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MP Staffer πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ | Ex SNP MSP Staffer 🏴󠁧󠁒󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Glasgow via London
Joined January 2024
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@JoeMcGurk94
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2 months
Ten months on and the need for young conservatives is more important than ever on #GE24 My first article for @1828uk below πŸ‘‡πŸΌ
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@ScotNational This is a parody right? He interrupted and shouted down every panel member and once done, sneered. It was an appalling and condescending appearance. #bbcqt
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β€œOne ticket to Partick please @ScotRail β€πŸ• #DogsOnTrains
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@joshcharles_21 That is honestly how I felt when Big died and being saved from Carrie.
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Nala’s end of day @StarbucksUK . πŸ«ΆπŸΌπŸ’š
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John Swinney confirms he is both standing as SNP leader and First Minister but will also lead the party beyond the 2026 Scottish Parliament elections and that he β€œis no interim leader or caretaker” and also said he wants Kate Forbes as part of his team.
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Wes Streeting bumbling and faffing over his immigration answer is a CLEAR fact the Labour have no policy or position on legal or illegal immigration and how the UK reduces it. Clear as day. #bbcqt
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It’s a brass neck that Humza Yousaf couldn’t say brass plaque… #FMQs #FMQ
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2 months
Excellent first episode of @popconuk ’s PopConversations with @MarkJLittlewood & Rt Hon @SuellaBraverman ! Insightful conversations & over 95 questions covering: The Rwanda Bill The ECHR Brussels Conservatism Conference Defence spending Anti-Semitism MetPolice Chief, Mark Rowley
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2 months
Very much looking forward to the first @popconuk episode of PopConversations with @SuellaBraverman and @MarkJLittlewood tonight! πŸ™ŒπŸΌπŸ‡¬πŸ‡§
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Is SNP MP Stephen Flynn the most pretentious and condescending politician of the 2019 intake? #bbcqt
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LOREEN. That’s the artist. She should be far bigger than what she is because she is such a talent! #Eurovision #Eurovision2024 #eurovision24
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Rishi Sunak at the Policy Exchange this morning: β€œNo principles. Keir Starmer has gone in four years from embracing Jeremy Corbyn to Natalie Elphicke. β€œThey have just one thing, a calculation that they make you feel so bad about your country that you won’t have the energy to
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@DawnButlerBrent Under SK @SadiqKhan & AL ( @amylame ) have done nothing less than oversee the decimation of pubs, clubs & bars By 11pm on most nights the busiest areas of London resemble a ghost town. The nightlife was once part of what defined it a 24-hour city. It’s the city that always sleeps!
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Very much looking forward to the first @popconuk episode of PopConversations with @SuellaBraverman and @MarkJLittlewood tonight! πŸ™ŒπŸΌπŸ‡¬πŸ‡§
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The Kelvingrove sunshine gets Nala’s approval. β˜€οΈ πŸ’›
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@MGallacherMSP I mean, what have the Greens actually achieved? ❎ The DRS delayed ❎ Highly Protected Marine Area binned ❎ Heat pump target delayed ❎ Rent controls ditched after a year ❎ Climate targets dumped
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πŸ”₯ Spot on from @RossThomson_Abz in @popconuk : β€œThe Scottish Conservatives are the only party to consistently oppose these misguided laws. By holding the SNP to account, and forcing former First Minister Humza out of office, the Scottish Conservatives have proven themselves to
@RossThomson_Abz
Ross Thomson
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✍🏻I’ve written for @popconuk on the opportunities for the @ScotTories following the collapse of the SNP/Green coalition. πŸ”΅By offering a bold vision for Scotland, grounded in popular conservative principles, they can be a force for real and needed change.
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Morning walks round Kelvingrove always starts our morning the right way. πŸ«ΆπŸΌπŸ’›
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2 months
In all fairness, it was a very smart move for Angela Rayner to bring up her own issues in PMQs before the Oliver Dowden did. Takes the sting out of any questioning or rebuttals. #PMQs
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Patrick Harvie ( @patrickharvie ) is a man ready to give up. The sun is literally shining on the end of the Bute House Agreement and on the Greens leaving The Scottish Government. 🌞
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β€œLive every single day and don’t let yesterday affect today, and don’t let today affect tomorrow.” - Miss Jason πŸ’” @2BrewersClapham | @thervt | @PrideBrighton | @JustineGreening
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πŸ”₯ In Holyrood, @ScotTories Deputy Leader @MGallacherMSP speaks about the Cass Report and The Bute House Agreement saying: β€œTodays exercise in kicking the can down the road and stalling for more time shows that they [Scottish Government] are more concerned about holidaying
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Well done Douglas Ross and the Scottish Conservatives. Humza Yousaf has confirmed his intention to stand down as SNP leader and as First Minister. What an excellent Monday!
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@RuthDavidsonPC Brunch in the Southside, dinner in the West End. Can’t beat it! β˜€οΈπŸ₯‚
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. @emirates A380 taking off from @GLA_Airport and a Magpie. ✈️ 🐦
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1 month
Third episode of @popconuk ’s PopConversations and it was excellent. Hearing from the former Prime Minister @trussliz and talking all things that hold back Great Britain and of course #TenYearstoSavetheWest ! πŸ‘πŸΌπŸ‘πŸΌ Thanks, once again, @MarkJLittlewood ! #PopCon
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popconuk
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You are invited to PopConversations Episode 3 with @trussliz and @MarkJLittlewood πŸŽ™οΈ This is a unique opportunity to hear from the former Prime Minister πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Spaces will be limited, so sign up as soon as you can to secure your slot here πŸ‘‡
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@FatenHameed3 @ScotTories Cannot wait to get out and campaign with and for you @FatenHameed3 ! Excellent choice. πŸ™ŒπŸΌ
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β€œThe children are being used as a football” As Humza Yousaf uses the children in the #CassReview as a political point scoring football? Ridiculous given the seriousness of the review and report. #FMQs #FMQ
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. @AnasSarwar and is weak words here - given he and Scottish Labour have just backed the SNP and the Hate Crime Act.
@AnasSarwar
Anas Sarwar
2 months
The SNP's catastrophic incompetence has undermined the cause of social justice. Read my article on the flawed implementation of the Hate Crime Act πŸ‘‡πŸ½
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It’s an actual FACT that the First Minister and the SNP Government have cut the budget for the health service in real terms. This was confirmed by both the Institute of Fiscal Studies and an Audit Scotland report. NHS real terms CUT. #FMQs
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@Plaid_Cymru Your party is quite literally keeping Labour in power in the Senedd and you have the power to bring change by ending the cooperation agreement - yet you choose not to do that. Do the right thing for the people of Wales and end the agreement!
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National Service in my opinion is a great idea. It’s being driven that you WILL join the army however people in these programs will address community needs in disaster services, economic opportunity, education, the environment, health and veterans and military families. #bbcqt
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@PolitlcsUK The House of Lords giving way to the Rwanda Bill is what should have happened to begin with. The political grandstanding and delaying they choose to do has been for nothing. #Rwanda
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The disgraceful attacks from @wesstreeting & @DavidLammy show how much they fear a strong Conservative candidate for Mayor of London in comparison to the useless @SadiqKhan . @Councillorsuzie has conducted herself in an admirable manner & will make a fantastic Mayor of London!
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Wes Streeting
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A win for Susan Hall and the Conservatives is a win for racists, white supremacists and Islamophobes the world over. Susan Hall’s campaign has been fought from the gutter with dangerous and divisive politics. London, we cannot let her win. Vote Sadiq.
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@MGallacherMSP It is absolutely bewildering how β€˜activists’ are on the attack following the report when it has always been possible to strongly support trans people, and to believe that making decisions that permanently alter your fertility, when you are under the age of 18, is a bad idea.
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πŸ”₯πŸ‘‡πŸΌ @Rachael2Win eviscerating the Cabinet Secretary here: β€œWe are here for rural questions, other than the scripted ones, we have not had one answer. Could the Cabinet Secretary not have just come to rural questions and then dealt with whatever she had to do following that
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Rural Scotland
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This is the attention to detail the SNP give rural Scotland. An embarrassing display from the minister this afternoon at rural questions. After repeatedly betraying our rural communities, they now fail to answer key questions. WatchΒ nowΒ πŸ‘‡ @ScotTories
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Mark Logan defected purely because he has a 378 majority… hardly a blow and simply looking after himself. #bbcqt
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@ruth_wishart @GuidoFawkes @AngelaRayner This isn't about a bit of dodged capital gains tax or the electoral register and isn't about Tories vs Labour. It's about whether the likely next Deputy Prime Minister is a liar and a hypocrite. If you don't think that matters, then more fool you. πŸ€·πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ
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πŸ”₯ @BimAfolami on #bbcqt last night on the SNP: β€œThe choices that the SNP government make is thanks to the UK Government budget. Fundamentally if you continue to be obsessed with the constitutional issue and continue obsessing about independence you will continue with the
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@lukerobertblack Steak and Wine - Butchershop Gin and Fish - The Finnieston Pasta and Wine - Santa Lucia, Merchant City Burgers and White Russians - Lebowskis Cocktails - The Spiritulist
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Did Fulton Macgregor MSP actually just say in chamber that The Scottish Parliament β€œneeds MORE people like Michael Matheson!” No, what it needs for Michael Matheson to resign with what little dignity he has left.
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@christiancalgie @Victoria_Spratt Rent controls have been tried and failed all across the globe over the last century. They have shrunk the rental market and left thousands without a place to live in San Francisco, New York, Finland, Sweden and, now, also in Scotland. Controls were weakened in March, instead
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. @DavidTCDavies below is the link Labours immigration policy is both non existent & all over the place in Wales. It’s a disgrace that a Shadow Minister is on #bbcqt & doesn’t know her party policy in the part of the country they are already in government
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@albieamankona I fail to see any logic behind the idea of pensions rising in line with earnings, it is completely inequitable. The triple lock makes no logical sense, the link to earnings should be removed, and it should be retained as a double lock.
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Under Labour in Wales, Education is: πŸ–ŠοΈ 8 in 10 say they don’t have enough support. πŸ“– New curriculum isn’t raising standards. 🏠 2022 studyΒ also found that the difference in results between Welsh pupils from poorer households and their peers at age 16 was greater than in
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@LeeAndersonMP_ An earthquake @LeeAndersonMP_ that caused Andy Street the West Midlands!
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Joe McGurk 🌳
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What a spectacular climbdown from Patrick Harvie and his Green Party colleagues as he confirms they will not vote for Scottish Labours Vote of No Confidence in the Scottish Government. The Greens hold no principles. Last week was about drama and themselves - nothing more.
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David Cameron still coming out swinging for LGBT rights in 2024. πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ πŸ™ŒπŸΌ
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David Cameron
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Amendments to Iraq’s Anti - Prostitution Law which criminalises LGBT people are dangerous and worrying. No one should be targeted for who they are. We encourage the Government of Iraq to uphold human rights and freedoms of all people without distinction.
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Speaking against the Hate Crime Act in Holyrood this afternoon, @jamiegreeneUK said: β€œHaving a problem with this bill does not and never will mean we condone hatred in any form. Hatred in all its form is wrong. That is not up for debate with me.” πŸ”₯πŸ”₯
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The only sense around calling a general election today is by naming November as polling day. Rishi Sunak should name the November date, have a mini reshuffle to re-energise his cabinet and then capitalise on today’s inflation figures as the driving campaign.
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@TasminaSheikh *Placing 7th out of 8* Granted, the turnout was low - just 26.3 per cent of the 12,664 people registered to vote with 3325 verified ballots. But it isn’t exactly a victory.
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