jackie kemp Profile
jackie kemp

@jackiekemp

2,818
Followers
4,309
Following
894
Media
36,153
Statuses

Freelance writer. (she/her)

Edinburgh
Joined May 2009
Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.
Pinned Tweet
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
5 months
An appreciation of Sandra Kemp, 1939-2023, by @jackiekemp
Tweet media one
4
4
7
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
3 years
People who voted for #Brexit because they believed there would be £350 million a week for the NHS must be surprised by the proposed tax rise - but they don’t even mention it on the news @BBCNews @SkyNews
159
2K
5K
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
3 years
Would you agree that @NicolaSturgeon and the @theSNP probably face the most hostile domestic media in the world? @KennyFarq @alexmassie @DaniGaravelli1 @vicky_allan @bbclaurak @joycemcm
605
451
3K
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
1 year
I have never had more sympathy for @NicolaSturgeon than I do now. There are 12 transwomen in jail in #Scotland and dealing with them on a case by case basis probably makes sense. The media is creating a bogeyman big time.
858
503
3K
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
3 years
I can’t believe that this isn’t making the main @BBCNews or @itvnews - so many hours of broadcasting time was given over to claims about fishing pre #Brexit
@Femi_Sorry
Femi - REGISTER TO VOTE BY 18 JUNE
3 years
In 2019, I was in Oslo, Norway and an EU trade expert referred to the damage Brexit would do to UK Fisheries as: "Good news for Norway". We've given Norwegian fish an advantage. And now we can't even fish there anymore. Well done, Brexiteers, Well done.
65
668
2K
38
721
2K
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
4 years
Never thought I would be saying this but it’s time for #ScottishIndependence . Sign it and pass it on.
@rosscolquhoun
Ross Colquhoun
4 years
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 It’s fast approaching 400,000 people that have pledged their support for independence. 📱 Sign and pass it on.
71
564
1K
59
438
1K
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
10 months
So that’s it? Is this all they got? @NicolaSturgeon used the business lounge at the airport? That’s what I would expect her to do - she could get on with her work rather than going to Wetherspoons with the holiday crowd. Does Sunak travel like that?
189
288
1K
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
1 year
Spoke to a lawyer who confirmed that @PoliceScotland did not have to arrest @NicolaSturgeon . She’s not going anywhere. They absolutely could have just asked her in for questioning. Why arrest her then? My friend said seems ‘like a political choice’.
277
423
1K
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
2 years
Was expecting to see something about the new #Brexit restrictions on Jan 1, @BBCNews - people are taking about it, especially business people. Everyone in our house thinks you avoiding it.
37
349
1K
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
2 years
Even Scots who don't agree with independence, generally recognise that Nicola Sturgeon is a dedicated public servant. That's why Liz Truss's personal attack is causing so much offence. I think @itvnews @Channel4News @BBCNews failure to cover it was a mistake.
366
289
1K
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
8 months
Are you going to just gloss over what Sunak said about Nicola Sturgeon @BBCNews ?
218
298
1K
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
3 years
This is from 2019 ‘there was no interest to declare’, ‘we did everything with full propriety’ - we now know that’s a lie - @BBCNews #Marr @bbcnickrobinson @BBCr4today - it’s not a worthwhile story now? Why not?
@brexit_sham
Brexitshambles
3 years
This was 2019... Marr on Jennifer Arcuri: "You have to declare an interest, did you declare it?" Johnson: "There was no interest to declare" Johnson lies with impunity because the whole cabal is untouchable, there are no consequences from Parliament, the GLA or the police.
235
3K
6K
27
360
935
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
1 year
I’m finding it weird that the settlement of the national health service strike in #Scotland doesn’t make the headlines of @BBCScotlandNews Reporting Scotland. Why?
49
345
901
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
3 years
Daily Mail reports one Scottish cooperative has lost more than £1 million worth of cauliflower and broccoli due to #Brexit labour shortages.
Tweet media one
53
520
812
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
26 days
So the taxes raised in Scotland by Westminster last year were £80bn and the block grant to Holyrood was £40 bn - is that correct?
91
340
800
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
3 years
Didn’t buy @thetimes today - friend said pages 1 to 5 are a sustained attack on @NicolaSturgeon and @scotgov . Astonishing that not one major paper on newsstands in #Scotland supports the country’s government. @KennyFarq @magnusllewellin
242
218
769
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
2 years
@HJoyceGender @damilne1 I’d have thought rules about appropriate behaviour would cover this situation. Teachers have to work to ethical standards - what is the school thinking of to allow this?
37
31
731
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
3 years
When the UK government decided to ignore #Scotland ’s strong vote to remain in the #EU they made a choice. The choice was to prioritise the demands of English nationalism over the future of the union. That choice has consequences. #Brexit .
18
240
736
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
11 months
Airbnb guest just cancelled her whole trip to the Highlands because her car ferry to Newcastle cancelled for technical issues and all the others booked out - haven't seen this on the news though #ferries
70
265
664
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
1 year
Lies! Helen Whatley lied on #BBCQT l Media watch - Scotland does not have a problem with ‘raw sewage’ being ‘dumped’ in rivers - Believe in Scotland
92
373
607
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
7 years
Why I think there should be another Indy ref and why I will vote yes this time.
56
375
563
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
3 years
Lot of UK gov money being thrown at undermining support for independence right now.
69
149
539
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
1 year
Scots are increasingly angry at having to dance to Westminster's tune when it comes to energy policy - years of ideological privatisation have created a broken system via @BizforScotland
20
341
561
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
8 months
It would be good @Channel4News if acknowledge that the Scottish child payment is making a difference to families with children in Scotland, surely that is relevant? Why ignore the success of this policy?
62
211
562
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
3 years
Friend says every shift at the hospital where she works starts several nurses short thanks to #Brexit - at least mention that in coverage of hospital issues please @thetimesscot @magnusllewellin
8
283
537
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
3 years
The trouble with the narrative ‘will @NicolaSturgeon resign’ is 1 No she won’t, 2 The accusations against her are trivial 3 Nobody is seriously calling for that and 4 The real story is about dealing correctly with sex harassment allegations at work @BBCRadioScot @ every media!
23
113
534
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
1 year
"I have news for the Secretary for Scotland: this is not a remotely controversial issue. It is one of very few issues about which it would be impossible to start an argument in the streets, households, pubs, clubs or anywhere else in Scotland today."
35
250
493
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
4 months
This feature in @TheScotsman about the junior doctors strike doesn’t even make clear that there wasn’t one in Scotland. Weird.
Tweet media one
38
219
473
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
3 years
Bizarre. Main news announces vaccine passports in rUK - no particular opposition - then in the Scottish news, hysteria from the English-rule supporting parties over the same thing.
@msm_monitor
MSM Monitor
3 years
What's happening at BBC Scotland right now over vaccine passports is genuinely embarrassing. Reporters appear to be under instruction to pretend they don't know that the Tories and Labour both support vaccine passports in England. That their opposition in Scotland is a sham.
17
383
864
9
209
458
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
2 years
I voted No in 2014 - was told Scotland should ‘lead not leave’ - then ugly disastrous #Brexit that England voted for was forced on #Scotland against our democratically expressed wishes #bbcgms
219
113
447
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
5 months
In your report on the #DoctorsStrike @Channel4News you mentioned Wales and NI - but you didn't at any point say the word #Scotland . For why? Don't you think it is interesting and relevant that there was a settlement in Scotland? The news media served to Scots feels alien at times
55
191
439
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
3 years
Why is Scotland's economy so much smaller than Ireland's? Why is our GDP less than Finland's? Why are pensions here half what they are in Estonia? And is all this an argument for independence or for staying in the UK?
27
214
402
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
1 year
Mediawatch - Media ignores new report that proves Scotland’s A&E wait times are MUCH better than England’s via @believeinscot
47
259
397
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
2 years
Nicola Sturgeon said #Scotland would start a central bank with a population share of the bank of England’s assets right away. #bbcaq
184
90
387
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
8 months
OK so the @BBCNews team are just not mentioning the slander of @NicolaSturgeon - is a conference speech under parliamentary privilege of not? If not I hope she sues. I hope @BBCScotlandNews will not sweep this under the carpet.
102
154
380
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
1 year
Quite shocked at the way @scotlibdems are so wrong about the state of #Scotland 's water. What is going on? Rainwater is not 'raw sewage'. Only 14% of England's waterways are good or excellent while in Scotland it is 87%. @LaylaMoran @EdwardJDavey
14
250
363
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
2 years
The day that Britain died - rights ripped from Scotland’s devolution settlement  - Believe In Scotland
4
171
332
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
3 years
Given that Priti Patel has breached the Ministerial Code twice in extremely serious ways - don’t the Scottish Conservatives risk looking pretty hypocritical?
28
99
321
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
2 years
Ten ways the UK Government is undermining Scotland’s devolution via @believeinscot
32
260
316
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
11 months
Congratulations @MhairiBlack on a bold decision. Wish you well with whatever is next for you. Maybe we will see you in Holyrood one day - or perhaps the Senate of an independent #SCOTLAND .
71
68
316
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
1 year
Scotland's poverty rate 20% lower than England’s, says authoritative report via @believeinscot
6
190
314
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
4 years
Scottish Government foots £1m bill for free parking at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary after private company Consort refuses to waive charges
62
307
303
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
3 years
English Nationalism is the nationalism that is essentially blind to its own existence
10
71
306
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
3 years
Really one sided editorial in ⁦ @guardian ⁩ - what about the child poverty gap between Scotland abs England for example? And that’s a deliberately misleading and pretty naughty use of what Greta Thunberg was arguing.
73
80
299
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
3 years
Listening to @BBCScotlandNews @BBCRadioScot Drive time - @NicolaSturgeon ' s conference speech - the top line of the report is what Murdo Fraser, list MSP for the Conservatives - who got 20% of the vote - thinks about it. What a joke. @BBCJohnBeattie
19
112
293
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
1 year
Val McDermid: How my shrewd pal Nicola Sturgeon changed Scotland
18
70
298
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
1 year
@possiblynotgod
steve williams 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇦
1 year
Lubov Chernukhin, a Russian Tory donor married to Vladimir Putin's former deputy finance minister has continued to donate large sums of money to the party. Since the onset of war, Mrs Chernukhin has given £175,000 to the Tories. She's donated more than £2m to the Tory party.
Tweet media one
18
293
281
15
182
287
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
2 years
Most Scots think the UK is in the process of breaking up - and they say an independent Scotland will be better off or equally as well off as it is under Westminster rule via @BizforScotland
38
152
278
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
1 year
Too wee, too poor for independence? Malta didn't think so - lessons for #Scotland via @believeinscot
22
146
270
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
3 years
Guessing you won’t be reading/ hearing much about the Institute for Government study that came out a day after the IFS one with different conclusions. #scottishelection2021 Second study says #Scotland can afford to be independent #Scottishindependence
9
179
267
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
1 year
Scots are increasingly angry at having to dance to Westminster's tune when it comes to energy policy - years of ideological privatisation have created a broken system via @BizforScotland
3
189
256
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
5 years
I will vote @theSNP in the European Elections because it’s a strongly #Remain party and I think @AlynSmith has done a fantastic job of representing Scotland.
8
45
248
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
1 year
I think politics has moved too far from honesty. I find #KateForbes refreshing. She is clear that she is not going to unwind gay rights, abortion rights. I am sick of watching her be interrogated on her personal faith. Let's talk about the substance of her vision for government.
25
51
248
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
8 months
Owners of second homes in Scotland braced for doubling of council tax
95
38
248
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
1 year
Scotland sports fans “let down” and “disadvantaged” by UK broadcasting via @believeinscot
17
140
237
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
2 years
Ironic - or st - that “Lady” Mone has the constitutional authority to amend legislation affecting #Scotland but Nicola Sturgeon doesn’t.
6
104
239
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
1 year
Well done on #bbcqt @MhairiBlack ⁩ There is some dirty propaganda going on about #Scotland water -87% good or excellent compared to 14% in England. Scotland- among the cleanest in Europe, England easily the filthiest.⁦ @bbcquestiontime
49
133
236
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
1 year
Is this right - @BBCSportScot and @ITVSport pay millions for English football rights but they won’t pay for #Scotland games? Why did they not show the Scotland game tonight?
27
100
236
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
1 year
Your business editor knows less about #energy than I do! In the oil price collapse the UK slashed taxes and let companies like Shell deduct many losses. Look at GERS - oil brought in almost no tax revenue on Scotlands accounts for 5 years. @BBCr4today
5
119
231
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
3 years
Slightly misleading piece in today’s @FT @chrisdeerin - as you know Holyrood is a PR Parliament- but you report it as if the same system as Westminster.
10
100
218
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
3 years
#Scotland aims to be the phoenix from #Brexit ’s ashes - so much to be proud of in #ScottishElections2021 !via @FT
Tweet media one
16
96
216
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
3 years
#Brexit has become an experiment in damage limitation according to @FT
Tweet media one
14
141
209
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
1 year
If Nicola Sturgeon was short of cash would she have maybe thought about taking the pay rise she had deferred?
35
59
214
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
3 years
That’s not true @BBCNewsnight @KirstyWark - you should correct @jamiegreeneUK - when he said @NicolaSturgeon had been found to have lied to the Scottish Parliament- not true! was that an example of ‘strategic lying’ ? Should you allow that @BBCPolitics ?
6
70
203
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
2 years
Top lawyer: UK refusal to negotiate with Scotland on independence “undemocratic” via @believeinscot
18
131
200
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
2 years
It’s depressing to see Julia Hartley Brewer on. a BBC show being allowed to say the #climate emergency doesn’t exist, without being fact checked by the chair. Fiona Bruce did not do a good enough job IMO. #bbcqt
13
27
196
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
7 years
A movie about my decision to vote 'Yes'
@PhantomPower14
Phantom Power
7 years
Journey to Yes #10 Edinburgh Writer Jackie Kemp reflects on Scotland's post-Brexit identity #ScotRef @jackiekemp
15
149
113
9
135
187
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
1 year
Johnson's Dishonours List makes titles a badge of shame via @believeinscot
12
132
191
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
1 year
Tweet media one
7
119
185
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
1 year
Nothing says ‘broadcasting is controlled from another country’ like not being able to watch #ScotlandvsSpain on TV.
Tweet media one
2
100
181
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
1 year
@GerryHassan @krishgm That’s not what I heard. She said she wouldn’t have one herself but would defend other women’s right to have one. Is that not ok?
12
17
181
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
1 year
@campbellclaret @bbcquestiontime Well done. It illustrated the fast divergence between Scotland/Ireland and England - the last bit about how the UK should have exited ‘as a whole’ and #Brexit failure was because Leo Varadkar ‘weaponised the border’ - jings I mean where do you start? Who created the border?
12
11
176
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
1 year
Eventually Uxbridge can get rid of Boris Johnson. But #Scotland can never get rid of ‘Lord’ Offord - who bought a seat in Westminster and is currently throwing his weight around as Scotland Office minister @ArleneFosterUK #bbcaq @BBCAnyQuestions
3
78
176
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
26 days
@w_ynd So an independent Scotland could potentially save on some of this stuff? No House of so-called ‘Lords’, no Trident, no expensive nuclear power? Pensions we only about £9bn I think
37
33
172
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
1 year
I watched the #SNPLeadershipHustings online - is that what you say happened @BBCRadioScot ? The candidates "clashed over gender reform". Is that a fair summary? #BBCGMS
32
58
170
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
1 year
Media watch - Scotland does not have a problem with ‘raw sewage’ being ‘dumped’ in rivers via @believeinscot
3
127
167
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
1 year
If you look at the generation under 35 in #Scotland - the one that is now leading the party at Westminster - you have to conclude that independence is coming - unless they massively change their minds, and I can’t see that atm.
Tweet media one
28
47
163
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
1 year
Thanks to England.Scotland didn’t vote for #Brexit
@jonsopel
Jon Sopel
1 year
The endless line at Geneva Airport to get through passport control for British passport holders. No queue at all for EU or Swiss citizens 🤷🏻‍♂️
9K
5K
23K
206
45
157
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
2 years
Such negative reporting on the iwhite paper. Would like to see some assessment of what rejoining the EU could do for Scotland’s economy - maybe some comparison with NI which is growing faster than rUK now; or Ireland @BBCScotlandNews @STVNews @SkyNews @Channel4News @BBCJamesCook
68
68
154
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
5 months
This is the @SundayTimesScot comment page - It’s hilariously pro Union sycophantic bilge - all really anti Scottish.
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
139
62
154
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
2 years
This is absolutely ridiculous - there is no way people who grew up in Scotland and then left should have a vote. What's it to them?
@magnusllewellin
TimesEditorScotland
2 years
The international trend is for ex-pat voting so don’t allow SNP to rig a future Indy referendum, writes Alexander Walker in Comment
361
42
185
43
32
150
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
1 year
Police investigation into SNP is ‘grotesque circus’
22
59
148
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
1 year
When discussing sewage issues do you not think it’s relevant that water was privatised in England? Quite an eccentric and ideological decision @BBCRadio4 @bbcnickrobinson
5
71
144
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
3 years
I am worried about the photo id for voter rules the UK Gov is introducing. The UK has a robust, address-based system. I think this is about voter suppression. It will affect #Scotland too in the next general election. In the pilots, many voters were turned away from the polls.
14
64
131
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
3 years
Retailers blame Brexit as food shortages sweep across Scotland's stores
9
99
125
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
3 years
The British state has 3 techniques for undermining opponents. 1 Divide and conquer, 2 Spread confusion - as in the naval? toast 'Confusion to our Enemies' 3 Bribe and flatter key figures - offering titles, land, influential positions, and promises never to be kept.
10
45
129
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
1 year
Doesn’t really rebound to the credit of Anas Sarwar and Alex Cole Hamilton that they ducked for cover and left Nicola Sturgeon alone to face the barrage over gender reform. #trans Good letter in @TheScotsman today from one Stan Grodynski, Longniddry.
Tweet media one
10
50
127
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
3 months
Humza’s response to smears from the right wing press and some Unionist MSPs
Tweet media one
18
71
127
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
3 years
Supermarket shop - no green lentils; no Roquefort, hardly any French cheese, wine more expensive, San Pelegrino £3.50 a bottle, hardly any cut flowers - and way more expensive. Thanks #Brexit !
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
Tweet media three
18
49
122
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
2 years
And Sturgeon's mandate for another independence referendum comes from the people of #Scotland
51
19
125
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
1 year
Private Eye basically saying that Zahawi negotiated a lower penalty and avoided a finding of deliberate non payment of tax while/ because he was Chancellor - should be investigated
3
76
125
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
1 year
Are you really having a discussion about women in politics in the UK without mention Nocola Sturgeon or the SNP @BBCPM ? Wtf?
2
24
123
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
9 months
After Brexit, independence has morphed into a positive step
25
65
120
@jackiekemp
jackie kemp
3 years
If you are going to compare #Scotland with #England on #Covid_19 regulations by sending your reporter to Manchester @BBCRadioScot - seems strange not to go into the relative stats? Is the Scottish death rate quite a bit lower per head? Odd piece on your lunchtime bulletin
2
45
114