Lorna Slater
@lornaslater
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Scottish Greens MSP for Lothian Region | Co-leader Scottish Greens @scottishgreens | She/Her | 'anarchist advocate for communities' ♻️
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Wait until he finds out I've got views on civil rights, women's suffrage, the Highland clearances and imperial colonialism...
Lorna Slater was 15 and living in Canada when Thatcher left office.
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We. Need. Independence. 🏴
Tonight the Conservatives voted to raise taxes on the wages of the poor, not the wealth of the super-rich.
That tells you everything about who they really represent.
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Thank you so much 🙂🙂
My last ‘party politics aside’ comment of the election - genuinely pleased to see
@lornaslater
elected to
@ScotParl
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The Michael Gove interview on BBC this morning was pure comedy. He should definitely come to Alloa and walk through the streets and ask people what they think of him. 14/10 would bring popcorn 🍿
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I'm totally unclear why it's called radical to believe that we don't need billionaires, that we do need to prevent
#ClimateCatastrophe
& that people should be paid fairly for their work. I don't mind being called radical, I just don't think that these things are.
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Well, except people who could have taken a train, but decided to fly in a private jet to *the* conference on how we have to stop carbon emissions... FFS
Boris Johnson arrives at a
#COP26
by private jumbo jet ready to tackle other leaders on emissions.
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Thank you everyone! As the last MSP declared in all of Scotland yesterday, I was up past my bedtime and am now up very early to do morning tele, so thank yous and responses to your kind words of support will have to wait until I've had some sleep! I do appreciate all the support!
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Thank you everyone for your support. I'm so disappointed I didn't get to answer the question about trans healthcare (I'd like to see this fully integrated) and about the details of our plans to invest in the renewables sector - which I work in!
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I was delighted to be able to witness this family of beavers arrive at their new home in Loch Lomond National Nature Reserve. The habitat here is exactly right for beavers and I hope that they settle well into their new home 🦫💚
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This is a disgraceful attack on trans rights and democracy.🏳️⚧️
The UK Government has decided to block gender reform legislation in Scotland
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Surely if the PM was going to block
#indyref2
the
@ScotTories
wouldn't need to talk about it, at all really, & would have come to the election with some policies and a vision for Scotland? Why would they waste time campaigning for something they say can't happen. I don't get it.
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Enjoying living rent free in
@ScotTories
heads and how often Liz Smith shoehorned the word 'independence' into her speech.
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I would henceforth like to be known as 'The Green'. Will look into deed poll etc. ASAP.
Well. Nicola was fantastic. Ross absolutely awful, angry, obsessed and simply embarrassing. I think the public will tire of the Sarwar mock sincerity stuff quickly. Quite liked the Green. Absolutely no opinion on Wullie.
#BBCLeadersDebate
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Promoters of 'Devo max' options must know that the UK Government can't be trusted on devolution. The Internal Market Act undermines Scotland's devolved powers, including those we need to protect our environment; only independence will secure those powers for good.
#indyref2
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I had a positive Covid-19 test result. I feel very relieved to be double vaccinated and have only cold-like symptoms. I will be self-isolating following NHS advice.
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Hilarious way to refer to Scotland and the work of the Scottish Government. We're working hard to make life better for the people of Scotland. Free bus travel for young people is a great example of this. I'm proud to be part of the Government who delivered this for Scotland.
It's Scotland, isn't it? Go on - say "Scotland". I dare you.
The Daily Express - a source of endless amusement and irritation.
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This is exactly what I think.
I think Boris Johnson doesn't want a referendum because he knows he's going to lose"
@scottishgreens
@lornaslater
tells
@BBCNews
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Brexit has been a disaster. Next year's referendum will give us the opportunity to rejoin the EU as an independent member state. 🇪🇺
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Himself and I are out socialising later today, so we've done our lateral flow tests just to check before we head out. We'll take masks, wash our hands and keep our distance as well. The numbers are really scary everyone. Take care!
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See how cool the future can be? There's no need to go back to how things were, we can make things better.
🚄 Here is the German Greens’ plan for a night-train network across Europe
😴 Go to sleep in one country and wake up in another!
💚 Such an exciting vision of comfortable, romantic and *low-carbon* travel
#GreensMakeChange
h/t
@PGolka
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I have pronouns in my bio because mis-gendering someone is awkward AF and it is a little courtesy that I can provide, like saying 'please' and 'thank you', to help everyone get along confidently. You don't have to do it, but wouldn't it be a nicer world if everyone did?
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Nobody should be abused or harassed at work, just as nobody should have to put up with being constantly mis-gendered throughout a newspaper article.
@edinburghpaper
#IStandWithMeb
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This was simply disrespectful I have more than 20 years of experience in engineering including in marine renewable energy, an industry where Scotland is a world leader. If we're going to have a
#JustTransition
to a sustainable future, we need people like me in government.
@lornaslater
It's in the official report as part of Rachael Hamilton's speech: "I have been left to wonder when the Government will unveil the next minister for compost, country bumpkins and the winter solstice."
Apparently she doesn't think highly of tenants or biodiversity.
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Sorry team the mentions are going a bit nuts I'm not going to be able to reply or thank people properly. They are updating faster than I can scroll!!!!! 🏃♀️🏃♀️🏃♀️🏃♀️
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I feel so lucky to have been welcomed to Scotland and I love it when people call me a 'New Scot'. I'm very proud to call Scotland home.
On International
#MigrantsDay
we celebrate Scotland's long history of immigration and emigration.
We must continue to make Scotland an open, accepting and welcoming country that everyone can call home. 💚
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I think this is exciting. Scotland building our relationships with our European neighbours is a concrete step to re-joining the EU and becoming a normal, independent, small European country.
#indyref2
#ScotRef
EXCLUSIVE: A Scottish hub in the EU is being set up with a goal to take an independent Scotland into the bloc
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My extreme economic views are that work should pay a
#LivingWage
, we should transition to a low carbon economy in a fair way that leaves no one behind, and that there are enormous opportunities for Scotland ahead in renewable energy, upgrading homes, restoring nature and more.
Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross says the Greens have brought "extreme economic views" to the heart of government
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says Mr Ross must be "mortified" by the actions of his colleagues in the UK government
#FMQs
live:
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Wonderful news. Scotland will bring this in soon.
Self id is normal. NZ joins Ireland, Australia, Belgium, some Canadian provinces and others. Trans people deserve the same rights that everyone else has. All humans have the same human rights.
#TransAlly
🏳️⚧️
New Zealand unanimously passes gender self-ID law in historic move for trans rights
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About time. I'm glad we're bringing this in.
Private schools in Scotland set to lose lucrative tax break from next year, SNP/Green Government confirms
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People. These were people. Dead because of a lack of safe routes to the UK.
#RefugeesWelcome
At least 30 migrants have died while heading for the UK, after their boat sank, Head of Port of Calais Jean-Marc Puissesseau says
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Things you love to see! And we haven't even started campaigning yet!!
#GreenYes
BREAKING: Support for Scottish independence rises to 55%, according to new poll for
@STVNews
by
@IpsosMORIScot
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@lauratnelson
My husband once got torn into small pieces for saying he'd be along in a minute to help me with the house work. (for anyone who may be confused by this, I don't 'help him' to pay the bills, I pay *my fair share* of *our* bills)
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Nothing gender critical people say will convince me that the trans people who I know and love are a danger to me or my rights, but I'm 100% convinced that the GCs are a danger to my trans friends and colleagues. So there we are.
#transally
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Finally on my way to
#COP26
#COP26Glasgow
to talk about how we need to reduce consumption to create a
#CircularEconomy
and how we can support the Green Skills we need for a
#JustTransition
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Scotland already has baby boxes, free prescriptions, free school meals, & free social care. We'll shortly get free bus travel for young people & all this other good stuff.
Gradually making Scotland a better and fairer place to live. Proud to live here.🏴
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Here we are!
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That's us, mad, bad and dangerous to know.
To be fair "Greens quite reasonable and very caring" probably wouldn't sell many papers.
Tories: the greens are dangerous
Greens: people should have a home and food.
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The UK is a climate disaster. Scotland could do so much better as an independent country. The Scottish Government knows that demand for aviation must decline to meet our climate targets. That the
@Conservatives
would do this the week before
#COP26
shows how out of touch they are.
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I will henceforth no longer be known as
🟩The Green🟩 but as 💃That Lady 💃
Please do not reveal my real identity to anyone. 🥸🥸🥸🥸🥸
Salmond on
#GMS
claiming "that lady from the Greens" didn't mention independence in the debate.
She did, and she's called
@lornagreens
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Absolutely all of this.
Lorna Slater said that Scotland is 'embarrassed all the time' being represented by Boris Johnson
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They don't want another referendum because they know they'll lose.
#channel4debate
#c4debate
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Actually I said, "When you're talking with the UK later today make sure we get the investment we need to build new industries and create new jobs" and "When can we have a national energy company to support those industries?" but you do you.
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Nobody should be told that they are broken or that they need to be fixed. Conversion Therapy is abuse. It is time to end it for good.🏳️⚧️🌈
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One of the best things we can do for small businesses is to make sure that big businesses pay fair taxes and fair wages.
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Immigrants are welcome here. I love you Scotland. 💚💚💚💚💚
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I am genuinely honoured and humbled by this. Politics is hard work and it is vital, important work, but it can still be loving, nurturing, fun and funny. Let's keep our humour and keep up the hard work.
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Stage 1 of the GRA reform bill today. A really important day for equality and human rights in Scotland.
@scottishgreens
are proud to stand for trans rights.
🏳️⚧️ Trans rights are human rights.🏳️⚧️
Thank you
@MaggieChapman
for all your work on this as our equalities spokesperson.
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I'm having vague flashbacks of a shouty man who felt that the only thing more important than the constitution, was giving more tax payer's money to oil and gas companies.
That doesn't seem like very good policy.
#bbcleadersdebate
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Oh look young people of the UK. The
@Conservatives
have just taken away your freedom of movement. No longer do you have the right to live, work and study without restrictions in any of 27 countries. Your world just got smaller and less interesting, your future a bit more bleak.
After many years of campaigning, I am delighted the Immigration Bill which will end free movement on 31st December has today passed through Parliament.
We are delivering on the will of the British people.
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This is a lovely photo and it was a very well organised event. Thank you to all the staff working behind the scenes to make it so!
Delighted to attend Bute House today with
@lornaslater
to announce the cooperation agreement between
@scottishgreens
and
@scotgov
. This begins a week of discussion for our party members, before they decide if we'll take this historic step, bringing Greens into government.
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The Tories are climate criminals, plain and simple.
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I can't tell if he's saying this because he hasn't read our manifesto, or because he has. In anycase, you can read it here
"Scratch under the surface of the Scottish Green Party and you find not a cuddly group of promoters of cycling, recycling and protecting wildlife, but a group of hard-left extremists," writes Murdo Fraser.
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Thank you to all the members of the
@scottishgreens
for engaging in our party's democratic process and debate. Today was an extraordinary day, Greens will be in government for the first time in the UK. I'm looking forward to getting to work.
Today the Scottish Greens made an historic decision.
We will enter government for the first time ever, after an overwhelming vote in favour of the cooperation agreement with the SNP Government.
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This is what we want to see in politics. Parties rolling up their sleeves and getting to work on the big problems that face us, not just screaming playground insults and negativity at each other across the debating chamber.
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Scotland can do so much better than Liz Truss and Jacob Rees-Mogg. It's time for independence.
As we approach Friday's emergency budget, this is who Liz Truss has been putting in charge of the UK government.
Scotland didn't vote for this.
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Quite a lot of water under the bridge since then. If we believe in governing by consent, we should see if people have changed their minds. Surely if the union is so wonderful, you'd look forward to campaigning for it? This position just looks like you're afraid you'll lose.
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New bio unlocked🏆
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Absolutely. There is no shortage of money. We've been letting the world's rich rob us blind while children go hungry, the sick go untreated and those who need care don't get it.
When you hear people claim that there is no magic money tree" what they really mean is that they lack the will to deal with this totally immoral plunder of our common wealth.
The amount of money hoarded offshore is almost unimaginable:
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Reverse vending machines for drinks containers installed and ready to go at
@AldiUK
in Bathgate!
Businesses have made investments and and built infrastructure - we now need the UK Government to issue an exemption to the Internal Market Act for our new launch date in March. ♻️
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Independence is our only route back to the
#EU
; back to the opportunities & connections that the EU offers: collaboration on science & climate, the chance to travel, study, live & work in 27 nations without limits.
We lost so much to
#BrexitDisaster
#Brexit
There is "no case for rejoining" the European Union, Keir Starmer has declared.
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Homophobia and transphobia are not welcome in the Scotland I want to build.
Nor are racism, sexism, Islamaphobia or ableism. Radical equality and inclusion AKA treat everyone as you yourself would wish to be treated.
Today a Scottish parliamentary candidate stated that we are campaigning to lower the age of consent. This is categorically untrue. Such claims are dangerous and irresponsible and we would urge those making or sharing these claims to stop.
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Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak aren't offering change. They are offering more of the same cruel cuts, racist deportations and contempt for Scotland's democracy. With the powers of independence we can build a fairer, greener and better future.
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Thank you to the excellent BSL interpreters. It is the first time that I've worked with live interpreters and I hope that I spoke at a pace that worked for signing.
.
@scottishgreens
co-leader
@lornaslater
says the
#COP26
conference in Glasgow puts Scotland in a position to show "real leadership" on climate
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It seems that my visit to Rum has attracted a lot of attention. 👀
It was a great visit and over the course of the day I managed to meet every (adult) resident present on this beautiful island today. 🧵
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With Scottish Greens in government we are building a fairer, greener and better future for Scotland.
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Last May the people of Scotland elected a pro-independence majority. They gave us a clear mandate to hold a referendum on Scotland's future.
With the powers of independence we can move on from Liz Truss and Boris Johnson, and build a fairer, greener future.
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Love twitter because I can block all the mean and unkind people and only see the lovely ones.
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Douglas Lumsden helpfully reminding us that there is
@ScotTories
@ScottishLabour
coalition running Aberdeen Council. It isn't something those parties talk enough about really. They should mention it more.
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The
@Conservatives
doing American style vote suppression. Dismantling democracy to keep themselves in power.
Without proportional representation it's practically impossible to get rid of them. I'm glad Scotland has a more functional democracy but we need independence as well.
A Cabinet Office impact assessment has come to light that includes estimates that Voter ID will cost between £65m and £180m over the next 10 years, with a “central estimate” of £120m.
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The Deposit Return Scheme will mean cleaner streets and communities. ♻️🚮
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Picking up litter today as part of the
#GreatBritishBeachClean
♻️ I found a lot of bottles and cans like this one 👇
If only we had a
#DepositReturnScheme
to prevent this environmental damage 👀
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I would look smoking hot in a bow tie and bowler hat. Dontcha think 😉
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Cis is a way to indicate that your gender identity matches that which you were assigned at birth, an, occasionally useful, distinction which I'm happy to use to describe myself. Of course, as I believe trans women to be women, when I say women as a general term I include trans.
An MSP just tried to effectively ban the word cisgender from Parliament. I know & respect that some people don't accept it or identify with it, and I used it yesterday in a way which positively reflected that. But many do identify with it, and that should be respected too.
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This is the coolest summer of the rest of your life.
Which is why we need global urgent action on the
#ClimateEmergency
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Well done Glasgow!!! Looking out for each other.
Two men saved from deportation today by the determination of their neighbours. People make Glasgow.
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It shouldn't be up to women to have to protect ourselves from the police.
Met Police issues advice to women to ‘shout or wave a bus down’ if they don’t trust a male officer
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Welcome to
#Scotland
to everyone arriving for
#COP26
#COP26Glasgow
In case you don't make it over to Edinburgh, I thought I'd share one of our city's most famous views with you. 🤣🤣🚿💧
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LOL. So fessing up that I googled myself. I see that the related searches are these. To which the answers are:
@yesthatgordon
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Not yet. Working on it.
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I feel like
@GOVUK
@ScotTories
@Conservatives
haven't really understood the
#ClimateEmergency
its causes or what's needed to prevent
#ClimateCatastrophe
Mind you
@Keir_Starmer
likes a plane ride when a train would do the job as well. I despair of the UK. I really do.
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Liz Truss isn't only disrespecting the First Minister, she is showing contempt for our Parliament and for everyone who voted for a pro-independence majority last May.
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I am so sad for the racism that Humza and his family are experiencing. We can do better Scotland. No place for racism!
#antiracism
🧵Not a step my wife & I have taken lightly. After our nursery application for our daughter was refused a 2nd time, my wife asked her White Scottish friend to put in an application for a Child the same age. Within 24hrs of refusing our application my wife's friend's was accepted.
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This is the opposite direction of where we want to get! A 4 day working week for a living wage is what we should be aiming for. The future can be brilliant, we just have to decide to make it so! We can build a better future for young people and all workers.
Here's the Tory Secretary of State for Work saying that taking £1000 a year away from the poorest families will be help them, and they should just work harder. Unbelievably callous and out of touch.
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Trans rights are human rights. By passing Gender Recognition Reform, our Parliament took an important step towards a more equal Scotland. 🏳️⚧️💚
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Abolish the racist cruel Home Office. I love you Glasgow!💚💚💚
"I’m proud that my constituents, taking a stand for their neighbours, sent the Home Office packing.
We will always be ready, and we must always resist." ✊ -
@jonmolyneuxSGP
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Congratulations and best wishes to my Lothian colleague
@AlisonJohnstone
on her first day of her new job as Presiding Officer for the Scottish Parliament.
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As an independent nation, Scotland can build a fairer and better future at the heart of Europe.
That's why I'm so proud to be joining Humza Yousaf, Brian Cox, and many more incredible speakers for a march for an independent Scotland in the European Union.
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This was the best thing about my first week in parliament, hearing and seeing all the different languages and diversity we have. This just makes me so proud. The more our parliament looks like Scotland the better policy and law we can create.
Arabic, British Sign Language, Canadian French, Doric, English, Gaelic, German, Orcadian, Punjabi, Scots, Urdu, Welsh and Zimbabwean Shona... Fun day at the swearing-in ceremony at the Scottish Parliament!
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I've spoken publicly about how the Oil and Gas lobby were among the first people to approach me and ask for a meeting after I was elected. I listened to their pitch and set them straight: to meet our climate targets oil and gas have to be phased out as part of a
#JustTransition
Scottish Government Greens minister Lorna Slater slags off Scottish Labour's leader for having a meeting with industry body Oil & Gas UK.
Ms Slater had a meeting with Oil & Gas UK in July.
You couldn't make this stuff up.
Lobbying register entry:
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For those who haven't *actually* read our manifesto, I provide this helpful simplified graphic. If you can read, the rest is here
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