cancelled because apparently only
@SNPforGlasgow
and
@glasgowgreens
would put up a candidate. Maybe it's not a surprise that others don't want to face the Irish community when we see the candidates they have selected..
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This has absolutely nothing to do with Glasgow City Council and the club alone will have to answer why they are banning supporters who are opposing war crimes and genocide
Celtic had to lock out the Green Brigade before Glasgow City Council closed down Parkhead, argues Matthew Lindsay. 👇 Full story
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Why is child poverty so high in the UK yet significantly lower in Scotland than it is in England? Surely to anyone with any semblance of deductive reasoning, it is clear that over a decade of austerity has taken its toll, but SNP mitigations have lessened the impact here.
After 16 years in power, why is SNP is still so pathetically weak on child poverty? |
@kmckenna63
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Clearly Douglas Ross' desire for persecution of gypsy travellers is not an outlier but actually a prerequisite for membership of the tory party. Hard to watch them get up, one after another, and wear their hatred for a minority group on their sleeve
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You can't afford to be independent..
I need your resources...
My Labour government will make Britain a clean energy superpower, slashing energy bills and creating tens of thousands of quality jobs.
The route to this runs right through Scotland.
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@TamMcKenna1888
It wasn't bad as accommodation for the work we were doing. But double the number of people on it who aren't able to get off and go to work most of the day and they have no idea how long they will be there, you are asking for trouble
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Total nonsense from the government's "expert on sectarianism". Apparently GCC should appease the OO and you can't support a football team and be anti-racist at the same time. May as well have the ghost of Cromwell advising
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I'm afraid it might take us little more than 100 days to sort out your mess Frank
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Strange that
@GlasgowTories
would run a capaign based on cleaning up the city then litter half the closes in Easterhouse. Is part of the 5 point plan to throw rubbish in people's hallways and doorsteps? Residents rightly furious about this when I've been speaking to them.
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The sneering, condescending attitude displayed towards working class football fans who use the only platform they have to oppose genocide really isn't done from a position of intellectual or moral authority.
A first look at tomorrow's Herald Sport front page as
@MattLindsayHT
hears why Jewish Celtic fans are calling for the board to act after Green Brigade's latest banner
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If my family had spent 100's of years plundering a continent I would simply not offer comment on its problems
Prince William has renewed his attack on population growth in Africa, blaming it for destroying wildlife on the continent
Critics have accused the Prince of hypocrisy for making such claims while expecting his third child
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In Edinburgh, where Labour suspended 2 councillors for NOT voting with the tories 😂😂😂
Anegla Rayner is in Edinburgh this morning for a campaign stop with Anas Sarwar.
In a statement released by Labour, she said: "The SNP want to talk the talk of being a left wing party - but just like the Tories they are more interested in division than solutions."
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£35 million a year for the next 30 years to clean up Labour's pay discrimination. That's £35 million every year not being spent on the services and fabric of the city thanks to Labour incompetence.
“The fabric of Glasgow’s society and the stability of its future hangs in the balance”-
@RedmondLabour
Read more here 👇
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This news crew saw the neighbourhoods officer and myself out dealing with this flytipping but refused to interview me because it didn't suit the narrative
'I’d love to bring them through here and let them just see how the people of Easterhouse have got to live.'
COP26 special guests ‘won’t see fly-tipping nightmare in Easterhouse’.
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Anyone at
@scottishlabour
able to explain to a former MSP which powers are reserved? Ignorance or lies?
@kezdugdale
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@istreasatuatha
Councils should be able to remove them from their landlord register for persistent breaches making it illegal for them to collect rent
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#SNPforGlasgow
will invest in schools and young people ensuring that all primary children will receive free school meals by the end of our term
#GlaBudget2019
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It was, and pro indy parties won a majority
Paul Sweeney said independence should be ‘discussed during the Holyrood elections’.
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The sad thing is that I don't believe this Labour Councillor is being deliberately obtuse, they have so little grasp of policy that they think decriminalisation means legalising the sale of drugs. The whole tone of this that epitomises Glasgow Labour.
Simplifying contributions from the snp yesterday, it seems they want to decriminalise drugs to put a £ on it, tax it, let u grab a bag of heroin on way to work and pray this brings drug deaths down🙈. we on the other hand want more because people deserve more 1/2
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Sounds like we should have our own currency, our own central bank and the ability to do quantitative easing
'With no currency, no central bank with the ability to do quantitative easing, and no record of issuing sovereign debt, an independent Scotland would find itself making large-scale emergency cuts to public spending – never mind funding decarbonisation'
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This is a serious problem for the construction industry and for our social housing projects. Record levels of funding from the Scottish Government will result in fewer houses because brexit has pumped up the price of materials and reduced the available workforce
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Imagine splitting "Ulster" from the rest of the country, who would ever dream of such a thing?!?
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If you are moaning about a tax increase of £165 a year for those on £75k but you are cool with disability allowance being cut you need to go have a word with yourself.
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If anyone is wondering about the state of unionism in NI, ex-Labour MP Kate Hoey reckons too many catholics are getting an education and good jobs
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People calling this a split in the SNP are guilty of some serious wishful thinking. There is nobody that has left that shouldn't already have been expelled many times over
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It's been an honour to represent Glasgow North East for the last 5 years alongside
@mandy1_morgan
and I'm delighted that
@ProvanSNP
reselected us both to stand again as
@SNPforGlasgow
candidates in May.
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Labour types bemoaning a working agreement between the SNP and Greens after their leader specifically said no deals and then in the first week they got rid of their leadership to go back to the worst of the bad old days of Glasgow Labour🤪
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Delighted to win this tonight, working with the amazing community groups in Glasgow North East is by far the best part of the job!
We are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2023
#CllrAwards
Community Champion is…🎆…Cllr Ruairi Kelly 🏆Congratulations to an outstanding winner
@RuairiKelly_
🎉
@GlasgowCC
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Did he say that it was because he stiched up a deal to underpay women?
Yesterday our Business Manager
@FMcAveety
gave an update to
@ScottishLabour
conference on the financial crisis our city has faced.
Enough is enough.
#scotlab23
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Imagine putting that front page together without a hint of irony
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Furlough when England is once again at breaking point but when the devolved governments act responsibly to save lives it was "you've had your lot"
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Honoured to have been made a Belfast Ambassador at the
@BelfastHome
tonight.
#GreenBelfast
. Was great to talk about the steps Glasgow is taking in its drive to
#NetZero
and the collaborative work we can do with Belfast in this field
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Labour group: Here's a good idea about public ownership of buses..
SNP: We agree, actually we have already started looking into it..
Paul Sweeney: How can I make cross party agreement about me...
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#LoveYourPetDay
throws up some nice pictures to bighten the timeline so here's one of me and Rosie
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We didn't get a sustained majority for indy in the polls and 13 years in government by concentrating on one issue. Indy will come off the back of all the work we do in communities up and down the country not from twitter spats or simply saying you want it now
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There should be no anti-Catholic marches in Scotland and I would be delighted if we had the legislative power to ban them
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So Labour can go into the GE to seek a mandate for constitutional change but the SNP can't.....
NEW: Labour to set out plans to save the union with ‘enhanced’ powers for Scotland and the abolition of the House of Lords
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Quite the juxtaposition this weekend with one story on the Labour candidate who helped keep energy bills high and another on the SNP MP
@AnneMcLaughlin
, whose campaign has successfully lowered them for people across the country.
EXC: Scottish Labour candidate John Grady boasted of helping an energy firm successfully battle Ofgem 'price controls'
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I told the parent council of
@SunnysidePri
last year that getting a new pitch for the children would be a priority for me and I am delighted to have secured funding for them.
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Glad to see this being welcomed by opposition councillors, but this was funded through the additional resources allocated in the budget meeting which Labour refused to attend or take part in.
Great to see the road works on Dumbarton Rd all completed following my request to council officers.
The bus stop & road markings were repainted, the road is in good condition and there are no deep potholes.
More work is still to be done for the road but it's a good start.
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Top priority of an English PM won't be to tackle child poverty by introducing a child payment, or make prescriptions free for sick people, it's to try to oust the Scottish party that did that...
Here is your first look at tomorrow's Daily Record front page, which leads on Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer saying a top priority if he wins the keys to No10 will be to topple Humza Yousaf
#scotpapers
#tomorrowspaperstoday
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Happy new year all. Been a difficult year for so many people and hopefully 2022 will be the light at the end of the tunnel, but 2021 did give us our first child so it wasn't all bad in the Kelly house😊
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Fit to govern? Glasgow Labour aren't even fit for opposition, they just said that putting together a budget was too difficult for them. But that's fine, we will continue to clean up the absolute chaos their discrimination legacy left our finances in
It’s not enough to persuade people that the Tories and SNP deserve to lose.
I’m determined to demonstrate why Labour deserves to win.
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Glasgow has worked closely with the Chamber of Commerce and the wider business community to protect jobs and the local economy. Data showing us as the most resilient city in the UK is a real vindication of those efforts
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It's quite unbelievable that after everything young people have given up over the last 16 months and how far we are with the vaccination process, there's been a conscious decision taken to give lots of them long covid because some older vaccinated people are bored of restrictions
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I grew up in probably the most unionist town in County Antrim and to see this dog whistle sectarianism used against anyone to question their suppprt for independence is vile. If you entertain or engage with this blog you are a clown
Or maybe folk can advise if this is an attempt to foment sectarian hatred against me?
It's certainly a very strange and unsettling thing, whatever is going on here ... I'll leave it to folk to judge for themselves what the motives and mindset are...
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@zubirahmed
@StewartMcDonald
@PaulJSweeney
Glagow is home to approx 5000 asylum seekers and would be happy to take many more. The fact that we are underfunded by UK government for this is the major impediment. But don't let the truth get in the way of your propaganda
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More flats to be compulsory purchased in our ongoing program of bringing empty homes back into use across the city.
@SNPforGlasgow
have instructed officers to be much more liberal in the use of CPO powers to address empty and poorly maintained flats
Glasgow flats empty for years could be bought by council after falling into 'state of disrepair'
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Been out today looking at flytipping sites with
@GlasgowNEPolice
and
@GlasgowCC
in Easterhouse and Ruchazie. We have collected names and addresses from the rubbish and people can expect fines in the post and visits from the police
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Nothing like an anti racism motion to bring out the bigots, thanks for making my point for me 👍
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The Labour group in
@GlasgowCC
have proposed cutting teacher numbers and school buses. Thank god they are not running this city any more!
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@PhantomPower14
SNP members are well able to see that all candidates have been on in the past 3 weeks
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£700 per month is nearly double the average cost of social housing so let's not dress private landlordism up as charity. £700 a month is about £200 higher than the average mortgage in Scotland
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Another Labour run council with an astronomical bill for discrimination against female employees. In Glasgow we will be paying off almost £1 billion over the next 30 years because of their incompetence! That's money not being spent on delivering services because of Labour's mess
Huge. Birmingham City Council issues Section 114 notice - meaning it can't manage its catastrophic finances without help. Updates from
@JaneRockHouse
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It is increasingly obvious that multiple private ownership of the transport system is incompatible with a functioning public transport network. Anything other than full public control will just be window dressing.
COP26 delegates will be handed passes they can use on any form of public transport.
Meanwhile, in the real world, transport bosses are axing the Daytripper ticket in Glasgow which allowed unlimited daily use of most rail and bus services.
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@Cllr_Higgins
Why are you making this up? You have linked a paper which your party supported that doesn't say what you claim. And while we are at it why did it take for an SNP administration to introduce this when child poverty has been a problem through all the years Labour were in charge?
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Fantastic results in Provan getting
@Ivan_McKee
elected with a majority of over 7000. Very proud to have been the election agent and been able to work with such an amazing team in
@ProvanSNP
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One thing I know for sure, Glasgow's streets will not be handed over to fascist thugs to intimidate
@no_evictions
, BLM or any other citizens fighting to make people's lives better
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Many thanks to my friends and colleagues in
@ehbildu
for having me at their local government conference speaking about how
@SNPforGlasgow
is working with communities to tackle vacant and derelict land in our neighbourhoods
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All those schools that the SNP built in the 50's🥴
It must take a lot of effort to be so relentlessly tedious
Feeling safe at school is the very least people should expect. This is a huge worry for pupils, staff and parents.
It is essential that no child or worker is at risk of harm because of the SNPs failure to maintain safety standards in our schools.
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Wanting people to abandon their own political beliefs and follow unitary British nationalism isn't being a unity politician, its just being a unionist politician
Interesting framing from Sarwar in his Times interview with Magnus Linklater today.
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Very proud of my sister Bronagh who was recently named State Bar of Nevada Young Lawyer of the Year, the first non-American to be awarded this. And presented with a Belfast Ambassador medal by
@BelfastHome
.
No pressure Ruairi😅
We now travel 8179 miles from Melbourne to Nevada to meet Bronagh Kelly, who was this month named State Bar of Nevada Young Lawyer of the Year. Bronagh attended Fortwilliam College in Belfast, graduating LLB law with Spanish from Queens, in 2010, before moving to 🇺🇸 in 2011.
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How companies have treated staff during this period should be central to renewing operating licenses in Glasgow, looking at you G1
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Great to hear that
@scotgov
have confirmed £535,000 of funding for the renovation of
#ProvanHall
in Glasgow North East. As the oldest house in Glasgow it is important we preserve this historic building!
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This has all become so undignified, Kate and Ash have shown themselves to not only be utterly unfit to lead but their ability to remain members of our party must surely be called into question
EXCL: Kate Forbes demands SNP appoints independent observers to oversee leadership vote amid secrecy row and clams ballot could be rigged
Forbes campaign formally asks SNP HQ for “robust, experienced, third-party auditor” to be appointed “without delay”
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Labour would use Scotland's resources to freeze English council tax...
2022 was a record year for North Sea oil and gas profits.
If Labour was in government right now, we’d be using a proper windfall tax on those profits to fund a Council Tax freeze this year.
Government is about choices. A Labour government will make fairer choices 🌹
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Really looking forward to
@RuchazieP
opening. This will hopefully be the first of many projects run by and for the people of Ruchazie.
#Communitywealth
and capacity built from the ground up is how we ensure sustainable jobs and services for local people
@mandy1_morgan
@RuchazieHA
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Now make that regardless of age
UK National Living Wage set to be raised to £9.50 an hour, from £8.91 an hour, in Wednesday's budget
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Out this morning to see
@eastendflatpac1
and
@Beacon_Warriors
then over to Ruchazie with
@AnneMcLaughlin
,
@mandy1_morgan
and the team at Ruchazie Parish Church. Community spirit in the NE is second to none!
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Out on the doors in Garthamlock tonight with
@mandy1_morgan
,
@AllanCasey89
and
@GLAChristina
chatting to voters about the work we have been doing locally. Support across the North East looking strong.
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Picking up some litter while out capaigning with
@AChristieSNP
,
@kilianriley
and
@DeclanBlench
in East Centre. Tory message clearly not resonating with the voters here.
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So a handful of millionaires force the removal of the
@scottishlabour
leader so another millionaire can be coronated. The party of labour indeed....
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I was out yesterday with our deep clean team and city makers in Easterhouse scraping footpaths and delittering with the help of community volunteers. Taking your rubbish home is such a simple ask that would make all our neighbourhoods much easier to maintain 🗑️
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Wonder how many Brits learn to speak Arabic before going to work in Saudi or learn Spanish before retiring to Benidorm
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@kezdugdale
If only there was some sort of process that would lead to all decisions affecting families in Scotland to be made here in Scotland...
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Organised and empowered communities are the greatest driving force for change in this city
Amazing to see how
@GlasgowCC
responded to community demand for safer
#segregated
cycling in
#Blackhill
/Provanmill. It’s fantastic to see cycling resources in North East. Thanks
@AnnaLangside
@RuairiKelly_
@mandy1_morgan
@Maureen_Burke1
for working in partnership with the people
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The cost of voting Labour laid bare. Their discrimination against female workers will impact this city for generations to come.
Here is tomorrow's Sunday Mail front page which leads on Glasgow City Council paying £1.5bn to rent its own buildings over 30 years to settle £770m of equal pay claims
#TomorrowsPapersToday
#scotpapers
@hendopolis
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Despite what some people would have you believe, Glasgow is a city in the process of major development and transformation. While city budgets are in a very difficult place, there is clearly confidence that Glasgow is going in the right direction
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This is one of the best programmes in Glasgow and shameful that Labour would try to remove it when it is so well utilised by the likes of
@FARE_Scotland
@StPaulsYF
@TrustConnect
and many others across Glasgow North East
🥀Labour are the only group at today’s budget who proposed to cut funding for the Holiday Food Programme.
This would end the provision of food within the scheme at a time when families are already struggling and making difficult decisions due to the cost of living crisis.
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Attacking the integrity of JOHN SWINNEY is the brain worms stage of the leadership contest
Michelle Thomson, from Kate Forbes' campaign team, is scathing: “It increasingly looks like the top brass would much prefer an establishment transfer of power – to carry on with the status quo – rather than allowing our membership the freedom to make a healthy democratic choice."
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Delighted to approve this today. It was a pity that
@scottishlabour
councillors tried to block the long term lease. Any thoughts on why that would be
@PaulJSweeney
?
Councillors urged to back charity’s ‘community village’ plans in Springburn Park
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Men in my ward of Glasgow North East can now expect to collect a
#pension
for 3.3 years before reaching their average life expectancy.
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This is such a bizarre take given the utterly rampant anti Irish/anti Catholicism within unionism in general and the outright discrimination catholics were subjected to in the North of Ireland by successive UK governments.
EXC: Labour MP hopeful Laura McConnell said she does not trust 'Scots in general' in an unearthed tweet.
She is on the shortlist for the twinned selection of Livingston/Bathgate and Linlithgow
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£538 million for social and affordable housing in Glasgow over the next 5 years
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Correct, supporting or accepting Westminster overruling the democratic decision of the Scottish Parliament should be incompatible with SNP membership let along leadership
If we cave in & let UK Govt veto a Bill passed by majority of Scot Parliament we set an incredibly dangerous precedent. We must defend the democratic will of the Scot Parliament, if we do not the UK Govt will feel empowered to veto any legislation we bring forward in the future.
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Busy morning with
@mandy1_morgan
and Cllr Burke helping the
@FARE_Scotland
volunteers pack food hampers and then delivering 50 to Ruchazie Church to be distributed to the community this week
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