Blair McDougall
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Labour candidate for East Ren. Strategist working around the world. Chair @uyghurstop Ran indyref campaign to keep theUK united. Subscribe to newsletter below.
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Promoted by Gareth McGuinness on behalf of Blair McDougall both at 7 East Kilbride Road, Rutherglen, G73 5EA.
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Whoever has stuck googly eyes on all the Otters Crossing signs on Uist is proof that there are still public-spirited people out there.
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Here, on the 10th Oct Yousaf says he has no idea where the Sunday Mail’s story that he deleted his WhatsApp’s had come from. Today at the Inquiry he confirmed HE tood the inquiry they had been deleted. He is a liar.
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Nearly half of SNP members just voted for the small government, low tax, pro austerity, anti-gay marriage, anti-choice, anti-single parent candidate. Don’t ever darken my door with your “red tories” shit ever again.
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That Sunday Mail story made me remember this from June 2021. Completely unequivocal.
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“From the river to the sea” means destroying the state of Israel. If you’re at a demonstration and chanting that you’re supporting Hamas, not Palestinians.
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Flynn thinks he’s the victim. In this debate. Breathtaking entitlement.
"We’ve been the victims of a stitch up."
Stephen Flynn, the SNP Westminster leader, responds to Commons Gaza vote chaos.
He tells
@krishgm
that the Speaker is 'now going to have to convince me his position is tenable'.
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Nicola Sturgeon as motorhomes. A 🧵...
Fiat Ducato.
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There’s lots of punditry around Sturgeon’s performance & the KC’s expert questioning but the important thing is that people who lost loved ones, lost a job, or lost their freedom will never know the reasoning behind decisions because of the SNP’s wholesale destruction of evidence
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1. This means the bereaved will now not know the truth of why decisions, like sending infected into care homes were taken. 2. This looks like a *deliberate* destruction of evidence as she *knew* this would be asked for & gave a committment to the bereaved to keep these messages.
🔴 BREAKING: Nicola Sturgeon deleted all pandemic WhatsApp messages, Covid Inquiry told
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Fascinating to watch the very careful & deliberate wording by SNP folk designed to make people think FCDO is leaving Scotland. Argue on behalf of East Kilbride, by all means, but if your cause depends on hoping people won’t notice Glasgow is in Scotland, you really are desperate.
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Here's the thing for me on news that the SNP's auditors actually resigned in the autumn. How many times have SNP figures since then used the line that their accounts are audited in response to questions about this investigation *without* disclosing they have no auditors?
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There now follows a party election broadcast on behalf of the Scottish Labour Party.
'The trains were never on time'
Kate Forbes grills Humza Yousaf on his record in government
I
#STVDebate
live:
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Those of you who haven't read the print edition of the Sunday Mail may be surprised to hear that they have a recording of Nicola Sturgeon at an NEC meeting in 2021 saying: “We don’t need to talk about the finances, the finances are absolutely fine.”
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On behalf of the 2014 Better Together campaign team on today's awful news.
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Just dipping into the anti BBC protest by nationalists today.
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Spoke to Ian Blackford about the Labour attack ads, who told me if SNP HQ had made them he'd refuse to share it, and warned our politics was in a "bad place"
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The SNP Gov say the sim was with EE. Their website says it is 20 Euros/20GB for data roaming add-on in Morocco. So to spend 12,600 Euros on data roaming that's 12,600 GB of data. That's watching the Lord of the Rings trilogy (in standard def) 500 times. What package was he on!?
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Still 55-45. Given hundreds of thousands of older No voters have died in the last decade, nationalists should be asking why the Union side of the argument is winning over voters without an organised campaign, with an unpopular Tory government, & with economic crises. They won’t.
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5 years since the launch of the greatest metaphor for the SNP government. Flags handed out, windows painted on, no interest in governing once the cameras depart, a ship going nowhere.
It was a privilege to launch MV Glen Sannox at Ferguson’s shipyard today. She is the UK’s first dual fuel ferry - so good for the environment as well as the island communities she will serve.
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Sunday Mail today is 🫢 They have stories on:
📹leaked video of Sturgeon at Exec of party (watch below)
☀️photos of Murrell’s villa in Portugal
💎 police investigating jewellery purchases
🔎 Sturgeon herself being investigated
👉🏻👈🏻 briefing by SNP figures.
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Finally caught up with Question Time. Mhairi Black's childish 'yeah but England' answer to everything is typical of what's holding Scotland back. As if💩on a beach doesn't matter unless it's come out an English arse. And the self-congratulation on the GP crisis is extraordinary.
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Angus Robertson in 2015. “Now is a time of austerity and huge financial difficulties for far too many people. It is not right for MPs to have a pay rise in these circumstances." Also Angus Robertson in 2015: gets secret £33k pay rise from public funds.
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I hadn't realised that Ash Regan interview wasn't the worst one she did today. This one is *extraordinary*. Like someone who should never have made it past the cv-sifting stage busking it in the job interview.
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Missing from the SNP talking heads tonight: any recognition that a bad result might be anything to do with anything they have done. Their arrogance is so habitual that they are incapable of humility.
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A decade of nothing else but campaigning to divide people and this is all the SNP have to show for it. Imagine if they’d spent that decade on restoring our education system, fixing our bus services or securing green jobs.
NEW: Exclusive polling find 56% of Scots would vote No in an independence referendum
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He knew on the 9th that the data use was not for parliamentary purposes. He said this to journalists on the 13th. He lied to the media. He should do the decent thing.
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"We made sure we never dissented publicly." How many terrible decisions have been made because of that culture of shutting up for that sake of a cause that has gone nowhere?
I joined the SNP in 86. Elected to the Scottish Parliament in 99. SNP elected as minority govt in 2007. We made sure we never dissented publicly. If you feel you are more important than the SNP and if you think your views matter then get a grip. I don’t want to know you. 2/2
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Sturgeon’s defence has been that all relevant Whatsapp messages were transferred to official records. The SNP Government covered up the number of WhatsApp messages in response to FOI requests? Why? Because the number is zero. Zero messages were added to eRDM. Lies piled on lies.
For some time I’ve been asking how many of Sturgeon’s WhatsApps are in Scot Gov’s eRDM (Electronic Records & Document Management) system. Today, finally, they confirm the number is zero. They knew this all along, of course. But refused to say so until the pretence was untenable.
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Great numbers for Labour in Bellshill by election.
Lab: 52% (+ 13%)
SNP: 27% (-14%)
Tories: 8.6%
BUP: 4%
ALBA: 3.8%
Green: 1.6%
LibDem: 1.1%
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Mairi McCallan on
#bbcqt
says we never had a govt that represented their interest before 2007. Apparently the NHS, welfare state, bringing electricity to the Highlands, new towns, tax credits, minimum wage, land reform, smoking ban, free care weren't in Scotland's interests. 🤷♂️
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Thrilled to have been selected as Labour’s candidate for my home constituency of East Ren. I grew up here, live here and will fight like hell for the community I love. I’m out campaigning later if anyone fancies it…?
#ThisTimeLabour
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Just an account followed by most SNP politicians talking about imprisoning me. It’s not like other nationalisms.
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Ladies and gentlemen, the Scottish ‘Green’ Party.
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Astonishing to see SNP parliamentarians sharing posts suggesting that Sturgeon's arrest is a conspiracy by the British state.
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Thanks for the replies nationalist chums. They are, of course, all the words of the new SNP Chief Executive. 🎣
A few totally random thoughts on the SNP and independence... 🧵
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1. She made the policies, she led the government so can’t use this as an excuse.
2. She made a specific promise to the bereaved to keep these messages.
3. She was never off the telly and now hides behind a spokesperson.
@NicolaSturgeon
responds to disclosure that she deleted all her WhatsApps during the pandemic
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On 14th October 2019 Nicola Sturgeon told BBC GMS that she did not use her SNP email for government business.
Source close to Nicola Sturgeon says all emails sent by Prof Devi Sridhar to Ms Sturgeon's private/SNP email were forwarded on to Scottish Government channels and Ms Sturgeon has offered to provide these to the inquiry
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Is anyone surprised at this point?
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I can't be doing with the whole pearl-clutching 'oh AUOB have nothing to do with us' from SNP politicians. *Every single one of you* have endorsed this organisation. You knew exactly who they are.
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Nicola Sturgeon would have suspended Nicola Sturgeon while the police investigation was ongoing. The only reason Yousaf won’t is weakness.
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I see that in addition to shortbread, teacakes, whisky and haggis, Edinburgh Castle has now been added to the list of anti-Scottish enemies.
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I see that ‘A Force for Good’ (who are anything but that) were demonstrating outside the Scottish Parliament last night. A reminder that this is an organisation ran by a Holocaust denier who was too extreme for UKIP. Nobody should go anywhere near these people.
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On the basis of the amount of abuse I’ve received today, deep in the limbic cortex of SNP members, they feel an itching, an uneasy feeling that something went wrong today.
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This is utterly shameful. It is not decolonisation. It is terrorism.
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🔔☎️ Hello my car has been stolen!
👮♂️☎️ Tricky one. Can you give me a sense of it’s resale value?
BREAKING: The total cost of the police probe into the SNP’s finances is MORE than the 'missing' amount under investigation
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Don’t interrupt the SNP when they (as their whole machine is doing today) say that if you don’t vote for them you’re not Scottish. Their aggressive entitlement really turns off voters.
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Lots of replies from nationalists buying the SNP line that they didn’t use WhatsApp to discuss the government response to covid. Here’s the problem: Scottish Government witness statements say they did. This from Uk Inquiry earlier in week:
Even Richard Nixon refused to destroy the White House tapes as he thought it would prove he had something to hide. The SNP had no such worry as they destroyed thousands of covid-related messages. New NoN on a genuine scandal for Scottish democracy.
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Much needed relief for families worrying how they’ll make it to the end of the month. Well done First Minister.
🔴 Passports in an independent Scotland would follow EU recommendations and be burgundy red in colour, the Scottish Government has said.
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No action will be taken against these public servants for the knowing destruction of public records (which they are joking about here) as to do so would expose identical behaviour by their political masters. My god we need a new broom in Holyrood.
A conversation between senior Scottish Government officials is shown to
@covidinquiryuk
in which Prof Jason Leitch says: ‘WhatsApps deletion is a pre-bed ritual’
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My essay today. An old Labour stalwart I knew used say that a halo, when it slips, can become a noose. That’s why the SNP’s crisis is so damaging: their nationalism was based on exceptionalism and now they’re mired in scandal.
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This is extraordinary. The central economic claim made by the independence campaign for the last decade is utter bollocks. Great detective work by Sam but why did the civil service let the SNP government away with this?
The claim that Scotland has 25% of Europe’s potential offshore wind resource is false.
@scotgov
has today conceded this in response to
@These_Islands
investigation. But Scot Gov says it was accurate in 2010 - not so! Read our full report to understand why.
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Even Richard Nixon refused to destroy the White House tapes as he thought it would prove he had something to hide. The SNP had no such worry as they destroyed thousands of covid-related messages. New NoN on a genuine scandal for Scottish democracy.
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So remember the defence of Nicola Sturgeon was that all her whatsapps deemed relevant were transcribed onto the records system before deletion?(which would have been a breach of her promise anyway) Well…
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If only he had been transport minister.
“We’ve let our island communities down, it’s not acceptable”
On
#BBCLeadersDebate
, Humza Yousaf says that if he is elected first minister he’ll invest in ferries and Ferguson shipyard
#bbcdn
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🚨New NoN🚨
As Sturgeon, like Salmond before her, is arrested what do we know?
💩It’s time to cut the crap, this is why she resigned.
👋By her own standard she can’t remain an SNP member.
🤫 Under her leadership the SNP resisted scrutiny of their finances.
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Compare and contrast three answers to the same question: did you delete WhatsApp messages related to Covid?
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Lies piled upon lies. How on earth can civil servants destroy evidence and then lie to the media about it and keep their jobs? This really does feel like a rubicon for devolution. We campaigned to create Holyrood to ensure greater accountability and somehow have ended up here.
Just found the line from the SG. Emailed out as "background information" day after The Times story: "It is not correct to suggest that the National Clinical Director deleted every WhatsApp message every day."
No wonder they didn't want to put it on the record in a quote
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SNP: we’re destroying any reputation we had for competence.
Scottish Greens: hold my organic artisan IPA.
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Former First Minister Henry McLeish had a chippie tea tonight while Jack McConnell is looking forward to finally getting around to finishing Better Call Saul.
Former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has passed her driving theory test with full marks in one section.
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Yousaf, Forbes & Regan have all confirmed they will speak at the next AUOB event. Here are some clips from the last major event by the organisation that organisation held. I cannot stress how crackers this lot are.
Just dipping into the anti BBC protest by nationalists today.
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His leadership should never have happened given the sordid campaign against Charles Kennedy, bit it should have been ended by his handling of the Grady affair, not at some point by the ambitions of someone else.
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30 years ago the Rwandan genocide began. It’s important to remember that it was deliberate, not spontaneous and that the outside world was complicit, not powerless. A thread… 1/
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If you or I lost our job after trying to diddle our employer out of £11k, we wouldn’t get a parachute package.
New Health Secretary Neil Gray says shamed predecessor Michael Matheson has a "right" to a 12k ministerial severance payment.
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The SNP normally wait until there’s a Labour government to unite with the Tories to remove people from power.
SNP MPs will back Conservative MP William Wragg's early day motion of no confidence in speaker Lindsay Hoyle, source says
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Will *any* SNP politician have the guts & independence of thought to criticise the wholesale destruction of evidence? Don’t hold your breath.
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What a shit state UK and Scottish politics are in. Arrogant, out of touch governments that have been in far too long without enough challenge. Change cannot cone fast enough.
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There we have it. Vote for the SNP and you elect an MP who will vote with the Tories to stop change. When people tell you who they are, believe them.
“We would make life very difficult for them”
Scottish FM Humza Yousaf says that if a minority Labour government didn’t support an independence referendum, his party could vote against their legislation or budgets
#BBCLauraK
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I have a new video for media training when I need to show an example of reframing in a desperate situation. Apparently, the police searching your party leader's house and party HQ shows the SNP are transparent. As if the searches were voluntary.
Kelly Given on SNP transparency👇 "We've had a forensic tent in the Ex First Minister's garden on full view for everyone. We've got people camping outside her house to seek to video her leaving her house. Like that is Transparency? What else can you possibly want?" 😜😂
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The Sunday Mail is becoming the place to be on a Saturday night.
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Here's the then SNP transport minister launching the ship with painted-on windows. We've paid £400M for two ferries that are worth £70M each & that are still not delivered despite being 5 years late. Why has there been no accountability? Because failure is rewarded by the SNP.
At Ferguson's for the launch of the Glen Sannox - real excitement and very proud that commercial shipbuilding on the Clyde alive and well!
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The SNP rising at PMQs every week now to attack Labour rather than challenge the government. They look more and more like the barrier to change rather than the offer of something different.
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Isn’t it weird that there’s such a lack of satirical voices taliing about Scottish politics?
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Funded places for Scottish universities to be cut
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As the SNP spend today trying to delegitimise their opponents (plus ça change!) remember they don’t really believe that the majority view - that referendums on dissolving a union should be occasional rather than regular - is illegitimate. It was Sturgeon’s position until she lost
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“We know that if Labour has a majority they ignore Scotland. They did that last time” says Humza Yousaf. The last time Labour had a majority the Scotland Act was passed within 2 months.
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After a recording was leaked to them last week, it seems the Sunday Mail now has video of Nicola Sturgeon intervening to shut down scrutiny of party finances. Their website will be worth a look tomorrow.
Tomorrow's Sunday Mail leads on police investigating Nicola Sturgeon over claims she personally refused to open up the SNP’s finances to scrutiny
#tomorrowspaperstoday
@sgfmann
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Imagine writing in the FT & not having the courage to mention you plan a decade of Sterlingisation, then a new currency. Or that your plan would create a hard border with our buggest market. Or that the fiscal hole you complain about is (proportionately) 3 x smaller than your own
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The SNP politicians engaging in dog whistles and disinformation around
@agcolehamilton
know this below is what he really said. They know this but stoke anger anyway. So what happens next? They get what they wanted. A thread on the anti-English pile on… 1/
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For a party that they said doesn’t exist, Scottish Labour had a hell of a result tonight.
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SNP members are deciding what went wrong in Rutherglen and there's a bit of a theme...
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Lots of good knock-about fun around the Lisa Cameron story but it is rooted in the lack of seriousness the SNP shows towards allegations of bad behaviour internally. Remember this started with Patrick Grady.
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Remember I offered to send the SNP leadership details of new members engaged in abusive, misogynistic or violent rhetoric online? They showed no interest. This was one of those members. As well as what is covered here, McLeary also posts about wanting to assault a “quisling”. 1/2
EXCLUSIVE: A businessman recruited to represent Scotland overseas is a Twitter troll who posts hateful abuse about politicians.
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The gear change from the lazy ‘stop talking Scotland down’ accusation to *actually* talking Scotland down is extraordinary here.
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Urgh to the sentiment. Urgh to MacDiarmid’s awful politics.
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If you had told Scottish Labour a month ago that Sturgeon, Swinney, Murrell, Lloyd, & Foote would all resign; that the gap with the SNP would be down to single digits; & that the leadership contest would be between their worst Minister and their most right wing…
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So I think the 'stop talking Scotland down' framing has well and truly jumped the shark after this one. Apparently, if you don't want your weans swimming in shite you're unpatriotic.
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The only reason I can think of for her refusing to answer this question is that she thinks she may have broken the law by deleting items and has been given legal advice not to admit it.
Nicola Sturgeon has refused to say whether she has deleted messages but has insisted she has "nothing to hide".
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Yousaf had a chance to signal to his members, who routinely label their opponents traitors, that such dangerous language has no place in our debate. He failed.
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Catching up with Question Time last night and Angela Constance argument that we always had poor educational performance in Scotland. Jaw dropping.
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Would love to see polling on the cut-through of the SNP police investigation. Been in two taxis today and both drivers were talking about it. Can’t repeat what they said or I’ll be up for contempt. 🚐
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Dear Lufthansa. Just be a wee bit careful before routing this aircraft into Glasgow.
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My essay in the Scottish Mail today. This week for Sturgeon was not about securing a vote to endorse progress by the nationalist cause - it was about the FM finding a way to excuse why, under her leadership, they haven’t advanced. Which makes her rhetoric even more irresponsible.
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Yougov poll. Yes 45 No 55. The SNP talking heads who have been saying Sturgeon took us closer to independence are operating on faith alone.
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