Alan Ferrier
@alanferrier
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I live in Glasgow and my hobbies include arranging my CDs in alphabetical order, discovering new and exotic whiskies, sheep-spotting and flying my kite.
Glasgow, Scotland
Joined April 2010
The only thing won by the Unionists on September 18th was time. #IndyRef
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"The latent genius of the great engineers and thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment still exists in our community today. To be found and to flourish, all it really needs is belief." An upbeat, encouraging article from Professor Mark Logan OBE FRSE. https://t.co/nIaOaUOjhy
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Scotland’s tech start-up sector has developed strongly over the past five years, arriving at perhaps its most vibrant state in living memory
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This is getting beyond a joke. John Swinney let it go probably because he didn't want to get bogged down in a fact checking exercise. We witness this time and again with BBC presenters. They regularly parrot stuff that isn't true and it's *always* to the detriment of the SNP.
Laura Kuessberg twice claimed the UK Govt was supplying £10bn to build warships on the Clyde. This is false. The £10bn will come from Norway after it signed a deal with BAE systems. The UK Govt isn't supplying any cash.
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"Britain’s departure from the EU in the time of Trump, and Britain’s consequent unqualified dependence on the United States in an era when the US is heading straight down the road to institutional racism and neo-fascism, is an unmitigated clusterfuck bar none." - John le Carré
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If any of our Unionist chums can point to a correction to a BBC story which mistakenly reported on a positive view of Scotland, please crack on. We'll wait.
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It's uncanny how forced "corrections" issued by the BBC always - ALWAYS - relate to stories painting Scotland or @ScotGov in a poor light. Continually telling Scottish folk that they and the country in which they live are shite is their default position. https://t.co/o87UFm6zBT
NEW: The BBC has been forced to issue a correction after exaggerating the number of drug deaths in Scotland.
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I remember, decades ago, similar lines spewed out by representatives of the National Front and British National Party for which they were, rightly, vilified from all sides. Now it's become normalised. How far the UK has fallen. https://t.co/z5lhwMLuIm
Kemi Badenoch tells #R4Today negotiations with third countries would be required to remove illegal migrants if they couldn’t be sent 'back home'. The Conservative Party leader says their target to remove 150,000 migrants a year wouldn't be possible under Reform or Labour.
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Your occasional reminder that this buffoonish party apparatchik has had a 24-year career in the Scottish Parliament without once winning any sort of election, trousering well over a million pounds from the public purse in the process.
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All the money you made will never buy back your soul. https://t.co/d38xqBag6k
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If you give the tiniest shit what the Tories intend to do then keep an eye on what Reform says today. Because the Tories will be saying that in six months time. https://t.co/GxqtDNoX0G
It's time for Britain to leave the ECHR.
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Quick! Change the locks!
😱 WATCH: Tories WALK OUT Scottish Parliament chamber after being corrected on their facts by SNP Depute Leader Keith Brown! 🙄👇
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It's remarkable how much criticism of the Scottish Government by Labour drones can be countered and proven to be empty rhetoric with a single word. That word is "Wales". https://t.co/2VMLgiQdqW
If the SNP won’t talk about their record, then we will: Never has one party accumulated so much political capital to so little effect. Jackie Baillie put it best when she said “The truth is if John Swinney knew how to fix the challenges Scotland faces…he’d have done it by now.”
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If scrapping indefinite leave to remain (ILR) entirely, as Reform would do, is racist, according to Labour, what is making ILR twice as difficult, expensive & humiliating to obtain, as Labour are doing?
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The Secret of Life in two short paragraphs from Kurt Vonnegut. I do miss him.
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Some AI realism. The entire thread is worrying and well worth a read. https://t.co/lCzvEcJeae
AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations: https://t.co/giPhuc8qM3 11/
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That noise you hear is William Beveridge, Clement Attlee and Nye Bevan spinning in their graves. https://t.co/7UPw5z4He4
Rachel Reeves: "We do need a welfare system that is based on the principle of contribution" What happened to a welfare system based on the principle of need? Or the principle of universalism? Haven't contributed for whatever reason? Tough.
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Arbeit macht frei. Forced volunteering isn't volunteering. It's unpaid labour. https://t.co/jTUpiBngQw
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