Murdo Fraser, Jackie Baillie, Margaret Mitchell and their supporters will be bitterly disappointed, they completely failed.
Let's remember: That's. All. They've. Got.
That's it, their only strategy was destroy Sturgeon.
That's failed.
There is no Plan B.
Massive news from Spain.
Universal Basic Income is happening, and more importantly, the government’s broader ambition is that basic income becomes an instrument “that stays forever, that becomes a structural instrument, a permanent instrument,”
HUGE
A massive victory in Scotland today for the power of peaceful protest and resistance, and a massive defeat and humiliation for the British Home Office and institutionalised racism
#KenmureStreet
Finally, they walk with Aamer and the Pollokshields community to the mosque. An extraordinary, peaceful, successful protest.
#kenmurestreet
#pollokshelds
❤️✊🏾✊
I'm old enough to remember when the
@ScotTories
were demanding the Scottish Government follow the budget and all the Scottish media were clapping along like 🦭
In 9 short years, North Sea Oil has gone from being a diminishing resource to an asset so powerful it could transform the whole of Britain. Scotland is simultaneously too poor to be independent but rich enough to “power up Britain.” That’s quite a paradox:
It's clear that Labour blackmailed Lyndsay Hoyle into violating Westminster protocol so they could protect Israel from the charge of collective punishment. The Speaker allowed himself to create precedent in naked party political interest and should resign📢[share if you agree]
Nicola Sturgeon announcing a four-day week would never have happened before the pandemic. The opportunity for fundamental change as part of the recovery are huge
I'm not sure why
@BBCNews
keeps saying Dominic Cummings was "interrogated" by the media. He wasn't he was asked a handful of totally bland questions by trusted lobby journalists
Great to hear a statement from Brigadier Nick Perry, Commander 16 Air Assault Brigade, about the importance of political neutrality for the British Army
Why
#GeorgeSquare
? Why not Ibrox? Because this was a show of force, not just a 'celebration'. No other location would do. This was a display of power, endorsed by the club, ignored by the media and colluded-in by the police:
If you can set-aside your club rivalries for a moment (as you should in the circumstances) Celtic fans display represents a useful rejection of corporate control of football and an impressive moment of solidarity in a censored society
Essentially Nicola Sturgeon is being punished for competence. It looks very much like the state broadcaster has caved-in to political pressure because the ‘threat of a good example’ was unacceptable for a political establishment already on the ropes ...
Murdo Fraser: "I have a great many letters from constituents about the SNP’s proposed licensing scheme for short-term lets." Put that through the translator: "My property-owning chums have been leaning on me as their cash-cow is under threat" Fixed that for you
@murdo_fraser
Hogmanay Maths. The Council pays Underbelly £800+K a year to run the winter festivals. Underbelly makes an estimated £45m from the event. Creative Scotland and other bodies give Underbelly £180k +. The End.
BBC World Service just announced they’d be playing the national anthem on all channels at 7pm tonight “and people could give vent to their feelings”. Not sure they’ve thought that one through ...
If iScotland garnered taxes and other revenues at the same level as the rest of Europe, we'd yield the Scottish Government an income of £93.9 billion, not £65.9 billion
(a budget surplus of £12.6 billion, not a deficit of £15.1 billion)
“Scotland is a poor country, one of the poorest regions of Europe. Yet it should be as rich as Ireland or Denmark. The reason is that for the past century the Scottish economy has been allowed to lapse by being run from England in England’s interest”.
Leader of the Scottish National Party
@NicolaSturgeon
says the UK's exit from the EU, against the wishes of the Scottish people, leaves the country with a key question on independence: "Do we now decide to take our future into our own hands so Scotland can chart its own path?"
Dear
@spectator
Douglas Murray is your Associate Editor. If he hasn't been sacked yet for his disgraceful comments about
@HumzaYousaf
- why not? Really keen to hear your response.
Just for a bit of useful background to the naked political opportunism going on, here's
@OpiniumResearch
poll out today. Who would be the best First Minister of Scotland?
"Scotland was the only nation competing at Euro 2020 that did not have its own end-to-end national broadcasting set-up" - this is a massive cultural media failure ...
It's astonishing that the only thing jeopardising a huge pro-indy majority in May should be the fractious ego of one man and a faction of the Yes movement as the SNP stand on historic polling and Yes touches 60% in the polls. The dark irony is that they have NO alternative plan
The brutal reality for poor
@JohnFerry18
&
@dhothersall
is that the concept of 'Equal Partners' is not a nationalist invention but was part of the (now distant) language used around 2014. The fact that it now lies abandoned is a reflection on the state of the Union, nothing else
It's the 21 Century and BBC's Good Morning Scotland have Lord Digby Jones on discussing a new royal yacht costing £200million as part of the pandemic recovery
"After 316 years Scotland is poor, impoverished even, for reasons never explained ... Scotland is simultaneously too poor to be independent but rich enough to “power up Britain.” Make it make sense?
So sad to hear about the death of Alasdair Gray who was the inspiration for Bella Caledonia. Alasdair created our masthead, font and logo. He was an inspirational polymath. Thoughts are with his family, obituary and appreciation to follow....
Sadly the attempts by the state broadcaster to weaponise "the Queen's love of Scotland" for political reasons undermined by them not knowing anything about *checks notes* Scotland 😂🇬🇧
The sublime irony of Effie Deans careering around the highlands confused by all the garrisons has warmed my heart this Friday. She's like a post-imperial psychotic sat nav gone wrong. I do like her call for signs in one language or the other though. Gaelic it is?
@DailyGael
I wonder what the people who go on about the 'Precious Union' and the wonderful qualities of 🇬🇧 democracy think when they look on at the Owen Paterson scandal?
Scotland hasn't voted for a Tory government in 65 years. It won't be long before there will be no-one alive who can remember such an event. It's been unimaginable in my lifetime
#indyref2
#BorisScotland
I heard on the news that it was raised in parliament the status of a portrait of HRH the Queen. "Had it in fact been left in 🇬🇧HQ in Kabul?" Really? Really?! This is what they're worried about? JFC, what a ******* country
NEW: Rachel Reeves has demanded MSPs back Scottish Labour's efforts to topple Humza Yousaf and trigger an election.
Anas Sarwar has already confirmed he will be lodging a no confidence motion in the Scottish Government.
The Scottish Tories attempt to usurp a political sub culture they barely comprehend has just magnified how totally alienated they are from Scottish society. It’s a kind of beautiful self-own
Many things can be true at the same time 1) Scotland ISN'T doing enough about climate change 2) Greta Thunberg IS being weaponised against the Scottish Government 3) BBC Scotland's climate coverage is terrible
Michael Gove
@covidinquiryuk
asked by our Sen Counsel
@madisonmitchel1
‘there was little attempt to outline what applied UK-wide..what applied only to 🏴, the phrase ‘this country’ was employed frequently to mean 🏴 or GB or the UK. There wasn't clarity’
@covidinquiryuk
🏴🏴🇬🇧
Jo Swinson is having a terrible election campaign. She comes across as simultaneously arrogant and inauthentic, accusations of using misleading data on election material look terrible and her East Dunbartonshire seat looks vulnerable
Okay that's it. You have to stop now. Dry your eyes and get off your knees
🍝 6.7 million in food poverty
👩⚕️ 6.8 million on NHS waiting lists
🔋 5 million unable to afford energy bills
🏠 Up to 1 million in rent arrears
The ascension of Baroness Lundin Links marks the end of a very weird chapter of Scottish politics, in which we had to pretend she was a remarkable politician on the verge of greatness, which she very clearly wasn't ...
This
#C4Debate
is a car crash for Douglas Ross. It's game over. The Union is basically a threat.
@krishgm
is very good on pushing the undemocracy of Tory rule
Tweet in support of Humza Yousaf's call for a ceasefire and watch your timeline fill-up with racism and Scots filled with so much self-hatred and cringe the very idea of a Scottish Parliament interacting with the world is completely intolerable to them ...