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18 Aug 2021
Q:what's the difference between Scientists and #Socialists?
A:Scientists experiment on mice first.
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Three charlatans without an original idea between them demonstrating all that is wrong with contemporary Scotland. - Edinburgh book festival: Nicola Sturgeon, Liz Lloyd and Q Manivannan to appear heraldscotland.com/news/2619…
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Hydration break
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Jun 16
An absolutely damning piece by former SNP MSP Dorothy-Grace Elder. I’ll say it again, soft spoken Swinney is NOT a good man …
“The stench engulfing nation is sickening - Holyrood needs protection from scandal” thescottishsun.co.uk/news/16…
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Jun 16
🔥 This exchange at the #SalmondInquiry between Birthday Boy Murrell and soon to be Justice Minister Constance is truly staggering given what we now know. 🚨🚨 #SalmondInquiry
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Ross Greer says quite clearly the public don’t have confidence in our politics so why then has he fixed it so his pals won’t be subjected to an inquiry with the power to compel witnesses or documents? Why does he fear effective scrutiny?
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How many more solicitors are out there, who have been spoken to by Peter Murrell, requesting they 'ONLY DEAL WITH HIM' and not with the treasurer??
@WingsScotland
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Jun 11
Stay there.
Jun 11
And so the journey to Boston begins… come on Scotland!
ALT Photo from the airplane window of the rainy tarmac at Edinburgh Airport
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Just in case anyone wondered how the SNP are filling the seats of MPs who jumped to Holyrood.
Local? No mention of Scotland for over a decade on her public CV
Local branch or issues campaigner? No, understandably since study and work all in England.
Baffling really.
Jun 8
Pyla Lara Bird-Leakey has a Master of Laws from LSE, is currently working on a Ph.D. at Kings College, London and has a scholarship in the Middle Temple as a trainee barrister. She works as a Senior Policy Advisor and Researcher in Foreign Affairs and Defence at Westminster and has served as a parliamentary staffer and researcher for Kirsty Blackman and Brendan O'Hara.
She is also on the executive committee of the “Balfour Project”, an organization that “educates on the UK's historic and current role in the Middle East” and has previously worked with the Britain Palestine Project.
In short, she's another political and Third Sector careerist with zero apparent interest in representing a Scottish constituency or dealing with day to day Scottish constituency problems. All her professional and academic links appear to be London-centric and she is, predictably, another British politician more interested in Gaza than Britain. The last person that Arbroath needs as a represntative.
It's also revealing that, on her university records, when writing for policy groups and for her work with the Britain Palestine Project and Balfour Project, she has been credited as Pyla Bird-Leakey but, when slumming it among the plebs in Arbroath, she's mysteriously become Lara Bird, which is incredibly condescending.
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Jun 10
🚨 Scottish Nasty Party👉 "Laughing at one of your former colleagues who was bullied and intimidated" @joannaccherry
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Of course they will. The fix is in from Ross Greer but unfortunately for him he misled parliament when he implied the amendment had the support of @ProfJMitchell. But that won’t stop the sheep from voting for it.
MSPs currently debating Scottish Labour’s motion to hold a parliamentary inquiry into implications and lessons to be learned following Op Branchform & Murrell conviction.
Greens want inquiry to be independent & apply to all parties - the FM says SNP will support that amendment.
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Jun 9
So much for Ross Greer as a political radical. His refusal to back calls for an inquiry into the Murrell scandal exposes the Scottish Green chief as the political fraud he is. My @MailOnlineScot column on Holyrood’s papier-mache Mandelson: dailymail.com/news/article-1…
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Jun 10
John spreads division again.
Jun 10
The scenes we saw in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Ayr last night are unacceptable.
Scotland is a welcoming nation and those who choose to make their lives here are valued members of our communities.
Racism, hatred and intimidation have no place in Scotland. We must stand against it.
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Jun 10
I witnessed last night's rally in Ayr in support of the poor Belfast laddie. It was well attended by decent folk who behaved impeccably and disbursed quietly. You owe the people of Ayr an apology.
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Jun 9
A peaceful protest in Ayr this evening. Much anger for obvious reasons, but otherwise good natured.
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Jun 9
Isn't the comment below spot on?
"I for one would like to see Dorothy Bain, the Lord Advocate and head of the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS), interviewed under oath for
(a) deciding against charging Nicola Sturgeon, despite allegedly the police having every expectation she would be charged based on the evidence gathered
(b) deciding against charging Colin Beattie (the weaver), the SNP treasurer during much of this time
(c) deciding to focus on the Murrell embezzlement case, rather than also pursue the SNP’s illegal use of the money in the ring-fenced referendum fund
(d) taking an inordinate length of time to arrive at their decisions
(e) allowing Peter Murrell’s court case to be delayed until after the Holyrood election
(f) briefing John Swinney as Operation Branchform proceeded
If it looks like a duck etc......"
Reform of the Lord Advocate role can’t come soon enough if we want faith restored in Scotland’s prosecution service.
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🧵This, from Robin McAlpine, sums up the current position of the SNP very well & also lays out legitimate concerns about Crown Office. “A political party in this country has allowed its Chief Exec to steal money, it bullied & forced out whistleblowers…1/3 robinmcalpine.org/if-the-snp…
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Right let’s line up them up:
Pat Nevin
Tony Bloom
Tom English
And the rest of the pearl-clutching hand wringers
An actual assault on a football pitch by an invading fan. Let’s get the articles written, the phone lines open. Treat it with the same outrage you had for Celtic
Rangers fan in court charged with 'attack on Celtic coach' on Ibrox pitch thescottishsun.co.uk/sport/1…
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Jun 9
Well take that on the chin from a lot of team’s fans - but not those of the 3rd best team in Scotland
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Just re-upping this after listening Ross Greer on Radio Scotland. He showed remarkably little concern for Scottish Green Party members who may have contributed to the ‘ring-fenced’ indyref fund. His ‘independent review’ would not have power to compel witnesses or other evidence.
Easy to understand why the Scottish Greens wouldn’t want any inquiry into political parties given the appalling way they have treated many feminist & LGB members & Andy Wightman not to mention the murky goings on in their selection processes. Nothing to see here folks.
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Jun 7
The headline below does not name Airdrie and Shotts.
But it does make @theSNP’s history of candidate-selection rows look even more deserving of scrutiny.
In Airdrie and Shotts, Cllr Paul Di Mascio reportedly believed local SNP members would have backed him. Instead, he says he was put through a process involving Kirsten “Everest” Oswald, told he had failed and Anum Qaisar - daughter of a millionaire businessman - was selected, later becoming MP.
Di Mascio alleged the process reflected influence from Peter Murrell and Nicola Sturgeon. The SNP said Qaisar was selected by a ballot of members.
Fine. Then let’s see the process, the scoring, the minutes and the decision-making.
What I do not understand is why @JohnSwinney, supposedly trying to restore trust, has promoted Oswald when her name has also been linked to complaints about NEC scrutiny, finance questions and party governance.
Maybe it is all coincidence.
Maybe every uncomfortable question around SNP democracy just happens to pass the same desk.
But Scotland is entitled to ask why someone so close to so many disputed internal processes has been rewarded with ministerial office rather than subjected to proper scrutiny.
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