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Back to original account after a joust with a 'journalist'. Insults will be blocked. Guinness, Barsa, Buddies, SpVgg Fürth. My very wise wife knits socks.
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Jim Rogers, an American investor, says "what worries me as an outside inversor [...] without Scottish oil, if the Scots left, little England [...] or whatever we call it then, doesn't have much to sell to the outside world any more."
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Those few seconds spent listening to Andrew Nicoll of the Sun; the longest, most wasted seconds of anyone's life.
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Just watch Dr. Anthony Fauci's reaction to Trump disparaging the USA State Department. Standing behind Trump must be so difficult if you have integrity.
#DrFauci
#TrumpsAnIdiot
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How many thousands of pounds has the Gutter spent hounding Nicola Sturgeon 24/7 since the start of lockdown?
And the best that their £10,000s has got them is a photo of her taking her mask off at a funeral for a couple of minutes to chat to mourners over two metres away. Ghouls.
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Nicola Sturgeon at FMQs when Richard Leonard asks her to extend the ban on evictions by landlords...
"I have already extended the ban on evictions by 6 months. Richard Leonard really needs to keep up. I'm afraid I don't have the luxury of going at his pace."
😂😂😂
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Hands up if you'd like to see the end of the Windsor family's hold on power and dependency on public money when the reign of the current incumbent ends.
🤚
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@Munir566
"When I'm in Brazil, I speak Brazilian! OK!"
Yeah, right!
And, anyway, Brazilians speak Portuguese.
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#WhyBritsDontWantTrump
Trump is a stupid and dangerous man with an abhorrently racist world view. You don't give stupid racists invitations to meet your people or your Head of State. You ban them from entering your country.
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Devi Sridhar asks the question that those involved in the media attack on Jason Leitch must answer.
Given what you're doing to Professor Leitch and Nicola Sturgeon this time, who is going to come forward to do the daily briefings they did to keep folks alive in the next pandemic?
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Hands up if that droning tone of faux sincerity and bogus concern that Ruth Davidson adopts at FMQs gives you the dry boak, too.
🙌
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I've watched the UK news.
They're telling me I no longer want independence for Scotland and will vote Labour (or mibbes Tory) at the next election because a lady who had hypnotised me and 1,242,379 others has resigned.
They think it's all over.
It will be on Independence Day.
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Just saw Mogg telling the world that the British Army is being used by the Tories to bail out Scotland.
How do Scots soldiers take the news that they belong to England's Tories?
How do commanders feel about the Tories using the British Army for political purposes inside the UK?
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Dermot Murnaghan speaking about Prince Philip's funeral,
'The entire country will stop for a minute to pay tribute to the grandfather of the nation.'
No matter which country Dermot's talking about, I'll confidently guarantee that the *entire* country will not stop for a minute.
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BBC used old film to mention comments made by the First Minister in Glasgow yesterday.
They didn't broadcast film of the 20,000-strong rally at which Nicola Sturgeon made her comments.
This is suppression of news.
Propaganda by omission.
The people of the UK are being lied to.
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My seven-year-old grandson is watching the daily briefing with us.
The final question from the Herald's Tom Gordon acting like a dick and calling Scottish Government's hotel quarantine 'half-baked'.
Grandson: They're not even asking questions any more. They're just complaining.
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The cost of electricity for Spanish consumers is being reduced by 59% from today to its lowest price for three months.
A Spanish company 'Iberdrola' owns 'Scottish Power' in the UK.
Genuine Question: are Scottish Power customers' electricity bills also falling by 59% from today?
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With people, who genuinely want independence, now using Twitter to openly express virulent hatred of the FM and the SNP, call her and the SNP 'traitors' and 'frauds', you can't tell me that there have not been forces at work influencing Scottish public opinion on social media.
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@LinkedHD
@Lesleygsmith3
I'm in Scotland and I know that if I want to have truthful information about what is going on in, at least, one state in the USA, I listen to what
@NYGovCuomo
has to say.
If I want bad
#coronavirus
comedy, I listen to what the orange manbaby has to say.
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Just found out today that our wee SNP branch membership rose from 346 to 401 during March. There has been one resignation. That's a fairly positive balance.
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Votes cast in EU election 2019 compared to 2014
SNP votes
2019: 594,533
2014: 389,503
Difference = +205,030
53% increase on 2014
Labour votes
2019: 146,724
2014: 348,219
Difference = -199,465
57% decrease
Tory votes
2019: 182,476
2014: 231,330
Difference = -48,854
21% decrease
Ignore the SNP spin. The fact is that in a depressed turnout election, where they sunk a lot of effort Scotland-wide to get their vote out and saw their opponents struggling, they've gone nowhere from their 2017 GE result.
No-one has won from these elections that no-one wanted.
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How did Australia's Govt react to a variant of concern coming out of India. It stopped all flights immediately, meaning that even Australians in India couldn't come home. They didn't try to win a popularity contest. They tried to keep Australians alive.
Another
#EpicBorisFailure
.
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@Paricyte
I can say many nice things about the Welsh and Wales, the Irish and Northern Ireland, the English and England, the Scots and Scotland.
I've nothing nice to say about the political construct and system designed to keep these four nations subdued all for the good of a social elite.
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Anyone in Scotland intending to change their vote from SNP to Labour after today's corrupt, lying shenanigans by Starmer and Hoyle (and all the other Tories in Westminster) really needs to give their head a richt guid wobble.
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As all five of his five most recent tweets specifically target Jeanne Freeman, I invite people to report
@Jackson_Carlaw
to Twitter for that targetted harrassment.
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Who needs - really, really, really NEEDS - SNP votes to drop in the May election?
The UK Govt.
If votes cast for the SNP fall below 2016 levels, the UK will declare immediately that
#indyref2
is dead not just for a generation. Stone dead.
Their job will have been done.
SNP1&2
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The BBC's Andrew Kerr just conducted a 10-minute interview with
@Douglas4Moray
asking 7 questions.
He did not interrupt DRoss once; not even when he claimed to represent Scotland in conversations with the PM.
Our FM represents Scotland. It is she the PM should be talking with.
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Can anyone point me to a UK-wide newspaper headline about a Scottish Unionist politician saying anything positive about Scotland, life in Scotland or the people of Scotland?
I'll be waiting right here.
Thanks.
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Can I just say about todays march ?
A cannae be daein wi thae paltry Socialist Workers Party hijackers every 200 yards of the march getting folk to chant
"TORIES!"
"OUT!"
In Scotland, Tories AND Labour are the enemies of independence.
Let's hae
"Westminster!"
"Out!"
Jist me?
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Just checked for you, Laura.
There are enough unused characters in your tweet below to insert the following words at the beginning:
"Scottish First Minister Nicola..."
It's almost as if your disrespect as a BBC journalist is both personally and institutionally deliberate.
Sturgeon says R now is still too high to 'make any meaningful change' to lockdown measures this week.. even tho decisions haven't yet been taken formally, she says it's likely on Thursday, next review date, 'I'll be asking you to stick with lockdown'
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Do you think it might be beginning to dawn on the folk in
@BorisJohnson
's Downing Street 'Union Unit' that plastering Union Flags all over Scotland will not have the impact they're expecting?
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Hands up if you're fed up with Windsor Royals opening their mouths and not their wallets.
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In Manchester Airport yesterday, the foreign exchange bargain of the day just had to be the €.0.92 they were offering for £1. 😜😂
A currency that has gone below parity and a state that has gone beyond parody.
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Willie Rennie insists that the dissolution of the UK would be as messy as the Brexit process.
He is saying rUK will want to punish us when we vote for independence.
If, after 312 years, that's what they want to do to Scotland, it was always about domination never a friendship.
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So bloody pissed off that the media in Scotland - particularly
@BBCScotlandNews
- are so supine that they think their sole function is to regurgitate Gove's and Johnson's brazen lies verbatim and without challenge.
That's not holding power to account.
That's collaborating.
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We are the second richest oil-producing nation in Europe and some of our Councils can't afford to turn on their Christmas lights.
Meanwhile, here's Málaga's switch-on tonight.
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Overheard in a pub this afternoon...
"if Labour get in, Scotland's fucked."
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Hi,
@agcolehamilton
, can you also moan, groan and grump about the Tay Road Bridge, please?
It is constantly closing whenever there are high winds and severe weather.
It was built by the UK.
Thanks.
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I've been trying to figure something out in vain.
The SNP has won, on all democratic criteria, every election in Scotland since 2007.
The Tories have won nothing in Scotland since 1955.
Yet, the Tories claim they have a clear mandate to deny Scotland a
#indyref2
.
Go figure!
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I'm hearing a UK armed services Minister claiming that the UK has bombed targets in Yemen because UK and USA warships were attacked by Yemen last week.
Why didn't we hear about the alleged Yemeni attacks last week?
I don't believe a word of these justifications for our attacks.
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Arrived in Málaga tonight. 40 minutes to get through passport control.
Hundreds of passport holders from their 'third country status' third-rate state, the UK, queued while EU citizens were waved through in seconds.
This is how Boris Johnson demanded we Scots should be treated.
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If
@NicolaSturgeon
ventured into the politics of Scottish independence like
@MattHancock
just did after being invited to do so by a tame placeman (asking a question scripted in the Downing St "Save the Union" team office) she would be pilloried by the Unionists/journalists here.
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Captain Tom has become a propaganda tool of the Tory Government.
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Just watched
@XanderArmstrong
make a tasteless crack about
@NicolaSturgeon
approving of Putin's annexation of four regions of Ukraine.
It was jarring and worthy of an apology.
It wasn't funny.
#HIGNFY
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Hi, you guys
@BBCScotlandNews
! Just wondered if your lead story is Johnson's explicit threat to remove devolved responsibility for the NHS in Scotland from the Holyrood Government?
I know you'll agree, it's an absolutely dynamite story.
Well worth using to expose the Tory agenda.
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So, anyway, heading to Málaga Airport yesterday, we stopped off for breakfast at a café-restaurant just off the motorway.
Got into a conversation with the boy behind the bar.
"De dónde estás?"
"Escocia."
Weird scream followed by
"It's a braw, bricht moonlicht nicht the nicht!"
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We're at the Caird Hall in Dundee for our vaccinations. Not a soldier in sight.
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Hi,
@BBCScotlandNews
!
Is this a BBC correspondent (paid from the public purse) attempting to incite people to rebel against an elected government's legally implemented rules and laws?
Is this the BBC contributing to social cohesion as you are obliged to under your BBC charter?
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Grant Shapps is coming to Scotland tomorrow (invited here by
@AndrewBowie_MP
?) without doing the First Minister of Scotland the courtesy of discussing the matter with her.
Do Tories think they will win Scottish hearts and minds by ignoring our First Minister and elected
@scotgov
.
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Imagine this:
The
@scotgov
builds a huge building in Edinburgh city centre costing £millions.
It pays 100s of people £millions in salaries every year.
A FOI asks how many work in it + how much they cost.
@scotgov
claims it doesn't know.
@BBCScotland
says nothing.
Unlikely, eh?
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I've supported
#ScottishIndependence
for as long as I can remember and I'll support
#ScottishIndependence
till the day I die.
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Hi,
@Jackson_Carlaw
, what happened to your moral principle that said there can't be one law for the bosses and another law for the rest of us?
It looks like your principles disappear as quickly as your paintings.
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A temporary antidote to Johnson's brutality...
Feyernood fans invited children undergoing treatment for cancer to watch their League match against ADO Den Haag whose fans knew that the children would be seated in the stand below them at the stadium.
What they did is heartwarming.
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Nadine Dorries has
#coronavirus
.
Nadine Dorries spent time in meetings with Boris Johnson.
Boris Johnson spent time with his Tory Cabinet.
Boris Johnson spent time with the Queen.
The Queen spent time with the entire royal family.
Can you see where I'm going with this?
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A clip from this week's Private Eye:
The UK Labour Party in Wales increased rail fares by 5.9% in March 2023.
Scottish rail fares went up by 4.8% on 03 July 2023.
Is that a hint of what Labour's 'change is coming' slogan means?
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I get £760 per month from my UK state pension.
In a region of Andalucia today (Jaén), a local online newspaper reports that Jaén pensions are rising to €3174/£2737, the 4th lowest pension in Spain.
See those dire UK pensions that'll disappear after independence?
Bring it on!
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Did it make me a bad person if I admit that I don't really care about this any more.
I'd rather queue up at 1 border than at 27.
England is going to go its own mad way whatever we do.
Scotland will be far better off without all the mad Westminster-imposed hassle.
Would an independent Scotland face a hard border with England?
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@LinkedHD
@Lesleygsmith3
@NYGovCuomo
I should mention his brother
@ChrisCuomo
who is doing a sterling job, too, despite having succumbed to
#Covid_19
himself.
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Despite what the FM said to you,
@VivienneAitken
, your question was stupid.
I'm a father of 3. I'm not bothered at all that I won't be able to have a 'Father's Day pint' in a beer garden.
If I want to, I can, however, visit my children and have a beer with them in their gardens.
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Thou shalt never miss an episode of
#FMQs
lest you miss Jackson Carlaw having his arse kicked into touch by the holy mother of our cult.
#SNPcommandments
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Today, Lorna Finn, SNP National Secretary, skelpt every erse that wisnae in the room for the meeting she invited the candidates to attend 'on 28 February to discuss the operation of the election rules'.
They've been well tellt an well skelpt!
Now, can ye stop the shit-stirrin?
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Can anyone at
@BBCScotlandNews
or
@STVNews
explain why you thought what Grampa Broon had to say at Newcastle was worth covering in almost verbatim detail when neither of you reports a word of what the First Minister of Scotland says to INTERNATIONAL conferences across the world?
Former PM Gordon Brown says Scotland is at risk of becoming one of the West’s most divided countries with the issues of Brexit and independence polarising political debate. He's speaking at a conference in Newcastle looking at the UK’s constitutional future.
#bbcgms
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I've just read a few tweets by people who claim that anyone who tweets in support of Nicola Sturgeon must be getting paid for it.
If that's true, then my cheques must have been lost in the post.
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Still more members than all the other political parties in Scotland put together.
SNP membership stands now at almost 300% of the membership when Alex Salmond announced his resignation on 19 September 2014.
It seems that reports of the SNP's demise are greatly exaggerated.
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.
@NicolaSturgeon
's answers show that the fuckup called
@BorisJohnson
has not even had the good grace to inform Scotland's First Minister why he's travelling to Scotland, where in Scotland he's going to go and what he's going to do when he gets there.
What a bloody ignorant shite!
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The 🇬🇧 dam is bursting.
The 🇬🇧 Nationalists don't have a clue what to do with 🏴.
Dismissing 🏴 hasn't worked.
Denigrating Holyrood hasn't worked.
Mocking 🏴's First Minister hasn't worked.
Scaring 🏴 hasn't worked.
Whipping up English public sentiment against 🏴 hasn't worked.
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'The claim is wrong,' says No. 10.
They didn't say 'The PM wasn't in Perugia recently.'
They said, 'The claim is wrong.'
That could mean one detail of the claim is wrong; for example, that he arrived at 2pm.
So, if he arrived at 2:15pm, the claim is wrong.
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There's no deliberate attempt to be offensive in this graphic showing the First Minister gagged and almost hidden by the 'BBCNEWS' logo while the four London lackeys are shown full-faced and smiling triumphantly.
No hidden message just another
@BBCScotlandNews
cock-up.
Aye right.
Nicola Sturgeon has said Scotland will be at the "centre of international attention" in 2020 in her New Year message.
The first minister led Scotland's party leaders in issuing her hopes for 2020.
👇
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For those unionists who deny that Scotland is a nation yet claim Scotland's parliament is powerful, the Isle of Man is a nation with an independent parliament, full powers over immigration and taxation policies: all with a total population almost the same as Paisley's.
Too wee?
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It's time for a widespread, coordinated, open campaign of non-payment of the BBC Licence fee in Scotland.
If
@BBCScotland
refuses to broadcast the information Scottish people need to stay safe, why the hell should Scottish people pay them?
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Davidson on STV telling us the SNP got 'thumped in the election'. If the SNP with 35 seats got thumped, what happened to the Tories with 13?
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Who else is beginning to think that the
@BBCScotlandNews
,
@STVNews
and the other unionist news media will only be satisfied with a public flogging of Michael Matheson before they move in on their next SNP target?
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I've just watched two items on
@STVNews
.
1 People in Scotland booking a Covid19 test told to go hundreds of miles to get one.
2 Death of asylum seeker in Glasgow lying next to her hungry child.
No mention in either story that the problems stem from systems under UK control.
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The SNP now has more members than the entire UK Tory Party. In Scotland, it has more than 3 times the number of members of all the unionist Parties combined.
There's no appetite for independence or a second independence referendum.
Obviously.
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"William and Kate could spend more time in Scotland under plans 'to save the union'."
Listen up UK media folk!
They could move to live in Larkhall permanently, tattoo saltires on their nappers, eat haggis every morning and we'd still ignore them.
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I hope that this chancer, who's not a member of the SNP, lives to see a revitalised SNP go on to win another big majority of Scottish constituency seats in the next Westminster election.
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This concerted effort by senior Tories and their media pets across the UK to discredit the SNP (aided and abetted by many others) is a pre-emptive attack on the legitimacy of the next SNP Government (even if elected by an outright majority) to discredit any move for a referendum.
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Would it surprise my friends on this platform who live in England to hear that, with the UK General Election only months away, the UK Labour Party has not appointed a single candidate to contest any of the few seats currently held here by a Tory MP?
Cutting it a bit fine, eh?
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Picked up my usual copy of the Sunday Herald today and, for the first time ever, I put it back on the shelf.
The headline front page photo cropped to show apparently equal numbers of union flags and saltires at yesterday's march sickened me.
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"SNP must answer ‘legitimate and urgent’ questions on finances, says Ross."
The very last thing that
@Douglas4Moray
and the Kerrs, Annies and Murdos want is for all parties to be forced to be completely transparent about all of their funding inc. sources.
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Did the Queen head a royal 'charm offensive' to stop Jamaica, Kenya, Malawi, Cyprus, Uganda and 30+ others gaining independence since she became Queen?
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By all means, you should vote Labour if you want to *change* Scotland...
...into a country with
a privatised health service
expensive prescription costs
university tuition fees giving your children debts for life
no free school dinners
Keir Starmer making all our decisions
Labour shadow health secretary Wes Streeting has said he would “hold the door wide open” to the NHS for the private sector if his party was to win the general election
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My wife saw this in M&S in Broughty Ferry and sent me out a few minutes ago.
This is our answer!
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So, the Times and the Telgraoh are telling everyone that Kate Forbes is the 'favourite' to be Nicola's successor.
Does anyone else smell a UK media disinformation campaign?
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Watching
@itvnews
from England and I'm wondering, are there other countries whose news broadcasters trivialise getting out of a pandemic lockdown with some 130k dead by showing folk drinking beer at midnight with not a sign of a mask being worn or any level of social distancing.
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How will the
@ScotTories
spin a deal that permanently bans current exports of Scotland's seed potatoes to 27 European countries and directly attacks Scotland's rural economy?
Does anyone believe this would have happened to such a significant sector of England's farming community?
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If Alex Salmond genuinely endorses the SNP constituency vote, why are he and his associates lining up daily announcements of SNP defections?
How will that help the cause of the outright SNP majority that he claims to want to see happen?
Defections are designed to damage the SNP.
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Do you think any of the English players and supporters understand the irony of singing as their national anthem a song that isn't an English national anthem?
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@PaulBrandITV
Beaten by 27-year-old cancer survivor, Amy Callaghan, Jo Swinson is no tragic figure except, perhaps, in the sense that she has the 'tragic flaw' for a politician of being a fairly hopeless politician.
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STV reporter asks if secondary schools explaining to pupils how to wear a mask correctly isn't just going to add to teachers' workload?
WHIT!?🤦🏻♂️
My 7-year-old grandson's been wearing masks (Batman, Spidey, Star Wars) since he was 2. Never puts them on back to front/upside down.
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Sad wee George Galloway thinks his invasion of Scotland matters.
To anyone.
What. A. Choob.
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We can all sleep easily knowing Police Scotland have put senior detectives like Paul on the case.
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As there's now a 14-day quarantine for people travelling into Scotland from countries with lower R numbers than we have, shouldn't we be quarantining people travelling into Scotland from England with a higher R no..
We would be doing that if we were independent.
So, why not now?
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I think that's, at least, five times Nicola Sturgeon has, basically and clearly, said 'if we were an independent country, we could have done that already.'
And she has twice mentioned the number (50%) of Labour supporters now want independence.
Good to hear this at FMQs.
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@NicolaSturgeon
@scotgov
First Minister, you can outplay most in the game of politics but, in Whitehall and Westminster, you're facing one of Earth's most vindictive, manipulative state apparatuses.
They'll throw everything at you. I humbly suggest a pre-emptive strike before the next trap is sprung.
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