SNP councillor for Montrose at Angus Council. Opposition Leader. Promoted by Bill Duff c/o SNP 3 Jackson’s Entry, Edinburgh EH8 8PJ
Joined March 2011
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Production Management philosophy.
You will always find people who will tell you why you can’t do something. Safety, weather conditions not right, there is a d in the day of the week...
The trick is to know which corners to cut. Otherwise nothing happens.
Now Scottish Indy?
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Scots are a people with the inherent and inalienable right of self-determination under the UN Charter. We have a right to national Independence
It is impossible to believe both that Scots have a right to self determination, and that Independence requires permission from London
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Who is smarter Ryan Stevenson or Tony Bloom /James Anderson?
🗣️ 'Embarrassing Hearts are sleepwalking towards disaster. They're turning into a feeder club... I'm livid'
Ryan Stevenson isn't holding back in his 𝙍𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙧𝙙 𝙎𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙩 column this morning! ✍️
dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/foot…
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This man is desperate to get the keys to No. 10.
But did you know about the secret connection between Andy Burnham and a weapons company complicit in air strikes in Gaza?
This is the scandal Burnham does NOT want voters to know about…🧵
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EPSTEIN BLACKMAIL: ‘Netanyahu will SABOTAGE a US-Iran deal by releasing the most DAMAGING Epstein files.’
—Former Israeli Intelligence Officer Ari Ben-Menashe on Going Underground in 2025
Not only is Netanyahu attempting to sabotage the US-Iran peace deal by claiming the agreement will not stop Israel from bombing Lebanon…
Donald Trump runs the risk of Netanyahu ordering Mossad to release the worst horrors of the Epstein Files which implicate him.
Prof. Steve Keen: ‘Trump went to war with Iran because of EPSTEIN/MOSSAD BLACKMAIL and lack of knowledge of the disastrous consequences.’
‘You always have specialists working in places like the CIA who research things like the military structure of Iran and would have known that it broke itself into a 31-headed Hydra to handle a decapitation attack.
But you get to the top levels, people like Hegseth and Trump, whose advisors are a bunch of yes-men. The information that the intelligence workers at the lower levels of the system get does not get through at all.
So they go and bomb Iran without realising that 30% of the world’s fertiliser passes through that strait. They bomb it without realising that Iran was prepared to block the strait.
And of course, since it’s only 21 miles wide, it’s extremely easy to block the flow of resources through that channel.
The people who make the decision to go to war lack the knowledge to know that the war shouldn’t be fought in the first instance. I think that’s partly why it happened.
Otherwise, I can only think of the whole Epstein argument: whether it’s Epstein directly, or whether Mossad through Epstein has got dirt on all these political figures and they’re toeing the line to avoid having compromising information published about them in the media, which would undermine and destroy their credibility and possibly get them arrested.
That’s about the only reason I can think of for why so many governments support the war while the public are opposed to it.
And of course, the governments are supporting Israel when the public now seems to be majority in favour of the Palestinians.’
—@ProfSteveKeen discusses the economic damage from the US-Israeli war on Iran on the latest episode of Going Underground
Watch the full interview in the quoted post below👇
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Today’s ruling to uphold the UK government's proscription of Palestine Action is a travesty of justice.
One by one, the very foundations of our democracy are being destroyed — all to oil the wheels of British complicity in genocide.
Our government has participated in the mass murder of Palestinians. That is the real crime, and we must bring about justice.
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Marcelo Bielsa refused to do any acting during the official World Cup photoshoot.
The Uruguayan 🇺🇾 coach has repeatedly denounced the tournament in the United States, criticizing its commercial and political excesses.
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Today, Israel's Defense Minister announced Israel will not withdraw from land it seized in Lebanon, Syria, or Gaza. Is anyone surprised?
In Lebanon alone, Israel now occupies 770 square miles of territory. Nearly one-fifth of the country. They pushed the border 6 miles north and kept going.
There is a law against this. A clear one.
UN Security Council Resolution 242 states explicitly that territory cannot be acquired by force. It was passed unanimously in 1967 because of Israel. Israel had just seized the West Bank, Gaza, the Sinai, and the Golan Heights in the Six Day War.
The resolution written to stop Israel from keeping land it took by force is now being violated by Israel keeping land it took by force.
Israel is a member of the United Nations. It is bound by Resolution 242. It is bound by Article 2(4) of the UN Charter, which prohibits the use of force against the territorial integrity of any state.
This isn't complicated. The law exists. Violation is clear. And the country providing Israel diplomatic cover at the UN, the country that has vetoed more Security Council resolutions on Israeli conduct than any other, is the United States.
The past just keeps repeating itself, and we're the ones that keep making it possible.
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I'm still very confused
What was the point of the war in Iran??
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Trump's Iran war is one of the greatest strategic blunders in US history.
Analysis from Sky's @DominicWaghorn ⬇️ trib.al/kynBtBk
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I do not know how this isn’t a major story across Scotland.
As far as I can see the National and the Scotsman are the only ones willing to report on it.
Clearly the Sun is more focused on Nicola Sturgeon’s Pizza, the Times criticising John Swinney in the USA and the Daily Mail is obsessing over MSPs genitalia to care about the Scottish economy
Scotland’s wind farms will pay £1 billion to connect to the UK grid.
Meanwhile, projects elsewhere in the UK will be paid to connect.
Scotland generates the energy. Scots should see the benefit.
ALT Graphic showing a wind turbine against a blue sky. Large text reads: “Scotland’s wind farms will pay £1 billion to use the UK grid.” Additional text reads: “While projects in the rest of the UK will be paid to connect.” The graphic highlights concerns about how electricity grid connection charges are applied, contrasting costs faced by Scottish renewable energy projects with incentives available elsewhere in the UK. SNP “It’s Scotland’s Energy” branding appears at the bottom.
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The BBC is at it again.
Dahiye is not simply “where Hezb0llah is based.” It is home to 500,000–800,000 people. It’s where families live, where friends meet in cafés and restaurants, where people work, shop, study, and build their lives.
The choice of language is deliberate, dehumanising an entire community to justify I$raeli attacks on civilians.
Shameful
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Jun 15
The UK Joins the Pirates - I was genuinely surprised by the Starmer regime's refusal to state that the Israeli boarding of the Global Sumud flotilla on the High Seas was illegal. I did not realise it was because the UK was planning to undertake similar craigmurray.org.uk/archives/…
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‘Brexit was a con, and those who sold it are guilty of a heinous crime’ – Michael Heseltine
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I once asked Henry Kissinger after a press conference what a superpower should do to avoid looking weak. ‘Don’t start a war,’ he said. He meant Vietnam, but it seems particularly relevant now.
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RT @richimedhurst: Iran's football team must enter and leave the US on the same day of any matches. Political, disruptive for the players,…
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170 schoolgirls were slaughtered in Iran.
By America. By Israel.
For NOTHING
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Among much utter mince uttered by the English Court of Appeal today.
Lady Chief Justice Carr said that the suffragettes were non-violent and did not plan any actions in secret.
Which is so ignorant of history I don't know where to start...
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A brilliant pertinent post Ron, Labour are swimming in Israeli money, there is little doubt that both the Israeli's & Labour collaborated to interfere in Scottish democracy.
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The successful Davidson you said
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The Conservatives took a national debt at 62% in 2010 and left it at 94% of GDP in 2024.
They have no right to challenge anyone on economics.
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