RT @unisontheunion: 📢🏛️ "Care workers look after our loved ones every day. Taking care of carers means taking care of everyone." Outside N…

Today Strike Map joined the @the_IWU picket line outside Leinster House, Dublin. Healthcare Assistants are on strike for pay parity. Equal pay for equal work. End trade union victimisation.

Hannah Spencer "Running a plumbing business I was well used to dirty grubbiness and there is still plenty of that dirty grubbiness behind me." Hannah sneaks in a shot at Reform. 🤣

This is possibly the saddest thing I've seen in a long time..an immigrant nurse talking about fleeing her home..she saved her UNIFORM. So she could still WORK for our communities. I'd fill this country with a thousand of this woman than one of those good for nothing thugs. God help this poor woman.

There seems a fashion on the right of politics to say repealing the Equality Act would be a good thing. They don’t say what precise consequences would flow or what they intend to do to prevent adverse consequences. Why then do people mindless cheer on such superficial thinking?

If a party cannot be trusted to be honest and transparent with its own funds and members. What makes people think they can be trusted when elected to political office? Why was Nicola Sturgeon trying to shut down questions about the finances? Why did John Swinney try to cover up the real reason Peter Murrell was lending money to the party? How did no one at the SNP HQ notice anything? Why did Peter Murrell, Ian McCann and Kirsten Oswald fail to answer my emails? How was Peter Murrell able to hide the ownership of a villa in Portugal and get legal aid?

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.

No one should be making profits from children in need of support. There needs to be an end to profiteering in social care accross the board. weownit.org.uk/act-now/no-pr…

"A complaint has been lodged with the BBC after James Cook claimed the SNP's auditors resigning was a warning sign that there was something awry with the party's finances. Auditors confirmed the resignation had nothing to do with the party's finances or police probe." MSM Monitor

Wings Over Scotland has this morning sent the following further letters to Police Scotland and the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service. wingsoverscotland.com/in-pur…

Allegations of cash for seats coming on top of serious questions for the Crown & the Police make it increasingly likely there will be a Westminster inquiry. Scottish public life will be fixed from above unless the Scottish Government has the guts to set up an independent inquiry.

If ALL spending by the SNP is for general independence-pursuing purposes, in what sense was the fundraiser money "ring-fenced"? In what way did it differ from the party's everyday money? If what Swinney says here is true, the fundraiser CAN ONLY have been a deliberate fraud.

Another scandal for the SNP to look forward to: “Salmond case will proceed before the end of this year and that the person pursuing it has told everyone that there is no circumstances in which he will agree to an out of court settlement.” Robin McAlpine robinmcalpine.org/clearly-ou…

Should Nigel Farage be arrested for inciting riots? Like - Yes RT - Instantly

This was certainly not my experience or indeed that of others when we asked legitimate questions about the governance of the Party and its financial affairs and I would be happy to give evidence on oath to this effect.

An excellent summary of the grassroots rebellion that took place in the SNP in 2020 & how it was ruthlessly crushed by the very people who are now claiming to have no idea that anything was wrong with SNP finances. In a healthy democracy their behaviour should have consequences.

There’s always a tweet. I look forward to the day when Mr Colquhoun and other SNP HQ staff will be called upon to give evidence about this and other matters.

Don’t be fooled. Nicola Sturgeon (wife) is not being held responsible for her husband’s crimes. As leader of the party she is being called to account for her deliberate frustration of the legitimate scrutiny which might have revealed those crimes. The distinction is 💯 clear.

One from the archives. "I guess it's because Satan was unavailable"

Top of the to-do list for the Tony Blair Institute's biggest funder, Larry Ellison? That would be, um, AI, attack net zero, get closer to Trump... theguardian.com/politics/202…