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Independence for Scotland Wildlife & Nature Heart of Midlothian & occasional volcanic eruptions on Iceland. views my own

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1 year
Since Nicola Sturgeon resigned Scotland has been subjected to a media feeding frenzy the like of which we've not seen since 2014. No the SNP is not perfect, humans are not perfect, but no one can possibly govern a country better than people who live in that country #independence
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2 years
"there's no clearer example why Scotland should be an independent country" "we live in an energy rich country where we have virtually 100% capacity to generate our renewable electricy" "we're locked into a UK market that prices our electricity based on the wholesale gas price"
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2 years
'Nicola Sturgeon won't allow nuclear power stations to solve the energy crisis in Scotland.' Excuse me, there's no energy crisis in Scotland, there's a tory crisis in Scotland! #Truss
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2 years
As from today, I'll be referring to anything Westminster related as the English parliament. Seems to be time to call a spade a spade. #ScotlandUKPrisoner
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3 years
No amount of 🇬🇧 pushed into my consciousness via food packaging, flags on our Scottish buildings or anywhere else will have the slightest impact on my burning need for Scotland to be an independent country. #indyref2
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6 months
Dear @skynews Nicola Sturgeon's communications were clear, helpful and the actions of the whole health team and ScotGov kept us safe, unlike chaotic No 10. Scotland is Not the same as England, never will be. Hancock is a tory. Say no more.
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4 years
Liz Smith (con) demands exam scrips are returned to schools. John Swinney has to remind her, there are no exam scripts this year.. as no exams were able to take place which is why we're having this whole debate in the first place.
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3 years
Jack McConnell says he's spent more time in Scotland in the last year than for a long time & now he knows that Scotland doesn't want a referendum at all🤦‍♀️ He has obviously missed 18 opinion polls in a row with a majority YES. The people of Scotland will choose. #politicsScotland
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4 years
@MhairiBlack Mhairi, every mum, and dad, are primed to protect their children for as long as possible from adult activities. It's not homophobic to be upset about an adult entertainer in a primary school. It's safeguarding. It shouldn't have happened. Speaking as an 'L' - hardly homophobic
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5 months
Jason Leach and Devi Sridar both so professional, clear and we in Scotland were very lucky to have them advise our scotgov. Murdoch press in comparison, just barrel scraping. #CovidInquiry
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2 years
England's energy supply will soon be in the hands of a 'hostile foreign power' #HIGNFY (haha) That's us, Scotland. It's the fear that we would treat them the way they've treated us for 300 years .. No we will supply you, you'll just have to pay for it, instead of just taking it
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2 years
Sarwar says for 15 years the snp have had it all their own way. Considering all the forces of all the British establishment, parties & media have opposed them, this is a ridiculous statement. They have won elections because people voted for them. #thesundayshow
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6 years
Karen Bradley (Northern Ireland Secretary) is "struck by just how close Scotland is to Northern Ireland" I'm struck by just how stupid some conservatives are.
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3 years
The actor Brian Cox now supports "Scottish Nationalism" says #marr oh dear I think you'll find he supports #ScottishIndependence #yesScots nice try Marr, we see what you did there.
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4 months
Wait, does this mean 75% think devolution has been good ? Is 75 a much bigger number than 25? Yes, yes it is.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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3 years
I hope @theSNP ask the authorities to investigate if Jackie Baillie and Murdo Fraser broke the ministerial code in respect of their online conduct while on the 'Committee' as I believe it does cover committee member's conduct. #glovesoff
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1 year
SNP debate in House of commons , on the Cost of Living and Brexit. Looks like the rest of Westminster aren't really interested in the view of the MPs Scotland elects.
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3 years
OO marches should be banned from Scottish streets.Gather & march around a park if you must but no one else should have to put up with it No place for racism or sectarianism in modern Scotland.
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2 years
@SaulStaniforth @dido15 @RMTunion That was a very bad interview from Burley. Revealed a bit more about her than perhaps she realised.
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7 months
Thank Nicola Sturgeon for all her hard work during covid. We all knew she was the only leader who understood the data, and acted on it as much as she could. Unlike the clowns in no10.
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Eat your heart out @jackiebmsp !
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3 years
It makes me weep in anger that as the world comes to Glasgow for the objective to Save the Planet, Scotland has no seat at negotiating table but we're represented by the far right, populist, metaphor-a-minute Boris Johnson. This is an intolerable situation #ScottishIndependence14
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2 years
bbc radio Scotland will be asking folk to phone in and say if they think the isolation period should be cut. Just what we need, John frae Aberdeeen, with opinions based on nothing more than hatred of the Scottish govt to base his non epidemiology views on. #Omicron
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2 years
Imagine Scotland with an independent news at 6. Holyrood politics, our latest green energy successes, talks with EU. NO more Westminster Tories at all, ever again. #ScottishIndependence10
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2 years
As the Scottish government send out a copy of her speech to other party leaders, the first thing Ross and Sarwar will do is send it off to their HQ in London for guidance in how to reply. #branchoffices
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3 years
Best Christmas card received so far.
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4 years
BBC Scotland Still cutting away from FM's #coronavirus briefings/answers to media. The urgent program they had to show us 'Paramedics On Scene' first aired 17/11/19 -a repeat. It's simply not good enough @BBCScotland We Must hear what is going on, all questions, all answers
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4 years
Why did @BBCScotlandNews show a clip of D Ross making the same statement he made on bbcqt where Kate Forbes put him right on the £700m Barnett allocation, but tonight, no balancing statement from Ms Forbes or anyone else from Sgov. #balance #impartiality ?
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5 months
While DRoss continues his Whatsapp tirade, he omits to mention, the Secretary of State for Scotland Alister Jack has not supplied even a statement to the #CovidInquiry at all, and has just refused to appear at it. The hypocrisy of the tories is beyond belief #fmqs
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2 years
Trevor Phillips : "In Scotland they've already moved to tougher measures and they're doing that with confidence because the people in that country believe in their Prime Minister" see how good that sounds? #indyref2 #yesScots
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3 years
@krishgm @NicolaSturgeon They'll be furious their plans were discovered (thank you). Plotting with royalty is another black mark on Brown who is totally discredited here btw. If William wants to be welcome here, he should butt out of our political business.
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4 months
The character assassination of Nicola Sturgeon by the State, is a self preservation reaction to the soaring trust gained by her selfless hard work during the pandemic. Her high regard by international figures also had to end. Her crime? Winning for the cause for independence 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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4 years
I'm nearly 70 now, I remember when Scotland was just 'North Britain' neglected, overlooked & scorned. I can assure all those young people in Scotland, the last 20 years has been the best that Scotland has ever had in terms of a government that cares & works for all of us. 1/2
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2 years
utter shambles of a speech from PM in response to Starmer. Machine gun delivery, nonsense, no one can grasp a single phrase or para to make any sense of it. And the Chamber clears when Ian Blackford rises to speak. No rspect at all for Scotland's representatives. #QueensSpeech
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it's already becoming clear England is going to vote Labour so they don't NEED any seats in Scotland. Can anyone tell me why any person in Scotland who supports independence should even think about Labour? It doesn't make sense. #votesnp
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3 years
'194 countries in the world, Scotland is Second, only Israel has vaccinated more of its population' So Scotland doing pretty well then in the vaccination league table. Jason Leitch. #dailybriefing
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4 years
Lisa Nandy "this wasn't a foreseeable crisis" seemingly covering ukgov's back in slow response. Was the same crisis in China and Italy weeks before it reached this island, invisible to them? #Marr
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3 years
In some other news, a person I tried to persuade many times to vote YES in 2014 who was scathing of the very idea, a person who is ex BritArmy. is now @NicolaSturgeon 's biggest fan and will vote SNP and YES. This was the one I knew, if persuaded, we'd be home & dry. We're on!
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3 years
That's it, the ba's burst. I'm a unionist now.
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2 years
BBC reporting Scotland briefly broadcast before I realised and this time it's a cafe owner not happy with the regulations. BBC Scotland is now a danger to our public health. #ScottishIndependence6
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4 years
As Sunak visits Scotland #daytripTory & tells us how much money UK handed to Scottish businesses as if we should all bow down in thanks, remember there's nothing they've done which an independent Scotland couldn't also do in same way other small independent countries have done.
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3 years
The Marshall Islands, a group of islands in the Pacific Ocean being talked about on #marr and #BBCSundayShow - Population circa 60,000 They are an independent nation with representatives at #cop26 Scotland, host nation, pop 5.6m Is not at the negotiating table #SaltireSunday 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Dear #skynews an error on your part, I'm sure you'll want to put right. Your video heading -UK strikes- about teachers, is wrong. It's English teachers on strike. No strikes here 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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3 years
Ruth Davidson has the nerve to attack SGov on payments to businesses while her own party is killing of an entire industry ie the fishing industry in Scotland because of their #brexit ideology. #FMQs
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Scotlands Deposit Return Scheme was stopped to wait for England's scheme. They don't have a scheme even planned. Scotland held back again! #independence is badly needed.
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Ireland’s DRS collects over 2 million drinks containers in first month. The DRS scheme which started in February is one of 15 active across European countries and Ireland’s rates of initial participation are “very strong” when compared to EU counterparts.
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4 years
According to Sarah Smith, audibly distressed at the Acquittals of Alex Salmond says "The SNP are divided like never before" Desperately trying to rerun the trial. What a disgraceful report. @BBCScotlandNews
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2 years
First Minister sorting out the Daily Mail journalist. It warms my cold cynical heart to hear it. #covidbriefing
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2 years
What on earth is Sarwar talking about ! A windfall tax is NOT in Holyrood's powers, and I think he knows that. #fmqs
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6 years
Great to see @joannaccherry and @valmcdermid at the #trumpprotest in Edinburgh
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5 years
Dear whoever the woman is on your panel. Scotland didn't have to join the union as we'd lost all our money on Darien. The nobles who ran Scotland had lost their personal money on Darien & were bribed to sign by England. Scotland's Treasury was perfectly fine. #history #Newsnight
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2 years
While #newsnight was interesting, there wasn't a single word or videoclip of the SNP or Ian Blackford's calling out Johnson for his lies. It's as if the 3rd largest party in Westminster wears its invisibility cloak on these occasions because the London bubble just don't 'get' him
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4 years
Please note: the chap who just said Care Home deaths not being recorded (in their favourite phrase) "across the UK" this is inaccurate as Scotland IS collating those statistics weekly from the Register of Scotland. The word you're looking for is 'England' #marr
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3 years
John Curtice there giving his views this is all about damaging Nicola Sturgeon reputation ahead of the #sp21 At last a voice on the BBC telling the truth.
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2 years
Scottish independence means we'll never again have to sit and watch helplessly as a govt we didn't vote for, trashes the lives of so many. #democraticdeficit #indyref2
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3 years
unionists of any colour gloating about the Supreme Court decision as some kind of 'put you in your place' judgement, please remember to check the voting record - Everyone Voted For It. It passed unanimously.
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2 years
media manufactured the whole, 'cross the border to party'. This was designed to portray our people as only interested in booze, and that England being the real model for covid (lack of) restrictions. It's demeaning, petty, and how the manipulators work #ScottishIndependence8
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4 years
Whatever happens with the Salmond trial over the next four weeks, it will never diminish my life long desire for Scottish independence. Just a wee heads-up for anyone hoping otherwise. #indyref2 #itstime
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How can anyone in Scotland look at this person and say yes, I want to be governed by her and people like her instead of my own govt in Edinburgh. 🙈
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Please watch Esther McVery explain what the Minister for Common Sense is on #BBCQT 😅 Please RT this, as laughter is the best medicine 😅 😅
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3 years
Happy Independence Day to Finland 🇫🇮 Land of the Midnight Sun, 5.5million population and a land border with a Much bigger neighbour. How on earth did they do it? Because they wanted to. #indyref2
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"Unfit to be contributing to debates today" Deputy FM lays into Stephen Kerr who doesn't understand the answer or how Scotland's finances actually work. #ScotBudget23 #Budget2023
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I've never believed, and don't believe now, that the uk govt will ever deliver the kind of society, the kind of Scotland I want to see my family, my grandson grow up in. #YES #indyref2
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Today the @ScotGov is rushing through 3 days of legislation to freeze rents in Scotland. It would be nice if the Scottish media paid some attention, maybe even UK media. I know, imagine a government doing a good thing. Unbelievable eh? @skynews @BBCScotlandNews
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Mary Lou Mcdonald laying it out in stark terms exactly what the tories are attempting in Northern Ireland. Scotland pay attention. #Ridge
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John Swinney campaigning in Leith yesterday with our wonderful @DeidreBrock #voteSNP
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7 months
whether people 'like' the SNP or not, the only way to become independent is to support them for now. Then when Scotland is independent, ALL parties will be focused on Scots and how to make life better. More democracy, more choice, no interference from London. #independence
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3 years
its quite bizarre to watch news media talking to 'experts' in England on treating drug use as Health issue & not a criminal issue. How long has the Scottish Government been trying to get them to do this with a deaf ear reaction. Now suddenly its their 'great idea' 🙄 #chancers
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"its not a great day for politics in Scotland" says Jon Snow. @Channel4News From where I'm sitting, its a very good day for the SNP and its a bad day for the opposition unionist parties. #IStandWithNicola
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3 years
Dougie Ross wants Secondary School pupils to be able to stop wearing masks saying 'the vaccine program is successful' forgetting the school pupils Haven't been Vaccinated! #briefing
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@AndrewBowie_MP if foot & mouth was discovered in Northumberland for example, there would be an immediate ban on animal movement into Scotland. So for some reason, that's fine for animals but not for humans and the deadly #cv19
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@Torcuil @CameronMcNeish Torcuil, a wee pointer for you, the word 'selfie' is a photo you take ofyourself, by yourself. What you've seen are what are called 'photographs' or 'images' taken by someone else. Always happy to help our journalist friends. #wordsmith
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The Scotsman,The Times,The Express,The Telegraph, The Herald, The Spectator & BBC in Scotland. All had articles claiming Scottish Govt had to follow Kwarteng's top rate of income tax cut. Who sent the memo to the media with similar wording that @scotgov "under pressure"? Who?
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@KayBurley @NicolaSturgeon She leads the group of smaller countries in #Cop , she's the elected First Minister of Scotland- we have oil/gas/renewables in abundance and responsibility to match. What's your problem?
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"Prince Andrew still denies he even met Miss Giuffre". (ITV news) Why is he going to all these lengths to get off on a technicality then?
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3 years
Delighted to announce I'm blocked by the racist George Galloway. #BadgeOfHonour
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oh look the Prime Minister is lying about the governmental record of @thesnp and public services in Scotland, the best in the UK, at the same time as insulting more than half the electorate in Scotland. What a disgrace. #pmqs
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3 years
@lewis_goodall typically hostile pejorative language there. It was not a mob but their neighbours. A lot of people live in these streets!
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Nicola Sturgeon took what she took yesterday for us. Be in no doubt the gloves are off as far as the State is concerned. The independence movement is the enemy for them. Refer to history what has been done to former colonies.
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Person of the year? Nicola Sturgeon. Who has been working all hours of every day since March to lead Scotland'through the Corona virus crisis. #bbcgms
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Ian Blackford was right.
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"The prime minister of the UK is a liar." SNP's Ian Blackford says Boris Johnson misled Parliament "deliberately" when he denied there had been parties in Downing Street that broke Covid rules. MPs will vote later on whether there should be an investigation into the PM.
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2 years
@JoeMSpence1 @Tony_Diver it would be a fitting coup de grace in her special year. go for it Q.
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Had a letter today from a friend's mother who happens to be 90 years young. She asked me how she can join @theSNP Never assume all 60+s are all anti independence. I'm sending her a form 😀
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He has been with me for 18 years, was always there through relationships, house moves, good times bad times. Constant. My friend. Sleep well sweetie. My good boy Frodo RIP..
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2 years
This remark from Kwame Nkrumah (the guy who led Ghana out from British colonial rule in the 1950s) a useful touchstone. "The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state." #indyref2
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The future of the planet being discussed in Glasgow, & @BBCScotlandNews has rangers needing a new manager at top of the news, instead of the sports section where it belongs. Parochial & meant to diminish our own nation in front of our own eyes as if that's all we're interested in
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Labour called for the Scottish Child payment to be doubled from £10 to £20 That increase was in today's SNP Scottish Budget. Labour voted against the Budget. ⬆️Why labour are in 3rd place in Scottish politics and have no credibility left. #ScottishBudget #BainPrinciple
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'Is Christmas cancelled'? asks a journalist of the First Minister. Honestly, the media are just sound-bite-junkies #DailyBriefing
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6 years
Stephen Kerr (tory) bemoaning that the 'Scottish Government does everything in its power to stop cadet units in schools' Thank heavens for that! Children are to be educated in schools not diverted off for canon fodder for whatever war tories get involved in next
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Not a word of credit to Scotgov for Scottish Child Payment of £20 to rise to £25 later. Poverty levels less in Scotland, than elsewhere because of it. #Brown @skynews
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Too poor to be independent, but rich enough to support the whole UK? 🤔 that's very strange don't you think?
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A Tory minister admits that North Sea oil revenues are funding billions in cost of living support for “every household” in the UK 👇
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Scotland loses 2 constituencies because of boundary changes (now 57), Wales loses 8 (now 32) . NI - 18 Guess what, England gains 10 to 543. Who will win #GE24 will be decided in England. It's basic arithmetic .
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I doubt 100% that Jack has any genuine reason why glass is apparently not to be recycled in Scotland, where it is fine to do so in Wales. It's political, designed to undermine the SNP, devolution & Holyrood 3 Issues have now been refused by UKgov to go forward. #EnoughIsEnough
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from a friend in Germany #DRS "works perfectly fine in Germany. You just chuck it all in the same machine. Has no problem figuring out what is plastic and what is glass, giving you the correct deposit back and separating the bottles. The technology already exists!"
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'Omicron is concentrated in London and Scotland' says the health expert. Which bit of Scotland is that? It's quite a big country you know! #marr
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2 years
no surprise but the PM is incorrect in his statement the SNP want to remove the UK nuclear deterrent. We want to remove trident submarines from Scottish territory. If the UK want them, they can find another harbour. #PMQs
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I await a statement from the CMO, but in the meantime remember the Sun broke the story and they must have tailed her, a reporter and photographer. Probably in the same car. Don't buy the sun
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I disagree with Boris Johnson on just about everything to be honest, but his biggest #cop26 mistake was to exclude Nicola Sturgeon from the negotiating team.
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he has a temperature and a persistent cough, says the Prime Minister. Who doesn't cough at all during the entire piece to camera.
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Apparently the Royal Family have played an extraordinary part in boosting our morale during the pandemic. #politicslive have to say I didn't notice that at all. #irrelevant
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Maybe someone in London will notice eventually that Scotland has had no nhs strikes, just this week a new deal for our jnr drs thanks to @theSNP scotgov. Believing in nhs includes paying decent wages. #ridge #bbclaurak
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